Report by Veronica Frenning, RU outbound artist in residency, during her stay at Bamboo Curtain Studio (BCS), Taiwan Through my affiliation to Residency Unlimited in New York, I was selected to spend a month at the Bamboo Curtain Studio in November 2011. http://bambooculture.com/en/residentartist/413 I spent a month at the Bamboo Curtain Studio (Taiwan) in November [...]
Mary Song is a Korean artist who works essentially with performance, questionning cultural connections and possible exchange via food and cooking for instance. Her “cooking performance” has already been shown in Ireland, Korea, Turkey, Finland, Estonia… An artist in perpetual move who actually made this moving a component of her work, she answers my questions. [...]
In this essay we were asked to dwell upon two questions: how is it special to have a studio in Berlin and how it is different to create in the digital age. Mijn thuis is waar mijn Stella staat (My home is, where my Stella is; Belgian proverb) The rough answer to the first question [...]
RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES International Conference on Artistic Residencies & Eastern European Res Artis Meeting Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, Poland November 16-19th 2009 CONFERENCE – Introducing new disciplines This panel aimed to discuss various strategies for developing artistic residencies in context as they adjust to the contemporary conditions of art and culture. Interdisciplinarity became [...]
Julien Bismuth in conversation with Judith Souriau Residency Unlimited – Dialogues JS : You are currently having a solo show at GAK, Bremen called “The Ventriloquism Aftereffect.” Can you tell us more about it? JB : The project, exhibited in Bremen, departs from Austrian writer Karl Kraus’s (1874-1936) text “In dieser grossen Zeit” (“In these [...]
coordinated by Residency Unlimited and supported by Approach Art Association, Pecs Hungary December 2010 /January 2011 In December 2010/ January 2011 I participated in an artist residency in Pecs, Hungary. This opportunity was generated through a collaboration between Residency Unlimited/Harlem Biennial, in the US, and Approach Art Association, an art institution with a 15 year history [...]
The Jardim Canadá Center of Art and Technology in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a residency that affords artists a rare opportunity for an intimate experience of new cultures, and the creative freedom and support to produce daring new work. The residency resides just outside of the metropolitan city of Belo Horizonte, in a [...]
GEORGIA SAGRI Georgia Sagri is an artist. She lives and works in NY, Brooklyn. She is a graduate of Columbia University, Visual Arts Department. She is the founder and editor in chief of sound-only magazine Forté. She is currently developing a performance piece that will be presented in April at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao part [...]
As a reluctant immigrant, I am obsessed with the psychological state of being suspended between worlds and compelled to explore this condition through my films and photography. Over the years my method of working has moved from solitary to collaborative and community-based. I am not a community artist per-se but this form of engagement was [...]
Olivia Plender is a British artist based in Berlin. At the heart of her practice is historical research. Plender has dealt with topics ranging from the early history of the BBC to modern Spiritualism. One of her more well known projects concerns The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, a Boy Scout-like British youth movement of [...]
“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?’ -Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children Recently, I was asked to be part of a presentation by Residency Unlimited to a graduate arts administration class at New York University. The class was researching funding options and strategies for non-profit arts organizations. In this case, [...]
During the Res Artis conference in Montreal this fall, the organization freeDimensional produced a series of interviews on Crossing Borders – The state of artist mobility How does artist travel relate to other forms of human mobility? At a time when tensions are high across borders and cultures (and hurdles to mobility increase), citizens, communities [...]
Curator and writer, Kitty Scott is since 2007 the Director of Visual Arts and the Banff International Curatorial Institute, at The Banff Centre in Canada. Previously she was chief curator at the Serpentine Gallery, London; and Curator, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. She has written extensively on contemporary art for catalogues and [...]
Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. After studying Fine Art York University in Toronto, and University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, he went on to attend the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Fernandes’ practice examines the concept of authenticity as an ideological construct that [...]
Living in the image-world of today is accompanied with the demand for the instant gratification and the increasing need for always-connected state of being. According to Manuel Castells, it brings the notion of shrinkage in spatial distances; he writes about “spaces of flow”, addressing to the furious flow of information between the interconnected nodes within the network. It produces the hybrid forms of correspondence, so the artists have a chance to form the new type of collective – the one that equally relies on mediated and non-mediated communication.
Charlotte Bydler is a prolific art historian, writer and lecturer at the Department of Art History, School of Culture and Communication, Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden. Her PhD thesis, The Global Art World Inc. On the globalization of contemporary art (2004), has become a sourcebook for the study of biennials. Bydler has since been involved [...]
Runo Lagomarsino was born in Argentina, raised in Sweden and is currently based in Malmö. After studying art at the Academy of Fine Art Valand, Gothenburg and the Malmö Art Academy, he went on to attend the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. His work focuses on how today’s political and social environment has [...]
Jennie C Jones (b.1968) is a Brooklyn based artist. She creates audio, sculptures and drawings, concentrating on the abstract, minimal and formalist languages of modernist art forms merged with the conceptual ideologies and techniques of avant-garde jazz. Jones says:”The general strands of thought I continue to expand upon are: ways of drawing sound, sound and [...]
The artists’ collective Centre de recherche urbaine de Montréal (CRUM) offers its services as Documentalist in Residence to articule throughout the 2009-2010 programming year. This year-long commitment of service is part of the 30th anniversary of articule, one of the oldest artist-run centres in Montréal. As Documentalist in Residence, the CRUM has been working with [...]
Philosopher Ernst Jünger famously said that modernity had taught us to travel with light luggage. In order to move further down the path of the present, modernity shed all that appears to be too heavy, too loaded with meaning. Today, however, the weight of our cultural and intellectual luggage seems to be more burdensome. Art [...]
[12:01] residencyunlimited: Hi there! [12:01] FPguest: I prepared ahead of time — I wanted to first ask on this chat about community service that an artist performs during an artist residency. Community service to me anyway seems a “free” or nominal cost event to benefit members of the community at large, that is, local to the artist’s [...]
The plane looks like a flying fish. This winter of 2010, it landed back home, at apexart, in New York City. And there, I found myself again. I must admit that in every journey is composed a travel as a winning trip through time and space. Thus, the journey is conquest, but also a discovery. I do not think that it should be a Columbian discovery, but I believe that the journey always brings a kind of magical Columbian width of the space itself, the one that represents immaterial, personal, timeless, and rich, colourful land of the spirit and the soul.
Mladen Miljanovic (b.1981) lives and works in Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina. He describes his own works the following way: “I use art as the means of sublimation of the negative forms of the past, taking performance, installation, images and photographs as media through which the forms of the social trauma are being redefined”. Miljanovic is the recipient of the [...]
A text by ALEXANDRO DO CARMO “The aim of the residency program is to facilitate communication between the artist and the public,”—variants of this phrase appear in residency programs the world over. Though in many cases, the interaction, for funding or promotional reasons, is created by channeling the public into the artist’s studio—to see them [...]
Miha Štrukelj (b. 1973) is a visual artist from Ljubljana, who represented the Slovenian pavillion at the Venice Biennial in 2009. He works primarily in painting, drawing and site-specific work. Strukelj explores the mechanism of perception and (de-)construction of images, examining the position of individuals in urban landscapes. He is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner [...]
