Love Difference points of reference

Twinning agreements

Love Difference aims to strengthen the relationships with its partners and has therefore started to consolidate them by signing a Twinning Agreement.
Love Difference shares with its partners the believe that art and creativity are the expression of freedom and a strategic element for every single sector of human activity, that enables to solve conflicts and tensions generated by different cultures, channelling existing energies towards a dialogue with the other and promoting the use of art for a responsible transformation of society.

By an official cooperation like this Love Difference and its partners would:
- work towards a responsible transformation of society using artistic and creative projects that enhance a cultural dialogue
- inform regularly about the development of their work and the best practices acquired
- work to encourage the involvement of interested people
- improve their relationship by means of meetings and face to face communication

The first associations and companies who have signed the Twinning Agreement are:

:: alias (Bergamo, Italy), collaborating since 2007
Alias​​, important design company, always aware of social responsibility, is collaborating with Love Difference in various activities.
In particular, the project "The Mediterraneans - Love Difference Chairs" has seen the artists Michelangelo Pistoletto and Juan E. Sandoval create an original work on the basis of the laleggera chair by Alias​​.
http://www.aliasdesign.it/

:: artway of thinking (Venice, Italy), collaborating since 2005
artway of thinking is a cultural association, an interdisciplinary collective, rebuilding itself from time to time in relation to the context in which it is called to act, creating interaction between environment and creativity. The collaboration with Love Difference focuses mainly on participative methods and collective creative process. (read about the project "Identity at the Centre")
www.artway.info

:: Bureau des Competences et désirs (Marseille, France), on November 6 2008
BdC is a production/diffusion organization that works towards creating links between society and all of the fields of contemporary artistic disciplines. The cross-disciplinarity of the projects developed allows to simultaneously work with a varied public.
www.bureaudescompetences.org

:: Kunst Doel (Doel, Belgium), on November 14 2008
Kunst Doel is an organization which seeks to network artists, writers, performers, musicians and cultural operators who may be mobilized on a voluntary basis to assist local communities and minorities whose lawful interests are being ignored or damaged by political authorities, industrial interests and any other powerful lobbying groups.
www.kunstdoel.net

:: GUDRAN for Art and Development (Alexandria, Egypt), on January 30 2009
Gudran is a gathering of visual artists, writers, photographers, movie makers, dramatists and musicians who are motivated by what they call “the sense of artist’s social responsibility” to support a positive social transformation through an artistic practice that develops the mechanisms of contemporary arts to go out of the state of stagnancy surrounding them and to involve more members of the society in the artistic process.
www.gudran.com


Points of reference

Love Difference has now five associated centres active in Italy and many foreign points of reference.

Italy:
Office for Urban Transformation / Isola Dell'Arte (Milan)
Un record per Pellestrina (Venice)
ArteContinua (San Gimignano)
Querini Stampalia (Venice)
Artway of thinking (Venice)

Points of reference:
Algeria: Katia Kameli and the Bledi workshop group (Algeri)
Belgium: Evens Foundation (Antwerpen)
Bosnia: Ars Aevi Museum for Contemporary Art (Sarajevo)
Brasil: GAMB+I Groupo Autoditata de Metodologias Bem + Inteligentes (Sao Paulo)
Canada: Koumbit (Montreal)
Croatia: Rigo Gallery (Novigrad / Cittanova); Istituto di Cultura Italiano (Zagreb)
Egypt: Gudran Foundation (Alexandria)
France: Artfactories (Paris); Bureau des Compétences et Désirs (Marseille)
Germany: Galerie Nord-Kunstverein Tiergarten (Berlin); Plattform Galerie (Berlin); Significans (Berlin)
Greece: Post Programme City Territory (Athens, Farkadona, Larissa)
Israel: Tal Adler, artist, author of the Unrecognized project (Jerusalem)
Lebanon: Asiles NGO (Beddawi)
Macedonia: Performing Arts Center Multimedia (Skopje)
Morocco: La source du Lion (Casablanca); Fnaire (Marrakesh)
Poland: Malopolski Instytut Kultury (Krakow)
Romania: D Media (Bucharest, Cluj)
Serbia: Dejan Kaludjerovic, artist, author of the Europoly project (Belgrade)
Slovenia: “Da cose nasce cosa” workshop group (Nova Goriza / Gorizia)
Spain: c a l c - Casqueiro Atlantico Laboratorio Cultural (Navia, Sevilla)
Tunisia: Orestiadi Foundation (Tunis)
Turkey: B M Contemporary Art Centre of Beral Madra (Istanbul)