Tbilisi
July – October 2010 residency GeoAIR.
The GeoAIR residency program is a self directed residency program, that offers primarily curators and culture producers the opportunity to base themselves in Tbilisi, Georgia and use this location as a starting point to build networks, meet artists, cultural institutions and curators from the Caucasus region, and develop and deepen their knowledge and research of the Caucasus context. The residency is supported by Fonds BKVB / The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
GeoAIR Art Residency Team:
Sophia Tabatadze
Nini Palavandishvili
Kirsten Leenaars
Sophia Lapiashvili
http://geoairresidency.blogspot.com

São Paulo
First contact with Brazil and São Paulo through a residency at FAAP in October 2008 during the São Paulo Bienal.
Second contact: we were in São Paulo again in November 2009 for another residency of one months from Nov. 5 – Dec. 3 2009 to work on a new Fucking Good Art publication / The São Paulo Reader. This time our residency was in Vila Madalena and our guest house Atelie Novo.
More news to come soon.

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Brussel
A 3 day project at aLAB, a new project space in Brussels run by curator Veronique Vaes and artist Bernd Kleinheisterkamp. Presentation with 2 video projectors for text and image, and a sound compilations of conversations and sound-bites of the city took place on Sunday May 17 2009.


^http://bxllab.blogspot.com

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Zurich – The Swiss Issue
Residency at the legendary BINZ39 in Zurich for four months from December 2007 – April 2008. This as a preparation for The Swiss Issue – a field study on art and the art market. It has been made at the introduction of the curators Miriam Varadinis and Alexandra Blättler of the Kunsthaus Zurich for the exhibition Shifting Identities taking place from 6.6 – 31.8 2008. During the four months of our residency at BINZ39 we interviewed artists, designers, curators and collectors about art and the market. We asked writers for critical reflections on the art world and its existing model. We also asked artists for visual and textual contributions.
We had one question that we wished to pose to everyone: do you think the current hierarchical model works? And this usually led to a second question: is it possible to conceive another model?
www.kunsthaus.ch
www.shifting-identities.ch
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Riga – web radio
Showroom – a project space whitout a space from Switzerland run by Egija Inzule and Tobias Kaspar – invited different art projects and organisations from Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands to participate in the group exhibition 'Matilde'. Site-specific installations, video and performances filled a one-week programme from August 17 – 25 2007.
For three weeks we had a residency at Singalong – an art hotel and residency in Andrejsala to do research for our web radio project On-Air. The idea was to broadcast a daily show via the internet and a short range FM transmitter with conversations on art, interviews, radio walks, kitchen talks, audio works and conceptual radio projects.
www.showroom.st
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Basel – residency
Residency at IAAB for three months from October – December 2007. IAAB is an international exchange and studio programme and has seven studios in the trinational region of Basel and currently arranges exchanges with ten partner organisations abroad. One of the partners is Kaus Australis Rotterdam. This is why we could go there.
www.iaab.ch
www.kausaustralis.org

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Copenhagen – FGA#16 Export + Domestic edition
Invitation by the curators Johanne Loegstrup and Katharina Stenbeck from PUBLIK to participate in the show How Do You Belong – 5 projects in public space in Copenhagen.
www.publik.dk
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Dresden

They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em.