transmediale festival, JUNGE AKADEMIE of Akademie der Künste Berlin, and the Goethe-Institut Slovakia announce three digital residents.
transmediale festival, JUNGE AKADEMIE of Akademie der Künste Berlin, and the Goethe-Institut Slovakia announce the three digital residents chosen from the open call for What Stays – Archiving Care. The call was addressed to international artists working with digital technologies, counter histories, and experimental archival formats, and exploring the role of technology in opening alternative histories and memories. The selected artists are Aditya Surya Taruna aka Kasimyn, Romi Ron Morrison, and Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson (Lo-Def Film Factory) in collaboration with Joe-Yves Salankang Sa-Ngol. They were selected by jury members Helen Pritchard, Oulimata Gueye, Clara Herrmann, Markus Huber, and Nora O Murchú. These artists and their projects explore alternative histories, oral traditions, and how counter archives can be built from Black kinship and care. During their digital residencies, the artists will develop new work to be shown online. The digital residencies are awarded with €3,000 and take place remotely from July to October 2021.
The selected artists and their projects:
JOGET-X (A Speculative Archive in Alternate Histories of Indonesian Dance Music)
Aditya Surya Taruna aka Kasimyn
Gamelan, made up predominantly of percussive instruments, is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia. In JOGET-X , Aditya Surya Taruna explores the diversity of Gamelan music to construct a speculative archive of Indonesian dance music. Aditya Surya Taruna aka Kasimyn is an electronic music producer, sound artist, DJ, amateur researcher and graphic motion artist based in Bali. His work is inspired by points of crossover between tradition & technology, dance music, and the fascinating connection between the past and the future of Indonesian culture.
Noticing the Preconditions for __________________.
Romi Ron Morrison
Noticing The Preconditions For ___________. is an experiment in durational correspondence between artists Romi Ron Morrison and Mimi Onuoha. In this project, noticing takes an archival form, indexing passing moments of care each artist notices in their daily life. Observing the tension between two worlds - one desperately trying to reproduce its power, and a new world not yet allowed to be born - the project reveals Black futures in quotidian practices of care and kinship. Romi Ron Morrison is a Black queer non-binary artist, researcher, and educator. Their work investigates the personal, political, ideological, and spatial boundaries of race, ethics, and social infrastructure within digital technologies.
The Subterranean Imprint Archive
Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson (Lo-Def Film Factory) in collaboration with Joe-Yves Salankang Sa-Ngol
The Subterranean Imprint Archive is an ongoing research project that traces the legacy of extractive technologies in Central and Southern Africa. The starting point of this inquiry is in the underground of the Shinkolobwe mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the uranium used in the Manhattan Project to create the atom bomb was extracted. The residency marks a new chapter of this project, focused on locating the key moments surrounding nuclearity on the continent. Based in South Africa, the Lo-Def Film Factory’s work involves archival research, dramaturgy, and visual strategies associated with video art, collage, sculptural installation and Virtual Reality, to explore and create space for collaborative and experimental community storytelling. The Lo-Def Film Factory was created by artist duo Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson.
The artists will present their projects on a panel talk at Akademie der Künste with Maya Indira Ganesh (Leuphana University/Independent researcher), Clara Herrmann (Head of JUNGE AKADEMIE), Nora O Murchú (Artistic Director of transmediale), and Sinthujan Varatharajah (essayist, political geographer, researcher) on 13 July 2021, 7pm. Find more information on the website of Akademie der Künste.
What Stays – Archiving Care is a year-long project in cooperation with transmediale festival, the JUNGE AKADEMIE of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, and the Goethe-Institut Slovakia.
transmediale is funded as a cultural institution of excellence by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) since 2004. A full list of partners and supporters can be found here.