Residency Unlimited

Program Type: Talk

RU Talk: Studio Serendipities – Nomadic Practice in Central Eastern Europe

Friday March 1, 2024 | 6:00pm Location: Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn NY 11231 (map) Can a country become an artist’s studio space—where a geographical territory or region serves as a source of inspiration as well as a terrain for production? In her conversation with curator Ksenia Nouril, artist Yael […]

José Manuel Mesías in conversation with Ivy Huang

 Joined in conversation with RU curator-in-residence Ivy Huang at the Cuban Artists Fund studio, Cuban artist José Manuel Mesías (2023 RU alum) discusses his engagement with birds, multilayered realities of Cuba, and collection of fragments in his practices. From everyday objects to historical relics, Mesías contemplates on the timely and the untimely objects and […]

Art and Conflict—The Impact of Theater in Lebanon

Monday December 4, 2023 | 6:00pm Location: Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn NY 11231 (map) In his recent book Art and Conflict: The Impact of Theater in Lebanon (Geneva: Editions Slatkine, 2022), Michel Abou Khalil offers unique insight in the role of theater as a bringer of peace in a […]

RU Talk: Shaping an Art Odyssey—from Concept to Continent

Thursday November 30, 2023 | 6:30 – 8:00pm Location: Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn NY 11231 (map) Join Michelle Levy in conversation with RU Executive Director Nathalie Anglès and curator Bartek Remisko for an evening that uses the PAULINA project as a case study to explore how independent artists can […]

Living with toxicity: A show and tell with Jelena Micić and Heather Davis

Wednesday November 22, 2023 | 6:00pm Location: Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn NY 11231 (map) The worlds of art, representation, and imagination now rest on plastic and oil as their basic substrate… [Plastic] is the voice or the agency of those long-dead plants and animals returned to be a lively […]

Alternative Practices: Working Beyond the Institutional Framework

Wednesday September 6, 2023 | 6:30-8:00pm Location: Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn NY 11231 (map) Manon Slome, Curator and co-founder of the nomadic arts organization, No Longer Empty, will be in discussion with curator and cultural critic, Laura Raicovich, author of Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of […]

Decocainizing Coca: Challenging Western Narratives of a Sacred Plant

Virtual Panel Thursday, June 15, 2023 | 7:00 – 8:30 PM Join us online for Decocainizing Coca: Challenging Western Narratives of a Sacred Plant, a panel about alternative pathways that reverse the Western narratives of the coca plant that have invisibilized the millenia-old ancestral, quotidian, and sacred uses of the power plant by Andean and […]

Game of LAIR: Veronika Molnár and Tamás Páll in dialogue

Tuesday May 16, 2023 | 6:30-8:00pm Location: Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn NY 11231 (map) On May 16, the headquarters of Residency Unlimited will be transformed into a cross-reality dwelling space, where RU curator in residence Veronika Molnár and artist Tamás Páll will perform a game-based discussion. They will play […]

KODA Professional Development for Artists Symposium

Virtual Symposium | FREE and open to the public Monday April 17, 2023 | 2:00-6:00pm EDT KODA Professional Development for Artists Symposium program invites practicing artists to benefit from four comprehensive online seminars covering the essential business skills they need to grow their career. This year KODA partners up again with Residency Unlimited (RU) and […]