Group Residency PLACE, PEOPLE AND TIME: DRAWING DEEPLY

APPLICATIONS FOR THE GROUP RESIDENCY PLACE, PEOPLE AND TIME: DRAWING DEEPLY ARE WELCOMED

The aim of the Group Residency 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 Group Residency has been devised by The Museum of Loss and Renewal with invited partner, artist and academic Danica Maier. The residency experience will stimulate new ways of thinking and experimentation through production, research, co-learning and presentation. Participants 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.

PLACE, PEOPLE AND TIME: DRAWING DEEPLY is offered for creative practitioners working in art, animation, architecture, communication industries, dance, design, fashion, film, theatre, performance etc. and for those who have a strong interest in drawing as an area of practice. Applications from other fields where drawing is used as a means to develop, document, explore, explain, interrogate and plan such as sciences, geography, engineering, mathematics, medicine, and writing are welcomed.

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.

Duration of residency

One week: 07 – 13 June 2023

Accommodation

Residents are accommodated in two recently renovated, comfortable houses situated a couple of minutes walk from each other. Houses have fully equipped kitchens, bathrooms, sitting rooms, and double, twin and single bedrooms, central heating and Wi-Fi throughout. Cleaning is included in the residency fee.
 

Studio / Workspace

Studio spaces are located in buildings that are situated a couple of minutes walk from each other, and from the domestic accommodation. They are recently renovated and include indoor and outdoor making spaces, have desk space and Wi-Fi. Small hand and power tools are available. The Museum of Loss and Renewal has an excellent library with a focus on: art, design, architecture, curating, collecting, (art)writing, publishing, walking, literature …

Fees and support

The Group Residency is operated on a non-commercial cost-covering basis, and is financially supported by The Museum of Loss and Renewal in order to keep fees low. The residency fee is €1180 paid by the resident. It includes the residency programme, full board, accommodation in a variety of spacious rooms, excellent studio spaces, collection at / return to a local train/bus station.