Dear Spectrites,
We are delighted to announce the results of the Roots and
Seeds XXI Open Call for Residency and for the two Production
Awards for new artworks.
We received a total of 329 applications from 32 countries,
91 of which were for the Research Residency that will take
place at the Malina House in Paris (April 2022).
The *recipient of the Residency Grant is Marit Mihklepp
*(http://maritmihklepp.com), an Estonian artist based in the
Netherlands, where she graduated from interdisciplinary
ArtScience MA program in The Hague. Her work explores the
existing and speculative communication systems between
humans and other-than-humans, often using instructions and
objects to be activated by the audience.
All our congratulations to Maritand our deep thank you to
the members of the Jury:
- Oriane Hidalgo, Botanist, Botanical Institute of Barcelona
(SP)
- Roger Malina, Astronomer, Executive Editor of the Leonardo
publications at MIT Press, President of Leonardo/Olats (US)
- Ramuntcho Matta, Artist, Founder and Director of Lizières
Cultural and Resource center (FR)
- Claudia Schnugg, Curator and Researcher in Art-Science (AT)
- Victoria Vesna, media artist and Professor at UCLA
Department of Design (US)
With Annick Bureaud, Art Critic, Curator and Director of
Leonardo/Olats (FR) and Tatiana Kourochkina, Producer,
Cofounder of Quo Artis Foundation (SP).
The *recipient of the 12.500 € Production Award*
is*Posthuman Studies Lab *(https://ferations.world
https://cargocollective.com/18apples), an independent
post-disciplinary curatorial and educational initiative
based in Moscow.
The *recipient of the 5.500€ Production Award* is *Laura
Cinti *(http://www.c-lab.co.uk),**an Italian research-based
artist working with biology and also the primary artist and
co-director of C-LAB, based in England.
Congratulations to both and a deep thanks to the members of
the Jury:
- Valentino Catricalà, curator at SODA Gallery Manchester
and lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University (IT/UK)
- Lucio Montecchio, Researcher and Professor of Forest
Pathology at the University of Padova and member of the
Board of the Botanical Garden of Padova (IT)
- Aliya Sakhariyeva, Art historian, Director of the Art &
Science Center and Master Degree Program, ITMO University
(KZ/RU)
- Vid Simoniti, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of
Liverpool, Director of MA in Art, Aesthetics and Cultural
Institutions (SI/UK)
- Nicola Triscott Curator, co-founder of Arts Catalyst and
the director of FACT Liverpool (UK).
Roots & Seeds
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Universitat de
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in collaboration with
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_Institut Botànic de Barcelona -
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With the support of Creative Europe Programme of the
European Union Creative
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Photo: Iván Pérez
We are very much looking forward to collaborating with those
artists!
Best
Annick
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