During this month’s artists talks at FLAT_land (Bij wijze van Spreken) organised in collaboration with id11 and STeC, Suzanne van Rest, Marina Tomic and Veridiana Zurita made presentations of their works so far and future installation proposals. Suzanne showed her research that focuses on light, man-made as well as natural, sometimes in competition with each other. Her upcoming project, Overexposure references the light of 17th c. Delft through the images of Johannes Vermeer. Veridiana’s When I was the Environment uses her body to literally crawl through the apartments of Delft while being videoed. Marina’s project All day long also incorporates the ‘living’ aspect of the residency in order to test redundancy, habit, as a way to rethink or daily activities and our relationship with time. Having nothing upon arrival Veri and Marina organised gifts and reciprocal relationships with their neighbours. While living together for two weeks, ‘Donations Delft‘ was based on interaction with the neighbourhood and a means of survival tactics. Three other artists, Liset van Dommelen, Pavel Forman and Matthijs Kiel presented their works in progress and afterwards we were able to take a tour _galerij_loop_02___ of the studios or lived in apartments.

Good news, DAI has received another apartment for the participants until the end of July. Curious to see the projects and how they differ from their original proposals.