Image by Dirceu Maués during his residency in Holland
Image by Dirceu Maués during his residency in Holland
Image by Dirceu Maués during his residency in Holland
Pinhole camera used by Maués. The artist also uses to manufacture his own devices
Residencies in progress
As an organization dedicated to fostering contemporary art production and dissemination, Videobrasil believes that the multicultural experiences made possible by international artist and curator transit is crucially conducive to a deeper artistic debate. One of the main projects of the Videobrasil regarding to this experience is the artistic residency awarding at the International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil. The 17th Festival’s edition granted eight prizes, which schedule started in 2012.
Carla Zaccagnini was the first of the residency-winning artists at the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil to undertake her exchange. In February, she travelled to Flic-en-Flac, in the Mauritius, where she was until April in a residency at the pARTage, a facility established in 2003 by local artists. Zaccagnini, who won a prize at the Festival for her installation BRAVO-RADIO-ATLAS-VIRUS-OPERA (2010), took the occasion to wrap up a trilogy she started in 2003, and which already comprises two video diptychs. The production of the last diptych was in line with the premises of the pARTage residency program, which encourages artistic takes on the local environment. The piece will feature Indian Ocean waters on the shores of the Mauritius and Australia.
The second stage of the residencies process included Bolivian US-based artist Claudia Joskowicz and Brazilian Dirceu Maués.
Joskowicz was awarded a residency lasting from June to August at Instituto Sacatar, in the Itaparica Island in Salvador, state of Bahia. During her sojourn, the artist will work on her upcoming project, the short film Los Rastreadores. “My works deal with how technology mediates and redefines notions such as truth, history, memory, and reality,” explains the Bolivian artist, who featured in the 10th Sharjah Biennial, the 29th Bienal de São Paulo, and the 10th Havana Biennial, among other shows. The residency is backed by the Prince Claus Fund.
Maués has been in The Hague, the Netherlands, from mid-May until late June, undertaking a residency at the Vrije Academie. His research involves the use of pinhole cameras, and his interests are somewhat related to the issues raised by Claudia Joskowicz. “I work with photographic images that are not stills, they are dilations of time,” he says. “It involves a desire to explore the device, to question the standardized use of things, to subvert a certain order imposed by the devices themselves.”
In March, Gabriel Mascaro, who won a prize for his As aventuras de Paulo Bruscky [The adventures of Paulo Bruscky], travelled to the Vidéoformes Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France, which offers the residency the artist will undertake later this year.
Details on further developments will be disclosed on Videobrasil’s channels soon: besides Mascaro, Moran Shavitt, Natasha Mendonca, Liu Wei and Adriano Costa will have their international research stays along the next months.
Learn more about Videobrasil artistic residency program.