Fund an artist!
Fund an artist!
To give more people the possibility to join the residency with funding, we launched a campaign to support the artists!
Your donation would cover basic costs, art supplies and materials, accomodation, food, transportation and personal needs.
You can support through a donation to an individual artist Or to the collective pot that will distribute the money to the project, artists, exhibition, etc
* WARNING! In the field "your full name" write, next to your name , the name of the artist you want to fund, write "artists” to fund artists in general and “Play(the)ground" to fund the project. *
Your donation would cover basic costs, art supplies and materials, accomodation, food, transportation and personal needs.
You can support through a donation to an individual artist Or to the collective pot that will distribute the money to the project, artists, exhibition, etc
* WARNING! In the field "your full name" write, next to your name , the name of the artist you want to fund, write "artists” to fund artists in general and “Play(the)ground" to fund the project. *
Malgorzata Minchberg
I look for new associations for forms found in nature, not through primary rituals and artefacts, but through a community of experience.
The project
"Empathic mindfulness", as I call it, is the form from nature that I interfere with that triggers the need to be sensitive to it. I want to develop the “empathic mindfulness” in Quinta da Fonte during my residency and look for the traces of its culture.
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Veronica Iacomi
I'd like to go through the stories of the very diverse communities living there, from the fishermen to the people in the 2° Torrão, and even the (to my knowledge) expanding circle of self-declared “expats”.
The project
Trafaria offers a great chance of exploring how social groups define themselves with relation to other groups and the surrounding environment, and of exposing the informality of self-perception vs the formality of common imagery. I envision a photographic series, correlated to a short documentary that can help present to a wider audience the different realities populating the territory, before they are swept away by real estate speculation, progressive legalisation of the settlements, and gentrification in all its forms.
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Sarah Kilgallon
All neighborhoods are vulnerable not only to financial instability but also to urban construction and planning. This project’s aim is to produce a creative historical document. So even if the neighborhood’s suffer gentrification the people, the residents stories and spirit will remain.
The project
Together we will create a photo documentary, a construct of their individual stories and the heritage of their cultures within the neighborhoods. Through images and text, we will build a project that gives them a platform of expression of their reality, their hopes, and fears of the future.
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Fiodor
As in wild life quiet places are always filled with life forms. I'd like to fill with playful art inconspicuous places of the bedroom community.
The project
Fedor plans to divide his residency in three parts. First, he wants to connect with the communities and share stories. Then he plans to convert the stories into sculptures, on of their artistic media. At the end he wishes to build within the neighbourhoods AR installations, for the communities to use.
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Aleksandra Naydenova
Aleksandra’s project would take place in the self-built neighbourhood Bairro do Talude, inhabited by families from Cape Verde, where diversity and adjustment to the new context result in yet unfinished "new cultural elaborations," in a constant process of (de) and (re)construction.
The project
In her project, Aleksandra seeks to empower members of the community to share their stories and perspectives through visual artefacts derived from common elements of their environment, that convey and preserve their cultural identity in a digitally accessible format and truly correspond with their vision for capturing it on their own “terms and conditions”. By doing so, her goal is to provide them with the space and tools for collectively re(envisioning) the artefacts as encounters between the formal and the informal in their communities.
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Diana Ferro
Diana is an antidisciplinary artist born in Italy and based in Groningen, The Netherlands. She spends a lot of time interacting with discarded words, books, materials, people, places and reflects on being (late).
The project
I have a fascination for time, spaces and processes of change and growth, ranging from the smallest scale of nature, to the one of the body, to landscapes, starting from the ground. I have a complete admiration for these powerful places as they are, and no need to add my part in the form of an authorial project, but rather learn from them. I want to learn how people go on during their single days in this ever changing scenario and how they, too, learn from it. I will be there as a curious observer, and then engage in activities with the web of connections that this observation will create, to take something with me in the end, as a seed to plant in other contexts: a way of living.
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