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Residency at CEAC/Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
30 may until 28 June 2008
 
The Chinese European Art Center (CEAC) was founded by Mrs. Ineke Gudmundsson (NL) and Xiamen University Art College in 1999. CEAC is a non-profit cultural institution operating in the field of visual arts, design, architecture, literature and music. CEAC is part of Xiamen University but operates independently. The exhibition space is 150 square meters . In the past seven years CEAC made more than 70 exhibitions of both Chinese and European artists, and organized art events such as performances, contemporary films, contemporary music concerts, architecture exhibitions, and meanwhile published many artist books.
CEAC started the artist-in-residency program in 2001 with six apartments/studios.
LOCALISMS, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
12 April until 19 October 2008
During the last week of the exhibition At Random? Networks and cross-pollinations a workshop will be held in Museum De Paviljoens. The artists and designers participating in this workshop share a common interest in the singularities and peculiarities of specific locations. The workshop focuses on the area F-7, the only plot of land in the heart of Almere that hasn’t been rulerdrawn yet. It is home to temporary buildings and activities: youth housing, coffeeshop De Blowboot, a building materials storage site for the Municipality of Almere, youngsters, school for lower secondary professional education Villa Parkhurst, De Muur – Almere’s grafitti hotspot, carnival trailers and Museum De Paviljoens.
The workshop forms the upbeat to LOCALISMS, an exhibition that focuses on the poetry in the street, the discovery of the (urban) landscape, unnoticed sounds, the investigative look, archives of image and sound, wanderlust and world travellers.The exhibition LOCALISMS starts with a workshop on the 1st of April 2008 with the artists Richard Wentworth, Marjolijn Dijkman, Enough Room for Space, Savage, Eric Van Hove, Melle Smets, Maurits Hertzberger, Frank Koolen, Sara Kolster, Derek Holzer, Marc Boon, Kristin Posehn, SoundTransit, Maarten Vanden Eynde en Julie Peeters. During the run of the exhibition new work is developed and new participants will add their observations
Residency at HISK/Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
Period: 01/01/08 - 31/12/09
The HISK (Higher Institute of Fine Arts) organizes the postgraduate education in Flanders in the field of the visual arts. It provides some twenty five young artists from Belgium and abroad with a studio of their own, for a duration of two years.
At the HISK the emphasis lies mainly on individual practice, with an international focus. The visiting lecturers are crucial. Artists, curators, critics and theoreticians pay individual studio visits at regular intervals.There are also frequent visits to significant art events, and readings and workshops are organized. Thanks to the unique HISK concept the participants are given every opportunity to seriously invest in the critical research of their work, and to situate it within a broader artistic, cultural and societal context.
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