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Red Gate Residents strike a pose at Wang Guofeng's show at De Sarthe Gallery in Caochangdi last month #redgateresidency #caochangdi #gallerytours #desarthegallery #beijingartscene #wangguofeng

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It's really winter in Feijiacun #redgateresidency #shortcut #feijiacun

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Yesterday: Rabea Edel reading from one of her previous novels and a forthcoming novel at the new Goethe Institute in 798. Rabea's two-month residency at Red Gate is supported by Goethe. To find out more about Rabea's work, visit her website: www.rabeaedel.com #rabeaedel #writerinresidence #goetheinstitute #goetheinstitutebeijing #residencypartners #redgateresidency

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Current Red Gate Resident Johanna Tinzl (right) presenting and working on her project 'Off the 5th Ring' at Harks Gallery opening last night #johannatinzl #austrianartists #caochangdi #harksgallery #redgateresidency

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New work by previous Red Gate Resident Paola Ibarra at Harks Gallery in Caochangdi last night. Paola moved to Beijing in 2014 for a Red Gate Residency and now lives and works here full-time! @ibarrapaola #paolaibarra #harksgallery #caochangdi #wallworks #redgateresidency #previousresidents (at Beijing, China)

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November 2015 Red Gate Residents

Rabea Edel, Writer & Journalist http://rabeaedel.com, Germany

I'm a writer, novelist and conceptual journalist from Berlin. PEN member since 2014. As a writer I published several novels. As a journalist I organize the »Urban Journalism Salon« as an interactive new offline event to connect journalists and their readers, to get them involved into discussions about nowadays topics in a more direct and personal way. In Beijing I'll work on my third novel, that questions in an abstract and dystopian way among a poetical shoreline the current situation of Europe. And I would like to get in touch with everyone - other artists, journalist, writers, the people in my neighborhood, the city and country itself. I would like to get lost in a new surrounding to find myself back within a new environment and with a lot of new questions and maybe stories to tell.

Tezz Kamoen, Drawing, the Netherlands http://www.tezzkamoen.com

Living in a neo-liberal, western society is as a start point in my practice. I ruminate on the individual’s position in society; success and failure; commercialism; and societal relationships. When feelings as being uncomfortable and shame arise, it catches my interest. This has its outcome in very investigative and diary like drawings. My practice is self-reflective and psychological, displaying a stream of consciousness that is raw, urgent and fractured. My work is packed with information and focuses on different layers, in mixed media, combing dazzling figures, objects, colors and obsessive notating.

Joy Long, Sculpture, Australia www.joyivill.com After researching the psychological and emotional events in the early life of artist Louise Bourgeois, I felt inspired to draw upon my own life experience to inform my work. During 2015, as I travel through the UK, Paris, Berlin, Venice, France, and Beijing, often staying at artists’ residencies, I am creating a series called “Homesick”, this multi-disciplinary body of work incorporates embroidery, applique and painting in order to subvert the imagery and content within long established needlework practice. My work depicts unexpected images, together with poignant and often humorous text. The intention is to expand the field of portraiture and self-portraiture by marrying it with biography and autobiography.

Virginia Samper and Blanca Ulloa, Multidisciplinary, Spain http://www.virginiasamper-blancaulloa.com   Our practice is based on research subjects involving the interpretation and re-contextualization of both contemporary and historical myths and symbols. Through these, we explore the spiritual manifestations that intertwine in our world defined by an increasing technological and individualistic gradient. We attempt to deduct from the embedded prejudices that lie around religious imagery and try to reposition these signifiers in the cultural context.

Erica Sklenars, Video/performance, New Zealand http://www.ericasklenars.com Erica Sklenars works predominantly in the mediums of performance and video, creating both solo performative video art, and collaborative audio-visual performance installation.

Her solo work is an ongoing series of personal performative videos that reconfigure contemporary understandings of objectivity, gender and contemporary feminisms with the subversive tactics of marginalist comedy. Many of these themes also overlap into her collaborative projects involving live video performance, where the artist uses sampled and re-contextulized footage combined with original content. Here the artist works with various musicians and sound artists to create immersive performance installations under the name Lady Lazer Light.

Andrew Sunderland, Sculpture/Sound/Print, UK www.andrewsunderland.com I am a london based artist working with fabrics, sound, technology, and sculpture.

Johanna Tinzl, Visual artist***Research based/Public Art/Performative Interventions/Installations***Video/Sound/Objects/Text, Austria http://www.johannatinzl.net,

Johanna Tinzl was born in Innsbruck (Austria) in 1976. The artworks Johanna Tinzl develops are based on a conceptual approach especially analyzing the relationship between social and political structures that evolve from the notions of power in everyday life. Her ideas progress following site-specific researches  which she later integrates into performative or installative formats. Her works include a wide range of media such as video, sound, object and text.

Johanna Tinzl is particularly interested in finding information from archives, virtual sources and recordings. Interviews of people directly concerned with her subject are also an important part of her investigation. These materials are assembled creating multifaceted and polyphonic narratives. Thus, her works can be of fictional or documentary nature.

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Red Gate Resident Gaby Steiner talking with Ben Hughes and Charles Townley about her recently published book PUBLIC HOME. The subject of Public Home is Jerzy Sulek, an immigrant from Warsaw who was evicted from his home in Brooklyn. Steiner followed him for five years, photographing his life in the open air. His property in Greenpoint is defined as "vacant land” by the Department of Buildings in Brooklyn. His situation is symbolic of the precarious position of the human condition in contemporary urban life and the vulnerability to constantly shifting relationships between public and private realms. #publichome #beijingbookworm #redgateresidency #gentrification #documentaryphotography #gabysteinerphotographer #booktalk #greenpointbrooklyn #jerzysulek (at Beijing Bookworm)

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Fall in Feijiacun 秋天在费家村 #redgateresidency #feijiacun #费家村 #shortcut

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Red Gate Resident @alexknex doing his thing as part of his project 'A Series of Self Portraits' at last Saturday's open studio. Alex is just finishing up a 3-month residency at Red Gate. We'll miss ya! #openstudio #beigaostudio6 #alexandersilva #photography #selfportraiture #redgateresidency

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A photo from last Saturday's Open Studio exhibition: Here is current Red Gate resident Evelyn O'Connor from Ireland with work she made in the last month at Red Gate. To see more of Evelyn's work, check out her website: http://www.evelynoconnor.net #redgateresidency #irishartists #redmansionprize #sculpture #beigaostudio5 #openstudio #evelynoconnorartist

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We are the Residency Partners! Nine residencies represented here at Videobrasil, coming from the US, UK, Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Japan, Iran, Poland and China. Today we are deliberating which artists will receive which residency prize. Stay tuned for what we decide! #airlaboratory #delfinafoundation #goetheinstitut #wexnercenterforthearts #djerassiresidency #arquetopoafoundation #kyotoartcenter #kooshkresidency (at São Paulo, Brazil)

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ESCULTURA ABSTRACTA by Iosu Aramburu from Lima, Peru, another favorite work in the #videobrasil #19thcontemporaryfestival #iosuaramburu #sculpture #sesc (at Sesc Pompeia)

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At the 'Tilting Axis 1.5' discussion this morning with Annalee Davis, Holly Bynoe, Maria Elena Ortiz and N'Goné Fall, as part of the Videobrasil Festival Public Programs. Tilting Access is a discussion platform for professionals from artist-managed initiatives and institutions in the Caribbean to promote contact and work. The discussion made us think a lot about China Residencies and all their initiatives. Networking, transparency, connectivity! #videobrasil #tiltingaxis #arcmagazine #chinaresidencies #residencynetworks #publicprograms (at Sesc Pompeia)

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One of our favorites so far: OIKO-NOMIK THREADS, installation/performance piece by Maria Vanela, Afroditi Psarra, Marinos Koutsomichalis (Athens). Attaching a computer to a tricot machine, the group cross-references data from Greece's National Employment Service and traditional Hellenic motifs to weave new fabrics and patterns. This work creates a narrative about economy, technology, labor, and tradition. #19thcomtemporaryartfestival #videobrasil #southernpanoramas #oikonomicthreads #installation (at Sesc Pompeia)

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This is VIDEOBRASIL! We're here at SOUTHERN PANORAMAS, the 19th Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil in São Paulo, featuring over 75 artists from all over the world. We can't wait to choose a participating artist to attend Red Gate Residency next year. There's so much to see here, we don't know where to begin! #videobrasil #southernpanoramas #saopaulo #19thcomtemporaryartfestival (at Sesc Pompeia)

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From Saturday's open studio: a quiet moment with work made by Hyeji Woo (South Korea). Hyeji is a recipient of the Red Mansion prize and just did a one-month residency at Red Gate. To see more of Hyeji's work: www.hyejiwoo.com #hyejiwoo #redgateresidency #redmansionprize #redgateopenstudios #sculpture

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We know we post a lot of pictures of Josie Martin (NZ) on here but we can't help it, she's just so cool. See here Josie getting interviewed for kiwese.co.nz after today's open studio with current Erica Sklenars gorgeous video work as her background #redgateresidency #resartisjournals #josiemartinnz #giantshouse #ericasklenars #kiwese #videoart