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Residencies

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Canadian

An obituary for artist Colette Urban, who was an alumni of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and University of Victoria, and who worked and taught across Canada.

Obituary: Colette Urban

Amish Morrell is Assistant Professor at OCAD University, where he teaches Criticism & Curatorial Practice, and Visual and Critical Studies.

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This column presents screencaps of C Magazine editor Amish Morrell’s Facebook post inviting peers to lend recommendations for artist residencies and the responses to this post.

Noteworthy: Residencies 

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Editorial

Residencies typically provide artists with living space and work facilities, financial support, and often the opportunity to engage with their peers around a specific theme or set of ideas. There are numerous high-profile residencies around the world that offer coveted opportunities for artists to further specific ideas and practices, and to develop their careers. But residencies can provide resources other than time, space and funding—a chance to engage unique or unusual contexts. There are residencies in backyard sheds, barns, thrift stores, distilleries, national parks, and in hammocks, as well as in rickshaws, bathrooms, bomb shelters, on hiking trails, and in parkas, among many other sites. Residencies such as these impose specific conditions and present unique opportunities that in turn shape artists’ ideas and work. And for artists (as well as for those who are not artists), they propose ways of integrating critical and creative practices into our existing activities and routines.

In this issue we look at a number of permanent and temporary residency projects where artists are enlisted to engage specific sites or audiences. Writer Sky Goodden interviews artist Wanda Koop about Art City, a community arts centre and residency that Koop founded in downtown Winnipeg in 1998\. Arts education scholar Stephanie Springgay writes about _The Pedagogical Impulse_, a research and creation project that involved placing artists in secondary schools in Toronto, as well as the Artist Placement Group, an organization that placed artists in government and industrial workplaces, and in schools, in Britain starting in the 1960s. And for the centerfold, artist Reena Katz has included documents from another residency of sorts— the Queer Bed-in based on Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s 1969 Bed-in for Peace in Montreal. For this project, Katz, along with Ilona Molnar, Trish Salah, Sedina Fiati, keiron, the R3 Collective, Troy Jackson, El-Farouk Khaki, Ange Loft and the Two–spirit Skillshare, invited the public to hang out with them in bed for several days of discussion and community building. 

Writers in this issue also look critically at the role of residencies in shaping artists’ careers, as well as their ecological and social impact. Writer Laura Kenins surveys a number of residencies that are focused on environmental sustainability, advocating for models that help us to connect with and contribute to the places where we live. In my interview with Shinobu Akimoto and Matthew Evans, these two artists discuss Residency for Artists on Hiatus, a project that critiques the role of institutions in shaping artists’ careers and defining what constitutes artistic practice. Creating their own organization that appropriates many aspects of the structure and language of other arts organizations, residents are invited to not make art for the duration of the residency, documenting and sharing their non-art activities, to be subsequently placed within the legitimizing frame of an “official” art institution. 

Many other residencies also offer ways to integrate artistic practice into one’s existing activities, experimenting with familiar physical, social and institutional contexts. One such project that appears in this issue is Jp King’s Airline-Artist-in-Residence Program, or AAIR. In each copy of the magazine, there is a hand-printed letter of invitation for you to be official artist-in-residence during your next flight, as well as a residency report form that you may submit to the Nomadic Residency Council upon the completion of your flight. The projects that appear throughout this issue reveal the vast range of sites where artistic production and dialogue can occur— a useful insight for those of us who are far too busy to take the time that a residency demands.

Editor

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The editor discusses the issue’s theme of artist residencies and the issue’s contents, including: the community arts centre and residency Art City founded by Wanda Koop in Winnipeg; residencies focused on environmental sustainability; and Residency for Artists on Hiatus, a project that critiques the role of institutions in shaping artists’ careers and defining what constitutes artistic practice.

Editorial: Residencies

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Environment

International

Travel

This article discusses the popularity of artist residencies in rural and urban sites globally. The author traces back the appeal of such centres to the nineteenth century Romantic idea of artist colonies, which were utopias or sorts where artists can experience nature and attend to their artistic concerns. She discusses the emphasis on sustainability and environmental issues common to many residencies, such at the Banff Centre, Fogo Island, and Caetani Cultural Centre in Vernon, BC. The author discusses the irony of residencies that promote sustainability while encouraging visitors the other side of the globe.

Escapists and Jet-Setters: Residencies and Sustainability

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Collaboration

This article discusses The Pedagogical Impulse, a project focused on artistic research and education. The project has initiated a number of experimental and collaborative projects, including a series of artist residencies in various sites in Toronto with artists Sarah Febbraro, Shannon Gerard, Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez, Hannah Jickling, Hazel Meyer, and Helen Reed. The project reconceptualizes the residency as micropolitical and an ethical engagement. The article also discusses precedents to socially engaged art, including the Artist Placement Group that was created in 1965.

The Pedagogical Impulse: Aberrant Residencies and Classroom Ecologies

Randy Lee Cutler is a Vancouver-based writer, artist and educator. She contributes essays to catalogues and art magazines as well as maintains an experimental relationship to pedagogy, gardening and walking. Her art practice takes up themes of food and sustenance through performance, video and textual strategies. In the intersections of gender, art, science and technology, she investigates the emergence of new cultural forms and expression. She is an associate professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, BC.

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The article discusses the exhibition The Encyclopedic Palace, which was presented at the 55th Venice Biennale and curated by Director Massimiliano Gioni. The exhibition featured historical artifacts, found objects, and contemporary art, and included works by artists including Camille Henrot, Ed Atkins, Laurie Simmons and Allan McCollum, Hans Bellmer, Shinichi Sawada, and Danh Vo. The article also discusses the absence of Canadian artists in the curated components of the Biennale, as well as Shary Boyle’s work Music for Silence that was exhibited in the Canadian Pavilion.

Il Palazzo Enciclopedico: The 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice June 1 - November 24, 2014

Interview

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Urban studies

The article features an interview with Wanda Koop, who founded the community art centre and artist residency Art City in 1998 in Winnipeg. The centre was created to improve the living conditions of the urban neighbourhood of West Broadway. Art City now operates under the stewardship of co-directors Josh Ruth and Eddie Ayoub.

Interview with Wanda Koop

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This article features an interview with Shinobu Akimoto and Matthew Evans, the artists behind Residency for Artists on Hiatus, which invites participants to suspend their art practice and to produce non-art for the duration of the residency. The artists discuss the fruition of the residency art project, institutional recognition, and the limits of creativity and one’s art career.

Residency for Artists on Hiatus: Interview with Shinobu Akimoto and Matthew Evans (a.k.a. smfoundation)

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Chris Lee is a graphic designer and educator based in Buffalo, New York and Toronto. His research explores graphic design’s entanglement with power, standards and legitimacy. Chris is an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo SUNY.

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Publisher

Artist Project

Artist

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Activism

Participation

An artist project by Reena Katz documenting a queer bed-in organized in collaboration with Ilona Molnar, Trish Salah, Sedina Fiati, keiron and R3 Collective, Troy Jackson, El-Farouk Khaki, Ange Loft and the Two-spirit Skillshare. It features selected texts from the collective journal exercise undertaken as part of the project.

love takes the worry out of being close: public assemblies in bed with queers

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Established in 2008, the Nomadic Residency Council focuses on generating, supporting, and documenting alternative artist’s residencies. Its socially engaged, instructional efforts are centred around participatory campaigns that often lead to publications. The project includes an Official Letter of Invitation from the NRC for the Airline Artist-in-Residence Program, as well as an Official Report Form.

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Review

**Karina Irvine** is a writer based in Vancouver.

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Memory

Photography

Sculpture

Written by the C New Critics Competition winner Karina Irvine, this article reviews Kara Uzelman exhibition Stratiform at 221A Gallery in Vancouver from March 16 to May 4, 2013.

Kara Uzelman: Stratiform

Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross is a writer based in Toronto.

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Painting

This article presents a review of After Finitude, an exhibition of paintings by artists Neil Campbell, Hanne Darboven, Nicole Ondre, and Cheyney Thompson. The exhibition was shown at Or Gallery in Vancouver from February 23 to April 20, 2013.

After Finitude: Neil Campbell, Hanne Darboven, Nicole Ondre, Cheyney Thompson

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This article reviews Splendid Isolation, a four-person exhibition of Alberta-based photographers Orest Semchishen, George Webber, Miruna Dragan, and Olga Chagaoutdinova. The exhibition was held at the Esker Foundation in Calgary from january 19 to April 21, 2013.

Splendid Isolation

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Animals

This article reviews Sara Angelucci’s exhibition Provenance Unknown, held at the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto from April 10 to June 16, 2013.

Sara Angelucci: Provenance Unknown

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Video

Film

Performance

This article presents a review of the Images Festival, which ran from April to May 2013, taking place at various locations in Toronto. It discusses artworks by Andrea Geyer, Alejandro Cesarco, Francesco Gagliardi, and Jean-Paul Kelly.

Images Festival

Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior from Beausoleil First Nation. Currently she is the assistant curator of Canadian and Indigenous art at the AGO.

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Politics

Indigenous

The article reviews the exhibition Sakahan: International Indigenous Art, which featured artworks by Indigenous artists from 16 countries, including Fiona Pardington, Robert, Houle, Shigeyuki Kihara, Richard Bell, Vernon Ah Kee, and Edward Poitras.

Sakahan: International Indigenous Art

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Multimedia

This article reviews First Look: New Art Online, a online platform initiated by the New Museum for digital projects. The article discusses works by Jeremy Bailey and Jon Rafman.

First Look: New Art Online

Jane Affleck is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies program at Trent University, a part-time instructor at NSCAD University and a freelance writer.

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This article reviews Once Upon a Time in the East, a retrospective of the late artist David Askevold held at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia from April 13 to May 7, 2023\. The exhibition featured sculpture, photography, and video works.

David Askevold: Once Upon a Time in the East

Tess Edmonson is a writer and editor based in Toronto. She is the recipient of a 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

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Poetry

This article reviews the exhibition 2000 Wasted Years by the New York-based artist collective Bernadette Corporation, held at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, England from March 27 to June 9, 2013\. The exhibition featured video, sculpture, poetry, and photography works.

Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years

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Cultural Studies

The article reviews the book Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai, published by Harvard University Press (2012).

Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, by Sianne Ngai

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Myth

This article reviews the book Glamour is Theft: A User’s Guide to General Idea by Philip Monk, published by the Art Gallery of York University Press (2013). The book suggests that the artist collective General Idea did not simply produce artworks, but that all of their activities created a vast mythic system.

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