Artist in Residence

Research Exchange Artists in Residence Programme

Each year MAP invites artists from in and out of Aotearoa to apply to take part in the Research Exchange Artist Residencies held in Ōtautahi. Selected artists work in-studio for 6 weeks, present a workshop and research presentation to the public, as well as either contribute a piece of writing to The Map publication or create a web page detailing aspects of their work. Each Research Programme is funding dependent so join the MAP newsletter for the call for applications.

Applications now closed!

This year’s programme:

focused on provocations towards Speculative Futures, artists were invited to respond to questions such as:

Which worlds would you design/erase/construct/destroy/form/reform/perform/deform?
Through what other relationships with time could we move?
What if past, present, and future met or collapsed?
How could your practice move us beyond what currently exists into realms of possibility?

In their practice, artists were encouraged to:

Create time-based works that challenge conventional forms
Consider Site Responsiveness, acknowledging the territory’s interferences in their residency experience and their impact on the territory
Embrace Collaborative Contamination, working on their projects while being affected by and affecting each other’s work in unprescribed ways of collaboration.

The two selected artists Ella Rerekura and Merinda Davies resided at Sutton House during 16th Jan – 25th Feb 2024 with Research Performances taking place in February and embodiments / aspects of their work took part in the MAP Resides exhibition at CoCA – Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki in May 2024.

FULL DIGITAL UPLOAD

by Oli Mathiesen
performed on 25 November 2022

Body and Bone

by Body Island
performed on 28 October 2022

Tango Huaranga

by Denesa Chan and Quique Miller
performed on 30 September 2022

Te Pūtake

by Tīwai
performed on 29 April 2022

Little Black Boxes

by Carlene Newall de Jesus and James Clement, HighJinx Youth Company
August 2020

Further Residencies

Less Sermon More Song
A Live Encounter with my Archive

“I left feeling really grateful to have reconnected with my relationship to embodied practice. Someone once said that we are reborn every day and the old version of us dies every day. I felt the constant cycling of death and transformation of identity and of my relationship with movement/dance throughout the residency, and that was incredible. Invaluable. Incomprehensible.”

“The residency has been invaluable. My admiration for the professional and social skills, the focus and flexibility, the authentic and human qualities with which MAP helped us navigate this strange (and strangely productive) month. I know there were many involved in making all this possible - a very big thanks to them!

MAP - the work you do there is a HUGE asset to Christchurch and for the wider Dance Community.”

“I was really impressed by the generosity, curiosity, critical acumen, creativity and care that went into this project. It is rare to encounter such a valuable engagement with artistic practice, and in these complicated times this strikes me as even more crucial, as it is vital to invent new forms for taking care of the conditions of thinking and working together!”

Research Exchange