Madrid Institute for Advanced Study
Spain
How do we live together?
Artist residencies are an increasingly essential infrastructure for creative production across the globe, supporting time and space for experimental or exploratory work, facilitating development of international networks and intercultural exchange, and, given the financial precarity most artists experience, serving as temporary sources of income, or at least accommodation. This project asks how artist residencies can respond to today’s challenges around labor, ecology, and social and global justice, while maintaining their central mission of supporting art and artists.
In an attempt to develop a transformation framework for artist residencies, the team explored three main themes:
- Contemporary challenges/Internal critiques: How have organisers and artists conceptualised the challenges facing residencies today, and how have they responded in their own practices?
- (Counter)histories: How have residencies changed over time, and what alternative histories of travel, hospitality, and exchange might inform the residencies of the future?
- New trajectories: How are residencies redefining the limitations of geopolitical borders and unequal resources, and encouraging meaningful community participation?
online: https://seminaire.casadevelazquez.org/rooms/kak-4dt-rjs-ldv/join