AIR 2008

Dean Linguey

Residency Duration: May – Jun 2009

Dean Linguey is a multimedia artist from Australia. He joined the residency artist program with the Lost Generation Art Space via the support from Asialink Arts, an exchange platform enabling Australian arts sector to engage with Asia through sharing insights, creating connections, and building capability. 

Dean’s art language utilises sound, video and sculptural/installation elements and is informed by his experience as a physical performer and sound artist. His works usually explore the relationships between the body and the built world and the effects upon the individual. Dean has conducted workshops in sound and performance for The Melbourne City Mission, Australia and as a guest lecturer/facilitator for performance studies at Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. 

Graduating from RMIT University (Melbourne) in Sculpture and Sound, he has exhibited and performed in Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. 

This Asialink effort was funded by the Australia Council and the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur.

Dean now lives and works in Community Broadcasting Foundation, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lost Generation Artist Residency Project 2009
Supported by Asialink Art

Naima Dell’ava

Residency Duration: Jul – Oct 2009

Naima Dell’ava is an Italian music-arts therapist and performer. She used to work with children, handicap people, victims of torture of war, victims of sexual abuses in different realities like slums, refugee and gipsy camps and the South American’s favelas. She performed in different contexts in art events and street-festivals around Italy, France, Spain, US, Argentina and India. 

She was also a member of the renowned performing arts companies “The Living Theatre” and “Malamurga” . 

Lost Generation Artist Residency Project 2009

Volker W.Hamann

Residency Duration: Nov 2009

Volker W.Hamann (b.1962, Stutgart, Germany) has been working as a freelance artist in his own studios in Filderstadt and the surrounding areas since 1993. 

He was predominantly influenced by the experience growing up in the culturally turbulent 1980’s marked by the growing global capitalism, widespread of mass media, significant discrepancies in wealth, alongside a distinctive sense of music and fashion, epitomised by electronic pop and hip-hop in the era of cold war which leading up to the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989.

Volker started as a stone sculptor bagging many awards before a few years later he explored photography and other multimedia tools which became an important art making element influencing his future works throughout his professional career. He connects sculptures with photography followed by his Temporary Light sculptures, a mix of sculptural aspects and video-art.

Time and again he reaches for the limits of his physical and psychological capacity. He seems to be overtaken by his ideas, giving us the impression of not being fast enough to express his visions, that he is lagging behind in this speedy race, hardly able to sketch things down in time. Every new day is bringing new innovative powers to the fore and be it in workshops, on trips or travels, these powers are close to eruption point.

During the residency, Volker presented an artist talk and sharing on the 30 November. Volker shared his works and experience on his first exhibition at Wei-Ling Gallery in 2007 collaboration with Malaysian artist Chin Kong Yee and his wood-sculptures at the Notthatbalai Festival in 2008. From the meeting and connection established, he would a year later for his second residency at Lostgens’ where he opened his first solo exhibition in Malaysia at MAP White Box (Solaris Dutamas) with the exhibition entitled “Dark Strange Familiar Light” which was very well received by the local public.

A German Artist Residency Project collaboration with Goethe-Institut Malaysia

Angelika Boeck

Residency Duration: Dec 2009

Angelika Boeck (b. 1967, Munich, Germany) studied interior design and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Her works are widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, Yemen and the Palestinian territories.

She is a visual artist investigating forms of expression, practices, rituals or signs in various cultural contexts (eg. work, art, religion, everyday life) and demonstrating them as means of identifying, recognising, representing, characterising – in short ‘portraying’ a human being.

Her residency program with the Lost Generation Art Space was initiated and supported by the Goethe-Institut Malaysia where during her stay, she presented an artist talk and workshop based on her research project “Portrait as Dialogue”, which explores unconventional ways of creating a portrait, as an extensive archival of forms of human representation. Angelika also explores how an individual could perceive different cultural practices, notion of self and others through journeys across various countries and cultures. She has been able to show in a universal manner how people in different societies express their sense of place and belonging, which lead to the understanding of themselves, and the formation of their respective identities.

During her residency Angelika visited Bario, a small village located on the highlands of central Sarawak where she had the opportunity to engage with the Kelabit people, one of the smallest indigenous groups in Malaysia. Through time she developed and extended her Portrait as Dialogue in the context of the name-changing, an unique ancestral tradition still practiced by the Kelabit community. Angelike would continue to return to Bario intensively in the coming years (2010 – 2016) under her new research project Life Practices where she worked closely with her local research partner Wilson Bala to focus on contemporary survival practices worldwide, highlighting the issues of sustainability and subsistence.

Earlier this year 28 Feb – 22 March, Angelika participated in a group exhibition ‘Construct Your Stories’ in Artist’s House Bethania (Berlin) where she is one of the eleven award recipients of the Falkonrot Prize 2020.

A German Artist Residency Project collaboration with Goethe-Institut Malaysia

Portrait © Angelika Boeck