(Inter)National Residency Program

The 2019/20 participants are: Fiona Banner, Mira Calix, Sherry Dobbin, Ryan Ferko, Antigoni Fryda, Cate Giordano, Alaa Ghosheh, Arshia Fatima Haq, Evangelia Kolyra, Ilan Manouach, Paribartana Mohanty, Emilie Pitoiset, Effi Rabsilber, Studio Safar (Hatem Imam and Maya Moumne), Tom Sellar, Young Girl Reading Group (Dorota Gawęda και Eglė Kulbokaitė)

One of the central questions for those who will be applying to this program from outside of Greece, and outside of Αthens, is why do you need to be in Αthens right now, at this moment of your artistic or curatorial or theoretic research trajectory? This does not mean that your proposed research needs to be “community based” or “participatory” or “investigating the urban landscape”. You can still come and spend your time working in a studio, but you do need to consider why in this studio that is located in Αthens? Is it simply because there is funding, or because you have never been to Αthens? Or is there something that connects your research question, your artistic or curatorial or theory trajectory to this place, this city, the cοmmunities that reside here, the landscape, the light, the language, the food?

For those who live in Greece, this question is perhaps more abstract. You live in this country, and you wish to remain here and to be supported by Onassis ΑiR. Perhaps you need the time, concentration and the resources to delve deeper into your research. Perhaps you would like to get away from the relentless binary of established vs. emerging, from international vs. national vs. local, and would like to work on an individual research while being in a peer environment and space with other artists, curators or creative practitioners. Perhaps you would like to not feel that you are separated from your wider international community by working along one another, next to each other.