Chunky Move in partnership with Warrnambool Art Gallery (WAG) are seeking expressions of interest for the 2022 Victorian Regional Artist Residency. Applicants should have a demonstrated focus on research-led practice with performance and/or choreography as an underpinning aspect of their work, and a minimum of three years professional experience.

Artists are encouraged to reflect on ideas and rationales for a project or research specific to the context of place. We also encourage artists with a project or idea that is already in train and would benefit from a concentrated research period in two distinct locations to apply. Artists whose practice engages with local community or has a specific desire to engage with the Warrnambool community are also encouraged to apply.

In consultation with the curatorial staff at WAG, the resident artist will be asked to develop a minimum of one public engagement outcome in Warrnambool as part of the residency. This may take the form of an artist talk, public showing, performance or community workshop, or any combination of these.

Atlanta Eke lives and works in Melbourne. She is a dancer and choreographer concerned with dissolving pre-existing perceptions and expectations by changing fixed representations of the body through movement. She works with and beyond the limitations of the body, in collaboration with fellow dancers, artists and arts administrators in variety of contexts. Her work with dance is currently project specific, within each project a question for the next arises, along side an effort to deconstruct the modes of production and presentation of the previous work. Having recently had opportunities to present work in exhibition spaces, she is interested in how an exhibition space and timeframe can be utilized as a resource for developing dance.

For the inaugural WAG X Chunky Move Victoria Regional Artist Residency, Chunky Move were honoured to host esteemed Australian choreographer and performing artist Rosalind Crisp. Ros, who was selected by Chunky Move after applying through an open EOI process, undertook a two week residency in both Warrnambool and Melbourne. Ros adapted her solo dance lecture DIRtywork to the south-west Victorian context and shared this research during public showings at WAG and Chunky Move.

While in residence at WAG, Ros engaged with local artists and communities in Warrnambool visiting sites of environmental damage in the south-west. She drew on processes and practices she developed in East Gippsland’s forests and through regional, national and international residencies.