SCRY Residencies identify birds whose psyche, work, and flight pattern would be enticed by a fully funded nesting place in the wilds of rural New York – residing as a life form amidst life forms, including bears, panthers, boars, falcons, black snakes, and varied nebulae and quasars. There is a superb vista of Orion, as well as a telescope, a river, a treehouse, and carnivorous worms. Three multidisciplinary artist studios and private grooming areas support interdependence and isolation. This free ranging free time attracts birds with a commitment to investigating matters of conscience and social impact, unbounded within boundaries that are boundless.
– Murmurator Wikswo at Scry Magazine
SCRY MAGAZINE is agog to introduce the launch of its nesting migration program: SCRY ARTIST RESIDENCIES. This newly unfettered program has left the mindnest of its eggmakers and will take flight via the ideas and trajectories of wayward wings. SCRY awards fully-funded residencies to invited Fellows who will take up solo residence in the forests and rivers of rural New York. SCRY Fellows are offered nests with independent studios and fully equipped private living spaces amongst the feathered living legacies of the black bear, the particle accelerator, the Great Migration, the Haudenosaunee, the goshawk, the Underground Railroad, lake effect snow, the Hudson River, General Sullivan’s Campaign of Genocide, the grey wolf, and more.
SCRY Residencies focus on advancing the work of artists engaged in inhabiting and re-inhabiting, envisioning and revisioning their own direct experiential encounters with human and civil rights pursuits. Fellows live within an immersive environment cross-pollinated by dusty, fuzzy, squiggly, and otherwise topographically compelling ecologies of species in nature. On their own initiative and intuition, rationality and strategy, Fellows define their own participation in interrupting the over-civilized interstates of culture, with footpaths and flightpaths, hedgerows and rip tides that offer entry and exit into lesser-known trajectories of existence. It is a time of solitude, communion, and encounter with whatever is called in, called up, called down, called over time and space, and echoes in the mountains with the ravens.
From magpie-making of personal archives to essays, poems, photographs, silkscreens, creative nonfiction, music, sound art, video, installation, ecological engagements, media, and other forms, SCRY Residencies celebrates the complex lives of those who live in service to higher ideals of the panoptic venn diagrams of freedom, equity, internal agency, mouse teeth, rags, bones, balls of earth, love, passion, the sublime and the abyss, and spacetime.
Fellows are considered via a self-nomination process that begins with forging a relationship with SCRY MAGAZINE through murmurations, contributed thought and essay, and sweat equity in n-dimensions.
The Inaugural SCRY Fellow in Literature for 2023 is Captain Van.
