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
Valter Kuni
Valter Kuni works with technology and natural laws to push the boundaries of our experience of reality.
His work at the moment examines on the concrete level the pattern that arises in a viscous liquid that has been pressed between two sheets of glass and then separated from each other.
The starting point is to influence how the pattern is formed through surface preparations and by varying the liquid's molecular composition.The project partly consists of an experimental investigation of viscosity and surface tension on the chemical plane, but is also an investigation of hubris, man's relationship to control and difficulty perceiving chaos.
Valter is artist-in-residence of the Analogue Adventure program.
Kindly supported by Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, Gesellius Fond, Nygréns Stiftelse, William Thurings Stiftelse and Svenska Kulturfonden.
Lesia Diak
Lesia Diak is a Ukrainian documentary film director.
With a Master's degree in Communications and a background
in Journalism, in 2017 Lesia graduated from the Serhiy Bukovsky
Film Program in Kyiv. Before shifting to film directing, she worked
as a freelance journalist in several Ukrainian media like Ukrainska
Pravda, TheUkrainians, Hromadske.Ua, Korydor, Ukrainer.
In 2017 she directed her 16-min debut film entitled Strong,But Not Steel at the IndieLab Young Film Makers' workshop in Kyiv. This documentary was selected to the Global Short Doc Forum for the 2018 Ed. of One World Media. In 2022 she
completed studying Documentary Film Directing through the international masters program DocNomads.Besides receiving a special mention at The Golden Fruit Planwork-in-progress platform as part of the Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival, Dad’s Lullaby was alsoselected for the Film Mentoring Program of CinéDOC-Tbilisi 2022 and DocCeleratorStory by Paradiddle Pictures. Still in 2022, she received a grant from Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival for the short film Under The Wing Of A Night.
Lesia’s films are sensitive, intimate but uncomfortable as she frequently explores themes such as mental health and healing, the fragility of family relationships.
This residency has been made possible with support of The Ministry of Education and Culture and Artists-at-Risk.
Heidi Piiroinen
Heidi Piiroinen is a photographer and a filmmaker. She worked as a press photographer for the Finnish daily paper Helsingin Sanomat until February 2022. She graduated from the Turku Arts Academy in 2002 and studied photojournalism at the Lahti Institute of Design in 2002-2004. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Berkeley, where she studied documentary film 2015-2016. Her debut film Black Hole Mama premiered at
DocPoint in 2017. Recent solo exhibitions: Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti
(2020), The Invisibles -story of a beggar family, Finnish Museum of Photography (2018). Recent group
exhibitions and festivals: Drift, Museum of Impossible Forms (2021), Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa
(2021), Photographic centre Nykyaika, Tampere (2022).
https://www.heidipiiroinen.com/
Heidi is artist-in-residence of the Analogue Adventure program. During her residency, she will work on the project Vapaita huoneita / Available Rooms, which will be shown at Rauman Taidemuseo in 2024.
Kindly supported by Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, Gesellius Fond, Nygréns Stiftelse, William Thurings Stiftelse and Svenska Kulturfonden.
Hanna Koikkalainen
Hanna Koikkalainen is a photographer who deals with collective memory, memories, landscape change, relationship with nature, folklore and stories. She has a MA and graduated from Aalto University's School of Art and Technology in 2010, majoring in photography, and she has also studied documentary film, photojournalism and cultural history. She has published two photo books: "Lakkauttu kylä" and "Raja". The photo book "Border" about the border regions of Finland and Russia was chosen as the most beautiful book of the year 2016. Koikkalainen works and lives in Uusimaa and South Karelia.
http://www.hannakoikkalainen.com/
Hanna is artist-in-residence of the Analogue Adventure program. During her residency, she will work on a project about photographer Julia Widgrén, in collaboration with the prison of Vaasa, making use of wet plate photography.
Kindly supported by Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, Gesellius Fond, Nygréns Stiftelse, William Thurings Stiftelse and Svenska Kulturfonden.
Mariia Dovhan
Inspired by visions of her childhood home of Kherson, retrospective from a radically altered Ukraine of today, Mariia Dovhan distills substance from personal observations and captures the emotional uncertainty of ever-shifting memories. This is achieved through the intimacy of drawing, the actuality of photography and rearranging concepts through collage.
https://mariiadovhan.com/
@greatseaoftheunconscious
This residency is kindly supported by Artists at Risk, Perpetuum Mobile, and The Ministry of Education and Culture
Oleksii Karpovych
Karpovych has worked in the field of cultural journalism since 2007 as photographer, editor and writer for publications such as Afisha, Ukrainian Pravda, Life, ACC (Architecture. Criticism. Culture), Cultprostir, Jazz Forum in Poland, and I Rock Jazz in the US. He is founder and art director of the Ukrainian online platform for improvisational music Meloport, since 2017. Since February 24th 2022 he has been working as a photographer for projects such as Ukrainer, and as a fixer and local producer for international media such as BBC and Aljazeera Arabia.
Currently, the main thing for Oleksii is reportage, photographing current events during the war and in the socio-cultural field, volunteering, military topics with military personnel, which he cannot publicly exhibit at the moment. This is not related specifically to conceptual photography, but for now it is the accumulation of images and on film with the subsequent creation of a series and stories that will unite it.
This is a challenge and a difficulty for Oleksii, because there is a lack of knowledge somewhere, resources somewhere, for example, using color film is simply expensive. To use different methods of development and printing, this is very lacking, and therefore certainly the possibility of a residence can solve these issues.
@oleksii_karpovych @o.karpovych.photo
This residency is kindly supported by Artists at Risk, Perpetuum Mobile, and The Ministry of Education and Culture
Etienne Caire aka Riojim
Etienne Caire (France) is a filmmaker working with photo-chemical processes and live, expanded cinema projector performances, often under the pseudonym RioJim.He is particularly attracted to abstract animation, the pleasure of physically modifying images on the film via twisted and other chemical treatments frowned on by professional labs. The material produced in the laboratory becomes a work of improvisation integrating all the parameters of projection. By means of prepared projectors, he applies severe treatment to the projector and plays with the film and the homemade optical sound on film to create a real visual music.Involved in experimental film for 20 years, Riojim have been a member of the 102, a venue dedicated to experimental arts, as well as co-founder of one of Europe’s first artist-run film lab MTK in Grenoble.
This residency is kindly supported by Taike and is part of the Spectral
Mariangela Pluchino & Helena Aleksandrova
Helena Aleksandrova and Mariangela Pluchino are Helsinki-based filmmakers, part of the collective Film Tonight!. They have been collaborating on multiple art projects, being moving-image their foremost medium. They rediscovered their passion for analogue cinema back in 2019 at Filmverkstaden, since then they have been using 16mm in many projects. Now they are back for more analogue adventures!
During the residency they will work with in-camera VFX, chemical experimentation, old horror cinema and performance.
Mariangela and Helena are our fifth and last guests of the Analogue Adventure residency program series.
4.3-4.4.2023
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 mostly
working 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
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2020
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