A Studio in the Woods is excited to announce our
2010-2011 Changing Landscapes Artists-in-Residence
Changing Landscapes are 6-week residencies based on the premise that Southern Louisiana can be seen as a microcosm of the global environment, manifesting both the challenges and possibilities inherent in human interaction with the natural world. We ask artists to describe in detail how the region will affect their work, to propose a public component to their residency and to suggest ways in which they will engage with the local community. Changing Landscapes Residencies are sponsored in part thanks to generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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William Cordova (Lima,Peru, September 27th - November 5th 2010) envisions two aspects of his project. In preserving the spillage he plans to document and preserve traces of displaced and erased histories within the rich in New Orleans landscape. The other half of his project, in our life time, will focus on creating ephemeral monuments through 16MM films of secular sacred spaces/landmark locations within Louisiana history and folklore. This project proposes an alternative to State or City approved monuments of Civil War Generals by using cinematic monument of Black and First Nation’s people’s contributions in Louisiana.
Eric Dallimore (Denver, CO, November 9th - December 19th 2010) plans to produce an installation piece, a living public sculpture in the form of a pipeline, not a metal pipe carrying oil, but instead a zigzagging pipeline composed of entirely organic matter, housing a collection of seeds. The Pipeline will slither across the land, visually representing man’s destructive force of oil exploration on our Gulf coast, our wetlands and our forests. The pipeline will be engineered to intentionally burst at the seams using the wind and heavy rains to release the seeds onto the ground below and the pipeline itself will be entirely composed of organic materials to fertilize and germinate the seeds, raising new life from the saturated earth below. www.ericdallimore.com
Bernard Williams (Chicago, IL, January 18th – February 27th 2011) often works with a jigsaw and found wood.His sculptures use symbols and words to form the surface of the object. For his project in New Orleans, he plans to build a temporary structure blending architecture with the natural structure of plant forms and forces of nature. The work will be informed by research of rebuilt, un-built, and newly-built places through conversations with local individuals connected to building and designing. This would include local architects, artists, historians, various designers, lay builders, and others.
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We have also offered a two-week Special Invitation Residency to Pulitzer-nominated documentary photographer and editor Alex Harris (Durham, NC, Dates TBA) Harris who will be completing a book in collaboration with ecologist E.O. Wilson who won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction. They envision a new hybrid literary and visual form that is part memoir, part documentary, and part social and natural history connecting the insights and the important questions of science to the intuition and metaphorical power of art. alex-harris.com

