THE RESIDENCY ONLINE

PLAN8T will invite 10 artists for this online artist-in-residence program, each artist will join for a week and the duration for this program is 20 weeks altogether, starting from late March until the beginning of June.

Each week (Updated: now has changed to every other week!) we will post one artist’s works on PLAN8T WeChat public account and PLAN8T residency website plan8tair.com as a stage report of this program. In the end of this online residency program, PLAN8T will launch an online group exhibition and the outcome will be promoted through online media and artron.net, a Chinese professional portal website for art with about 8 million page views. Artists will receive a digital exhibition catalogue of this exhibition once the residency is over. There will be a possibility for an offline exhibition when the condition permitted (will notified before)

Two deadline: April 17th & May 15th , 2020

Expectation for Artists

We expect artists to

  • Select 4 to 8 pieces of work of their own, and write a statement regarding these works

  • Complete Challenge Paper (information below)

  • Keep record of your thoughts, inspiration and/or work progress for sharing (This can be abstract like quote, note, photo, scribble or doodle…)

  • Stay communicative once participated

Challenge Paper

This residency proposes common medium, as common as a piece of A4 paper, a lasting legacy medium, can we rethink of it as a new medium for digital humanities. Digital humanity transforms the research contents of humanities into the symbols that can be calculated and analysed. While we are used to the existence of A4 paper (or any kind of preferred standard size paper in different cultural background), “A4” also becomes a symbol.

As the most common and mundane physical carrier for the output of digital content, this symbol reflects the fact that we are accustomed to the lifestyle we are living right now under the digital age context. It serves the digital age and builds a bridge between the physical world and the digital world.

In this artist-in-residence program, which is entirely online, we hope this challenge, named after and based on such a basic material, will present the audience and the artists with different answers and expressions to a proposition.

We do not frame the ways of using “A4”, it could be the canvas for artists to drop on thoughts and create work, a flat medium waiting to be transformed into a three-dimensional piece, or an origin to launch a conceptual work, as long as what you deliver involves “A4”.

(A4 size paper can be replaced by letter size or any other most commonly used size paper if artists choose to involve actual papers.)