Endi Tupja is the Artist-in-residence of the European Media Art Platform 2023 at Onassis Stegi

This year’s selected artists for the European Media Art Platform’s residency program take on unusual connections and current issues in a variety of ways. They explore the coexistence of urban centers and natural ecosystems, illuminate exciting possibilities for interplanetary existence, confront current skepticism about technology and “techlore,” and work between art and artistic research.

Rurality, Suspension, Duality: An iso polyphony on femaleness and border geographies.

Within the perspective of considering the marginal character of life in border geographies, the artist-in-residence Endi Tupja hosted by Onassis Stegi, will document women's singing practices in the iso-polyphonic tradition in Derviçan (Albania). A double belonging between languages and cultures in the margins, offers ways of looking unto forms of “Souths” in Europe, gestures shaping an architecture of voices, and the hierarchical migration practices impacting the latter. In collaboration with artist, researcher, and spatial practitioner Klodiana Millona, the project aims to create a filmic experience of the interactions with the women singers. Hence, tracing voice as a medium in the folklore tradition through a polyphonic topography of sound materiality. By engaging in open format practices and participatory workshop activities, they will explore how text and music are connected to the territory, to practices of migration and (un)mobility and how these are articulated in the mediality of voice.

ABOUT THE EMAP RESIDENCY PROGRAM

The European Media Art Platform (EMAP), co-funded by the European Union, aims to support collaborative projects by emerging artists who work critically with technologies in the fields of video, digital art, robotics, bio art, and other forms of media art. Since the launch of the platform in 2018, 59 projects have been commissioned, 18 of which received international awards. Many more EMAP commissions have been presented at prestigious institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Barbican in London, Filmfest Locarno, and the Venice Biennale. Following an international open call which received 641 artist proposals from 35 countries, EMAP recently announced their selection for 2023. Each of the 16 media artists and artist groups will take part in an international two-month, fully funded residency with an EMAP partner organization, culminating in several group exhibitions within the next 2 years.

EMAP Selected Artists for 2023:

Antre Peaux (Bourges, France): Transformative Narratives (Lena Kuzmich & Tony Wagner)
Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria): Dorotea Dolinšek
CIKE Creative Industry Košice (Košice, Slovakia): Tatsuru Arai
Hexagram (Montréal, Canada): Mónica Rikic
gnration (Braga, Portugal): Davor Sanvincenti
iMAL Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology (Brussels, Belgium): Anna Pompermaier
IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (Utrecht, The Netherlands): Dasha Ilina
Kersnikova Institute / Kapelica Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Marisa Satsia
KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis (Zagreb, Croatia): Maria Smigielska & CompMonks
LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre (Gijón, Spain): Bethan Hughes
m-cult (Helsinki, Finland): Annelie Berner
NeMe (Limassol, Cyprus): Paul O´Neill
Onassis Stegi (Athens, Greece): Endi Tupja
RIXC Centre for New Media Culture (Riga, Latvia): Carl Emil Carlsen
Werkleitz Centre for Media Art (Halle/Saale, Germany): Nicolas Gouralt
WRO Art Center (Wroclaw, Poland): Emanuel Gollob

The selected artists in residency for 2023 and their hosted institutions will attend the EMAP Networking Conference “Connecting New Media (P)arts” at Onassis Stegi on the 9th of March 2023.

The European Media Art Platform is co-funded by the European Union.