D’clinic TRACTOR residency, Lendava, Slovenia: Week One

June 10, 2013  | emily  | From the NDA Blog

Lendava is a very quiet place – it took me one week to find a restaurant open in the evening – and it is a good walking distance to counter a big dinner of local cuisine – did I say cuisine – mmmmmmmmm I have slowed down and the sun is out and Lendava is full of surprises. Now that two artists have left I am the new kid on the block and have my own space in the front gallery. In a residency it is hard to anticipate how things will go, as I delve further into “Suspending and Other Tricks” – or you might say tripping and falling. I have given in to two challenges, first, a problem editing video and sound on my new laptop – answer: that corny song will not be made “cool” – I’m giving in to corny; and second, artists working in the next studio – I have accepted three weeks of voyeurism, mine and theirs.

I was fortunate to be here during the final project showing of Movement and Manufacture, a collaboration between Paloma Ayala, visual artist and Sasha Amaya, choreographer. Ayala made 600 drawings of Amaya to create an animation video. Many of the drawings were displayed covering the gallery walls and then we were led into the courtyard where a projected image created an architectural space for Amaya’s performance. I was particularly riveted by the animation as the charcoal, pencil or ink drawings leaped off the page. dclinicstudios.com