[Frameworks] artist residencies and filmmaker co-op s?

[Bernard Roddy]

Hi, Mika:

Last summer I took part in a 10-day workshop with BBB Johannes Deimling under 
the heading of Performance Art Studies, which was very much in the spirit of the 
collective group, working and thinking together, exploring a creative practice 
that resists the tendency toward ranking or clique-formation or future celebrity 
potential.  For me this was the closest thing in years to what I saw happening 
at Squeaky Wheel in Buffalo ten years ago and what I experienced at 
Pow!Pow!Pow!, the San Francisco performance art festival in its third year that 
was held next door to Artists' Television Access.  The spirit of performance 
art, which is inherently international, tends very much toward what I would 
identify as the ethic of a Super-8 workshop on a farm.  I think community is 
central to the kind of exhibition that takes place with an audience, a group of 
participants, or otherwise individuals looking for something from art that 
allows for the maximal range of differences within a mutually supportive group.  
The problem with the Deimling workshop is that it costs around $500 and the cost 
of a ticket.  The age of a dozen participants ranged from 65 to 20, and 
participants showed a variety of experience levels with performance art.  I am 
not sure how the others paid for it, but odds are there are grant sources coming 
from their respective countries of origin.  Another important detail was that 
there were two prominent events for which we were ostensibly preparing, and 
during which we could experience what it is like to be live before an audience 
within a performance art context.  I would love to see more such workshops, 
whether in film or performance, that give priority to this sense of creative 
community.  It even works acceptably well for the loner . . .

Bernie





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From: Mika Kiburz <mikeeblers at gmail.com>
To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
Sent: Mon, November 8, 2010 11:34:23 AM
Subject: [Frameworks] artist residencies and filmmaker co-op s?

hello all you frame workers,
does anyone happen to know about or know where to gather information
about artist in residence programs in north america... or
internationally?

ideally i'm seeking a filmmaking co-operative/ collective of artists
living and working together, with their community, and possibly also
doing the homesteading thing.

the more experimental the better.   any ideas?

cinematicallyours,
Mika
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