What is the time of research and experimentation for you?
It is a time for observing, exploring, imagining, connecting, trying, forgetting, remembering, collaborating, failing, cutting oneself off, being surprised. An explosive and sincere moment where both conceptual and irrational forces play together. It entails an awful lot of dialogue and the gradual acceptance and intake of a form.
In what ways is your practice influenced by the space of an artistic residency?
I don’t usually work in a studio, I move around to film, I go to my collaborators, I edit what I’ve filmed at home in a very intimate setting. Now the residency space is becoming a place that welcomes me and other collaborators, human or otherwise, to work. It shakes everything up a bit. But I think that the strongpoint of a residency lies in its ability to spark new dialogues with new interlocutors. And besides, this hospitality allows ideas to take shape.
How do care and artistic research interact?
They share listening, responsibility, meeting with others.
Anouk Chambaz (Switzerland, 1993) studied cinema at NYFA, Los Angeles (2012), film
directing at ECAL, Lausanne (2015) and philosophy at La Sapienza, Rome (2020). She is currently studying Moving Image at IUAV (Venice) and takes part in Estuario Project Space’s workshop Fare Arte Contemporanea. She explores relationships between intelligent life forms and landscape through moving image and sonic works.
Together with Timothée Zurbuchen she founded Rasoir Bouée, an association that supports experiments in cinema. The first film they produced, A Summer Morning by Patrick Muroni, was noticed at the Locarno Film Festival in 2019. In 2020 she won the International Artist Fellowship at Castro Projects (Rome) and in 2021 she got a special mention for her documentary project “The Singing Strike” from BASE and ISEC Archive, Milano.
Recent solo and collective exhibitions include Burning Speech (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino), Manifasta (Macro, Roma), A View From The Cliff (BALENO, Roma), Sound Corner (Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma), Vilnius International Film Festival, Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco).