Past Residents
Søren Thilo Funder
Søren Thilo Funder’s works are carefully crafted cinematic mash-ups of diverse cultural fields and social histories, integrating aspects of critical theory, literature, cinema, popular culture and counterculture. Through the use of cinematic narratives, mise en scène and video documents the artist aspire to propose new connections between historical, cultural and political matter and generate new potential spaces, third places, for political contemplation and counter-memory.
Søren Thilo Funder lives and works in Denmark. He has participated in international exhibitions at 19th Biennale of Sydney; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; 12th Istanbul Biennial; Turku Art Museum; Critical Distance, Toronto; amongst others.
Søren Thilo Funder, Swerve (You’re Gonna Die Up There), 2016, 3 channel HD video, 10 min.
Søren Thilo Funder, First Citizen (House of the Deaf Man), 2013, HD video, 12 min, 30 sec.
Søren Thilo Funder, DOWN WITH DOMESTIC TRASH (Rubber Plant), 2016, HD video, 7 min, 45 sec.
Søren Thilo Funder, The Vanishing Table, 2014, HD video, 14 min, 13 sec.
Søren Thilo Funder, The Adaptation (No-thing me-lanch-oly ’bout us), 2014, 3 channel HD video, 15 min.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2018: Toby Devan Lewis
Doreen Garner
Doreen Garner’s work depicts the history of black bodies subject to scientific objectification, experimentation, humiliation and torture. She translates this documentation that she cannot unread into objects, videos, and performances that people cannot unsee. Unanesthetized surgeries and unwarranted medical experiments re-emerge in glass and silicone sculpture. These rubbery, transparent carcasses become objects of desire, glittered with wet silicon, latex, Swarovski crystals and hair.
Doreen Garner has exhibited her work at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C., and more.
Doreen Garner, Untitled: Strange Fruit, 2016, silicone, dressmaker pins, hair weave, surgical instruments, and twine, 20 × 15 × 11 in. (50.8 × 38.1 × 27.94 cm).
Doreen Garner, Layers, 2016, silicone, polyester fiber, cinderblock, carpet padding, and fiberglass insulation, 54 × 23 × 15 in. (137.16 × 58.42 × 38.1 cm).
Doreen Garner, Vesico Vaginal Fistula, 2016, silicone, wire, and hair weave, 22 × 11 × 11 in. (55.88 × 27.94 × 27.94 cm).
Doreen Garner, Pickled Pearl, 2015, glass, Swarovski crystals, Swarovski pearls, baking bundts, silicone, brass pipe, plumbing tube, and hair weave, 60 × 12 × 12 in. (152.4 × 30.48 × 30.48 cm).
Doreen Garner, NEO (plasm), 2015, glass, polyester fiber, Swarovski crystals, condoms, hair weave, pearls, glitter, polyurethane, urethane plastic, beads, petroleum jelly, hair ballies, zip ties, and epoxy putty, 36 × 24 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 × 60.96 cm).
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217
Maria Lalou
Maria Lalou explores the topic of ‘viewing’ throughout her large-scale installations, performances, and publications. Focusing on the topic of viewing, she incorporates cinematic apparatus and surveillance as part of her tools, with central references to ‘the political of the viewer’. Each of her works formulates a precise frame often in the form of a distilled, almost lab-like setting. In her native Greek language, she states: as spectator, one becomes ‘theoros’ in the sense that one observes, participates and interprets the performative process from a certain perspective while this is part of the performance’s ontology.
Maria Lalou’s works have been presented internationally at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam; Onomatopee, Eindhoven; Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland; Contemporary Art Museum of Thessaloniki; and Industrial Gas Museum, Athens, amongst others. She has been a guest lecturer at Rijksakademie Studios, Amsterdam; Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy; and Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice, amongst others. She has contributed to the peer review journal activate, Roehampton University, London, as well at Leonardo, MIT Press Journals. Lalou has an ongoing collaboration with Danish architect Skafte Aymo-Boot working on the archival work [UN]FINISHED. The work is about concrete skeletons of Athens that engages the viewer in a process of looking into social, political and personal parts of the history of the city. Since 2004, Lalou shares her time between Amsterdam and Athens.
Maria Lalou, a spect, 2015, sculpture, installation, and video.
Maria Lalou, The Operational Model, 2015, installation, video, and performance.
Maria Lalou, The Operational Model, 2015, installation, video, and performance.
Maria Lalou, OPERATED, 2015, performance installation.
Maria Lalou, Archetype, 2015-2016, diagrammatic drawing, 23.6.
