Artist and poet Leticia Ybarra Pasch has been selected by the jury for this residency, organized by Gasworks with the support of AC/E. The project that she is going to develop in Gasworks (London) consists of an artistic and poetic investigation (a book of poems and works of art) of the displaced speech and gesture as a strategy of queer expression in situations of constraint through the figures of the dancer from the Ballet Ruses Vaslav Nijinsky and the famous Spanish ventriloquist José Luis Moreno.
The residency, organized by Gasworks with the support of AC/E, is an opportunity for an emerging artist based in Spain to do a fully funded residency at Gasworks in London from January 10 to March 28, 2022. The Gasworks residencies allow for self-directed professional development, artistic exchange, and experimentation.
Leticia Ybarra is a poet, artist and curator. She has recently published her first book of poetry “Fantasmita eres pegamento” with Caniche Editorial. Her poetry and artwork have been presented at CentroCentro (Madrid), Intersticio (London), Haus Wien (Vienna), Córdova (Barce- lona), Fluent (Santander) or Libros Mutantes Art Book Fair (Madrid). Her poems have been published in magazines such as Pfeil Magazine (2021) or This Is Jackalope (2019). In 2021, together with Beatriz Ortega Botas, they launched Juf, a poetry and art project; and she has algo co-curated the study program Gear With Petals in Hangar (Barcelona). She is a professor of Critical Studies at the IED and has curated the three editions of the Gelatina festival at La Casa Encendida, where she worked as Head of the Department of Literature and Thought and has curated other programs such as Wandering Through the Enchanted Forest.
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| Application Deadline: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 |
Gasworks schedules up to sixteen residencies each year, inviting emerging international artists to work alongside a London-based community of nine colleagues for three months. The residencies are not prescriptive, they are process based and focus on allowing artists to research and develop new work. These opportunities, which are made public through Open Studios and events, encourage interaction, dialogue and professional networking.
Gasworks provides significant pastoral and curatorial support throughout the residency, however artists are also expected to be proactive and motivated and lead the research and production of their work while in London.
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