Entangling Matter and Meaning Residency/Interference Contributions
image credi: Rachel Schenberg
Within Entangling Matter and Meaning, Treignac Projet has commissioned three residency/Interference contributions. These artistic contributions will react with and produce new works as part of the Entangling Matter and Meaning workshop. Artists will spend time (during the month of July 2017) at Treignac Projet before the workshop to research the context and theoretical background of the event and produce new work based on this research.
The aim of these residencies/ Interferences is to produce works that facilitate artistic, discursive and performative processes that are related and spun around the workshop and the urgencies that it addresses. The main idea is that the works produced during the residency period will offer a spatial, social, material and discursive input for the workshop itself, but, equally important is that the works take note of the material and historical conditions of Treignac Projet and area around Treignac more broadly. Produced works will link the material and social conditions of the site with the situation of the workshop.
Artists that are taking part to EM&M residencies are Malin Arnell & Mario Fjell, Jaana Laakkonen and Rachel Schenberg.
Malin Arnell & Mario Fjell
When Malin Arnell and Mario Fjell come together they become an interdisciplinary art worker, collaborator, researcher, educator and musician. During the spring of 2017 they have shared breaths through Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Berlin. Now in-de-flating Treignac.
They explicitly do affectivity within a queer eco-erotic ethics of polymorphous perversity and care making. They explore key issues for participation in territorial environments by emphasizing the sticky shivers of self-touching through vibrating togetherness. Masturbatory cooperation and a dis-location of frictions opens up for an unending dynamism of entanglements aka. everything in the name of all things queer.
During EM&M workshop they will share a series of sympoietic actions for the sense of exteriority within.
Jaana Laakkonen
Jaana Laakkonen is an artist who examines how taking the feminist posthumanist elaboration(s) seriously matters through artistic practice. She holds MFA degree from the Fine Arts Academy of the University of Arts Helsinki (FI) and graduated with Master of Research in Art and Design degree from Sint Lucas School of Arts Antwerp (BE). Right now she works on one of the floors of Treignac Projet's postindustrial spaces, preparing it to serve as a player and a location for EM&M workshop
Rachel Schenberg
Rachel Schenberg is an Australian artist, working with sculpture and multimedia installation. Her practice explores ways of making manifest the relationship of the internal and external, with a particular focus on form(ation), (supposedly gendered) material, and by extension how they are used/act/relate to the body and their surrounding environment. She is currently completing her post-graduate research at Monash University.
For the EM&M residency in Treignac she is testing material, architectural and environmental means of materialising the (inherently) shifting nature of boundaries and limits. As Karen Barad says, boundaries do not sit still.
Malin Arnell & Mario Fjell : Six Scores for EM&M
Jaana Laakkonen : With-in a Box That Got Nearly Sealed - My Dust My
Rachel Schenberg : If anything were to happen it would happen in the gangways. So she bent her elbow, what she noticed were the holes
In other words what I mean to say is (outside works)
