Announcing New Fall Residents

Announcing Our New Fall Residents

10.16.2024

Dear Friends of The Luminary,

We are thrilled to introduce our new Fall 2024 Residents, bringing together artists and researchers with diverse practices and inquiries that span critical histories, sound art, speculative futures, and technologies of care. Selected from our recent open call, these residents will deepen their research-led practices through immersive residencies at The Luminary. In addition, we are excited to welcome a fellow through the CEC ArtsLink Fellowship, further enriching the exchange of ideas within our community.

Fall 2024 Residents for Research-Led Practice

Zainab "Zai" Aliyu

Zainab "Zai" Aliyu is a Nigerian-American artist and cultural worker living in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). Her work contextualizes the cybernetic and temporal entanglement embedded within societal dynamics to understand how all socio-technological systems of control are interconnected, and how we are all materially implicated through time. Drawing upon her body as a corporeal archive and site of ancestral memory, she crafts counter-narratives through sculpture, video, installation, built virtual environments, printed matter, archives, and community-participatory (un)learning.

Zai is currently a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation, design director for the African Film Festival at the Film at Lincoln Center in NYC, and a 2023-24 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Gardiner Museum (Toronto), Film at Lincoln Center (NYC), Museum of Modern Art Library (NYC), Miller ICA (Pittsburgh), Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (Hong Kong), Casa do Povo (São Paulo, Brazil), and Aktuelle Architektur der Kulturimages (Murcia, Spain), among others.

Project Focus: In what ways do technologies replicate and perpetuate systems of violence in our material world? How can antiracist, decolonial, and feminist artistic interventions critically challenge these systems to envision alternative ecologies of care?

David W. Norman

David W. Norman is a writer and art historian whose work focuses on how art reveals the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism in the Americas. He has collaborated with Indigenous artists and curators across Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), Alaska, Canada, and Sápmi. His current project, Settler Earthworks and Dispossession in the Midwest, examines connections between the 1960s land art movement and histories of forced relocation and resource extraction in the Great Lakes region. Norman’s research has appeared in October, Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, Kunst og Kultur, and other publications, with institutional support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Line of Inquiry: How has non-Indigenous land art contributed to settler colonial land management policies and perpetuated the erasure of Indigenous earthworks?

Alan Poma

Alan Poma is a multidisciplinary sound artist from Peru who creates immersive, site-specific performances that bridge sound art, scientific research, and multimedia installations. A key focus of his work explores connections between Russian Futurism and Andean culture, developing a framework he terms "Andean Futurism." Notably, his work includes a reimagining of the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun (1913). Poma has participated in residencies worldwide, including at Delfina Foundation in London and Casa Tres Patios in Colombia.

Research Question: How can Andean Futurism reimagine pre-Western Andean cultural traditions and critique the temporal structures imposed by Western narratives?

CEC ArtsLink Fellow: Yulia Krivich

As part of the CEC ArtsLink International Fellowship, we are delighted to host Yulia Krivich, a visual artist and cultural organizer from Poland and Ukraine. Yulia’s practice focuses on themes of migration, language, and decolonial processes in Eastern Europe. She co-founded the Solidarity Cultural Center "Sunflower" at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, using community-based practices to foster dialogue and activism. Her project, Vocabulary / Словник / Słownik / Словарь / Слоўнік, explores collaborative language and shared experiences of imperialism and nomadism.

During her residency, Yulia will continue her exploration of migration as a collective experience, seeking connections with US-based cultural institutions and communities.

About CEC ArtsLink
CEC ArtsLink supports transnational cultural mobility and collaboration, empowering artists and arts leaders to engage communities through dialogue and creative projects for a more equitable and sustainable world. Learn more at cecartslink.org.

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