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"Imagine for a moment that you have never heard the voices of those you love, the music on the radio, the sound of birdsong at dawn nor the persistent passing traffic on the road you walk down. Now imagine that the lips that you have watched moving, the faces that you have smiled at, the words that you read in front of you all slowly start to disappear too. It's hard to comprehend isn't it? Jo Milne had already lived a lifetime surrounded by silence, profoundly deaf from birth, when she began to lose her sight. Just before turning thirty, Jo was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic and progressive condition that will one day rob her of her sight altogether. Although at this lowest ebb, Jo suffered from deep depression, she has always been determined to live her life to the full. Jo has never let her disabilities affect the way she embraces life, however there was always so much that she was missing. In 2014 she made a life-changing decision to undergo major surgery. She had cochlear implants fitted allowing her to hear for the first time. Every moment of Jo's days since the operation has become a journey of discovery. She has been able to hear the voice of her own mother who has stood by her and helped her through some of her darkest moments. She has heard birds sing, people chatting and the sound of children laughing. She is embarking on an incredible journey through four missed generations of music - from the hymns she missed in school assembly to sweeping orchestral performances, from the Beatles and Rolling Stones to the music of this very moment and everything in between. Breaking the Silence is a remarkable and beautifully written memoir that will serve as an inspiration to everyone who reads it. By turns, heart-breaking and heart-warming, it is the incredibly uplifting life-story of a woman who refused to give up hope and always lives life with a smile upon her face"--Publisher's description

In the origins of the concept 'residency' or 'residency programmes' lie the aims of facilitating the mobility of creators, offering time and space for research, producing, creating, and intensifying connections between organizations in different territories. Placing the results in relation with the location, context or organization hosting the experience where the programme is developed. The growth of residency programmes runs parallel to a transition in their very raison d'être. From understanding their role as facilitating time and space for creative isolation, towards the configuration of a space that activates social interaction within the context. In this text, we address the role of artistic residencies as catalysts that promote changes in artistic careers and practices, as structures that contribute new forms of research, production, and distribution to the artistic ecosystem, and which, more remarkably, have an impact on the context from a political, social and cultural perspective. The article, written in a time of social isolation, reflects upon the need to redefine the role residencies can assume, especially when their objectives deploy programmes that interact with different aspects of the social, or when mobility restrictions hinder their development and virtuality appears as a solution to the fears of face-to-face. The methodology used incorporates reflections derived from the ADD+ART congress, that called for projects addressing artistic production in the face of the new paradigm related to (im)mobility, (non-)presenciality and social interaction, and the analysis of the roles different residencies take on based on the agents involved in them, with a consideration of the cases of Idensitat, Milne, and Carreño-Muñoz.