Gute Nachrichten aus dem Konvent: Die Artists-in-Residence für 2025 – 2026 have been selected!
We are pleased to welcome three formidable new additions zu der Konventt kreative Gemeinschaft.
Jedes Jahr werden in Abbotsford Das Convent lädt Künstler und Führungskräfte aus der Kreativwirtschaft ein, sich im Rahmen von zwei Atelieraufenthalten mit unserem einzigartigen Viertel zu beschäftigen. Diese einmaligen Gelegenheiten bieten Kreativschaffenden Zeit, Raum und Unterstützung, um ortsspezifische oder reaktionsfähige Recherchen, Untersuchungen und Überlegungen anzustellen.
Der Abbotsford Convent freut sich, die erfolgreichen Künstler dieses Jahres bekannt zu geben:
Carmen Yih (Jul — Dec 2025)
Kate Davis (Jan — Mar 2026)
Helen Svoboda (Mar —Jun 2026)
Maggie Maguire Künstler-In-Residence
Carmen Yih is the recipient of this year’s Maggie Maguire Wohnsitz for early career artists.
Carmen is an artist whose practice skates along the boundaries of hybrid dance-theatre, telling urgent stories that draw on forgotten histories and marginalised voices. In her work, Carmen uses movement scores and structures influenced by non-Western narrative world-building, immersive theatre, and street and club dance forms.
Carmen’s residency will help develop her current project, to disappoint a god, a hybrid Asian-futurist dance-theatre work using Nuwa (女媧), a Chinese mythological creation deity as a vessel to call for personal reflection and accountability amid the global breakdown of climate, culture and communication.
https://hitahhchi.cargo.site
@hitahhchi
Die Maggie Maguire Residency wird durch eine großzügige Spende der Patagorang Foundation ermöglicht, die von Roger Allen und Maggie Gray gegründet wurde. zu Ehren der ersten Geschäftsführerin des Abbotsford Convent, Maggie Maguire OAM.
Abbotsford-Kloster als Gastkünstler
This year, we have two wonderful artists selected for our Abbotsford Convent Studio Residency,
Kate Davis is a highly accomplished artist, designer, director, and dramaturg working across contemporary performance and visual arts. Kate is a pioneer of her unique performance style, having played a key role in shaping and nurturing the contemporary performance landscape over the last two decades.
Kate will use her residency to develop ALTAR, a new body of work investigating themes of death, devotion, and decomposition. This work will be comprised of miniature sculpture, installation, video, sound, and photography in order to confront our deep-seated fear and aversion to death, while simultaneously honouring the dying process.
https://www.kate-davis.com.au/
@theladykate
Helen Svoboda is an award-winning double bassist, vocalist, and composer with a practice grounded in experimental performance, abstract songwriting, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her current works explore language and lyrical structures in conjunction with traditional performance styles.
Throughout her residency, Helen will be exploring the intersection of language, memory, and vocal improvisation to reconnect with her Finnish heritage — drawing on her childhood experiences in the country and translating them into a performative context to reestablish a meaningful connection to culture and self.
http://www.helensvoboda.com
@helensvoboda_music