Nida A-I-R in October 2018
- Published on Saturday, 06 October 2018 15:02
Meet our new residents, ready to explore and work in beautiful surroundings of Nida: Claudia Rohrauer (AT), Teena Lange (DE), Marcel Tarelkin (DE), Amira Hanafi (USA/EG), and Hanna Schaich (AT). |

Marcel Tarelkin (DE) (b. 1982) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and at the Royal Institute of Arts in Stockholm. Marcel Tarelkin is interested in merging aspects of choreography, sculpture, furniture, and performance. His performative sculptures prompts interactions between the object and its audience. Tarelkin’s body of work includes choreography, notes, drawings, installations, sculptures, furniture, video work, audio recordings, and dance performances. The participants’ responses to all these components are integral to the work; the interaction with the pieces is a performative act in itself. During the residency, Marcel wants to create a series of objects by using standard Ikea furniture and reassembling them into something that shifts between the categories of sculpture and furniture, usability and nonsense. He’s interested in how the body and the sculpture connects and how a specific body posture can be created by its response to the sculpture/object. His goal is to expand the concept of traditional furniture usage, play with conventional understanding of furniture and to find the point at which furniture becomes a sculpture and vice versa. |

Claudia Rohrauer (AT) (b. 1984) studied at the School for Art Photography in Vienna and Fine Arts (Photography and Video & Video Installation) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She currently lives and works in Vienna. Claudia is planning to focus on the project Grains. By approaching the dune as an image and using both analogue and a digital SLR camera she will photographically divide the dune into its individual components. At the end of the working process, the footage will be reassembled into a multipartite, but yet fragmentary image of the dune, which will also represent an abstract portrait of the place itself. Artist combines site-specific and media-reflexive artistic strategies – a method of seeing a place through the filter of photography. Claudia’s main interest is to experiment with techniques to enforce the sensibility of the analogue film and the digital chip in order to go beyond the limits of their resolution capacities and to see what happens there. |

Teena Lange (DE) (b. 1980) is performance art curator, performative researcher and writer, and, since 2011, artistic director of the project space Grüntaler9 in Berlin. She studied Theatre & Performance Studies, Literature Studies & Linguistics at Universität Leipzig, Freie Universität Berlin and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III.
During the residency, Teena will reflect the processes and transformations of the performance art space Grüntaler9, where she has been working since 2011. Since its opening, Grüntaler9 has been a space of constant transformation, devoted exclusively to performance art and artistic research. It’s not a gallery, a White Cube or a Black Box. Each performance leaves behind visible and invisible traces, which remain, are taken over, transformed and left again. Grüntaler9 hosted more than 200 performances with more than 300 artists throughout seven years. In Nida Teena will create publication as a performance, that will be a continuation of Grüntaler9 activity. |

Hanna Schaich (AT) (b. 1986) completed her MA in fine arts at the Weißensee School of Art, Berlin in 2014. Hanna’s work revolves around needs and dreams, hopes and strategies, finding ways out of often monotonous and dreary life experiences. What fuels our aspirations? What prevents us as social beings from pursuing our desires? When and why do we fight for something? How do we maintain our dignity? And what are our individual strategies for negotiating life inside capital? Her videos reflect working along the lines between documentation and fiction, commentary and staging. Hanna’s writings and voice-overs are triggered by an autobiographical impulse to ask questions about our individual strategies to encounter life. |

Amira Hanafi (USA/EG) (b. 1979) received BA in Political Science at Rutgers College and MA in Writing at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Now lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. Amira is an artist and writer with a research-based practice. She works with written and spoken language, assembling multivocal archives of material connected to particular histories. Multivocality is both a theme and a strategy in Amira’s work. The artist is interested in the complexity of meaning that comes from collaging different voices, in the intersections of identities that are expressed, and in how multivocality can be an expression of collectivity, its rewards and challenges. Amira is researching the process of language, its materiality, its instabilities and contingencies. She approaches the work both formally and informally, by system and intuition, with logic and emotion. At the residency, Amira will produce new works on the topics related to conflict, rootless communities, migration, displacement, ways of making strange territories your own, conviviality, identity and related experiences. Also, artist will prepare for her solo exhibition in Vilnius in the end of October. |