Projects
Ask addoley + Anna
Ask Addoley + Anna is an ongoing collaboration which started in 2019 between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle, presented online in a seasonal advice-podcast format.
Throughout December, 2021. Listen here.
‘IF YOU DO NOT LOVE ME I SHALL NOT BE LOVED’
A contemporary corona response, or a mental whiteout, or perhaps just one more artist slowly becoming the polar bear. Re-mediated through video where images from a Polar Institute stands still while the snow dances Cascando, a technical term that, in music, indicates a decrease in volume or tempo, and a word in which the writer Samuel Beckett named one of his most famous poems - about unrequited love and all the incommunicability that derives from it… Because as this unpredictable situation requires, and as both the polar bear and Samuel says: “You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.”
End of 2021 and beginning of 2022, online
you wouldn’t stream a glass of water
For ASEFCC, Helene Duckert presents a video and a performance, titled “You wouldn’t stream a glass of water”. The project centers around a phenomenological approach to water, and it’s changing circumstances as a direct consequence of our contemporary living.
The screening and performance took place at Vestfold Kunstsenter.
September 15, 2022, Vestfold Kunstsenter, Norway
CASEBEARER 1.0
Dave Greber + Cristina Molina’s videos for A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances take inspiration from the highly adaptive species commonly known as the Bagworm or Case Bearer who creates a cocoon home for itself from whatever debris it finds. As artists who live in New Orleans, a city that faces coastal erosion and is threatened by sea level rise, the Bagworm serves as a model example of a resourceful nomad that acclimates itself to any given situation.
Launched mid-December, 2021
EPISODES ABOUT NOT KNOWING HOW IT WILL BE
Līga Spunde’s project takes shape as a poetic, digital artwork exhibited online. The work is divided into five episodes, where each episode represents a character. Among these are: an adventurous optimist, a tired pessimist, a data analyst, an esotericist and an artist. Each of these characters took over the ASEFCC online platform, offering their musings and visions of the future. The irregular, ever-changing nature of the work makes it unpredictable, emphasizing the lack of stability behind the current conditions we live in. Spunde has designed the characters as very cliché, which symbolizes a collective state of mind in times of uncertainty, where we tend to lean on archetypes, often adopting thoughts and feelings that are stereotypical. The texts of characters produced by Līga Spunde and Klāvs Mellis.
Took place in winter - spring time of 2022, online
Color pigment extraction from natural materials workshop
Inga Meldere’s workshop was created together with The Parlour Gallery and Camp Street Studios. The workshop finds its place somewhere between alternative pathways of learning and a food chemistry study course, amidst equipping a modest “painter’s box” and finding a new culinary alternative, learning processes subject to marginalized industries.
Extracting pigments from natural materials is an easy and nature friendly process in which everything that can be found on and in the ground is used as a raw material to create dyes: trees, leaves, mushrooms, lichens, fruits, vegetables, roots, and flowers, even daily bio-waste combined or highlighted in a special rhythm of boiling and preparing can be used. The result is not an overwhelming carousel of bright, aggressive hues, but rather something akin to a meditative state of gentle and even slightly tiring intoxication.
The workshop creators intend to slowly transform the nuanced and dynamic process of pigment extraction into a visual art exhibition that encourages visitors to appreciate not only the in-person acquisition of new and useful knowledge through alternative learning methods but also its therapeutic "side effects".
Inga Meldere notes: "I'm curious to find out nuances of New Orleans' local flora palette and its agency. In a way It's an attempt to create a new/different atlas, mapping the city by the colour of extracted pigments from plants found in different areas of the city's neighbourhoods."
November 18, 2023. Venue: Camp Street Studios courtyard, New Orleans