Guest studio 2: Zachary Formwalt (US)

During the three-month period in residence at the guest studios I will be working on a film, the third part of a trilogy investigating relations between visual representation and economic processes. In this film I am looking at the emergence of the field of financial journalism in the 1840s in relation to the first appearances of photographs in newspapers in the 1880s. I have been conducting research at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam regarding this period in relation to a notebook of Karl Marx’s from 1868 dedicated to The Economist and Money Market Review. During my time in residence at the guest studios I will be both carrying out research at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, specifically in their vast newspaper archive, and synthesizing this material with that of the Marx notebook. This synthesis will be carried out in the medium of film and video.

Guest studio 3: Rumiko Hagiwara (JA)

My work consists of tiny changes in daily life. It is based on the notion that spaces contain memories and time as a result of human action and behavior. These memories can easily be ignored as our attention is distracted by elements that occupy our daily life. I point the attention to this phenomenon by suggesting the viewer to notice and rediscover trivial things.
I have been working to document the tiny incidences in daily situation. During 3 months residency program, I want to go out to take photos and videos to make sketches in the city. I make tiny changes in the ordinary situation by installing some absurd items. They would be documented and shown as observations of sight specific installations.

Guest studio 1: Ola Vasiljeva (LVA)

Working in a wide range of media and drawing her inspiration from classical literature, historical figures and events, as well as pop- and sub-cultures, Ola Vasiljeva creates an ambigous, absurd scenography, which she populates with objects, videos; artworks by herself and other artists.
The work often evokes an odd, surreal situation; though being hardly narrative, it often focuses on the state of fundamental loneliness and distancing from the real world. Her aesthetic vocabulary draws from popular imagery which Ola choreographs with witty humor, poetry and a strong uncanny touch.

Ola Vasiljeva (Latvia 1981) is one of the founders of the Ocean Academy of Arts and the publisher of the OAOA magazine.

During the residency at DCR Ola is exploring the parallels between the fin de siécle period and the bohemian sub-culture tendencies of the 60's and 70's.

2010: New arrivals!

Our new artists in residence: Rumiko Hagiwara (Japan), Ola Vasiljeva (Latvia) and Zachary Formwalt (US) will live and work in The Hague at Gueststudios 1, 2 and 3 from January 4 till March 31. They have recently finished their research residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and are now preparing to be based in The Hague. We offer them a special program, "Nieuwe Hagenezen - cultural integration in The Hague" :)
Happy new year!

Guest studio 2: Petra Halkes and René Price (CA)

Petra and René doing their thing

Guest studio 3: Lenke Sifko

DCR time. What great time it is...

The past few weeks I have spent a great deal of my time watching people.
Watching myself watching people.
Watching people watch me watching them.

I am continually astounded by the amount of communication that can occur between individuals who do not ever speak with voice to one and another, and without a doubt, I relish the myriad of conversations I have with those with whom I also receive the benefit of verbal dialogue as well as the magic of the unspoken.

Guest studio 2: Petra Halkes & Rene Price

Here we are now, in Guest studio 2 at the DCR and having a great time. My name is Petra Halkes, and I will be here with my husband Rene Price until the end of December. We live in Ottawa, but I was born in The Hague, a long time ago. I emigrated to Canada in 1967.

Guest studio 3: Lenke Sifko

Lenke Sifko is a Canadian video artist (also designer/illustrator) and she will be staying with us untill the end of this year.

"In perception, we are given the ability to witness so much, yet retain only a small fraction of that which surrounds us, in all senses. We view such a small sliver of existence.

Guest studio 2: Boris Németh

Slovak photographer Boris Németh is traveling a lot through the country. Nederland door Slowaakse ogen (on dutch-doc)
Here some fresh works:

Guest studio 1: Lou Galopa

Some works of the exhibition Galopa was working on during her stay in the DCR. A group exhibition in Quartair with Paavo Halonen (FIN), Raakel Kuukka (FIN), Toos Nijssen (NL) and Outi Pieski (FIN).

Guest studio 2: Boris Németh

9 October, welcomelunch Boris Németh








Invited:
Jaap Schreeren
Dieuwertje Komen
Nadine Stijns
Caroline Grijsen
Petrina Hicks
Sara Carlier
Martijn van de Griendt
Annelies Kuiper

Guest studio 3: Petrina Hicks

Petrina is working on a new series of photos in her studio...


... collecting reference material.

Guest studio 2: Marieke Verbiesen

Opening yesterday in ZAAL5, great work! Visitor (Eelco) is playing the leading role :)

Guest studio 1: Lou Galopa

Lou Galopa, staying with us this month, is working on her installation in Quartair:
'...Every day I'll make the house of the day with objets I found in the street. Each small scupture is combined with a drawing.
I have a lot of houses (I travelled a lot) but I'm looking for my home. I feel at home only in the water. So I imagine for the installation a waterhouse. It's now in progress....'

The exhibition Calling Home aims to put emphasis on the concept of home and to discuss its different representations. Although home is represented and referred to in diverse ways in different times, cultures and regions, in the end it is a universal concept. We all come from somewhere, although this place usually considered as home might never have existed as a "real", physical place or might only be captured in past tense. Home is not a building but it can be built in mind.

Home is an important constructor of identity. The American sociologist Kath Woodward has once said that "identity only becomes an issue when it is in crisis". When the stability, continuity and safety of home is for some reason questioned, threatened or totally lost also identity becomes an issue. Feelings of alienation and dis/misplacement might be caused by being in one place but longing for another, sensing home in different environments or in no place at all. Still, alienation does not solely come out from being abroad from home, physically far from the place of origin, but might as well result from several problems of identification and feelings of exclusion within a certain social or cultural group.

Riitta Granfelt, Finnish researcher in social sciences has defined the meaning of home in three levels: home is a platform for close relationships, a representation of continuity and it is connected with mind and memories. Within Calling Home I wish to put attention on works that discuss, represent, reflect on, challenge or question different concepts of home.

Guest studio 2: Marieke Verbiesen

MOVIESTAR
24-9-2009 until 22-10-2009

OPENING Thursday 24 September – 8.00 p.m.

In this interactive installation, the visitor literally plays the lead role. A proposal by Marieke Verbiesen and Neeltje Sprengers, it is one of the winning projects of the BNG Workspace Project Prize 2009.

The basic theme is the evolution of special effects and the role that these play in cinematography and the fine arts.
The installation merges live recordings of the visitor and of an electronically controlled film set into one real-time projection. Classic and new techniques are used to create a film reality that the otherwise passive viewer can now manipulate: he can watch himself act as an actor in a movie, surrounded by monsters, UFOs and surrealistic events.

LECTURES
As part of the MOVIESTAR exhibition in ZAAL5, two lectures will be held that explore the artists’ sources of inspiration and how the speakers relate to these.

Thursday 8 October – 8.00 p.m.:
Pauline Kalker of the innovative animation theatre group Hotel Modern will speak about low tech and high tech and the philosophy of Hotel Modern, and will show how maximum effects can be achieved using minimal means.

Thursday 22 October – 8.00 p.m.:
Volker Morawe and Tilman Reiff of the German FUR Art Entertainment Interfaces will discuss their humoristic installations that revolve around the user and his use of machines.