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Accessible Arts Bundanon Residency
Daniel Kojta, Finding a Boyd in the Kitchen Cupboard,
HD video still, 2010.
Initiated by Accessible Arts in partnership with the Bundanon Trust, this opportunity aims to foster further professional development opportunities for a NSW artist with a disability. Bundanon supports professional artists’ practice, across all disciplines and at all stages in their career. Bundanon advances contemporary art practice through fostering artists, producers/directors, as well as curators and educators engaged in research and development. Residencies under this program do not necessarily involve production outcomes. However, potential to engage with the arts community and audiences regionally, nationally or internationally is desirable. The residency supports artists’ new work, research and collaboration. Australian and international artists are hosted in purpose-built studios located at the Bundanon properties on the Shoalhaven River in NSW.
As a gift to the Australian people, Arthur Boyd’s vision for Bundanon was to provide an inspirational haven for artists of every discipline and at all stages in their careers. For further information on Bundanon visit www.bundanon.com.au.
News
- 17/06/2010 - Kojta’s stroll at Bundanon
- 08/04/2010 - Bundanon broadens access initiatives
- 01/10/2009 - Bundanon Residency awarded to new media artist
- 23/04/2009 - Call Out: Accessible Arts Bundanon Residency
Daniel Kojta 2010 Residency Recipient
Daniel Kojta, Metholated Spirit, 2007
Blue Mountains based new media artist, Daniel Kojta has been awarded the 2010 Accessible Arts Bundanon Residency. This is the second residency developed by Accessible Arts in partnership with the Bundanon Trust, to further opportunities for NSW artists with disability. Kojta will undertake the residency in April 2010.
In 2004, Kojta graduated with an Honours degree in Visual Arts from the University of Western Sydney, where he was awarded the university medal. Kojta’s current new media practice investigates the parameters of human form as well as bringing life and movement to unnatural elements of the everyday. Kojta’s work is concept led and his concerns are often explored through video, installation, sculpture and photography.
In 2008, Bathurst Regional Gallery invited Kojta to curate a New Media exhibition, which would showcase emerging and established artists working in this field. The exhibition titled Showing Off was presented as a new media arts survey and was held in 2009.
Kojta has since furthered his enquiry into new media by attending the Super Human Symposium presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) in November 2009. This experience proved to be an important professional development opportunity for the artist.
Kojta spent four weeks at Bundanon’s Fern Studio in April 2010.
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Read about the residency from the artist's perspective - Into the [B]Void: A residency experience at Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon.
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Read the full transcript Superhuman Probabilities by Daniel Kojta from the Super Human Symposium presented by ANAT Nov 2009.
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For more information about Daniel Kojta visit the artist’s website.
Partners & Contributers
With support from Bundanon Trust, Fern Studio at Bundanon has been made available for the artist in residence program. The Disability Council of NSW conducted an access audit of the studio in 2008 and Accessible Arts contributed the financial support for an artist’s stipend over the duration of the residency.
Accessible Arts coordinated a selection process. After promoting the opportunity to the arts and disability sector statewide, applications were received from visual artists, performance artists, film and theatre scriptwriters and a poet. A selection panel was formed in response to these art forms and the project proposals of each applicant.
The selection committee comprised of:
- Julia Tsalis, Program Manager, NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle, NSW
- Bec Dean, Associate Director, Performance Space, Eveleigh, NSW
- Rhonda Davis, Senior Curator, Macquarie University Art Gallery, NSW
- Sarah-Jane Rennie, Director, Accessible Arts, NSW
About Bundanon
Bundanon supports professional artists’ practice, across all disciplines and at all stages in their career. Bundanon advances contemporary art practice through fostering artists, producers/directors, as well as curators and educators engaged in research and development. Residencies under this program do not necessarily involve production-based outcomes. However, potential to engage with the arts community/audience regionally, nationally or internationally is desirable. The residency supports artists’ new work, research and collaboration. Australian and international artists are hosted in purpose-built studios located at the Bundanon properties.
Further information
Contact Josie Cavallaro, Arts Development Officer on tel: (02) 9251 6499 (ext 105) or email jcavallaro@aarts.net.au.