Residence experiences
Trans Artists collects stories and reports from artists who are so kind to share their artist-in-residence experiences with YOU.
Read a selection of stories here:
Dutch Light, Chinese Light
Some notes by Chantal Spit, inspired by her staying at the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen, China
Been Everywhere, Seen Everything
"For the year of 2007 I allowed the unlimited influence of the outside world on my working process. I planned to travel and paint for a year and work in a number of artist residencies all the way from Eastern Europe through the Middle East and on to Asia..."
Seoul reports
Dutch artist Heidi Vogels stays for a three-month residency at SSamzie Space in Seoul. Read here her weekly updated report on her experiences.
People like to say Marseille in Marseille
Dutch poet and writer Erik Lindner stayed 3 months at the Centre International de Poésie Marseille, France
Taipei Artist Village by Erik Lindner
"My trip to Taipei was my first visit to Asia. The TAV had been the former building of the construction workers of the Taipei Metro. Stories suggested that the building was haunted. It is in the middle of the city centre, next to the train station. The City Administration first placed me at a hotel. What happened that month is difficult to relate in a few lines..."
Rieneke de Vries at Beijing Studio Center
"For 6 weeks I was in the big, strange but nice, sexy and sweet city Beijing. I worked in a studio, in the quite new art-district HuanTie, part of the Chaoyangdistrict. I found my place on Trans Artists. The 798, most famous art-district of Beijing was very near my place. My district was in the middle of a circle railway, a railway where they are testing new high-tech trains. Every day I saw dusty workers with wagons..."
Birdprayers
Indonesian and Belgian artists Arya Pandjalu and Sara Nuytemans tell us about their projectBirdprayers, developed during a residency at Sika Gallery in Bali
Here As The Centre Of The World
" The site which we chose for our work was a former prison on the edge of the city, adjacent to the famous city walls (themselves the second largest of their kind after the Great Wall of China). This building, now lying empty, had also been the site of a base of the Turkish Army. There were plans afoot to transform it into a cultural centre at some point in the future, but for now it remained a haunting and barren place, very close to a densely populated area of the city and yet at the same time strangely cut off and foreboding."...
Lego-built, Tonka-fueled dreams
Being something of an aging boy (27 and counting), the prospect of being able to live out some childhood, Lego-built, Tonka-fueled dreams of working on an industrial site full of cranes high in the sky and tires bigger than my head was reason enough to apply to be the Artist-in-Residence at Shell Chemicals Scotford during Turnaround 2006.
Djerassi
"The quality level of the artists is very high at the Djerassi Program and being a month together with these artists, who are at first virtual strangers to you, does not have to lead to a successful interaction artistically. But we were a great group together. Everyone was asked to give a presentation of their work."
Navigators weblog
The Navigators weblog is a diary by artists fromDasArts (inline), Amsterdam and Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Coming from around the globe they have embarked on a voyage to Australia from 14 August to 28 October 2006. The weblog will be updated daily with texts, images and sound to keep track of their journey and to reveal the developments of their research.
'Rose Marie' by Christel Boertjes
For weeks I had seen her walking with her cart full of rubbish, dolls and books. Rose Marie lived on the streets of Bastia for the past 10 years. After a first staged introduction, I would often walk down her street.
Travel Tales by Meris Angoletti
Meris Angoletti decided to start a collaboration with several psychiatrists of the Van Gogh institute in Venray, in order to find information about 'dromomania' (or ambulatory automatism), a disease that forces people who suffer of it, to escape from the place they live and start long trips, of which, at the moment of their return, they don’t remember at all.
"Georgia Here We Come"
‘In the middle of the night we sneak into Georgia (ex-Soviet Union). With ten people in a Van we slalom through the holes in the road. The streets are empty and the city looks ghostly beautiful. When we arrive in the apartment we fall over, not from fatigue but from stupefaction: it appears to be an ex-Soviet luxurious flat, completely equipped with two fireplaces, two bathrooms, wooden floors everywhere and a piano and chandeliers in the livingroom. We drink vodka until the sun comes up...’
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Bibliobox goes online
Last month the bibliobox was launched by the artists Antje Schiffers (GER), Wapke Feenstra (NL) and Katrin Böhm (GER). Since its launch in 2002 they have set up a number of projects and events that act as a network and platform for art projects in the rural environment, such as ourvillages.org, the Village Convention and now the Bibliobox.
Jingdezhen is overwhelming
It was very impresive, you could bake a house in this kiln. China is known for it's impressive works in architecture, cities and now also proven, ceramics.
Artists 'Topp & Dubio' at Cemeti Art House, Indonesia
'Popp & Dubio' it says on the placard in the hands of a man on the airport Soekarno-Hatta. This mangling of our name pleases us and takes an advance on the coming three weeks in Indonesia. Here we will discuss the differences and similarities between Poentjak and Puncak. A couple characters make the difference between a place on Java and a restaurant in The Hague.
The Color of the World at Saskala, Finland
A group of young international artists were the first ones invited to stay in art centre Saksala ArtRadius for up to 5 months.During this winter they were living in the residency of the art center and were able to work concentrated on their different projects.
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Gwenn-Aël Lynn at Villa de Bank
Gwenn Aël Lynn was selected by the Pépinières Program 2006 to stay and work for three months at the AKI Art Academy in the city of Enschede. Now he is showing his final presentation at Villa de Bank.
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Here, in China
What I enjoy most about China is the dominating sense of malleability, that the country is held together by expediencies. Not just in everyday life and how people solve problems but in the nation’s endeavours to create an image of itself. A taxi driver can suddenly pull up at the side of the road, open the bonnet to repair something with sticky tape, and an old domestic telephone can be set out on the street with a sign saying ‘public telephone’.
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Sandro Setola at Delfina Studios London
I was generously welcomed by both Karin Eklund at Delfina and Oliver Sumner at CAC. They introduced me to everyone I should know and regularly checked in to discuss the residency. I felt a bit spoilt to be honest, since I'm not used to this much attention.
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Lonely Rythmes
For a long time my paintings and drawings were mainly inspired by structures, patterns and stains which I observed in my closer surroundings, mostly the urban environment. My attention was focussed on the amazing rhythms and lines of façades of houses, especially with scaffolds. Lights and shadows on the scaffolding by day or by night are fascinating. Tramway lines are like drawing lines to me.
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