Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Gerit Christiani, North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Tamara K.E.
Tamara K.E. resists the temptation of a surrogate bureaucratic definition of art, and it is due to the unsharpness and unidentifiability of her selection system that she gets the chance to direct our attention away from media pictures towards her own personality. Having to ask ourselves inevitably in view of her works according to what principle they are combined and exhibited, we admit to ourselves that we cannot identify with the artist on a conscious or on a subconscious level. Her personality remains a mystery to us… (Excerpt from A Private View by Boris Groys)
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Joanna Zielinska
Based in Kraków, Poland, Joanna Zielinska is an art historian, curator and a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and IKT – International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art. In 2010, she started a collaboration with the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor – Cricoteka in Kraków. Zielinska is the former Chief Curator at the Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń, Poland, where she curated the inaugural exhibition and conceptualized the institution’s program from 2008-2010. She has collaborated with websites and art magazines, contributed to art catalogs and published over sixty articles. From 2003 to 2007, Zielinska worked with the curatorial collective Exgirls. Her interests ranges from syllogomania, collecting, various aspects of escapism and anthropology of food and eating to social design and John Bock.
While at ISCP, Zielinska is developing a new project titled The End Of Collecting, a collection of facts, stories, everyday practices, quotations and other texts. Beginning with an attempt to impose order on chaos, to compile and arrange collections, it will culminate in madness, obsession, compulsively crammed living spaces, self-destructive habits and, finally, escape. Zielinska pays attention to the nature of the phenomenon of collecting and the very thin borderline between the process of collecting and common hoarding.
Joanna Zielinska, O.Dawicki, 2010, Sculpture, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by W. Olech.
Joanna Zielinska, End of Art by Azorro, 2003. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai)
Jiandyin are interdisciplinary collaborative artists from Thailand. Pornpilai Meemalai received her MA from School of Applied Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Jiradej Meemalai received his MFA (Sculpture) from Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Pornpilai is a 2008 recipient of Silp Bhirasri Creativity Grant of Silpakorn University, Thailand. Jiradej was awarded several competitions including 46th National Art Competition, 2000 and the Kasikorn Bank Group Contemporary Art Competitions, 2000. He was artist in residence at Art Omi International Art Center, 2008. They received a fellowship grant award from the Asian Cultural Council, New York and they were artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Jiandyin have participated in The Penang Island Sculpture Project, Penang Island, Malaysia and Art Live World, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, New York and will have a solo exhibition at Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, California.
Through their married life they discovered artistic value while searching for resolution for their disputes. Their works are models for looking at the tension in human relationships. They also project an awareness of ‘living together as an adaptation’ in the rapidly globalizing world that we live in. In 2010, they began a participation project called Dialogue. It is an ongoing collaborative drawing of Thai / Thai American couples who live in United States.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Sinking sculpture, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), On Adaptation, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Holding a Balance, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Self Portrait, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Thailand
Bundith Phunsombatlert
Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
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