Join IN | ARI’s 2024 Cellmate artists, Karina Seljak and Samuel Markovic, in their end-of-residency exhibition. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY is a sensuous installation that contemplates vessels as a transcendent form. Karina’s pastel visions and Samuel’s soundscaping come together in conversation in a blurring of both earthly and unearthly terrains.
Through a series of restricted access points, visitors can experience Karina’s finger-blended, fine gradient pastel works and Sam’s experimental drone, sonic landscapes. Both artists’ spatial approach to sound and colour invite visitors through a spectrum of recognisable forms to the transcendentally uncontainable.
By activating rooms once used to contain bodies, The Old Lock Up itself becomes a resonant vessel, reflecting ways of transforming sensuous media – or indeed complete emptiness – into imagined realities.
KARINA SELJAK
Karina Seljak is an emerging drawing and textiles artist based on Gubbi Gubbi / Kabi Kabi Country whose colour-drenched soft pastel drawings are an investigation of temporality and transcendence. Finger-blending loose pigments into hyper-real objects allows Karina to bring form to unseen but felt energies of the earth.
SAMUEL MARKOVIC
Samuel Markovic is a Gubbi Gubbi / Kabi Kabi land-based violinist exploring noise/drone, lullaby and dirge. Samuel employs a range of electro-acoustic techniques such as feedback, ring modulation and oscillation to produce sound environments relating familiar and alien sounds in an effort to explore the relationship between those states. Samuel’s visual practice is less established but explores themes of otherness, voyeurism, and obscured meaning
2024 CELLMATE RESIDENCY
ABOUT
IN | ARI’s CELLMATE RESIDENCY is a development platform that provides an opportunity for exchange. IN | ARI connects applicants based on an exciting potential in their practices - what they can share, challenge, or transform together. The residency is a space for artists to share how they make, why they make, offer peer-to-peer experimentation + feedback, share research + resources, and create together.
This opportunity is suited to artists looking to expand the boundaries of their current practice and those interested in collaborative approaches to making (and the infinite ways this can look).
Both Cellmate artists will present a public outcome together at the end of the residency. This could look like an exhibition, artist talk, screening, activation, listening party, or whatever best serves the residency. Outcome to be agreed upon in consultation with IN | ARI directors.
Contemporary artists working across all art forms are eligible. Artists that are local and First Nations are strongly encouraged to apply.
COLLABORATIVE RESIDENCY, HEY? COLLABORATION CAN LOOK LIKE A MILLION THINGS…
Totally. The ways you collaborate and to what degree are entirely up to you.
You can make a plan together or you can feel it out as you go. It’s all self-directed and doesn’t have to look a certain way.
This is IN | ARI’s third annual Cellmate Residency and one of many collaborative residencies we’ve hosted. Sometimes artists create an entirely new body of work together, sometimes they find mutual interests and create work side-by-side responding to the same conceptual anchors, sometimes they share practice + influences and let their work simply respond to the stimulus. But it’s up to you and should just be authentic to what actually happens between you!
ARTISTS RECEIVE
Space Five weeks at The Old Lock Up
Materials Stipend $200 per artist
Featured artist profile on our website + social media showcasing artists’ practice and current work.
Support from IN | artist run initiative Directors including consultations throughout residency and in development for public programming / outcomes
Professional Documentation Either of the studio process or of the public outcome.
Potential Income If you’d like to run a ticketed workshop or reading group or performances or something else fun during your residency, artists keep 100% of that income and IN | ARI will manage bookings etc for you.
If you’d like to make your end of residency public program ticketed, 70% of all income will go directly to the artists and 30% to IN | ARI.
If there’s work that you sell while in residency, that’s 100% all yours.
Applications closed midnight Friday 9th February.
Please get in touch via in.artistruninitiative@gmail.com with any questions or curiosities. Make sure to browse the rest of our website or IG @in_ari to find out more.
APPLICATIONS | Accessibility You are welcome to submit your application in a format that is accessible to you (such as audio, video, printed, dictated, electronic and handwritten). Please use URL to link to your alternative method responses.
IN | artist run initiative’s headquarters at The Old Lock Up is made possible through the support of Sunshine Coast Council x Arts Coast.