Microresidence Network
What is a
Microresidence?
http://microresidence.net Our archives HERE!!
Artist in
Residencies (AIR) can be found in various forms and sizes throughout the world.
Among them there exist small-scale
residencies full of charm.
In 2011, Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo,
Japan) coined the term "mircoresidence"
to refer to micro-scale residencies whose infinite flexibility can be seen on a
macro level, aiming to spread the appeal of such spaces around the world.
This term originates from the words of New York-based artists Luis Recoder and Sandra Gibson they wrote about their experiences at Youkobo Art Space during a three-month residency in 2005.
*** A Micro-Flexible Arts Community In Tokyo
For example..?
◯Microresidencies can work closely with the artists to realize
their creative goals
◯AIR network can be utilized to its fullest capacity
◯The creative process is given greater importance than the
results
◯Spaces that provide the opportunity to focus on creation, away
from the realities of everyday life
◯Multiple visits to the same residency are possible
◯Artists accompanying families are also welcome
◯Privately owned
What is the Microresidence Network?
Originating from relationships
formed from face to face dialogues on a human scale, the microresidence network
aims to explore "the possibilities for microresidencies", while
bringing greater visibility to the activities of AIR as vessels of society.
Collaborations through the network have already been put in motion, and there
are expectations of future activities.
This site respects the intentions of
AIR operators who affirm the existence of microresidencies and, while
displaying respective AIR to societies and the world, it also contributes to
the creation of opportunities for artists to participate in AIR. It is a
platform through which AIR operators and artists can, on equal terms, consider
the future meaning of AIR.
-Chronology of the network-
2005 Origin of the microresidence
2011 Initiation of research and
survey of microresidencies
2012 Interim report on results of
research and survey
[The Great Potential of Small Art Facilities!]
Proposed at the ResArtis General
Meeting in Tokyo
2013 Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo) x
INSTINC (Singapore) Exchange Program
Microresidence Network website
launched
2014 [Microresidence Network Forum
held in February in Tokyo]
Participants: Studio
Kura/Rikuzentakata AIR/Youkobo Art Space + others (Japan)
ACOSS (Armenia), HomeBase Project
(Israel/Germany/USA)
[Microresidence Network Forum held in
November in Cheongju, Korea]
Participants: Youkobo, ZeroStation (Vietnam), Public AIR + others (Korea)
Our archives HERE!!