On September 14, a jury of experts consisting of: OLGA WYSOCKA, TOMASZ PLATA, LECH STANGRET, ANTONI BURZYŃSKI, ANNA RÓŻA BURZYŃSKA, NATALIA ZARZECKA, announced the results of an open call for artistic and research residences in Hucisko and at Cricoteka. Artsists Camilia Larson - a researcher and curator from Sweden, and a duo of visual artists from Germany - Josh Schwebel and Benny Nemerofsky, were chosen. AMI's residency program was prepared in cooperation with the Tadeusz Kantor Foundation and Cricoteka. The residencies will begin in mid-October.
We received 68 applications from artists from as many as 30 coutries. The applicants mainly specialized in the field of visual arts: video art, painting, illustration, sculpture, conceptual and critical art, as well as land art and environmental art. Another large group of applicants specialized in performace art and photography.
The residents:
1. Camilia Larson - curator and writer based in Stockholm with background in art history, museology, and feminist philosophy. Published essays and articles in journals and publications with main focus on the intersection of visual art, performance, theatre and choreography. Board member of NKF – Nordic Art Association. Tadeusz Kantor and his work are the starting point for her research project, which she is currently working on at her university.
2. Joshua Schwebel and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay - artists from Canada, currently living and working in Berlin, Germany.
Joshua Schwebel (b. 1980, Toronto, lives and works in Berlin) received an MFA from NSCAD University, and a BFA from Concordia University. Recent exhibitions and projects include: solo exhibition [Caché] (Artspace, Peterborough, 2013 and AKA, Saskatoon, 2014); the site-specific intervention When a Neighbour is a Stranger (Gdansk, 2014); and the public intervention Circulaire (Verticale, Laval, 2014); as well numerous projects in other Canadian and international venues. Schwebel has participateing in artist residencies in Beijing, Perth (Australia), Paris, Manchester, and Marseille. He is the recipient of a Research/Creation Grant from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and is currently artist in residence at the Québec Studio at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (b. 1973, Montreal) is an artist and diarist. His work in video, sound, and text contemplates the history of song and the gender of voices, the rendering of love and emotion into language, and the resurrection and manipulation of historical vocal material. Recent exhibitions include Slash: Between The Normative and Fantasy (Kim? Riga, 2015); Per Speculum Me Video (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2013); and Coming After (Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2011). Nemerofsky’s work appears in numerous private collections as well as that of the National Gallery of Canada and the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.