OUTER EAR RESIDENCY

The OUTER EAR RESIDENCY is a week-long residency at ESS in which all of the Studio’s resources and platforms are made available to the artists. The goal of the residency is to facilitate experimentation and the creation of new work at any phase of the creative process. The Residency is purposefully open and flexible, allowing artists to work with ESS staff on an approach that best serves their present artistic goals.

Read more about our 2019 Outer Ear artists-in-residence, LUFTWERK in collaboration with KATIE YOUNG, and BEN LAMAR GAY, here.

ALBA RESIDENCY

We are pleased to announce Katie Wood (MFA, 2019) as the 2019 Alba Sonic Arts Artist-in-Residence.

The Alba Sonic Arts Residency is a three-month residency at ESS in which all of the organization’s resources and platforms are made available to a graduating MFA student from the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute (SAIC). It is the only post-graduate sonic arts residency of its kind in the US. The goal of the residency is to create an immediate outlet for the skills and ideas the student has developed at SAIC, helping to launch them into the next phase of their artistic career.

WAVEFRONT ARTIST RESIDENCY

The WAVEFRONT ARTIST RESIDENCY is an international artist residency exchange partnership between ESS and soundpocket, a sonic arts organization based in Hong Kong. Since the program began in 2015, soundpocket has sent four artists—DAVE CHOW, CHER NG CHUN-TUNG, MARK CHUNG, and SAMSON CHEUNG—to spend a month as artists-in-residence at ESS, and ESS has sent Chicago artists DAVID BOYKIN and SARA LUDY to spend a month in Hong Kong.

The 2019 Hong Kong artist-in-residence is Brian Chu Yin-woo.