We are Lorena Hernández Puerta and Jérémie Kalil, a franco-colombian artistic duo collaborating since 2013 as Studio LOKA and based in Paris.
Lorena is an interdisciplinary artist with an architecture and set design background. Parallel to the artistic work, I develop cultural production and mediation projects related to decolonial ecologies.
Jérémie is an artist and performer with focus on pedagogical methodologies in drama field. I am also a coach for creative people. my interest is to bring horizontal connections with the others in order to emancipate everyone minds.
With Studio LOKA we question, in a sensitive way, the perception and the attention we pay to space that surrounds us and that we occupy (whether natural, urban, intimate or everyday environment) and the relationship with others (humans and non-humans), with our own body, to highlight the memory and complexity of a territory.
Mainly working in performance, photography and installation, we share an interest in working with local people and resources, allowing the physical, social and emotional synergies to merge. We create challenging and creative projects in situ with low tech and DIY philosophy.
During this residency, we would like to develop a new project named O.P.E.N. (Poetic Orientations of Narratives experiments). Through the project we want to question the use of a museum today, how to deconstruct it and how to envision it together.
Around a folding and mobile bed, O.P.E.N. is an experiment to bring out crossings of thoughts, imaginaries and other spaces to open up to different museum narratives. We consider it as a forum space, creative and friendly that adapts to each territory and desires in order to emancipate the gaze and role of the public.
http://www.studio-loka.com/
@studio.loka
We realized that one of our main ways of doing artistic projects are based on conversiatonal methodologies. For us, we feel that conviviality, simplicity, humour, dialogue, reciprocity and DIY philosophy can bring connection with the audience.
We play around spontaneitiy and unstability to allow openmindness.
And, as Gilson Schwartz said, « conversation is to be alive. »
We think also that, in embedded arts projects, sharing and listening to the others are the groundwork to establish a common project. Overwise, it just an artistic project like the others. Then with the time it becomes a space of life, an economy, a collective path to nourrish together.
For this instance, we were thinking on how to improve a virtual artistic residency ?
Maybe to have more space to meet each other, out of the profesional space, just to talk with a drink, food, like in real life, when the artwork stop and the residency becomes more unformal.