OPEN CALL
Within the framework of the SPECTRAL* project, Filmverkstaden and Baltic Analog Lab are offering a month-long residency for artists working with photochemical film to develop an expanded cinema work - live performance, installation work or sculpture incorporating analogue film medium.The residency offers one artist (or a duo) to work on their project by providing access to darkroom, projectors, camera, screen and other devices if needed. The residency is located in Vaasa, Finland at artists-run filmlab Filmverkstaden which is located on the west coast of Finland.
The residency covers the travel, accommodation, material costs as well as artist fee for the artist. In return we require the artist to offer a two day workshop for members and followers of the Filmverkstaden collective. At the end of the residency the artist will have to present their work for the public. This does not have to be a completed project, but may also be a work-in-progress, however the project requires a completed work within one year period.
The aim of the residency is to provide a space for creation of new expanded cinema works that can be later presented in some of the SPECTRAL curated events and festivals during the year 2023-2025. Therefore the artist must ensure that the work can be accomplished and presented to the audience within one year.
We are looking for artists who are interested in collective practice and exchanging ideas with colleagues while here. We especially encourage applications from members of marginalized/ under-represented groups, as well as from parents of under-age children.
What we offer:
Travel costs: up to 400 EUR ( we encourage environmental friendly ways of travel)
Artist fee: 1200 EUR
Material costs: 500 EUR
Accommodation
24/7 access to the facilities
Possibility for presentation
Apply HERE by February 3, 2023
Results will be announced after February 6th
*SPECTRAL (Spatial, Performative & Expanded Cinematic Transnational Research at Artist-run Labs) is a joint project initiated by six such labs focusing on a variety of kinds of work with photo-chemical moving images. SPECTRAL has been conceived to support the creation and dissemination of Expanded Cinematic Art (E.C.A.) and to encourage international collaborations to ensure that this kind of artistic practice can thrive in the future.
Financed by Creative Europe, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Baltic Analog Lab
Artists-in-Residence
2023
Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki
Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland on 16th of January 1987. Recently she is living, working, having fun, wondering and inventing in Helsinki, Finland.
As a visual artist she has been mostlyworking in the expanded field of painting and printmaking. In her practice she is handling big size
canvases, graphics-sculptures, spatial projections and live cinema performances. She brings
together film footage, use of montage and collage, non-camera film and printing methods.
Natalia is our fourth guest in the Analogue Adventure residency program.
3.2-4.3.2023
Azar Saiyar
Azar Saiyar (b.1979) is a filmmaker and a visual artist who often spends time with different kinds of archive materials.
She plays with images and words of both collective and private memories to look towards the ways of looking, speaking, remembering and telling stories. Her art has been shown in film and media art festivals, galleries, exhibitions, museums and television.Azar is our third guest in the Analogue Adventure residency program.
3.1-30.1.2023
2022
Elvira Akzigitova
Elvira Akzigitova (EE/DE) is an experimenter who spends long hours in the dark with a red light, trying to capture the trace of light and its tactile essentials. In addition to traditional analog photography tools and light sources, she also has a rather unusual tool called Violet Wand in her arsenal. By electrifying organic matter with this secret weapon, she succeeds in revealing what is otherwise hidden to the eye, but visible on light-sensitive materials. According to the artist, she works on the edge of photography and painting, just where these two practices meet and blend. Alternative, and at times, antique processes, abstract - inward looking images - Elvira decisively replaces the humanist documentary with a display of photographs presented as themes or events in themselves.
http://chelovekvsobake.tumblr.com/
25.2-12.3.2022
Armands Andže
Armands Andže (LV) is a member of Baltic Analog lab artists collective from Riga, Latvia. He is practising analog photography for more than 14 years, and last 7 years focusing mainly on large-format photography, recreating various historic photographic techniques and processes. Mainly working with silver/gelatine emulsions, and dry plate making.
15.3-15.4.2022
Surabhi Nadig
Surabhi Nadig (FI/IN) moved to Helsinki for MA studies in Creative Sustainability at Aalto University. Nadig’s mediums of research-based storytelling have been with photography and writing. Her interests lie in the interconnectedness of culture, economics, and politics of sustainability. In 2021-2022 she has been a participant of AMPI where she started to make films to expand on what photographs cannot capture.
Surabhi is our first artist-in-residence of the Analogue Adventure program.
18.8-15.9.2022
Paola Guzmán
Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa is a visual artist that mainly works with film, installations and time based arts. Her works reflect and raise themes connected to time changing, migration and transnational objects. When she departed from her home country Colombia to Finland, she left an aquarium at home. Since then, Paola has experimented and included it in her art as a tool for visual and experience encounterings.
Her works have been reviewed by newspapers like Helsingin Sanomat (2021) and Hufvudstadsbladet(2019). She has performed “Timetravel” in Bogotá, Madrid, and Helsinki. Paola is one of the Co-Founders of the artist film collective Kino Club Helsinki that has been running since 2017.
Paola joins us for the Analogue Adventure program.
https://www.paolafernanda.com/
1.10-31.10.2022
Dmytro Starusev
Dmytro Starusev, born in Makiivka, Ukraine, in 1984. In 2012, Dmytro Starusev graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (majoring in film direction), and in 2018—Rodchenko School for Photography and Multimedia.
In his artistic practice, Dmytro engages with analogue and hybrid photographic processes, their sense of unpredictability, tactility and handmade character that allow the viewer to perceive each work
as a physical object. The fixation of the emotional dimension of reality, as expressed in abstract compositions and through the medium of photography, is of primary importance.
Dmytro creates large-scale analogue photographic prints on different structures and surfaces actualizing the discussion about the very essence of the photographic medium and its autonomy.
The layers of memories, images drawn from reality, images resulting from the developing process, longitude of exposure, natural chemical reactions, penetrate each other, creating a special indivisible fabric that preserves the trace of the emotional state at a certain moment. Trying to return to a negative, to a rough print, he focuses on the uniqueness of the moment and proposes an experience of a unique non-reproducible print.
This residency has been made possible with support of The Ministry of Education and Culture and Artists-at-Risk.2021
Inger Lise Hansen
Ruth Aitken
2020
Ieva Balode
Claudia Hausfeld
