Writer-in-Residence
Writing Space’s Writer-in-Residence program offers artists and designers dedicated time to develop and receive feedback on a writing project.
The project may take any form, including creative, critical, or history.
Residencies typically last four months.
The current term runs May-August 2024.
Efrat Hakimi
is a multidisciplinary artist working across digital and traditional methods to study and interpret images, objects, narratives, and sites. Working with photography, printmaking, video installation, and sculpture, she examines the relationships between bodies and cultural artifacts, especially those that bear witness to the female body. She considers tools and objects as vantage points for rituals, ideologies, and vernacular design in her works. In this way, her works have explored medical procedures, pilgrimage, atonement, and spiritual rituals.
During her residency, Efrat will develop an artist book that draws from her family histories of Arab-Jewish diasporas to reimagine material knowledge lost with immigration and dislocation. In her artist book, she will generate new and imagined visual narratives, trace connections between life and work, past and present, and peer through the gaps in Jewish narratives, ancient and contemporary, to consider the ideas and questions that her work points at but cannot touch.
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Protective amulet against miscarriage, 2021
Marie Warsh
is an art historian, writer, and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has involved histories and investigations of places, with a focus on New York City and its various open spaces. She co-directs the estate of the artist Rosemary Mayer, who was her aunt, and does other work on artist’s legacies with the organization Soft Network.
During this residency, Marie will work on writing about growing up in New York City in the 1980s, focusing on the neighborhoods, parks, and playgrounds that she spent time in. The writing will aim to focus on her perspective as a child and incorporate history, memory, archival materials, and contemporary experience and investigation.
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The concrete whale, Village View playground, East Village, New York, 2005