January 9-April 4, 2024
Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, FR)
Artist & Researcher in residence
Big thank you’s:
Institut Français de Roumanie à Bucarest
Institut Français Paris
Campus France
SaintEX Reims
Kicking off the Places of Care project, in Paris for the next 3 months, where I will be a artist & researcher in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts !
I’ve always wanted to fly off in a foreign place, in a nice residency program, catch my breath but also advance my work and see other artists and researchers work, but it just never worked out – either I had too many projects rolling at the same time or, of course, there is also the possibility of a spontaneous pandemic, right? But I guess there is also a time when things just strangely and beautifully align naturally.
Well, I’ve been pouring my heart and mind into my research & work on care for & ecology of technology in art practice – I started up on this road in 2023, during Marginal’s Tech Rider’s Dilemma project, from which Reliquaries from the Fungible sprung out, and now I can continue building on this gentle work throughout 2024, as part of the now-starting-out Places of Care project, also in the framework of Marginal, in collab with Andrei Tudose, Mara Oglakci and wonderful researchers from National Institute for Laser, Plasma & Radiation Physics (INFLPR), National Institute for Earth Physics (INCDFP) & The seismological observatory in Timisoara RO and SaintEX, in Reims FR.
For this project, I really wanted to dive deeper into my research, and I was so happy to receive the amazing support of the French Institute of Romania in Bucharest (thank you so much, Ioana and Loic!) along with the French Institute in Paris and Campus France, which instrumented my coming to Paris, on a research grant, to stay at one of the most spectacular residency spaces in Europe!
I’m very grateful to all the people that lead to this, thank you all and, Paris, j’y suis arrivée!
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For more info on Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, take a glance here.
For more info on The French Institute of Romania in Bucharest, le voilá.
For more info on Marginal, jump here.
Contributors
Cité internationale des arts is an artist-in-residence building complex in Paris, which accommodates artists of all specialities and nationalities in Paris. It comprises two sites, one located in the Marais and the other in Montmartre.[1] Approximately 1200 artists, choreographers, musicians, writers and designers from around the world live and work in the Cité internationale des arts every year.
https://www.citedesartsparis.net/
Under the tutelage of the Ministry for European and Foreign Affairs (Ministère de l’Europe et des affaires étrangères), the French Institute in Romania (IFR) belongs to the French cultural network abroad. IFR’s mission is to promote cultural, linguistic and university cooperation, as well as cooperation with institutions and representatives of civil society.
https://institutfrancais.ro/bucuresti/
Marginal is a cultural non-profit organization from Romania, functioning as a transdisciplinary collective aiming to support, promote and extend bridges between artists and various agents from other fields, with a focus on the humanities and the implications of sciences and technologies in socio-cultural structures.
https://marginal.ro/
Project
Places of care (2024-) is a transdisciplinary project that questions possible approaches to an ecology of technology,, in 4 sub-projects led by artists Sabina Suru (RO), Ioana Vreme Moser (DE), Antoni Rayzhekov (BG/AT)and Mara Oglakci (RO), in collab with curator Andrei Tudose (RO), that investigate alternative ways of relating/interacting with technology, as well as ways in which it can connect with the surrounding natural world from a more-than-human perspective.