Residences
Visiting artist programme for national and international artists. About Phoenix residences - see 'Opportunities'
Hilde Fuchs, Vienna, Austria
As part of Phoenix Brighton's Experimental Art and Performance Festival (now in its second year) taking place during the city-wide White Night Festival on 24th October 2009, Phoenix will be hosting the internationally recognised performance and installation artist Hilde Fuchs from Vienna, Austria.
During her two week stay prior to the festival Hilde will develop a new work which will be premiered during the White Night. Hilde Fuchs is a member of The Institute of Unnecessary Research www.unnecessaryresearch.org
Artists in Residence
Phoenix has developed a visiting artist programme with the aim of providing national and international artists with the opportunity to develop work within the environment of a large arts organisation. The residencies last from 6 to 8 weeks and are process-based enabling artists to develop work and tryout ideas in response to a new environment without the pressure of necessarily producing a finished exhibition.
Visiting artists are encouraged to network with other artists and organisations in the South East as a means of establishing a mutual exchange of ideas through practice.
Phoenix has also been able to send studio artists abroad in our exchange programmes. The focus of the exchange residencies is to broaden reciprocal awareness of the artists’ working practice and cross-cultural fertilisation between cities. Cultural exchange between organisations and individuals foster chains for future collaborations that outlive the length of the residency and spawn new professional and personal networks.
Publicly accessible residencies help to broaden understanding of the thinking and making processes of artists, and enables artists to have direct, challenging and productive interaction with their audiences.