As part of PICA’s programme at TBA they overlap a residency programme called Creative Exchange Labs featuring artists Local – International with a emphasis on promoting discussion. These paired up 2/3 artists to discuss similarities on practices and concerns. Through my time at TBA festival I found some of these dicussions along with the programmed talks on artists featured within TBA to be some of the most fruitful and generous events for me. It was refreshing hearing a diverse range of artists concerns and most importantly ones not centered in Western Europe, though being part of the wider influence of Western and globalised culture I found approaches and discussions around identity took a different form. Watching a group of 8 different painters/dancers/singers… present themselves as part of their work was exciting and all generous. With the focus on interdisciplinary practices the majority of artists had some performative element to their presentations.
artists info can be found here.
http://pica.org/event/creative-exchange-lab-fall-2016/
