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Residencies

As a part of FoAM’s research programme, we offer yearly residencies to artists, designers and researchers whose interests or methods fall in the gaps between academic research programmes. The residencies are meant for artists who are able to work independently, while being open to suggestions from their peers. Our motivation for this programme came from a perceived need of artists and designers for opportunities to pursue concentrated research and experimentation without the immediate pressures of production.

Residencies Illumine

Exercises in Colloquial Luminescence was a series of residencies exploring the relationship between light, luminescence and communication. Subtle ambient changes of illumination that can ...

Residency Catherine Watling

UK artist Catherine Watling was a resident at FoAM Brussels for a few weeks at the end of 2003. Catherine prototyped an exhbition on ...

Residencies Tension

Self-sustaining, lightweight structures for temporary, mobile and wearable architectures. Surface tension, tensegrity, bends, twists, knots, inflation, elasticity; all of these phenomena play with physical ...

Residency softBomb

During their residency in 2004, Lucas Chirnside and Rachael Tempest prototyped softBomb. softBomb takes the classical museological trope of the glass display cabinet and ...

AEGIS Residencies

Asia-Europe Generalists in Sojourn (AEGIS) is a trans-local residency programme that focuses on encouraging collaborations between creative practitioners and cultural organisations from Asia and ...

Residency Kiran Ganghadaran

Kiran was in AEGIS residency between January and February 2011 with his ongoing research, Project Decode. The research looks at the existence of geometrical ...

Family Residency Simpsons

FoAM’s family-in-residence for the Resilients is the Simpsons (Mark, Lea, Scarlet and Delilah), living at FoAM Brussels for two weeks in June and ...

Residency Bartaku

PhoEf is a research project exploring the essence, use and abuse of the photovoltaic effect - the conversion of light in electrical energy - in the ...

Family Residency Robaupair

In 2010 FoAM expanded its residency programme to include people of all ages. The first experiment was having a “Family in Residence” (FIR), welcoming ...

Residency Eisa Jocson

Eisa Jocson, an artist from the Philippines, explored the potential of pole dancing in questioning power relationships within the sexual, private and public realm ...

Residency Maki Ueda

Maki Ueda's residency focuses on the combination of scent and food. She researches edible perfume, memories of scents from grandmother's kitchen and ...

Residency Tale of Tales

In their day-to-day artistic practice at Tale of Tales, Auriea and Michael research the potential of games as a means to communicate, convey meaning ...

Residency Sanjeev Shankar

As an artist, architect and designer who explores the edge of reality, Sanjeev Shankar uses his training in design, architecture and science to merge ...

Residency Cocky Eek

When confronted with contemporary environmental questions, one thing became very clear: out of fear or guilt we can’t create anything. In view of ...

Residency Theun Karelse

How do you relate to global crises in a way that is not demotivating? The discussion about our future is dominated by appeals for ...

Residency Steven Pickles (Pix)

In 2001 Pix found a book by mathematician Julien C. Sprott called Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos. The book described the mathematics behind ...

Residency Lina Kusaite

The aim of this research project was to create a place for a materials library, on-site and online, where interested parties could find information ...

Residency Jack Anderson

During his residency in 2008, Jack focused on the market for new media arts and created a tool called the FoAM Valuator: a qualitative ...

Residency Angelo Vermeulen

Angelo Vermeulen is a visual artist working with photography, video, new media and installations. His bio installations, experimental setups incorporating living cells, organisms and ...

Residency Bartaku

PhoEf is a research project exploring the essence, use and abuse of the photovoltaic effect - the conversion of light in electrical energy - in the ...

Residency Maggie Buxton

The core question of this research is: by what mechanisms can humanity become more conscious of and potentially change its relationship to reality? This ...

Residency Dave Griffiths

Dave’s residency in 2008 and 2009 focused on prototyping a groWorld game. groWorld is concerned with exploring people’s relationship with plants. Computer ...

Family Residency Robaupair

In 2010 FoAM expanded its residency programme to include people of all ages. The first experiment was having a “Family in Residence” (FIR), welcoming ...

Residency Eisa Jocson

Eisa Jocson, an artist from the Philippines, explored the potential of pole dancing in questioning power relationships within the sexual, private and public realm ...

Residency Kiran Ganghadaran

Kiran was in AEGIS residency between January and February 2011 with his ongoing research, Project Decode. The research looks at the existence of geometrical ...

Residency Maria Lucia Cruz Correia

Maria Lucia was in residence between January and February 2011, looking at the idea of space as a living organism. She researched sustainable strategies ...

Family Residency Simpsons

FoAM’s family-in-residence for the Resilients is the Simpsons (Mark, Lea, Scarlet and Delilah), living at FoAM Brussels for two weeks in June and ...

Residency Desire Machine Collective

Collaborating since 2004 as Desire Machine Collective, Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya initiated Periferry1.0, an alternative artist-led space situated on the M.V ...

Residency Simone Poutnik and Hendrik Tiesinga

Simone Poutnik and Hendrik Tiesinga are long-term collaborators and members of FoAM Brussels. In October 2011 they weighed anchor to become journeyers – nomads traversing ...

Residency King Librero

During his two-week residency at FoAM Brussels in October 2011, King buried himself in the library, sifting through a range of books on green ...

Residency Thomas Jellis

As a doctoral student in the School of Geography at the University of Oxford, Thomas Jellis joined FoAM in Brussels for a “geographer in ...

Family in Residence

A residency programme for families of creatives, exploring the edges between living and working environments.

Family Residency Simpsons

FoAM’s family-in-residence for the Resilients is the Simpsons (Mark, Lea, Scarlet and Delilah), living at FoAM Brussels for two weeks in June and ...

Family Residency Robaupair

In 2010 FoAM expanded its residency programme to include people of all ages. The first experiment was having a “Family in Residence” (FIR), welcoming ...

Micro Residencies

Micro Residencies are short, intensive working sessions where FoAM members work together with the resident generalists tackling one specific challenge or research question. The ...

Macro Transiencies

Macro Transiencies are essentially long-form residencies for generalists in trasition periods in their lives. The transiencies invite their participants to embrace lightness, mobility and ...

Fieldwork at FoAM

“Most of you must have been puzzled on occasion as to what i have been doing here: but I assure ...