Event
ARC @ Res Artis 2023
United Kingdom
Wednesday, September 6
10 – 11:30am (BST)
Auditorium, Ground Floor
Thursday, September 7
2 – 3:30pm (BST)
Breakout Rooms, First Floor
Here East, UCL East @ University College London (UCL)
Join ARC at Res Artis! On Wednesday, September 6 at 10 – 11:30am (BST) attend the panel facilitated by Arts Infopoint UK “Setting The Scene: Artist Mobility in an Age of Instability” with ARC Asia Regional Representative Manojna Yeluri; On the Move Director of Operations, Yohann Floch; MASSIA Residency Executive Coordinators Miha Brebenel & Sepideh Ardalani; and Director of Greatmore Studios and Founder of makwande.republic Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu.
On Thursday, September 7 at 2 – 3:30pm (BST) attend the Peer-to-Peer session with ARC Asia Regional Representative Manojna Yeluri; UK Director of the World Uyghur Congress, activist, and singer Rahima Mahmut; and Ukrainian artist Anna Kostritskaya.
Mind the Gap: Designing residencies for everyone, will bring the international artist residency community together in the UK for the very first time, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Res Artis and 50 years of Acme. This year’s event will help chart a future for impactful residency opportunities, with a focus on optimism and practical working solutions for issues facing the sector.
Speakers
Sepideh Ardalani (they/she) is Iranian-born, invisibly disabled, and co-organises MASSIA residency and project space as a laboratory for alternative modes of learning, working, organising and co-existing – within the field of arts and culture and beyond. They co-cultivate spaces and situations engaged with collective practices of care: with people, herbs, gardens, etc.
Yohann Floch is Director of Operations at On the Move, the international information network for artistic and cultural mobility. He also leads FACE, a resource platform that facilitates European capacity building programmes in the contemporary performing arts field. He serves the Danish organisation IMMART – International Migration Meets the Arts as international advisory board member. Yohann has been an external expert for governmental bodies and private foundations, and led or (co)authored European studies, including the recent Cultural Mobility Flows reports (On the Move, 2022 & 2023), Time to Act (Europe Beyond Access, 2021), i-Portunus Operational Study (Goethe Institut, 2019).
Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu is the founder and head curator of makwande.republic residency in Goshen Village in the rural eastern part of South Africa. She is also a practicing artist with special interest in site specific public art. Mlandu is also a writer, facilitator and activist. Her work takes on a decolonial, intersectional, Pan- Africanist and feminist lens. She has a special interest in healing justice, mobility justice, heritage, memory and her lived reality of being an artist who is also a mother. She has curated, presented and spoken at various platforms globally. She is Senior Atlantic Fellow on Racial Equity.
Rahima Mahmut is a Uyghur activist, singer and translator who has led the movement in the UK to end complicity and secure action on the genocide taking place in her homeland. As a singer with the SOAS Silk Road Collective, she has woven music and art into her activism, highlighting the need for cultural preservation and resistance. Rahima is currently UK Director of the World Uyghur Congress, Executive Director of Stop Uyghur Genocide and Advisor to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).
Anna Kostritskaya was born in 1990 in Kyiv, in the family of Kyiv artists, where the artist is a mother, uncle known nonconformist Sazonov V.Z., and native aunt sculptor at the National Opera House. The first works were acrylic prints, engravings, in which the process of studying colour, the interaction of colour and form took place, and in general, the development of associative thinking as the basis of art. Her art is simple and complicated at the same time. The works are distinguished by clarity and painterly logic, with obvious colour correlations, proportion and colour harmony balance. The canvas always conveys a particular state, mood, emotion that is expressed with the help of scale and facture.
Manojna Yeluri is an artist rights, entertainment and intellectual property rights lawyer. She runs Artistik Licenses a legal consultancy and platform addressing the needs of artists and creative practitioners. She is also the Asia Regional Representative for PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) programme, as well as a co founder of the community project, Contracts for Creators. Manojna has spent the past decade working with the creative community, studying and advising on subjects related to music business law, art law, creative entrepreneurship and artistic freedom. She graduated from the NALSAR University of Law, India and holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in Entertainment, Media and Intellectual Property Rights Law from the UCLA School of Law, USA.
