a third thing
January 7th - 21st, 2017
Averill Park, NY, United States
Arts Letters & Numbers first Residency Intensive was held between January 7th and January 21st. Lead by Che Perez, Frida Foberg and Rikke Jørgensen.
For a duration of two weeks, in the midst of the January 2017, the House on the Hill was engulfed in an atmosphere of chaos and calm. Of creative endeavors and breathtaking honesty, as a group of people from all over the world gathered for the Residency Intensive – a third thing. The aim was to explore and create works situated between three distinct, yet kindred subjects - landscape, cuts and color. To search for the unknown between the known; for works that would emerge in the in-between, in the cracks and the spaces between one and the other. Between cuts and color, landscape and cuts, color and landscape. Between all of them, and none of them. Within one, next to the other. Becoming a third.
a third thing that is indefinite and undefined but is related to two definite or known things.
Def. Tertium Quid (Greek)
The two weeks became a time filled with work and words, pondering, wondering and wine, talks and thoughts, coffee and questions, field trips, laughter and stillness. Moonlit walks on frozen lakes, frozen paint in liquid landscapes, the elusive blue of indigo blending with the blue tones of a tropical carnival. An image of a singular raindrop caught on a singular leaf, letters lost in light and loss, pages lifted by wind, solidified by water. Secret pockets of gold protecting the heart of another, cities in the ceiling sending letters to each other, a meal shared in solitude and the drying of colors that will always be wet. Photographs so fragile they could hardly be touched, yet impossible to destroy. Time filled with the telling of stories too painful to tell, of cutting though skin, through souls, though paper, though time.
A time filled with time - a liquid liminal time - neither frozen, nor thawed.
A time out of which third things emerged and became a collection of Tertium Quids, a new body of work, situated between landscape, cuts and color.
Participating Artists: Anthony Anaya , Hannah Smith, Ida Liedl, Julia Rose Sutherland, Kristín Rúnarsdottír, Maria Negulescu, Nathalie Audin, Neba, Pablo Martinez, Suzanne Dittenber
Visiting Artist: Chris Rose, Robert Dalton Harris, Zubin Singh, David Gersten, Armand Biglari, Troels Steenholdt Heiredal and Christine Finn
