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Year 2 of Island Connect II begins

The second round of Island Connect II residency applications are now open! The deadline is the 14th January 2025. For full details read the main page of the website.

Open Call #3 Results 2024

This open call is for one artist, who will be sent internationally to two separate residencies of two weeks each. These residencies may also include locations outside of the seven core partner countries which may only be to one location.

This call is open to a wider field of artists beyond just the performing arts, such as writers, photographers, etc. or anyone who believes they can engage with the aforementioned theme of the project to produce new research or work.

We’re pleased to announce the artists selected from each country.

Misandra Fondacci

Misandra is an actress and writer living and working in Corsica. She is very interested in languages and how they’re linked to their territory, and mainly works with a theatre company doing theatre in Corsican language.

Instagram: @misa.fondacci

Sonja Lebos

Sonja Leboš is a cultural anthropologist and practitioner from Zagreb, Croatia, engaged in visual & urban anthropology and multimedia performance 

Facebook: sonja.lebos

Christina Jonsson

Christina is an artist currently researching manifestations of the ecological disaster and its possible relations to patriarchy and capitalism, and with an interest in layering and accumulation. “I work within various media including drawing, painting and performance, but also teaching, hosting and curating.”

Instagram: @jonsson.chris

Facebook: christina.joensson.9

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Cecilia Molano

My work is developed between writing and image in a wide sense (drawing and filming) and It moves between different disciplines in an attempt to understand creation as an intellectual complex activity. (Let me know if that is enough or if you need an artist’ statement which I have already written in a more. Cecilia Molano works on performance (scenographer, creator or costume and video designer). Her pieces deal with the relation between narration and image. She has made filmic and performative pieces that also deal with her ongoing research. She also works as a graphic designer. She finished her PhD thesis at the Faculty of FineArts (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), with a distinction “cum laude” while she developed her research at the a·pass program in Brussels. She also holds a Master in Scenography at Saint Martins School of Arts, and Scenography degree, RESAD, Madrid carefully an detailed way)

Cecilia’s work is developed between writing and image in a wide sense (drawing and filming) and It moves between different disciplines in an attempt to understand creation as an intellectual complex activity. 

Her pieces deal with the relation between narration and image. She has made filmic and performative pieces that also deal with her ongoing research.

atelierjonssonchristina.wordpress.com

Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Roman-Sten Tõnissoo is an Estonian visual artist and a photographer based in Tallinn.

Instagram: @roman_sten

Maria Luisa Usai

Performer, author and director of multidisciplinary plays and audiovisual projects

Instagram: @marilu_usai

Facebook: maria.l.usai.7

Irene Alonso

Irene Alonso is an art student based in Tenerife who wants to discover herself, others, life, through all kinds of artistic practices, especially illustration, prose, and photography.

Instagram: @iirene_alonso

 

Open Call #2 Results 2024

This call was for 1 performing arts creator from each of our regions to attend a joint co-creation residency on the island of Bornholm June 17th-23rd 2024. The residency will be hosted by BIRCA and facilitated by BIRCA’s director Susanne Danig in collaboration with Danish-based performance maker Ilon Lodewijks.

We’re pleased to announce the artists selected from each country.

Charlotte De Casanova

Charlotte de Casanova is an actress, director and author, she directs the art collective “A Funicella” in Corsica 

Instagram: @charlotte_de_casanova

Kristina Pongrac

Kristina is a transdisciplinary artist from the Amazon of Europe, working on site-specific social and environmental topics with an interactive sensory approach.

#kristinapong #kipongart #kristinapongart

Ilon Lodewijks

(NL/ DK) Performancemaker who works site-specific and/or with formats that eliminates the distance between the audience and the stage. you can tag me as ilonlodewijks. Ilon Lodewijks is a Dutch performancemaker based in Denmark. She works at the intersection of performance arts & social engagement. The foundation of her artistic practice is encounters between people; she stages these encounters both in the creation process and in the eventual work. Ilon sees her practice as a vehicle to ask questions about what matters in our time. What does it mean to be alive today? She works site-specific and in public space and/or with formats that eliminates the distance between the audience and the stage.

Emma Lohan

My name is Emma Lohan and I am a songwriter, collaborator, musician and performer experimenting with and inspired by the world around me.

Instagram: @emmalohanmusic

Albert Herranz

I work basically from Mallorca. I am a writer, screenwriter, and translator. I have worked as a scriptwriter for comics, documentaries, and films. I have published several books of poetry, novels, and essays. In recent years I have been working around the island as a measure of reality. For more information you can visit me on social networks or on my website. #gatamoix #islandfromthesea #albertherranzhammer

Marta Pala

I am a performing artist with a visual education background and I work as atelierista in art education projects with children and teenagers.

Instagram: @spazio_per_aria

Héctor Gardez

Filmmaker, performer and interdisciplinary researcher. In his searches are the reltionship between the body nd territory and the island identity from the Canarian experience with a decolonial and queer perspective.

Instagram: @hector: gardez