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The
Center for Visual Culture (CVC) is a nomadic residency program for visual
artists. Our purpose is to offer studio artists the opportunity to spend
a week in an engaged and nurturing environment where the burden of concrete
production - integral to the typical residency experience - is instead
replaced by an atmosphere and agenda of supported inquiry, investigation,
debate and nightly salons. Each of our residencies will bring together
a group of individuals who are interested in the exploration of the larger
cultural contexts of their art production as well as the relationship
of such production to the broader movements within their chosen areas
of interest.
Each CVC residency will be guided by an
Artist-in-Residence and a Scholar-in-Residence who are active practitioners
in research and/or production within specified topic areas, such as; Interventionism,
Cyberfeminism, Public Art practices, etc. and each week-long residency
will be defined by a theme which shapes the programming and provides the
participants with the opportunity to explore particular areas of cultural
production in greater depth.
The Center for Visual Culture is not rooted
in a single physical location. Rather it seeks to create temporary communities
at a variety of host locations. This intentional transiency - at varied
sites on the east and west coasts, as well as other select locales including
Philadelphia and/or Chicago - will allow for us to draw upon diverse resources
while at the same time reducing costs and travels burdens for our participants.
We have arranged with the Contemporary Artist Center and MassMOCA in North
Adams, MA to serve as the host location for our first season - and we
trust this site will provide some great opportunities for interaction
with their own interventionist programming.
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