TEAM
Neckel Scholtus
Annick Sophie “Neckel” Scholtus, born in 1982, lives and works in Luxembourg. An artist and photographer, she studied Art at Monpellier University and did her Masters in Photography at Paris VIII University. In 2009, she creates the project called “Roulot’graphe”, a moving caravan containing a Camera Obscura. She mainly develops her artistic project in relationship with the public, in particular through the angle of residencies, but also by being a free-lance mediator in cultural frameworks. In 2010, she gained the status of independent professional Luxembourgish artist. Her work has been exhibited in France, Luxembourg, China, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Ivory Coast, Italy. |
Gianfranco Celestino
After he accomplished his classical piano studies at Conservatorio "G. Verdi" in Torino (Italy), Gianfranco Celestino studied dance at the "Folkwang Hochschule" in Essen (Germany) with, among others, the dancers of Pina Bausch Dance Company. As a dancer, he worked internationally in Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg. Since 2002, he has contributed to enrich the Luxembourgish choreographic landscape. In 2016 he founds Friday Island association and produces a series of artistic events on socio-cultural thematics funded by numerous public and private Luxembourgish institutions. |
PROJECT INITIATION
The Nomadic Island community-based residency project is born from the impetus of two artists to work together and fuse their creative energies and experiences to initiate a new proposal. Neckel Scholtus' nomadic art project 'Roulot'ographe' and Gianfranco Celestino's socio-cultural nomadic event series 'Friday Island' constitute the antecedent experiences the two artists started from.
Friday Island asbl
Initiated in 2015 by Gianfranco Celestino and Katharina Bintz as an independent project, Friday Island is a series of events committed to create a space for meetings generating exchange between artists, as well as a public dialogue around a given topic. Open to artists of all disciplines and working with different types of media, Friday Island offers a platform for experimentation beyond creative processes bound to production and marketing logics.
The artistic contributions are encouraged to be experimental and critical. They are challenged to question the selected theme and to suggest out-of-the-box perspectives. Indeed, each theme allows different approaches and readings that are socially and philosophically stimulating: 'Playing', 'The Other', 'Failing', 'Power' and 'Freedom of the Body' are examples of themes which titled some of the Friday Island events between 2016 and 2018.
Friday Island fosters the idea that awareness and knowledge are produced through mutual exchange when held in a pleasant and friendly atmosphere. The events series promotes inclusion and acceptance and is open to everyone. It encourages participation and collaboration with the social reality of each specific venue. More than 1000 artistic proposals have been sent to Friday Island to participate to the last five events between 2016 and 2018. Twenty-two artists coming from eleven different countries have been taking part in the events.
Roulot’ographe
Founded in 2009 in Luxembourg by Neckel Scholtus, the association Roulot’ographe asbl develops practices of nomadic art. The 'Roulot’ographe' is a mobile trailer (mobile home) that transforms into a giant 'camera obscura' and photography lab. People taking part in the workshops offered by the 'Roulot’ographe' do not just get the opportunity to study a giant camera obscura. They learn how to form a photographic image, discuss the effects of light and chemical reactions, produce and take pictures through a small 'pinhole camera' of their own creation. Digital photography is discussed as well.
Roulot’ographe asbl participates in the life of different local neighbourhoods by organizing 'land actions' carried out through site specific itinerant activities in Luxembourg and abroad. Roulot’ographe's nomadic projects (realized in France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Bulgaria) are not of a representational kind. They work and deal with instant format of movement, displacement and activation of processes.
In 2013, the Roulot’ographe art project was invited to the temporary art project 'Nomadic Village' which welcomed thirty-five artists from 17 different countries. Most of them arrived with their mobile units to live and create a work of art in context with the environment. This event aimed to create a synergy between art and the public, inviting the visitors to take part in the artistic process. The 'Nomadic Village' experience was finalized by the presentation of the artists' work in form of exhibitions, performances, films, interventions within the social/environmental context. 'Nomadic Village' 2013 was part of the participative project 'We will all be from here' that commits the agglomeration community of Pays d’Aubagne and Etoile, and Marseille 2013 European Capital of Culture.
Friday Island asbl
Initiated in 2015 by Gianfranco Celestino and Katharina Bintz as an independent project, Friday Island is a series of events committed to create a space for meetings generating exchange between artists, as well as a public dialogue around a given topic. Open to artists of all disciplines and working with different types of media, Friday Island offers a platform for experimentation beyond creative processes bound to production and marketing logics.
The artistic contributions are encouraged to be experimental and critical. They are challenged to question the selected theme and to suggest out-of-the-box perspectives. Indeed, each theme allows different approaches and readings that are socially and philosophically stimulating: 'Playing', 'The Other', 'Failing', 'Power' and 'Freedom of the Body' are examples of themes which titled some of the Friday Island events between 2016 and 2018.
Friday Island fosters the idea that awareness and knowledge are produced through mutual exchange when held in a pleasant and friendly atmosphere. The events series promotes inclusion and acceptance and is open to everyone. It encourages participation and collaboration with the social reality of each specific venue. More than 1000 artistic proposals have been sent to Friday Island to participate to the last five events between 2016 and 2018. Twenty-two artists coming from eleven different countries have been taking part in the events.
Roulot’ographe
Founded in 2009 in Luxembourg by Neckel Scholtus, the association Roulot’ographe asbl develops practices of nomadic art. The 'Roulot’ographe' is a mobile trailer (mobile home) that transforms into a giant 'camera obscura' and photography lab. People taking part in the workshops offered by the 'Roulot’ographe' do not just get the opportunity to study a giant camera obscura. They learn how to form a photographic image, discuss the effects of light and chemical reactions, produce and take pictures through a small 'pinhole camera' of their own creation. Digital photography is discussed as well.
Roulot’ographe asbl participates in the life of different local neighbourhoods by organizing 'land actions' carried out through site specific itinerant activities in Luxembourg and abroad. Roulot’ographe's nomadic projects (realized in France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Bulgaria) are not of a representational kind. They work and deal with instant format of movement, displacement and activation of processes.
In 2013, the Roulot’ographe art project was invited to the temporary art project 'Nomadic Village' which welcomed thirty-five artists from 17 different countries. Most of them arrived with their mobile units to live and create a work of art in context with the environment. This event aimed to create a synergy between art and the public, inviting the visitors to take part in the artistic process. The 'Nomadic Village' experience was finalized by the presentation of the artists' work in form of exhibitions, performances, films, interventions within the social/environmental context. 'Nomadic Village' 2013 was part of the participative project 'We will all be from here' that commits the agglomeration community of Pays d’Aubagne and Etoile, and Marseille 2013 European Capital of Culture.