MAP mima residencies

As a cultural activator, the Multi-Arts Pavilion, mima (MAP mima) supports emerging and established artists by providing a platform for experimentation and the opportunity to present new artworks.

Artists can experiment with the technology within The Cube's 360-degree projection space and are encouraged to create works for other spaces within MAP mima, including The Node and The North Wall. As part of each residency artists present their work or deliver workshop projects that are open to the public.

Wanjun Carpenter, Cathode Dream

The Multi-Arts Pavilion, mima (MAP mima) launched its Artist in Residence program with local mixed media artist Wanjun Carpenter in February 2022.

In the inaugural show, Carpenter utilised the unique MAP mima canvas by blending analogue and digital technology. Using handy cams, analogue TVs and other obsolete technology, Carpenter created a glitchy and edgy work that samples the texture and patterns of 80s and 90s video technology, fed back through the state-of-the-art MAP mima projection system.

Image: Wanjun Carpenter during his residency at MAP mima.

Lichen & Luna: Passing Clouds

Passing Clouds is a development project by Australian artists Lichen Kelp and Luna Mrozik Gawler. It emerged from more than six years of snorkeling with and learning from the Giant Cuttlefish, observing their complex and kaleidoscopic ways of living and dying. It embodies a desire to share their lessons with human audiences in the hope they might add something to conversations around multispecies futures, and survival in uncertain times.

Passing Cloud offers audiences a wonder inducing, surreal encounter with an alien other. Immersed in an atmospheric world of sound and light they are invited to follow their curiosity and challenged to divine meaning from a multispecies oracle.

Image: Lichen & Luna Passing Clouds 2024. Courtesy MAP mima and the artists

Miguel Felipe Valenzuela and Julia Flanagan: Endless Sunbeams in Another Time

During their two-week residency at the Lake House, artists Miguel Felipe Valenzuela and Julia Flanagan spent time observing the urban and natural landscape, looking for remnants and traces of the past.

Made on location in the Awabakal, Lake Macquarie region, their interactive multichannel work, Endless Sunbeams in Another Time, examines the relationship between humans, geography, machines and the built environment.

Image: Julia Flanagan and Miguel Felipe Valenzuela at the opening night of Endless Sunbeams in Another Time 2024.

 

Discover more about workshop and residency opportunities at the Multi-Arts Pavilion, mima at MAP mima workshops and residencies

Main image: Wanjun Carpenter Cathode Dream 2022. Courtesy MAP mima.