Winter 2012
Aaron Cezar, Moukhtar Kocache, Delfina Foundation
By Aaron Cezar and Moukhtar Kocache Winter 2012 | ArteZine Over the last decade, there has been a proliferation of residencies across the globe and in different contexts – from major art institutions to community cultural centers to non-conventional (and even non-art) spaces – that host artists, archivists, researchers, architects, curators, activists and scientists as well. Yet, the…
Moukhtar Kocache
By Moukhtar Kocache Winter 2012 | ArteZine Over the course of the last fifteen years or so, I have had the fortune of being engaged with various artist residency programs as a founder, director, juror, board member and donor. These residencies have taken on a variety of forms: from retreats to exchanges; site-specific, studio-based, workshop and…
Aneta Szylak
By Aneta Szylak Winter 2012 | ArteZine There was a time when we weren’t taking artist-in-residence programs seriously enough. But the political map of the world is changing; as funding for art shifts, we find ourselves in a moment where rethinking residencies is necessary. Museums, galleries and public spaces all underwent a significant reformulation of their…
Warren Neidich
By Warren Neidich Winter 2012 | ArteZine “…the ‘residency without walls’ adapts to the rubric of the early 21st century and embraces this idea of the immaterialization of architecture as a mechanism by which to unhinge regimes of oppression that attempt to debilitate it as a cultural and neurobiological modifier…. The residency without walls first of all must…
DAM
By DAM Winter 2012 | ArteZine Ahmad Hosni was among the first group of resident artists at Dar Al-Ma’mûn (DAM) in 2010-11. This transcript is an excerpt of a conversation between Carleen Hamon and Julien Amicel, co-directors of Dar Al-Ma’mûn (DAM), with photographer Ahmad Hosni who was among their first group of resident artists in 2010-11. DAM: Could you…
Todd Lester
By Todd Lester Winter 2012 | ArteZine freeDimensional works with the global arts community to identify and redistribute resources, and support meaningful relationships between art spaces and activists. freeDimensional delivers services that connect arts residencies and human rights organizations to demonstrate and share a specific method, both as an example of discrete utility and a model…
By ArteEast Winter 2012 | ArteZine We asked six artists to share their stories. Lotfi NiaAlgiers > Dar Al-Ma’mûn in Marrakech La Fabrique des Traducteurs (The Translators’ Workshop) was a professional training program initiated by the Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires (International College of Literary Translators) and supported by, among others, the Centre National du Livre…
Delfina Foundation
By ArteEast and Delfina Foundation Winter 2012 | ArteZine This resource manual offers readers a brief overview of online platforms and print sources relevant to understanding residencies and the social, cultural and political contexts in which they function. International conferences and symposia have assembled to tighten networks of institutions, and web-based platforms have started to disseminate audio and video…
Dina Ibrahim
By Dina Ibrahim Winter 2012 | Gallery This edition of the gallery examines the works of artist Abbas Akhavan from various critical perspectives that delineate between capitalist processes of production and social interventions while examining the role of architecture and space in shaping an artwork’s impact on audiences. Dina Ibrahim’s essay departs from where the previous…
Shumon Basar
By Shumon Basar Winter 2012 | Gallery How much did it cost? What’s it worth? Ah the familiar prods we proffer and are asked everyday about the value of things. True, this is just one measure of value – the monetary one, the one we write with numbers not letters, in a myriad of currencies convertible…
