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4/28 I 10 I 2012 II Not in Our backyards |
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Not in my our backyards , 4. - 14. Oct, Werkschau Leipzig / 25. — 28. Oct. 2012, Römerstrasse Stuttgart
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IN OUR BACKYARDS is the result of a cooperation between seven artist in- residence programs: Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and the six programs of the United Residencies network n Leipzig. The participating artists were, or still are fellows of the various institutions: an interdisciplinary community in a Baroque castle on the outskirts of Stuttgart (Akademie Schloss Solitude), former factory buildings (LIA, One-Sided Story, Pilotenkueche and Studio14) and singular studios in urban surroundings (BLUMEN, Fugitif). For several weeks or months they live and work in a ›semi-space‹: semi-public, semi-private. Artist-In-Residence programs are places where an artist can temporarily work, live, meet, rest. Often they are far from familiar places, and possibly far from the daily grind. They are meant to give artists some downtime, enable focused working, facilitate a change of perspective, offer a space, a studio, a surrounding, a network, a stipend. As different as individual needs and expectations are, so too are the diversity of programs, and the variety of experiences. An artist’s residency offers a temporary home, but requests mobility and moves into the unknown. It facilitates community or solitude, is in the countryside or in the city, is international, interdisciplinary, strongly effects one’s thinking, or is just one stop along the way ... or can be none of this. It is however one financing model of contemporary artistic practice.
On A.I.R. features an exhibition dealing with the broader context of Artist-In-Residence programs. A.I.R. fellows of Akademie Schloss Solitude are visiting Leipzig for one week to exhibit their work together with fellows of United Residencies. Film screenings, performances and discussion panels accompany the show. The works refer to experiences from residencies attended, or deal with questions of community, languages and cultural codes; they look into migrations of all kinds, document the walls of the past while even figuring futurist imaginings.
Werkschau: exhibition opening and performance
Tue—Sun 5.—14. Oct 2012 12 am — 7 pm
film night 5. Oct 2012 7 pm — 8 3o pm
at Luru Kino in the Spinnerei flyer click here
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