Residency at Sundaymorning@EKWC 2020: visiting hrs are over
I created an opportunity to explore the actual exhibition space as a performative space by placing restraints on visiting times to my studio when the centre was open to the public. Here I regularly changed the positioning of my installation that combined a working space (an active studio logic) with a more designed space. I elaborated on the hospital environment and brought this in into contact with the current impact of the Corona epidemic and how that redefines our conception of the in/hospitable space (life/death, home/despair, creation/destruction etc.) in uncanny ways, defamiliarizing us from safe and known environments.
From 2nd July to 23rd September 2020, I undertook a residency at the EKWC as part of the SundayMorning@EKWC program. This residency was partly funded by the Australian Council for the Arts.
EKWC, … “has been called by some, the best ceramic centre in the world, and by others, the best artist-in-residence program round… More than 1000 artists, designers and architects have completed the residency at the EKWC. Over the past decade the residencies were three months long. Others came two or three times. Museums, galleries, funds and universities have given artists commissions, scholarships or placed others. And always there has been room for something extra, for something just a little different. Growth takes place in those lost moments, and a thousand year old profession is turned on its head because what may have been thought impossible, suddenly became possible.”
Ranti Tjan, director of EKWC.