#ui-intermediaconcepts-residencies

[shangxiaban]

For the SALEM ART WORKS program that I think is really interesting especially salem2salme, a lot of different artists come everywhere, stay together, share the ideas and work together that will really helpful.

[monetcantbuymelove]

Sarah Rowe’s

Vertical Disintegration 2015 

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha Nebraska

Vertical Disintegration is a piece depicting the consumption of land and resources by capitalism and mainstream culture, at the expense of the native inhabitants and the spirituality of the land itself.

Lakota artist, Sarah Rowe, is uniquely suited to tell a story which is unfortunately still very relevant in America today. The greatest tragedy in our nations history was that it was stolen from the native inhabitants, and that our occidental culture is built upon their genocide. Unfortunately, instead of reflecting and learning from the evil perpetrated by our forefathers, there are still many cases of American Indian tribes being directly persecuted by individuals and corporations. DACA is just one example.

Rowe’s installation is an examination of an even more pervasive crime against the original people of this continent, a corruption and perversion of their own ideas. A common idea shared among American Indians was that the land they lived upon was not a commodity, but something to be sustained and cared for, as it gave live-giving resources in return. This idea is not compatible with our current capitalist culture, which offers its own view of land: everything, every tree, every blade of grass, is owned by someone. And everything can be used.

This may come across as a harsh view of mainstream culture, it does not feel like we live in a world that is essentially defined by greed and avarice. And that is true, just because a city owns a park does not mean that we cannot enjoy it much in the same way native people enjoyed their environment centuries ago. But it does change the underlying tone of that enjoyment. 

When we enjoy a tree in a park we can ignore the fact that our enjoyment of the tree itself is in fact a commodity. If everyone suddenly enjoyed nice tables a hundred times more than a wild tree, then that tree in the park would become a table, satiate the demand of our economy. And that wouldn’t be a radical transition for the tree, because it’s been already monetized based on the amount of enjoyment that people get just seeing it in its native state. The wild, the land, is being held hostage. It is alive at the moment, but only because we choose. We like to see in in a cage from the safety of our gravel trails. 

Rowe is bringing that western view together uncomfortably close with the old native view of the wild. The view that the wild can give, and take, that it is a separate entity that is bigger than you. Just look at the way decades upon decades are literally shown in the rings on the stacked logs. Why were they cut down? To be used most likely, to become the convenient key that fits into someones lock. Because now people have become bigger than the wild, we cannot be destroyed by it directly anymore, only by its absence. The flowers, the paper, and the icons upon the logs themselves serve as a certain memorial to a lost ideal. One that may not return, but remains etched in the minds of ancestors, in the same way their faces are etched upon the trees.

[iowa-keanureeves-blog]

I wanted to first look at Ox-Bow School of Art because it is the school (out of these options) that is closest to me. My first wish was to see what the campus looked like so I clicked on “see our campus” I was pleased to find either a lake or pond with a small dock, a cozy room with a working fireplace, and a porch with floor to ceiling windows. It looks like a place I would like to go on for a vacation. I can’t imagine actually going to school there (not that I don’t’ want to!) I then looked at their overview, only to find that they only offer one-two week courses. Maybe they offer longer ones, but it doesn’t seem to say and I couldn’t find that information anywhere. Another school I looked at was Art Farm. Although there website is pretty lacking in the way of information. I wanted to write about this one because some of the options to stay in are a farmhouse and cabins. I feel like it would almost be more like an art camp than an art school- which sounds like a lot of fun. The farmhouse is furnished and 100+ years old. That sounds so cool to me.

[sha-zap]

Image taken from Jayoung Chung’s website

This image is a part of one of the numerous works of Jayoung Chung, more specifically, this image comes from her piece Rhythm of Creation and Destruction as the Wind. Watch a video of this performance here.

Currently Chung is in the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts residency. I find her work to be truly in the field of intermedia, as her more recent works involve film, sound, performance and at times audience participation. Often Chung integrates the music of traditional Korean instruments with images of the passing of the seasons and ocean waves, representing time.

Her work appears to be soft spoken, yet full of meaning. Her use of symbolism helps convey what seem to be profound ideas, those centered around human connection with others and nature. After numerous residencies, Chung has expressed that she has better ability to carry out ideas with her new technological prowess. This has allowed the audience to interact with her art more often, as in her work 12 Strings.

I attain to the size and scale that Chung has recently worked with, as well as her use of numerous materials. Music is important in my inspiration, so if it were to become a part of my work, I can imagine it would only benefit any interactive pieces I may create.

You can check out more of Chung’s work here. You can check out the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts here.

[phantomintermedia-blog]

residencies. Yikes. That’s a whole lot of Future I am Not Ready For. But I looked around anyways. There’s one in NY that seems pretty fun. And one In MN that I also like the look of.Residencies are so far off my radar at the moment. I’ve only just figured out what I want to do in a broad sense. I definitely need to focus in

[sarahshoemakerphoto-blog]

Residencies

I started my research with residencies because that category stuck out to me the most, as I will be graduating in May 2018. I clicked on the Salem Art Works website first and I was really interested in the EAP until I came across the facilities that are included in this program. These facilities seem to only include hand building work (i.e. ceramics, wood work, etc.). My work as a photography/intermedia artist usually doesn't include hands on building.

From there, I decided to Google search Intermedia MFA programs. I clicked on Concordia University, mainly because I had never heard of it so I was intrigued.I also looked at the University of Maine (I’ve always wanted to visit or live in Maine). After reading and exploring both school’s websites, I’m more lost than I was before. I’ve come to the conclusion that I don't really know what I’m looking for in a grad school program. I also decided that I’m going to take a couple years off after graduating in May to really find myself and my art before furthering my education.

[asacroweintermedia-blog]

I ended up on this page after going through the categories page on the main site blog to residencies to the Alliance of Artist Communities to a broken link to the Denali residency.  After a little further Googling, I arrived at the link above.  Denali National Park & Preserve in Alaska is the United States’ oldest National Park and will celebrate its hundredth birthday this year.  This particular National Park residency is only ten days long, extremely competitive, and much if not all of the expense of participation is on the artist if selected.  Only six out of the hundreds of applicants get to participate divided between the winter and summer program.  Visual artists, writers, and composers may apply, and all are asked to focus on “sustainability, recycling, re-purposing or climate change.” Artists get to live in secluded cabins in a beautiful mountainous landscape.  They must participate in community outreach and donate one finished work to the park.  I personally am attracted to this residency because it is in a park I have wanted to visit for some time, I am all about sustainability and reusing what others might see as trash in my work, and I am in the 16-25 year old age group which is encouraged to apply.  I wanted to put the video from this page directly in the post, but it was too large.  Clicking through and checking it out is a great way to get an idea of the vastness of Denali and what artists get out of this residency.

[iowa-keanureeves-blog]

Residencies

I wanted to first look at Ox-Bow School of Art because it is the school (out of these options) that is closest to me. My first wish was to see what the campus looked like so I clicked on “see our campus” I was pleased to find either a lake or pond with a small dock, a cozy room with a working fireplace, and a porch with floor to ceiling windows. It looks like a place I would like to go on for a vacation. I can’t imagine actually going to school there (not that I don’t’ want to!) I then looked at their overview, only to find that they only offer one-two week courses. Maybe they offer longer ones, but it doesn’t seem to say and I couldn’t find that information anywhere. Another school I looked at was Art Farm. Although there website is pretty lacking in the way of information. I wanted to write about this one because some of the options to stay in are a farmhouse and cabins. I feel like it would almost be more like an art camp than an art school- which sounds like a lot of fun. The farmhouse is furnished and 100+ years old. That sounds so cool to me.