Contemporary Artist Residencies: Reclaiming Time and Space (Antennae) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9492095467 ISBN 13: 9789492095466

Publisher: Valiz, 2019

Synopsis

Collecting writings from artists, theorists and artist residency facilitators, Contemporary Artist Residencies examines the present role of the residency for artists and the international art ecosystem. With a range of discussions on the continuously evolving role of residencies in our political and historical moment, the book also examines residencies' varied attempts at "reclaiming time and space" for artistic practice while serving as nodes for collaboration, research, and critical thinking--not to mention a crucial and sought-after means of promoting artists' career development and the international circulation of their work. The book features contributions by Pascal Gielen, Livia Alexander, Nathalie Anglès, Helmut Batista and Taru Elfving, among others. The latest of Valiz's Antennae series of books designed by Metahaven, Contemporary Artist Residencies helps to fill the surprising gap in books about how and why residencies function in today's art world.

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From the Back Cover

Artist residencies provide space, time, and concentration for making art, doing research and for reflection. Residencies are crucial nodes in international circulation and career development, but also invaluable infrastructures for critical thinking and artistic experimentation, cross-cultural collaboration, interdisciplinary knowledge production, and site-specific research. The globalization process and the demands of the creative economy have had an impact on artist residencies. Ecological and geopolitical urgencies are now also affecting them more and more. In response, many residencies today actively search for more sustainable alternatives than the current neoliberal condition allows for artistic practice. With a range of critical insights from the field of residencies, this book asks what the present role of artist residencies is in relation to artists and the art ecosystem amid transformations in society.

Contributors: Livia Alexander, Nathalie Anglès, Helmut Batista, Taru Elfving, Pascal Gielen, Francisco Guevara, Maria Hirvi-Ijäs, Jean-Baptiste Joly, Patricia Jozef, Irmeli Kokko, Donna Lynas, Antti Majava, Vytautas Michelkevi?ius, Marita Muukkonen, Nina Möntmann, Jenni Nurmenniemi, Bojana Panevska, Florian Schneider, Ivor Stodolsky, Alan Quireyns

Residenties bieden kunstenaars de ruimte, tijd en concentratie om te werken, om onderzoek te doen of om te reflecteren. Residenties zijn een cruciaal onderdeel voor het carrièrepad van de hedendaagse kunstenaar en ze stimuleren artistiek experiment, culturele uitwisseling en interdisciplinaire kennisproductie. Globalisering, neoliberalisme en de competitieve creatieve economie zorgen ervoor dat de rol en betekenis van residenties verandert. Ook ecologische en geopolitieke spanningen beïnvloeden dit proces. Dit boek stelt de vraag wat de betekenis van kunstenaarsresidenties is in relatie tot kunstenaars, het ecosysteem van de kunstwereld, en maatschappelijke transformaties.

Edition details

• Publisher: Valiz
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 9492095467
• ISBN 13: 9789492095466
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Elfving Taru