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| Mandy Two Hearts - July 2010 |
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| Mandy Two Hearts is a local renegade arts-maker, activist, mischief-maker and friend to all. Graduating from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2005, with a focus in Textiles/Fibres, she has since moved to Vancouver (from Calgary), continuing on with her studies at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, from which she will graduate as a registered Art Therapist in 2011.
She has encouraged countless people with her endless smile, her unique Mandy Styles, craft times, flashy fashion, and big heart. From July 26 - 31, 2010, I will skill-share with Mandy the fine art of rug making, spend time in the Hammock, share some laughs, some love, and garden loveliness.
Photo by Mandy Two Hearts, 2010.
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http://www.myspace.com/thecheeese
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146407068705588&ref=ts
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| Ciska Rockwell - July 2010 |
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While I was in her gorgeous place in Victoria, in the heart of James Bay, two blocks from the ocean, submersing myself in her jazz/blues/folk record collection, running around on hard wood floors, perusing the bookshelves, bathing in a claw-foot tub, and talking about theory, life, experience, art, and religion, Ciska was taking inspiration from the Hammock Residency, and thinking about starting up her own residency program: what it would look like, who she would want to invite, etc. The result: Living On the Off Ramp.
If you would like to join Ciska in a weekend-get-away-residency, please email me (see 'Contact') with 3 images, a description of your practice, a bit about yourself, how you found out about it, and why you would like to be Living On the Off Ramp. Participants need to be clear in their communication, respectful, dog lovin', passionate, engaged, and intellectually inclined. My role in this is to forward all serious applicants to Ciska, as she is living mostly off the grid as far as computers are concerned.
Victoria has some amazing artist run centres that I never go to - somehow that ferry trip across the way dissuades me every time - but if you find yourself in Vic, be sure to check out: the Ministry of Casual Living, Open Space, and the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective.
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| Joni Low - July 2010 |
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| Joni Low is coming to the Hammock to de-school and experiment with new forms of writing, while embarking on various vegan culinary experiments. She enjoys the old-fashioned art of correspondence, the interplay between art and text, and the continuously unexpected. As an art writer, she is interested in art outside of the context of traditional exhibition spaces, in artistic and personal process, and in dialogues generated by contemporary art. As a resident of the Hammock, she looks forward to the dlight of life-as-art-as-love.
Joni currently works on the Touring Exhibition program at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Previously she was Gallery Coordinator for Centre A (2005 - 2007), and in-between she has travelled in Asia and parts of Europe. In 2007, she spent half a year living and studying in Beijing. Her writing has appeared in Yishu Journal, Ricepaper, Fillip, C Magazine, and in catalogues for Vancouver Galleries.
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www.ricepaper.ca
www.yishujournal.com
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| Kristina Lee Podesva - July 2010 |
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| Kristina Lee Podesva is an artist, writer, curator and editor in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Projects:
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http://kristinaleepodesva.com
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| Natalie Doonan - June to August 2010 |
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| Natalie Doonan is a performance and multi-media artist temporarily living in Vancouver, BC. Her research interests include regeneration from inside-out, the creative possibilities inherent in repetition, and particular environments and moments in time. Most recently, she has performed at the Western Front, and for Not Sent Letters & Guests (curated by Jeremy Todd), as well as curated an exhibition on billboards, transit shelters and skytrains called Endlessly Traversed Landscapes.
In 2008, she co-founded The Miss Guides, who recieved a project grant for the Winter Olympic de-tour GOLD RUSH! Art, Bars, & Speculation. Natalie holds a BFA from the University of Toronto, a Diploma of Art & Art History from Sheridan College, and an MFA from the University of British Columbia, and teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
------- SLOW Dating or How I learned how to stop worrying and love CCTV
During her Residency, Amateur Match-Maker, Natalie Doonan invites you to participate in an all-new and exciting dating system, without any guarantee of an outcome. Utilizing all the love and openness required of any creative process, Natalie will match participants through a series of mapping experiments, and one SLOW dance event. Join only with the expectation of fun!
The first step to SLOW Dating success will be to determine your most common route through downtown Vancouver. Working either digitally or with a print out of Discover Vancouver's Vancouver Downtown Map, (above), draw a line that begins and ends in the same place, and includes the locations that you most frequent. Then send your map to ndoonan2000 at yahoo dot ca, by July 10, 2010. After analyzing the data, Natalie will send you further instructions.
SLOW DANCE - Saturday, July 10th
Please bring an mp3 player with your favorite SLOW song to Backyard Music Festival at the Hammock Residency for a very SLOW and exciting encounter.
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http://www.themissguides.com
http://www.ecuad.ca/people/profile/14483
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| Rina Liddle - May to July 2010 |
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"If democracy is to be a machine of hope, it must retain one strange characteristic - its wheels and cogs will need to be lubricated not with oil, but with sand." - Krzysztof Wodiczko
Rina Liddle is a visual artist, researcher and educator. At the core of her practice is the belief that art making is a polyvocal practice. Her work often takes the form of installations and interventions that deal with ideas regarding public space, and include digital media, photography, sculptural elements and collaborations. The material forms that she chooses are, for her, a means to renegotiate and make visible the conditions of the social body. Or something like that. do you know what I mean? Subtle traces of the absurd in sociological methodologies are discernable in her work.
Liddle has a BFA from Emily Carr University and a MA from Goldsmiths College University of London. She has shown internationally in London, Los Angeles, Posnan (Poland) and Jyvaskyla (Finland) and currently resides in Vancouver.
Rina Liddle is holding "Office Hours" on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 4pm - 10pm, for the duration of her project. Workshops will be held in specialized focus groups, for research purposes.
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http://bright-light.ca/jeffrey-boone
http://liddlethought.blogspot.com/
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| Emilaino Sepulveda - February to April 2010 |
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| Born in Mexico City and immigrated to Canada in 1995, Emiliano deals with light as a physical object that can mediate information about personal experience and can exist in the landscape as a sculpture. Light can also function as a means to understanding the built environment of the city, and a person's relation to it. He is especially interested in the act of walking as a way of mapping, and generating new knowledge about a city.
Emiliano is also a bicycle mechanic at a non-profit community bike shop where he enjoys chatting with customers about the problems of photography. Emiliano recieved his BFA from Emily Carr University in 2009.
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http://front.bc.ca/frontmagazine/issues/20/4
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| Nathan Matthews - March to April 2010 |
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| Nathan Matthews is a self taught interdisciplary artist, who draws, paints, makes music, sculpture and installation.
While in the Hammock Residency, Nathan will be working on a collaboration with Emiliano Sepulveda, exploring the relationship between rock music and the devil. There is talk of selling their souls to the devil, a panel discussion, and possibly a music show.
Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Nathan Matthews moved to Vancouver in 2001, where he currently resides.
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http://www.av1611.org/rock.html
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| Neal Rockwell - March 2010 |
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| Currently living and working in Montreal, QC, Neal Rockwell is in Vancouver temporarily to participate Or Gallery's Clamour and Toll: Church event.
This writing-based piece consists of Neal as a young man, turning old, whilst reading and doing any number of odd things. When Rockwell agreed to participate, he was unaware of the Cultural Olympiad funding; when he realized what the backing was, panic and dread crept over him. A close friend, and local activist, Jill, consoled him saying:
"Don't worry about it - we all suck. The Cultural Olympiad is everywhere, underlying just about everything in this shit burg. We tried to boycott events, but like I said - ev-er-y-thing has been stamped with their logo around here these days and sometimes not as clearly as it should be (they are definitely sneaky). You don't suck, the Olympiad sucks - big time - and one of the ways in which it sucks is that it is tricky and covert. If anything - good for you for appropriating funds from the beast."
Photo Courtesy of Jacob Hopkins
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http://www.orgallery.org/clamour-and-toll-church
http://www.nealrockwell.com
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| Pete Rockwell - February 2010 |
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| Pete Rockwell is a photographer from Victoria, BC, Canada who has relationships with the local activist community who documents protests, along with lived experience. He has hosted Foods Not Bombs in his kitchen, collects mail for a local boat dweller and is a general member of the alternative press community.
He stayed at my house, not realizing he would be a member of the Hammock Residency, while here in Vancouver documenting the opening games for the 2010 Olympics and the various protests held against them. If you ever have a chance to talk to him, please do. He is a most interesting and well read person.
B Channel News is the local alternative, independant media source he works for.
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http://bchannelnews.tv/
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| Laura Kozak - January to August 2010 |
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| Laura Kozak is a cartographic enthusiast, bibliophile and buddy of the Helen Pitt gallery. She has a BFA from Emily Carr, studied Environmental Design UBC and maintains and independent design practice at studio CAMP. Her thoughts on architecture and urban design can sometimes be found in Regarding Place magazine.
Kozak is researching and charting the migration of theatres, galleries, studios, cinemas and interventions in Vancouver from 1910 - 2010. Cultural sites change the nature of urban spaces, affect neighbourhood development, and contribute to the intellect of a city. By understanding the spatial positioning of these sites in Vancouver, Kozak hopes to understand their relationship to the history and future of adjacent sites.
Said research culminate with The Continuous Map Project, which is to be finished, in it's entirety, in the Hammock Residency, her residency extending as long as need be.
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http://www.heidi-nagtegaal.com/hr/index.cfm?pg=previousev
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| Lupe Martinez - December 2009 |
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| Lupe Martinez has lived here in Vancouver for just over a year now, and has had the challenge of merging two artistic and cultural influences: Vancouver and Argentina, or you might say, the North and South Americas. Vancouver is known for cool, conceptually driven, neat and tidy artwork, extremely minimal; Argentina has a radically different art scene: outgoing, forthcoming, over the top and emotive. During the month of December 2009, Lupe Martinez will be making an outdoor, time-based sculpture at 1923 Graveley Street. Moments after her Hammock Residency is finished, Lupe will be going to the Banff Centre for the Arts.
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http://www.lupe-martinez.com/
http://www.loisandlupe.tumblr.com
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| Debra Zhou - November 2009 to April 2010 |
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Debra Zhou will record different sounds during various times and occasions at the Hammock Residency. These soundtracks will be uploaded to a project site that streams all the clips loaded.
The audience has full control of the playlist, able to play one soundtrack at a time, or several, or all of the clips at once, in order to make different arrangements, creating their own imagined space of the famous 1923 Graveley Street. Debra Zhou and Phoebe Jin are considering merging their two projects into one, with Phoebe's images and Debra's sound to create a multi sensory experience of the Hammock Residency. Debra Zhou is a Gallery Coordinator at Centre A, a board member of LIVE Biennale, and a recent recipient of the Assistance to Diverse Curators Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
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http://www.centrea.org/
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| Maggie Boyd - November 2009 |
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| Maggie Boyd and I went on the adventure of trying to personify magic. We found trees and made pacts with them, promising to return with copies of The Island of the Blue Dolphins to hide in its branches.
Maggie is an interdisciplinary artist (drawing, installation, ceramics, performance, music, printmaking, bookmaking) and a third of the Mountain Club, an artist collective, recently exhibiting at Centre A in June 2009.
Currently, she is driving across America to finish up her Bachelor of Fine Arts at NASCAD (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada).
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http://centrea.org/index.cfm?go=site.index§ion=exhibitions&tag=archive&id=76
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| Lucas Soi - October to December 2009 |
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| Lucas Soi is a Canadian artist living and working in Vancouver, BC. His interdisciplinary practice involves drawing on paper, installation and video, with recent exhibitions in Mexico and Chicago, participating in this year's Aqua Art Miami, an Art Basel Miami Beach satellite exhibition. His work focuses on adolescence and how the consequences of our actions in the past relate to the circumstances in which we find ourselves today.
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http://www.lucassoi.ca
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| Phoebe Jin - September 2009 to April 2010 |
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| Phoebe Jin is a Vancouver based artist, currently studying Photography at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Originally from Shanghai, Phoebe has a unique take on cultures, social observation and humor.
For the Hammock Residency, Phoebe has implemented an intensive photographic study on 1923 Graveley Street; the documentation of said project (in progress) can be seen at: http://1923graveley.tumblr.com/
Ms. Jin is travelling to China from May to August 2010. Originally slated in the Hammock Residency for 1 year, she will resume her Residency from September to December 2010.
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http://1923graveley.tumblr.com/
http://www.phoebejin.com
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| Neal Rockwell - August 2009 |
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Neal Rockwell is a writer, photographer and activist living and working in Montreal, QC. He has just completed 'Discipline and Punish' by Foucault, and I have put it on the bottom of my reading list. Originally from Victoria BC, he moved to Ontario to pursue English, then switched to Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, BC because he realized that he didn't need to study English to write. ECUAD, however, was equipped with photography studios that he did not have access to. He graduated in 2007, and moved to Montreal immediately after.
Rockwell will be presenting a Radio Play he published with Rowan Melling in October with LIVE Biennale 2009, curated by Joomi Seo and installed by me.
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http://www.livebiennale.ca/2009/events/events.php
http://nealrockwell.com/projects/selection-from-frontier/
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| Lois Klassen - August 2009 |
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Lois Klassen is Vancouver based interdisciplinary artist, producing collective-action, performance, video and installation projects. For the Hammock Residency, Klassen uses the Garden for her Garden Gnomad project, a solar-powered open-source computer which processes conversations with gardeners and the general public. As of mid September, Garden Gnomad will come to a close, with closing show at the Means of Production Garden, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Some of her work includes Comforter Art-Action (since 2001), an ongoing material response to himan displacement; involving 200+ individuals from 20+ countries (recently featured at the Glenbow museum's Sew City, Calgary, 2009).
Previous work includes: banff New Media Institute Liminal Screen Residency (2009), Richmond Art Gallery (20080, City Scape (2008), VIVO (2006), The Western Front (2006), Transportale (Berlin, 2003), and aceartinc (Winnipeg, 1999). She is curently an artist in residence wth the Means of Production Artist Raw Resource Collective at the MOP Community Garden in Mount Pleasant.
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http://gardengnomad.wordpress.com/
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| Francisco Fernando Granados - August 2009 |
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Francisco-Fernando Granados performs body-site specific performance whilst thinking about politics, religion, gender, sex, identity and popular culture.
Granados is in his 4th year at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and sits on the Board for LIVE Biennale. His upcoming schedule includes perfomances for October and March (in conjuntion with LIVE).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LOn4Iy9iS0
http://livebiennale.ca/
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| Joomi Seo - July To August 2009 |
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Joomi Seo and Heidi Nagtegaal are always laughing. They have a psychic connection when it comes to music based on a profound love of poetry and travelling in words and sound. While pursing the Hammock Residency, Joomi has collaborated with Heidi, and plays church organ and whistle on keyboard for the music performance with Heidi's spoken word and voice. She will be starting the Masters of Fine Arts program at UBC this coming September.
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http://www.joomiseo.ca/
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| Karianne Blank - June 2009 |
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Karianne Blank is a Vancouver based designer invested in theoretical discourse, particularly in regards to art, urban space, real estate, cities; the nebulous idea of public, current events and the future.
Karianne has been in the windy city of Chicago for the last few months. Upon returning, she applied to the Front Magazine for her dream scene as Designer, and got the job.
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http://kblank.com/
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| Joy Dutcher - May 2009 |
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On a weekend trip to Tofino, Joy decided to join the Hammock Residency for May 2009 with Lesha.
Joy is a web designer and producer by trade, with a background (and several degrees) in Communication, Human Relations, Math and Science. After living in Edinburgh and extensive travelling, she returned to Langley, then Vancouver to pursue a life of creativity through production and design, currently working with the Swollen Members and maintaining a day job.
When she saves up enough money it is her dream to own a wee piece of land in the middle of nowhere and drive a pick up truck - without losing the internet.
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http://www.myspace.com/baxwarriors
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| Lesha Koop-Hines - April To May 2009 |
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Lesha is a recent graduate of the Kootney School of the Arts, in Metal Work. Possessing the rare ability to make metal appear soft, she is a master at blacksmithing and a proud owner of one of Canada's only anvils.
Lesha is conducting an exhaustive study on the history of women, spirituality and sexuality; working out designs for her Body Sculpture series; and rethinking transforming an old barn deep in Upper Sumas Mountain, into a working metal studio.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical_engineering
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| Julianne Claire - February To March 2009 |
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Julianne-Claire is a site-specific artist raised in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. Her work serves as an investigation into syntax, connection points, and conjunctive philosophies. By incorporating the somatic qualities of location and event with antecedent function and history, her work is a bricolage of content which aims to reveal points of correlation through consideration of material, translation, and presentation. These site-specific and interstitial investigations are often entwined with history, bureaucracy, spiritually, maps, plans, intuition, criticism and humor.
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http://grad2008.ecuad.ca/general_fine_arts/julianne_claire_chladny/
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| Francisco-Fernando Granados - December to January 2009 |
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Francisco-Fernando Granados is an emerging performance artist based out of New Westminster exploring ideas around identity, consumption and connection with modern culture.
While in the Hammock Residency, Francisco indulged himself in Tate Talks and readings long put off. He was also snowed out of the Hammock Residency for quite sometime as the Lower Mainland completely blanketed itself with snow.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe27C5AA3VE
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| Dawn Johnston - August 2008 |
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Dawn Johnston specializes in taking things apart, seeing their inner structures and relating it to everyday life. In taking apart couches and altering them, she changes those who sit on them, stuffing a couch to make it look fat, smiling lady. Dawn is in the University of Guelph working on her Masters in Fine Arts with a huge SSHRC to keep her comfy, driving to Toronto on weekends, a few watermelons rolling around the back of her pick up. If she gets stressed, she might throw them at you.
While in the Hammock Residency, she put the finishing curatorial touches on the Huffer exhibition and accompanying catalogue, featuring Michael Drebert, Helen Pitt ARC in conjunction with SWARM 2008.
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http://www.helenpittgallery.org/index.html
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| Neal Rockwell - August 2008 |
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Neal came back in town to walk, talk and write about how his mind had been recently blown by his endeavors into Spinozist thought.
During his time, Neal took on the task of editing down his 10 page exhibition essay to 4 pages, for Michael Drebert's exhibition at the Helen Pitt Artist Run Centre, curated by Dawn Johnston for SWARM 2008.
The full-length essay can be found on the Neal's site link, below.
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http://nealrockwell.com/
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| Bobby Niven - December to January 2008 |
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Just before New Years, Bobby Niven came to town! As an old roommate, we were more than stoked to have him stay with us, December to January 2008. He took over my studio (as did Alex & Neal) and filled it up with adventure and stories about Dawson City (he had just come back from a residency there with KAYAK). In April '08 he finished a construction course in Vermont where they show you how to build floating studios and houses in trees. One day he's going to have to build one for me. Or I'm going to have to learn how to build one myself.
Here's a picture of Robby (Bobby) being a Log Sandwich.
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http://www.bobbyniven.co.uk/
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| Alex Lowe - August 2007 |
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Michael and I decided to go on a Massive Roadtrip in August 2007, and Alex was nomadic. He came over to housesit our plants, the garden and our neighbour's cat who needed pats and scratches. Alex, being the wooden boat builder that he is, had all the trees in our backyard identified in half an hours time. Here's Alex, in his element, on a boat in Gabriola Island. In the words of an old boatbuilder "The act of making a well-made object is act of resistance in the face of consumer capitalism."
Before boatbuilding, Alex lived in the beaurocratic world of Art and Cultural Production. While at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, he decided enough was enough, cut a hole under his desk into a 10' x 4' construction area of the Institute, doubled his studio space and dubbed it Narnia. Whilst working at Ikea, Alex would buy items, alter them and return them, so that people when buying their Billy Bob Bookcases, they would be buying an Alex Lowe Alteration unawares.
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| Neal Rockwell - May 2007 |
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Neal Rockwell came over because of a mold problem at his house. Here we have Michael helping Neal with his Paper Suit Jacket, made for his Valedictorian Speech for ECUAD, Grad 2007.
During his stay there were many walks, tea drinking sessions, and voracious discussions over food. Neal wrote the essay for Masks for Disappearing, and his Valedictorian Speech, which got a standing ovation.
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http://nealrockwell.com/
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| David Peasland - June 2006 |
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Bobby Niven invited Michael and I to move into 1923 Graveley Street in May 2006. During that summer, Bobby had his friend, David Peasland (Scotland) over for a month, becoming the second official participant of the Graveley Street Residency Program. Here's David with one of my Masks on. He's helping me out.
During his time here, he discovered Value Village, songs with handclaps in it, and how to put down the toilet seat so I wouldn't go swimming every night.
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| Jaclyn Lewis - May 2006 |
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Jaclyn Lewis lives in Portland, Oregon. Before she moved there, and she moved here and was the first participant of the Residency Program in 2006.
Jaclyn mulled about in the garden and on the porch, drinking tea and thinking about Baudrillard, Derrida and the spaces between things and the ever changing presence of meaning.
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http://www.jaclynlewis.blogspot.com
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