Providenza is intiating a trans-Mediterranean residency program in partnership with Cherimus and Archipelago Network, Sardinian and Greek artistic organizations. This program enables groups of Mediterranean and international artists to travel from island to island (Greece, Sardinia, and Corsica), engaging with local communities and their territories.
Named "Communities Between Islands," this initiative is supported by Creative Europe and the European Commission.
The first cycle of “Communities Between Islands,” titled “Untraced passages” brings together three artists selected by Archipelago Network: Marianne Fahmy (1992, Egypt), Latent Community (Sotiris Tsiganos, 1992 and Ionian Bisai, 1992 Greece), and Elke Marhοfer (1967, Cuba) to investigate the contemporary environmental crisis and local realities through time-based media.
The four residents start their journey from Corsica, continuing to Sardinia and concluding in Syros. In Syros they will host a series of public workshops and works-in-progress presentations from September 20-30, 2023, in collaboration with the Syros International Film Festival (SIFF). A screening dedicated to the participating artists’ previous work will take place on September 30.
The residency program and public presentations in Syros are implemented in collaboration with curator Eva Vaslamatzi.
Marianne Fahmy — Laws of the ruins, film
Lives in Alexandria, Egypt, and works primarily with installation and film. She deploys past and current narratives into potential futures that oscillate between fiction and reality.
During the residency, Marianne Fahmy will expand her research on marginalised narratives related to the sea and water by investigating various water structures, both ancient and modern, on all three islands that reflect political and social change.
Latent Community — Resonant rehearsals, film
Visual artists and filmmakers Sotiris Tsiganos and lonian Bisai. They work in research-based projects using the moving image as a tool to explore issues of social, political and environmental justice.
On all three islands, they are carrying out extensive fieldwork, working with local communities, environmental activists and scientists to investigate how pollution and the activities of the tourist, military and maritime industries affect social and ecological balances in unpredictable
Elke Marhofer — exploring resilience: Revisiting Practices of Wilderness, film
Elke studied Fine Art at SAIC Chicago and ISP Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work investigates ecological practices for human and nonhuman communities.
During her residency, the artist will look into the not-so-distant past to rediscover moments of indigenous and/or traditional ecological knowledge in harmony with the environment. Rather than triggering dystopian feelings of shrinkage and fear in the face of a world without fossil fuels, Elke Marhöfer aims to explore the potential of space for other-than-fossil-fuel perspectives.
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