Yes! Is the interstitial agency that from 2013 to 2016 animated the spaces of Palazzo Santoni in Jesi, Ancona.
What does an interstitial agency do?
Interstitial in the sense that it has an active role of relating to the territory, looking for the voids – the interstices – economic, social and urban in the city.
Interstitial because it sits at the fissure between creativity and work, providing young people with the tools to fill the interstices of proposals, imagining a job instead of adapting to needs already in the market.
Interstitial means that aims to bridge the gap between artists, artisans, technicians and entrepreneurs, stimulating the creation of heterogeneous and multidisciplinary teams, without gender hierarchies.
Events and activities
Creative Ground Contest
Marche’s first contest dedicated to cultural and creative enterprises.
The winner of the contest was Make a Book, an author’s photo publishing project.From the Make a Book project was born Skinnerboox, an independent publisher of contemporary photography awarded in 2018 as best publisher of the year at PhotoESPAÑA (Madrid).
Mapping
Online database of Marche’s cultural professionals.
Workshop
Theoretical-practical workshops dedicated to experimenting with alternative models of production and research.
Pre-incubation
Mentoring service provided free of charge by the agency to foster the birth and sustainability of new cultural enterprises.
Yes! Days
Mini-festivals dedicated to exploring a theme-from re-inhabiting spaces to the encounter between art and business-through lectures and art installations.
Outdoor
The site-specific event designed to take SAS (Studio for Print Arts) out of the museum and re-present it to the community through the languages of contemporary art. During a residency at the museum, video artist Jamaica De Marco and sound artist Giorgia Angiuli have filmed and recorded the sounds of ancient printing machines. The result of the residency was a audio-visual performance for more than 500 spectators in the historic center of Jesi.
Yes! Tea
Intimate and informal meetings over a cup of tea to present local and national contamination-themed best practices.
Exhibition
Exhibitions dedicated to the ability of art to trespass, through the encounter between artistic project and economic and social fabric.
Here Contest
Artists and creatives called upon to revisit the concept of historical and tourist signage in Jesi from the perspective of public art.
The numbers of YES!
- 250 monthly attendance
- 500 artists enrolled in digital mapping
- 21 pre-incubated projects
- 8 cultural containers involved
- 2 cultural containers reactivated
Credits
YES! is a project conceived and coordinated by Sineglossa.
Partners: Municipality of Ancona, Municipality of Jesi, Tonidigrigio, AMAT Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali, Warehouse, Nottenera.
