Artists in residence

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D.A. Calf is an Australian sound and installation artist, musician, composer and producer. He is currently participating in the Sound Art & Spatial Sculpture program at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia where he is particularly interested in exploring trauma, memory, serialization, location, erasure and trace. These themes are explored through mapping, performance, immersive installation and archiving work.

D.A. Calf is co-founder and sound designer/composer of the famous immersive theatre company The Guerrilla Museum. He has contributed to the development of sound projects with many artists at the Institute Studio recording studio. In addition, he regularly tours as a multi-instrumentalist and sound designer for many groups and has toured extensively in Australia, Europe and the United States.

His residency at the Cité internationale des arts will allow him to focus on two projects and develop them considerably: a work, a sound map of the Parisian metro and a deconstructed opera based on the work of the French author Georges Perec. Both works explore the concepts of memory, place, erasure, trace and infra-ordinary.

INTERVIEW

What are your current projects?

“I have a practice that is played out in continuity, which I would describe as moving. I was able to take advantage of my residency at the Cité internationale des arts to finalize films, including a creative documentary that I started last winter in Saint-Louis, Senegal, but above all I continued my filmmaking practice as it is everywhere: filming my daily life, that of the people I love and those around me, working on my archives and treating these materials indifferently.”

What are the benefits of a residency at the Cité internationale des arts, on the Montmartre site?

“My work finds its place in exchange, collaboration and friendship. Being a resident at the Cité internationale des arts, and in particular in Montmartre, whose configuration allows a community life with the garden as a meeting place, has allowed me to meet and collaborate with other artists with different practices. This is the case with Alice Guittard, with whom I worked on the film she was directing for an exhibition in Venice, or with Edgar Sarin. 

Collaboration is at the heart of my projects, I like to think that I have built a working family here, where mutual support is constant.”

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Los Angeles in 1986, Jacob McCarthy Wiener graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts in 2008, before working as a projectionist, archivist, and production assistant between Paris, New York, and Tangier.
With his family, friends, and fellow travellers, he filmed and collected many Super 8 and 16mm films on both sides of the Atlantic, constituting a true archive of his travels and emotional relationships. His interests focus on the qualities and physical properties of film, both as a vector of personal and romantic communication, and as the repository of a visual memory to be preserved in the age of digital oblivion. 

He graduated from Fresnoy – Studio National des arts contemporains in 2017.

Born in the United States, Gisela McDaniel lives and works in New York. Gisela McDaniel is a diasporic, Indigenous CHamoru artist who explores the effects of displacement and colonisation through portraiture and oral histories.

McDaniel interweaves audio interviews, assemblage and oil paintings in order to subvert the traditional power relations of artist and sitter. By incorporating her sitters’ voices and giving them control over their representation, Gisela McDaniel critiques art historical traditions that privilege the artist’s perspective.

Her work has been presented in numerous institutions including Frye Art Museum (USA, 2023), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Germany, 2023), Museum of Fine Arts Boston (USA, 2023), FLAG Art Foundation (USA, 2023) and ICA Boston (USA, 2022).