ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Our first artist in residence will take place in July 2022 in Sweden. The residency is a collaboration with Gamleby Foto Grant and it is funded by Tjustbygdens Sparbank. The aim of the residency is to support the production of new artistic work by inviting artist to Gamleby for an uninterrupted period of time, assist with technical equipment and facilitate a platform for exchange of ideas between local artists and the artist in residence. The recipients for 2022 are South African artist collective Lindiwe Matshikiza, Meghan Judge, Sibabalwe Ndlwana and Joao Orecchia.
sibabalwe ndlwana
Sibabalwe is a weaving artist, textile designer and researcher based in Cape Town.
Her practice as a textile maker focuses on utilizing the meditative processes of hand-weaving in an improvisational style in bringing personal narratives, memory and abstract landscapes into focus while paying homage to artisanal processes of ancient practices.
Lindiwe matshikiza
Lindiwe is an artist working mainly with performance, directing and writing. She uses her background and training in theatre-making as a base from which to approach other kinds of work; often collaborative, exploratory projects that take on more than one form over time.
meghan judge
Meghan Judge is an artist living in Johannesburg. Her work composes from and with resonances generated by drifting between places and people in time. With a background in animated film, Meghan explores narrative by tracing and subverting power within their formation, finding rhythms outside of linearity and locating a before zone that re-orients with elements that are often pushed into void. Her work forms at the active edges of perception, noising with the void to sense wayward relations. Most recently Meghan has been exploring sonic palettes for sensing more caring human-ocean relations in the Indian Ocean.
João Renato Orecchia
Born in Brooklyn, NY to a Peruvian mother and an Italian father. He grew up in the city’s mixed immigrant communities, in all their contradictory beauty, displacement and unsettledness. With a strong connection to an elusive somewhere-else, Orecchia had always been drawn towards unfamiliar territory.
Orecchia has become increasingly concerned with the nature of sound itself, how sound acts and how bodies are affected by the movement and vibration of sound. This is the starting point for most of Orecchia’s current musical output. He seeks to uncover the relationships between individual sounds in movement and observe their interaction. Drawing on processes in the vein of Lucier and Reich as well as the concrete of Varése and Schaeffer, Orecchia is interested in relinquishing total control in favour of surprise and discovery, allowing music to unfold through the tactile, physical engagement with a system set into motion by a process.