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The rabbit hole is a process-based residency, and collective experience:

In delving into process, without rules or restrictions, and in embracing the power of the collective, the artists unravel, in what the group refers to as “magical consciousness” a mode of attunement that resides beyond the deliberate mind. In disconnecting from habitual patterns, we reconnect to more universal sensibilities: the senses, intuition, improvisation. Like the birds in Fariduddin Attar’s Conference of the Birds, The Rabbit Hole is a space to navigate a shared, uncertain compass, trusting that meaning arises, not from plans but from movement and resonance.

Over six months, the artists entered The Rabbit Hole as both inquiry and practice—an invitation to stop with the mind, and allow process itself to become the guide. Each artist entered the program with a response to the questions “What if we stop remembering?” yet carried this question lightly, open to the possibility that their work might be transformed by the collective, or even undone by it. What unfolded was less a linear investigation, but more like a derive itself:  a drifting through materials, sensations, and states.

Each weekly meeting started with a derive. The dérive became a structural tool for accessing the “in-between,” a way of drifting toward more subtle symbols like echoes and their formations; the directions of the winds, and our perceptions and locations within those symbols. Then they joined together for studio sessions, where the artists’ practices naturally began to overlap and intermingle.. The studio became a site of continuous and collective becoming; a place for gathering fragments, exchanging impulses, and allowing unexpected correspondences to appear.

The residency offered them not only time, but a shared commitment to exploration—an opportunity to deconstruct, revisit, and reinvent their methodologies through a 6 month time frame.

Before formulating their final works, the artists were each asked to write a statement about their own process, and what exactly happened to them when they fell down the rabbit hole.