2010, THE FIRST CCMHT INVITATIONAL RESIDENCY
Our first residency was still somewhat experimental and consisted of participants that had a connection with people close to CCMHT.
Smudge Studio artists
Smudge studio is a collaboration between Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse based in Brooklyn, New York.
“Our multi-media practice invents aesthetic provocations that assist humans in feeling for themselves the reality of contemporary forces and scales of change (natural and human-made). We frequently activate movement and travel as our methodological processes and use media and design to materialize connections between geologic material realities and contemporary life. For our two residencies with CCMHT, we activated both the Kugel-Gips house (March 2010) and the Hatch House (June 2013) as experimental inhabitation sites and documented our experiences through various photographic media (including digital, camera obscura and Polaroid). We extended our research into the surrounding Cape Cod landscapes (ponds, bays, dunes, forest, geology, roads, etc.). For Kugel-Gips, we activated the house as a “field station” poised at the edge of a kettle pond directly shaped by the retreat of the Laurentide ice sheet 14,000 – 17,000 years ago.
The experience of our residencies with CCMHT has supported our interest in further developing inhabitation practices that respond to emerging planetary change. We will extend the processes we invented on our CCMHT residencies into upcoming field research as part of our work with the Future North Project in Iceland and Norway in 2014.”
Two short pieces about our residencies can be found on the Friends of the Pleistocene blog:
Kugel-Gips
Hatch
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Irene Lipton painter
Irene Lipton received her MFA in painting from Hunter College in New York City. Early in her career, Lipton was chosen by Charlotta Kotik to be in two museum shows: Working in Brooklyn/Painting at the Brooklyn Museum, in 1987, and On the Cutting Edge at the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, New York in 1989. She received two consecutive Fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center, from 1988–1990, and later served on the Visual Committee for several years. In 1997, Lipton moved full-time to Provincetown and then to North Truro, where she built a studio and works today. In 2005, she was one of the founding members of artSTRAND gallery, having seven years of solo shows and numerous group exhibitions there, as well as on the Cape and in Boston. Lipton had a mid-career show in 2007 at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Her work has been written about in the Boston Globe, Art New England, and Provincetown Arts magazine. She is now represented by the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown.
To see Irene’s work, go to:
http://irenelipton.com/paintings
Bryan Bell architect, Founder and Executive Director of Design Corps
Bell’s work as a resident of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust residency was his initial research into “Public Interest Design.” The work developed a triple bottom line evaluation called the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Evaluator.
The residency has led to numerous results and other opportunities. Bell’s research on this subject was subsequently funded through the 2011 Latrobe Prize, awarded by the American Institute of Architects. Additional research was completed as a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Harvard Business School. The resulting work includes a survey of AIA members on Public Interest Practices in Architecture. Bell has authored an essay on the history of Public Interest Design for the 2013 AIA Handbook on Professional Practice. His research was presented at the 2012 AIA National Convention. Best practices in this emerging field are now presented in a professional training program, the Public Interest Design Institute.
For bio and more information on Bryan’s work go to:
http://www.bryanbell.org/ and https://designcorps.org/
Ericka Beckman film maker
Over her four-decade career, Ericka Beckman’s playful yet formally demanding films challenge traditional aesthetic, and cultural values, that mix games with fairytales to create hybrids with new rules. Beckman uses play in every sense to shape her message.
Beckman and Tara Merenda Nelson, one of her graduate students at Mass College of Art, made a film using the Kugel-Gips house and its environment and natural and projected light. When we first discussed Ericka being a resident the house was a vacant hulk. She adapted her concept to the new reality of the house being restored and furnished. Tara Merenda Nelson also made a short film using the house as its subject.
Ericka Beckman’s work has been shown at festivals, museums, and galleries around the world. Her one-woman shows include: the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, the Smithsonian’s Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. She has been in three Biennials at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Amongst the numerous awards received for her work are: two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, two New York State Council on the Arts grants, and one from Massachusetts Council on the Arts.
Her works are in the film collection of New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, plus the British Film Institute, as well as The Walker Art Center Media Collection.
For more on her work go to:
https://philipmartingallery.com/artists/27-ericka-beckman/biography
Doug Padget artist
Doug Padget is from the Midwest. He studied art at the John Herron Institute, Purdue University, and the BFA Painting program at Indiana University. Mr. Padgett lived on Cape Cod for several years before moving to New York City, where he now lives and works. Padgett has been exhibited in Provincetown galleries for twenty years. His work has been shown in The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art and he has been with the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown since its inception. His writing on art has been published in THIS: A Collection of Artists’ Writings Edited by Susan Jennings.
“Being in a kayak on the pond or walking in the woods is a very different experience than looking at these places through the windows from inside the house. A similar combination of attachment and remove happens in landscape painting. You’re not really in the place the painting depicts yet you somehow can go there mentally.”
For more information on his residency go to:
http://ccmht.org/douglas-padget-reports-from-his-residency-at-the-kugelgips-house/
Special Guest
John Pawson architect, author
John Pawson is an internationally celebrated architect who lives in London. While a resident, he gave a lecture at the Wellfleet Library and took photographs in the Kugel-Gips House, some of which appear in his book: A Visual Inventory.
John Pawson was born in 1949 in Halifax, Yorkshire. After a period of working in the family textile business, he left for Japan, there he spent several years teaching English at the business university of Nagoya. Towards the end of his time there he moved to Tokyo, where he visited the studio of Japanese architect and designer Shiro Kuramata. Following his return to England, he enrolled at the Architecture Association in London, leaving to establish his own practice in 1981.
From the outset, his work has focused on ways of approaching fundamental problems of space, proportion, light, and materials, rather than on developing a set of stylistic mannerisms — themes he also explored in his book Minimum, first published in 1996, which examines the notion of simplicity in art, architecture, and design across a variety of historical and cultural contexts.
Over the years, John Pawson has accrued extensive experience of the challenges of working within environments of historic, landscape and ecological significance. Key examples of this includes the Sackler Crossing — a walkway over the lake at London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew — the Cistercian monastery of Our Lady of Nový Dvůr in Bohemia, and the former Commonwealth Institute in London, which opened as a new permanent home for the Design Museum in 2015.
For more information on his lecture go to:
http://ccmht.org/john-pawson-lecture-august-21/