Meet them... get to know their art practice... exchange ideas... be involved... be excited...
The
bangaloREsidency 2019 kicks off Season II with
9 artists from
Germany who will live and work in collaboration with
6 of our 28
bangaloREsidency hosts for 4 to 8 weeks and as always we look forward to exciting results. Each one is involved in a different area of the arts – visual arts, performance art, olfactory art – and will leave a creative mark on the cultural canvas of the City during their stay.
Besides introducing us to their artistic oeuvre and realising their own projects, one of the most enduring aspects of the
bangaloREsidency is the intimate interaction and exchange with Bangaloreans.
As a kick-off, we present all the artists in our flagship pecha kucha-style, rapid fire, multimedia presentation:
Spot on bangaloREsidents.
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© Andy Kassier
The Agency | Magdalena Emmerig & Yana Thönnes - bangaloREsidents@Sandbox Collective
Observing spiritual and surrogacy tourism as two serious topics in life that led westerners to India, Yana Thönnes and Magdalena Emmerig look to exploring the field of “offers” for experiences of spirituality offered to westerners and the actual religious practice in India from an artistic perspective. Reflecting on the Indian perspective, the aim is to create a performance in collaboration with Deepika Arwind and Sandbox Collective.
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© Flo Maak
Flo Maak - bangaloREsident@Pepper House
Perceiving seas as a world wide web, transferring and transforming forms of life, photographer Flo Maak will explore the narratives connecting microbes, ships, humans and animals through exchange with diverse experts and practitioners in Kochi. Reflecting the city’s history of seafaring, its current role as a major seaport in India, and its geographical location with its islands and the sea.
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© Sabrina Meissner
Lauryn Mannigel - bangaloREsident@Srishti
Focusing on the social and emotional implications of human body scents, Lauryn Mannigel intends to raise awareness about practices of ‘othering’ and the diversity of body scents. In a series of experiments in which local participants may investigate their own perception of others’ body scent in daily situations, she aims at exploring the Bangalorean scentscape and the perception that local people have of one another based on their body scent.
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© Victoria Tomaschko
Nadin Reschke - bangaloREsident@1 Shanthi Road
Exploring Bangalore and the changes affecting people’s lives through fabric and textiles, Nadin Reschke aims at contesting social realities through creating common spaces and site-related interventions in the urban every day. An investigation of people’s relationships with their environment through participatory mapping activities will be part of a temporary urban archive.
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© Raisa Galofre, Marvin Systermans
Marvin Systermans & Raisa Galofre - bangaloREsidents@IIHS
Marvin Systermans and Raisa Galofre will develop a photo series that reflects on the presence of modernity and colonialism, western and non-western societies’ encounters in Bangalore through exploring the use of natural materials like stone, clay, wood, water as well as manmade materials like steel, glass, plastic and concrete and how they reveal social, environmental and cultural aspects of the city.
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© Su Dashun
STRWÜÜ | Lukas Fütterer & Jo Wanneng - bangaloREsidents@ISRO
Inspired by geographically specific simple solutions to life that are constantly evolving and being optimised, especially by those that involve replicating human movement in playful, interactive ways, performance artist duo Lukas Fütterer and Jo Wanneng alias STRWÜÜ, will develop a kinetic drum synthesiser utilising lo-fi hardware hacks and e-waste.
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The
bangaloREsidency was conceived as a long-term collaboration between the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore and various innovative and discerning contemporary art/cultural spaces and partners, with a view to offering German aspirants a space conducive to creative output and the opportunity to interact with Indian artists/experts, in the challenging context of Asia's fastest-growing metropolis.
The
bangaloREsidency is thus a progressive platform for productive, sustained exchange between artists from Germany and India. The Institute works with 28 partner organisations, who have, over the past several years, played host to more than one hundred artists from Germany.
In a recently-launched reciprocal initiative, the
bangaloREsidency Expanded seeks to facilitate artist-in-residence programmes for Indian artists with select cultural partners in Germany. The horizons are unlimited!
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