Kimiya Sato
2018.04 / 2021.02 - 2021.03
UK/Japan Digital Artist Residency Exchange
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UK/Japan Digital Artist Residency Exchange
w/DRS (Manchester) , M T HALL (Liverpool) & TORUS VIL. (Kimiya & Mayu) (Matsumoto)
Program Dates: 25th February – 12th March 2021
Metal, Samarbeta and PARADISE AIR are excited to announce three 10 day music residencies happening alongside each other with DRS (Manchester, UK), M T HALL (Liverpool, UK), TORUS VIL. (Kimiya Sato & Mayu Gonto) (Matsumoto, JP). Taking place in each city between the artists homes and the three residency sites should Covid-19 guidelines allow.
While ‘in person’ interactions are not possible the residency highlights the importance of sharing ideas and building relationships with other artists. Together with the host organizations, the artists will be working together to explore fluid social communication on digital platforms to create work together, demonstrate works in progress and discuss the future of collaborative music making in different cities and across different time zones.
The artists will be in contact with each other throughout the residency either collaborating on a combined project or working separately and sharing their ideas and working methods through online meetings.
The three organizations will be partnering with one another for the first time, in response to the impacts of the global pandemic and the climate crisis. They will use this opportunity to trial new models of international artist exchange and collaboration through the residencies.
Samarbeta, Metal and PARADISE AIR will be inviting DRS, M T Hall and Torus Vil. to share their music and creative process via social media. At the end of the residency the artists will be in conversation online, giving an insight into their processes and how they have found creating in this way during the pandemic (date TBC).
SAMARBETA
Samarbeta is a project born from the minds of Emma Thompson (Fat Out) and Rivca Burns (Sounds from the Other City). Both Emma and Rivca had worked together at Islington Mill for over 3 years and worked alongside many artists via Islington Mill’s residency program. It has however led them to question why a specific music residency doesn’t exist, and thus Samarbeta was born in late 2013. The Samarbeta residency program is an innovative way to progress and encourage the production of new and adventurous music and also encourages musicians to come together and collaborate in a way that without the residency may never have arisen before.
METAL
Metal was founded in London in 2002 by Jude Kelly CBE, working with current Artistic Director and CEO, Colette Bailey since its inception. It has been active in Liverpool since 2004, in Southend-on-Sea since 2007 and in Peterborough since 2012. From these bases, Metal works to provide the catalyst that can transform the potential of people and places, exploring the impact of art and artists’ practices on civic and civil society. Metal produces an exciting multidisciplinary programme of international and UK artists in residence and runs a wide range of events, exhibitions and participatory projects.
Metal Liverpool’s recent flagship projects have included the Turner Prize winning project Granby Workshop with artist collective Assemble, and the much celebrated presentation of Different Trains with Steve Reich, London Contemporary Orchestra and filmmaker Bill Morrison.
2021.02.12
