Ziyang Wu: A Woman with Technology
Born and raised in Xuzhou, China, Ziyang Wu studied at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, and the Rhode Island school of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved to New York City in 2018 after several years of teaching at Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minnesota. Wu’s practice is centered […]
Christopher Udemezue Presents
Christopher Udemezue walks us through his work drawing on his Jamaican heritage and with a focus on the nuanced relationship of Queer identity, gender and race as complicated by the legacies of colonialism in the Caribbean. With references ranging from Tapatapa Dancehall music to Jacques-Louis David’s painting The Death of Murat, Udemezue’s practice is […]
Carlos Rosales-Silva: Borderland
Carlos Rosales-Silva focuses on the site-specific installation Borderland which was completed and presented at the 2020 Spring/Break Art Show in the days before the NYC lockdown began. Named after the neighborhood and street where he grew up in El Paso, Texas, the project exists between painting, sculpture and installation, drawing from personal histories, colonialism, modernism, […]
Meet Over Lunch: Alexandra Crouwers / Mistakes
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 anno covidi, I was supposed to give a talk over lunch at the end of my two months involvement with Residency Unlimited. This, of course, took place in another universe. Instead, I flew back home to Belgium on March 15 for obvious reasons. Luckily, the two weeks in New York were […]
Erik Sikora in Conversation with Lilia Kudelia
Curator Lilia Kudelia talks to resident artist Erik Sikora (2020). Back in Košice, Slovakia after his abridged residency, Sikora shares stories about biking through empty Manhattan in the wake of the COVID-19 quarantine, reevaluates his video-essayistic practice on YouTube, and explains his Dadaistic strategies aimed at escaping from the pristine context of the gallery. Domestic […]
Elizabeth Moran: Against the Best Possible Sources
Elizabeth Moran presents on a recent site-specific installation at Southern Methodist University that contextualizes her practice and directly feeds into the work that she plans on doing while in residence at Residency Unlimited. Informed by a preoccupation with the subjectivity of facts and the evidence of unknown or little understood histories, Moran’s research-based practice […]
Meet Over Lunch Online: Women’s Art and All-Female Group Exhibitions in 1990s China
Duration: 32:33 Starting in the early 1980s, mainland China experienced profound social and political changes. The country opened up to outside influences and chose a relatively tolerant attitude towards artistic experiments. Artists witnessed newly established freedoms that nourished the birth of “Chinese Contemporary Art” as well as the internationally successful genres of “Political Pop” and […]
Podcast Episode: Mashael Alsaie and Julia Hartmann
Thursday, March 19, 2019 RU Talk Podcast Episode: Mashael Alsaie and Julia Hartmann While we aren’t able to physically welcome you to Residency Unlimited this evening for our originally scheduled RU Talk between resident artist Mashael Alsaie and resident curator Julia Hartmann, we’re thrilled to air this RU Talk Podcast Episode for you HERE! Mashael Alsaie (Bahrain/NY) […]
Meet Over Lunch: Abdullah Qureshi, Mythological Migrations
Thursday, February 27, 2020 1 pm (free and open to the public) Residency Unlimited (RU) 360 Court Street (enter the Church through the main entrance) Brooklyn, NY 11231 Abdullah Qureshi is a Pakistani born artist, educator, and cultural producer. Within his practice, he is interested in using painting and collaborative methodologies to address personal histories, […]
Meet Over Lunch: Isabella Indolfi
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 1 pm (free and open to the public) Residency Unlimited (RU) 360 Court Street (enter the Church through the main entrance) Brooklyn, NY 11231 Can art help to understand the changing identities of a city and possibly regenerate a community? Can people become meaningful activators of art and play an active […]