Artists in Residence 2025

Samra Mayanja

please believe me… is a series of dinners, conversations and archive deep dives for artists concerned with liveness, pedagogy, film and other relational practices.

For this iteration Samra invited a group of artists she has an established relationship with to explore the Live Art Research Collection. These artists in turn invited one or two others to join. The invited artists span a multiplicity of performance practices, actively cultivate communities and work in collaborative ways. The day was an attempt to understand what benefit an archival investigation can bring to an artist’s work and to them personally.

Symoné

Through an open call Symoné set up the Live Art and Gaming Network, a community for artists, performers, game makers, and creative technologists exploring the space between video games and live art.

The network began with a two-day game jam exploring deceptively simple questions: What is a game? What is play? What makes something playful?

Participants worked primarily with physical materials and non-digital formats, using cards, objects, movement, and conversation to prototype experiences.  The game jam discussions quickly revealed how personally defined and nuanced the definition of a game becomes once rules, goals, and participation are treated as flexible rather than fixed.