«into the fields» is an interdisciplinary residency program conceived by Johanna Ackva, and implemented and mentored in collaboration with Anna Bartholdy and Judith Milz. The program «into the fields» is supported by Culture Moves Europe, the permanent mobility scheme funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.
«into the fields» residents:
Belia Zanna Geetha Brückner (D)Markéta Fagan (CZ)
Lenka Holikova (CZ)
Sophie Innmann (D)
Jitka Králová (CZ)
Katarzyna Łyszka Łyszkowska (PL)
Gabriela Piwar (PL)
Denk- und Produktionsort Libken grants a two-month residency scholarships to artists from Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland who live and work in the countryside or mainly engage with rural environments in their artistic practice. The aim of the residency program is to engage in an exchange between artists with different disciplines, cultural backgrounds and artistic practices, to deepen one's own work and to reflect on its specific conditions.
The two-month program is accompanied and framed by a kick-off and a closing weekend, as well as by group work meetings, moderated inputs and studio visits spread over the residency period. Next to supporting the individual working projects, the program encourages the artists to use the international group as a space of resonance and a performative ressource. In this way, the focus shifts to practicing forms of communal living, collaboration and sharing as a means to participation, which we regard as indispensable in a time of political shift to the right and of economic uncertainty.
Photos: Alexander Gehring and Libken e.V.
