USEKRA: CENTER for CREATIVE INVESTIGATION
Usekra es un tipo de indio; como los chamanes, pero más poderosos... Usekra is a type of indian; like the shamans, but more powerful...
VISION STATEMENT
Founder and Artistic Director Elia Arce created USEKRA as a unique place in the middle of the jungle in Costa Rica, a few minutes from the Caribbean Sea, where artists, scholars, anthropologists, sociolog
ists, biologists and other international creative thinkers will gather to challenge each others’ perspectives in order to create art and scholarship that that will push the boundaries of established standards. In this part of the world the Indigenous, African and Asian communities coexist. By continuously questioning and embracing change as a living organism, these three ethnic groups will be the inspiration from
which the Center will begin to conceive its research practices. Periodically, USEKRA CCI will extend invitations to selected artists/researchers and provide subsidies for their stay using funds secured as a result of its 501C3 tax status. This property, surrounded by lush vegetation and serene silence (when the howling monkeys are not visiting!) is the perfect get-away research community for artists and scholars developing new and solid creative discourses, who yearn to be challenged by considering fresh perspectives from which to see themselves as citizens of the world. OPERATIONS
The Center will be available to other artists/researchers to rent during select times of the year. Located one hour from the airport in the port town province of Limón, USEKRA:CCI will offer weekly and monthly rental rates. Artists/researchers can come individually or in a group and stay for a minimum of two weeks, by renting one or more of our casitas/studios and shared common space (kitchen,dining,laundry,library meeting room). For an additional fee, the Center offers the possibility of hiring your own cook for the duration of your stay.
