Robyn Backen
July 2017
Robyn Backen was selected, in collaboration with SPACED, as our 2016-17 resident artist. She conducted a research visit in 2016 and is in the process of planning her return residency in 2017, where she will realize a significant project in Rejmyre that will also be exhibited as part of the SPACED 3 traveling exhibition. You can view images of Robyn’s evolving work here.
Robyn Backen : Artists
- Robyn Backen | AUS
Residencies
- Refuging Residency Apr 2023
- Refuging Production Residency OPEN CALL Jan 2023
- Detox/Clean it up ensemble residency II Jul 2019
- Detox/Clean it up ensemble residency I Jul 2018
- Robyn Backen Jul 2017
- Performing Labour ensemble residency Jul 2016
- Infinite Gestures ensemble residency II Jul 2013
- Infinite Gestures ensemble residency I Aug 2012
- Transparency and Mediation Ensemble Residency Aug 2011
Robyn Backen (AUS) is presenting the sound installation “I’m Jet Black Glass”, integrated in the environment of the Reijmyre Glassworks and “Barn Wall - I am Gla(s)d” a mobile outdoor sculpture, which is a response to the Swedish landscape and the red-painted rural barns. A text encoded into the slats of the transparent structure, will only be legible once the sun projects the inverted letters onto the ground. Community members, children and tourists are invited to create shadow-drawings with charcoal.
Through a collaboration with the Australian residency-based biennial SPACED, we are pleased to be able to continue our two-year residency model. Invited artists are selected through an open call and come to Rejmyre for an initial research visit, followed by an extended residency period. During the research visit, artists are permitted time to freely explore the site and their impressions. After a period of gestation, they make project proposals, to be realized during a longer residency the following year.
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