The Collaborative Research Residency is the joint effort of three different institutions: BAC, Baltic Art Center in Visby, Sweden; The Factory of Art and Design (FFKD) in Copenhagen, Denmark and Hordaland Art Centre in Bergen, Norway.

 

The Collaborative Research Residency is a new residency program specifically for collaborative research within the field of contemporary art, welcoming applications consisting of three collaborating practitioners from or based in the Nordic or Baltic countries.

 

The project takes as its starting point the upsurge within the contemporary art field of collaborative artistic practices, and the increased emphasis on research in the development of artistic work. It also builds on the long tradition of artists feeding their interests and practice with input from other fields of knowledge.

 

The three institutions aim to facilitate meetings across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. The project places emphasis on the creative process and aims to foster new ideas, different forms of knowledge production and the development of new working methods. At the same time we would like to shift the traditional focus in residency programmes from individual practitioners to collaborative practice. As the project is focused on the research phase, the goal is to encourage new relationships, the testing of new ideas and the taking of creative risks.

 

Simultaneously as the resident groups work within the framework, the hosting institutions commit to an ongoing discussion with the residents and each other to support the programme with reflections on the different aspects of the Collaborative Research Residency, leading up to an evaluation of the project made public in writing and through a seminar.

The programme is a pilot project and residents will be asked to contribute to the further development and improvement in the form of feedback.

 

 

Baltic Art Center is a production office and work place for artists, curators and contemporary art writers located at the Swedish island Gotland. We run a variety of different production- and residency programs. BAC is a flexible organization placing the artistic process at the centre of our activities. We have no permanent studios or exhibition rooms. BAC is working actively with questions concerning the relationship between artistic process, institution and society with the aim to continuously assess and re-think our working methods.
www.balticartcenter.com

 

The Factory of Art and Design (FFKD) is an artist-run institution in Copenhagen, Denmark. FFKD houses 55 studios for professional visual artists and designers and a 1000m2 production hall, which is used for exhibitions and events. We run a variety of different international residency programs and collaborate equally on a local, national and international level in issues dealing with the conditions of artistic production.
www.ffkd.dk

 

Hordaland Art Centre based in Bergen, Norway was established 1976 as the first artist run art centre in Norway. Its activities are based around the exhibition programme with equal emphasis on seminars, presentations and dialogue. Since 1987 Hordaland Art Centre has had a residency programme, from 2008 open to international artist, curators, contemporary art writers and other art professionals. Hordaland Art Centre is situated in one of the oldest remaining school buildings in Bergen where we focus on local commitment in an international every day.
www.kunstsenter.no