Summer Residency Program 2004

30 November 1999

Tatjana Seserko - Josh Webb - Stuart Clipston By bringing working practices into a public realm, PICA's summer residency program seeks to facilitate an interaction between the gallery-going public and artists during the process of the creation of art. The residency program enables emerging artists to investigate ideas-in-progress in an informal way, within a professional contemporary arts context. Stuart Clipston's practice to date has alternated between artist and entrepreneurial curator, most recently as the co-devisor of Supermart with Tom Múller. For Josh Webb, the PICA studio residency will be used to study ideas that are concerned with the act of communicating, where the most effective ideas are those that describe the gap between language and thought within an autobiographical framework. Tatjana Seserko's work, which engages in methodologies of painting, performance and landscape art investigates notions of migration, disruption, uncertainty and alienation. PICA Residencies Open Studio Opening: March 31, 6pm Exhibiting: April 1 - 11, 2004 Stuart Clipston, Tatjana Seserko and Josh Webb have spent the past 8 weeks working at PICA as part of PICA's ongoing summer residency program. This project allows emerging artists the opportunity to explore their ideas-in-progress in an informal way. Lots of thinking and making and construction have been taking place. For two weeks in April, the studios will be open to visitors to experience and enjoy these works in progress. Stuart Clipston's practice to date has alternated between artist and entrepreneurial curator, most recently as the co-devisor of Supermart with Tom Múller. In this studio residency Clipston has been making: a) A Tower of Timber b) Coffee c) Post-it note Panoramas d) Adidas Clogs e) Invisible Drawings f) Oversized Watermelon g) None of the Above h) All of the Above Tatjana Seserko's project aims to reconstruct from the fragmentation of mis/communication, aspects of evolving post-totalitarian art from Former Yugoslavia and my current Australian cultural context. The residency at PICA has enabled an array of representational possibilities utilised to create a sense of displacement using blue sand and discarded materials such as floorboards and tissue culture flasks. thanks to Ionat Zurr Josh Webb ...and they started to dance without wearing no seatbelt.