Artist-in-Resident
Venø Gård Artist-In-Resident is open for practising artists who are looking for time to reflect, create and have a dialogue for one week or more.
You will be staying in a quirky old house right on the seafront. It has two bedrooms with 5 beds, a small kitchen, bathroom and living room. In the basement, there is a washing machine and freezer.
Please e-mail for cost and more information info@venogardkunst.com
Past Residents
A rebel and a writer living in a small arctic town Rovaniemi.
Resident from 01.11.21 - 01.12.21
Visual Artist and cultural facilitator leading Cultural Paths.
Resident from 21.10.21 - 21.11.21
Artist and sociologist working with radio, listening, words, voice and song
Resident from 25.06.21 - 23.07.21
Karen Werner
Resident from 25.06.21 - 23.07.21
Karen Werner is based in Bergen, Norway, where she is an artistic research fellow at the Bergen Art Academy. Her creative practice revolves around radio, song, voice and story. In 2021, as part of a residency with BEK (Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst), she set up SkottegatenFM, a three-month micro-FM station broadcasting from her apartment. Karen was the Inaugural Radio Artist Fellow at Wave Farm in New York in 2019-2020 and has created numerous live and produced radio works and collaborations for national, community and micro-FM stations. An upcoming commission is with Seyðisfjörður Community Radio in Iceland.
Javier Rodriguez
Resident from 21.10.21 - 21.11.21
A project bringing together a number of rural organisations and creative communities operating across the nordic and Barents region to explore the value of traditional practices, knowledge and skills and how these can be repurposed to support more sustainable programmes of creative and cultural practice that benefit local communities
www.culturalpaths.org
Krista Vaarala
Resident from 21.10.21 - 21.11.21
(born 1983 in Sodankylä, one of the Sami areas in Finland) is a rebel and a writer living in a small arctic town Rovaniemi. Vaarala is a founding member of a local poetry and spoken word collective Sanaseura. She's also the chairperson of a culture association Valsa.
Vaarala is writing her first novel, The Great Poverty Novel, which gives voice to the silenced. The novel dives deep into the roots of Lappish natives who lost their lands in the 1960 ́s for the growing needs of energy in Southern Finland. Three villages were drowned under a vast artificial lake. 600 people lost connection to their roots, lands, habits and crafts. Many couldn't adjust and continue in new surroundings as they were so deeply rooted, connected to the ground. It seems that the consequences of that cut devolve from generation to another. Vaarala examines rootlessness and its outcomes such as repressed anger and social, cultural and economical poverty in Finland, the happiest country in the world.
- the author site
www.facebook.com/kirjailijakristavaarala
- poetry and spoken word
www.facebook.com/sanaseura
- culture association
http://www.valsa.be
