untune residency
fall residency deadline: October 1, 2024, 11:59pm PST
The untune residency is a non-discipline specific programme for (inter)national artists and creative practitioners to experiment, observe, learn, exchange ideas, and collaborate while building community. We encourage the exploration and research of site-specific histories and socio-ecocultural transfiguration of land in Los Angeles. Selected creatives are offered guidance, space, and time to work on their projects, collaborate with the surrounding bodies, and engage in untune's daily land stewarding practices to learn new skills and strengthen our cohabitation instincts in an environment that fosters the spirit of reciprocity. These activities aim to collectively slow down the energy flow with the intention to encourage a more thoughtful approach to consumption, waste, spaces we occupy, and land we call home.
Residency Details
the residency takes place at Canvas 5025, on Chumash and tongva land, located in the san rafael hills in north east los angeles, along the arroyo seco. This became untune’s hub for learning native habitat restoration, experimenting with plants as material and nourishment, and staging place-based learning and socially engaging projects that disrupt conventional hierarchies. This program aims to connect non-local residents to local visiting creatives and practitioners in related fields.
the untune experience
The residency will be packed with activity as we will be scheduling time to show you what we consider interesting sites including venues, places of ecological interest, and restored and transfigured land as we grapple with the contentious social-political histories and narratives that continue shaping our mindsets, ecosystems, and culture. You will also have the opportunity to participate in untune’s daily homestead activities such as land care, native seed collecting, fermentation, paper casting, waste cycling, and plant harvesting for material and building (e.g. pigment extraction/processing and cordage making). creatives and scholars from various fields will be dropping in and out during the residency period creating more possibilities for connecting, learning and exchanging ideas and skills.
if you are currently a student in a university or other full-time program, please consider applying for an internship rather than the residency program. the residency is designed to be full-time, requiring your everyday presence and engagement.
dates
NOW accepting applications for our fall 2024 residency program, November 1-27!
we especially welcome creatives exploring issues concerning FOOD—insecurity, sovereignty, and its impacts on our modern food systems. For this special residency, the duration is a little longer than 3 weeks and includes a 4 day event hosted at Human Resources Los Angeles, where residents will have the opportunity to present their work. The untune curated event will take place November 22-25.
Deadline to apply: October 1, 2024, 11:59pm PST
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About canvas 5025:
Canvas 5025 is located in one of Los Angeles’ first suburbs, but before the Spanish colonized California in the 1780s and even earlier (30,000 years ago), the ancestors of today's Chumash and the Tongva stewarded this land. The Hahamongna were a band of native Tongva people, renamed "Gabrielinos" by the Spanish in reference to The Mission San Gabriel that they had established. To understand the local native ecology, its important to understand the culture of the native people and land before colonization.
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In the 1900s/Early 20th Century, the Arroyo Seco Culture of Arts and Crafts Movement flourished with a housing boom and an influx of writers, luminaries, Arts and Crafts designers, and artists. What we see now in Arroyo Seco and Highland Park are settler colonial transfigurations, investments in continual changes that have errupted native culture and ecology. We’ll be sharing a great deal about the contentious history and impacts its had on the land over the course of the residency.