Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society2008: Foundation for a Civil Society
Irgin Sena
Irgin Sena works with consideration of time as a space and as a zone. The voids, the gaps in between, the seemingly unimportant, or the things that fail are what he pays attention to. While thinking about time, Sena also considers the effectiveness of the delay. He is interested in the duration of transitions and moments of in(activity). The idea of creating a score, a track and a timeline for the work, as one would do in music, has occupied him for some time. Irgin’s process has much to do with how we select what to see from what we merely look at.
Irgin Sena was born in Albania and lives and works in New York. He has a MFA from Hunter College. Inn 2007 the he received the ARRDHJE Award for Contemporary Art and in 2012 he was awarded the Marian Netter Award. Irgin has participated at Qui Vive, International Moscow Biennial for Young Art and New Insight, Chicago. His work has been shown at Futura- Center For contemporary Art, Prague; Art Chicago; Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis; Vanessa Quang Galerie, Paris; House am Lutzowplatz, Berlin; The National Gallery, Tirana and Badischer-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
Irgin Sena, There Was a Mirror in the Reanimation Clinic, 2009, Video installation, 4 min. 26 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Father's Cabinet, 2012, Video installation, 4 min. 50 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Untitled, 2010, Video projection and hanging screens, 15 × 54 in. (38.1 × 137.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, 0-8, 2009, Foam, video, and sound, 96 × 96 × 96 in. (243.84 × 243.84 × 243.84 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Forty 12 Forty, 2012, Video installation, looped, 29 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Tomaz Furlan
Much of Tomaz Furlan’s work is part of a continuous series called WEAR. The fourteen iterations of WEAR each include a video as well as a sculpture, machine, or installation. In WEAR, the sculptures are props often in the form of clothes; the title WEAR is derived from this. While the title suggests that these pieces are just clothes, they are also a functional object made for ritual action. The WEAR project is an attempt to reconcile both banality and stupidity.
Tomaz Furlan studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art, Ljubljana. His work consists of video performances, sculptures and video installations. The video performances highlight the use of dresses or body accessories made for a certain purpose. He has been part of many exhibtions in Slovenia and internationally including Manifesta 9, Genk; In the Loop: Contemporary Contemporary Video Art from the European Union, Washington; Limited Access II, Parkingallery, and Eyedentify Yourself, SCCA Ljubljana. Furlan lives and works in Ljubljana.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Tomaz Furlan and Olson Lamaj
October 9, 2012
Tomaz Furlan, WEAR I, 2006, Video, 3:22 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Tomaz Furlan, WEAR V, 2008, Video, 3 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Tomaz Furlan, WEAR VIII, 2010, Video, 4:39 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Tomaz Furlan, WEAR IV, 2008, Stone, steel, and polyurethane foam. Courtesy of the artist.
Tomaz Furlan, WEAR I, 2005, Steel, polyurethane foam, and rope.
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Chang-Jung Wu
Chang-Jung Wu’s works, created using records of her life, daily imagination, and memories, often reveal her own story. Wu’s work explores a diverse group of issues including the global economy, energy supply, voice making, ecology, and visual sensory imagination giving an imagination with emotional dynamics; she combines spatial projections with other experimental images to express deeply personal ideas.
Chang-Jung Wu (born 1984 Taiwan), received her degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of The Arts, Taiwan in 2012. Her work has been shown recently at the The Taipei Digital Art Center, Manchester Chinese Centre for Contemporary Art, UK; The 58th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, the 2011 Venice Biennale, The 7th Busan International Video Festival, Korea, and in the exhibition Ambiguous Being: who is afraid of identity?, Berlin. Chang-Jung was the winner of the 2012 58th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen and the recommended new artist of Art Taipei 2010.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary VIII - Night Night Flower, 2011, Video installation, 3 min. 10 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary I - Pig Five Flower, 2010, Video installation, 3 min 10 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary XIII - The Kaleidoscopig Farm Cuckoo Clock, 2012, 12 projector synchronization, 3 min 30 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary III - Slot Machine, 2010, Single channel video, 2 min 58 sec.
