Residency at Instituto de Artes do Pará - IAP in Belém - Pará - Brasil.

Studio Residency exchange provided by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
[October - December 2009]

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artist: Allison Moore

+ artist residency

+ Amazonian Culture

+ Cross sections of fiction and history

+ Mtyhs, legends and the evolution of storytelling

+ www.looper.ca

+ allisonmoo[at]gmail[dot]com

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Project duration: 2 months:

Weeks one-two:
-Orientation, research legends and myths
-Ask local community for stories
-Sketch ideas, writing
-Finding materials

Weeks three-five:
-Documentation sketchbook and video camera of discoveries
-Compile Stories, begin drawings

Weeks six-seven:
-Intensive art production
-Drawing, puppet building, video animation

Week eight:
-Finalizing work for presentation

Description

During my residency at the CALQ studio in Belem, Brasil I am interested in researching local legends
and myths. How stories are created, passed on, altered and shared. The stories can be
historically accurate or totally fictitious. I am fascinated in cross-referencing traditional
allegories and cautionary tales with themes of the local politics and the surrounding
geographical landscape. I am eager to discover how the change in environment will
influence my drawing and video creations.

I am trying to make use of local-made materials to create a new body of work. Paper and video
are my main materials. I would like to develop a drawing series in large scale. The
works will be illustrative and narrative in style. My images will be stimulated by
discoveries I make in the local territory, and inspired from the local culture.

I am also using the opportunity to share the print studio of local artist Armando Sobral from the Institut des Arts de Pará.
I am involving various printmaking methods with my series of
works. My 2D work uses paper exclusively. It is a material I am very attracted to for my
illustrative style. I use handmade papers with inks, gauche, watercolors, and acrylic
fluids to make my forms with a focus on the contour line. My drawings are
representational and figurative in nature. I cut out images, and I make collages with
decorative papers mixed with my drawings. I am attracted to repetitive motifs and
pattern. In particular I plan to use linocuts, or wood cuts to make smaller
repetitive motifs to be integrated with the larger drawings by stamping.

My studio at Instituto de Artes do Pará - IAP in Belém - Pará - Brasil

Sacred Onca, Allison Moore 2009

Jurupary, Allison Moore 2009

Conquest l'amour, Allison Moore 2009

Tau Tau, Allison Moore 2009

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Animation Videos produced during Residency

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THIS IS A RANDOM COLLECTION OF MY FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS IN BELEM.
IN no Particular order.

WORK ON PAPER

bio

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Allison Moore is an independent artist and curator developing projects at the intersection of art and science. Her engagements include documentary filmmaking, video installation, animation, and puppet theatre.  Her works are socially and politically conscience, often including a level of absurdity, humor and surrealism.  Originally from the Pacific Coast of Canada she has produced projects in Ecuador, the Galapagos, United Kingdom, Europe and North America.  Allison is currently developing new technologies in video, animation and interactive computing as an invited artist at Studio XX and the Society of Arts and Technology in Montreal. 

www.looper.ca
www.looperprojects/blogspot.com
www.graff.ca