Care of Margins, published in 2022 and reprinted in 2024, explores the topic of art residencies through personal texts, reflections and ideas by the participants of the symposium titled Care of Margins, organised by Robida in summer 2021. How could an art residency within Robida look like? What are the values we imagine it to have? Who is an inhabitants, temporary, cyclical, permanent? How to share responsibilities and take care of a place? How to be a host and a guest?
The publication Care of Margins, titled after the symposium organised by Robida, contains some of the reflections shared during few days in September 2021.
→ symposium Care of Margins
Some of the contributions question the concept of residency in itself, others are very personal memories of those days highlighting the valuable moments, routines and thoughts we shared. Other texts try to transgress dichotomies such as local vs. foreign, insider vs. outsider, host vs. guest, bringing up themes such as translocal connectedness as in the reflections of Curdin Tones. The affective relation between space and temporary or permanent inhabitants is explored in the poetic text of Mara Usai while a more scientific, micro-biological relation to landscape is addressed by Philipp Kolmann. Jack Bardwell reflects on the possibility of a polyrhythmic co-existence of the guests and hosts while Lenn Cox underlines the importance of generative boundaries, referring to personal and collective everyday ecologies. Francesca Lucchitta widely reflects on daily routines, recalling moments and the atmosphere of those days and Janja shares notes on the power of togetherness. Studio Wild focuses on the building up of the residency, imagined as a collective action where taking part in the residency could also mean contributing to the renovation of the building itself, while Tommaso Garavini proposes the beautiful metaphor of the house as a toolbox or as a Swiss pocket knife. Laura Savina speaks of a fertile white, to refer to the countless and wide possibilities opening in front of us when imagining this space, intended as a new, empty, white paper. Besides describing her experience as the first artist in residency to inhabit the village for a longer period of time, Kim Lang focuses on the concept of the calendar as one of the conclusions we reached during the symposium. The calendar is a tool that addresses all the previously mentioned topics: the relation of the artists/researchers/architects/etc. to landscape, their inclusion in the rhythms of the community and the need of sharing with them responsibilities, of making them become dwellers of the village.
Contributions by: Jack Bardwell, Lenn Cox, Tommaso Garavini, Tymon Hogenelst, Philipp Kolmann, Kim Lang, Francesca Lucchitta, Jesse van der Ploeg, Johannes Reisigl, Vida Rucli, Laura Savina, Janja Šušnjar, Curdin Tones, Mara Usai.
Editors: Kim Lang, Vida Rucli
Graphic designers: Francesca Lucchitta, Kim Lang
Printed by: Riso Paradiso (Ljubljana)
Published by: Robida
2024
