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Current Resident: Feb 1, 2023–Jan 31, 2024

Studio #219

Coralie Vogelaar

Coralie Vogelaar is a multidisciplinary artist who combines social science with her artistic practice. By viewing the human body from a machine-cognitive perspective, Vogelaar explores the relationship between humans and technology. She creates performances and multimedia installations in collaboration with experts from various disciplines such as data analysis, choreography, and sound design.

Coralie Vogelaar has exhibited work at Stedelijk Museum, The Netherlands; HeK (House of electronic Arts), Switzerland; and Photographers’ Gallery London, England, among others.

coralievogelaar.com

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

This interactive installation examines our urge to exert control over our body, the uncontrollable nature of the conditions that influence how we feel, and the data systems that analyze our state of wellbeing. Visitors are invited to take a seat and place a sensor on their earlobe. Their heart rate variability (HRV), the period between heartbeats, will immediately become audible as the sound of ticking metal friction on ceramics, and squeaking polysterene. Changes in HRV directly impact on the sound composition by Sjoerd Leijten and vice versa. The sensors register all the irregularities of the heartbeat, which fluctuates in response to physical and emotional factors. Because of the complexities involved in identifying the cause of individual fluctuations, science often dismisses small variations as irrelevant, and only average readings are used for examinations. Coralie Vogelaar explores the “noise” that is ususally filtered out in this hybrid cross of technological research and fine art - the installation exudes the atmosphere of a test environment, with its aluminium tubing, visible cables, and the inbuilt and pre-programmed conditional rules. Vogelaar demonstrates that our mood states are more complex than would be suggested by an averaged out measurement. She embraces this complexity by combining data-sampling systems with the physical experience of sound, rather than imposing any scientific framework or delimitation

Coralie Vogelaar, Interpersonal Biofeedback Apparatus Encoding Cardiac Fluctuations, 2021, interactive 10-channel audio installation, 200 × 240 × 80 in. (508 × 609.6 × 203.2 cm)

This work explores deconstructed facial expressions according to the Facial Action Coding System. This system forms the basis of contemporary emotion recognition software. With the help of the tracking mechanism of a mobile phone the performance demonstrates a computational approach to our emotions.

Coralie Vogelaar, Emotions from an Algorithmic Point of View, 2018, live performance, 20 min.

Half human, half machine, the figure of the video installation Infinite Posture Dataset is stuck within the confinements of the screen and either following or giving certain instructions to the rhythm of the machine. She is wearing a tight suit reminiscent of the ones used for motion capture techniques, involving the digital registration of body movement. In the work the performer is talking about the feelings stirred in her body memory while performing the movements and which results in spoken out loud, incoherent emotions. Her limbs also seem to have been detached. All in all, the spectator is left with random pieces of the puzzle. In similar cases we would usually focus on the face, but that too is hidden. While observing the deconstructed and reformulated poses of the performer, could the machine perhaps understand what she is trying to communicate? Vogelaar reveals how the bigger picture continues to be intangible to both human and machine. Neither human, nor machine has all the answers

Coralie Vogelaar, Infinite Posture Dataset, 2020, 65 in flatscreen, Relax Zone Pro Inversion Table, weight plate and motor, 15 min.

Coralie Vogelaar, Infinite Posture Dataset (Making off), 2020, still image.

Two photographs of the same event, taken at the same moment and from the same vantage point: one of the photographs has appeared thousands of times on the Internet, the other barely or not at all. Why is one image more successful than the other? In Recognized / Not Recognized, Coralie Vogelaar (NL, °1981) creates a comparative study of popular and unpopular news images. The result is an intriguing video installation.

Coralie Vogelaar, Recognized/Not Recognized, a comparative movement analysis of popular and unpopular news images, 2017, two channel video installation, 9 min.

Residents from The Netherlands

Claudine Arendt

Ahead of Time, The Times Ahead, 2021, sculpture fountain, polyester and computer-controlled water pump

Luxembourg, The Netherlands

Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg

2022

Ginta Tinte Vasermane

Latvia, The Netherlands

The Netherland-America Foundation

2022

Remy Jungerman

The Netherlands

ISCP Alumni Fund, Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York

2018

Norway, Zambia

Current Resident: Sep 1, 2022–Aug 31, 2023

OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway

Studio #220

Artist

Anawana Haloba

Anawana Haloba’s artistic practice is an ongoing investigation of societies’ positions within various political, social, economic, ideological, cultural, and post-independence frameworks. Haloba drafts poetry in the form of sketches for her work, from which she abstracts to performative-based artworks in moving image, installation, and sound. She constructs scenarios in which the material culture of any given location can be probed and reconsidered within the context of rapidly shifting contemporary subjectivities.

Anawana Haloba has exhibited work at Center Georges Pompidou, France; Biennale di Venezia, Italy; and Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil, among others.

anawanahaloba.net

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

2022 Fall Open Studios

November 18–November 19, 2022

Confessions of a delusional dictator and a museum of guilt explores the pitfalls of post-independence development during the 60s-70s throughout to 80s, the rise and failure of African Socialism, the social and economic politics struggles and the stifling of freedom of speech (expression) assembly, Social, and economical exploitation it comprises of a safety bunker, or a contemplation of a fictional president modelled on my research. Inside the bunker is a marble confession box with a two-way video work where a delusional dictator is giving his contradictory confession in front of a female priest. Also found in the bunker is some kind of memorabilia collection from either material on victims of torture or merchandise confiscated from oppositional supporters to all other materials imagined.

Anawana Haloba, Confessions of a delusional dictator and a museum of guilt, 2013-2016, video installation

How to (re)pair my grandmother’s basket is an experimental opera by the contemporary visual artist Anawana Haloba, drawing from African philosophy and operatic traditions. The opera is grounded in the Ubuntu philosophy of encounter to create a non-hierarchical comparative method, by which to interrogate rootedness and empathy. Haloba’a opera is created and composed borrowing from operatic conventions, knowledges and sensibilities outside the European tradition, mainly from Southern Africa, such as Chiyabilo/Kuyabila and Budima from Zambia. The libretto of this experimental opera, scripted by Haloba, is a dialogue among non-gendered characters who transverse geographies, cultures, and societies, composed for these times. It engages with questions of environmental racism, the rise of nationalism in the western world, and the plight of immigrants. Her incandescent experimental libretto and composition is an extension of her doctoral exhibition at Bergen University and teaching practice, in particular a course she taught at KHiO University in Oslo, based on a comparative approach. (Re)pair opens many possible readings: repairing the basket as a new pairing of histories side-by-side, as much as the idea of recovery, or reparation (though the basket, or history, may not be ever retrievable).

Anawana Haloba, How To (RE)Pair My Grandmother's Basket, 2021-2022, sound and music installation, dimensions variable

A DRAGON KING IN SLEEPY PRIDE ROCK explores China’s presence in Africa (Zambia particularly), taking into consideration the historical, and present day, myths and facts. My want to research this theme is partly inspired by the religiously flared-up media declaring China’s “new inroads” without looking at its long history in Africa. Now having pointed that out, this project does not aim to engage China’s presence in Africa from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) through the last imperial dynasty of Qing (1644- 1912), a period that accounts for an overwhelming knowledge of Africa. Here rather, I am interested in exploring China’s modern relations with Africa commencing in the 1950s during the cold war era, and throughout the 60s/70s, examining its social and political implications. What did this solidarity or ‘friendship of economics’, whose core agenda was eradicating colonialism and forging a common front to safeguard sovereignty of emerging nations against cold war politics, mean to a newly independent Africa? is divided in three parts “a synchronised video/sound/Animation with the animation playing from 3 old television set (early 60s-70s model) with sound from headphones. An interactive piece of train rail piece of 2.8 cm in length that always triggers sound if rubbed with dry maize grain beneath it, as way to retell the stories of both the workers and witness (people that lived along the rail). There is a saying that says one can trace their journeys through a maize cob, it’s a game kids would play while eating fresh maize- eating the grain on a cob in way that you creates irregular lines. A series of drawing from the made by layering photographic images and then re-drawing over with an ink pencil. Each drawing goes with a text especially written for it. A wall (sound memory wall) with tiny 14 home-made speakers using calabashes, cables and speaker drives that play different sound from each of the 14 station along the Tazara railway. Above where the television will installed on a time-line map of the migration and also the railway map.

Anawana Haloba, A Dragon King in Sleepy Pride Rock, 2016-2020, film, sound, drawing, and installation

ISHALL CURE YOU WITH MY TONGUE is part of a larger installation work, Conversations with Stitched Up Lips and the second listening station. “Conversations with Stitched-Up Lips” was a “process exhibition” in which I compiled information from interviews I had with different thinkers, friends, readings and rewrote them in as conversations, and poems written by myself. The exhibition was intended to bring out a series of internal discussions of the mind, reflections, reactions and other poetic meanderings, embedded in the exercise I called “A Process of Becoming” dedicated to work of Frantz Fanon who is the main subject of my PhD research. Understanding the background, environment and heritage of Fanon was as crucial as the scriptwriting. With the recorded text, I included the ambient sounds of nature and music from Martinique. The viewer was invited to listen to fragments of text, noise and tones relating to trauma, healing and psychoanalysis via several sculptural audio stations.

Anawana Haloba, I Shall Cure You With My Tongue, 2018, sculptural and sound installation

Close-up is an installation with sound elements revolving around salt rocks that, over a period of time, undergo a process of liquefaction. It makes reference to the bodily fluids of humans, minerals found in landscapes and the historical significance of salt as a means of exchange. The melting and trickling of the salt is a slow, timed, and amplified process that ultimately leads to relief on the one hand and extinction on the other.

Anawana Haloba, Close UP, 2010-2016, sound installation

India

Current Resident: Apr 1, 2023–Jun 30, 2023

Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation

Studio #221

Artist

Akshay Sethi

Akshay Sethi’s practice takes a mundane approach to exploring the relationship between the personal and the political. He focuses on unnoticed, trivial and repetitive actions of daily life to create works that foster everyday encounters and public spaces.

Akshay Sethi has exhibited work at the 2019 Serendipity Arts Festival; 1Shanthiroad; and India Art Fair, all in India, among others.