Eastern Edge will be hosting a Donegal artist in residence in 2020 as part of an exciting new, fully funded exchange residency between Ireland and Newfoundland & Labrador. In exchange a Newfoundland & Labrador artist will be hosted by Artlink, an artist led visual arts organisation based at Fort Dunree, Inishowen, Ireland.
Artists will be paid a residency fee of €6500 for undertaking the residency (approx. $8739.66 CAD)
Artlink is based in the impressive cliff top location of Fort Dunree. The residency program empowers artists to research, experiment and create new original work and contribute to the creative development of the local arts community that in turn builds a strong sustainable culture and contributes to the artistic and economic ecology of the region.
Building on the 2007 project ‘Edge Centering’, where six artists from Inishowen, Norway and East Iceland explored how this unique coastal context develops contemporary artists’ practice and the potential of working with other artistic communities in similarly remote, rural settings. Artlink has continued to build links with Vesterålen, in Norway, and East Iceland, in association with Donegal County Council’s Arts Office, and is now expanding to Newfoundland & Labrador and Glasgow. In 2020 Artlink will host artist residency exchanges between Artlink and Eastern Edge Gallery, Newfoundland & Labrador and Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow as well as two residencies at Fort Dunree; one for an Irish and one for an international artists.
Eastern Edge is accepting proposals for self-directed residencies from 2020 onwards. We are dedicated to cultural diversity in our programming, and encourage applications from artists, art collectives, and curators of diverse communities and backgrounds.
This year’s submission deadline is Saturday, November 30th, 2019.
AVAILABLE RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES (residencies will last between 4 – 8 weeks, depending on the artists availability – dates subject to change):
Spring 2020- April 6- May 22
Summer 2020 – June 1- July 24
Fall 2020 – October 13- December 11
Winter 2021
Spring 2021
Summer 2021
Fall 2021
WHAT WE PROVIDE:
24 hr access to the open plan studio space for the duration of the residency.
Please note up to three artists and a curator/ writer may be working in the studio at any one time. All residents are provided with their own designated area.
An open working space where artists can engage with other visiting and local artists.
CARFAC residency fees of $1,730, a travel stipend $300
A speaker/ workshop fee of $310.
ELIGIBILITY
Open to Local, National and International Artists and curators at any stage in their career.
Collaborations are welcome, please provide statements for each individual within the collaboration.
Please see our accessibility information. We endeavour to support the needs of our successful applicants, please do make us aware of any flexibility or support you need that is not covered here.
EXPECTATIONS
Resident artists are expected to actively create within the studio space for at least 20 hours a week.
Be willing to hold open studio hours with the public for a minimum of one day a week.
Be approachable, engaging, and excited to participate in opportunities that may arise in the run up to and duration of the residency.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Submissions must include:
A residency proposal outlining your intended area of research/experimentation/creation (max. 500 words or filmed proposal)
Artist statement outlining an overview of your practice/interests (max. 500 words or filmed statement)
Current CV (max 2 pages)
Up to 10 images including installation images and individual works, or link to video clips/audio files with accompanying descriptions, (do not exceed 10 min)
Outline of technical equipment and support needed.
Date availability – please outline between 4 – 8 weeks of availability in your preferred slot or indicate if you have no scheduling preferences
**All submissions must be sent as email attachments (no zip files), and must not exceed 25 MB. Please do not send additional documents. Please send images as JPGs and text files as PDFs.
Artists may apply to multiple opportunities available at Eastern Edge Gallery. Please title your applications appropriately for each submission.
Please send applications to gallery@easternedge.ca, and indicate “EEG Studios Residency 2020” in your subject line. Check out our website for more information: https://easternedge.ca/ee-studios/residencies/
Photo: tet; mâni; ute|here : Melissa Tremblett & John Jeddore. Curated by Joanna Barker.
Open Call for MAIN GALLERY
Submissions at Eastern Edge
Eastern Edge is accepting proposals for our Main Gallery for 2020 and onwards. We welcome proposals for exhibitions, curatorial projects, and performances in all media. We are dedicated to cultural diversity in our programming, and encourage applications from artists, art collectives, and curators of diverse communities and backgrounds.
This year’s submission deadline is Saturday, November 30th, 2019.
WHAT WE PROVIDE
Eastern Edge pays artist fees in accordance with the current CARFAC Fee Schedule under Category 1.
We also offer an artist talk and/or workshop CARFAC fee (if applicable), a modest travel budget, and a return shipping budget of up to $350.
We encourage selected artists and curators to apply for travel and project funding. If required, the gallery can assist with additional letters of support.
We commission an essay/written piece to accompany your project.
Contact us throughout the year if you have any questions. Gallery staff will be available to assist with any application questions or accessibility needs.
Artist statement outlining an overview of your practice/interests (max. 500 words per artist/curator)
Current CV (max 2 pages per artist/curator)
Images (10 max) including installation images and individual works, or link to video clips/audio files with accompanying descriptions
Outline of technical equipment and support needed.
Please indicate if you are interested in being paired with other artists thematically for an exhibition.
You may also indicate if you'd like this proposal forwarded to other opportunities within Eastern Edge (residency program at EE Studios).
Please note, video or audio applications may be submitted, however the above information must be clearly communicated and the video/audio must not exceed 10 minutes. Submissions that do not fit these requirements will not be considered for programming.
* All submissions must be sent as email attachments (no zip files), and must not exceed 25 MB total. Please do not send additional documents. Please send images as JPGs and text files as PDFs.
Artists may apply to multiple opportunities available at Eastern Edge Gallery. Please title your applications appropriately for each submission.
Please send applications to gallery@easternedge.ca, and indicate “Main Gallery Submission 2019” in your subject line.
Come down to Eastern Edge Gallery Friday, November 22nd 1:30pm and be a part of a mass culture viewing party! Eastern Edge Gallery is just one of many places across Canada where the Banff Digital Summit will be showing a screening of the "AI, Reality and Ethics" Panel. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2199845043646668/
This event will be comprised of 3 parts.
Part 1: A panel at the Banff Digital Summit will be screened
Panel: AI, Reality and Ethics, Valentine Goddard
Nothing has come to represent our digital anxieties like artificial intelligence. Is this the robot apocalypse or the tool we’ve been dreaming of since we first tamed fire? This session explores AI, how it works, how it replicates and revolutionizes our real worlds, the ethical challenges it raises and the implication of agency that arises for all humans except a very select few.
Moderated by Nasma Ahmed
Part 2: Interactive conversation between the Viewing Party and Banff
Part 3: After the converation with Banff, the discussion will continue in the room
This show is open to all ages (it will be a dry event), but as there will be explicit language, we ask that all minors be accompanied by an adult.
Snotty Nose Rez Kids (SNRK) are an Indigenous hip hop duo currently based out of Vancouver, BC. Proudly hailing from the Haisla Nation, SNRK creates music that pays homage to their upbringing on the Rez in Kitimaat Village while also touching upon larger themes related to Indigenous identity, politics and resistance in ways that engage a diverse audience.
Come to Eastern Edge Tuesday evenings for weekly informal workshops/art jams where we get together, talk about cities, and collectively re-imagine them to our liking. All the while also making art about it. The concept is pretty simple and open. It centres on the power of imagination and visualization in realizing more participatory futures for cities.
There will be tea and coffee and we encourage you to bring along your supper, sketchbook and pens.
The first art jam will start with a discussion, sharing ideas, free writing, drawing, and collage. This will develop over time, culminating in a collaborative project that will be decided on by the group. This is open to all and you are free to drop in as you please, but we also encourage people to come repeatedly. The outcome, be it a map, collage, or a constantly evolving inventory of ideas, will be documented and can be made public/installed in public based on what the group decides at the end of the workshop series.
Fare & SQUARE Salon Soiree 2019 Tickets for Sale!
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to support Eastern Edge while going home with a unique work of art! The finest local artists have been invited to participate in this annual fundraiser, creating an original 8”x 8” artwork on birch panel. How can you get your hands on one of these fabulous pieces, you ask? You need to purchase a ticket here or at Eastern Edge and attend or send a friend to our salon soiree on December 15th, 2019.
The Soiree will run from 6 – 10pm with the draw taking place at 7pm.
Fogo Island Arts presents the inaugural Fogo Island Film Weekend, a special program of international feature and short films that consider the diversity of relationships between nature and society. Held on Fogo Island and in St John’s, the Film Weekend features highlights from the Fogo Island Film: Resistance and Resilience annual series, winning submissions to an international competition for short films, invited guests in conversation, educational programs, and thematic workshops.
PROGRAM:
Free with the price of admission.
Friday, November 22
6:00 pm: Introduction & Welcome Alexandra McIntosh and Goran Petrović Lotina, Curators, Fogo Island Film
6:30 pm Island of the Hungry Ghosts Gabrielle Brady. Germany, UK, Australia, 2018, 94 min.
8:00-8:45 pm Q&A with filmmaker Gabrielle Brady
Saturday, November 23
Short Program 1:
1:00-2:10 pm: Winning submissions from the Fogo Island Film 2019: Resistance and Resilience international open call for short films (90 min).
La Pesca Pablo Alvarez-Mesa, Fernando López Escrivá. Colombia, 2017, 22 min.
Eulogy for the Dead Sea Polina Teif. Canada, 2018, 24 min.
Gems and Minerals Diane Borsato. Canada, 2018, 25 min.
2:30 pm: A Whale of a Tale
Megumi Sasaki. Japan, 2017, 96 min.
Sunday, November 24
Short Program 2:
1:00-2:10 pm Winning submissions from the Fogo Island Film 2019: Resistance and Resilience international open call for short films (90 min).
A Tree is like a Man - En la maloca de Don William Thorbjorg Jonsdottir. Colombia, Iceland, 2019, 30 min.
A Poetic Truth in a Pathetic Fallacy Elise Rasmussen. Ireland, South Africa, UK, USA, 2018, 16 min.
60 Elephants Michael Klein, Sasha Pirker. Austria, France, 2018, 22 min.
2:20 pm Naturales Historiae
Pauline Julier. Switzerland, 2018, 56 min.
3:30 pm When Lambs Become Lions Jon Kasbe. USA, 2018, 79 min.
The Fogo Island Film Weekends are presented in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), The Rooms, and the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation (NLFDC), with the participation of Fogo Island Central Academy, and Holy Heart of Mary High School, St John’s. Program subject to change.
For the complete Fogo Island Film Weekend schedule and film synopses please visitwww.fogoislandarts.ca.
Fogo Island Film is dedicated to contemporary artistic and scientific debate that addresses nature and culture as an indivisible whole. Broaching themes of environmental degradation, the interconnectedness of species, geopolitical migration, the commodification of nature, Indigenous perspectives, social activism, as well as lives lived in deep connection with the natural world, the films question or condemn our actions, offer alternative perspectives and occasionally, suggest hope for a brighter future. Fogo Island Film: Resistance and Resilience features 10 screenings and special events held throughout the year at the Fogo Island Inn Cinema and is curated by researcher and theorist Goran Petrović Lotina and FIA Director of Programs and Exhibitions Alexandra McIntosh.
Re-Connecting Collection Exhibition by Dominique Hurley
November 18, 2019-February 18, 2020
At Modo Yoga - 233 Duckworth St, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador A1C 1G8
Dominique Hurley’s 11 Re-Connecting Collection pieces co-created over a period of 9 months (2018/19) answered an inner call to examine her spiritual roots from her early Catholic upbringing to a more universal spirituality. Each piece evolved intuitively through the co-creative process, layer by layer and through visions received. You’re invited to go deeper into each onehere on her blog - both to share in the creative process and to learn from the lessons they inspired on how to Reconnect To Your True Self. Building on what she learned in the studio since the late 80s and at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art in 2013/14, this collection pushed her to the edge of her artistic skills and brought her deeper into the energy healing work that is characteristic of her art.
Open for viewing 30 minutes before any class on the scheduleAND Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 5:00PM – 8:30PM
Wednesday 5:00PM – 8:00PM
Friday 5:00 – 7:30PM
Saturday 8:00AM – 12:00PM
Sunday 9:30 – 2:00PM
Four decades of work by renowned Newfoundland and Labrador-based artist Marlene Creates, this exhibition highlights her exploration of shifting relationships between human experience and the natural world.
Organized and circulated by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB in partnership with Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS with the support of the Museum Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage. Curated by Susan Gibson Garvey and Andrea Kunard.
Main Gallery
Big'Uns Dayna Danger *October 19 – November 23, 2019*
Dayna Danger's monumental series Big-Uns is an ongoing photographic portrait series that explores the reclaiming of sexuality and bodies in a cultural climate in which women, trans, and gender non-conforming people often lack power over their own sexualities. The series co-opts the aesthetics of high-fashion magazines, music videos, mainstream pornography, and hunting magazines to produce high-octane, self-possessed, and confrontational depictions of marginalized sexualities and gender identities.
Collaboratively produced by Danger and the photographed individuals, the series mines a wide variety of media that often serve to disempower and engender violence against women, Trans, and gender non-conforming folks. The title Big’Uns finds roots in sport hunting, which has widely replaced hunting for sustenance. In the discourse of sport hunting we encounter “the sexualization of animals, “women,” and weapons, as if the three are interchangeable sexual bodies in narratives of traditional masculinity.” (Animals, Women, and Weapons: Blurred Sexual Boundaries in the Discourse of Sport Hunting, 2004) The slang applied in sport hunting to rack size is a common colloquialism which is applied when fetishizing breasts. In their portraits, these individuals wear antlers as strap ons, a blatant and unapologetic rebuttal to the violence imposed by a culture of colonialism and toxic masculinity.
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Diary of a e'pite'ji'j: hypervigilant love Jude Benoit *October 19 – November 23, 2019*
Nostalgic uncertainty
De ja vu wrapped up in braid ribbons and seaweed.
Hot salty youthful excitement always ending in a familiar panic.
Each snapshot replaced with another.
From childhood through youth connected by a
hypervigilant kind of love.
'Diary of a e'pite'ji'j: hypervigilant love' is a freeze-frame on items nostalgic to Benoit’s youth. Discarded fishing nets, garbage bags, washed up refuse hang together, caught in a net, a wave suspended in time. Floating amongst them are photos of places, some recognizable, many ambiguous. The photos drifting on the current are records of exact locations of moments of fear and panic caused by being alone with a person. Whetherthe feeling of imminent danger was realized or not, the fear has created a life of constant hypervigilance. The cameras that produced the images reflect the feeling: disposable. Though unique to Benoit’s experiences, they hope these images and items connect to a shared experience of indigenous women and girls. Benoit invites indigenous women, girls, and two spirit visitors to share their memories and connections in the diary.
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