MeetFactory, o. p. s.
Ke Sklárně 3213/15
150 00 Praha 5
GPS:
50.053653
14.408441
Opening hours:
13:00 do 20:00 + based on evening program
15. 9. -
15. 12. 2015
The MeetFactory is starting a new experimental
and process-based residency project: „Critical Studio" that is realized in
close cooperation with ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics based in Berlin.
Together we aim to advance critical reflection and exchange about residency
structures, about their followers, companions and publics. With all involved
artists and actors, special local guests and the public we want to highlight
the scenes behind the regular studio practices.
Since long ago the studio has not been
understood only as a clearly marked sanctuary, the scope of the professional
working environment has been extended, became dynamic, mobile and went outside
its traditional frames into the society. Artists and creatives define
themselves more and more as field researchers questioning their changing
surroundings and sites of action.
This means also a re-invention of the notions of
the studio space that also followed-up the increase of residency and mobility
programs with new studio structures that allow a temporary condensing of space
and work. Mobility also means that identities are always in transition.
Belongings are not related to just one cultural reference. Moreover they
undergo dynamic and transcultural samplings, cross-linkings and networkings
that create the so-called third space in-between that is no longer related to
specific places. Borders and boundaries became hybrid and dissolved allowing
more freedom and independence.
Many artists and creatives deal in various ways
with those phenomena and potentials of mobility, transculturality and identity
building that we also focus on in our platform. Within the “Critical Studio” we
take the challenge of our own (temporary) role in artistic residency programs
and try to get to the bottom of the question: How to move in arts and culture?
The results will be presented in the form of
screenings, discussions, presentations, performances, interdisciplinary and
experimantal projects through the Open Studios and Public house events.
Participating
artists
Jomar Statkun a Nadja Frank, team THIS RED DOOR (USA, New York
City)
http://www.thisreddoor.com/
Naomi Fitzsimmons (Great Britain, London)
http://www.naomifitzsimmons.com/
Jens Heitjohann (Germany, Berlin)
http://jensheitjohann.de/
Katarina Zjdelar (Serbia/Netherlands, Rotterdam)
http://katarinazdjelar.net/
Rafael Vogel (Germany)
https://soundcloud.com/leafarlegov