Brook Andrew, Australia

Project : Guulany
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The artist

Brook Andrew was born in 1970 in Sydney. He lives and works in Melbourne, Australia on the lands of the Kulin Nations. He is an artist, curator and scholar who is driven by the collisions of intertwined narratives, often emerging from the mess of the “Colonial Wuba (hole)” and is driven from his perspective as a Wiradjuri and Celtic person: His matrilineal kinship is from the kalar midday (land of the three rivers) Australia. His artworks, research, leadership roles and curatorial projects challenge the limitations imposed by power structures, historical amnesia and complicity to centre and support Indigenous ways of being through systemic change and yindyamarra (respect, honour, go slow and responsibility). Apart from drawing inspiration from vernacular objects and the archives he travels internationally to work with artists, communities and various private and public museum and gallery collections.

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The project

During his residency, Brook Andrew will create new work based on the collections of the Musée du quai Branly- Jacques Chirac, long inspired by the dendroglyph carvings of guulany/tree of his Wiradjuri Aboriginal Nation in Australia. He will also work on issues of repatriation and restitution of cultural objects in museums as well as on an experimental theatre script called GABAN (which means strange in Wiradjuri).

Evan Ifekoya, Nigeria
Project: A Ripple Reflected, Devotion Divined

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The artist

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Evan Ifekoya was born in Iperu, Nigeria, in 1988 and lives and works in London. His work around sound, text, video and performance is part of a vocation as a spiritual practitioner. He sees art as a place where resources can be both redistributed and renegotiated, while questioning the implicit rules and hierarchies of public and social space.  

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The project

Evan Ifekoya is developing research for an artist’s book exploring contemporary mysticism and the transformative potential of sound - from the cellular to the cosmic. The book is part of a larger body of research that includes lectures, performance and workshops investigating the sacredness and healing potential of sound with the elevation of black consciousness in mind. Evan Ifekoya will hold space for multidimensional being and doing with others, drawing on the elements of water and fire to create ritual instruments within their studio.

Agnieszka Kurant, Poland
Project: Singular Plural

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The artist

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Agnieszka Kurant was born in 1978 in Lodz, Poland. She lives and works in New York. Agnieszka Kurant is a conceptual artist who explores collective intelligence, the future of work and creativity, and exploitation in surveillance capitalism. She is currently an Artist Fellow at the Berggruen Institute's programme Transformations of the Human and was artist-in-residence at MIT CAST from 2017 to 2019.  

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Agnieszka Kurant’s project consists in the production of a short film investigating the direction in which human culture is presently evolving, the various forms of collective subjectivity and the future of labor and creativity. It will explore the role of crowds as assets of late capitalist economy, the «self» as a polyphony of agencies, as well as the human and non-human collective intelligences, from microbes, viruses and animals to social movements and artificial intelligence. Singular Plural probes the transformations of the human, and the selforganization of communities to rebuild the commons. The film speculates about the future of cinema and cultural production in general, based on complex, collective forms.

Adam Linder, Australia
Project: Nureyev in Paris

The Artist Adam Linder was born in Sydney, Australia in 1983. He lives and works between Los Angeles and Berlin. Adam Linder is a dancer and choreographer. His works are often presented in theatre and exhibition contexts; in which text, costuming, sound production and film are all considered part of his role as choreographer.

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The project
The years of Rudolf Nureyev’s direction of the Paris Opera Ballet will be the main focus of Adam Linder’s residency in Paris. Adam Linder will dig into historical archives, whilst also speaking to former associates of the Opera during this period. Through this field work he will try and understand the spirit that characterized this 80s moment in ballet, when younger choreographers were responding with a playful (post-) modernizing of the form with Nureyev’s decline from AIDs in the background of this illuminating era. With this research, Adam Linder will be inspired to build material for a new ballet that reflects the times we are in today by retaining an umbilical cord to the formal ruptures of the past.

Salman Nawati, Palestine
Project: Imaginary Museum of Gaza

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The artist

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Salman Nawati was born in 1987 in Palestine. He lives and works in the Gaza Strip. Salman Nawati is also coordinator of the programme art program at the Qattan Foundation/Gaza center. He is also a professor at the Fine Arts and Al-Aqsa University, and artistic director of several art festivals in Gaza. His artistic practice includes drawing, sculpture, installation, design, photography, film-making, theater, music and art therapy. Within his artistic project, Salman Nawati seeks to express himself as a human being.  

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The project

In the absence of a responsible authority for the protection of the antiquity and artistic property in the Gaza Strip, Salman Nawati, along with artist Mohamed Abusall and architect Sondos El Nakhala, will collaborate on an imaginary museum, a museum focusing on the historical and artistic heritage of the Gaza Strip, which would be accessible to all. This museum will not be physically present but will be a digital incubator gathering an assortment of antique objects, cultural relics, and artworks, for some completely imagined, in the format of digital replicas. This project is jointly developed with Mohamed Bourouissa who will also produce a video showing the entire production stages of the museum. The final product of this project will be a virtual reality presentation to be exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo in 2023, where the public will discover the Imaginary Museum of Gaza through this virtual portal.

Christelle Oyiri, France
Project: Gentle Battle

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The artist

Born in 1992 in the Paris region, Christelle Oyiri is a Paris-based French producer, DJ (under the pseudonym Crystallmess), writer, and artist of Ivorian and Guadeloupean origin. Combining film, music, performance, and sculpture, her radically interdisciplinary work deals with themes of colonial alienation and alternative temporalities. Faced with the deliberate erasure of narratives outside the dominant canon, Christelle Oyiri looks for information between the lines. Her research is focused on the tonalities, textures, and visual vernacular of the music, art, popular culture, and youth cultures within and outside the African diaspora.

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Christelle Oyiri’s project Gentle Battle examines her research on belligerence, defense mechanisms, and trauma responses through her relationship with one of her countries of origin: Ivory Coast. Her focus is on Logobi, a dance from the streets of Abidjan, whose movements are based on the art of bluffing and mimicry. Logobi never really existed as an actual dance on the dancefloor, gaining relevance and strength through battles, competitions, and confrontations. At the end of the 2000s, it became a phenomenon amongst black French youth from the Paris banlieues. A tribute to logobi’s influence on Parisian urban culture, Christelle Oyiri’s project will take the form of a video, featuring dancers as well as interviews with therapists, psychiatrists, and members from the African communities in the Paris region.

Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales, Peru
Project: Vital infrastructures: rethinking the modern through subaltern technologies

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The artist

Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales was born in 1987 in Lima, Peru, where she currently lives and works. Using different media, she explores the definition of modernity as opposed to Latin American repressed histories. Her work questions the power regimes naturalized by artistic modernity in a post-colonial context, that continue to organize the world in hierarchical binaries.

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The project

In the context of a global health crisis that continues to exacerbate social and environmental inequalities, Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales proposes to devote the period of her residency to highlighting indigenous technological developments in the field of construction. Her project aims to disrupt the idea that indigenous practices are primitive and alien to the development of new technologies by creating a three-dimensional artwork and a platform video game. Vital infrastructures questions the universal notion of technology and the environmental consequences of excluding indigenous practices in development processes.

Emilija Škarnulytė, Lithuania

Project: Fluvial Extents

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The artist

Emilija Škarnulytė was born in 1987 in Vilnius, Lithuania. As a visual artist and filmmaker working between documentary and the imaginary, Emilija Škarnulytė makes films and immersive installations exploring deep time and invisible structures, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political. She is a founder and currently co-directs Polar Film Lab, a collective for analogue film practice located in Tromsø, Norway and is a member of artist duo New Mineral Collective, recently commissioned for a new work by the First Toronto Biennial.

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The project

Emilija Škarnulytė wants to trace the flow of water, the world beneath the waves, trawling the benthic zones of the riparian and lacustrine for the lasting effects of human intervention. Working with photogrammetry and underwater lidar remote sensing, for Fluvial Extents she wants to picture what was already lost beneath the flow of water of the Rhône river, what scars and stains humans are depositing there, and imagine what will appear and disappear in the wash of millenia. Tracing the flux of rivers and lakes in Europe, Emilija Škarnulytė wants to explore both their hydrologies and mythologies, imagining through the depths of time what has already passed and what is yet to come.

Charwei Tsai, Taiwan
Project: Touching the Earth

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The artist

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Charwei Tsai was born in Taiwan in 1980. She lives and works in Taipei.

Charwei Tsai uses a variety of media such as video and calligraphy in a performative and politically engaged practice. Her interest in spirituality manifests itself in the calligraphic writing of mantras on various and often living media: trees, tofu, mushrooms, lotus leaves... Highly personal yet universal concerns spur Charwei Tsai’s multi-media practice. Geographical, social, and spiritual motifs inform a body of work, which encourages viewer participation outside the confines of complacent contemplation. Preoccupied with the human/nature relationship, Charwei Tsai meditates on the complexities among cultural beliefs, spirituality, and transience. Since 2005 she has published an independent curatorial journal, Lovely Daze, which is included in the library collections of the Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, MoMA, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona.

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The project

Throughout her residency, Charwei Tsai intends to develop a project, entitled Touching the Earth project by producing a sound-based performance with musician Stephen O’Malley to create a ritual with sounds and vibrations from nature. This performance will be accompanied by the release of a new issue of her magazine Lovely Daze on the themes of art, ecology, technology and science. Her overall project will explore central questions at the intersection of science, technology and spirituality such as: How do science and technology help us to slow down? How do science and technology help us to touch the earth? How do science and technology help us to deconstruct our habit of identifying ourselves as permanent and independent entities?

Martha Wilson, United States
Project: Generations of Feminism in France

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Martha Wilson was born in 1947 in Philadelphia, USA. She lives and works in New York. She is a pioneering feminist artist and art space director, who over the past four decades has created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity. She has been described by New York Times critic Holland Cotter as one of “the half-dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s.” In 1976 she founded Franklin Furnace, an artist-run space that champions the exploration, promotion and preservation of artist books, temporary installation, performance art, as well as online works. Martha Wilson is represented by P.P.O.W Gallery in New York.

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The project

During her residency, Martha Wilson intends to continue her practice and creation of artworks rooted in a feminist, social and political context. As part of her project, she will record the oral histories of French feminist figures of all generations. This project is a continuation of her work started in 1981 on different feminist communities in collaboration with Suzanne Lacy and Susan Hiller. The aim of this experiment is to examine six generations of feminists in France, to compare their work and their feminist, social and political attitudes.

Raphaël Grisey & Bouba Touré, France and Mali
Project: Digitization of Bouba Touré's photographic archives

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The artists

Raphaël Grisey was born in 1979 in France, and lives and works between Berlin and Trondheim in Norway. Bouba Touré was born in Mali in 1948 and died in France in January 2022. Raphaël Grisey uses film, editorial and photographic works to address politics of memory, architecture, migration and agriculture. Bouba Touré was a photographic researcher. He studied at Vincennes University and was a projectionist at Cinema 14 Juillet and L’entrepôt, Paris. Photographer since the 1970s, he documented the lives and struggles of migrant workers and peasants in France and Mali. Bouba Touré co-founded the Co-op of Somankidi Coura in 1977. In 2015, he published the book Notre case est à Saint Denis. Since the 1980s, Touré has exhibited works and given talks in associative and foyer’s circles and more recently in art institutions. Touré and Grisey worked together over fifteen years on collaborative projects under the current name of Sowing Somankidi Coura, a Generative Archive. This collaboration led to various workshops, film and theatre production for example with the theatre group Kaddu Yaraax in 2017 and 2019, as well as publications and texts, such as Sowing Somankidi Coura, a Generative Archive (2017, Archives Book).

The project

This residency looks back on the long-time collaboration between Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré. Raphaël Grisey will digitize and activate the photographic archive of Bouba Touré. A first complementary indexation work of the archive will be produced by the duo which will then be complemented by partners who will be invited to interpret, refine the indexing, and propose research angles and new contributions. The final production will consist in the production of a sound piece, which will accompany the photographs of Bouba Touré.