Current Resident: Jul 1, 2022–Aug 31, 2022
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Studio #203
Artist
Yuki Higashino
Yuki Higashino explores a variety of topics through his work, including the influence of digital technology on our visual culture, immigrant identity, and the conflict between language and picture. Higashino combines several aesthetic standards, such as those of photography, calligraphy, and film, to create his own distinctive pictorial lexicon.
Yuki Higashino has exhibited work at Mumok, Vienna; Last Tango, Zurich; Contemporary Art Factory, Kyoto; Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna; and The Brno House of Arts, among others.
Past Residencies
Yuki Higashino, Notebook 5, 2020, acrylic paint on plexiglass, 111/4 × 151/8 in. (28.57 × 38.42 cm)
Yuki Higashino, After Josef Sudek 1, 2020, acrylic on acetate, 101/4 × 57/8 in. (26.03 × 14.92 cm)
Yuki Higashino, Notebook 6, 2021, acrylic on plexiglass, 111/4 × 151/8 in. (28.57 × 38.42 cm)
Yuki Higashino, Sundborn, Summer 1, 2021, acrylic on plexiglass, 235/16 × 131/4 in. (59.26 × 33.65 cm)
Yuki Higashino, The Poundbury Horror, 2020, HD video with sound, 18 min.
Residents from Austria
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2022–Aug 31, 2022
International Visegrad Fund
Studio #204
Artist
Radek Brousil
Using primarily textiles, ceramics, film, photography and video, Radek Brousil creates installations that address social testimony and present an activist stance on the future’s unpredictability. With an interest on post-colonial tendencies in the contemporary artistic discourse, Brousil examines these issues on a symbolic, individual, and emotional level. He characterizes social, cultural, and environmental problems using novel interpretations and terminology.
Radek Brousil has exhibited work at Komplot, Brussels; Futura, Prague; and Parisian Laundry, Montreal, among others.
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Radek Brousil, Can You Still Feel The Butterflies, 2021, short film, 13:17 min.
Radek Brousil, The Imagery Of Cry On Demand, 2019, installation and fabric sculptures
Radek Brousil, Bluescreen for Brokoff, 2016, installation
Radek Brousil, Standing, Holding a Waterlily, 2019, installation
Radek Brousil, Standing, Holding a Waterlily, 2019, fabric sculpture from upcycled indie-emo t-shirts
Current Resident: Jun 1, 2022–Aug 31, 2022
Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #205
Artist
Sukaina Kubba
Sukaina Kubba is interested in stories of travel and transport across oceans, seas and deserts: people, animals, materials and manmade artifacts. Kubba works across several mediums including drawing, painting, fibres, audio, video and installation to explore material cultures, appropriation and assimilation. She is also interested in the study of rugs, their packaging and their transport; fictional lives on real cruise-ships; and parables about desert animals and their legal woes.
Sukaina Kubba has exhibited work at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; and Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, among others.
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Sukaina Kubba, 1970.302.8, 2022, pen on acetate, 44 × 55 in. (111.76 × 139.7 cm)
Sukaina Kubba, T77.0160, 2020, recycled U-Haul blankets, thread and embroidery thread from Value Village, and butcher's twine, 70 × 86 in. (177.8 × 218.44 cm)
Sukaina Kubba, La Broiche Carpet, PE-LD, 2021, permanent pen on low-density polyethylene from a delivery package and faux-gold hoop earrings, 43 × 23 in. (109.22 × 58.42 cm)
Sukaina Kubba, History of the Defeated, 2017, ink and varnish on sheet latex, 98 x 254 in. and 79 x 276 in.
Sukaina Kubba and Carmel O'Brien, Untitled (AS YOU WERE), 2016, hand-layered pigmented liquid latex rug, wood structure, and sandbag, 96 × 48 × 16 in. (243.84 × 121.92 × 40.64 cm)
