Introducing the recipients of the 2024 FJ’s Residency Program Grant
The F Project would like thank the FJFF for their support creating this wonderful opportunity for artists and our community.
35 national and international artists applied for the residency grants.
Congratulations to and introducing, our 3 FJFF Residency Grant recipients 2024.
Mischa baka (melbourne)
Many of my film works explore the body in wild natural landscapes such as the beach, river, desert and forest. Other films of mine feel more cerebral and situated in domestic and work environments. Warnnabool represents a unique opportunity where I may explore a community uniquely positioned between the ocean and the agricultural industry. My idea for a project would be to produce a short experimental film that explores the unique position of Warrnambool between the ocean and agricultural landscape. Collaborating with dancer Rebekah Stuart ( Partner) we will tease out the physicality of the local area and produce and film choreographic sequences. Exploring the casual conversations of the area a text or dialogue will also be gathered that can be layered into the film.
kazumasa tanaka (kaz) (japan)
I am enrolled in a master's program at a graduate school in Japan. I am majoring in Art Project Management & Production there. The main theme of my research is "Is it possible to open an art studio in a community?" There are already many public art studios in Japan as well. Many of them are primarily for the use of artists. This tends to create an invisible wall between the studio and the surrounding community, making it difficult for local people to participate. Therefore, I would like to intern in successful studios cherished by local residents and artists, and to research how to build close relationship between art residency and a community through interviews toward The F Project founding board members and volunteer staff and a practice of some workshop.
I make a hypothesis that if the physical action in the art process itself, such as drawing and engraving, shaving, chopping, could be meditation, and incorporate it to my workshop plan.
amy meng (sydney)
My practice stems from a fascination with kawaii culture, psychoanalysis and craft. These interests act as a backdrop for my investigation into the ambivalent nature of issues traversing infantilisation, fetish, domesticity etc., and their impact on the individual and collective mind. Drawing influences from manga and anime, I employ narrative devices as a means to materialize the elusiveness and volatility of our emotions and psyche. Fabricated personas play the role of surrogates, embodying those who are often wandering along the periphery of a phallocentric social fabric. These simulacra oscillate between the sweet and the perverse, the infantile and the adult, in a world where reality and fantasy, the imaginary and the symbolic all become increasingly superimposed. I also incorporate hobby craft and household materials into my work which usually require repetitive labour. This facilitates my effort to subvert the notion that the home is a ‘safe haven’, and at the same time allows me to re-examine and problematize domestic stereotypes, namely the house wife and the otaku. I seek to portray the real lived experiences of domestic life, where comfort and conflict, intimacy and transgression are messily intertwined.
FJ’s Artist Residency Grant
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