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Description
Platform for Interdisciplinary Practice Open Place (Open Place) is an artistic initiative that aims to facilitate discussions and exchange of opinions, ideas, and experiences between artists, curators, and various social groups across Ukraine and other countries. The platform organizes meetings and conducts joint events to foster the development of art, politics, and socio-cultural transition.
Open Place supports artists and their outreach to various social groups across Ukraine and abroad. Embracing the diversity of ideas, methods, and actions in visual arts, design, performance, media art, architecture, research, social action, and economics, Open Place has been developing grassroots and social engagement practices since 1999.
Art residencies are an important part of Open Place’s activities. Open Place supports interdisciplinary projects aimed at the expansion of art-making concepts and the engagement of new groups of people in the creative process. They are interested in the experience of international colleagues working with socially minded practices and how they use participatory art and engage different social groups.
Open Place works on researching practices of collective coexistence, building horizontal structures, and peer-to-peer learning. A significant part of Open Place’s activities is aimed at building connections between different social and professional groups, different contexts, and different types of knowledge. The goal of the residency is to exchange knowledge and practical experience, examine the specifics of various local contexts, and develop new methods in the field of socially engaged art. Open Place is attentive to the ideas and practices of its residents. For its part, the residency program helps artists to explore the context and forge links with the artistic and research milieu upon their needs. They are particularly looking for applications from artists and curators who are interested in development and transformation of contemporary interdisciplinary practices, focused on working with communities, and the topic of inclusion.
Outcome
The organization has the flexibility to operate depending on the ideas and practices of residents. The end result might not always have a physical dimension, thus, it is not expected to have specific outcomes from the residents during their stay in Ukraine. Residents can use the time to conduct research, build connections, and to better understand the context. Residents can also propose a topic for a lecture, presentation, discussion, workshop or the idea of a project that engages the communities.
Accommodation Information
One studio a total area of 35 square meters consists of sleeping area, kitchen and bathroom.
Studio Information
The studio offers a total area of 50 square meters including three working spaces, kitchen and bathroom. It is suitable for curators, researchers, visual and performing artists, photographers, video and multimedia artists.
Technical Information
Tools for wood (carving tools, wood chisels, power jigsaw, sander polisher, electric drill) and metal (hacksaw, metal brush, metal files); audio-visual equipment for the production of photos, videos, and audio materials (two film photo cameras (Nikon F2A and Canon EOS Elan7), one digital photo camera (Nikon D90), two video cameras (MiniDV Panasonic DVX100B, Sony FDR-AX53), microphone, recorder, tripod, projector and two LSD monitors).
Library where among others there are the single and rare editions and publications of partner institutions on art, philosophy, actual art practises and methodologies. The Open Place residency program is not only a space for creation, but also an archive which contains a diverse collection of contemporary visual art resources. Open Place collects and manages art-related materials as well as facilitates the exchange of resources through networks between local and international partners. The Archive that Open Place has developed since 2004 is partly dedicated to archiving the main organizational processes of the residency, such as performances, seminars, workshops, lectures, discussions and educational programs, as well as contains a portfolio of artists selected by their curators and by partners' organizations.
Location
At the moment, there are two studios available in Solomianskyi District, Kyiv. Both of the premises are located in quiet areas in residential buildings.