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RHONA MUHLEBACH & CHLOE REID

January 2025

During their time at Nirox, Rhona and Chloë are developing a script and series of drawings for an installation-based performance, with iterations in South Africa and Switzerland in 2025. The score for the work will be produced by sound designer and composer William Aikman.

Neither Hideous nor Tedious’ is a collaborative project by Rhona Mühlebach (artist/filmmaker) and Chloë Reid (artist/writer) exploring relationships between mythology and personhood. The project draws its title from The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li:

“...some people are smart enough to turn themselves into myths. Some people turn others into myths. Yet what is a myth but a veil arranged to cover what is hideous or tedious.

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People are oftentimes hideous or tedious. Sometimes they are both. So is the world. We would have no use for myths if the world were neither hideous nor tedious.”

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ANUJA DASGUPTA

October - November 2024

Anuja Dasgupta brings an ecological lens to the foundational processes of image-making. Propelling her long-term engagement with phytogeography, she now explores South Africa's diverse flora and its impressive adaptive strategies in extreme environments.

Positioned in the Cradle of Humankind, Anuja’s work underscores the quiet yet profound impact plants have had on humanity's story and how the rigid framework of modern science often sidelines plant narratives.

By working with plant materials, creating pigments, and experimenting with light-sensitive emulsions, Anuja seeks to imagine the life and language of plants as a phenomenal universe, from the surface to the subterranean world.

This residency is supported by the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation in collaboration with the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of Witwatersrand.

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RESIDENCY SPACES AND SERVICES

COOLROOM

UPSTAIRS STUDIO

STUDIO

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WORKSHOP

LOUNGE/DINING

COTTAGE

LOUNGE

MUSIC ROOM / STUDIO

Accommodation consists of a two bedroom double-story house facing north overlooking the Sculpture Park, with a large double-volume studio, mezzanine work space, lounge, dining and entertainment facility. Adjoining the house is an open-fronted sculpture workshop and a second studio.

A separate self-contained 2-bedroom cottage facing west overlooks the water, sheltered from the afternoon sun by aged Bushwillows.

Residencies are fully serviced with meals prepared by Maria and her team in the house kitchen, good 'rural' wifi, and assistance with sourcing materials, building and making to good standards by our management, ground staff and resident carpenter.

A short walk across the lawns of the Park is the Coolroom Complex, a large multi-functional workshop/studio, a Screening Room with cinema seating, a small studio and curator’s office.

The Sculpture Parks’ 30 hectare garden is shared with the public on weekends and with pre-arranged visitors during the week. Residents’ privacy is protected, but it is in the nature of the Foundation’s purpose to encourage engagement.

The restaurant, ‘... And then there was fire’ is open to the public. Residents are encouraged to enjoy its active program of music, performance, culinary-school, yoga, talks, poetry, fashion and related activities; to be part of Bernardo and Manu’s passion for food and the exulted life we hope to bring to South Africans and visitors from afar.

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