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bangaloREsidency 2019: impREssions II

We would like to leave you again with enduring impREssions of the bangaloREsidency! Season II of 2019 has started off with a bang. This time, we invited 9 artists from Germany to spend 1 to 2 months working on site and designing artistic works in dialogue with the city, and in close collaboration with 6 local hosts. impREssions, an 8-part series, documents their sojourn from the orientation programme, through the exchange with local players, right up to the work-in-progress final showing. Read, listen, watch, smell and enjoy!

impREssions: bangaloREsidency 2019© Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore
Workshop Magali Couffon de Trevo

Art Kaleidoscope

The six to seven weeks of the bangaloREsidency 2019 Season II have flown by. They were intense, filled with research on various topics, kilometres of exploratory tours in Bangalore and Kochi and delicate mini-work into the night - until they culminated in the state of the art final presentations by the artists.

Lauryn Mannigel © Santosh Rajus

The politics of human body scents

Artist Lauryn Mannigel explores the aesthetic potential of body scent through performative olfactory experiments. Through her art pieces, she intends to question the stigmatisation of body scents while fostering awareness about the diversity of body scents and the olfactory judgments made about them.

Behind the scenes © Raisa Galofre

Concrete Discontinuities: Fieldnotes and Fieldphotos

 
There is always something supporting something in order for that something to become something. The question is: at what cost? Under which conditions? Reflections by Raisa Galofre and Marvin Systermans.

AshramMommies © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

Immersive Inversion - Four Perspectives on Surrogacy and Performance Theatre

Yana Thönnes and Magdalena Emmerig, part of the German performance collective THE AGENCY, came to India as bangaloREsidents to explore surrogacy and Western spiritual tourism in India.

The first test version of the new toy strwüü_test version©lukas fütterer

Mimicking, modulating, synthesizing drums

Jo Wanneng and Lukas Füttterer alias STRWÜÜ, who completed their bangaloREsidency at the Indian Sonic Research Organisation, give an insight into their time and work process in Bangalore.
 

The crow © Flo Maak

How political plants can be?

Photographer Flo Maak deliberately chose Pepper House Kochi for his bangaloREsidency in order to study and document the sea and land from as close to nature as possible. With a few words and evocative images, he allows a brief insight into his experience and colourful everyday life in Bangalore and Kochi.

NadinReschke_bangaloREsident © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

Text and textiles

The artist Nadin Reschke works with textiles, recognises, reads and interacts with her surroundings, the city and fellow citizens through textiles of all kinds.

bangaloREsidents@1 Shanthi Road © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

9 artists – 9 impREssions of Bangalore

After the long wait, the time had finally come: Slightly sleepy, but still very lively, the artists of the bangaloREsidency 2019 Season II emerged from the airport at 3.00 a.m. on October 20th.

About the authors

Charlotte Rauth Charlotte Rauth | © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore Charlotte Rauth is currently attending a Master's course in "Cultural Mediation", also at the University of Hildesheim, with a focus on literature and creative writing. In addition and within the field of literature, she is interested in various topics of foreign cultural and educational policy such as artist protection programmes and transnational artist residencies in general, as well as the transfer impacts of arts education.

Moira Heuer © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore Moira Heuer is currently attending a Bachelor's course in Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice at the University of Hildesheim with a focus on Fine Arts, Media Studies and Cultural Policy. Within the contemporary arts, her interest lies in transcultural exchange and foreign cultural policy, as well as the connection between arts and politics.

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