Join us as we dive into the minds and practices of the artists behind the episodes. At each talk our lovely moderator, Klaudija Ylaite, will be our guide, unveiling the fab that fuels their artistic expression, vision, methods and themes within their practice.… The audience is invited to be an active participant in the conversation.

 

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NOV 15 '24 – Alina Lupu on navigating precarity, the arts, and activism, within shifting geopolitical landscapes

How do we move from individual interest to collective organizing and care? How can conflicts be solved when clashes become an inevitable part of collective work? What can artists do in times of crisis?

 

OCT 18 '24 – Staci Bu Shea on endings and continuity, on letting go and holding on

What does it mean to live with irresolvable realities? How does facing death and grief support life-affirming practices? Between personal and political, theory and practice, how do we find balance?

 

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Curating Grief

Nov 1'24 – a recap of the artist talk by Alica Plulíková

(...) This writing is also concerned with the idea of collective grief. Staci introduces us to this concept and contrasts it to individual grief. Claiming that these phenomenons differ in their structure, and therefore, have to be dealt with differently. While personal grief has to be met individually, interpersonally, and very often (but not always) involves gradual dying where there is the privilege of preparation and possibility for a "good death," collective grief has to (...) read more

 

SEP 20 '24 – Kitty Maria on labour and archetypes within a high-performance culture

What defines value in a high-performance culture? When does our embodied presence become a source of resistance? Can a performative body reach a state of total passivity?

 

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The critique of the labourer trough the subodination of the artist as a machine

Oct 1 '24 – a recap of the artist talk by Vanesa Miteva

(...) which consolidates her critique of the contemporary labourer. Through her interventions, Kitty mysticises the industrial work environment, as an outsider who sees the absurdity of these

almost foreign worlds of production. She creates meaning out of the ambiguity she creates for

the labourers that (...) read more

 

 

JUNE 28 '24 – Nina Wijnmaalen on exploring metaphors, emotions and endurance within performance

When does the image begin to move, or how to make moving images in space? How can we integrate performance art and theatre, overcoming their traditional boundaries? How can we universalise emotions that come from personal and intimate experiences?

 

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Universal Emotions

July 8 '24 – a recap of the artist talk by Sonia Polidori

(...) At the sixth studium resort, we had a conversation with Nina Wijnmaalen, an artist and performance director that works with universal emotions. Initially working with photography and film, Nina’s practice moved >>> to the theatrical. when creating a stage for her photographs, the artist realized how the process for the photograph was more intriguing and had a higher emotional impact than the final static product, which for her lacked “blood, sweat, and tears.” (...) read more

 

 

MAY 8 '24 – Müge Yilmaz on feminist science fiction to envision potential futures – in collaboration with University of Groningen / Art History

How can one sense the temporalities of soil-time? When do we blur the boundaries between science, fiction, art, and nature? How do we rekindle a sense of sacredness to land?

 

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cultivating feminist fictions for protection

May 19 '24 – a recap of the artist talk by Andrea Romero

(...) Müge believes that reading feminist science-fiction is not only about reading. It requires the active engagement of the readers’ inner imagination. Unlike movies, ― that provide already-made images― it allows the readers to visualize and imagine the story in their minds. This approach informs her methodology for her artistic research, which involves (...) read more

 

 

26 APR '24 – Théo Demans on creating physical space of togetherness for immaterial practices

How can we (re)learn a language of ecology? How do we facilitate care? Going beyond safe-spaces, what other forms of togetherness can we provide?

 

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radical honesty – a recap of the artist talk

May 9 '24 | by our reporter: Violeta Gamino Romero

at the fourth studium resort, we conversed with Théo Demans, an artist of sinuosity who creates narratives blurring boundaries between the tangible and the ephemeral. with this conversation they practised RADICAL HONESTY the willingness to confront existential questions that lurk beneath the surface of creative expression (...)  read more.

 

 

15 DEC – Feiko Beckers on on putting failure and discomfort on a pedestal

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orchestrated failure – a recap of the talk

Jan 4 '24 | by our reporter: Violeta Gamino Romero

(...) “I am capable of doing nothing while everyone else is doing something,” he thought, only to recant when he realises that he is incapable of such inertia when surrounded by industrious individuals. this dichotomy leads his public to reflect on both labour andethical considerations. (...) read more.

 

 

17 NOV – eva susova on somatic and sound practice

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sonic embodiment – a recap of the  talk

Nov 22 '23 | by our reporter: Violeta Gamino Romero

(...) With a variety of materials - ceramics, metal, organic things, sound, and her own corporeal presence - she creates and tries to project embodied knowledge: histories, traumas, the intricate relationship we have with our bodies. guided by questions that birth movement, she draws inspiration from bodies (minds) like Deborah Hay. (...) read more.

 

 

8 NOV – Hilde Onis on object and material hierarchies within artworks

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material alchemy – a recap of the  talk

Nov 14 '23 | by our reporter: Violeta Gamino Romero

 

"on the evening of the 8th of November, the voids and fillings of Hilde Onis occupied the spaces of het resort, both mentally and physically through a conversation with Klaudija Ylaite, our guide through the exchange of ideas in this new series studium resort.

Hilde Onis shapes spaces, sometimes filling gaps and other times embracing them with her works. primarily focused on ceramics, as she feels a special ability to create it, she turns her liquid ideas into stone, oscillating between the in-between spaces." (...) read more.