Salzburg Global announces the artisitic residencies taking place from October until the end of 2022
Since 2013, the Cultural Innovators Forum has brought together cultural innovators and creative practitioners from around the world. The artistic disciplines they represent range from the visual and performing arts, literature, and cultural heritage, to food, fashion, architecture, and design.
Reflecting this broad range, and to support and deepen connections within the network and facilitate inter-hub exchange, Salzburg Global Seminar, with support from the Bush Foundation and the McKnight Foundation, is proud to support selected Fellows from the Upper Midwest Hub by inviting them to undertake an artistic residency at Schloss Leopoldskron. The selected proposals represent diverse creative practices and artistic expressions, from poetry to nature and technological interventions.
Carl Swanson will be the first artist in residence in October. His poetry work distills “experiences and realizations to their essence, drawing unexpected connections, and making space for interpretation.” Carl will create a poetry installation inspired by the historic library at Schloss Leopoldskron, “with prompts for reflection and creative writing that could be used by Fellows and guests alike.”
Later in the same month, Lucas Koski will present an iteration of his "Palate. Pallet. Palette" gastronomic art project, which was previously presented at an Artist Residency in North Carolina, US. There, at a former thrift shop, he explored, over the course of a week, stories that could be told through narrative and cuisine, culminating in an immersive four-hour six-course dinner. At the Schloss, he plans to similarly create “an experience using built environments, cuisine and storytelling,” which will be shared with the participants of the Public Policy New Voices Europe program.
In November, Amanda Lovelee will create an interactive art piece in and with the gardens of Schloss Leopoldskron and its most prominent inhabitants: the trees. Her idea, Future of the Futures, “is a tool that allows people to dream about their futures, their communities’ futures, and their cities´ futures through an interactive conversation led by a future forest. What are our shared dreams, barriers, and hopes?” Over a year, Amanda will collect the answers to this question from Fellows and guests through an electronic platform installed in some of the trees on the property. She hopes it will result in “a long-term call and participatory process that allows for play, dreaming and ultimately system change.” She will work alongside Emily Stover, her collaborator, and both will participate in the Global Lessons on Greening School Grounds and Outdoor Learning program.
A week later, Dina Mousa will start her three-week residency at Schloss Leopoldskron, during which she will be writing her debut historical fiction novel, The Dew of Men. “As an Arabic woman living in the modern West, I don’t see a lot of positive representation of Muslims and Arabs, especially when it comes to strong female protagonists,” says Dina. Born and raised in Egypt, she spent some time as an ex-pat in South Korea and currently lives in Southern California, USA. This multicultural background will influence her writing, in addition to the inspiring setting of Salzburg and Schloss Leopoldskron. Dina will also be able to participate in Education Transformation and Gender: Better Outcomes for Everyone, taking place during her stay.
Finally, capping off the year in December, Moira Villiard and Adrienne Benjamin will jointly work on a project that reflects their Indigenous background and how it relates to an Austrian reality. Their reflections on this topic will come from a fresh perspective (Moira has not yet traveled internationally) with previous questioning (Adrienne has been to Salzburg before and was surprised to encounter a commercial take on Indigenous art). In Adrienne´s words, “in creating an art piece that tells traditional stories and explains a part of the cultural background of Indigenous people, we can change the narrative and allow truth to be taught, told, and understood.”
The residencies aim to ultimately reinforce the Cultural Innovators Forum's goal of supporting and empowering rising talents in the creative sector, the commitment of the institution to bring artists into other areas of programming, and the continuing legacy of Schloss Leopoldskron as a place of inspiration and experimentation.
