Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton Arts Council
Alma Visscher
Alma Louise Visscher creates fabric-based installations, jewelry and drawings that consider resources and material culture and the poetic possibilities and problems within these. Through process and materials, she explores the intersection of materiality and the unknowable, the ecology of places, and the things that hold us, care for us, and comfort us. These motivations have led her to explore materials such as working with natural dyes and inks sourced from her immediate environments and repurposed textiles and materials.
Alma Louise Visscher has exhibited work at Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta; Idea Exchange. Ontario; Kimura Gallery, Alaska, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Alma Visscher, Odradek, 2021, handmade ink on paper, 10 × 14 in. (25.4 × 35.56 cm).
Alma Visscher, Hedge Study, 2023, cedar ink, handmade paper and fabric on paper, 17 × 12 in. (43.18 × 30.48 cm).
Alma Visscher, holding it together, 2021, machine pleated and dyed and airbrushed found fabric, 24 × 36 in. (60.96 × 91.44 cm).
Alma Visscher, The waiting, 2019, hand painted and airbrushed cotton and linen fabric, grommets and draping, 35 × 108 in. (88.9 × 274.32 cm).
Alma Visscher, Portable Paintings, 2018, hand dyed and sewnfabric, dimensions variable.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2024: Jane Farver Memorial Fund
Mario D’Souza
Mario D’Souza is a curator and writer based between Goa, Kochi, and New Delhi, India. He is on the curatorial team for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale and is Director of Programmes and Exhibitions at the Kochi Biennale Foundation. He is also co-Artistic Director and Resident Curator at HH Art Spaces, India. His research interests include Indian Ocean and Silk Road imaginaries, non-alignment and the nation-building project, performance cultures and aesthetics of dissent; legal and extra-legal systems, evidence, and truth modalities.
Mario D’Souza has curated exhibitions at Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India; Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, United Kingdon; and Fondazione Elpis, Italy, among others.
Group exhibition, HAZE: Contemporary Art From South Asia, exhibition view, 2023, curated by Mario D’Souza and HH Art Spaces . Fondazione Elpis, Milan. Photo by Melania Dalle Grave.
'Codex Casanatense', page detail, 16th century, depiction of Portuguese relations with the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Godwin Constantine, Identity, 'No Order Group' group exhibition, 1999, performance. Theertha Artist Collective, Sri Lanka.
Min Oh, Where do we stand now, 2022, performance. Dutch Warehouse, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India.
Sahil Naik, Karkadann of Land and the Dark Seas, 2023, still, video essay.
Past Resident2024: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Feng-Yi Chu
Feng-Yi Chu explores the integration of mysticism in art across cultures and eras through curatorial endeavors spanning exhibitions, research, and podcasts. His studies explore a variety of topics, including the historical embodiment of mysticism in art, the impact of technology on mystical applications in art, the role of artistic methods in elucidating mysticism, and the contributions of mysticism to contemporary art movements such as futurism and ecofeminism.
Feng-Yi Chu has curated exhibitions at Hong-gah Museum; 本事艺术 Solid Art; and 水谷藝術 WALEY ART, all in Taipei, among others.
Yin-Ju CHEN, Tzu-Tong LEE, NING Sen, Jia-Jhen SYU, Chuan-Lun WU, and Jui-Lan YAO, Relocating Divinity: Being an Atheistic Theist, 2019, curated by Feng-Yi Chu. Waley Art, Taiwan.
Amuse, Pei-Ying LIN, Shih-Chin WU, Teng-Yuan CHANG, Yun-Fei TOU, and Marina FOMENKO, Zoo of Inverted Forms: The Ultimate Other for Imagining Humanity , 2020, curated by Feng-Yi Chu. Waley Art, Taiwan.
Tzu-Tong LEE, Xia LIN, Jia-Jhen SYU, Chuan-Lun WU, Sheryl CHANG, I-Chun CHEN, Yin-Ju CHEN, Chun-Yu CHEN, Ting-Yu LIANG, Sen Ning, Jui-Lan YAO, and He-Ling LO, Cross-Dimension Transmission: The Synchronic Encounters between Art, Technology and Mysticism, 2020, curated by Feng-Yi Chu. The Kaohsiung Main Public Library, Taiwan.
Kevin Abosch, Nai-Ren Chang, Lans King, Tzu-Tung Lee + Winnie Soon, I-Chun Lin, lololol (Xia Lin + Sheryl Chang), Martin Lukas Ostachowski, Rexy Tseng, Aluan Wang, and Jui-Lan Yao, Dear Block Chen, 2021, curated by Feng-Yi Chu. Solid Art, Taiwan.
LIAO Xuan-Zhen + HUANG I-Chieh + LEE Chia-Hung + WANG Yu-Ping, WANG Ding-Yeh, Birdy CHU Shun, WU Tzu-An, David Clarke, LIN Yi-Chi, WONG Chi Fai + YAU Ching + Ellen PAU, Anson MAK Hoi San, CHAN Tai Lee, KUO Shu-Feng, CHEN Ting-Jung, CHOI Sai Ho, Bauki Angaw, and ZHENG Bo, Nostalgia Is a Waving Flag Taiwan &Hong Kong Video Art Exhibition, 2022, curated by Feng-Yi Chu. Hong-Gah Museum, Taiwan.
