The FOOD OF WAR collective was formed by Omar Castañeda and Hernán Barros, two Colombian artists based in London and Andreina Fuentes, a Venezuelan artist based in Miami. FOOD OF WAR is a multidisciplinary art collective dedicated to explore the relationship between food and conflict through any artistic expression. Their proposals involve performative interactions with the…
ART FOR UA
Support campaign for Ukrainian artists in residence at atelierWG in Amsterdam Event held at puntWG, September 2022. Since spring 2022, a group of artists from atelierWG, the largest studio community in the Netherlands, have been working on creating a support campaign for their Ukrainian colleagues. Hanna Hrabarska (1986) is a Ukrainian photographer, visual…
MIAMI NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL, AMSTERDAM 2022, Hybrid Dialogues. Video Selection.
A total of 40 proposals participated in the open call, aimed at video artists of any nationality residing in the Netherlands. 16 Proposals were selected for the first edition of the Miami New Media Festival, Amsterdam, with the special participation of Diana Blok and Raúl Marroquín as guest artists. The selection was made…
MIKU SATO Interview
Miku Sato, has been our resident during the period April – June 2020. Sato’s practice is based on fieldwork and site-specific, where she starts a project delegating her intention to the local people she selects. Through video, installation and the participatory action of people, she explores new perspectives and alternative possibilities of relationships…
A PANDEMIC RESIDENCY, by Matthew C. Wilson
Factitious Flora was developed within the framework of Forecast – Skills e.V. When I arrived at airWG I was struck by one thing in particular: the height of the ceilings. Research suggests ceiling height can affect how someone thinks — leading to more abstract and creative thinking. High ceilings also prevent one from…
IN-BETWEEN INDIGO, Kentaro Yokouchi
To understand the process of cultural transformation that took place in each “in-between” means to me that I have to get in touch with the past from the daily life of the present, and from there create a new base of perception, a new history. Kentaro Yokouchi Kentaro Yokouchi (Japan 1979) was our…
airWG ENCOUNTERS
During the month of November 2020, given the circumstances of the pandemic and the consequent changes in the programming of our activities, we decided to generate a series of virtual encounters that would allow us to know the reality of other residency programs for artists with particularities of each context. A recognition of…