A residency works usually on a verified and established diagram. As a starting point you just go and act like an ordinary contemporary artist. First you get familiar to the surroundings: some history, information regarding the social situation and cultural scene, and some basic instructions on how to not get lost in the city. The following days you overwalk all around and take a lots of photos - just shooting anything you find interesting. Therefore, it is quite possible that different artists will, at the beginning, noticing the same things. But to not stuck on same already worn-out issues, you'll have to find a glinch somewhere there through your collected stuff and stick to it. Find additional information, other issues that links to it, conceptualize your story, and work further.
Trying to find paths yet unexplored by the other artists, to construct a personalized subject, to dig to yet undiscovered resources is a task that makes me associate an art residency to the cult soviet book from the 80's titled "Following the footsteps of Robinson" ("Pe urmele lui Robinzon") by Nikolai Verzilin that served as a general guide for one's making himself comfortable in the forest. The main issue that the author centers in his work is to find the natural resources - which he calls "treasures" - that none of the robinsons were able to use, as they were not aware of them or had no enough imagination to figure them out.
Mapping the alternative warming practices in Miskolc links to the social burdens marked by economical load in the cold time period. Strong social interaction and cultural joint are the main things that define urban life. To maintain both active, it is essential to keep the city warm. As gas costs become more and more expensive by each year, the society finds itself forced to look up for alternative methods of fighting the cold. We will look further to identify most notable examples. We'll search for the most skillful firewood greasers and log stokers.
What are the subcultural boiler-houses of Miskolc and who is heating them? Which are the warm areas of the city and what's happening to the places left for freezing out? We draw our hands closer to the stove and start our pursuit.
Trying to find paths yet unexplored by the other artists, to construct a personalized subject, to dig to yet undiscovered resources is a task that makes me associate an art residency to the cult soviet book from the 80's titled "Following the footsteps of Robinson" ("Pe urmele lui Robinzon") by Nikolai Verzilin that served as a general guide for one's making himself comfortable in the forest. The main issue that the author centers in his work is to find the natural resources - which he calls "treasures" - that none of the robinsons were able to use, as they were not aware of them or had no enough imagination to figure them out.
Mapping the alternative warming practices in Miskolc links to the social burdens marked by economical load in the cold time period. Strong social interaction and cultural joint are the main things that define urban life. To maintain both active, it is essential to keep the city warm. As gas costs become more and more expensive by each year, the society finds itself forced to look up for alternative methods of fighting the cold. We will look further to identify most notable examples. We'll search for the most skillful firewood greasers and log stokers.
What are the subcultural boiler-houses of Miskolc and who is heating them? Which are the warm areas of the city and what's happening to the places left for freezing out? We draw our hands closer to the stove and start our pursuit.
A chimney on a mean street of Miskolc just starting to smoke. There must be plenty of logs inside...
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