Christine Cheung (CA) (b. 1979) studied Fine Arts at the University of Calgary and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada.

Christine is interested in ways memory and landscape in painting and drawing may connect, also whether and how suchthings could be translated into other mediums: photography, found objects or sculpture. Having in mind the mixture of private as well as collective themes, the possibilities and fragility of meanings in Christine’s work can be seen as a resistance against the fast consumption of images.

During the residency, the artist will be working on mediums of painting, drawing, video, and photography. She is keen to experience the changing relationship between the colours and water, to witness the sand dunes extension into the expanse of the sky.

Marion Blume (DE) (b. 1983) studied jewellery at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Her practice involves playing with the materials, getting to know them and exploring their properties in an experimental and playful working process, combined with the pragmatism that craft introduces. The objects Marion makes are the result of an intuitive way of working. The artist is interested in when the object creates itself as it emerges from the process, shaped through the properties of the material in combination with an external influence. Each piece is distinct, indicating the uniqueness and imperfection of human beings. The objects invite one to come closer without demanding to be the centre of attention, more coexisting harmoniously with the rest of the environment.

During the residency at NAC Marion will research on the ethical culture, local crafts and techniques and apply them to make wearable jewellery, influenced by thecultural and natural surroundings.

The artist is working with the interface of cinema and exhibition space. She uses different mediums, such as 16mm film, video, sculpture, and photography. In the exhibition context, her works reflect on the rules and regulations of cinema. The artist breaks them up to play with the differences of the assumed opponents of cinema and exhibition space.

During the residency at NAC Viktoria will continue to work on her ongoing project ‘Proposals to Project’. She will install projection screens in the various cinema-related aspect ratios in the public space and portray them with the corresponding filmformat.

Christina Smiros (US) (b. 1993) studied masters of Fine Art in Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Her work explores intersubjectivity and interpersonal relationships in technophilic societies through storytelling. The artists create ways for the viewer/user to interact with digitally-based characters through video, installation, and code. The creation process begins with doing extensive character development and research, followed by creating a script that looks and acts like a coded-network.

Throughout the residency Christina will work on the character development and script writing for the new story. Her research will focus on the ways in which relationships and dialogues are formed and function through the mediation of technology.

Sara Evelyn (GB/NO) (b. 1987) graduated from Scenography at the Norwegian Theater Academy.

She is working with photography, film, and performance. The artist creates spatial or site related performances and objects that have to do with translation, materiality, and gesture.

Sara’s starting point for the project she will develop during the residency is the period of nautical twilight which occurs each day, when the landscape is filled with an increased song output performed by birds, prior to sunrise during the breeding season.

The artist will be working with the voice, sound and collected field recordings in the surroundings of Nida. An audio-visual piece will be developed in collaboration with Lithuanian artist Beatričė Bukantytė and Ventės Ragas Ornithological Centre.