The Creativity Clinic will be hosted by three academics - Carmine Pariante, Gabriele Salciute Civiliene, and Zoran Cvetkovic. We asked them to answer some questions about their motivations and the clinic.
Tell us a bit about yourselves and what you will bring into the clinic?
Carmine:
In parallel with my clinical and academic experience, I have trained as a moviemaker and writer, and I have had experience as a theatre actor. I have always felt that this creativity knowledge, while helping me in being a better academic communicator, was really untapped in terms of helping others fulfilling their potential. The creativity clinics give me this opportunity.
Gabriele:
I started out in the arts, spending much of my youth trained in painting and drawing - preferably in black and white. I later studied art history at the university, before curiosity took her towards languages and textual studies.
Today, I teach, research and create with XR media, and has curated programmes and exhibitions across the arts and memory making. I am particularly interested in what happens when art, technology, heritage and unruly ideas are put in the same room.
Somewhere along the way, science fiction became part of the toolkit. A lifelong fan of sci-fi in both film and literature, I often borrow its favourite question “what if?” for work that calls for experimentation, speculation and imagining things otherwise.
Who should be attending this clinic?
We want staff and student that are, basically, stuck at any stage of development of an artistic project: a movie, a script, a novel, a picture, a statue, digital arts...
They should be at a crucial point where they feel they cannot move forward in a clear direction – narratively, stylistically, aesthetically – and they need a “clinic assessment”.
All will receive feedback, and some will also receive pilot funding needed for the next stages.