In 2015, during the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil | Southern Panoramas, nine residency prizes were awarded, to be undertaken at Videobrasil Residency Program partner organizations around the world. In this video, Solange Farkas (Videobrasil director and chief curator of the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil) and Thereza Farkas (Videobrasil’s programming director) briefly outline the Festival’s actions as an articulator of artist residencies. To Farkas, these actions attest to the Festival’s medium-to-long-term investment in the careers of its winning artists.
Representatives of Residência Vila Sul – Goethe-Institut (Salvador, Brazil), Arquetopia (Puebla, Mexico), the Delfina Foundation (London, United Kingdom), the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, USA), the Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto, Japan), the Djerassi Residency Program (Woodside, USA), the Kooshk Residency (Tehran, Iran), the Red Gate Residency (Beijing, China) and the A-I-R Laboratory (Warsaw, Poland), the Festival’s partners for this edition, describe their residency programs, lines of work, and physical facilities.