VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

What would you do with 12 hours? Many Mini Residency: Houston is a short-term residency program operated in conjunction with alternative exhibition venues in Europe and the United States. The name 'Many Mini' encompasses two main components of the project which is hosted in one room 24 hours a day for one week. The 'Many' describes the open call for proposals and the resulting multiplicity of responses and participants. The 'Mini' component of the residency describes the limited amount of time available and the scale of the room.

July 10-16th, 2011, Many Mini Residency will be hosted at Skydive, an artist-run exhibition venue in Houston, Texas. Many Mini Residency is open to applicants from all disciplines (art and non-art alike) and encourages participants to customize their residency experience. There is no minimum time-limit for a stay at the residency but the maximum stay allows use of the space for half a day. The space may be used for public programs, personal studio time, a rehearsal space, a dinner, or whatever the resident sees fit. Participants provide documentation and a short statement about their time spent in the residency to serve as both a record and a resource displayed online as the final component of the project.

Many Mini Residency: Houston at Skydive will additionally exist in conversation with other Many Mini Residencies; the first hosted by The Berlin Office in Berlin, July 2008 and the forthcoming residency hosted by Koh-i-noor in Copenhagen, January 2012. Many Mini Residency, therefore, not only provides an opportunity for interaction among participants within each locale, but creates a comparable portrait of each city where the residency is held.

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