ABSTRACT
Artist residencies offer space to think ‘outside the box’. This essay reflects on the values and limitations of ‘residency’ as a model of support for art practices. It centrally advocates ‘slowness’, the necessity for time and space for reflexivity within processes of project development and realization. The essay was published within the catalogue for the exhibition Layers of Visibility, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, 2018–2019, which was the outcome of a programme of residencies, 2013–2017, co-ordinated by Liz Wells in collaboration with Yiannis Toumazis, Director of NiMAC for arts academics at University of Plymouth.
