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New Maps of Time sound workshop/residency Istanbul Turkey

‘New Maps of Time’ is a project and workshop about mapping architectural and urban spaces using sound as a means to express actions within a space. read more…

Workshop carried out in the frame of my X-OP residency at Apartment Project, artist-run project space, from February 8 - March 8, 2010

Dear reader, here are some thoughts, memories and photos, that came out of my one month residency stay at Moks in November 2009 ...

One of the deepest traces in my memory are connected with silence that I had the pleasure of listening to when smoking a cigarette outside, staring through the window, taking long walks around the small lake and through the forest, lying in bed early in the morning, when light was still shy and I was concentrated on the outside just to hush up my thoughts ... or the silence I listened to when being with/sitting with people and listening to them or to myself ... always listening what silence spoke to me. Unconsciously, silence and the mere fact of being by myself most of the time gave me inner beauty and clearness. While contemplating, I realised I almost selfishly protected my "by my self" being there ... And again, I emphasise the importance of primary, basic activities like burning a fire, just sitting in front of the flames and enjoying purifying softness of the parching heat and sounds of redness ... and there, somewhere in-between, disperse silence emanates, that helps you to really hear yourself. Maybe this is all what there is around the mystery of silence, yearning, exploring and researching of it?

When I told people I would be at Moks the whole November, I noticed a hesitation concerning the persisting greyness of the day. But that was exactly what I wanted - to experience November light in Mooste (and Tartu, Pärnu ....) and all the varieties of hazes and yes, there are thousands of different greys and blues (from purple to the white pearl to dense black).

About curatorial dinners ...

The question how to perform a "curatorial research" on a personal level somewhere with very little things known, was challenging for me. But soon I found a satisfying possibility in phenomena of “dinners” – through intimacy of social ritual like eating together. And there I had seven different stories with different people and artists. Also, I have to say it was fun experimenting with local food supplies.

with Riho Kall
apple, orange, almond and raisin cake

with John Grzinich
tagliatelle with tomatoes, mozzarella and cheese, olives and red vine

with Evelyn Müürsepp
red peppers, zucchini, almonds, raisins with soya sauce and cardamom, rice and carrots with garlic and lemon, cake with cherry jam and chocolate from the market

with Toomas Thetloff
we changed roles, Toomas was the cook, we had liver, red beet and cottage cheese

with Patrick McGinley
mixed smoked and very (!!!) salty fish with cream sauce, rice, clementines with dark chocolate

with Erkki Luuk
smoked fish in cream sauce with garlic and butter potatoes with dill, mandarines with dark chocolate

with Anna Hints
I don't have a photo of our meeting, we met at Werner cafe in Tartu, we had coffee and carrot cake

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Dear all...

A little late but life jumped back into the fast lane once we got back to Germany. Mooste seems a million miles away now. Which is sad.

Between the 15th of July and the 31st of August we spent a six week MOKS residency in Mooste, creating a body of work to address themes that emerged during the first week of our stay. Our work explored Estonian identity in the locality using a variety of participative and interactive techniques, a body of work that looks at the relationships between people, place and history.

Interventions included the creation of a moped procession through the village, sand mapping on the local beach, a photo-shoot in the baron’s clothes, hiding messages on homemade ice cream and infiltrating Google Maps.

Information and documentation relating to these events can be found on our website at http://treacleonline.wordpress.com/archive1/moks-residency/

We can't describe how much we valued our time in Mooste. For the first few weeks at MOKS we managed to balance work and life for the first time in many years. The question is how to keep hold of this.

Hope all goes well and look forward to seeing you all again some time in the near future,
Kaspar & Susanne

PS. Exciting scenes in the basement! We look forward to seeing how everything develops over the next year.

From many options this year we took the residency at MoKS(Mooste), Estonia,and we chose the best place to rest, to meet very interesting people and to think about our future creative activities.
MoKS center at Mooste is only 43 km (40 min by bus) from Tartu- the very important Estonian cultural centre with an excellent Art College, galleries and other interesting places. For us it was very easy to connect with all this, because Evelyn and John from MoKS team it made possible and introduced us to local artists and organized for us meetings with them.
We were very glad of our accommodation – having two large rooms and with local grocery and well equipped kitchen made our life pretty comfortable.
Very welcoming MoKS team added lot of good memories to this September residency.

Irena Biechonska and Jerzy Biechonsky
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2009 a sügisega peaks MoKSi kelder soojapidavaks saama.
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Hello,
I was the resident for Moks this September. Well, I'll leave on Monday already, but it has been a great experience for me to meet the local people and learn about the countryside life style in Estonia.
I will have few photo shoots to go.
It feels like the real autumn has arrived.
Anyway,
I have some blog entries under my site, please check!

http://diary.kanakosasaki.com/