ON-AIR
Together with partner organizations throughout Europe Trans Artists developed a trajectory of Mobility workshops and training programs for artists on artist-in-residence opportunities.
The City of Göteborg and Konstepidemin will co-organize a workshop for artists in the region in October.
Read more at Trans Artists web page >>>
Studio 1
Anna Wieselgren, Canada
17.7 - 17.8 2010
"Anna Wieselgren’s work focuses on exploring themes such as gender, loss, memory and displacement using sculpture, installation and performance. Her residency at Konstepidemin will be dedicated to working on a new textile based piece as well as drawing."
Studio 2
Laurie Rosenwald, USA
5.4 - 31.8
I am very, very happy to be back at Konstepidemin. The creative energy here is a bit different than that of New York; it doesn't have to be quite so commercial, and most of my friends here are more free to pursue their real artistic vision.
I've been working on animation in the last year or two. Very short, simple films done in a style that uses collage and humor blended together. David Sedaris is a writer that is very popular in the USA, because he's deeply funny. I've illustrated some of his stories for "The New Yorker" magazine, so I got t know him, and we collaborated on this Diary Entry he wrote:
DAVID SEDARIS DIARY: ERNIE
I'll be doing more in this Sedaris series while at Konstepidemin, as well as more animations I have written myself, like these. I hope you enjoy them:
YELLOWTAIL
THE NEW NEW YORK ETIQUETTE
US:A CYNICAL LOOK AT SARCASM
In addition I will work on a book titled "MEMWAH", a funny memoir. And I plan to start painting again. Naturally I will continue to pursue my work as an illustrator, and teaching as well. I teach a workshop called "How to Make Mistakes on Purpose" which is scheduled for the weekend of April 24 and 25 at Beckmans Skola in Stockholm.
Here is some info >>>
My third book, which I wrote here, is titled "All the Wrong People have Self-Esteem."
True, don't you think?
Info >>>
My site is www.rosenworld.com
and my e mail is laurie@rosenworld.com.
Stop by Gäst Atelje 2 and help me practice my Swedish.
I make stronger coffee than you can imagine.
Studio 3
Katarina Eriksson, dancer, USA
6.7 - 16.9 2010
Studio Grindstugan
Simon Fujiwara, Tyskland
19.4 - 8.7
During his residency period for Iaspis in Gothenburg, Fujiwara will be working on his project Welcome to the Hotel Munber which will be presented at the end of his stay at the Goteburg Kunsthalle as part of the exhibition Disidentification.
For over three years Fujiwara has been scripting the life of his parents owning a hotel in 70's Spain under the Franco dictatorship, as an erotic novel. The incomplete manuscript of the novel, in which his parent's real life tales are told from the perspective of a repressed gay protagonist, emerged from Fujiwara's frustration at the lack of information on gay life in Franco Catalunya which was largely a result of the fascist regime's censorship of all things erotic.
In this sense, Welcome to the Hotel Munber can be seen as a reconstruction of a lost or impossible history. During the residency he will be planning a new installation: a reconstruction of the hotel bar that his parent's ran, in which he will perform readings from the fragments of the incomplete novel.
Fujiwara’s performance will pit the brutal sexual repression of Franco’s regime against the dilemmas of presenting intimate family history as erotica - a tale of personal and political sacrifices that ultimately lead to Fujiwara’s own exile in Mexico.
Inbjuden av Iaspis Göteborg/
Invited by Iaspis Göteborg
Studio Grindstugan & Guest Studio Robert
Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival
August 2010
During August, Guest Studio Robert and Grindstugan will be both a living space for artists and also a performing stage for Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival.
