Past Residents
Taloi Havini
Taloi Havini utilizes a wide variety of media to explore issues about maintaining inherited knowledge systems across time and space, including ceramics, sculpture, installation, photography and film. Her practice centers on deconstructing the politics of location.
Taloi Havini was born in Bougainville, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. She currently lives and works between Sydney and Bougainville. Havini received a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University where she majored in ceramics, photomedia, and art and politics. She engages with collections and archives and often responds to these experiences with experimental installations and exhibitions at institutions including the Sharjah Biennial 13; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Taloi Havini, Beroana (shell money), 2017, porcelain, earthenware, and steel, dimensions variable
Taloi Havini, Blood Generation: Jedi and the Mona, 2009, C-print, 473/16 × 313/8 in. (119.89 × 79.76 cm)
Taloi Havini, Habitat, 2017, 3 channel HD 5.1 surround sound video installation , 51113/16 × 1181/8 in. (1299.97 × 299.97 cm)
Taloi Havini, Habitat, 2016, single channel HD sound video installation , 1181/8 × 7811/16 in. (299.97 × 199.9 cm)
Taloi Havini, KapKaps from the mysterious isles of Melanesia, 2015, stoneware, copper, and gold lustre, 271/2 × 395/16 in. (69.85 × 99.82 cm)
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
Residents from The Netherlands
Past Resident2018: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Andreas Duscha
Andreas Duscha creates work based on images that are often associated with specific places, historical events and political phenomena. He subjectively portrays events that are both banal and of importance to develop new narratives.
Andreas Duscha has exhibited work at 21er Haus, Vienna; Kunsthaus Zürich; and Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2018
April 27–April 28, 2018
Andreas Duscha, Brutparasit, 2016, pigment on paper, 19 x 14 in. each
Andreas Duscha, Telephone I+II, 2016, glass, silver nitrate, steel and paint, 79 × 40 in. (200.66 × 101.6 cm)
Andreas Duscha, ..wir lassen alle Uhren zerschlagen, 2015, photography, 24 x 14 in. each
Andreas Duscha, Deadline, 2017, photography, 24 x 14 in. each
Andreas Duscha, Cinder Match, 2017, glass, silver nitrate, and UV print
