#ResidencyInsights Aii Wijaya & Ikbal Lubys

»Palm oil is a slow moving liquid , but many things are moving and changing very fast due palm oil production. It changes the environment, social, political, economic, people's mindset, habit and life. Ironically, the largest producer of palm oil in the world uses only 20% of its production, but the ones who receive the greatest impact directly. Such as a coin, this magical fruit have two different faces  that only one can choose from.«

Im Gespräch: Tim Etchells über seine Arbeit ›Shifting Ground‹

#ResidencyInsights Göksu Kunak

»Somewhere in this world, not so far away from where you’re reading this now, people are being sentenced to life in prison, or being tortured; their voices are not heard anymore. Atrocities of a government cause pain. While the nationalistic ideals are being proliferated—as a part of the  monthly deal, the country wants to land on the moon fifty-three years after the original landing.«

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Deepika Arwind, Shaymaa Shoukry & Andi Otto

»We came to play with the idea of the ritual; to reimagine and disrupt rituals that felt redundant and oppressive; to create fantastic and liberating ones. We used repetition. We made the floor, the box, the blackboard into musical instruments that interacted with the body. We found shrines in Zollverein. We filmed ourselves moving through these structures. Against a landscape that looked nothing like we’d seen, we tussled with our relationship with our cultures and rituals.«

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HARTMANNMUELLER

Die Residenz bei PACT nutzen HARTMANNMUELLER als dritte und letzte Probenphase für ihre aktuelle Produktion ›EDEN - Die Stimmung war ganz gut bis zum Schluss‹ und widmen sich dabei der Frage: Was war eigentlich los im Garten Eden?

Tim Etchells im Interview zu ›Under Bright Light‹

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Mbarushimana Isiaka

»The project I was working on in my residency at PACT focuses on a subconscious mind that triggers questions and leads to subconscious reactions. How does it refer to what is humanity? The feelings and values that push us to move with each other in all ups and downs, good or bad.«

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Association for Black Art_ists

During the Association for Black Art_ists (ASBA) residency at PACT, Fayo Said, Clémence Garcia-Lindenmeyer and Marny Garcia Mommertz spent three weeks in Essen, where they initiated the conversation series ›Walgahi Conversations on Black Archiving‹.

Saša Asentić & Collaborators: DIS_Kurs – Videoreihe mit Leroy F. Moore

Leroy F. Moore Jr. ist ein Afroamerikanischer Dichter, Journalist und Community-Aktivist und lebt in Los Angeles, Kalifornien. Im zweiten Teil der Video-Reihe ›DIS_Kurs‹ im Februar 2022 werden einige von Leroys Freund:innen und Kolleg:innen über ihre Lieblingsabschnitte aus seinem Buch ›Black Disabled Art History 101‹ sprechen. Die Videos enthalten Beiträge von Ottis Smith, Keith Jones, Toni Hickman, Ace Berstein, Lateef McLeod, Gabe Wilson und Krystina Jackson, die selbst bekannte Künstler:innen, Aktivist:innen und sogar Emmy-Preisträger:in sind.