Please join us on Saturday 8 June 2024, from 2pm, at Cove Park for a special event with artists Chizu Anucha and Laure Vigna.

Both Chizu (based in Glasgow) and Laure (based in Marseille) were awarded Magnetic Residencies in 2023/2024. This Franco-UK residency exchange programme, launched by Fluxus Art Projects , now involves five organisations based in the UK and five in France. Cove Park is the Scottish partner in Magnetic, working in tandem with the Villa Arson, Nice.

This free event marks the final week of Laure’s eight-week residency at Cove Park and coincides with the current call for applications for a new round of Magnetic Residencies in the autumn and early winter of 2024. It will include a presentation by Chizu on the work he produced during his residency at Villa Arson, and the opportunity to visit Laure’s studio and see new work in ceramic and glass developed during her residency.

This is the ideal opportunity to find out more about Magnetic Residencies, to see Cove Park, and meet some of our other national and international residents. Please reserve your free place here.

Everyone is welcome.
A guide to traveling to Cove Park is available here. Please contact alexia@covepark.org for further information.

Chizu Anucha
Chizu Anucha (he/they) is an audiovisual artist using sound and its relationship to the moving image to experiment and archive at the intersection of music, video and site-responsive performance. They are interested in the romanticism of spiritual and ritualistic practices, and in introverted mundanity, as navigated by BIPOC folk who are inclined toward otherworldly phenomena.

Laure Vigna
Laure Vigna is a French artist and practice-based researcher. She is a recent graduate from the MA Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths University of London (2022) and holds an MFA from ENSBA Lyon (2008). She recently participated in the second Dunkirk Triennial (2023-2024) and has exhibited at: CIAP Vassivière, Beaumont-du-Lac; MO.CO Panacée, Montpellier; DOC, Paris; Pneuma, Lisbon; Centre d’art du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux; Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger; Mon Chéri, Brussels. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation grant and was the laureate of the Étants donnés programme organised by the French Institute, the FACE Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States for a residency at Yucca Valley Material LAB in 2019. Her works are held in public collections in France.

Laure’s current research lies at the intersection of life sciences, social sciences, environmental studies and the history of science, aiming to examine matter from a socio-political angle. Her recent research focuses on microbial legacies in order to study their memorial and archival functions and their means of communication.

Images: above, Chizu Anucha, photography, Julia Bauer; below, Laure Vigna at Cove Park, May 2024, photography, Alan Dimmick.

This event is made possible with support from Fluxus Art Projects and the Magnetic Residencies partners.