What is it?
> The research residencies are a space for exploration. Artists and researchers are invited to exchange, discover and look around, but also to understand the context of the project and the singular conditions which are proposed to them. It is a place of reflection and appropriation. This period will allow artists and researchers to find their place within the...
# 16 Gruppo Tökmag (András Tábori & Tamás Budha) // Artistic ensemble // Budapest, Hungary
The artistic ensemble Gruppo Tökmag came to existence in 2008, but the two founders, András Tábori and Tamás Budha, have been co-operating on several projects for about 8 years now. In the focus of the group’s activity, public and urban spaces are regarded as open exhibition places containing many different media that can be used...
# 15 Juliana Sokolová // Writer and philosopher // Košice, Slovakia
Juliana Sokolová (1981) grew up in Košice, Slovakia and Misratah, Libya. She studied philosophy at the University of York, where she completed her studies with a thesis on Emmanuel Levinas phenomenology of responsibility. Her research includes work in ancient and medieval philosophy, theory of architecture and film as well as an on-going research project on...
# 14 Łukasz Jastrubczak // Artist // Krakow, Poland
Born in 1984, he lives in Krakow. With the help of his exhibitions and particular works, Łukasz Jastrubczak builds a multi-level structure. In his work, he confronts popular cinema (especially science-fiction) with the aesthetics of avant-garde movements, testing their mythology. Łukasz’s works are left in the desert and in the forest; they float up into...
# 13 Agata Dutkowska // Sociologist and artist // Krakow, Poland
Agata Dutkowska studied sociology and arts (PhD candidate at the Art Univeristy in Poznań). She works as a city guide in Krakow. She makes specific performances in the city space of Kraków (eg. Following Allen Ginsberg Through the Streets of Kraków, Laura Walk, Makkabi Back in the Game) and artistic city trips in collaboration with Kraków...
# 12 Roman Dziadkiewicz // Artist // Krakow, Poland
> Born in Opole (Poland), Roman Dziadkiewicz is graduated of PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts of Kraków, where he currently lives and works. He is a multisensual artist, researcher, activist, songwriter, and occasional artist- curator. Engaged in long term studies, he is involved in interdisciplinary and intersensual projects, actions, workshop strategies, graphic design, text-based projects and...
# 11 Mathieu Lericq // Film curator // Krakow, Poland
> Mathieu Lericq (born in 1988) lives in Kraków (Poland). He’s a MA graduated on Film Studies in the University of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle. He shares his artistic activities between events organization, film critique and script writing. His interests are focused on cinematographies of Eastern-Central Europe and pays attention to short and experimental formats, to...
# 10 Hortense Gauthier // Artist // France
Hortense Gauthier studied political science, history and geography. She leads since 2003, a poetic transmediawork exploring different materialities of writing (audio, visual, digital, corporal), through various experiences combining sound creations, poetry, art action, photos, videos… She makes many digital performances under the name of HP Process (with Philippe Boisnard). She has published in various literary...
# 9 Claire Renier // Artist // Paris, France
April 2013 CLAIRE RENIER – PARIS (FR) Claire Renier, born in 1974, lives and works in different places. She is a photographer, video artist and performer. The artist organizes walks in the city, offering a unique experience of the city each time. In a path chosen in advance, she invites participants to be guided, to be available to their surroundings...
# 8 Collective Palce Lizać (Barbara Nawrocka & Dominika Wilczyńska) // Architects // Krakow, Poland
Group of architects, artists and stage designers established in Kraków by Dominika Wilczyńska and Barbara Nawrocka; dealing with important spatial issues in an unconventional manner, often with a grain of salt; combining architecture with urban scenography; performing between social interventions and artistic actions; creating new images of urban spaces through site-specific projects, mostly with cooperation...
# 7 László Milutinovits // Historian // Budapest, Hungary
In residency during April (and sometimes in May and June) László Milutinovits is a Budapest-based expert and trainer in European projects and has the MA in History and English Literature and Linguistics. As a researcher he has experience in the history of traveling and transport, with special regard to the 19-20th centuries. In the current project he is to work on...
# 6 Judit Kurtág // Artist // Bordeaux, France – Budapest, Hungary
Through video, photography and music, Judit Kurtág makes us think about memory, identity and time. A poetic work, using overprinting, erasing and rhythm, makes appear meaning in the core of still or moving yeux fois yeux fois yeux bouts de mur qui tombent presque un pas, encore un, un autre, d’autres saccades, sursauts pieds sur le pavé l’oeil...
# 5 Guillaume du Boisbaudry // Architect – Philosopher // Paris, France
Guillaume du Boisbaudry, architect, develops a theoretical and practical research concerning the radical experiences of life in the forest and forest culture. He leads the review Nécessaire, a philosophy and art magazine. He was a professor of philosophy of art at the School of Architecture of Paris-La Villette. He seeks, through his travels in France, Poland, Scotland, to meet various...
# 4 Simon Quéheillard // Artist // Bordeaux – Paris (France)
Born in 1977 in Bordeaux, Simon Quéheillard studied at the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux where he followed his education in a writing workshop led by poet and writer Emmanuel Hocquard, who has sustainably influenced his work. He lives and works in Paris. In 2006, he had his first solo exhibition at the gallery Frédéric Giroux, entitled The picture in the...
#3 Charlie Devier // Artist // Bordeaux (France)
Graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 2004, Charlie Divert expressed through painting, drawing, video, installation and performance. He exhibited in Bordeaux, in Bulgaria, White Sugar Cube Gallery (白 方糖 画廊) to Taipei (Taiwan) at the School of Architecture in Houston (Texas) in Romania at the French Cultural Centre and Muzeul Arta Timişoara. Since 2010...
#2 Damien Airault // Curator // Paris (France)
Damien Airault was born in 1977. He graduated in 2002 within Le Magasin in Grenoble (France), a contemporary art exhibition curating school. Since then, he curated around thirty exhibitions, most of them within the organization Le Commisariat, focused on young artists artwork. He regularly collaborates as art critic for several reviews, such as Particules and Petunia. —————————— “Various...
# 1 Valérie de Saint-Do // Journalist // Bordeaux – Paris (France)
A journalist and author, Valerie de Saint-Do has worked in the cultural column of the daily newspaper Sud-Ouest, in Bordeaux, from 1994 to 1998. In 2000 she joined the team of Cassandre/ Horschamp, a cultural review. She was co-editor of the rewiew, with Nicolas Romeas, till 2012. Now a free lance journalist, she works for...
# OO Marta Jonville & Tomas Matauko // Artists // Bordeaux (France)
> Marta Jonville and Tomas Matauko are the artists who conceived the project “Mécanismes pour une entente”. They are in residency in Krakow since May 2012 and will stay until December 2013. >Marta Jonville works with performance, photography, painting and video. She lives and works in Kraków. Since 2008 she has made of Europe her...
