Group Residency PLACE, PEOPLE AND TIME: DRAWING DEEPLY
Closing date 15 April 2023
APPLICATIONS FOR THE GROUP RESIDENCY PLACE, PEOPLE AND TIME: DRAWING DEEPLY ARE WELCOMED
The Group Residency (07 – 13 June 2023) has been devised by The Museum of Loss and Renewal with invited partner, artist and academic Danica Maier. The Group Residency is designed to be supportive and the partially-structured and hands-on programme will enable residents to develop their skills and understanding of drawing across a range of approaches and technologies.
The aim of DRAWING DEEPLY is to activate and affirm the value of drawing and enable the visualisation and development of perceptions and ideas. Residents will be guided through various approaches to drawing, from historical to contemporary, analogue to digital.
The residency experience will stimulate new ways of thinking and experimentation through production, research, co-learning and presentation. Residents will work collectively, and individually to develop their own practices. Value will be given to the individual knowledge and experience of each resident, exploring the act of drawing as a fundamental means to visualise, experience, understand, analyse, document, explain, record and translate the worlds we inhabit.
An important part of the Group Residency is developing a new international peer group for residents. In addition to the work produced by each resident, The Museum of Loss and Renewal will publish a final collective digital outcome to convey residents’ activities during the Group Residency.
FOCAL POINTS
– Immersive experience
– Semi-structured programme
– Supportive, caring, non-hierarchical environment
– Drawing, and drawing in an expanded sense
– Experimentation
– Interdisciplinarity
– Technologies
– Co-learning
– Individual practice
– Collective platform for encounters
– Natural environment of exceptional significance
– Collective reflection (digital) published by The Museum of Loss and Renewal
LOCATION
The Residency Programme is located in Collemacchia, a small village within Italy’s National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, a protected area of exceptional significance and beauty. Engagement with the natural world begins on the doorstep and the mountainous landscape offers an excellent environment for reflective practice. The ancient, undisturbed and extensive terrain holds a rich and complex history visible in the area’s architecture, customs, agricultural lands and forests.
The area is sparsely populated by villages that are largely trilingual Italian-French-English due to the large community of emigrants who continually move between European nations, stemming from economic migration dating from approx. 1850. The Museum of Loss and Renewal fosters strong links with the local community which is highly supportive of the Residency Programme. Collemacchia has been home for centuries to the Italian family of Tracy Mackenna, co-founder and co-curator of The Museum of Loss and Renewal.
More information and full application details can be found on The Museum of Loss and Renewal’s website: https://themuseumoflossandrenewal.life/drawing-deeply/