Contemporary Art Residency Program in the Bay Area
This project is the result of a collaboration between the Kadist Art Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Consulate in San Francisco and is supported by the French American Cultural Society (FACS).
The residency
Every year, a French artist will be invited to spend four months in San Francisco and prepare an exhibition of his/her work. The exhibition will not necessarily happen during the residency, and could take place anytime during the following twelve months. It is anticipated the residency will be hosted each year by one Bay Area art school or other art institution.
During the residency, the artist will also be encouraged to participate in some teaching endeavor, such as a seminar given at the hosting art school. A budget will be available to cover the resident’s direct costs (travel, accommodation…) as well as the exhibition related costs. Kadist and FACS have made a commitment towards the first three years budget.
2008 : Aurelien Froment
For this first year, Aurélien Froment was invited to spend four month in San Francisco starting in September 2008. He is a French artist who makes a diverse array of works including documentary, fiction, manuals and assembled ready-mades: he works as a projectionist in an avant garde cinema.
Invited by the Wattis Institute (Jens Hoffmann) and the California College of The Arts (CCA), he will participate in the “Passengers” exhibition in September 2008, and present a solo show in August 2009. Aurélien Froment will also be proposing a seminar project to the CCA. An excerpt of his project application is presented in the appendix.
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Laurent Bécue-Renard
The French American Cultural Society will support the work of Laurent Bécue-Renard by organizing several fund raising events with the producer.
Biography
Laurent Bécue-Renard studied at the ESSEC school, was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Columbia University and graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. During the last year of the war in Bosnia Laurent Bécue-Renard was in charge of the Internet magazine “Sarajevo on Line”. He also wrote a book of stories “Chroniques de Sarajevo” (1995-96), which first appeared through “Sarajevo on Line”. He directed his first documentary in 2001: “De Guerre lasses” shown in about forty film festivals, garnering a host of awards.
Laurent Bécue-Renard’s remarkable documentary, De Guerre lasses (War Wearied), follows three Bosnian women who have lost their husbands in the massacres. The film was awarded the Planet Prize at the Marseille International Documentary Film Festival, and was awarded the 16th Peace Film Award at the Berlinale 2001.
