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We keep sharing selected texts of 2023✨

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The two following articles were written for Reside/Sustain by external collaborators Fran Trento and Sergei Schevchenko:

⚫️ Discussing artist residencies’ underestimated normative by Fran Trento https://bit.ly/488EZtM

⚫️ Immunopolitics of nature by Sergei Shevchenko https://bit.ly/3Qwekzb

We wish you an enjoyable read! 📖

Wrapping up this year, we would like to share the selected texts of 2023 picked by Reside/Sustain participants:

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⚫️ An Apartment in Yerevan. Interview with Marianna Kruchinski https://bit.ly/3QZZ2Fl

⚫️ When Responsibilities Become the Norm by Adel Kim https://bit.ly/3un3rsp

⚫️ Doing Nothing Being Nobody by Adel Kim https://bit.ly/3RQN3Kc

In 2024, Reside/Sustain participant Adel Kim and curator Vera Kavaleuskaya are starting the SWAMP: Art Material Swap and Waste Management Point — project designed to support circular economy by enabling artists and institutions in Helsinki to donate, access, exchange, reuse, and repurpose discarded materials through the creation of Materials Bank.

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The project aspires to bring about a shift in the field of art, making reuse and repurposing of waste materials a standard and institutionalised practice.

We wish the best of luck to Adel and Vera and cannot wait to see the Materials Bank come to life! ✨

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Reside/Sustain participant Angelina Davydova is is attending this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai.

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Angelina is primarily focused on following the global climate negotiations, paying attention to Russia’s statements and actions at the conference amidst at the war in Ukraine.

Alongside these, other focus areas for Angelina include policies, actions and statements of the Central Asian countries, and new data on environmental and climate consequences of the war in Ukraine.

📝 We will share links to articles and analysis by Angelina as they appear.

📷: Angelina Davydova

Reside/Sustain was invited to contribute to the third issue of ”Idäntutkimus” (Eastern Studies Journal) with the focus theme ”Money”.

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In the article ”Support Structures Behind Russian Art Residencies” we examine how internal trends on banning and overregulating any international financial support for the civil society and the arts, combined with the Western sanctions, further restrictions, and self-sanctions of international companies made the situation with availability of financing extremely difficult for Russia’s civil society and art sectors, especially after the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

We also examine the main funding sources of art residencies before and after the war, as well as look into the interest of the residency field in the environmental agenda following Reside/Sustain’s focus on various aspects of sustainability.

🔗The article is available in Finnish upon purchasing the online version of the magazine: https://journal.fi/idantutkimus/article/view/132031

Image: artwork by Anastasia Ryabova .orgy from the series Trillions, 2012

Today, by the invitation of FAIRE — Finnish Artist Residency Network — Reside/Sustain shared the news of the project, as well as announced the upcoming publication and toolkit on sustainable practices for residency professionals to the representatives of the Finnish residency field.

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We thank FAIRE - Finnish Artist Residency Network for your interest in the project and this opportunity, and look forward to future collaborations!

Following Reside/Sustain research trip to MASSIA residency, project participant Adel Kim shares her experience of the visit, as well as some important insights she took with her from this trip.

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“This leads to my own enlightenment that MASSIA gave me as a gift and that I believe, is firmly connected to the aspect of ecological sustainability. There is so much talk about residencies being … a home, or at least a “feels-like-home” space for residents. But no place is home until you are responsible for it; until you start to care.

The same logic can be applied to the environment: if we think we are not in charge, we cannot change anything…we are not at home … What would change if we took more personal responsibility for small actions in the areas that are close to us?”

🔗Full text is available here: https://bit.ly/3un3rsp



📷: Jaana Denisova

The Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA) has published the Sustainability Toolkit for art residencies 📗

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The Sustainability Toolkit includes resources and practical examples that can help other art residencies and other arts organisations develop their own environmental policies and action plans.

🔗The toolkit is available here: https://naarca.art/2023/11/02/naarca-publishes-sustainability-toolkit-for-artists-residencies/

Image: NAARCA

Next week, Reside/Sustain will present the project, its activities, and materials we are currently working on at a session initiated by the Green Transformation project by

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Green Transformation strives to increase environmental awareness and readiness for green transformation among artists, cultural organisations and their audiences by organising workshops, developing an educational programme, running a laboratory, and offering grant support for various pilot projects.

Today is the last day to register for Transformative Actions for Contemporary Arts event hosted by Frame Contemporary Art Finland and IHME Helsinki on 22.11 in Helsinki 📍

The programme includes a panel discussion on sustainability and inclusivity in art organisations. The discussion is followed by an event hosted by IHME Helsinki and WAUHAUS Collective.

🔗Registration link: https://bit.ly/40L4gHO

Language of the events is English and they are free of charge.

Design: Reidhabh Kailey

An interdisciplinary event ”Art & science collaboration in times of the climate crisis” organised by the University of Helsinki, UniArts Helsinki, Hanken School of Economics and Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center ACCC took place in Helsinki in the framework of the Climate University Annual Meeting 2023.

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What can artists and scientists learn from each other, and how can their respective ways of sensing, processing and knowing be intertwined?

What is the role of interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge production in the ongoing transition towards more sustainable ways of living on the planet?

These and other questions were explored by professor Timo Vesala, curators Yvonne Billimore and Ulla Taipale, and artist Josefina Nelimarkka.

🔗Recording of the event is available online: https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/tiedekulma/suora-lahetys



📸: Anastasia Isakova

We are delighted to share Asya Fomina’s diary from her residency in the framework of the collaboration between Typography Apartment and Reside/Sustain📔:

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/to remember my way around the city, I touch objects
/to remember the spaces, I collect discarded things and pick up wild plants
/to remember the events, I fill my diary with appliqués: I like written word, but I can also communicate through found objects

Page 1: trip to Yerevan Botanical Garden
Pages 2-3: trip to the Basalt columns in Garni and Dilijan
Pages 4-5: trip to the town of Byureghavan and hike to the “Houses on the Mountain” area

>> gifted music notebook, collected plants and found objects

People make places. Our experience in wouldn’t be the same without Sepideh and Ksenia.

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We are endlessly thankful for your warmth and hospitality, best vegan meals prepared and beautifully served by , time we spent together, and the discussions we shared.

In the nearest future, we will talk more about the insights from the field trip. Now, we are processing the experience and feeling grateful for the opportunity to meet wonderful people and professionals, and make the exchange of opinions, practices, and knowledge happen ✨

📸: Jaana Denisova

Reside/Sustain continues exploring the different aspects of sustainability and arranging visits to residencies, extending the geographical scope of this research to Estonia 🇪🇪

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This October, we are travelling to in Massiaru. MASSIA is a self-organised residency and project space which welcomes individuals and groups of practitioners and researchers from any field. It does not have a selection process and has no staff. MASSIA invites residents to co-create the conditions of working and living together.

In the course of 3 days, Reside/Sustain and MASSIA team, as well as invited residency practitioners and theoreticians from Finland will activate joint discussions touching upon the questions of holistic sustainable approaches in running residencies, share their experiences and perspectives providing a space to share the mismatch of expectations and results, failures, and possibilities of self-care for residency providers.

In the framework of the trip, Reside/Sustain will also present its activities for the Estonian Creative Residencies Network LOORE.

The outcomes and findings of the research trip will be shared at the Reside/Sustain website later on, and presented in the form of a toolkit for residency practitioners.

📸: Rasmus Jurkatam

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Miina Hujala’s text “Calculations of effect and impact. Exercises of carbon calculators” explores the question of how one can one estimate the impact of one’s own actions in terms of sustainability.

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Alongside proving information about different platforms and tools, Miina uses various carbon calculators to estimate the environmental impact of her own travels: land-based (trains, ferries, and cars) VS air travel.

The text is a good example of how individuals can calculate their carbon footprint in terms of travelling, and become more mindful of the choices they make.

🔗Article is available here: https://bit.ly/48zQNpQ

Image: Miina Hujala

Mayana Nasybullova's residency in Aks Sado, supported by Reside/Sustain, has come to an end.

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This is how Mayana describes her experience:

💬“I was completely captivated by the work on the installation and shooting of the movie. The silent and calm atmosphere of Aks Sado, together with its hasteless pace, gave me a chance to immerse myself in the work completely, without having to worry about everyday life and family matters. In the residency, I turned into an «artist-in-vacuum» and closely worked on the project. Thus, my contact with the environment of Ulugbek and Tashkent was more professional than explorational in nature this time. And this was exactly what I needed!”

We thank for the past month and look forward to seeing “Nostalgia for Nothing”– the project artist worked on during her residency.

📷: Kirill Shklyarov

What is the role of a circular economy, if we want to be uniform?

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Has the uniformity of the standardisation been pursued in creating residencies as habitats? What do we want to achieve by providing the same facilities for everyone, the same set-up?

Miina Hujala ponders these questions in her article “Assemblages and supply chains: IKEA cup as a residency emblem?”

🔗Full text is available here: https://bit.ly/3Z63lk6

📷: Adel Kim

In the framework of cooperation with emergency artist residency Ask Sado in Tashkent, Reside/Sustain is supporting the residency of Mayana Nasybullova.

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Mayana is a Russian-born artist based in Tbilisi who mainly works with sculptural objects and installations.

In her practice, she explores ways to combine materials and mediums. According to the artist, material has the power to change the meaning of the work, that is why she often repeats her casts using different materials.

In the artist’s view, anything can become an object: a bust of Lenin, toys, urban surfaces, and various cultural artifacts that turn into universal totems.

According to Mayana, her time in Ask Sado is an opportunity for her to finish the project that she envisioned three years ago: “The residency is a chance for me to actively work on an exhibition project entitled “Nostalgia for Nothing” that concludes my large series of works on post-Soviet totemism. The project will be on view next year, on the centenary of Lenin’s – a figure who continues to embody the prejudices, fears, and hopes of the post-Soviet culture.”

📷: Timur Ikoev

To support residential initiatives launched by Russian cultural actors outside of Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Reside/Sustain is starting cooperation with Aks Sado – emergency artist residency in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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Ask Sado is a targeted programme for artists and cultural workers who find themselves in vulnerable situations and are unable to continue their work in previous locations. The initiative was launched by curators and founders of Centre for Culture CC19 in Novosibirsk Pjotr Zherebtsov and Angelina Burliuk.

The emergency residency offers artists free accommodation, working grants, and a place to continue their artistic practice. It is seen as a safe heaven and a possible space for collaborations between the residents and cultural exchange with the local artists.

“Aks sado” literally translates from Uzbek as “reverse sound” or simply “echo”, which creates a broad framework for interpreting the artistic practices of the participants.

In the context of this partnership, Reside/Sustain is supporting the residency of Tbilisi-based artist Mayana Nasybullova. We will soon share more information on Mayana’s professional background, topics she deals with in her practice, and her plans for the residency in Tashkent.

📷: Polina Kardymon

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КВАРТИРА В ЕРЕВАНЕ. ИНТЕРВЬЮ С МАРИАННОЙ КРУЧИНСКИ (КОЛЛЕКТИВ И РЕЗИДЕНЦИЯ «ТИПОГРАФИЯ») Интервью с Марианной — первый текст из серии публикаций о резиденциальных инициативах, появившихся за пределами страны после начала полномасштабного вторжения в...

We are starting a series of publications about residential initiatives launched by Russian cultural actors outside of Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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The first text of the series is a conversation with Marianna Kruchinski, a curator and independent cultural worker who is a part of the Typography collective

After the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, part of the Typography team relocated to Yerevan. There, in a rental apartment, members of the collective organised a residency for Russian cultural workers opposing the regime.

💬”We organised a residency in our apartment for those who continue to live and work in russia but need a break. We wanted to create situations that would otherwise be impossible for the residents, who have neither the opportunity nor the mental strength to make them happen.”

🔗Read full texthere: https://bit.ly/3QZZ2Fl

Thank you Koneen Säätiö - Kone Foundation for sharing ✨

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One of Reside/Sustain’s key activities is knowledge production. On our website, we have articles, essays, and interviews written both by project participants and invited experts.

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Some of the older texts written at the time when we were just starting the project were never announced on social media. However, these archival texts might still be a valuable source of information.

Today, we’d like to share one of such texts with you. It is an article by Adel Kim on the process of formation of Russian art residencies, features common to them, as well as their state in 2021.

🔗Read full text here: https://bit.ly/3OgK22N

Photo: social and cultural youth centre in Sortavala (Sortavalan Seurahuone, architects Onni Tarjanne and Erkki Huttunen), where the Sortavala AiR is located. By Adel Kim.

We continue sharing talks, discussions, and symposium panels that deal with the topics of residencies and sustainability:

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⚫️ The Environmental Dilemma: Why Is Residency Practice Important? (2020), Res Artis

Is it acceptable to continue physical exchanges when we are all aware of the environmental footprint caused by international travel? Why is residency practice important? Join the conversation between Lucy Orta, artist and professor, University of the Arts London, and Marco Maria Zanin, artist and researcher, Humus Interdisciplinary.

⚫️ In Praise Of Laziness: Prioritizing Rest in Support of Ukraine: Julia Asperska & Res Artis (2022)

Sustainability goes far beyond environmental issues. It implies various sides of social and economical situations, also personal and mental – especially in times of crisis. How to care for, support, and help artists at risk without burning out? What productive power rest, non-doing, and even laziness have? In this discussion, Poland-based Julia Asperska talks about the Sanatorium Project, curated by herself and Karolina Wycisk (Performat Foundation). The Sanatorium Project was designed as a relief residency for arts professionals working at the front line of support for Ukrainian refugees. The idea of the residency was to create a temporary community and an opportunity for being together without an established plan and pre-determined goal. The residency was thought of as an opportunity for “radical rest” and unintentional networking setting.

⚫️ Artist Residencies in a Time of Climate Crisis by Jaana Eskola (2022), Reside/Sustain

Video reminder: last year, in cooperation with the Association of Artistic Residencies of Russia (AiR of Russia), we invited Jaana Eskola, a cultural professional, environmentalist, and animal rights activist to share her expertise with the participants and talk about Artist Residencies in a Time of Climate Crisis.
In her talk, Jaana covered three pillars of sustainable ecological residency programme (sustainable practices, ecological residency programme, and collaborations: local community, national and international networks), opened up different aspects of sustainability (ecological, social, psychological, and cultural), and shared the areas of action for art residencies that include CO2 footprint, sustainable daily practices, slow traveling, continuous learning, re-connecting with the Nature, and empathy.

🔗🎥Videos are available here: https://bit.ly/46GJT0M



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Мы продолжаем делиться подборкой видеоматериалов, связанных с нашими основными темами: арт-резиденциями и устойчивым развитием:

⚫️ «Экологическая дилемма: почему важна практика резиденций?» (2020), Res Artis

Можно ли продолжать участвовать в резиденциях, когда мы знаем, какой экологический след оставляют международные поездки? Должно ли вернуться к обычной жизни после отмены ограничений с связи с пандемией COVID-19? Почему практика резидентства важна? Присоединяйтесь к беседе Люси Орты, художника и профессора Лондонского университета искусств, и Марко Марии Занин, художника и исследователя Humus Interdisciplinary.

⚫️ «Во славу лени: приоритет отдыха в поддержке Украины», Юлия Асперска и Res Artis (2022)

Устойчивое развитие выходит далеко за рамки вопросов окружающей среды. Это также включает в себя социальную и экономическую ситуацию, а также личную и ментальную устойчивость – особенно во время кризиса. Как заботиться, поддерживать и помогать тем, кто находится в ситуации риска, и не выгореть? В чем состоит продуктивная сила отдыха, неделания и даже лени? В этой дискуссии Юлия Асперска рассказывает о проекте «Санаторий», который она курировала с Каролиной Выциск (фонд Performat). Проект был задуман как резиденция по оказанию помощи деятелям искусства, активно помогающим украинским беженцам. Идея резиденции заключалась в том, чтобы создать временное сообщество и возможность побыть вместе без установленного плана и заранее определенной цели. Резиденция задумывалась как возможность для «радикального отдыха» и непреднамеренного налаживания контактов.

⚫️ «Арт-резиденции в эпоху климатического кризиса», (2022) Яана Эскола для Reside/Sustain

Видео-напоминание: в прошлом году совместно с Ассоциацией арт-резиденций России (AiR of Russia), мы пригласили Яану Эскола, профессионала в области культуры, эколога и активиста по защите прав животных поделиться опытом с участниками. В своем выступлении Яана рассказала о трех столпах программы устойчивой экологической резиденции (устойчивые практики, программа экологической резиденции, сотрудничество: местное сообщество, локальные и международные сети), затронула различные аспекты устойчивости (экологический, социальный, психологический, культурный), а также выделила направления, на которых организации должны сосредоточить свои усилия на их пути к достижению устойчивого развития (выброс СО2, устойчивые ежедневные практики, «‎медленные путешествия», непрерывное обучение, воссоединение с природой и эмпатия).

🔗🎥 Видео доступны по ссылке: https://bit.ly/46GJT0M

Even while the R/S team is on its summer break, we will keep sharing materials related to our core topics: art residencies and sustainability 🌿

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This time, we prepared a selection of video recordings: talks, discussions, and symposium panels (to be published in two parts):

⚫️ New Models for Communing: Residency Programming and Strategies (2021), Rethinking Residencies

Residencies are increasingly looking outwards and developing new programming and structural models centered around community engagement, local embeddedness, ecology, and civic partnerships. How has the pandemic reoriented residencies towards the local communities? Can online residencies still be situated within their host communities? How have new digital realities impacted ideas of community?

⚫️ Artist Residency Debate (2021) at Verbier Art Summit, RESOURCE HUNGRY: OUR CULTURED LANDSCAPE AND ITS ECOLOGICAL IMPACT

The discussion, dedicated to artist residencies, ecology, and collaboration between art and science includes speeches by Ralph Dum, the instigator of STARTS – innovation at the nexus of Science Technology and the Arts, Kasia Molga, a multidisciplinary artist questioning the impact of technology on the natural environment and its role in our relation to and perception of ‘non-human makers’, and Danielle Siembieda, the creative director at Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST), a non-profit global think tank exploring critical themes at the intersection of art, sciences, and technology.

⚫️ Culture of Mobility in the Time of Climate Change (2021) by On the Move, the cultural mobility information network

Cultural mobility is at the heart of practices of artist residencies. What happens to it in the time of climate crisis? What is the impact of the international exchange in culture on our planet’s climate? How does it influence today’s cities and how can we measure it? How can public institutions give a boost to sustainable mobility within their funding programmes?

🔗All videos are available here: https://bit.ly/46GJT0M 🎥

Enjoy watching and have a beautiful summer!🌸


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Команда R/S уходит на каникулы, но мы продолжим делиться рекомендациями материалов, связанных с нашими основными темами: арт-резиденциями и устойчивым развитием.

На этот раз мы составили подборку видеоматериалов – выступлений, дискуссий и симпозиумов (на английском языке), которую мы опубликуем в двух частях:

⚫️ «Новые модели общения: программирование и стратегии резиденций» (2021), Rethinking Residencies

Резиденции все чаще разрабатывают новые программные и структурные модели, ориентированные на вовлечение сообщества, локальность, экологию и гражданское партнерство. Как пандемия переориентировала резиденции на местные сообщества? Могут ли онлайн-резиденции располагать художника в принимающих сообществах? Как новые цифровые реалии повлияли на представления о сообществе?
В дискуссии принимают участие организаторы арт-резиденции Мустаринда.

⚫️ Дискуссия об арт-резиденциях (2021) на Verbier Art Summit, RESOURCE HUNGRY: НАШ КУЛЬТУРНЫЙ ЛАНДШАФТ И ЕГО ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКОЕ ВОЗДЕЙСТВИЕ

В дискуссии, посвященной резиденциям художников, экологии и сотрудничеству между искусством и наукой, выступают Ральф Дум, инициатор STARTS – Инновации на стыке науки, технологии и искусства, Кася Молга, мультидисциплинарный художник, занимающаяся вопросами о влиянии технологий на природную среду и их роли в нашем отношении и восприятии «нечеловеческих создателей», и Даниэль Зимбиеда, креативный директор Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST), некоммерческого глобального аналитического центра, исследующего темы на пересечении искусства, науки и технологий.

⚫️ «Культура мобильности в эпоху изменения климата» (2021), On the Move, информационная сеть по культурной мобильности

Культурная мобильность лежит в основе практики резиденций. Что происходит с ней в период изменения климата? Каково влияние международного культурного обмена на климат нашей планеты? Как он меняет современные города и как мы можем его измерить? Как государственные учреждения могут стимулировать устойчивую мобильность в рамках своих программ финансирования?

🔗Видео доступны здесь: https://bit.ly/46GJT0M 🎥

Наслаждайтесь просмотром, и приятного лета! 🍓

Wrapping up the first half of this year’s activities, we share the summary of our research trip conclusions ✏️

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In the article written by Adel Kim, Angelina Davydova, and Miina Hujala you can find reflections on various understandings of sustainability that residencies open up, deliberations on the importance of individual contribution of residency organisers for the success of private initiatives, as well as practical ideas for potential collaborations and resource sharing.

🔗Full text is available here: https://www.residesustain.art/en/articles/research-trips-reflections

Photo: Adel Kim (Happy Home Stay)