ZARYA A-i-R is pleased to announce the new open call for participants for 2020.
Deadline: August 11th, 2019, 18:00 Vladivostok time (UTC +10)
ABOUT ZARYA ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
ZARYA Artist-in-Residence program based on ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art in Vladivostok is a project aimed at provision of support to professionals in the field of contemporary art that welcomes artists, curators and researchers regardless of their preferred genres and techniques, as well as age and nationality. ZARYA A-i-R offers an opportunity to live and work in the new environment and conditions conductive to intensive work that provide a chance for successful implementation of creativity projects.
ZARYA A-i-R program is primarily focused on analysis and development of local environment. One of its tasks is establishment of a dialogue with both dedicated professionals and wide audience. ZARYA A-i-R program is destined to become an efficient point of interaction between representatives of various nations and cultures and to encourage development of the local art world on the Far East. Throughout the existence of the Residency, which was opened in December 2014, more than 80 artists from Russia and overseas have become its participants.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
- artists, curators and researchers (individual or teams) not younger than 18 years working with painting, sculpture, graphics, photo and video, installation, performance, choreography, theater, music and street art.
CONDITIONS
Residence duration – 1 or 2 months (optional).
Resident is to be provided with:
- accommodation in a furnished studio apartment (2 studios for 2 residents in each, kitchen + living room, household appliances) at the premises of ZARYA CCA;
- a workshop (33 m2) at the premises of ZARYA CCA for joint use;
- PR support of the developing project;
- assistance in coordination of the developing project (introduction to the local context, meetings arrangement, information and literature search assistance);
- official invitation letter for visa.
Resident is expected to:
- develop and present the project within the program timeline;
- provide an introduction lecture;
- provide an additional event in another format (master-class, seminar, off-site lecture, open studio day, training course, etc.);
- submit final artworks for ZARYA CCA collection (the number of artworks and other details are to be negotiated individually).
SELECTION CRITERIA
Priority is to be given to the projects that meet the following requirements:
- site-specific focus on local context of the Far East and Vladivostok;
- strong conceptual framework of the project;
- proper understanding of the project development process.
APPLICATION SUBMISSION
ZARYA CCA acts on a competitive basis and considers all applications submitted until August 11th, 2019 (applications receipt closing – 18:00 Vladivostok time, UTC+10).
Required documents:
- application form (please fill online individual or group application)
- updated portfolio (PDF file, max 25 MB) should be sent to residency@zaryavladivostok.ru with subject Porfolio_Surname Name (attn: the name in the subject should match with the name in the application form)
Incomplete or incorrectly processed applications will not be considered.
FAQ
Q: What are the criteria of selection of artworks to be left by artists for ZARYA CCA collection?
A: Selection is conducted by an expert committee. The Residence reserves the right to select the particular final artworks for collection.
Q: Is it possible to bring family members to the Residence?
A: Details are negotiated in each individual case. We can also give recommendations on search of rental apartments in Vladivostok.
Q: Is it obligatory to hold an exhibition upon the residency completion?
A: The form of residency report is not limited to only exhibition project. Possible options are to be discussed at the site and may be subject to change as the case may be.
*If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to send them to residency@zaryavladivostok.ru
26 МАЯ / 17:00 / КИНОЗАЛ
Представляем нашего первого в этом году резидента – фотографа Людмилу Кецлах из Соединенных Штатов Америки. Она окончила магистратуру Белорусского политехнического института по специальности «Термодинамика».Фотографией стала заниматься в 2001 году, в настоящее время получает профильное образование в Washtenaw Community College (Энн-Арбор, штат Мичиган, США).
В течение последних одиннадцати лет посещала многочисленные фотосеминары и воркшопы, имея возможность учиться у выдающихся фотографов, изменивших взгляд на её мир: Сэма Абеля, Антонина Кратохвиля, Юджина Ричардса, Алекса Майоли, Андреа Модики, Мигеля Гандерта и Пола Элледжа.
Является участником многих выставок в городах США (Нью-Йорк, Детройт, Чикаго) и мира. В 2017 году получила международную премию Kassel Dummy Book Award за книгу «Неопределенность бытия», позднее представленную на фотофорумах в Стамбуле, Москве, Риме, Мадриде, Дублине, Загребе и других городах мира.
Во время своего пребывания во Владивостоке Людмила планирует продолжить начатую в Карелии работу над историческими хрониками ГУЛАГа, путешествуя по местам бывших исправительно-трудовых лагерей и трудовых поселений 30-60 гг. и фотографируя остатки прошлого.
В это воскресенье, 26 мая, в 17:00 состоится приветственная лекция резидента «Люди моего мира». «Я думаю о себе как об исследователе, открывающем жизнь, который пытается записать и понять суть человеческого характера. Я – фотограф-документалист, решающий социальные проблемы, которые меня беспокоят. Во время лекции я поделюсь историями людей, которых встретила, расскажу о разных культурах и сосредоточу внимание на социальных вопросах», – комментирует художница предстоящее событие.
Подробнее о нашем резиденте: https://www.ludaketslakh.com/about/index
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Центр современного искусства «Заря» и Международная хельсинкская художественная резиденция (HIAP) объявляют OPEN CALL для российских художников на резиденцию в HIAP (Хельсинки) на период с 3 сентября по 1 декабря 2019 года. Дедлайн подачи заявки: 16 июня 2019 г. включительно.
Резиденция состоится в рамках инициированной HIAP программы коллегиального и кураторского сотрудничества Connecting Points.
Условия участия:
- резидентам программы предлагается 3-месячное проживание в квартире и рабочее место, покрываются расходы на железнодорожный транспорт, а также предоставляется грант из расчета 40 евро / день
- загранпаспорт, действующий еще 3 месяца после окончания срока запрашиваемой визы (то есть минимум по 03 марта 2020 г.). Паспорт должен быть выдан менее 10 лет назад, в нём должны быть две пустые страницы
- гражданство РФ
- хорошее владение английским или финским языком
СПОСОБ ПОДАЧИ ЗАЯВКИ
Необходимые документы:
- заявка (заполнить онлайн-форму заявки)
- обновленное портфолио (файл в формате PDF, максимум 25 Мб) отправить на hiap@zaryavladivostok.ru с темой письма Портфолио_Фамилия Имя (важно: имя в теме письма должно совпадать с именем, указанным в онлайн-заявке)
Неполные или неверно оформленные заявки не рассматриваются.
Более подробная информация о резиденции HIAP: https://www.hiap.fi/residency/ и о программе Connecting Points: https://www.hiap.fi/collaboration/connecting-points/
Справочная информация:
Программа Connecting Points нацелена на укрепление коллегиального и кураторского взаимодействия в поле искусства и культуры между Финляндией и Россией.
Программа исследует специфические аспекты различных территорий, а также взаимосвязи и взаимопонимание между ними. Местность может определять основной фокус работы, быть темой для высказывания, а также быть предпосылкой для интенсивных временных и глубоких и длительных внешних связей. В настоящее время руководителями программы являются художники и кураторы Миина Гуйала и Артту Меримаа. Они также курируют деятельность галереи-витрины «Алкови» в Хельсинки.
HIAP (Helsinki International Artist Programme) – международная хельсинкская художественная резиденция, созданная в 1998 году. HIAP предоставляет возможность местным и иностранным художникам и кураторам заниматься экспериментальными междисциплинарными проектами, проводить исследования, участвуя в диалоге с местной арт-сценой.
Единственная на Дальнем Востоке арт-резиденция «Заря» существует со второй половины 2014 года на базе Центра современного искусства «Заря» и поддерживает профессионалов в области современного искусства из России и мира. Резиденция дает возможность художникам и коллективам реализовывать собственные проекты во Владивостоке, ориентируясь на региональный культурный и природный контекст и взаимодействуя с локальным арт-сообществом. За время существования резиденции её участниками стали более 80 российских и иностранных художников.
Центр современного искусства «Заря» был открыт во Владивостоке в 2013 году по инициативе российского предпринимателя, мецената, основателя крупнейшей российской алкогольной компании BELUGA GROUP Александра Мечетина. ЦСИ располагается на территории творческого кластера «Заря» в помещениях бывшей одноименной швейной фабрики. Главной задачей Центра является представление в Приморье лучших достижений современной культуры России и мира, поддержка художников и местного художественного сообщества.
ДЕДЛАЙН: 9 МАЯ
В рамках своего исследования, посвященного истории отечественной фотографии, куратор Аня Петрова приглашает всех фотографов – любителей и профессионалов – встречаться, знакомиться, говорить и смотреть! Откроем новые имена вместе!
Фотографические серии, циклы и истории о Владивостоке, Приморье и не только с кратким рассказом о себе можно присылать на почту photo@zaryavladivostok.ru до 9 мая включительно (формат файлов jpeg). По итогам рассмотрения заявок будет организован вечер с просмотром работ в режиме слайд-шоу и их обсуждением.
На фото: Денис Коробов. Из серии ‘iGurets’. 2015
The Zarya Center for Contemporary Art and the International Helsinki Art Residence (HIAP) announce the start of cooperation within the HIAP Connecting Points program and the exchange of residents in 2019.
Connecting Points is a program that aims at strengthening the collegial and curatorial activity in artistic and cultural realm in/within Finland and Russia. The program explores the interrelations and specific aspects of different sites and locations as well as understandings between them. A location can provide a source for action and commitment but also provide a setting from which to reach – intense and temporal – as well as profound and enduring connections. The program is currently coordinated and curated by artist-curators Miina Hujala and Arttu Merimaa who run a display window space called Alkovi in Helsinki.
HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme is an international artist residency organisation which was established in 1998. The HIAP residency programme offers time and space for developing new work in dialogue with the local art scene. The goal is to support experimental, cross-disciplinary art practices and to actively contribute to topical debates within and around the context of art.
We are pleased to announce the final results for the 6th ZARYA AiR Open Call 2019. It was a very hard choice, and we appreciate all the applicants (232 in total) for their interest, patient waiting and project proposals. Unfortunately, our capabilities are limited, and we are not able to invite everyone but we sincerely hope that the ones who could not make it this time, will get a chance of visiting Vladivostok next time.
So the list of 2019 ZARYA residents is as follows:
Anna Simakina and Evgenia Fomina / Russia
Dr Eugene Alexander Birman / USA
Nikolai Alekseev / Russia
Felix Kalmenson / Canada
Ludmila Ketslakh / USA
Yen-Hua Lee / Taiwan
Congratulations to the winners, and we are looking forward to having another exciting year in residence!
ZARYA A-i-R is pleased to announce the new open call for participants for 2019.
Deadline: January 31st, 2019, 18:00 Vladivostok time (UTC +10)
ABOUT ZARYA ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
ZARYA Artist-in-Residence program based on ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art in Vladivostok is a project aimed at provision of support to professionals in the field of contemporary art that welcomes artists, curators and researchers regardless of their preferred genres and techniques, as well as age and nationality. ZARYA A-i-R offers an opportunity to live and work in the new environment and conditions conductive to intensive work that provide a chance for successful implementation of creativity projects.
ZARYA A-i-R program is primarily focused on analysis and development of local environment. One of its tasks is establishment of a dialogue with both dedicated professionals and wide audience. ZARYA A-i-R program is destined to become an efficient point of interaction between representatives of various nations and cultures and to encourage development of the local art world on the Far East. Throughout the existence of the Residency, which was opened in December 2014, more than 80 artists from Russia and overseas have become its participants.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
- artists, curators and researchers (individual or teams) not younger than 18 years working with painting, sculpture, graphics, photo and video, installation, performance, choreography, theater, music and street art.
CONDITIONS
Residence duration – 1 or 2 months (optional).
Resident is to be provided with:
- accommodation in a furnished studio apartment (2 studios for 2 residents in each, kitchen + living room, household appliances) at the premises of ZARYA CCA;
- a workshop (33 m2) at the premises of ZARYA CCA for joint use;
- PR support of the developing project;
- assistance in coordination of the developing project (introduction to the local context, meetings arrangement, information and literature search assistance);
- official invitation letter for visa.
Resident is expected to:
- develop and present the project within the program timeline;
- provide an introduction lecture;
- provide an additional event in another format (master-class, seminar, off-site lecture, open studio day, training course, etc.);
- submit final artworks for ZARYA CCA collection (the number of artworks and other details are to be negotiated individually).
SELECTION CRITERIA
Priority is to be given to the projects that meet the following requirements:
- site-specific focus on local context of the Far East and Vladivostok;
- strong conceptual framework of the project;
- proper understanding of the project development process.
APPLICATION SUBMISSION
ZARYA CCA acts on a competitive basis and considers all applications submitted untilJanuary 31st, 2019 (applications receipt closing – 18:00 Vladivostok time, UTC+10).
Required documents:
- application form (please fill online individual or group application)
- updated portfolio (PDF file, max 25 MB) should be sent to residency@zaryavladivostok.ru with subject Porfolio_Surname Name (attn: the name in the subject should match with the name in the application form)
Incomplete or incorrectly processed applications will not be considered.
FAQ
Q:What are the criteria of selection of artworks to be left by artists for ZARYA CCA collection?
A:Selection is conducted by an expert committee. The Residence reserves the right to select the particular final artworks for collection.
Q:Is it possible to bring family members to the Residence?
A: Details are negotiated in each individual case. We can also give recommendations on search of rental apartments in Vladivostok.
Q:Is it obligatory to hold an exhibition upon the residency completion?
A:The form of residency report is not limited to only exhibition project. Possible options are to be discussed at the site and may be subject to change as the case may be.
*If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to send them to residency@zaryavladivostok.ru
DEC 21, 2018 – JAN 14, 2019
On December 21, at 7pm, the Zarya Air Workshop will celebrate the opening of “Invisible Shore,” an exhibition of photographs by Ma Haijiao (PRC), taken while the artist was in residence in Vladivostok. The exhibition will be on view until January 14, but to visit after the opening, you will need to first check in at the reception desk.
As the first Chinese artist to participate in the residency, Ma Haijiao reflects on the relationship between China and Russia, as it touches on both the history and present of Vladivostok. The two photographic series are based on the artist’s own impressions as he visited the city for the first time, serving as a kind of poetic interpretation of his experience.
As is well-known, a Chinese diaspora has lived in Vladivostok since the moment of its founding. From the end of the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century, this diaspora was quite substantial, wielding considerable influence on the development of the economy and the urban lifestyle in general. After the 1930s, any connections between the city and China would be severed for decades, so that it was only in the 1990s that the markets started to fill up with Chinese recently that Vladivostok became a destination for Chinese tourists.
The history of this relationship, so specific to Vladovostok, served as the starting point for Ma Haijiao’s work. The series “Invisible Shore” mobilizes the fragments of Chinese text integrated into the city’s streets. During his first few excursions around Vladivostok, the artist was impressed by the abundance of Chinese phrases embedded within daily life as a familiar part of the visual appearance of the city. To come across one’s native tongue in such a big country was an unusual experience for the artist, who had yet to encounter this phenomenon in his travels.
At the same time, the Chinese text that one can find in Vladivostok has a very distinct character; among the examples are such phrases as the traditional "Wishing You Safety Wherever You Go" (a typical New Years’ greeting in China) or “Let It Go” (one of the basic principles of Buddhism) on a pendant in the interior of a taxi, or “Unlimited Meat” and "The Landscape Here is Beyond Compare" on a restaurant sign. The artist collected these assorted fragments of text and transferred them onto pieces of wood, which he released into the waters around the border areas.
Some of the photographs were taken on Lake Khanka, which runs along the border between China and the Russia Foundation. Others were taken in the waterways of the Bay of Peter the Great and the waters around Russky Island and Amur Bay. The artist sees water as the element connecting the two countries, since its constant fluidity allows it to endlessly flow back and forth from one shore to the other. The title of this series refers to the fact that somewhere beyond the horizon, on the opposite edge of the vast expanse of water lies another land, unknown to us, which is too far away for us to see.
The second series, “In a Quiet Place,” refers to the role of the Chinese diaspora within the history of the city. The artist imprints standard advertising banners with the phrase, "The worst thing that the people have done for us is that they all left here at once." This sentence is an homage to a quote from a book by Dmitry Ancha and Nelly Miz, titled The Chinese Diaspora in Vladivostok: The Pages of History, which describes the life of the Chinese population at the turn of the 20 th century: The worst thing that the Chinese have done for us is that they all left Vladivostok at once." It is well-known that the Chinese work force was indispensible to the city and representatives from various nationalities lived in close partnership with one another. However, the artist is putting his emphasis not so much on the significance of the Chinese diaspora, as on the universality of the statement that any nationality that abandons its home leaves palpable wounds behind. And one of the examples of this trauma could be the Far East in the 1930s, when, following the shift in the USSR’s policies regarding foreign residents, the large majority of the Chinese population was deported from the region.
This exhibitions of photographs by Ma Haijiao concludes the 2018 season of the residency program, which hosted 20 individual artists and collectives from 10 countries around the world.
*Ma Haijiao (born 1990) is a photographer and video artist who lives and works in Beijing. He studied at the China Academy of Art, where he received both a BA and later an MFA. His art practice takes up an enduring concern with life’s daily routines, and taking this as his starting point, he traces its logic to shape video narratives and other works. Among his recent exhibitions are “July in Berlin” (Migrant Bird Space, Berlin, 2018); “Happy Valley” (Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, 2018); “Today's Yesterday,” the 1st Anren Biennale (Anren, Chengdu, 2017); “Message to the Future” (Canvas Contemporary Gallery, Amsterdam, 2017); “The New Normal” (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2017); “Semantic Satiation” (Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, 2017); “Why Not Ask Again,” the 11 th Shanghai Biennale (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2016); and “Fly Without Wings” (V ART Center, Shanghai, 2015). Ma Haijiao was a finalist for the 10th Three Shadows Photography Award and a nominee for the A021xPORSCHE Young Chinese Artist of the Year in 2017 His work, Mr. Quan, can be found in the collection of/the Power Station of Art in Shanghai.
For more information about the artist, please refer to his website: www.mahaijiao.cn
24 НОЯБРЯ / 12:00-17:00 / КИНОЗАЛ
В кинозале ЦСИ «Заря» пройдет воркшоп «Антирост: Генплан», организованный участниками арт-резиденции – коллективом METASITU (Лива Дударева и Эдуардо Кассина, Афины/Киев). В ходе работы предполагается найти новый подход к проблеме сокращения численности населения во Владивостоке.
Несмотря на то, что общая численность жителей городов неуклонно растет, многие бывшие индустриальные центры теряют свои позиции и становятся «вымирающими городами». Какой же генеральный план им необходим? Как оптимально претворить его в жизнь и закрепить результат? Как можно работать с памятью, связанной у жителей с разными местами города, и что делать, если все больше территорий оказываются заброшенными? Коллектив METASITU предлагает поразмышлять над этими вопросами в формате коллективного воркшопа.
Художники работают над проблемой сокращения населения в бывших индустриальных городах постсоветского пространства в течение последних нескольких лет. Они отмечают, что снижение численности населения воспринимается большинством архитекторов и городских планировщиков как негативный процесс, не соответствующий идеологии неолиберализма. Однако у «антироста» можно найти и положительные стороны, которые можно эффективно использовать.
На основе своих предыдущих исследований METASITU разработали руководство, позволяющее по-новому взглянуть на проблему и найти нетривиальные решения, изменив сам подход к феномену. «Руководство по антиросту» будет впервые представлено публике в ходе воркшопа во Владивостоке, и участники, выполняя приведенные в нем упражнения, могут сдвинуть парадигму «роста» и совместно искать новые пути планирования городов, соответствующие динамике сокращения населения.
Принять участие в воркшопе можно, записавшись по телефону 8(423)231-71-00 или отправив свои контактные данные по электронной почте info@zaryavladivostok.ru. Обращаем ваше внимание, что ограничение по количеству участников – 10 человек.
*METASITU – это исследовательский арт-проект, базирующийся в Киеве и Афинах. Проект отвергает существующие урбанистические дискурсы и создает новые инструменты, расширяющие возможности индивидов в их взаимодействии с территорией. Основанный в 2014 году Ливой Дударевой и Эдуардо Кассина, METASITU нацелен на создание эмансипирующих нарративов, касающихся нашего способа обживания пространства. Проект ориентирован не только на сообщество специалистов в области архитектуры и урбанизма, но и на более широкую аудиторию. Работа METASITU проходит в различных форматах, подразумевающих обмен знаниями и разработку новых инструментов для понимания состояния города сегодня. Курируя урбанистические фестивали, организуя образовательные программы и семинары, выступая с лекциями и распространяя видеоролики, METASITU открывает новые дискурсивные линии, привлекая к участию разных людей, вовлекая их в сложные пространственные повествования. METASITU стремится к миру горизонтальных гегемоний, безграничности и пограничным территориям, руководствуясь своим любопытством и настойчивостью.
Подробнее о проекте: http://www.metasitu.com
NOVEMBER 17 – 25, 2018 / ARTIST RESIDENCY STUDIO (CRW, ENTRANCE 5)
Lyokha G. is a Vladivostok-based musician and artist working with found objects, assemblages, lo-fi computer graphics and drawing from life, capturing the idiocy of everyday life. Incidentally, the word “artist” doesn’t quite apply to him. He prefers to call himself either a podelochnik (“craftsman”) or a poddelochnik (a counterfeiter), a play on words that effectively removes him from any possible integration into the dominant system of contemporary art.
Indeed, “crafts” or “fakes” make up one of his most significant series, which consists of assemblages of discarded toys, each accompanied by a caption and brought together into small compositions, suggesting absurd narratives. Lyokha G. also actively works with the “Caesar and Tripod Studio”, regularly publishing updates on his community page in VKontakte. Among the studio’s works one can find simplified and deliberately “bad” graphic design, mocking the markers and clichés pumped through advertising, the widespread adherence to Anglicism, and more generally the excessive pathos surrounding goods, services and “creative labor.”
In his project for the residency, the artist develops on the foundation for this earlier series, only on a much larger scale. The assemblages become full-scale installations, some even interactive, while some unrealized ideas from earlier finally see their material embodiment. “Little Tricks in the Little City” gathers a selection of inventions aimed at improving the life of city-dwellers. For instance, it’s a well-known fact that Vladivostok has a problem with parking in the courtyards of residential houses, and Lyokha G. offers an alternative method of vertical parking. Among other “tricks” include an “all-access” ring capable of opening any door, signs for conversations between motorists, mobile fences for pedestrian crossings and many other paradoxical objects.
It should be noted that the resolutions proposed by the artist are not intended to be put into practice. After all, utility is not the artist’s end goal. Rather, Lyokha G.’s little “tricks” are mischievous responses to the general hopeless unsettledness that accompanies us every day with every step we take. In order to not let this routine get you down, you need to be able to laugh at it, diminishing its power.
The exhibition also includes interventions by visitors to Lyokha G.’s studios, a set of pod(d)elki created over the past month. The artist demonstrates just how accessible contemporary art is to everyone by showing anyone interested how he creates his assemblages. It’s possible that the teachings of Lyokha G.’s may even go “to the people,” but the question as to where it will lead the artist himself remains open.
*For Reference: Lyokha G. (Aleksey Krutkin, born 1983) is a Vladivostok-based artist and musician, who heads up the “Caesar and Tripod Studio” and the “Weirdo Fashion” initiative. He is also known as poet and songwriter “Lyonya Chelushkinsky,” a guitarist and founding member of the band, BIO VIA ai JI, a pioneer in the philosophical movement “bio-idiotism” and the chief artist behind the posters for the Vladivostok club, Contrabanda. In 2017, he was featured in a solo show at Vladivostok’s Arka Gallery. Additionally, he has participated in group exhibitions including “Tragedy in the Corner” (The Museum of Moscow, 2018), “Next to the Gods” (ARTIS Gallery, Moscow, 2017) and “Rebels at the Edge” (MMOMA, 2017, Erarta Museum, 2016, ZARYA CCA, 2015).
To learn more about the artist’s projects, please visit his website: https://biovia.jimdo.com