Silence Awareness Existence program I-Chi Chiu Taipei, Taiwan Painting，Soft sculpture，Installation www Chiu I-chi’s art is inspired by her personal experiences and observations of nature. Using fictional creatures as a starting point for her narratives, she explores the fragility and resilience of life. Her work focuses on the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature, portraying how life adapts and transforms under pressure while offering a unique perspective on the diverse landscapes of life. Anastassia Tretiakova Tomsk, Russia Photography, Collage, Bookmaking www I am a Russian-American artist and currently based in Spain. My work focuses on sensorial interpretation of space, finding a sense of home in foreign places, and how those places shape personal identity. My main points of interest are exploring familial intimacy through photography and bookmaking however I also experiment with video and sound. My main aim is to understand how to bridge the cultures I pertain to. I Han Su New Taipei City, Taiwan Painting www "In the boundless world, discovering the majesty of life's smallest moments." I’m a Taiwanese artist who focuses on the unique experiences of individual lives and the pursuit of meaning. Through the fluidity and layered textures of oil paint, I construct a mental landscape, attempting to explore the relationship between inner life and the external world. I seek answers to how individuals position and respond to themselves amidst the changes in time and space. The unique "bird" symbol in my paintings is a transformation of the Chinese character "人 (human)" combined with the image of a bird. By inverting it to form a bird in flight, I symbolize our existence in the world. And the surreal colors presented in the series symbolize the ethereal and dreamlike nature of our existence. To date, I have held nine solo exhibitions and participated in more than forty group exhibitions, including in Taiwan, Spain, South Korea, China, Japan, and Mexico. My works have been collected by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture and the Kinmen Cultural Affairs Bureau. With each exhibition, residency, and cultural exchange, I continuously weave more experiences into the web of my life. I hope that through my work, viewers can resonate with and reflect on their own existence.

January Sylvie De Meerleer Bruges, Belgium Drawing, Painting, Sewing www "I believe time is circular, so I'm stepping backwards into the future." I'm a visual artist, based in Bruges. I'm fascinated by Indian spirituality, quantum physics, and Russian literature. Deepak Chopra, Dostojevski and Rainer Maria Rilke are amongst my favorite writers. I'm a painter by heart and I look at the world in colors. When I see objects with my eyes I can sense the texture and structure of them. I have a very sensitive and tactile way of living. I love the silence, nature and just being on the background to observe everything around me from a distance. My visual works are contemplative. I work a lot with repetition and I can draw or paint for hours on a row, just like a mantra. Erik Peterson Philadelphia, USA Drawing, Painting www I teach figure drawing, acrylic painting, and color theory at the Fleisher Art Memorial of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I received an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (‘23), where I also obtained a Post-Baccalaureate degree (‘15). My BFA was received from the Lyme Academy College of the Fine Arts ('14). A Connecticut native, I presently reside in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My work contains biographic fantastical narratives which pull from faulty memories and discordant dreams. Existing in an uneasy world of their own, the paintings contribute to my admiration of un-sense and trickster storytelling; by never fully gripping onto safer truths, the works encourage the unknown to be stirred within the viewer. In the works, vibrant colors pierce through muted areas and draw attention both away from and to other areas of the paintings – specifically to areas which urge further reflection. Kate Stehr Wollongong, Australia Sculpture and Mixed Media www I am a sculptor based in the Illawarra, on the South Coast of New South Wales in Australia. I have engaged in consistent Visual Arts study since 2002, from a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at TAFE through to a Masters of Philosophy in Creative Arts Research. My works are often influenced by a desire to celebrate the history and memory found in objects that would otherwise be discarded. I create works that often balance between abstraction and realism, blending elements of contemporary sculpture and the handmade artisan object. As such, the making process is often evident in the works, as is a focus on tactile surfaces. They are, for the most part, hand-carved, and often feature found objects. Amongst recent series, Scribing Tools and The Reimagined Tale have been linked to the theoretical and practical research conducted during my Masters. This research project saw my investigations into work inspired by the translation of traditional narratives into contemporary material forms. As the foundation blocks of our cultures, the research questioned what happens if these oral tales are lost. The use of sculptural forms to solidify these narratives is argued as a means of retaining their integrity in contemporary society.

Isobelle Ouzman Slovakia Illustration, Paper carving www "Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.” - Vincent Van Gogh I am a Paper Artist and Illustrator with a focus in Altered Book art. I use book pages to bring my passion for narrative into a 3-dimensional realm, often touching on themes of escapism, self-reflection, and hope. I aim to show how transformative books and stories can be to our sense of self and belonging. Evan Williams USA Painting, Woodworking, Sewing www "Momento Vivere" Evan is a rambling soul based out of wherever the wind blows him (most of the time that is in the United States). He is a tradesman in many forms such as woodworking, textiles, print making, building, but Sign Painting is his current occupation and fixation. Although his work is commercial in nature, the art that he creates of his own volition explores death, life, dreams and the in-between, seeking the divine in all things and the magick of existence. He frequently uses found materials, natural mediums, and poetry to creates images reminiscent of time that seems to stand still. Sungyeon Park Seoul, South Korea Video, Media Art, Interdisciplinary art www "Daily life in my own language" Sungyeon Park, based in Seoul, South Korea) is known for her strong presence in the art scene for her research and exhibitions. Her artworks showcase a distinctive synesthetic art language utilizing the convergence of sounds, videos, literature, and plays. Park has been selected as Korea’s representative artist by national institutions and foundations in Korea and invited to overseas fellowships at world-renowned national and public art museums and foundations. Her invitational solo exhibition at the Ilsim Foundation, “You are here” (2021), was a video exhibition narratively presenting the connection of you-me-family-movement-conversation. This exhibition was extensively reported in a various articles. She has been participating in artist-in-residences such as the Art Omi International Residency in New York, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, the MacDowell Colony, USA, the Taipei Artist Village of Taipei Culture Foundation, Taiwan, the National Art Studio of National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Kulturamtes der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Germany, the Clayarch Gimhae Museum of Korea and the Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Japan. As a leader of convergence research in the art world, she has conducted continuous research activities and received convergence research support under the National Research Foundation of Korea.

Christin Zarzinsky Hamburg, Germany Dance, Performance Art, Ecosomatics www "II believe in dancing." Christin is a dance and performance artist and interdisciplinary educator based in Hamburg, Germany. Her participatory performances had been shown in national museums, festivals and site specific venues inviting audiences to dive into deep experience, empathy, change of perspective and true encounter. As an interdisciplinary educator and embodiment coach she combines artistic practices with several body-mind-work techniques encouraging people to get in the mode of presence, open-mindedness and perception to unfold creativity. Anna Kohlweis Austria Visual Art, Music, Writing www Living and working primarily on the internet and in Vienna, Austria, I am an interdisciplinary artist merging painting, drawing, music, fiber art, poetry, prose, sound, video, and illustration. As a songwriter and performer I have produced records as Paper Bird (2006-2011) and Squalloscope (2011 - now) and I am one half of the band Twin Tooth. My most loved mode of existence is the hunt for non-linear, non-industrial modes of creation in different environments and communities. Utilizing visual arts, writing, and music in equal measures, my work lies in creating an expansive universe highly influenced by folklore, the politics of belonging, the intricacies of language, light, and color, sensory overload, inhabiting an autistic body and brain, and the depths of human yearning. Hilary White Ireland Writing, Research, Poetics www I am a writer and researcher, currently based at Maynooth University where I am a Research Ireland, Government of Ireland 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow. My postdoctoral project, Forms of Sleep: Literary Experiments in Somnolence, investigates the intersections of experimental poetics and sleep science, with particular focus on sleep disorders and (un)productivity. I am developing this research further into the areas of chronobiology and desynchrony. I have long been interested in barriers to communication and limitations to knowledge, across all the forms of work I do. In creative writing, this takes shape as an interest in holes, gaps, absences and sleep—spaces or processes where knowledge is impossible, where one must be content with mystery. In academic work, this has previously taken shape as an interest in visuality within literature, that is the choice to represent visually in a linguistic medium, which is usually a (silent) statement that language is inadequate or ill-suited to the task of representation. Currently I work on sleep-centric literature, that is literature foregrounding sleep instead of wakefulness, with all the attendant qualities of sleep: silence, mystery, minority, nonsense, unmastery, unproductivity. Sleep provides a mode of resistance to an achievement society which valorises production, efficiency and activity. See the list of all the Arteles residents here