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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
