Open Studio Project 2006
01 - 14 May 2006
www.openstudiocairo.com
This May, seventeen cultural practitioners from over 10 different countries will spend two weeks in Downtown Cairo as part of the upcoming Open Studio Project, an international artists’ residency programme hosted annually by the Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art. The programme is designed to serve as a platform for dialogue and creative collaboration among residency participants and between participants and various publics, shifting the focus away from the production of work and towards alternative models of international exchange. Participants in Open Studio 2006 hail from Egypt, India, Brazil, the US, UK, Turkey, Botswana, Lebanon, Switzerland, Pakistan, Germany and Holland, respectively.
The practices of the participating artists, musicians and curators reflect a diversity of creative approaches to and engagements with sound, whether as a visceral or aural material, conceptual or contextual reference, or as a point of departure. At once intersecting and diverging, these diverse practices reflect the ability of sound-related work to complicate neat categories of artistic production and their conventionally associated frameworks, technologies, tools, and skills. These dynamics provide a context for the model of international exchange explored in the Open Studio Project.
Open Studio Project 2006 is inspired by Cairo’s rich aural environment, one shaped by the city’s diverse narratives of sound, sound-making traditions and ongoing explorations of sound in contemporary music and the arts. Participants are invited to draw on this urban environment as a creative resource. A “scattered studio” or series of independent studios and work spaces located in various areas of the city will also be available for use by residency participants.
For the first time, a Public Programme will be presented in tandem with the Residency Programme, introducing publics to the issues explored in Open Studio and offering channels for engagement with residency participants. The Public Programme includes, an interactive installation and performance, a collaborative art work/video game, a discussion on curatorial practice in relation to sound work, and a two-day open studio performance-based event. A workshop on open source programming from an artist’s perspective, as well as a discussion addressing open culture and its place in the history of concepts of intellectual property are designed to highlight the creative and philosophical resonances between contemporary art and open culture.
Open Studio Project 2006 is an initiative of the Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art in partnership with Triangle Arts Trust.
This May, seventeen cultural practitioners from over 10 different countries will spend two weeks in Downtown Cairo as part of the upcoming Open Studio Project, an international artists’ residency programme hosted annually by the Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art. The programme is designed to serve as a platform for dialogue and creative collaboration among residency participants and between participants and various publics, shifting the focus away from the production of work and towards alternative models of international exchange. Participants in Open Studio 2006 hail from Egypt, India, Brazil, the US, UK, Turkey, Botswana, Lebanon, Switzerland, Pakistan, Germany and Holland, respectively.
The practices of the participating artists, musicians and curators reflect a diversity of creative approaches to and engagements with sound, whether as a visceral or aural material, conceptual or contextual reference, or as a point of departure. At once intersecting and diverging, these diverse practices reflect the ability of sound-related work to complicate neat categories of artistic production and their conventionally associated frameworks, technologies, tools, and skills. These dynamics provide a context for the model of international exchange explored in the Open Studio Project.
Open Studio Project 2006 is inspired by Cairo’s rich aural environment, one shaped by the city’s diverse narratives of sound, sound-making traditions and ongoing explorations of sound in contemporary music and the arts. Participants are invited to draw on this urban environment as a creative resource. A “scattered studio” or series of independent studios and work spaces located in various areas of the city will also be available for use by residency participants.
For the first time, a Public Programme will be presented in tandem with the Residency Programme, introducing publics to the issues explored in Open Studio and offering channels for engagement with residency participants. The Public Programme includes, an interactive installation and performance, a collaborative art work/video game, a discussion on curatorial practice in relation to sound work, and a two-day open studio performance-based event. A workshop on open source programming from an artist’s perspective, as well as a discussion addressing open culture and its place in the history of concepts of intellectual property are designed to highlight the creative and philosophical resonances between contemporary art and open culture.
Open Studio Project 2006 is an initiative of the Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art in partnership with Triangle Arts Trust.