Announcing the 2022 DeMo Residency recipients

CCA Derry~Londonderry is delighted to announce that the artists participating in the next DeMo Reciprocal Residency are Mark Buckeridge (NI) and Ona Juciūtė (LT). The artists will be travelling to participate in an exchange between CCA and Kaunas Artists' House, Lithuania and both will have solo shows at CCA opening in March 2022. This selection follows the 2020 DeMo Residency recipients Niamh Seana Meehan (NI) and Ginte Regina (LT) and you can read about their solo exhibitions, NETRUKUS and The Pain of Youth at CCA over lockdown in 2020.

ABOUT THE RESIDENCY:

This Reciprocal Residency is a partnership between CCA, Lithuanian Cultural Institute and Kaunas Artists’ House. The programme is entitled DeMo (Decoding Modernity) and have an aim to develop an experimental artistic framework for the critique of progress, which is often used as a synonym of modernity that can be perceived in a limited, West-centric manner. The very definition of ‘emerging’ is explained by the Cambridge dictionary in terms of centres of power; non-central places in relation to finance/political/cultural centres are often defined as emerging in both fields of business and the arts. For the Open Call the artists were invited to relate and reflect on the meaning of emerging. Can you emerge from nothing? Can emerging be an eternal state of affairs?

Mark Buckeridge (b. 1991, Ireland) is an artist working in performance, image-making, installation and sound. Buckeridge graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam in 2019. He is the co-founder of arts organisation Muine Bheag Arts. Recent exhibitions + projects include performances at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019) and OUTPOST, Norwich (2019), solo shows at Scaffold, Belfast (2020); Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2019); Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam (2019) and Pallas Projects, Dublin (2016).

Ona Juciūtė (b. 1988, Lithuania) is a sculpture artist based in Vilnius, LT. Production is a crucial element of her practice – she often finds herself engaging in peculiar scenarios of making, such as learning how to cast fake amber with a professional amber counterfeiter or commissioning a baker to make human ears from dough. Her artworks speak of the relationship between the individual and the found world, established through objects and commodities, and recent projects have explored hierarchy, history, failure and the future of different materials. She has exhibited at the Contemporary Art Centre and Editorial project space, both in Vilnius; MOCAK museum Krakow; and has been an artist in residence at Rupert, Vilnius and AIR Niederostereich in Krems, Austria. Ona was awarded the JCDecaux Prize and received a personal grant from legendary US/LT artist Aleksandra Kasuba. In 2021 her works were acquired as part of the collection of Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki.