Collide
Collide is one of the central programs of Arts at CERN, which is being developed together with the City of Barcelona and Hangar for the 2021-2022 biennium. The Collide award is an annual artistic call promoted by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, since 2011, which invites artists or artistic collectives from around the world to develop as part of a research project located in a residence next to the scientific community of CERN. Barcelona, through the participation of Hangar and the City Council, is the third city to collaborate with the program after Linz (under the framework of Ars Electronica) and Liverpool (in collaboration with FACT).
In each of the calls for proposals, the award grants a three-month residency to the winning artist or collective so that they can expand their research in situ. For two months, this residency takes place at CERN in Geneva, working in contact with professionals in the fields of particle physics, engineering, information technologies and the laboratory world. During the third month, the stay takes place at Hangar. In this second phase in Barcelona, the resident artists will have the opportunity to expand, collaborate and share their research with the scientific, artistic and activist community in the local context. The Collide Award, from its conception, is an epistemic challenge, which affects new modes of social transformation that are based on the hybridization of art and science.
