Wintanworks
Wintanworks is a residency-exchange program between AHC in Denmark and the artist/curator collective blaxTARLINES KUMASI in Ghana. The program is part of Artistic Production and Development.
Wintanworks is an artist-in-residence and exchange programme – a collaboration between Art Hub Copenhagen (AHC) in Denmark and the blaxTARLINES KUMASI collective in Ghana. This residency programme provides two artists – one from each country – with the opportunity to ‘swap’ locations for one month, each of them thereby spending time in another art scene and another cultural environment.
Art Hub Copenhagen works to give time, space and language to contemporary art and artists, and the overall idea of Wintanworks is to engender and support artistic exchange and networking between north and south – between Denmark and Ghana.
The programme comprises accommodation in Accra/Kumasi and Copenhagen and a planned programme that allows for time to conduct research, form a new network, and give a public talk.
The name ‘Wintanworks’ is a portmanteau word composed of ‘Winter’ and ‘Harmattan’, meaning ‘desert wind’, indicating quite simply that the residency takes place in February-March, when cold winds blow in Denmark, and strong and Sahara dusty winds prevail in West Africa.
