Chris Paul Daniels shares with us the trailer for his sixty minute feature film made during his Fellowship Residency at Kuona Trust, Kenya,

Kuona Trust was founded in Nairobi, Kenya in 1995 to serve the visual arts and has since worked with over a thousand artists. It provides studio space, training and opportunities as well as hosting international artist workshops and residencies- Kuona is the only organisation of it’s kind, working exclusively with visual artists, in East Africa.

The Mirrored Hammer Istanbul Special Part 2 by Andyabbott on Mixcloud

Included in the mix:

A conversation with Kaba Hat (recurs throughout)
Street musicians and city sounds (recurs throughout)
Ricochet live at Babylon
Kim Ki O live at Peyote
Elizabeth live at PiST
Excerpt from SHARE sessions at Arkaoda
Grup Ses Beats live at Peyote
Poster-İti live at Peyote
Barıştık mı- Göstembil Project live at Peyote

Artist and film maker Chris Paul Daniels (originally from Rotherham, South Yorkshire) has been selected to take part in the Triangle Network International Fellowship programme at Kuona Trust, Nairobi, Kenya as resident Fellowship artist.

Take a look at Chris’ blog of his time at Kuona here

Daniels’ work is characterised by participation with the public and experimental documentation of communal perspectives and memories regarding geographical location. He has exhibited work nationally and internationally, including BFI Southbank, IKON Gallery, Chisenhale Gallery, National Media Museum, FACT and Cornerhouse. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he won the Deutsche Bank Award for Art in 2010 for his collaborative project with Maria Anastassiou, Kelvin Brown and OKO Lab.

The Networked blog was created in the lead up to the conference Networked: Dialogue and Exchange in the Global Art Ecology, which was held at Bloomberg, London on the 26th and 27th of November 2011. The conference brought together different views on network and collaborative practices, which were explored through case studies and presentations from artists, curators, researchers and policy makers amongst others.

Following the conference, this blog continues to function as an open platform for debates over themes, issues, strategies and ambitions around networks and their need, role and function. Additionally, it is a platform for zooming in on projects, research, articles, videos and sound recordings relating to the different Triangle Network activities. Overall the blog maintains the spirit of Triangle, one of international dialogue and exchange, and aims to be a space to showcase the vibrancy of the Network.

The Mirrored Hammer Istanbul Special Part 1 by Andyabbott on Mixcloud#

The Mirrored Hammer ‘Istanbul Special’ Pt.1. An audio diary resulting from the first week of Andy Abbott’s residency at PiST/// Research and Production Residency: PIRPIR through Gasworks (London).

Included in the mix:

Mombu Live at Peyote
A conversation with PiST/// (recurs throughout)
Street musicians and city sounds (recurs throughout)
Documentation from Mr Wagner’s First Flux Company event ‘Music with Egg’ at Borusan Music House (recurs throughout)
Audio from the Istanbul Biennial Press Launch (recurs throughout)
Ah! Kosmos live at Peyote
She Passed Away live at Peyote
Excerpt from SHARE sessions at Arkaoda
Mondual live at Peyote

Andy Abbott is a West Yorkshire based artist, writer, and musician. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, on his own and in various collaborations including the DIY art collective Black Dogs. His practice and research is focused on socially-engaged, political and activist art exploring the boundaries of that which we might consider a socially transformative praxis. A critique of capitalism, waged-labour and work permeates his activity. His interests are primarily in Postanarchist, Autonomist Marxist and Situationist theory more details

Abbott was recently awarded his practice-led PhD researching ‘Art, Self-organised cultural activity and the Production of Postcapitalist Subjectivity’ and is Fellow in Music at Bradford University more details

PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space is a non-profit, independent art space co-directed by artists Didem Ozbek and Osman Bozkurt more details

Rybon International Artists Workshop from Rybon on Vimeo.

Film by Arvin Ilbeigi.

Music: Selection from works of Ali Samadpour, Morteza Hannaneh, Hossein Alizadeh

© Rybon Art Center

Rybon Art Centre  is an international, non-political, autonomous, artist-led initiative based in Tehran. It was established in 2008 to promote innovation, experimentation in art within the local community of artists. Rybon actively explores the possibility of ideas and knowledge exchange across ethnic, regional and artistic boundaries, in the context of contemporary critical art practice in Iran. Rybon is a partner of Triangle Network.

Artist, Rybon coordinator an workshop organiser  Tooraj Khamenehzadeh commented:

‘It’s my pleasure to say that the first Rybon International Artists’ workshop was held from 10 to 23 October 2012 in Tehran, Iran. It was held by Rybon Art Centre and coordinated by me. The workshop aimed to bring together artists from around the world to engage in dialogue and to explore the possibilities of exchanging ideas and knowledge across ethnic, regional and artistic borders.

We believe that location of Iran in the Middle East can help improve Triangle’s network in the region and Rybon, along with its other local counterparts, can play an active role in the growth and exchange of art in the region. Moreover, Iran’s geographical location will draw a bigger role for Iran, and will connect the networks of Africa, Asia and South East of Asia to Middle East. In other words, Iran can symbolically play the role of the ancient Silk Road, from the aspect of artistic and cultural exchange’.

The selection of artists for the workshop was developed in association with several other Triangle partners that Rybon would like to acknowledge. They were: Bag Factory, Khoj, Organhaus, Makan, Kuona Trust, Britto and Batroun Projects Rybon also wishes to thank Alessio Antoniolli for his presence support in developing the workshop, and also all the people at Gasworks.

Best Regards,
Tooraj Khamenehzadeh

Click here to download the report written by Reza Farnam

Click here to read a post about the workshop in the Frieze blog by art historian and critic Daria Kirsanova

‘I was very touched to have been approached earlier this year and asked to join the board of Triangle Arts Association – a 30-year old organization devoted to hosting workshop and residency programs for international artists. My first encounter with Triangle was in 2006, when I worked as a workshop facilitator and helped to assist artists, run errands and pitch-in, along with a number of board members, to wrap-up at the end of lively dinners each night. I was assisting Sarah Walko at that time, then a newcomer like me and now (the exceptional!) Executive Director of the organization.

‘Over the past six years, as I have begun to find my footing as a painter and writer, Triangle has been a peculiarly constant presence in my life. This is due in part to the fact that as an organization Triangle is a naturally social entity, one that welcomes visitors warmly and often to events such as open studios, exhibitions and lectures. Always well-attended, these gatherings are held with a minimum of fuss. I think, however, that the sort of connection so many feel towards Triangle, representing as it does a kind of very extended family, is related to the sincerely shared interest that the association sparks and supports. I have found that those involved with this fluid organization – artists, alumni, staff and trustees – are, almost without exception and despite their many differences, deeply committed individuals. They are all, in some way or another, actively engaged with the pursuit of better understanding the nature and potential of visual art being made today.

‘Having been able to follow many of the artists through and after the workshop and residency program over the years, I can say – on the occasion of the workshop’s 30th anniversary – that it is not only a truly unique program of its kind, but in the fragmented context of contemporary art, an increasingly important one. Read the rest of this entry →

Images courtesy the artist

Triangle Arts Association is a not-for-profit arts organisation located in Brooklyn, New York, which seeks to support emerging and mid-career international and national visual artists, encouraging dialogue and experimentation through workshops, residencies and exhibition opportunities.

The annual Triangle Artists’ Workshop offers a unique occasion for artists to meet and exchange ideas, not simply through talking, but by making art side by side for a concentrated period in a self-contained location. Confronted by new ideas and new points of view, detached from familiar surroundings and entrenched habits, artists often find the courage to deepen established lines of inquiry or to explore fresh possibilities.  Studio spaces are designed to be open and in a communal setting therefore discussion with peers and visitors is considered an important part of the experience.

Triangle Arts Association will be contributing to the Networked blog with a series of posts, building up to and during this year’s workshop, scheduled for 15-30 September. To read a diary of the workshop read on. Read the rest of this entry →

Triangle Artists’ Workshop is about to celebrate its 30th Anniversary! Artists’ who participated in past years have contributed written memories of their experience from their two week stay which we will be sharing in the weeks preceding the residency this September.

‘I was at Triangle workshop at it’s 10th anniversary 1991. It was wonderful to have the time and space to work, think and share with like-minded people. I was exhausted, filled to the brim and shook up by the whole experience – hard work in sweltering heat, dancing in the barns, dips in the pool, engaging talks and exchanges, great people I’d like to meet again.’

- Sheila Vollmer

‘…working in the open space in Dumbo with artists working alongside, with many people walking by, crossing the window, wandering in…it opened a door to a new understaning of what I wanted art practice to be: a drawing installation…between the intimate and public, between 2 and 3 dimensions, between premeditation and improvisation.’

-Maya Attoun

‘I am an English artist and I attended the workshop in 1986. Although this was some while ago I have excellent memories of it. At the time I was juggling my painting practice with caring for our three small children. It was a fantastic opportunity to spend two weeks concentrating on my work and meeting and sharing ideas with the other participants. It was stimulating to leave the familiarity and isolation of one’s own studio and work in a completely different environment. Everything was done for us even the lunch was brought to the barns where we worked. There was a such an atmosphere of experimentation and positive energy. This left a lasting impression on my painting and method of working.’

- Belinda Ellis Read the rest of this entry →

The first Wasanii International Workshop in Kenya took place at Elsamere Field Studies Centre on the shores of Lake Naivasha in 1997. The workshop was organised by the first Kenyan artists to attend Triangle workshops elsewhere and together they formed the working group to set up Wasanii for the first time. The group, supported by Kuona Trust, included painters Sane Wadu and Theresa Musoke and sculptors Elijah Ogira and Omega Ludenyi.

Nearly every year since the first workshop, Wasanii workshops have taken place, based at either Elsamere or on the island of Lamu, alongside local workshops.