Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia

Experience 21 intense days immersed in the life, culture and art of Peru’s rural tropical rainforest  Disciplines and media: Visual Art Performing Arts Textile Art Music Literature New Media Presentation: To be considered, candidates must download this .doc file and fill in all areas: download application >> Attach a minimum of 3 images of past work (JPEG, TIF, PNG, GIF). Please limit videos to less than 5 minutes(avi, mpeg, quicktime, wav, mp3 ). Attach PDF and images of previous work and email them to residency@centroselva.com Application and project presentation periods: Project portfolios must be received: Non Peruvian Artists: by  March 15th Peruvian Artists: by  April 15th Results of application will be announced personally: Non Peruvian Artists, by  March 30th  Peruvian Artists, by  April 30th Payments must be made: Non Peruvian Artists, by  April 30th  Peruvian Artists, by ...

En la Residencia Photo: Mwamba Mulangala Exhibitions: Cuerpo y Tierra (previous to the residency)  and  RESIDENCIA PARA ARTISTAS 2012 (final residency exhibition)   Workshop on Shipibo-Conibo Art ( at the farm) Artist Talk (Centro Cultural,  Pucallpa) Visit to the Shipibo - Conibo community of Panaillo   photo: Rosaura Del La Cruz photo: Mwamba Mulangala Working at the residency Artists Experience Alexander Mackenzie Before Centro Selva I never had been involved with an artist residency program. My impressions of what these sorts of programs should contain and consist of was based entirely on an outsiders perspective and hearsay. Having just graduated from university, all my previous experience came from a strong studio background and I suppose I somehow thought that that setting would be replicated in the amazon as some sort of micro...

  Mwamba Mulangala (Zambia, 1976). His artwork is based on an inquiry into the rights and responsibilities of individuals and groups as they struggle to survive and thrive in society, and the relationships between them. This includes personal provocations, the fight for access to equal opportunities, conflict resolution and political activism. His creative journey began with a period of paintings developed from recycling canvases he initially used as paint mixing surfaces. He now creates allegorical pieces that include assemblages and combinations of painting and installation using found and waste material. He studied Art Education at the Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce. Apart from a number of solo exhibitions in Zambia, Mwamba has exhibited at the Dubuque Museum of Art in Iowa and has also been part of group exhibitions in New York City and Los Angeles, including Heidelberg in Germany, and the Dak’Art Af...

Artista - Directora / Artist - Director Diana Fiorella Riesco Lind (Pucallpa, Perú). En 1998 ingresa a la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y egresa en el año 2003. En el 2007 recibe el título de Licenciada en Artes Plásticas con mención en Pintura. En el 2008, cuadros de su serie Origen fueron seleccionados para la “Biennal Exhibition Latin Views 2008” - Alexy von Schippe Gallery, Connecticut USA. El año 2008 viaja a Suecia para realizar sus estudios de maestría en Artes Plásticas con especialización en Medios Digitales en la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Valand, Gotemburgo, Suecia, y culmina sus estudios el 2010. En el 2010 sigue el curso de Cine Experimental de la  Escuela de Fotografía de la Universidad de  Göteborg, s u video “A Feminine Game” fue seleccionado para “The Kunstfilmtag Düsseldorf”, Düsseldorf, Alemania. En el 2011 su tesis de maestría, Legacy: a gift of property, a journey through the context of the artist and the art, es publicada por LAP LAMBERT...