InDialogue International Residencies

Abstract

InDialogue International Residency Programme was conceived by Dr Rhiannon Jones in 2016 in order to consider how curatorial practice can engage in innovative research and exchange initiatives that foster new perspectives on modern and contemporary dialogic practice. The design of the programme by Jones provided the time to consider how her curatorial practice engages and innovates research methods for international exchange initiatives in order to foster new perspectives on dialogic and contemporary art practice. The model was developed with Dr Heather Connelly (co-founder of InDialogue) to create a unique space for duo-led practice as researcher enquiries into how they use dialogue in their collaboration, as a methodology and as a tool for the generation of practice. The methodology designed intentionally weaves academic, public and artistic led practices together to create a unique model for private and public testing out of creative and academic approaches to practice. In 2016 Artists Chloé Déchery (France) and Jane McKernan (Australia) in this group use the process of research to create the experience of the residency. The artists also created solutions and alternative approaches to the issues arising from that research. Further information on the 2016 residency: https://indialogue2014.wordpress.com/indialogue-residency/resident-artists-2016/ Following the success of the 2016 programme, in 2019 a second research-based residency was offered but this time to extend the investigation into curatorial research-based residencies. It was offered through a thematic that looked at the close nature of the relationship of the artist to the people and places that they work with and within. hancock & kelly were invited to be in residence at Dance4 from 11-18th November 2019 where they developed their latest work 'An Extraordinary Rendition' for a performance at Nottingham Contemporary as part of the 4th InDialogue symposium and event 19-21st November. Their residency was integrated into other forms of dissemination and experimentation of the notion of a residency - this included public performance, private studio time, workshops, public discussion event at Dance4, InDialogue Symposium presentation and panel event to academics and peers. Further information on the 2019 residency: https://indialogue2014.wordpress.com/2019-2/residency/ Both provided a bespoke dialogic design to support the intentions of the activity outlined by the selected artists to best support the dialogic investigations that they wanted to explore. As a result, the design of the residency programmes investigated the use of dialogue in curatorship and was disseminated by Jones in discussion with the resident artists and public at events built into the main InDialogue Symposiums that aligned with the residency schemes. • There was further learning and/or the transfer of skills and knowledge between parties both between the artist on the residency scheme, with the curators Jones and Connelly and with InDialogue symposium members and with the public and cultural partners in the residency programmes. The residency programmes in both 2016 and 2019 were supported and funded by Arts Council England, Nottingham Contemporary, Dance4, In Good Company and InDialogue.