January to June 2010
Dear Reader,
In the following pictures you will see what an average snippet of time in the Hammock Residency may look like. I can’t say that apart from the exhibitions - a denoted public space - that life at the Hammock Residency is a private space by default. The coffee is always on or being made, people are coming through constantly, and there is an endless flow between studio time, eating, drinking, sleeping, talking, arguing, dialoguing, engagement, and critical discourse, alongside laughter, jokes, and household projects.
Since Jan-June 2010, we’ve made a fire pit in the backyard, painted the stairs, broken the old hammock (at Neal Rockwell’s opening, summer 2011), bought a very colourful new one, and had yet another hammock gifted to us (thank you Amy Kazymerchyk).
Although the photos are dated, they are an accurate representation of life lived between the lines, the process before the finished project, and dedication to all parts of the practice.
Yours,
Heidi Nagtegaal
http://www.hammockresidency.com
Mandy, Day 1 of Hammock Residency
July 26, 2010
Mandy’s Studio Station, Day 1, July 2010
- made 3 songs based on Aliens, Star Trek and Cheese (or Nutritional Yeast)
- the epic task of rug making
- a trip to Value Village for materials
- gigantic quesadilla and berry eating
- hammock times
- rethinking of creative processes
- all systems go!
Backyard Music Festival
Thank you everyone for coming out! I think there was 250 of you. I have to make a blog now or something with the Music Fest photos because people keep asking me what’s up and I have over 400 photos on my phone….
Crazy!
Tin Can Studio Hangouts in the Hammock, June 2010
Tin Can Studio, our latest collaborator! They’ll be parking in the backyard for the summer, or until wherever the next opportunity takes them!
Emiliano Sepulveda installing Better Than The Devil, May 1, 2010 at the Hammock Residency.
Sometimes when you have ridiculously good-looking kids, like Nathan Matthews, Hammock Residencies include babysitting in exchange for cookies. March 2010
Christopher Olson made a Mix CD for the Better Than The Devil event that Nathan Matthews & Emiliano Sepulveda concocted during their stay. According to Olson, “there is a conceptual thread running through this mix that may only be apparent to myself,” to which I had an ongoing inside joke with myself with for days afterwards over.
Neal Rockwell joins the Hammock Residency briefly in March, while in town to do a performance / writing piece for the Or Gallery.
March 14, 2010: I have set Nathan Matthews & Emiliano Sepulveda up on a blind date for art ideas & they jam out so hard we have to all have coffee together.
Redirecting Traffic had recently occured, and the Pylon came out, for curiosity and kicks.
This is the night Nathan Matthews became part of the Hammock Residency for March 2010.
Laura Kozak invites us to join in on her Continuous Map Project, Hammock Residency, February 27, 2010
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