YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 2018 Photo by Taylor Van Horne 2016 Van Taylor by Photo 18th century Portuguese tiles. Photo by Taylor Van Horne 2017 Van Taylor by Photo tiles. Portuguese 18th century KEEP THE JUJU GOING FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS! 2 SACATAR 2017 Tis a place like none other, Sacatar provides an exultation of senses and sensibilities that can lead you happily astray. where you can fly from your muddle to land in the middle of influence protean It is a place of wander, an I’ll of Possibilities and profound. constructed for artists far from home. There lies an other worldly culture, Nonetheless it is a vision precarious to compelling, flamboyant and hidden maintain so far out to see. on that I-land of curious breezes, For those of us who know its astounding beckoning waters, magic firsthand, we can actively participate in its future. and the wile’d lives of flora and fauna at your deck and crawl. Keep the juju going, for yourself, Horses stroll in the surf and for others. amidst the heartbeat of drums and the sun beams at your progress. PAT OLESZKO, New York performance artist extraordinaire Work wasn’t always easy (Sacatar Fellow, 2008 & 2016) but it was never hard with inadvertent inspiration from the fecund surrounds, a casual conversation https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=R6GS6XPSZFCTC or an unexpected collaboration. SACATAR 2018 3 Drone image by DT Soluções 2017 Soluções DT image by Drone “Rua da Alegria 10” Photo by Taylor Van Horne 2018 Van Taylor by “Rua da Alegria 10” Photo CONTENTS Sacatar is a portal. Keep the Juju Going 2 Isa Trigo Mission 5 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil -- 2018 Artists From Around the World 6 Statements from the Founders 7 Program Highlights 10 Artists in Residence 12 Community Partnerships Of the 45 countries I’ve traveled to, this may be the best door I’ve had the privilege to walk through as an artist! & Engagement 29 Precious Lovell Sacatar Solo 30 Raleigh, North Carolina, USA -- 2017 Financials and Partners 31 Board of Directors 32 4 SACATAR 2018 Photo by Marcelo Thomaz 2018 Thomaz Marcelo by Photo Photo by Taylor Van Horne Van Taylor by Photo OUR MISSION IS... • To provide residencies for seasoned and emerging artists to create new work; • To promote cross-cultural interaction and collaboration among the participating artists and the local communities; • To support artists in the creation of work that inspires across class and national boundaries; • To encourage art that returns us to where art began – to a wordless silence and a sense of wonder before all creation. SACATAR 2018 5 ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD The Sacatar Foundation, created in the year We have hosted artists as young as 21 and We also seek to have a rich cross-section of 2000, supports and promotes the interna- as old as 84. The average age of the Sacatar artistic disciplines. Here is the breakdown by tional artist residency program of the Fellow is 40. discipline: Instituto Sacatar, founded a year later in 2001. The Instituto occupies a stunning We are very proud to be a thoroughly Visual Arts in general 155 artists / 39% beachside property on the island of international residency, intentionally bringing Itaparica, across the Bay of All Saints from together artists from all around the world. Literature – English 53 artists / 14% the colonial capital of Brazil and Brazil’s We try to host at least one Brazilian artist in Literature – Portuguese 14 artists / 4% third largest city, Salvador da Bahia. each residency group, since this helps Sacatar’s facilities can currently host six ‘anchor’ the artists in the local culture, Literature – other languages 11 artists / 3% artists at one time and we typically another aspect that we work closely with Music Composition 42 artists / 11% schedule four eight-week sessions annually. the artists to achieve. As of December 2018, we have hosted 392 artists from 66 Photography 33 artists / 8% Since 2001, we are grateful to have countries, as follows: Film/Video 32 artists / 8% partnered with twenty-four institutions and organizations to provide residency opportu- Dance / Choreography 26 artists / 7% Brazil 87 artists / 22% nities for 122 artists. These Fellowships Theater/Performance/Circus 20 artists / 5% typically have restrictions by discipline, age North America 125 artists / 31% and/or nationality. Through our Open Call, Other Creative Acts 6 artists / 1% Europe 57 artists / 15% we have received thousands of applications from artists with no restrictions, open to Australia/Asia 39 artists / 10% In 2018, we hosted 24 artists from eleven countries, including our first artist from artists of all ages, nationalities and Africa 30 artists / 8% disciplines. We have provided residencies to Sudan, the filmmaker Ahmad Mahmoud, as 230 artists through our own selection Russia and Eastern Europe 22 artists / 6% part of an effort to bring artists to Sacatar who have been prohibited from traveling to process, or about 3-5% of all applications Latin America (not Brazil) 21 artists / 5% received. In addition, we have invited 11 the United States. artists and have hosted 29 artists who have Middle East 10 artists / 3% returned for second Sacatar Fellowships. 6 SACATAR 2018 Google Images SACATAR 2018 7 STATEMENTS FROM THE FOUNDERS Photography was not yet 150 years old In 2019 we will celebrate several new For seventeen years, we reimbursed the when this image was captured and shared partnerships to assist us in achieving this cost of airfare, so that no artist would have with all earth’s inhabitants. For the first time renewed vision: to decline a Fellowship for lack of funds. we saw our planet from the moon. This Facing budget shortfalls, we will unfortu- image, more so than words, communicates • We will host a Swiss artist within the nately suspend this largesse (8% of our that we occupy a mote that astronomers frame of the South American programme budget) starting in 2019. Please consider a agree spins at the edge of just one of billions “Coincidencia” of the Swiss Arts Council Pro generous donation – financial, or in kind of galaxies. Our home is this tiny blue dot. Helvetia: https://prohelvetia.ch/en/. flight miles -- so that we can continue to Over the 50 years since this photo was taken, provide exceptional opportunities for the we have forgotten or ignored its impact. • Sacatar will be one of three sites to host people who will light our way forward. recipients of the residency prize, Prêmio We must resist those who weaponize social FOCO Bradesco ArtRio, in association with media to disseminate misinformation, ArtRio, the international Art Fair of Rio de https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=R6GS6XPSZFCTC disinformation and outright lies, in order to Janeiro: http://artrio.art.br/premio-foco pit sect against sect, community against community, ‘us’ against ‘them,’ operating • We are working with L’Atelier des Artistes under their conviction that “Hate is more en Exil, an organization based in Paris, France, This photograph re-emerges on its fiftieth powerful than love.” We must work that works with refugee artists. In 2019, we anniversary to challenge us. Will artists be powerfully to bring together us inhabitants of intend to host our first artist from Afghanistan able to articulate a compelling vision for the the planet to forge a new vision for our as part of our effort to provide opportunities future, or do we truly face an apocalypse? I shared future. for artists whom the Trump administration continue to believe that the Instituto Sacatar blocks from entering the United States. and similar residency programs around the Our mission at Sacatar is to bring together world provide the environment where a the greatest diversity possible of creators • We have established an exchange of comprehensive and illuminating vision can and thinkers, to share their vision through former Fellows with the Djerassi Resident take form. I currently only see turbid local interaction and to draw inspiration Artists Program in Woodside, California. We confusion as artists struggle to articulate the from the extraordinary vivacity of Bahia. will assist Djerassi in its intention to increase complexities we face, but if not artists, who? I urge you to read the moving and inspiring international engagement by nominating statements from our 2018 Fellows in the South American artists for residencies there. Taylor Van Horne following pages that testify to the unique We in turn will host artists nominated by Executive Director power of Bahia. Djerassi: http://djerassi.org/ Instituto Sacatar 8 SACATAR 2018 Sacatar Fellows are serious risk-takers. Each Photo by Charles Silva, 2019 Silva, Charles by Photo of them has follow-up stories and anecdotes to share that demonstrate this. Because our ongoing cross-cultural operations involve, by now, some routine procedures developed over the past 19 years, it actually takes me awhile to suddenly admit to myself, “Hey, but we that founded this artists’ residency program in Bahia took a huge gamble as well, didn’t we? And don’t we continue to take daily risks in our program that is co-dependent During my recent visit to the Instituto here afraid of falling onto hot charcoals or with the culture and economy of Bahia, the Sacatar, I participated in three into sizzling oil?” energy and commitment of board members well-celebrated festivals – the Festa do and employees, and the unpredictable spirit Bonfim in Salvador, the Festa dos Caboclos Hmmnn... I will try to answer my question of each artist that becomes part of our in Itaparica, and the Festa de Yemanja in from another perspective. global family?” Amoreiras, a neighboring coastal village on the island.