Micro-Residencies 2012-2013
2013 Residents
21-29 May + 3-4 June: Amanda McDonald Crowley (AU/US), Food-info-activism micro-resident 18-22 February: Seungho Lee (KO/FI), Food-info-activism micro-resident2012 Residents
09-12 December: Pekko Koskinen (FI), Local meta-resident 19-26 September: Ilze Black (LV/UK) 27 August - 3 September: Marion Louisgrand Sylla (Senegal/FR) 11-17 May: Melinda Sipos (HU) 19-26 February: Catherine Lenoble (FR), Meta-Resident . .Background: What inspired this project
The idea for these micro-residencies originates in the study visit of Catherine Lenoble (FR) at the end of year 2009. Catherine Lenoble was at the time working for the Nantes-based association PING and iniating LabtoLab, a nomadic university project. She was interested in Pixelache as an organisation and a network, and she spent one week meeting different members of the local Pixelache community, as part of her comparative case study for a nomadic pan-European training program on cultural cooperation. This one week visit triggered a set of different direct and undirect exchanges and collaborations, of which the extended cooperation that took place between LabtoLab in Nantes and Mal au Pixel in June 2011 is a good example. Catherine's visit in 2009 and the LabtoLab project as a whole, showed the importance of also meeting people outside big events and the worth of creating different methods / frameworks to exchange knowledge, get to know each other and develop different types of collaborations. The idea for Pixelache micro-residencies took shape after the visit of the Pixelache crew to LabtoLab in Nantes. It was thus very natural to invite Catherine Lenoble back to Helsinki to be our first resident, and make the development of this micro-residency concept, the main focus of her residency.Main Principles & Charateristics
- Based on invitation for professionals of Pixelache's extended network
- Concentrated on a short period
- Not oriented towards new productions as such.
- A space for informal knowledge exchange and inspiration, between the resident and the host organisation, and to some extent between the resident & the local scene.
- Question traditional production residency models by re-investigating aspects usually taken for granted or considered secondary, such as:
- Transport
- Accommodation & hospitality in general
- The whole economy involved
- The informal exchanges and human aspects of a residency
- Micro-laboratories where different tools, approaches, methods can be tested, to re-invent cultural production models in general, and consequently, our organisations themselves.
- Each residency is meant to be different and each resident can help developing new aspects of the residency.
- The residency time stretches from the first contact with the resident to follow-ups after the residency week.
- When possible, a member of the Pixelache team or a Pixelache collaborator will be invited for a micro-residency in the city/organisation of the resident, to continue the exchange.
Resident Augmented Toolkit
Pixelache portfolios 2008-2011 Pixelache-Related publications2013 Residents
18-22 February: Seungho Lee (KO/FI), Food-info-activism resident 15-29.5 May: Ursula Gastfall & Alexandre Korber (Usinettes, FR) & Edgar Afoutou (Defko Yaw Rek, Senegal)2012 Residents
09-12 December: Pekko Koskinen (FI), Local meta-resident 19-26 September: Ilze Black (LV/UK) 27 August - 3 September: Marion Louisgrand Sylla (Senegal/FR) 11-17 May: Melinda Sipos (HU) 19-26 February: Catherine Lenoble (FR), Meta-Resident . .Background: What inspired this project
The idea for these micro-residencies originates in the study visit of Catherine Lenoble (FR) at the end of year 2009. Catherine Lenoble was at the time working for the Nantes-based association PING and iniating LabtoLab, a nomadic university project. She was interested in Pixelache as an organisation and a network, and she spent one week meeting different members of the local Pixelache community, as part of her comparative case study for a nomadic pan-European training program on cultural cooperation. This one week visit triggered a set of different direct and undirect exchanges and collaborations, of which the extended cooperation that took place between LabtoLab in Nantes and Mal au Pixel in June 2011 is a good example. Catherine's visit in 2009 and the LabtoLab project as a whole, showed the importance of also meeting people outside big events and the worth of creating different methods / frameworks to exchange knowledge, get to know each other and develop different types of collaborations. The idea for Pixelache micro-residencies took shape after the visit of the Pixelache crew to LabtoLab in Nantes. It was thus very natural to invite Catherine Lenoble back to Helsinki to be our first resident, and make the development of this micro-residency concept, the main focus of her residency.Main Principles & Charateristics
- Based on invitation for professionals of Pixelache's extended network
- Concentrated on a short period
- Not oriented towards new productions as such.
- A space for informal knowledge exchange and inspiration, between the resident and the host organisation, and to some extent between the resident & the local scene.
- Question traditional production residency models by re-investigating aspects usually taken for granted or considered secondary, such as:
- Transport
- Accommodation & hospitality in general
- The whole economy involved
- The informal exchanges and human aspects of a residency
- Micro-laboratories where different tools, approaches, methods can be tested, to re-invent cultural production models in general, and consequently, our organisations themselves.
- Each residency is meant to be different and each resident can help developing new aspects of the residency.
- The residency time stretches from the first contact with the resident to follow-ups after the residency week.
- When possible, a member of the Pixelache team or a Pixelache collaborator will be invited for a micro-residency in the city/organisation of the resident, to continue the exchange.