Stevie Wishart was FoAM’s “composer in transience” at the Brussels studio for most of 2015. Her residency emerged as a natural consequence of a long involvement with FoAM spanning several years and numerous projects, including most recently Wheel & Time(less), Candlemas Concerto, FutureFest, Smoke & Vapour, and Inner Garden. When I had the opportunity to talk with her in the spring of 2015 she was deeply immersed in a large …
Over the past 5 years, between 2010 and 2015, FoAM and Vali Lalioti ran a coaching programme for artists and cultural workers, subsidised by the Flemish authorities. We wanted to explore the value of using business coaching in the creative sector. Vali was trained as a coach in the BBC, where she previously coached executives, researchers and designers. After coaching two artists from the FoAM network, the feedback was so …
Two versions of the text "Thriving in Uncertainty" by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney have been published recently, one in English on Medium and another in Dutch published in Rekto:Verso. The article talks about FoAM's thoughts on work ethics, transitions, uncertainty and the importance of lying fallow. It was written in October 2015, in preparation for the "fallow year" at FoAM in Brussels.
A report of my foam lab micro-residency, part of series of thought and drawing experiments that I call The Living Line The D&D micro-residency took place on December 2nd and was attended by Auriea, Rasa, Stevie, Nicholas, Maja (who also facilitated and took great notes.)