Announcement: artists in residence 2023
Hotel Maria Kapel is proud to announce the artists in residence for the year 2023. We invited artists and other kinds of practitioners to live and work at Hotel Maria Kapel, to develop and present a project in any form.
Bernice Nauta & Gijsje Heemskerk will use their residency at HMK to produce a series of large scale watercolor drawings that functions as the backdrop for a film they will shoot in the chapel and city of Hoorn. The Plantriarchy is a costume drama where the protagonist is a seed of an “invasive species". In their research the artists trace back to the etymology of the term and thus subvert reality by mirroring it in a narrative where hand drawn versions of history are shown.
Narges Mohammadi’s residency collides with EID during the spring of 2023. She is intrigued by the windows of Hotel Maria Kapel. The bright warm sunlight that shines through these large-scale windows reminds her of when she was looking through filtered sunglasses in the summer growing up in Friesland. These brown-coloured glasses that make reality a few tones warmer shape the basis for experimenting with edible glass during her residency.
Raffia Li researches the twists of time and temporalities in the singular and collective body, learning from languages that are beyond the spoken or written. They work with the body as a site for resistance to the capitalist and ableist way of constructing time, in search of the collective subjectivity. They will look further into their interests in accessibility politics in the Netherlands in the process of their own art-making and organizing during this residency. The outcome of this study will feed back into HMK’s organization.
Sijben Rosa grew up in Hoorn and wonders which aspects in this specific context contributed to a delay in their coming to terms with their own queerness. A long term-residency at HMK allows them to investigate this question further through their artistic practice. In their new film/performance A little bit like the Soul, Sijben rethinks the heteronormative social norms surrounding care, by means of a sculpture crafted by them. The project explores how objects can serve to make abstract social and political concepts tangible: even though the sculpture itself is inanimate, how we interact with it, interpret it and attach meaning to it, turns the object into a catalyst for human interaction and dialogue. Throughout the residency period, a Queer Clay Club organised at HMK will allow the audience to join Sijben in this exploration.
Dito Yuwono & Mira Asriningtyas will use their long-term residency period to do a research through a study platform called CHANT (Center for Historical Alternative-Narrative and Traces) to learn about the spatial history and political experience of the city Hoorn as a manifestation of collective memories and at the same time seeking for possible alternative narratives. This platform will specifically learn about the historical narrative of Hoorn in relation to the VOC from the two different poles of the politics; to offer a counter-narrative of the Golden Age from the perspective of Indonesian history, aligned with the geopolitical context of The Netherland.
During their residency, David Camargo & Amauta Garcia explore the question: how much time is needed to create a cubic meter of gas? Their research involves submarine volcanoes, specifically the one that is located under the surface of the Waddenzee. The only thing that is visible on the surface is a drilling platform; a silent reminder of a volcano that has been exploited for gas up until recently. Now, the volcano is exhausted and no longer provides gas. Nevertheless, we are still very much depending on this invisible but so tangible material. The artist duo will take under scrutiny HMK’s relation to gas and share their findings at the year’s end - when gas controls more than only the heating: it affects the economy, politics and our individual daily lives.
The selection was made by the annual open call and the committee was formed by the following members:
Maja Bekan (Secretary Board HMK)
Suat Öğüt (Board member HMK)
Tamara Kuselman (former resident)
Inez Piso (Artistic Director HMK)
