Акция – “Крехко утре” Април 2019 от Ния Пушкарова
ОТВОРЕНА ПОКАНА за участие – 2020 Творческа резиденция Водна кула с менторска програма – ОНЛАЙН издание.
Краен срок за участие: 3 септември 2020.
Дати на резиденцията: 7-15 септември 2020. Ментори и гости с презентации (биографии по-долу): Бил Ейчисън (САЩ/Китай), Гари Хил (САЩ), Даисуке Такея (Япония/Канада), Албена Михайлова-Бенджи (България/Швейцария), Прерана Реди (САЩ), Чинг Цай (Китай)
Участието е БЕЗПЛАТНО, условия за участие:
- изпращане на проект-предложение в отговор на зададената тема – описание по-долу.
- изпращане на кратка автобиография и мотивационно писмо за участие, както и индикация предпочитан ментор
- владеене английски език (работният език на програмата)
Изпращайте вашите заявки за участие на watertowerartfest@gmail.com
< 4-та Творческа резиденция Водна кула (онлайн) – “Crea(L)tive mode” – 07-15.09.2020 >
В пост-пандемичната обстановка и социална дистанция отправяме покана за участие в интерактивна платформа с помощта на ментори работещи в сферата на пърформанс културата и видео изследвания, за по-дълбок анализ и взаимодействие с “недействителността” и оформяне отговори за възможно бъдеще. Участниците и менторите ще се впуснат в изследване на взаимоотношения и връзки в новото ежедневие, в което физическият елемент е изваден от уравнението. Ще се търсят отговори: къде се изместват границите на личността и колективното съзнание, когато няма физическа граница или интеракция? (т.е. безкрайното онлайн пространство) Как се оформя културно наследство без физически аспект?
Kрайният резултат може да не е непременно обвързан със завършена творба, по скоро целта на резиденцията заедно с менторската програма е да ни вкара work mode на креативноста, която по една или друга причина беше възпрепятствана от глобалния ступор на Ковид19. Просто идея или насока на работа в най-общ смисъл и намерение е достатъчна за да възобновим идеята за бъдеще от нов вид засега.
Mentors/Ментори 2020:
Bill Aitchison- http://www.billaitchison.co.uk/billaitchison/home.html is a performance artist whose live events have been presented in major museums, galleries, theatres and festivals in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Australia and China. His artworks are held in both private collections and museums. His output is as prolific as it is diverse with projects taking an extremely wide range of forms such as videos, monologues, group events, online encounters, guided tours, photography and much more. Despite this, his work as a whole is recognisable for its formal clarity, ambition of intent, dry humour and innovative use of site and frame. Aitchison has produced artist books, is a popular blogger, has made several works for radio and screen and has had his critical and journalistic articles published in several countries. He has a practice-as-research PhD from Goldsmiths College in the field of performance art, has taught and lectured at graduate and post-graduate level and presented his work and research at numerous conferences worldwide. He is curator of Last Minute Live Art, mentors artists and teaches at Nanjing University in China. Recent projects (2020) include Love in the Time of Corona (CUHK Arts Festival – online), Art of Seduction (LMLA/Monohouse), PAO: Performance Art Olympics (Phoenix Flower Festival Shenzhen), 60 Days of Lockdown (A4 Art Museum Chengdu – online), Way-Losing (LMLA Nanjing) and A Last Minute Manifesto (Hexxy Duxxy Box – online). A symposium, exhibition and publication is planned for later 2020.
British performance artist Bill Aitchison will assist selected artists in the realization of their projects through a series of online meetings. These will take place both as group meetings and as individual sessions during which the specific problems and opportunities that the online festival has created will be considered.
Gary Hill – https://garyhill.com/ (born April 4, 1951) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists in video art, based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 1970s and 1980s, he in fact began working in metal sculpture in the late 1960s. Today he is best known for internationally exhibited installations and performance art, concerned as much with innovative language as with technology, and for continuing work in a broad range of media. His longtime work with intermedia explores an array of issues ranging from the physicality of language, synesthesia and perceptual conundrums to ontological space and viewer interactivity. The recipient of many awards, his influential work has been exhibited in most major contemporary art museums worldwide.
Daisuke Takeya – https://daisuketakeya.com/
Born and raised in Japan, Daisuke Takeya obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art and received Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Currently based in Toronto, Canada, As a live performance artist Daisuke has collaborated with artists from various genres, including classical musicians such as cellist Vernon Regehr, violinist Lynn Kuo, Music in the Barns Chamber Ensemble, Les AMIS Ensemble, and deVah Quartet. Daisuke’s interest has been extended to vitalization of communities via art. He has co-directed and performed at Ashita: Artists for Japan, a Tsunami Relief Fundraiser in March, 2011, which featured the visual, music, dance, performance, and literary art communities of Toronto. Daisuke is also a past programming director and board member of Gendai Gallery, an artist and ambassador of ARTBOUND and an organizing committee member of Onagawa Art Season, an art festival at the most devastated town of 2011 Tsunami in Japan. He is currently a co-director of DAICHI Projects, the representative and curator of Field Trip Project, Field Trip Project Asia, and POWER TO THE PEOPLE initiative. He is the executive director of Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting erected in 2018.
Workshop description
Workshop: Duet
Duet is an experimental workshop for online duet performance art consisting of warmup exercises, group discussions and presentation of duet performances among the participants. How do we develop and maintain intimacy between two artists collaborating in distance via devices?
Albena Mihailova – Bendji – https://openartfiles.bg/en/people/1124-albena-mihaylova-bendji
https://www.am-contemporary.com/bendji-bendji
Albena Mihaylova-Bendji was born on 9 June 1959 in Plovdiv. In 1984 she graduated from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, in a Original graphics class. 1984-1994 she was an active artist with a number of solo exhibitions, participations in international biennials and a winner of awards. At the center of her work is the relationship between the two-dimensional and its spatial equivalent. As a result unique installations and performances are born. In 1989 she was one of the founders of the legendary art group “RUB”. During that time, the artist inspired and lead the organization of one of the first private galleries in Bulgaria – the Akrabov Gallery, which functioned as a resident center for contemporary art, and also she was Associate Professor at the School of Performing Arts in Plovdiv. In 1994 Albena left for Zurich at the invitation of BINZ 39 Foundation as a resident artist. As consequence of this exchange, she has promoted the gallery under the International Resartist Program and organized the exchange of artists, projects and festivals between Bulgaria and Switzerland. In the period 1995-1998 Albena Mihaylova-Bendji specialized in a Master class in Video Art at the Higher Art School of Basel, Switzerland. In 2008, she was nominated for the M-Tel Award for Bulgarian Contemporary Art. Since 2008 Albena Mihaylova-Bendji works as a documentary filmmaker, director and cinematographer. In 2009, she found a platform for cultural exchange, exhibitions and film festivals at Basel – Culturinstitut AM contemporary. Currently the artist works and lives in Basel. Her creative biography includes her membership in the artistic group “VIA Audio Video Art”, her work in the governance of the creative union “VISARTE BASEL” and she leads workshops for Artlink Bern and Solothurn Higher Pedagogical School. She is a member of “Balimage”, an association of filmmakers and video artists.
The workshop she proposed is going to be in groups of 4 for 2 days twice a day on topics of the social distance caused by the current situation, but also the generally existing alienation. The loneliness of the individual in modern times and the compensation through the media. Desired insulation and unwanted. what do we do with ourselves?
Special Guests/Speakers:
Prerana Reddy
Director of Programs
Prerana Reddy is the Director of Programs at A Blade of Grass which nurtures socially engaged art.
https://www.abladeofgrass.org/staffs/prerana-reddy/
Qing Cai – China perfromance artist and Professor at Tianjing Art Academy
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/jHWdSpZeo0GMRVjxWNOToQ?fbclid=IwAR2DERu_DHcuGwa7T8YR-3hhKw1ywva_MN2womXz2wujQX_7Z8-yUDkAJQE
*Проекта е подкрепен от Посолство на САЩ, България