Alice Dittmar is a visual artist based in Berlin and Perth, with ongoing projects in Germany, Austria, China and Australia. For her PICA residency, she will work on a project entitled, Becoming temporary (2012) / becoming permanent (2013) – an artist book referring to her Australian partner visa applications, containing copies of the required application documents: Temporary Residence (2012); and Permanent Residence (2013) The project is supplemented by a drawing series (‘Hide Park’), which is linked to her current surroundings and concept of ornamentation, landscape, texture, and their alliances in transcultural contexts. See http://www.alicedittmar.de/works/becoming/ for further details.