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Reside/Sustain project examines the role of artist residency in enabling sustainable development in Finland and Russia.

It has a strong emphasis on connectivity and correspondence, shared thematic and collegial transparency.

22/05/2025

Reside/Sustain project participant Angelina Davydova, in her new text “AT THE SAME TIME: REVISITED,” attempts to look at the events of the past three years from a personal-biographical, historical, and political perspective—continuing her observations of a new life while reflecting on loss, laughter, and singing.

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🔗Text is available via link in BIO ⬆️

30/04/2024

Discussions on the topic of environmental issues are being raised more frequently in contemporary art scene in Russia.

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Last summer, hosted an exhibition based on the results of a laboratory devoted to the study of invisible cycles in urban nature.

In the article “Opportunity to be uncertain: experience of the exhibition Boundaries of the Invisible”� exhibition curator Kristina Pestova and biologist Elena Shelyagina talk about the idea and progress of the project, while artists Katerina Verba, Anna Komarova, Sofya Sapozhnikova, and Elena Sokolova reflect on the experience of a dialogue and collaboration at the intersection of disciplines.

🔗Full text: https://www.residesustain.art/en/articles/opportunity-to-be-uncertain

Images:

1 - Secret Garden by Anna Komarova, 2023. Photo: Tanya Sushenkova
2 - Lullaby by Sofya Sapozhnikova, 2023. Photo: Tanya Sushenkova
3 - Loss by Elena Sokolova, 2023. Photo: Tanya Sushenkova
4 - Invasion by Katerina Verba, 2023. Photo: Tanya Sushenkova

28/03/2024

Sustainability is not limited to questions of the environment, social and economic prosperity. Implementation of sustainable development strategies within art institutions and residencies is directly related to the certain people responsible for making decisions and implementing them.

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In this interview, Reside/Sustain participant Adel Kim discusses issues of personal resilience in art residencies, with Olga Sorina – psychologist specialising in burnout issues, and founder of the “Vdokh” psychological centre.

🔗Read the interview via link in BIO⬆️

📷: courtesy of Olga Sorina

19/03/2024

Reside/Sustain has written a blog post for Mustekala .info on the topic of residency activities and sustainability. The text serves as a summary of the project and it’s core activities with a focus on various facets of sustainability, their interconnectedness, and residencies’ potential to support them.

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“In an interesting way, the activities of art residencies include diverse elements from traveling and residing abroad to different work practices. Residency activities also include communication and interaction. This offers an opportunity to take into account how in the field of art (as well as more broadly) it is possible to enable a transition towards the sustainability of personal, social and ecological aspects while being aware of their essential connection.”

🔗Text in Finnish is available here: https://mustekala.info/eipa-kesta-residenssitoiminta-ja-kestavyys/

14/03/2024

In the text “Tavrida's Federal Network of "art residencies": chimeras of state youth cultural design” Adel Kim explores the parallel existence of professional art residencies and initiatives that call themselves “residencies” but in fact have very little to do with them in Russia.

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This coexistence and free interpretation of the term in Russian context brings opacity to the field, and poses a risk of the altered understanding of residencies being widely adopted.

Read the full text here: https://bit.ly/3PmnHlx

08/02/2024

Thank you Koneen Säätiö - Kone Foundation for sharing 💫

06/02/2024

Reside/Sustain project is reaching its final stage.

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Currently, we are working on producing several articles in collaboration with invited experts, blog post for a Finnish interdisciplinary and artistic magazine, and creating two publications in English and Russian languages.

The English version of the publication will wrap up the work that has been done in the past three years. Second publication will act as a toolkit for residency practicioners.

While we might not be as active on social media, we have a lot of resources available on residesustain.art that you are welcome to discover and utilise, as well as resources on the topic of sustainability we gathered: https://residesustain.art/en

Photo: Adel Kim

21/12/2023

We keep sharing selected texts of 2023✨

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The two following articles were written for Reside/Sustain by external collaborators Fran Trento and Sergei Schevchenko:

⚫️ Discussing artist residencies’ underestimated normative by Fran Trento https://bit.ly/488EZtM

⚫️ Immunopolitics of nature by Sergei Shevchenko https://bit.ly/3Qwekzb

We wish you an enjoyable read! 📖

20/12/2023

Wrapping up this year, we would like to share the selected texts of 2023 picked by Reside/Sustain participants:

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⚫️ An Apartment in Yerevan. Interview with Marianna Kruchinski https://bit.ly/3QZZ2Fl

⚫️ When Responsibilities Become the Norm by Adel Kim https://bit.ly/3un3rsp

⚫️ Doing Nothing Being Nobody by Adel Kim https://bit.ly/3RQN3Kc

14/12/2023

In 2024, Reside/Sustain participant Adel Kim and curator Vera Kavaleuskaya are starting the SWAMP: Art Material Swap and Waste Management Point — project designed to support circular economy by enabling artists and institutions in Helsinki to donate, access, exchange, reuse, and repurpose discarded materials through the creation of Materials Bank.

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The project aspires to bring about a shift in the field of art, making reuse and repurposing of waste materials a standard and institutionalised practice.

We wish the best of luck to Adel and Vera and cannot wait to see the Materials Bank come to life! ✨

Image: AI image generator

07/12/2023

Reside/Sustain participant Angelina Davydova is is attending this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai.

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Angelina is primarily focused on following the global climate negotiations, paying attention to Russia’s statements and actions at the conference amidst at the war in Ukraine.

Alongside these, other focus areas for Angelina include policies, actions and statements of the Central Asian countries, and new data on environmental and climate consequences of the war in Ukraine.

📝 We will share links to articles and analysis by Angelina as they appear.

📷: Angelina Davydova

30/11/2023

Reside/Sustain was invited to contribute to the third issue of ”Idäntutkimus” (Eastern Studies Journal) with the focus theme ”Money”.

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In the article ”Support Structures Behind Russian Art Residencies” we examine how internal trends on banning and overregulating any international financial support for the civil society and the arts, combined with the Western sanctions, further restrictions, and self-sanctions of international companies made the situation with availability of financing extremely difficult for Russia’s civil society and art sectors, especially after the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

We also examine the main funding sources of art residencies before and after the war, as well as look into the interest of the residency field in the environmental agenda following Reside/Sustain’s focus on various aspects of sustainability.

🔗The article is available in Finnish upon purchasing the online version of the magazine: https://journal.fi/idantutkimus/article/view/132031

Image: artwork by Anastasia Ryabova .orgy from the series Trillions, 2012

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