Res Artis Newsletter 13 October 2007
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| | 2007, Res Artis African Residencies | |
Last May, a Res Artis delegation participated in the entire program of the DakArt, the Biennial of African Contemporary Art. Ten Res Artis member organisations offered 11 fully-funded residencies as biennial prizes. The awards were presented to the African artists during a public presentation of the Res Artis Network.
In 2007, these residencies will take place, the African artists will travel throughout the world, hosted by the various organizations. Each newsletter this year will feature a residency and their resident artist.
List of residencies and the chosen resident artists
Dak'Art homepage
| | Network within a Network : freeDimensional and Res Artis | |
freeDimensional and the Planning and Brainstorming Retreat
Wasan Island (1-8 August 2007)
What is freeDimensional?
freeDimensional organizes community arts space and local resources for the support and protection of individuals who create dialogue on global issues and inequalities through their art and media. Its members envision a world in which diverse ideas and rigorous debate are nurtured by inclusive community spaces that are unique for their creative outlook, a process that can result in direct action on critical, contemporary issues. One such action is the provision of short-term studio and residential space for artists, activists and citizen journalists experiencing censorship, xenophobia and/or economic hardship. This service has been termed creative safe haven and is based on the idea that many residential artist communities have surplus time and space in which they might accommodate a culture worker in distress.
How did fD develop?
fD developed as a parallel network to Res Artis, incorporating several Res Artis members who were interested to be involved in the activities. These members include Ufa Fabrik, Montalvo Arts Center, Art Omi, Milkwood International Artist Residence, Center for International Art in Community (CIAC), and the Santa Fe Art Institute. freeDimensional engages in a particular style of networking that seeks to build on existing resources (and networks) in the process of linking artistic communities to social justice concerns as they are experienced locally and internationally. Together its participants seek to highlight the relation between issues faced by artists, activists and citizen journalists (or culture workers) and their bearing on society-at-large, e.g. mobility & migration, the environment, and youth engagement among others.
What happened at the retreat?
Members of the fD network met to evaluate some of the first 20 cases of creative safe haven that their centers had accommodated and to further develop additional services that can be offered through collective action among member centers.
What did the participants say?
Peter Grosz, of Milkwood International details the competencies of Artist Residencies for benefiting culture workers-at-risk. They range includes evaluation of artistic merit, housing, facilitation of community integration and networking, exhibition, performance, access to cultural and artist residency networks, arts and culture funding sources.
You can read what other participants said about the retreat on the fD wiki fdwasanreport.stikipad.com and learn about ways to participate at www.freeDimensional.net
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