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Don Quixote and Sancho Panza after an unsuccessful attack on a windmill. By Gustave Doré.
In Don Quixote, Alonso Quixano, a retired country gentleman in his fifties, lives in La Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has become obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes their every word to be true, despite the fact that many of the events in them are clearly impossible. Quixano eventually appears to other people to have lost his mind from little sleep and food and because of so much reading.
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Offering of the Heart Tapestry Musee de Cluny, Paris, France.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
George and Martha are coming home from a party. The two of them clearly care deeply for each other, but events have turned their marriage into a nasty battle between two disenchanted, cynical enemies. Even though the pair arrives home at two o'clock in the morning, they are expecting guests: the new math professor and his wife...
- Martha: ...I said I was necking with one of the guests...
- George: Yes, good...good for you. Which one?
- Martha: Oh, I see what you're up to, you lousy little...
- George: I'm up to page a hundred and...
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"Have you kissed him or her?"
Did you feel welcome at your residency?
Was it all that you expected?
Did you mind that?
Have you felt insecure about your performance?
Have you felt insecure about yourself?
Did you receive money and did you feel guilty about that?
Did you feel pressured by the organization of your residency?
Did you feel pressure from home?
Did you pressure yourself?
Did you feel confident?
Did you feel you were able to do the things you wanted?
Did you try to stop a habit during your residency?
Did you plan this before going there?
Have you started this habit again once you came home?
Have you made friends during your residency?
How many of them do you think were real friends?
Do you think of them sometimes?
How did you feel about your position in your scene at home?
Did you like that?
Did you adjust your view on your everyday life at home?
Have you changed things since then because of that?
Are those significant things?
Have you felt alienated during your stay?
Have you tried changing this?
Did you succeed in seeing the studio of the residency as your own?
Have you been happy there?
Have you felt alone?
Have you felt you were being different then when you are at home?
Have you felt that you were posing?
Did you tell lies?
Did you feel understood?
Do you think you were able to express yourself sufficiently?
Did you fall in love with someone during your residency?
Have you kissed him or her?
Was there someone waiting for you back home?
Did you miss this person?
All residencies are different in many ways. And as a visiting artists you're totally on your own, you're totally on your own, as was the case during my stay at Meduse in Québec. You have to manage your stay by yourself and get into contact. This 'warp' makes each residency unforgettable.
Tessa Joosse
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Artists in Labs, Switzerland (for Swiss artists)
September 15
Fiskars Residency, Finland
Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, USA
Jentel Artist Residency Program, USA
La Rectoria Contemporary Art Centre, Spain
MacDowell Colony, USA
Point Ephémère, France
Ragdale Foundation, USA
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, USA
September 17
Arteles, Finland
September 23
Hedgebrook Writers Retreat, USA
September 30
Artists Residency Sumu, Finland
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, USA
BijlmAIR, Netherlands
Binaural, Portugal
El Gouna Writers' Residency, Egypt
October 1
Artists Unlimited, Germany
Flaggfabrikken, Norway
The Griffis Art Center, USA
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, USA
Indiana University School of Fine Arts, USA
International Turning Exchange, USA
Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands
Oboro, Canada
Struts Gallery, Canada
Ucross Foundation, USA
Vermont Studio Center, USA
October 4
Critical Path, Australia
October 15
Colorado Art Ranch, USA
October 19
Hangar, Spain
October 25
GlogaluAIR, Germany
October 31
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany
Denali National Park AiR Program, USA
Kala Art Institute, USA
Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore
Sturt, Australia
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no. 24 / On Love
courtship display
(l) Bowerbird Box © All rights reserved Gallery 101 and the australian artist Mary Newsome. (r) The most notable characteristic of bowerbirds is the extraordinarily complex behaviour of males, which is to build a bower to attract mates. The bower ranges from a circle of cleared earth with a small pile of twigs in the center to a complex and highly decorated structure of sticks and leaves -usually shaped like a walkway, a small hut or a maypole- into and around which the male places a variety of objects he has collected.
Centuries have passed but the battle between the sexes still rages on in the documentary-style installation by Brian Barista. The work contrasts and compares the difference in opinion between men and women reflecting on modern and traditional beliefs regarding the topic of courtship.
"Battle Between the Sexes" still by artist Brian Batista.
This project will be ongoing past its exhibition date at
Emmedia. Artist-in-residence Brian Batista invites singles willing to share unique experiences on camera to
email.
Don Quijote morse code
- Resident artist: Jean-Baptiste Ganne
"El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha" 2005, installation view M4Gastatelier, Amsterdam. Photography J.-B. Ganne.
In the winter of 2005, from one of the windows of the TetteRode on Da Costakade, Amsterdam, has been read in morse with a red lamp, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha of Cervantès. This continuous reading of the integrality of the book lasted forty days as a monologous talk facing the world. There the french artist J.-B. Ganne used the empty studio space of
M4 as an amplifier. This studio became a tool for language instead of being the space for work or show. The concequence was that one can not work in this studio, but had to let the studio itself work for him. On the front of this building full of studios where people works, one studio worked on its own.
love / fences / nests
- What: American Jewish Museum's three-part artist-in-residence program 2009. In this program the artists each participate consecutively in a three-month residency presenting multi-media installations. They set up studios in the AJM gallery and complete their installations while working in the museum, which are open to the public.
(l) The American Jewish Museum (r) Still from Ally Reeves' "Falling In".
The animation "Falling In" (still above) by resident Ally Reeves is a synergistic happening between her and members of the community. During the first phase of the exhibition, participants will share with her their stories about falling in love. Reeves will then transform the narratives into illustrations and Flash animations as the basis for the exhibition. Interpreting participants' personal stories, Reeves will explore how cartoons and animation use both representational and abstract visual language and messages to narrate the human condition. "Falling In" is a synthesis of low-tech social engagement, new media techniques, performance and installation.
In the salt mines
In the summer of 1818
Stendhal took a recreational trip to the salt mines of Hallein near Salzburg. Here he discovered the phenomenon of salt crystallization and compares it to the birth of love:
" What I call crystallization is the operation of the mind that draws from all that presents itself the discovery that the loved object has some new perfections." 
(r) At the salt mines of Hallein near Salzburg artist Elise Rasmussen created an installation in response to Stendhal' s writings on crystallization.
There, in the city of Salzburg,
Salzburger Kunstverein offers a studio for artists free of charge for a period of between one and three months. The artist supplies one piece of work created in Salzburg free of charge to the city. Travel, accommodation and material costs are not covered by the city of Salzburg.
from the writer's desk
John Barton, Writer in Residence at Saskatoon Public Library, Canada.
John Barton, writer in residence: "Composing a poem, story, or essay is no different, though we may not have specific people in mind. Even if we do when writing a love poem, say, we should assume that others may be reading over their shoulders. We must consider how the words we use come across, what message, and by message I mean aesthetic experience, not information, they convey. Even the most experienced writers can find it hard to know who the audience is, what it expects, or what can be expected in return."
- Writer in Residence HOURS:
- Wednesdays: 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
- Thursdays: 1 p.m. - 9 p.m.
loveletter
(l) The Ard Bia Berlin apartment space in the heart of the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin. (r) The Tent Lady's Hospitality, video still, 2008, Icelandic Love Corporation, resident in 2008 at Ard Bia Berlin.
"It is said
Heinrich Böll's love letter to the west coast of Ireland, Irisches Tagebuch (1957), brought innumerable numbers of Germans to the region in the latter part of the last century to play truant from Europe. Different, but commonly pervasive myths about the particularities of place, draw innumerable artists and cultural practitioners from all over the world to Berlin. One of the new arrivals is
Ard Bia Berlin , a sister-enterprise of Ard Bia gallery in Galway, from the same region of Ireland that Böll once wrote so lovingly of, albeit now a radically different place in all meaningful regards".
(source: paramnesia berlin ) This residency provides three individual live-in studio spaces within one apartment for artists or cultural practitioners.
kiss of a lifetime
Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space is a not-for-profit, co-operative that supports visual arts practice by providing artists with accessible and affordable studios in Manchester city centre. Rogue now houses sixty artists over two floors of studios and includes Rogue Project Space, used primarily for residency and exchange projects.
From the Rogue Artists' Studios exhibition "Kiss of a lifetime" (l) © William Titley(r) © Mark Gubb, 2009.
One of the largest independent artists' studio groups operating in the North West, artist members range from recent graduates to established practitioners and work in a wide range of disciplines and media.
Argentine heart
The heart residency objective in La Plata, Argentina is to generate personalized, free artistic exchange.They offer a complete management service and accommodation to artists from other countries.The residency offers you a living space, workshops, gallery space, materials and helps you to make contacts.
Residencia Corazón/The Heart Residency
