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We have some exciting news...
Res Artis is thrilled to announce the selection of four new global Board Members, hailing from diverse corners of the globe. They all bring in a respective wealth of expertise, gathered from their extensive experience in the international arts sector and beyond. The selection of Marnie Badham (Australia / Canada) as Secretary, Marie Fol (Brussels / France), Gordon Knox (United States) and Oyindamola Fakeye (Nigeria / United Kingdom) as Res Artis Board Members marks the final stages of our move, transitioning from our original home in the Netherlands to our global headquarters in Melbourne, Australia. They join Daniel Marro (Australia) who was appointed to the Board as Treasurer in 2021.
We would like to sincerely thank outgoing Secretary, Sophie Travers (Australia) and Chair, Lea O’Loughlin (United Kingdom) who were integral founding Board Members for Res Artis Limited. Their support, hard work and dedication has been crucial in the establishment of this new Board, the transfer of our global headquarters and the ongoing development of Res Artis as the peak body of the global arts residency field.
Soon Res Artis will announce another call out to further extend the Board and ensure the composition of our Board represents the diversity of our global network. This will include a dedicated First Nations position. |
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| Image: Portraits of Res Artis Board Members Sophie Travers and Lea O'Loughlin. Photographs courtesy of Sophie and Lea.
Artists - we want to hear from you!!!
Are you an artist who has undertaken a residency program with one of our Members? We would love to see documentation of the work you have created and to hear about your experiences. We have begun Artist Profile posts through ourInstagramto celebrate some of the amazing work being produced through our Member's programs. We want to promote your practice!!!
Email us to tell us about your work and residency experience!! [email protected] |
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Image: a photograph of a cabin at Halls Island Artist Residency, Canada. Image courtesy of Halls Island Artist Residency.
New Member Profile: We are delighted to introduce our new Member, Halls Island Artist Residencyin Canada!
Halls Island Artist Residency encourages artists to give back to the Haliburton arts community with a community engagement component to their residency. Writers, musicians, visual artists, and artists of other disciplines are invited to engage with nature and pursue their creative endeavors in an idyllic setting. The off-grid, water access location is ideal for quiet reflection and immersion in the natural world.
Halls Island is located on beautiful Koshlong Lake. The boat launch is about a fifteen minute drive from Haliburton Village. The island has three small cabins; a main cabin with a basic kitchen, dining and living area, and two small sleeper cabins, as well as a nordic-style sauna. |
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| Image credit:Photograph of artists working at Residencia Corazón, Argentina. Photograph courtesy of Residencia Corazón.
Long Standing Res Artis Member: Residencia Corazón, Argentina
Residency Corazón is a long-standing and valued Res Artis Member. They offer a comprehensive International Artist in Residency (AIR) program in Argentina. Each artist, curator or writer receives exclusive and highly personalized support from the Residencia Corazón team.
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Image: Poster for Emergency and Resilience Funds for Ukrainian Visual Artists. Courtesy of PEN America's Artists at Risk Connection.
Emergency and Resilience Funds for Ukrainian Visual Artiststhrough Artists At Risk Connection!
PEN America's Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) has launched a special call for applications for emergency assistance and resilience assistance to Ukrainian visual artists affected by the ongoing war, through emergency and resilience funds created with the support of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts.
This opportunity is intended to support Ukrainian visual artists who have remained in Ukraine as well as those who left due to the war. The emergency grant applies to artists who have an urgent need for emergency funding to cover basic living expenses, while the resilience grant is intended for those whose personal and security situations enable them to continue their work, but who require financial assistance in order to do so.
The emergency fund provides short-term assistance to artists and their families in emergency situations. Grants can be used to cover basic expenses including but not limited to: food, utilities, rent, security, medical and mental health expenses, legal representation, or travels.
The resilience fund provides mid to long-term assistance to artists for career needs and opportunities. Grants can be used to cover work-related expenses including but not limited to: art supplies, camera and video equipment, building peer-to-peer professional networks, enrolling in classes or workshops, renting a studio space, funding for travel, cultural exchange, exhibitions, or work opportunities.
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| Image: Herman's Library in der Akademie Schloss Solitude. Photograph courtesy of Jana Hochdorfer.
At our global headquarters in Melbourne, Australia we have an archive of books and ephemera, collected from valued Members and partner-orgranisations over our multi-decade history. The collection celebrates the diversity and innovations of the arts residency sector. We are always interested in adding to the archive, to ensure our Member's work, projects, and initiatives can be shared and appreciated for decades to come! We want to celebrate the work done by our Members and the creatives they support.
If you have produced or own publications relating to residency experiences and would like to donate to the Res Artis archive, please post any materials to:
Res Artis
44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia, 3002.
Have questions about the archive? Email [email protected] |
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| Image credit: ‘Fitzroy Gardens Mirror’ City of Melbourne Arts Project (Fitzroy Gardens) by John R. Neeson, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
Currently showing at Res Artis Project Space: RESIDENCIES - an exhibition by John R. Neeson in Collingwood (Australia).
We have been thrilled to show the work of esteemed Australian artist John R. Neeson in our Res Artis Project Space. John’s practice can be characterized through a dedication to residency-based experience and site-specific work, having undertaken 53 venue referential projects throughout his extensive career. In RESIDENCIES Neeson presents works selected from his 26 residency experiences.
Join John for an artist talk on the last day of the exhibition, October 8th at 3pm.
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Image: Juan Ford, Banner, 2022, printed cotton and tree branch, 150 x 180 cm. Documentation courtesy of the artist.
Up next in our Res Artis Project Space will beJuan Ford with Doomscroll the Masthead,opening on Thursday October 13th and closing on Saturday November 12th.
Doomscroll the Masthead can be seen as an investigation into the life of an artwork after it leaves the hands of the artist. Produced for the 2019 Young Congo Biennale, Ford sent a selection of works to Kinshasa in 2019. Unable to obtain a visa to the DRC, Ford was unable to accompany the works and they were lost in transit. In an odd act of resurrection, Ford has re-created the works for exhibition in the Res Artis Project Space. It’s interesting to reflect on what trajectories they might have had, away from my control, in central Africa somewhere. The premise of that biennale was one of hope, and the recreation of these works is something of a hopeful act. — Juan Ford 2022 Project Space hours:
Thursday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm. Opening: Thursday October 13th, 6-8pm.
Access to the Res Artis Project is through Gertrude Glasshouse gallery, 44 Glasshouse Rd, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. Access is via a flight of stairs at the rear of the gallery space. |
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Initiative to aid arts and cultural professionals in the Ukraine
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| In lieu of our conference How to inhabit instability?to be hosted byIZOLYATSIA in cooperation with Ukrainian Institute, House of Europeand Goethe-Institut Ukraine that was scheduled to take place in Kyiv in late 2022 and is now cancelled due to the war, we have diverted our focus to work with our partners on building a special section of our websiteto support Ukrainian arts and cultural workers in need.
Head to ourwebsite to read our statements, expressing solidarity with our Ukrainian partners; to learn about Emergency Residency opportunitiesfor Ukrainian creatives; for Humanitarian Resources; for information on like-minded organizations implementing aid solutions and to learnhow you can help.
If you have an Emergency Residency or opportunities that can be added to this section of website, please email [email protected]
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Member Packs and Benefits
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Image courtesy of Domaine de Boisbuchet, France. (A group of people sitting in a circular formation in discussion on the lawn at Domaine de Boisbuchet in France. a castle-like building is behind them.)
As a Res ArtisMember you get a wide range of benefits. These include promotion of your program and Open Calls to our extensive network; information on the global residency sector; Member-support from our dedicated team; opportunities to connect with like-minded organisations and institutions; advocacy support; information on digital opportunities and exclusive access to our annual conferences.
We have been busy building Member Resource Packs that can assist Members in professionalising their programs. The Packs we have produced so far include information on program promotion, artist promotion, residency agreements, advertising support and advice on how to create meaningful online experiences. Already a Member? Login in to the Member Portal on the Res Artis website to view the packs for free. Not yet a Member? Follow the link below to learn more... |
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| Res Artis Member Project: JOYA AiR, Spain
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Image: Aerial view of Joya AiR, Spain. Documentation courtesy of Joya AiR.
Res Artis Member Project: JOYA AiR, Spain
In collaboration with Life Terra, Joya: AiR are planting the entire area of their residency with 8000 trees. Res Artis loves hearing about our Member's dedicated efforts towards building sustainable futures!
"Joya: AiR is a residency and advocacy association at the intersection between creativity and the environment. We promote cultural and sustainable activities to regenerate rural life and make space for nature.
We are located in Spain which, within Europe, is ground zero for land abandonment as 80% of its population now live and work in the cities. Consequently remote areas such as ours desperately need cultural and sustainable activity to regenerate the population and the land which has become so denuded from agro industrial activities and climate change.
It was sixteen years ago that we began Joya: AiR in Spain and in that time we have hosted hundreds of artists and student groups. It has been our great privilege over these years to introduce artists and writers to not just the beauty of this place but also its challenges, especially as the environment changes around us.
Our residency has allowed us to regenerate our dry land into a place with restored terraces, a restored ancient water catchment system and now hydrated soils. For the first time in 60 years we have water running, rebuilding soils, providing ground cover and supporting a food forest.
This confirms our belief that cultural activities in abandoned and denuded places are key to landscape restoration and efforts to combat climate change." |
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Image: Poster design for On the Move's 'Mobility Webinar: UK-EU mobility flows in the visual arts', showing photographs of panelists Veronka Köver, Alessio Antoniolli, Paolo Mele, Theodore Ereira-Guyer and Maria Luigia Gioffrè. Courtesy of On the Move.
Our friends at On the Movewill be hosting an online Mobility Webinar: UK-EU mobility flows in the visual arts on October 25th at 3pm CEST. Register online to attend!
As part of its pluriannual programme co-funded by the European Union, On the Move proposes twice a year Mobility Webinars to investigate collectively international artistic and cultural mobility. For this second Mobility Webinar, On the Move collaborates with Arts Infopoint UK, an initiative led by Wales Arts International, to exchange on the artistic and cultural mobility flows between EU’s Members States and the United Kingdom. After a COVID-19 pandemic which put many cross-border collaboration to a halt, arts professionals and organisations gradually discovered the new circumstances to travelling from one context to the other. Travel restrictions and other health-related measures being slowly lifted on the two sides of the Channel, many practitioners had to get acquainted with a new set of rules to circulate, stay and present work.
Across 2021, many conversations took place in the performing arts field and the creative industries to raise awareness of these new circumstances and address grassroots players’ needs in relation to transnational EU-UK cultural initiatives. Both On the Move and Arts Infopoint UK have led or contributed to many sectoral events to provide support and guidance to cultural stakeholders. Mobility Information Points (MIP) have been increasing their effort to better help UK- and EU-based arts professionals when dealing with post-Brexit issues, from visas to customs rules.
Today we would like to share more stories and information from the visual arts ecosystem, as we observe its specificities (e.g. from freelance artists and curators to artist-in-residence programmes not always equipped to navigate heavy administrative processes) and concerns to maintain fruitful cultural relations. On the Move members, including D6: Culture in Transit, Arts Council England and Res Artis, have been instrumental in shaping the questions of this Mobility Webinar. Moderator: Veronka Köver (independent expert) Panelists: Alessio Antoniolli (Gasworks & Triangle Network, United Kingdom) Theodore Ereira-Guyer (visual artist, United Kingdom/Portugal) Paolo Mele (Ramdom / KORA / STARE-Associazione delle Residenze Artistiche italiane, Italy) Maria Luigia Gioffrè (In-ruins, Italy) |
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Image credit: Section of cover design for On the Move's Cultural mobility funding guide for the Balkan Region, 2022. Courtesy of On the Move.
On the Move have also been busy producing a Cultural Mobility Funding Guide focused on the Balkan region as part of their multiannual programme co-funded by the European Union. In line with the series of cultural mobility funding guides, this guide is meant to be a resource for artists and other arts workers looking to finance their cross-border travel to and/or from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia. Beyond helping artists and cultural professionals to identify sources of funding or related resources, this guide also aims to be a useful reference document for policy makers and funders with a special interest in the Balkan region. |
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Image: Poster for TransCultural Exchange 2022 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts, Create the Future. Courtesy of TransCultural Exchange.
Our friends at TransCultural Exchangewill be hosting their 2022 International Conference Create the Futurefrom 4-6 November 2022.
Expand your horizons. Tap into the unique arts network that is TransCultural Exchange. Connect globally with artists, curators, residency directors, grant makers and international arts professionals. Join us for our seventh International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts, the only international gathering of its kind – anywhere. |
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| Image: Nomadic Red Corner - International Artist Residency, Ulaanbaatar 2021, Image courtesy of the Nomadic Red Corner / Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association New Res Artis Member:Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association, Mongolia.
In 2020, MCASA and Art Space 976 launched the Nomadic Red Corner initiative to bring art closer to the Ger districts of Ulaanbaatar city, where the majority of rural-urban migrants live. Through this initiative several artistic neighborhoods were created in different districts of Ulaanbaatar city, involving professional artists, volunteers, local community and partners. By the end of 2021, with the support from the Goethe International Relief Fund 2021, Nomadic Red Corner, international artist residency was established in the compound of Magic Land Community Center, located in Uliastai area of Bayanzurkh district, a sub-urban part of Ulaanbaatar city. The residency is 11 km away from the city center and surrounded by residential houses and Gers (nomadic tent) of recent rural migrants. The residency plans organize creative community development activities, artistic events and workshops, involving the local community and professional artists in collaboration with Magic Land 2 Community Development Center. Magic Land 2 – Community Development Center was established in 2019 by Lantuun Dokhio NGO, due to the increased need for places for children with a loving and safe environment. The center was built and operates now with the love of thousands of individuals, volunteers, and the business community that supported and donated to the project. |
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