Trans Artists monthly A-I-R mail
no. 20 / Animals
Sea monsters
Baer Art Center is located on a beautiful seaside farm in Northwestern Iceland, a 4 hour drive) from the capital, Reykjavik. It acts as a temporary residential base for individuals that seek out a unique work environment and a place of inspiration.- Application Deadline: February 1, 2009
Several sea monsters cavort in the waters off Iceland in this 1585 map, titled Islandia, drawn by Andreas Velleius. Most likely nowadays the most mythical image that can be spotted overlooking this sea is one of the polar bears that occasionally visits Iceland, traveling on icebergs from Greenland (true!).
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
The National Lakeshore includes miles of spectacular Lake Michigan shoreline. In this area there are many northern hardwood and conifer forest types, abandoned farm site meadows, wetlands, lakes and streams where bears can be spotted.
Glen Arbor Art Association offers several 2 weeks to 2 months creative residencies each year. The purpose of these residencies is to provide visiting artists with a respite from daily responsibilities to enable them to concentrate on their work. - Application Deadline : March 1, 2009
The Cairo Nile crocodile
The Nile crocodile is the top predator in its environment. Every now and than a Cairo dog gets draged into the river by it. Nile crocodiles have been hard to find since the high dam was built and the passage from the lake to the Nile was closed.
A residency at Townhouse Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art is wholly non-prescriptive, while priority is given to proposals rooted in an interest in the resources, both material and human, that urban Cairo and the surrounds may avail to artists.- Application may be sent at any time
A.i.R. experience
The basis of the ‘Townhouse Neighbourhood 1:35’ project during the residency of Wouter Osterholt & Elke Uitentuis at Townhouse was a small-scale model of the ‘Antikhana’ neighbourhood, which surrounds the Townhouse Gallery. The maquette is an attempt to unravel the complexity of the urban fabric of this location. They used the recreated miniature landscape as a tool for a workshop for the people that are living or working in this specific part of Cairo. 
Working on ‘Townhouse Neighbourhood 1:35’ Salah is measuring the streets and cars.
Wolfs are waiting in the mountaintops
The kings of NYC
Visual artists and curators can apply for residencies at ISCP . Residencies are 3 - 12 months and sponsored by governments, corporations, foundations, galleries or private patrons. Each artist or curator is provided with 24-hour access to a studio and wireless internet. In addition, all participants can use the common areas: Kitchen, lounge and gallery. 
(l) The Wild Pheasant parading Central Park (r) This is Pale Male, a wild red-tail hawk, which, for 10 years, has nested and raised more than 20 offspring in the heart of NYC. This downtown's top feathered celebrity has built a 90 kilo nest on the window sills of a 15 million $ apartment.
Beijing after dawn
(l)In Beijing a murder of crows roost at night in the trees on the Dongdan section of Chang An Street. (r) The Pit Viper, a highly venomous snake crawls the outskirts of Beijing.
You wouldn’t think Beijing would play host to many wild animals, but the city apparently has all kinds of snakes, leopards, hog badgers, weasels in the vacinity. Here the Chen Ling Hui Contemporary Space international A.i.R. program, established in April 2008, aims to discover new artists with high potentials and allow them to accumulate valuable creative experiences before entering art market.Sofia Stork nest rooftops
Many White Storks build stick nests on the buildings overlooking the City of Sofia. Because they are viewed as bird of good luck, it is not persecuted, and therefor often nests close to human habitation.
Even in the heavily urbanized city of Sofia with a population of two millions, wildlife does exis. Only few people are aware that throughout the four seasons, over 70 rare bird species can be observed in Sofia. Here Interspace New Media Arts Center aims to concentrate intellectual, creative and technological potential in working out the adequate structure and working conditions for production and popularization of new media art projects.
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