International Opportunities in the Arts

This book is a compilation of papers derived from talks, presented at TransCultural Exchange’s 2018 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts. The aim of these talks was to inspire artists to think across disciplines and cultures and to suggest other career models beyond the typical studio to gallery/museum model. Much of this content is unique in that it not only addresses the practical needs of artists but, even more importantly, it does so in the context of today’s global reality. As artists have noted on post-Conference surveys, this information is “the missing link in the art world; the bridge between academic and real-world practice; between a local and international career in the arts.” By making this information available long-after the Conference’s end and to those who could not directly participate in the Conference, many more artists will have access to where to find jobs/residency programs and funding for their work, information on how to put together successful residency applications, how to market their work, and other professional development programming. In addition, they (and interested members of the public) will have access to the Conference talks on what leading artists are doing across disciplines, with new technologies, and in the public sphere.

List of Figures

Foreword

Editor’s Introduction
Mary Sherman, MFA New York University

Artists as Agents of Change

Chapter 1
The Arts Educate: Twenty-First Century Skills for Literacy, Innovation, Citizenship
Doris Sommer, Harvard University

Chapter 2
Creative Brain Training: A Life Supplement
Diego Irigoyen, Creative Brain Training

Chapter 3
Kamiyama’s Success in Creative Depopulation
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Center for Arts and Culture, NLI Research Institute; Tokyo University of the Arts; Arts Council Tokyo

Artists Working in and with Health Care

Chapter 4
A Bridge to Baghdad: Working in Translation An Iraqi/American Project to Improve Pediatric Cancer Care in Iraq
Claudia Lefko, The Iraqi Children's Art Exchange

Chapter 5
Becoming Medicalized - Four Case Studies in Visual and Performance Art
Fiona Davies, University of Sydney

Chapter 6
Curating Care: The Design and Feasibility of a Partnership Between an Art Museum and an Academic Pain Center
Ian J. Koebner, University of California, Davis
Scott M. Fishman, University of California, Davis
Debora Paterniti, Sonoma State University
Doris Sommer, Harvard University
Deborah Ward, University of California, Davis
Jill G. Joseph, University of California, Davis

Artists Confronting the Anthropocene

Chapter 7
Between Three Worlds: Sustainable Visions in the Anthropocene (and How to Achieve Them)
Tanya de Paor, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick

Chapter 8
The Ecological Scope of African Art and the Symbolism of Wood: A Demonstration of the Impact of Artistic African Practices in the Sustainable Development for the Preservation and Protection of the Environment
Delphin Néo Nana, OSMOSE; Scènes Experimentales

Chapter 9
The Poetics of Ice and its Intimations: Ice-Time – Ice in the Anthropocene
Clea T. Waite, University of Southern California

The Critic’s Voice

Chapter 10
Art and Politics: a Critic’s Perspective on Agnes Martin and Liberate Tate
Richard Read, University of Western Australia, Perth

Chapter 11
The Post-Internet Way of Art Criticism
Ewa Wójtowicz, University of the Arts in Poznań, Poland

General References and Resources for Artists

Chapter 12
An Overview of Global Resources for Artists
Mary Sherman, TransCultural Exchange; Boston College; Northeastern University
With contributions by Susan Cohen, TransCultural Exchange

Chapter 13
Present, Engage, and Finally, Love: The Art Conference as a Site of Action and Departure
Janeil Engelstad, Make Art with Purpose

Chapter 14
Residencies and Communities
Bojana Panevska, DutchCulture | TransArtists

Mapping Mobility: Regional-Specific Residencies and Resources for Artists

Chapter 15
An Introduction to Microresidencies
Jaime Humphreys, Tokyo University of the Arts; Musashino Art University
With contributions by
Tatsuhiko Murata, Youkobo Art Space; Microresidence Network
Hiroko Murata, Youkobo Art Space; Microresidence Network
Makiko Tsuji, Youkobo Art Space; Microsidence Network

Chapter 16
Observations on Mapping Mobility: Resources for Artists Looking to Find Opportunities for Cultural Exchange Among the Countries and Cultures of the Americas
Jan Hanvik, Crossing Bridges LLC; Pan American Art Research Inc.

Chapter 17
Towards the Post-Digital in the Humanities? NACMM and Platform HARAKAT as Case Studies
Pau Catà Marlès, Edinburgh University

Chapter 18
Artist-in-Residencies on the Rise in Taiwan and Throughout Asia
Catherine Lee, Taiwan Art Space Association; Taipei Artist Village/Treasure Hill Artist Village

Moving to Global

Chapter 19
Language and Culture’s Intertwinement in Music: An Effort to Develop an Intercultural Language (and Notation) in Music
Benoit Granier, Coventry University

Chapter 20
The Middle East’s Artistic Heritage: A Springboard for Design
Antoine Abi Aad, Lebanese University; Industrial Design Center, IIT Bombay

The Production of Art

Chapter 21
Luginsland (On Art as Research)
Florian Dombois, Zurich University of the Arts

Chapter 22
Managing Interactions Across Art, Science, and Engineering
John Boylan, 9e2 Seattle

Chapter 23
Stop Making Sense: Collecting Data to Support the Arts
Mary Sherman, TransCultural Exchange; Boston College; Northeastern University

Chapter 24
Transform/Translate: A Report on Asian Production Sites Used to Manufacture International Art
Ingo Vetter, University of the Arts Bremen

Reconsidering the Native: What Indigenous Artists are Contributing to Contemporary Art

Chapter 25
The Importance of Place: Romani Art, Central Europe, and the Case of Czarna Góra
Wojciech Szymański, University of Warsaw

Chapter 26
Wapikoni's Model for Intervention: Film and Music Creation as Tools for Togetherness
Manon Barbeau, Wapikoni Mobile

Shifting Contexts: Artists Changing Cultural Landscapes

Chapter 27
Dispersing Knowledge: The Case of Qiu Zhijie Curating the China Pavilion in the 2017 Venice Biennale: What We Can Learn from this Artistic and Curatorial Practice
Davide Quadrio, Arthub

Chapter 28
The Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul: A Thirty-Six-Year Journey into Artistic Mediation
Sylvie Lacerte, Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul

Chapter 29
Transcultural Spaces: Post Migrant and Plural Identities in Video and Film from Yto Barrada, Mohamed Bourouissa, Mounir Fatmi, Khaled Jarrar, Lamia Joreige, and Bouchra Khalili
Catherine Bernard, State University of New York at Old Westbury

Authors and their Affiliations

Acknowledgments

Index

Mary Sherman is an artist and the founder and director of TransCultural Exchange. She also serves as the grants writer for TransCultural Exchange, which has received support from UNESCO, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Asian Cultural Council, among others. Additionally, she teaches at Boston College and Northeastern University and, in 2010, served as the interim Associate Director of MIT's Program in Art, Culture, and Technology. For her own work, she has received numerous grants and awards, including three Fulbright Specialist Grants (Trondheim, Taipei, and Istanbul), and has been an artist-in-residence at such institutions as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Taipei Artist Village. She is a frequent guest lecturer on funding for artists, has served on juries for such organizations as the National Endowment for the Arts, and has lectured widely (including at Goldsmith University, MIT and Harvard University). Further, for more than 20 years, she worked as an art critic for such publications as The Chicago Sun-Times, ARTnews, Boston Globe and Boston Review.

sources of Evidence: interviews with artists and arts administrators, Conference survey finds; other keywords: International Arts, Cultural Exchange, Arts, Contemporary Art, New Career Models for Arts, Artist Residencies