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Following an enjoyable series of ten events where studium resort facilitated an informal environment for artist talks, we are continuing this year by stretching the format and making studium resort into a monthly event. Understanding that sharing creative processes takes shape in diverse and fluid ways, the upcoming ten series of events will explore artistic practices through dialogue, experimentation, and a hands-on approach.
The upcoming season explores how particular crafts, artistic skills, or concepts come into practice. For this, studium resort will host workshops, performative manifestations, and artist talks in order to encourage and foster a sense of sharing between the visiting artist, a collective, or a practitioner of a specific craft.
Becoming a side dish that complements the flavours of het resort's main courses, studium resort will kick off on the 24th of February and will continue each month till December (with August being a summer break).
– Klaudija Ylaite,
programmer studium resort 2025
February 24, 18:00 – 21:00
Workshop | A pinch of salt, a drop of brine, a memory in fermentation | Marina Sulima
location: nieuwe sint jansstraat 35, groningen
entry, dinner & drinks: free
language: english
accessibility: wheelchair friendly
program
18:00 workshop*
20:00 dinner & conversation
21:00 end
* what to bring: for this workshop, we ask you to bring something (an ingredient, an object, a thought) you would like to ferment, and a dusty forgotten jar from your kitchen shelf.
about
Marina Sulima in company with fermentation as cultural preservation for personal and intergenerational memories. We will be exploring and testing how ingredients move, change, and shape themselves as they are shared, borrowed, and passed along; raising a question on how the act of fermentation – be it food, culture, or knowledge – becomes a form of resilience, connection, and renewal. The evening will conclude with a dish served.
workshop
Pickles can fizz without any fuel. A jar of fermented tomatoes can be a character in a film. Tomatoes and their trade routes can change landscapes. Departing from pickled tomatoes, I invite you to join an evening carried and transformed by a common recipe for fermenting with salt.
Recipes can’t really be owned. As soon as you share one, it means you borrowed one, it means you agree that it’s not yours, it travels, it sprawls, it transforms itself and you. Bring your own recipes for fermentation, your cultures to share, a jar and ingredients for a winter pickle. We will ferment, eat, drink, sit around and read a selection of text fragments that can expand on the practice of fermentation in the midst of this heart-broken era.
artist
Marina Sulima: “I work with illustration, animation, sculpture and film. I like to follow objects: a parcel, a shrimp’s ear, landfill juice, a copper ore or a tomato. I think everything is a story machine. One of the most satisfying things I get to do is listen to those stories and ferment them into new ones. Conjuring up stories of worlds gone slightly mad – of this world going slightly mad. Installing in them an absurd logic and all its necessary encyclopedic furniture.”
past past past past past past past
DEC 19 '24 – Klaudija Ylaite – invites Dajana Heremic and prof. Kim Knibbe – on navigating ecological futures through ritual practices, contemporary spirituality, and artistic research
How could rituals impart a framework for rethinking our relationship to Earth and foster ecological futures that are both holistic and sustainable? In what ways might spirituality, as an awareness of the immanence of Earth's sacredness, inform our action regarding environmental distress? What role may ritual play in artistic research as a means of bridging the gap between human experience and environmental science? How can ritual-based artistic practices generate new ways of thinking and acting toward ecological sustainability and ecospirituality? What role do ritual and spirituality play in artistic research?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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
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
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
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.
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