Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Vbk Marketing LLC
Wojtek Ulrich
Wojtek Ulrich experiments with conceptual film and video installations in which objects refer to context rather than aesthetics. Aesthetics serve only as a step toward the creation of a new discourse as a way of developing autonomous concepts that reach beyond art. What occurs is a shift in perception of context through the analysis of cultural, political and economic relationships, modifying our expectations and opinions of art.
Wojtek Ulrich received his MFA from the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Other Gallery, Bejing and White Box, New York. He has participated in group exhibitions at White Box Contemporary, San Diego; White Box, New York; Other Gallery, Shanghai, and Other Gallery, Bejing. He lives and works in New York.
Wojtek Ulrich, SCUM, 2007, Three-channel video installation with audio. Courtesy of the artist.
Wojtek Ulrich, TV Mirror - Irreversible, 2011, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Wojtek Ulrich, TV Mirror - Irreversible, 2011, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Wojtek Ulrich, The Dog, 2011, Single-channel video, 9 min. 14 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2012: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Marie Perrault
Curator Marie Perrault’s practice focuses on the influence of mechanical and technological devices. She is interested in how artists use these resources and address the increasing impact of digital technology. In 2010, in an exhibition of kinetic works of Alan Storey, she addressed various aspects of the influence of the machine in our daily lives. Perrault is now working on essays on the works of Montréal-based artists Pascal Dufaux and Jean Dubois. The first deals with the place of the individual in the current hyper-media context, and the second uses touch screen and cell phone technologies to interact with the viewers.
Over the last twenty years, Marie Perrault has organized a number of exhibitions for Canadian institutions such has Musée régional de Rimouski, Optica, and SBC Gallery, Montréal. She has also written a number of essays in contemporary art magazines and exhibition catalogs published in Canada and in France. She has written on the growing influence of technology, on various aspects of public art, on contemporary photography and on installation. Until 2009, she was Project Manager for the Percent for the Arts Program of Québec. She lives and works in Montréal.
Jean Dubois and Chloe Lefebvre, By Means of a Sight, 2008-2010, Interactive video installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Pascal Dufaux, Infrared Until the Night, 2012, Video kinetic machine shooting at Kamouraska. Courtesy of the artist.
Alan Storey, Public Art, Playful Machines, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Musee Regional de Rimouski, Québec.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Velimir Zernovski
Velimir Zernovski explores notions of identity, urbanity and popular culture as well as sexuality and gender identity. His work involves many different media including drawings, videos, installations, object installations in public space, writing and artist books.
Velimir Zernovski was born in Skopje and graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. Currently, he is a postgraduate student at the Department of Cultural Studies at The Euro-Balkan Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research, Skopje. He has had solo exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad in New York, Paris, Vienna, and Freiburg. Zernovski is the co-founder and president of FRIK Cultural Initiatives development Formation, and organization which is working on motivation of socially engaged art production and society democratization, beyond prejudices and stereotypes.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
