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Upcoming Artists

2025

This year’s residency will host US based artists and Indian based artist.

Elvira Clayton: Multumedia Artist
Constantine Beacher: Choreographer and Dancer
Rebecca Walden: Choreographer and Dancer
Vicky Colombet: Painter
Sanju Jain: Painter
Jignesh Seth: Musician
Shatabdi Mallik: Dancer

Tanya Marcuse

January 2024

Sacred Grove

 

The tenderly conserved landscape at Shillim transforms at night. Twilight falls fast in the Sacred Grove, the tall trees shading the understory. The majesty of the landscape becomes intimate, as views of the distance fall into darkness. I used lighting to both reveal and transform that closer space, working to describe the lyrical gestures of vines, layers of shallow depth, and even, at times, lighting the thickness of the air. 


An orb of light opens up a portal that can work as both positive and negative space, both an absence and a presence. 

Though I created these effects, I felt like I was beholding a glimpse of the unknown, an experience I hope to impart to viewers. 

Photographer

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Ann De Forest

February 2024

Walking Artists and Writer

Kushala Vora

February 2024

Multimedia Artist

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Erin Gee

2016

Composer

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​Shillim Quartet

 

While exploring the landscape of Shillim, I often heard a bird timing its vocal entrance to coincide with the silence left between the periodic calls of another species. By the third or fourth time I heard this, I was no longer doubting. They were listening to each other. One month after returning home, I created 28 species of imaginary birds with my own voice. This made me feel a new relationship to the frequencies of vocal production.


Some months later, Aaron Mendonca, a fellow member of the One Landscape Collective, spoke to me about how “sounds can activate biodynamic energy”, including possibilities for sounds to stimulate regrowth within a damaged old-growth forest. I realize now that the biofeedback process that Aaron described had happened to me. The sounds of the ravine activated a dynamic change in my understanding of what vocal sound production is, and so it ruffled the way I think about my work and creative life going forward. This is not a matter of imitating the sounds themselves but rather manifesting their qualities within newly healing and growing organisms, including oneself.

Shillim Morning

Joel Gordon

2016

Sound Engineer

Shillim Morning

​Shillim Morning Chorus

 

While at Shillim, Joel Gordon, a master sound engineer, recorded approximately 25 hours of sound in the forest during the early morning hours. This material has been incorporated into the audio archive of the Cornell Bioacoustics Conservation Laboratory, where it is used in ongoing scientific studies.