Pilot Residency

Location: Newart.city – Residents World
Duration: 2 months
Format: Virtual installation

Five artists were invited to participate in a two-month residency hosted within Newart.city. The residency operated without a fixed theme or narrative framework. Instead, it offered structural support, peer dialogue, and curatorial reflection as scaffolding for independent development.

The intention was not simply to exhibit work online, but to test how virtual environments might function as sites of process, reconstruction and dissemination. Through cycles of deconstruction, analysis, feedback and reassembly, each artist developed a spatial presentation of their work within a shared digital architecture.

This residency formed part of Six Minutes Past Nine’s wider investigation into:

• Alternative curatorial infrastructures
• Artist-centred development models
• Economic democratisation and return structures
• The possibilities and limits of digital exhibition space

Curatorial Context

Six Minutes Past Nine operates as an experimental curatorial platform exploring how new spheres of practice can emerge beyond conventional institutional models.

The Pilot Residency marked an initial attempt to prototype:

• A non-thematic, artist-led residency model
• Virtual exhibition as iterative research rather than static display
• Process-oriented dialogue across dispersed practitioners

Rather than directing outcomes, the curatorial role focused on conversation, critical framing and spatial mediation.

Artists

• Ben Dawson
• Michelle Fischer
• Cecilia Tyrrell
• Christopher Michael
• Sanja Pupovac

Curatorial Team

Director and Curator
Daniel Hawley-Lingham

Co-Curator
Samuel Thompson-Plant