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Back in October 2020 I was invited to be in conversation with the 2nd Earth Water Sky artist in residence Haseeb Ahmed. Chaired by the curator/producer of the Earth Water Sky residency programme, Ariane Koek, and hosted by Science Gallery Venice, we spoke about our respective practices, the process of working with scientists through the residency, and our approaches to the respective themes of water and sky. You can watch the talk here.
Underwater artist Emma Critchley (UK) is the first winner of the three year EARTH WATER SKY residency programme. The jury awarded it to her for ‘the originality and beauty’ of her proposed project which in the words of Professor Carlo Barbante was the most evocative of the Ice Memory project which he leads.
Both Professor Michele Bugliesi, Rector of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Science Gallery Venice’s Director Anna Puccio, consider the residency programme a true added value to the developing Venetian Science Gallery. “We deeply thank the Martine et Didier Primat Foundation for the unique opportunity to host the first three year residency for artists of the whole Network”.
Continue reading here: https://venice.sciencegallery.com/news/emma-critchley-wins-earth-water-sky-residency
I’m very happy to announce that the project Human/Nature, developed as part of the Culture & Climate Change: Scenarios Residency Programme has just received funding from Jerwood Charitable Foundation for the film’s production.
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Filming started last month at the ALMA observatory in the Atacama Desert
Culture and Climate Change is supported by The Open University OpenSpace Research Centre, The University of Sheffield School of Architecture, The Ashden Trust, Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
We are currently looking for inspiring women working in the field of deep sea and space exploration to be the voices of this new artist’s film project.
Human / Nature is set around two critical frontiers of today: deep sea and space – romanticised stages, which are at the same time present-day borders of conquest for mineral resources and territory. The work will ask questions about the fantasies we construct and investigate the intimate relationship between exploration and exploitation.
Shot on location in underwater training habitats, these rehearsal spaces provide the visual backdrop for the film’s fragmented dialogue that interweaves narratives from the history of space and deep-sea exploration – real and fantasy. The script will explore how reverberant layers of industrialisation and colonialism have affected the way we relate to our environment – both immediate and distant. Narrated by female pioneers of deep sea and space exploration, the work will open up alternatives to these legacies in a poetic montage, which in turn poses questions about our current state and how we should move forward into these frontiers.
For more about Emma and her work please visit: www.emmacritchley.com
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Human/Nature is being developed as part of the Culture & Climate Change residency, which is supported by The Open University Open Space Research Centre, The University of Sheffield School of Architecture, the Ashden Trust, Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
I’m delighted to have been selected for the Climate Change in Residence: Future Scenarios, along with artists Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping and Zoë Svendson.
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Working with artists’ moving image, photography, installation, theatre and performance, the chosen artists will undertake a new kind of residency programme which embeds them within climate research and policy knowledge networks, rather than within one institution. They will engage with climate scenarios, and explore and extend the ways in which society engages with the range of possible future climates.
Announced at Jerwood Space on Monday night, Shonagh Manson, Director of Jerwood Charitable Foundation said “These networked residencies will put culture and artistic practice at the heart of conversations about our climate futures. The artists selected have demonstrated a keen hunger for dialogue and exchange around these issues, which passionately inform their work. These residencies will harness the imaginations of talented artistic individuals for the benefit of the scenario planning network whilst simultaneously providing a unique research environment in which each artist can further their own practice and projects.”
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The NARS International Artist Residency Program supports emerging and mid-career artists. The program is open to both International and US-Based artists, creating an international artistic dialogue and exchange.
Season IV artists: October – December 2015
Vasiliki Antonopoulou, Keren Avery, Emma Critchley, Milton Croissant, Bima Engels, Sandra Erbacher, Ema Bernhard, John Roach and Karin Waskiewicz.
Home is an ambitious programme of creative residencies and commissions that will take place in Cliftonville, Kent during 2014. Artists and arts organisations are invited to consider this opportunity to spend time in Cliftonville and develop new work that responds to the place and its communities.
Project partners:
Emma Critchley 