Upcoming Residencies
From August, the AiR Programme is hosting two artists at once! Ash Keating and Riki von Falken from Australia and Germany respectively will be staying at the Arts Centre. Exciting times!
23 August 2010 - 8 November 2010
Ash Keating (Australia) is the Arts Centre’s Artist in Residence Programme artist for SCAPE 2010.
Ash Keating is a visual artist who in recent years has predominantly integrated ecological issues into a hybrid visual arts practice. He will be making a work for SCAPE which deals with the 'gap site' in Cathedral Square a site that has lay vacant and undeveloped for sometime. Working with architectural and design collaborators Dorian Farr, Patrick Gavin, Chris Toovey and David Campbell, Keating will create Gardensity, a unique work for SCAPE 2010. The project focuses on new condensed sustainable living developments in response to inner-city planning processes currently taking place in Christchurch. Through both a physical site-specific presentation and equally as important an updated internet presence, Gardensity aims to raise awareness and open up the debate about pending changes in shaping Christchurch city’s urban environment.
The Arts Centre and SCAPE are working to develop a range of public programmes that Ash will be involved in during his time in residence.
AiR Public Programmes (these events will run in addition to SCAPE events involving Ash Keating)
Arist talk: Saturday, 28 August, 2pm, School of Art 4 Room (behind Annie's Wine Bar)
Ash will speak about his art practice at this introductory talk.
Forum: URBAN DENSIFICATION (working title), October 14, 3pm, Cathedral Square. Details to come regarding this event.
Artist Talk: Thursday, 4 November, 6pm, School of Art 4 Room (behind Annie's Wine Bar)
Reflections on Gardensity, Ash will speak share reflections upon his Gardensity work for SCAPE and
Biography
Contemporary visual artist Ash Keating was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1980. Keating completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting at Monash University, Caulfield in 2003 and then went on to complete a first class BFA Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2006. Ash Keating is currently a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, and is represented by BREENSPACE, Sydney. Keating’s work has been written about extensively in numerous art journals such as Frieze, Broadsheet, Art and Australia, Un, Artlink and Photofile. He was the winner of a 2008 ANZ Art and Australia RIPE award, as well as being selected as a finalist in the 2009 SOYA and RBS Australian emerging artist awards.
In seeking to bring about positive change or alternative thinking, Keating's site-specific contemporary art projects are presented through diverse and poetic forms that often seek to radically transform the viewer’s understandings of local and global environmental issues.
In early 2009 Keating undertook a project in Sydney’s Western district created through the Museum of Contemporary Art’s C3West initiative, which saw the artist negotiate a collaboration with the MCA, SITA Environmental Solutions, Penrith Performing & Visual Arts and Penrith City Council to produce an installation and performance based project titled, Activate 2750 (http://activate-2750.blogspot.com). Keating has created several ambitious site-specific art projects internationally including, Pascua Lama created at the Museo de Contemporeano as part of The South Project’s 2006 gathering in Santiago, Chile, Label Land created during a 2008 Asialink Residency in Seoul, Korea, (http://label-land.blogspot.com), and Timuran, created as part of The South Project’s 2009 gathering in Jogjakarta Indonesia with support from an Australia Council for the Arts emerging artist new work grant (http://timuran.blogspot.com).
21 August 2010 - 17 October 2010
Ricki von Falken (Germany) (in partnership with the Body Festival)
Whilst in residence, Riki will be working with members of the Southern Lights Dance Company in a studio at the Arts Centre. Her work with the company will be performed on October 4 at the James Hay Theatre, Christchurch along with two other dance works by New Zealand choreographers Fleur de Thier and Maria Dabrowska. She will also give artist talks and masterclasses to high school dance students as part of her residency here.
Biography
Born in Hohenlimburg, Germany in 1954, Riki von Falken a foundation in ballet, but has also trained in jazz, modern, step dance, contract improvisation, Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais method. Amongst the various teachers she trained with was the influential Merce Cunningham. From 1981 to 1987 she worked as a professional dancer in Germany as well as a choreographer. She has performed as a guest dancer around Germany and the rest of world in Italy, Hungary, The Czech Republic, Canada and The USA. Since 2006 she has held a freelance dance lectureship at Weber School in Düsseldorf in dance pedagogy and since 2007 has held a lectureship in dance at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst.
Artist statement:
After seven years of dancing in a company, I discovered solo dancing, now my artistic form since 1989. My early solo pieces were influenced by an interest in the visual arts and architecture. The last pieces “White Linen” (2000), “Wach” (2001) and “one more than one” (2003) are of radical introspection. They process personal experiences and the confrontation of life and death.
In “Eine Begegung zwischen Ungleichen” (2005), a meeting between me, a disabled actor and a second dancer, I have chosen for myself a new artistic path trough the use of dance, film and the special quality of the stage space. I tried to focus the gaze on what happens when different forms of movement clash. The relationships and tension developed through the distinct movement approaches of each performer.
In the new dance piece “The Geometry of Separation” (2009), I explore the problematic of exclusion – a fear that lies at the very heart of contemporary life. In collaboration with the film maker Mareike Engelhardt I created a fictional dialogue between dance and video, in which the dancer on stage and the dancer within the film encounter each other as their Alter Ego. Confronted with an outside world that is uninhabitable, I developed a language of movement, both abstract and ironical, in an effort to integrate into these unreal and psychological spaces.
AiR Public Programmes
Artist Talk: Saturday, 28 August, 3:30pm, School of Art 4 Room, The Arts Centre (behind Annie's Wine Bar). In this talk Riki will give an introduction to her work as a dancer and choreographer.
Artist Talk: Thursday, 5 October, 6pm, School of Art 4 Room, The Arts Centre (behind Annie's Wine Bar). Riki will speak along with her dramaturg, Katja Kettner, about their work together and about her time in New Zealand.
For more information contact:
Coralie Winn
Artist in Residence Programme Coordinator
Phone: +64 (0)27 308 1884
Email:
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