ARTIST:
Carol Stampone
RESIDENCY:
September 8-16 2025
WORKSHOP:
September 12-14 2025
LOCATION:
Adiacenze, Vicolo Spirito Santo 1/b, Bologna
INFO: +39 3473626448 / + 39 3661194487 - info@adiacenze.it - www.adiacenze.it
Adiacenze is pleased to announce the residency of Carol Stampone, Brazilian writer and artist based in Bergen, Norway, who will be in Bologna from September 8 to 16, 2025 for the fourth edition of SWAP, the international residency program curated by Amerigo Mariotti and Giorgia Tronconi of Adiacenze. SWAP is supported by the Arts Council Norway, the Emilia-Romagna Region, and the Municipality of Bologna.
Stampone works across literature and visual arts, experimenting with different ways of writing oneself and ourselves. Her artistic practice is rooted in feminist and decolonial strategies such as escrevivencia (a term coined by Conceicao Evaristo to describe a form of writing grounded in lived experiences, particularly those of Black women), the “site of speech”, and coracionar. For Stampone, self-care and community care are inseparable, an approach that resonates with Audre Lorde’s insistence that caring for oneself is a political act.
During her stay in Bologna, the artist will continue the development of her ongoing project Part-Time Mom, which unfolds both as a novel and as a play around the meaning of being a woman, a mother, a human being. At Adiacenze, she will open up her process to the public through a three-day workshop that invites participants to read, write, converse, move, and imagine together.
PART-TIME MOM - A Workshop with Carol Stampone
Adiacenze, Vicolo Spirito Santo 1/b, Bologna
Free participation
Info and registration: info@adiacenze.it
The workshop consists of three sessions of two hours each:
September 12, 2025 h 18-20
Session I – Writing, reading, and conversation around the concept of escrevivencia, approached here as an attempt to reconnect with the erotic as a source of vitality and healing. Texts by Conceicao Evaristo, Audre Lorde, and Anne Dufourmantelle will serve as companions in this exploration.
September 13, 2025 h 16-18
Session II – A focus on the writings of Bracha Ettinger, in particular her notions of compassion and the matrixial borderspace, woven into the collective experience of writing and reflecting.
September 14, 2025 h 16-18
Session III – A session dedicated to reading aloud the draft of the play Part-Time Mom. By filling in the gaps of an unfinished script, participants will become part of a shared experiment in imagination and presence.
SWAP is an international artist residency project aimed at activating and promoting cultural exchange and creative cooperation between Italy and abroad by involving artists and curators active both nationally and internationally. The ultimate goal of SWAP is to offer artists the opportunity to engage with a different cultural, social, and geographical context through a residency period focused on research, experimentation, and the production of new works resulting from this experience. SWAP seeks to give contemporary artists the chance to expand their perspective from the Italian scene to an international one, finding new inspiration and resources to enhance their artistic research through contact with other realities and cultural operators abroad. Likewise, this cultural bridge will also allow international artists and curators to discover and engage with the Italian and specifically the Bolognese context through a stimulating and enriching experience. Through SWAP, Adiacenze also aims to create an international network of independent spaces dedicated to contemporary art that can promote the mobility and intercultural exchange of artists and curators. Carol Stampone (1983) is a Brazilian writer and artist based in Bergen, Norway. She is interested in experimenting with different ways to write herself and ourselves. Her practice focuses on self-care, which, as stressed by Audre Lorde, coincides with community care. Carol holds a Bachelor's and a Master's in Philosophy (UNICAMP and UiB) and a Master's in Fine Arts (KMD). Her current toolbox is inhabited by feminist decolonial strategies such as site of speech, escrevivencia, and coracionar. Among her ongoing questions are interrogations on the relation between freedom, responsibility, and our places in the world.
Stampone works across literature and visual arts, experimenting with different ways of writing oneself and ourselves. Her artistic practice is rooted in feminist and decolonial strategies such as escrevivencia (a term coined by Conceicao Evaristo to describe a form of writing grounded in lived experiences, particularly those of Black women), the “site of speech”, and coracionar. For Stampone, self-care and community care are inseparable, an approach that resonates with Audre Lorde’s insistence that caring for oneself is a political act.
During her stay in Bologna, the artist will continue the development of her ongoing project Part-Time Mom, which unfolds both as a novel and as a play around the meaning of being a woman, a mother, a human being. At Adiacenze, she will open up her process to the public through a three-day workshop that invites participants to read, write, converse, move, and imagine together.
PART-TIME MOM - A Workshop with Carol Stampone
Adiacenze, Vicolo Spirito Santo 1/b, Bologna
Free participation
Info and registration: info@adiacenze.it
The workshop consists of three sessions of two hours each:
September 12, 2025 h 18-20
Session I – Writing, reading, and conversation around the concept of escrevivencia, approached here as an attempt to reconnect with the erotic as a source of vitality and healing. Texts by Conceicao Evaristo, Audre Lorde, and Anne Dufourmantelle will serve as companions in this exploration.
September 13, 2025 h 16-18
Session II – A focus on the writings of Bracha Ettinger, in particular her notions of compassion and the matrixial borderspace, woven into the collective experience of writing and reflecting.
September 14, 2025 h 16-18
Session III – A session dedicated to reading aloud the draft of the play Part-Time Mom. By filling in the gaps of an unfinished script, participants will become part of a shared experiment in imagination and presence.
SWAP is an international artist residency project aimed at activating and promoting cultural exchange and creative cooperation between Italy and abroad by involving artists and curators active both nationally and internationally. The ultimate goal of SWAP is to offer artists the opportunity to engage with a different cultural, social, and geographical context through a residency period focused on research, experimentation, and the production of new works resulting from this experience. SWAP seeks to give contemporary artists the chance to expand their perspective from the Italian scene to an international one, finding new inspiration and resources to enhance their artistic research through contact with other realities and cultural operators abroad. Likewise, this cultural bridge will also allow international artists and curators to discover and engage with the Italian and specifically the Bolognese context through a stimulating and enriching experience. Through SWAP, Adiacenze also aims to create an international network of independent spaces dedicated to contemporary art that can promote the mobility and intercultural exchange of artists and curators. Carol Stampone (1983) is a Brazilian writer and artist based in Bergen, Norway. She is interested in experimenting with different ways to write herself and ourselves. Her practice focuses on self-care, which, as stressed by Audre Lorde, coincides with community care. Carol holds a Bachelor's and a Master's in Philosophy (UNICAMP and UiB) and a Master's in Fine Arts (KMD). Her current toolbox is inhabited by feminist decolonial strategies such as site of speech, escrevivencia, and coracionar. Among her ongoing questions are interrogations on the relation between freedom, responsibility, and our places in the world.