Outpost Artists Resources is a non-profit arts organization located in Ridgewood, Queens. We have been serving the arts community since 1990 providing access to video, sound services and new media assistance at well below market rates. In 2003, we began the Cuts and Burns Residency Program, which provides artists with free access to our facility including personal assistance by our staff of video editors, audio engineers, and computer programmers
Outpost Artists Resources supports new creative work through its residencies, and events – its mission is to serve artists in need of technical assistance with video, audio, and physical computing based art projects and to foster a dialogue between visual art and experimental music. Outpost hosts gallery exhibitions, artists talks, screenings and events that pair visual art, video, experimental music, and performance in an effort to bring adventurous audiences challenging interdisciplinary projects.
Artists in Residence: A Selection Of Artists From Recent Residencies
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The third installment of the Cuts And burns Screening series is titled: Artists in Residence, a selection of artists from recent residencies. It will streamed on the Outpost vimeo channel Sunday December 13th, 7pm EST. The live stream and Q&A has been archived and is available to view on demand until Wednesday December 30th HERE.
Outpost’s video artist residency program has yielded a wealth of innovative, odd, forceful, and eye-dazzling works for the ever-evolving medium. Its archive contains long and short form narratives, animation, installation components, and unabashed experiments.
Since 1991 the Outpost has provided artists with free video post production, sound design, and technical assistance through the Cuts and Burns Artists Residency program. In addition to the creative freedom and resources provided, the program also pairs artists with expert editors, motion graphics designers, and sound designers. This screening consists of work by artists who participated in the program in the last few years. It features projects that received video editing from Matthew Hysell, who worked with artist Hannah Schaich; sound design from David Weinstein, who worked with artist Janne Holtermann; sound design from Quentin Chiapetta, who worked with artist Yon Jin Kim; motion graphics design from Dan Vatsky who worked with artist Heather Merckle; and motion graphics design from Kate Ducey, who worked with artist Umber Majeed.
PROGRAM:
Heather Merckle Asteroid Horizon6:07 min Heather Merckle is a multidisciplinary artist based in Queens, NY. Merging art, craft, and science, Heather’s work begins with the perception of “time” as a complex collection of structures and layers, and travels from the micro (quantum mechanics and photons) to the macro (gravity and large rocky bodies). Through factual research and imaginative investigation she creates mixed-media drawings, hand-cut paper compositions, paintings, and small installations. Heather holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited nationally and internationally over the last several years. She has been featured in several publications including New American Paintings Issues 77 and 83, Studio Visit magazine, and MAAKE magazine Issue 6. She has been an artist in residence with coGalleries and the Institut für Alles Mögliche, both in Berlin, Germany; Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; Outpost Artist Resources, Queens, NY; SÍM in Reyjavík, Iceland; and LUMEN in Atina, Italy.
“In my six minute video titled, Asteroid Horizon, I explore a symbiotic relationship with an Asteroid, seeking to understand its presence; not so much as a means of destruction, but as a reminder of our own existence. Questioning our notions of reality and gravity, in a place where Asteroids may be as common as any other large boulder, I discover an abandoned Asteroid seeming to need human interaction while also requiring mobility. Through several vignettes I explore a foreign land, often dreamlike, that helps us (as human beings) understand our connection to these airless, rocky worlds, and our interactions with them as forces of nature. The Asteroid becomes an allegory in this narrative that questions how we perceive ourselves in the world around us, the interconnection of all things, and ultimately what we are looking for.”
Janne Höltermann TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit)10:30 min Janne is a native of Germany and divides her time between Germany and the US. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo twice, Flux Factory Queens received travel grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and participated in the Bronx Museum’s AIM program.
Most recently her videos have been supported by the film funding foundation of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein and Outpost Artists Resources Brooklyn. Amongst others her work was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, at Werkleitz Gesellschaft e. V. Halle, Trestle Projects Brooklyn, NURTUREart Brooklyn, Icebox Project Space Philadelphia, Bronx Museum of Art NYC, Museum of Contemporary Art Basel, and the Museum of Fine Arts Bremen. She graduated from Muthesius Academy Kiel, Germany and from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston.
In TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit), container ships cross the frame slowly and at short intervals while the camera constantly zooms into the scene, first focusing on a ship’s exterior body and then narrowing in on the freight. Eventually the camera zooms out resulting in the stacks of the standardized shipping units being multiplied and the image falling apart into the smallest visual entity, the pixel. The video uses digital and physical standardized formats as building blocks to develop it’s own spatio-temporal logic and propose a new image of global trades’ “materialized Abstraction”.
Hanna Schaich No High Without the Low13:19 min Hanna Schaich (b. 1986, AT) is a Queer Multimedia-artist living and working in Berlin. Post. Grad. Media Cert. (Brooklyn College, NY, 2017), MFA Fine Arts, KHB Berlin (2015). She is known for her work in video, photography, installations, and performance art. Her work is based on an uncompromising, touching openness. At the center of her work is the confrontation with her innermost self and the attempt to build bridges from there to the outside world, to enter into a dialogue with others. Her videos reflect working along the lines between documentation and fiction, commentary and staging. Hanna’s writings and voice-overs are triggered by an autobiographical impulse to ask questions about our individual strategies to encounter life. She has shown in galleries and other institutions nationally and internationally, most recently at Kino Moviemento (Berlin, DE), Pornfilmfestival Vienna (AT), LLC
The project started in 2017 at the Schiller Lab for Affective Neuroscience (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY ). Interviews with Daniela Schiller (Israel-born neuroscientist, director of the Schiller Lab, known for her research and work in memory consolidation and PTSB) were my main focus in the Lab. From there a poetic journey started. Footage of the largest artificial sun (DLR Jülich, Germany), Brain Scans, snippets of the interviews from the Lab, own memories and first memories of different encounters, to the Max Planck Institute in Berlin (Research Focus: Digital Gemini’s), and footage of me learning how to dive in the ocean. The 3-channel work is characterised by a collage-like montage of documentary, performative and animated material. Memories, trauma and hope merge and become a poetic, sometimes dreamlike, emotional multi-channel video.
Umber Majeed In the Name of Hypersurface of the Present10:23 min Umber Majeed is a multidisciplinary visual artist. Her work engages with familial archives to explore specifics of Pakistani state, urban, digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. Majeed has shown in venues across Pakistan, North America, and Europe. She participated in Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program 2016-17 in Beirut, and is the recipient of fellowships including Refiguring Feminist Futures – Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM, Germany (2018); and The Digital Earth, Hivos, the Netherlands (2018-19). Majeed lives and works in New York, USA and Lahore, Pakistan. She is a current Technology Resident at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn for Fall 2020.
This animation and speculative fiction explores a feminist historicization of Pakistan as the first ‘Muslim nuclear state’ through state and familial archives. The script is written through the canon of patriarchal state structure via a fictional, populist, contemporary Urdu author; subversively implicating the bodies of citizens, specifically women, as the containers to perpetuate state sanctioned notions of love, science, and nature. The narrative inverts this ‘In the Name of God’ rhetoric initially used to push the Pakistani nuclear project. This narrative proposes a phallic green cone as a stand-in figure to replace Chaghi Monument Hill, a recently destroyed state monument. The video functions as an instruction manual both conceptually and structurally for citizens displaced from the Chaghi Monument Hill, a site used for male-dominated celebrations of Youm e Takbeer, a national holiday that commemorated the nuclear tests done in the 1990s. The fiction and choreography expels how the phallic green cone/green light is inherent and can be activated through the cones in the eye and ear, reproductive cones (within plant life), cones in digital space (modes of projection), and within theoretical physics to reconfigure the measurement of time-space.
Yeon Jin Kim Monster Me 13:20 min Yeon Jin Kim is a visual artist and filmmaker, born in South Korea and based in New York City. Kim received a BFA in sculpture from Seoul National University and an MFA in combined media from Hunter College. Kim’s most recent solo exhibition was held in 2020 at Gallery Mak in Seoul, South Korea. Other recent solo shows have been at the Society for Domestic Museology in New York, Albright College in Reading, PA and at the Cluster Gallery in Brooklyn, all in 2019. Her films have recently been screened at the Philadelphia Asian Film Festival, New Filmmakers New York, Blow-Up Arthouse Film Fest Chicago and at the Glimmerglass Film Festival in Cooperstown, NY. Her work was featured in the book “50 Contemporary Women Artists”, edited by Heather Zises and John Gosslee, published by Schiffer Publishing in 2018. She has done residencies at Outpost Artist Resources, the Teton Art Lab, the Winter Workspace Program at Wave Hill, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Fountainhead Residency, Columbus State University, I-Park, the Abrons Arts Center, Bric/Bcat, the Islip Museum, Sculpture Space, the Saltonstall Foundation, Yaddo and Auburn University. Kim’s multi-disciplinary practice encompasses animated films shot from miniature sets, cut-paper works, drawings and Jogakbo (Korean traditional quilting) inspired plastic quilts. Her work is equally influenced by her early life in South Korea and her last fifteen years in New York City. Kim currently teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Westchester Community College.
“My practice is based on traditional techniques put to new uses. I make scroll drawings and construct miniature models and characters from cardboard, paper, and other materials. I then use them to film narrative videos. This deliberately low-tech process is often combined with various animation techniques. My recent videos borrow equally from and update Korean folk tales and classic American monster films. In “Monster Me”’ an ancient monster emerges from the “ Old Faithful” geyser in Yellowstone National Park and flies to Jackson Hole. It then attacks me at the Teton Art Lab Residency, devouring me. As it flies back to the geyser, the monster and I slowly merge into one. “Monster Me” reflects my complex feelings of being an immigrant in the United States.”
The Cuts and Burns Online Screening Series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts under Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Regional Economic Development Council Initiative
