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Visualist-in-Residence Project
Due to space limitations, VIR applications for 2016 are currently not being accepted. This project may resume in 2017.
The VIR residency offers local artists, art theorists, writers, and other culture producers an environment that is oriented towards knowledge production through its well-equipped study and production facilities. Resources include a 3,000-volume library; an Ephemera Kabinett that contains cultural residue from the last 100 years; a collection of arcane visual tools or their handbooks (sometimes both); and a unique physical site with its own collection of phantom histories and secrets.
We are looking for adventurous ‘visualists’ to help us ‘theorize the materials’ or ‘materialize the theories’ of the various processes of knowledge production that are ‘visually orchestrated.’ These are activities that interrogate and extend current conceptions of ‘studio-based research’ as they are being extolled in the academy.
Some of the features of the Residency include:
• The VIR laboratory is available for residencies lasting between 1-4 weeks. We can only offer a work space at this time (no live-in) but access is 24/7 to accommodate residents who have a ‘day job’ or other demands on their time during ICI’s normal business hours.
• At the very least, each resident will arrive with a single question to jump-start her or his visual research but, more often, the resident arrives with a project already underway that will benefit from an investigatory period at the ICI.
• The Institute will provide limited manpower and, at time, financial assistance. We will also facilitate partnerships with a roster of highly skilled ICI Associates and supporters to enrich the VIR residency experience.
•The VIR quarters will be open to the public as part of regularly scheduled ICI tours at least one Saturday per month (depending on the concurrent ICI project) and/or by appointment.
• The Resident will interact with the ICI staff and/or Associates on a regular basis to discuss the Resident’s work, either through meetings or online interactions,
• At the end of the residency, the VIR will be encouraged to summarize their research processes and findings during some type of recorded discussion with ICI staff and/or associates. This exchange might include an interview, a non-verbal demonstration, an exchange on social media, or some other recorded form based on the scope and range of the residency.
• In addition to ‘documenting’ their residency on the ICI’s website, the Resident will also be asked to create a material trace of their tenure to be placed in a special box that will become a part of the ICI repository.
VIR Residents have included:
Julene Paul, Spring 2012
Jared Neilsen, Summer 2012
Greg Cohen, Winter 2012-13
Christel Dillbohner, Spring 2013
Martin Gantman, Winter 2013
Maya Gurantz, Summer 2014
Anna Ayeroff, Summer-Fall 2014
Jaime Knight, Fall 2014
Amy Kaczur, Spring 2015
Christopher Handran, Summer 2015
Find more information about the VIR Project at http://www.culturalinquiry.org/blog/activities/2014-visualist-in-residence-project
or email us at info@culturalinquiry.org
ICI New Visualist-in-Residence Julene Paul
The ICI would like to welcome our newest Visualist-in-Residence, Julene Paul.
Her proposed project is an exploration of memory and its visual representation in space, taking the visual exterior of a city as a starting point and investigating the worlds that lie beneath the present and what they represent in the past as well as future. Her project hopes to create an ambitious representation of how memory can be represented visually and spatially.
The ICI is looking forward to development of Paul’s project and hope the experience proves illuminating for both parties.
ICI Research Group Forming for Barthes’ Tear
All the world’s photographs formed a Labyrinth. I knew that at the center of this Labyrinth I would find nothing but this sole picture, fulfilling Nietzsche’s prophecy: “A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.”
– Roland Barthes
In Camera Lucida, Barthes “finds” his mother in a single photograph. He muses, it is “the only photograph which assuredly existed for me.” In this case, “the one” also becomes the only picture from which Barthes will “’derive’ all Photography” in what would become his one and only book on photography.
“The one” connotes other singularities: the masterpiece, the exception, the anomaly, the worst and the best. The one is the individual within the masses, the single mutant and the freak accident that produced it, and the single events of anything that lives: a birth and then, a death. Does “the one” rise to the top, or sink to the bottom without our discovery or intervention? Or does it require invention, an act of selection, a resuscitation in which we create a sole survivor in a sea ‘almost-ones’ that have lost (have become lost in) their bid for uniqueness?
We are now forming a research group in conjunction with the ICI’s upcoming publication project centered on Barthes’ seminal book. We are looking for writers, artists, scholars, practitioners and curious spectators to join our team; anyone who has an interest in Barthes, or photography, or books about/as art. We intend to begin our meetings in the first month of 2012 and to convene on a monthly basis. Individuals who attend the first couple of sessions will determine the course and nature of the group. Our first act will be to interrogate the very term that has been selected to seed our inquiry. A pilot ICI project centered on ‘remote channels’ will enable distant participants. We encourage inquiries from individuals with shared interests but different time zones.
Please send a statement of interest to the ICI by December 15, 2011. Indicate your interest(s) and any limitations on your schedule: info@culturalinquiry.org.
Information Sessions for Curatorial Projects
The ICI has scheduled a series of monthly sessions to help ease the application process for individuals who want to submit curatorial proposals. During each session, we’ll present one of our ongoing projects as a means of demonstrating (not merely presenting) the ICI method.
The first session will be on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 7 p.m. and will focus on the Manual of Lost Ideas. Please rsvp by October 31 at info@culturalinquiry.org