Past Residents

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Past Resident
2018: College of Charleston

Artist

Susan Klein

Susan Klein’s work plays with the idea of American spirituality. She makes sculpture, paintings, and works on paper that repurpose religious and ritualistic imagery to serve a secular spiritualism that is part of contemporary American culture. Klein uses a specific system of symbols that shifts from funny and playful to commemorative and serious. The work references history, artifact, decoration, architecture, and pop culture.

Susan Klein has exhibited work at Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art – College of Charleston; Crossing Collective, New York City; and Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2018 Summer Open House

July 31, 2018, 6–9pm

Susan Klein, Landed, 2018, oil on ceramic stoneware, 14 × 18 × 7 in. (35.56 × 45.72 × 17.78 cm)

Susan Klein, Offering, 2017, oil on ceramic stoneware, 84 × 84 × 6 in. (213.36 × 213.36 × 15.24 cm)

Susan Klein, Squiggles and Such, 2017, oil on ceramic stoneware, 14 × 13 × ¹/₂ in. (35.56 × 33.02 × 1.27 cm)

Susan Klein, LA Sunset, 2017, oil on ceramic stoneware, 14 × 17 × 7 in. (35.56 × 43.18 × 17.78 cm)

Susan Klein, Looped, 2018, oil on ceramic stoneware, 9 × 15 × 10 in. (22.86 × 38.1 × 25.4 cm)

Residents from United States

Kearra Amaya Gopee

Brown eyes peer over glasses to stare directly at the camera.

United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Vision Fund

Studio #203

Verónica Gaona

United States

Vision Fund

Studio #201

Abed Elmajid Shalabi

United States

Artis

Studio #222

Taiwan

Past Resident
2018: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Artist

Yen-Ting Hsu

Yen-Ting Hsu investigates the cultural context of sounds, explores the connection between life, environment and ethnic cultures, and reflects on the relationship between sounds and their surrounding world. Using field recordings as her primary material, Hsu creates audio documentaries, soundscapes and sound performances. She also works extensively with dance theaters as a sound designer.

Yen-Ting Hsu has exhibited at Taipei Artist Village, Fremantle Arts Centre, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2018 Summer Open House

July 31, 2018, 6–9pm

Artists at Work: Modupeola Fadugba and Yen-Ting Hsu

July 24, 2018, 6:30–8pm

Spring Open Studios 2018

April 27–April 28, 2018

Yen-Ting Hsu, Waterland (Taiwan), 2016, plastic swimming pool, water sports equipments, sand, and multi-channel sound installation

Yen-Ting Hsu, Waterland (Australia), 2015, sand and multi-channel sound installation

Yen-Ting Hsu, TAI - Work in Progress, 2017, fans, various objects, and multi-channel sound installation

Yen-Ting Hsu, Revitalization of Chiayi Sound Project, 2012, multi-channel sound installation

Residents from Taiwan

Huang I-Hsiang

A Practice of Silence begins with a vague visual impression, the administrative figure of the Absolute Space, a silent presence always sitting in the corner of the exhibition venue. Her work is a series of interpretations, empathy, and understanding. She is always there, yet hard to notice. She is the caretaker of the venue, and I want to depict such a character. My curiosity lies in her physical and psychological relationship with the venue; my curiosity wonders why she is here and whether she has ever thought about leaving. In short, everything related to this job, including emotions and circumstances. During the exhibition, I invited theater practitioner Tseng Jing-Wen, who is dedicated to promoting People's Theatre, along with former administrative staff from Absolute Space who worked here at different times, to conduct a body workshop. My basic idea is, the arrival of newcomers marks the departure of the old, and the interchange between new and old forms the life of a character. These participants, through shared memories, will engage in a self- dialogue belonging to this character during the workshop. Finally, on the last day of the exhibition, we held a screening event showcasing the workshop's video documentation at the venue.

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Studio #210

Feng-Yi Chu

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Studio #302

Hung-Yen Chang

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2023

Austria

Past Resident
2018: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria

Artist

Ana Hoffner

In her art practice, Ana Hoffner analyzes moments of crisis, war and conflict in recent history and politics. Her performances, videos and photo installations seek to introduce temporalities, relations, and spaces in between established perspectives, memories of iconic images, and highly performative events. Hoffner employs means of appropriation such as restaging photographs, interviews and reports, as well as strategies of desynchronization.

Ana Hoffner completed the PhD-in-Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2014. She has exhibited work at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Secession, Vienna; and VOX Contemporary Image Center, Montreal, among others.