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NOMADS & RESIDENTS
A forum for visitors in the arts: making connections, supporting networks, 
setting up meetings

Big cities  are in a  continuous flux, with a coming and going of people who 
settle in, stay temporarily or move through. Newcomers enter this flux, 
become part of the life of the city, and make connections with others. The 
city, as a space, contains possibilities through the dynamic relationships 
between people, which may provoke an active engagement. Strangers become 
friends, ideas become practice, models are being transformed into action. 
NOMADS & RESIDENTS makes connections with people who live here and with 
people who visit, by setting up  and activate a network of collaborators, and 
create and organize public events in a variety of places. NOMADS & RESIDENTS 
invites artists, guests, curators, critics, activists, travelers and 
passers-by to present insight into their practice, their ideas, histories, 
and drives. 

The curatorial and organizing group of NOMADS & RESIDENTS will consist of  
50% New York based and 50% temporary residents. They  will actively inquire 
as to who is coming to New York and when, invite guests presenting his/her 
ideas and involve spaces where these presentations can take place.  They 
welcome advice, ideas and the enthusiastic support of others. 
The events will be partly informal and casual, and will be presentations, 
lectures, talks, slide-shows, small exhibitions, performances.
No real topics will be set beforehand. Priority will be given to proposals 
that could become projects that will be shared among the participants, to a 
practice that can make resources and ideas available for common use.

PROGRAM:
February 9, 7 pm at Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street, New York: 
Jens Brand (soundartist, Germany) and DJ Spooky (sound artist/dj, New York)
February 17, 7 pm at Civitella Ranieri Center, 28 Hubert Street, New York: 
Emilio Fantin (artist, Italy)
Late February: Fiona Foley (artist, Australia): dates to be confirmed.


The core group includes: 
Liesbeth Bik (artist, The Netherlands, PS1 studio program)
Gordon Knox (initiator and organisor of Civitella Ranieri, Italy)
Jan Kopp (artist, France, PS1 studio program)
John Menick (New York based artist)
Phil Niblock (New York based artist, director of Experimental  Intermedia, 
New York and Gent)
Olu Oguibe (New York based artist/curator)
Cesare Pietroiusti (artist, Italy, involved in artist group Oreste, 
temporarily living and working in New York)
Jos van der Pol (artist, the Netherlands, PS1 studio program)

For more information or suggestions for the program, contact us via email at 
nomadsresidents@hotmail.com.