Artist in Residency Programme (AIR)

Yonamine Miguel

I want to be open to new experiences. The project I intend to develop during the artist in residence programme will be based on ambulation, fieldwork, collecting and archiving, it will be from these things that I will develop a new body of work.
http://www.yonamine.org/

Damien Schumann

In the interest of exchange I want to look at issues within my allocated country that are universal, but that I can draw parallels to using my knowledge of the experience of being raised in South Africa and having worked with social issues on five continents. I want to explore the notion of what is strange. To someone who lives in one place their surroundings are very commonplace, but to a foreigner the same surroundings can be quite obscure. This same theory can be applied to culture, customs, etiquette, laws, diet, fashion, architecture, language… anything.
http://dspgallery.com/

Maurice Mbikayi

I would like to take advantage of this residency to produce outdoor site specific installations portraying notions of time and space, made from materials that include wood, metal and any other found objects available in the environment. I would like to explore the landscape as a way of challenging my creative instinct in this term. The work will demonstrate fundamental values we give to a specific spaces as our domain of interest in society in relation to any interference or invasion; physical or in the abstract; notions of fluidity or power of time within a space. A relationship that one can develop (as a sense of identity) with an immediate space; which can greatly affect both.
http://www.mauricembikayi.com/

Olivier Serge Fokou

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of African countries independence, I want to commemorate this moment through the realization of a project called "Independence”. This will be an exchange project between me, as artist from Africa and the environment of a country outside of Africa. This project will be built on the meeting of materials or objects from the African culture on the one of Western culture. I plan to create a contemporary sculpture accompanied by a continuous public performance.
http://fokouaolivier.blogspot.com/

Kiripi Katembo Siku

As a photographer and filmmaker, this residency allows me to pursue existing artistic themes of mine relating to issues around sustainability within an urban landscape. I want to work with the urban inhabitants of the Netherlands to better understand and capture environmental themes in artistic and poetic ways.
http://rencontres-bamako.com/spip.php?article338&lang=en
http://mobileactive.org/african-film-makers-censorship-and-mobile-phones

Nina Liebenberg

I want to be open to the experience. To look and listen to what it suggests. And to be sensitive. Meeting people and experiencing the milieu first-hand are very important steps in my methodology. I believe in placing emphasis on these interactions before conceptualising how my practice will fit the environment. Caravanserai encourages the creation of hybrid art through collaboration, experimentation, research, and exchange - an incentive for a myriad of possibilities in a city as vibrant as Istanbul.
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Nadine Hutton

I am currently exploring queer (LGBTI) visual culture in South Africa, and locating it within a global narrative. I am interested in building a visual dialogue between the North & South around issues of identity and the people who inhabit these ‘bodies of work’. My time at 18th Street will give me an opportunity to explore collaborations with LA based artists. Using photography, video, & installation, I plan to create public intimate portrayals captured using new media technology – in this case the iPhone, and using social media to explore how new avenues of communication have changed how we interact on both a community and global level.
http://2point8.co.za/

Ezra Wube

During the Dislocating the Studio Residency Program, I will be realizing the site specific installation “1000 portraits for Selam”. I will attempt to complete one thousand drawn portraits of individuals I meet. I will draw for six days a week, 10 hours a day, my studio open to participants and observers. As I progress, a cumulative installation of the portraits will be presented. Through this ongoing performance and installation my aim is to involve the community. Upon completion, I will present the 1000 portraits, and the participants will be invited to take their drawings. This project conveys the idea of friendship, mutual agreement, and giving. This is particularly interesting to me because my work attempts to challenge the idea of identity with its natural and artificial boundaries.
http://ezrawube.net/