2012-2015

PAMM Researchers in Residence provided artists, curators, collectives, and writers with a distinctive setting for artistic research and an opportunity to engage with South Florida’s cultural landscape, resources, and communities—while, reciprocally, creating pathways for Miami’s people and organizations to connect with them. 

These exchanges took many forms, ranging from informal site visits and intimate community partnerships to public programs and performances. Residents often visited on multiple occasions rather than one extended stay, allowing flexibility and time for reflection, iterative development of their research, and coordination with outside commitments.

Some projects were developed with immediate public outcomes in mind, while others emphasized open-ended inquiries that generated unexpected findings that continued to be explored long after the program’s conclusion.
   
Select Projects include: 

Dev Hynes and Ryan McNamara
2015

During their yearlong residency, Hynes and McNamara visited sites that revealed the city beyond the well-trodden art-fair districts over several visits. They connected with Miami-based performers and fabricators with the aim of creating a site-responsive performance presented during Miami Art Week. Working across sculpture, sound, and choreography, they drew on the contrasts of the region’s built environment: oceanfront high rises; Opa-locka, with its make-believe Moorish architecture inspired by One Thousand and One Nights; Vizcaya, a faux-historic European estate in Coconut Grove; the graffiti-covered spectacle of Marine Stadium; and Coral Castle, an uncanny monument fashioned by a Latvian immigrant in unrequited love.

From these sources emerged ten brightly colored, irregularly shaped stages, slowly drifting through the crowds around PAMM’s terrace. Musicians performed an original score by Hynes while dancers moved to McNamara’s choreography, until the fragments converged, retaining their variations as they fit together into a multicolored Pangea—an imagined whole stitched from dissonance.

PAMM Presents Dev Hynes and Ryan McNamara: Dimensions

Selected Press

“Discovering Miami’s Other Side,” Interview with Ryan McNamara and Devonte Hynes, Interview Magazine, November 25, 2015

“Inside Art Basel Miami Beach’s Most Anticipated Collaboration” Kat Herriman, T Magazine, December 1, 2015

All Talked Out at Art Basel Miami Beach, Art in America, Whitney Mallet

“PAMM Plans Major Blow Out with Blood Orange and Ryan McNamara, Miami New Times, October 29, 2015



Guillaume Désanges

January 2014
During his month-long residency, curator and critic Guillaume Désanges publicly shared experimental approaches to art history, the lecture format, and curating.

 In PAMM’s Learning Theater, he presented new work, “Curated Session 1: Open files with Dora Garcia, which offered transparent access to the typically closed-door process of exhibition-making, exploring how one might organize an exhibition over a one- or two-day period with a guest, the artist Dora Garcia in this case. 

He also performed his collaborative work with Frédéric Cherboeuf, the play “Marcel Duchamp” (2013), and his experimental lecture “History of Performance Art in 20-minutes” (2004).




Primary Information
January-March 2014

For their residency, Primary Information(PI)—founded in 2006 to publish artist books and writings—focused on concrete poetry. The residency aligned with their reprint of An Anthology of Concrete Poetry(Something Else Press 1967) ) and PAMM’s exhibition Selections from the Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, then the most extensive collection of its kind, housed in the Sackners’ Miami home.

Through the archive, PI encountered poet N.H. Pritchard of the Black Arts Movement. PI’s research continued and led to new editions of The Matrix Poems (2021) and The Mundus (2024), helping spark renewed interest in Pritchard, whose work appeared in the 2022 Whitney Biennial. PI also shared their open-ended and responsive process publicly through social media, blog posts, and PAMM programs, including a book launch with the Sackners and co-organizing non-lyrical vocal performances by Stine Janvin and C. Spencer Yeh


Marisa Morán Jahn/Studio Rev 
July 2014

Bibliobandido is a public art and literacy project co-designed by artist Marisa Morán Jahn with the Library Club of El Pital, a rural community in Honduras. It features Bibliobandido (“story eater”), a masked bandit who playfully devours children’s stories. Over a decade, the project has reached tens of thousands of youth across 19 Honduran communities and North American cities.

During her residency, Jahn led workshops with children in a summer program run by PAMM partner the Overtown Youth Center. Participants created books and choreographed a dance to welcome Bibliobandido, who then visited an additional 1,500 children and caregivers at PAMM’s Family Day. 

Pilot  Miami Art Museum
2012-2013

We piloted the residency  2012-2013 with artists Bouchra Khalili and Hew Locke, who each visited Miami several times to consider the context in which their, respectively, new and revised commissions for PAMM would be received. Their residencies also provided local communities with meaningful entry points for connection in anticipation of the PAMM’s inaugural exhibitions.
Bouchra Khalili
2012-2013

During her first visit to Miami while working in New York on her commissioned video series Speeches (2012), Khalili took photographs of abandoned objects at and nearby Miami ports that would later become her Wet Feet (2012) photography series, which speculates on whether metonymy and metaphor can transmit the traces and transformations of migratory refugee experiences.  

Connecting with Miami film enthusiasts, PAMM partnered with Miami Beach Cinematheque in the Historic City Hall to present influential films by early African filmmakers (Groupe Africain de Cinéma and Ousmane Sembene) selected and introduced by Khalili, herself the cofounder of Cinémathèque de Tanger.
Hew Locke
2012-13

Originally installed in a church in Folkestone, UK, Locke visited Miami several times to consider how his work, For Those in Peril on the Sea, would change—both physically and interpretatively —when suspended in a gallery facing the Port of Miami. Through meetings in various Miami neighborhoods and public artist  talks, Locke shared this inquiry, along with his personal connections to the Caribbean (having grown up in Guyana), with communities who, in turn, shared their perspectives and migration stories. Public offerings included a
conversation with art historian Kobena Mercer at the University of Miami, presented in partnership with Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies.