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FIA is pleased to announce that Zak Leazer and Zoë Hitzig are the recipients of the inaugural Rise & Fall of Tides residency.

Zak Leazer is a researcher and master’s candidate in architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. His research focuses on architecture and fashion as stages of identity construction and ecological speculation.

Zoë Hitzig is a PhD candidate in economics at Harvard, and author of two books of poetry, Mezzanine (Ecco, 2020) and Not Us Now (Changes, 2024). Her poems have appeared in the Paris Review, The New Yorker, Harper’s, London Review of Books, and elsewhere, and she currently serves as poetry editor of The Drift. 

This residency will provide an opportunity for the selected resident(s) to live and work on Fogo Island, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada for a period of six weeks, up to three months. A budget of up to 25,000 CAD will be provided to support travel to Fogo Island and a new project or the development of an existing project for the selected resident(s). Alongside the project budget, the resident will be provided with accommodation, as well as a vehicle on Fogo Island. Successful candidates will be responsible for acquiring the necessary visas and driver’s license permissions, Fogo Island Arts will help facilitate this process. The residency period will commence from late 2023.

FIA and the Hnatyshyn Foundation are proud to announce that emerging curators Katie Lawson & Tak Pham have been selected as the recipients of the Hnatyshyn Foundation-Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency.

Both recipients will undertake their residencies with FIA in Summer and Fall 2023.

On Monday January 9th,  Liam Gillick was interviewed by CBC NL about his weather station project on Fogo Island called A Variability Quantifier. Watch the interview here.

Liam Gillick is being interviewed about A Variability Quantifier (AKA the Fogo Island Red Weather Station) on CBC’s The Broadcast with Paula Gale today, December 9 2022, at 6pm NT.

You can listen to the interview here.

View the current weather data from the weather station here.

Cross Currents was a residency partnership conceived and organised by Bothy Project, Fogo Island Arts, and Fogo Island Workshops that ran in 2021-22. To celebrate the project we made four special Risograph posters, one each for makers Florence Dwyer, Clare Robb, Nicole Travers and Larry Weyand, and a fifth with the commissioned essay Listening for the call of place, by designer and anthropologist Charlotte Linton.

The risograph posters are now available for purchase here.

Florence Dwyer is an artist, designer and maker living and working in Glasgow, influenced by the processes underpinning experimental archaeology. Clare Robb is a jeweller and object-maker, her works are retainers of memory, inspired by collecting and gathering small, discrete objects. She lives and works in Carnoustie, on the east coast of Scotland. Nicole Travers is a self-taught beader, tanner and artist creating functional objects and artworks that respond to her culture and heritage as a Mi’kmaw and First Nation woman from the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. Larry Weyand is a rug hooker whose work defies the established properties of traditional floor décor, domesticity, and gender. They are based in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

Dimensions – 297 x 420 mm

Materials – Risograph print, on 100gsm recycled paper