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Guyan Porter residency
Kai-Oi Jay Yung speaks to Guyan Porter about his residency at Chandrasevana Creation Centre in Sri Lanka.
Guyan Porter has been “making connections throughout the world... travelling extensively” ever since his 1998 residency to Russia. Travelling itself has become critical to understanding diverse art contexts and cultural settings, enabling Guyan to “explore unorthodox environments”.1 Previously President of Scottish Artists Union and Network Coordinator for the NAN Initiative, he is well equipped for wider economical synchronisation and social altercations accompanying shifting between the local and the global. “Collaborating on agenda is... the way that I work... [investigating] conflicts between internal and external authorities.”2 In December 2006, Guyan began a two-month residency at Chandrasevana Creation Centre, Hikkaduwa, southern Sri Lanka, resulting in a collection of photographic portraits of locals towards a book about his residency. In 2004, a 9.3 undersea Indian Ocean earthquake generated a tsunami portending towering killer waves that extinguished lives, livelihoods and homes from Sumatra to Somalia.3 201,901 families in Sri Lanka alone were affected with damaged housing and endemic displacement. The tsunami capsized freighters,...
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