Hjemmefra #2

We are happy to announce the Hjemmefra #2 virtual residency

The second edition of the residency invites five transdisciplinary artists from the Nordic region to critically rehearse ideas and practices that foster renewed forms of reciprocity, composting, and commoning as forms of resistance, healing, and de-growth. In the state of crisis we live in, the old cannot die and the new is struggling to be born. Therefore, this collective experience will be informed by the sharing of resources in order to formulate possible futures and to unfold new ecosystems fed by digital resistance and subversive know-how(s). The aim of this series of trainings and rehearsals is to question the existing boundaries between the physical and the virtual, between remoteness and closeness, between art and life.

Thus, the virtual residency will run along with the artist’s life as it is;  no relocation, no change of job, family responsibilities remain almost intact, and community involvement becomes part of the household fabric. 

The residency proposes to reflect upon the following questions:

• Can we move beyond the making of art objects in order to empower longer transformative processes?

• How can art and life assist each other to disrupt everyday social, political, and economic canons?

• Can we imagine a counter-model to conventional art residency formats that envision organic and dissident infrastructures [to institute otherwise]?

Over twelve virtual gatherings led by Barcelona-based artist and researcher Pau Catà, these are collective moments of participation and encounters that aim to punctuate our everyday narratives through (1) creative engagements with archetypes, (2) ritualistic micro-actions and participants’ interventions, and (3) long breaks, unproductive moments, and silences. As well, every two weeks the residency will connect participants with invited guests (TBA) who will nourish our encounters with performative acts and dialogical moments. 

Participating in the residency is open to all engaged in experiments around critical self, communal care, and post-capitalist attempts. The Union do not expect the applicants to make a project proposal in advance or at all; the residency allows new ideas to develop without pressure on the completion of a piece of work or project, rather focusing on the process-oriented aspects of the artistic practice: thinking, practicing, exploring, refreshen, slowing-down and experimenting on issues, challenges, and lifestyles originated since the Covid-19 outbreak.

read the full open call here