Green Summary

A retrospect developed around the theme of Independence


Photo by Jude Anogwih, 2010

In celebration of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos’ 3 year
anniversary, artists who have engaged with the centre over the last
three years have been invited back to interpret their experience with
CCA around the theme of Independence. Artists were given the gallery
space as a studio from 3rd – 17th December to develop and present a
body of work, with one restriction, work produced must be Green.
Artists selected work with a variety of medium including; painting,
photography and video art and were provided with materials from which
to develop the work. The resulting exhibition draws from their various
artistic backgrounds and collaborative efforts to present independence
through the eyes of contemporary Nigerian artists.

The Green summary will run from December 20th 2010- 21st January 2011
Opening talk will take place on Monday 20th from 2pm with a
presentation by contributing artists, followed by light refreshments.

Contributing Artists:
Karo Akpokiere, Jude Anogwih, Jelili Atiku, Ndidi Dike, Uche Joel
Chima, Taiye Idahor, Emeka Ogboh, Richardson Obveibo,
Victoria Udondian

Curators
Ronke Adeola, Jude Anogwih and Oyinda Fakeye

Call for works: 14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 Alternative Now

The WRO Media Art Biennale is the leading international forum for new media art in Poland and Central Europe. Since its inception in 1989, WRO has been presenting art forms created using new media for artistic expression and communication, exploring current creative territories and building a critical perspective toward emerging issues in art and society.

Over the years, the WRO Biennales have raised a variety of questions about creative approaches to new technologies and the expanding technosphere of social media—about the creative crossover realms that arise where art and science, economics and social activism intersect.

The theme of the 14th WRO Biennale, which starts on May 10th 2011, is ALTERNATIVE NOW, highlighting the roles of individual artistic stances and strategies that keep a deliberate distance from the institutionalized mechanisms and standardized expectations of the art world.

To submit works to the 2011 WRO Media Art Biennale Alternative Now see wro2011.wrocenter.pl

Info

Deadline for submissions: 5.01.2011
Opening and main events: 10-15.05.2011
Exhibitions untill September 2011


Contact

Biennale Office
E-mail: biennale@wrocenter.pl
Phone: 0048 71 343 32 40

Address

WRO Art Center
ul. Widok 7
50-052 Wrocław, Poland
www.wrocenter.pl
www.wro2011.wrocenter.pl


Organizer: WRO Center for Media Art Foundation/ WRO Art Center

Don’t wait for the archive, Pt.2

Call for Applications

Workshop with Pad.ma (http://pad.ma/)

Don’t wait for the archive, Pt.2

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS OCT 7


Pad.ma invites artists, archivists, activists, collectors, filmmakers, researchers, writers, hackers coders and anyone to a two-week workshop involving working with video collections from Egypt and beyond and/or collections participants bring to the table while exploring pad.ma as a platform for collaborative video archiving and annotation.

(please email background and interest in taking part to lina.attalah@gmail.com )


For more information http://www.thetownhousegallery.com/

One Minutes Awards 2011

Since 2000 The One Minutes organizes an annual competition for the best one minutes videos.

For 2011 our annual awards are connected to the launch of The One Minutes Magazine, series of One Minute video art to which a selective group of podia can subscribe. It will appear on a monthly basis. The awards and the launch of TOM Magazine is in February 2011.

Series for which you can submit entries are:

Video performance: you and the camera

Cut and Paste: technical miracles

A Small History: small stories about matters we should not forget about

Micro Commercial: small companies run by passionate owners

Fairground Attraction: surreal details of a visual dreamworld

Mini road movie: travel report from A to B, a world network of travels

Per series 6 entries will be nominated for an award plus cash prize. Deadline 1 December 2010.

SVA MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department: Graduate Lecture Series and News‏

The MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts is pleased to announce its fall 2010 and winter 2011 events. In addition to departmental lectures and exhibitions that explore issues related to the contemporary lens-based arts the Department will also host a series of public lectures organized by Béatrice Gross, independent curator, and SVA faculty member.

Laurent Grasso
Tuesday September 14, 7 p.m.
Laurent Grasso was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2008 and is the subject of a major monograph Laurent Grasso: The Black-Body Radiation published by les presses du réel. He will give a talk in conjunction with his solo exhibition Sound Fossil at Sean Kelly gallery, NY.
SVA Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY

The Original Copy
Tuesday October 26, 7 p.m.
A panel discussion on photography, performance, and the "living sculpture," with artists Eleanor Antin (NY) and Robin Rhode (Berlin), moderated by curator Roxana Marcoci in conjunction with the group exhibition The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, curated by Roxana Marcoci, Curator of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, NY.
SVA Chelsea Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, New York, NY

Why Stieglitz? Bonnie Yochelson
Tuesday November 9, 7 p.m.
Curator and historian Bonnie Yochelson will lecture on the work of Alfred Stieglitz in conjunction with her exhibition Alfred Stieglitz New York at the South Street Seaport Museum, NY.
SVA Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY

Impressions, Shadows, Marcelline Delbecq
Tuesday February 15, 7 p.m.
A performance-lecture by the artist Marcelline Delbecq.
SVA Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY

All events are free and open to the public.
For complete listing of lectures and events please see the department website.
http://mfaphoto.schoolofvisualarts.edu/

OFFLINE FV Shorts

OFFLINE FV : Film and Video Exhibition curated by Michael K Taylor
Exhibition Dates: Sept 11th 2010 - Sept 25th 2010
Hours: Thurs-Sat 12-5 with special screenings 6-8pm each Thursday
Location: The Community Artists' Collective 1413 Holman near LaBranch Houston, TX 77004 713-523-1616- Tea Room Gallery

Short experimental films from American and Africa (total run time 21:23 min), featuring:

Songs for My Fathers - by Tierney Malone feat. Charlie Perez (Houston, TX)
length 2:43 min
Against the Wall - by Andrew Esiebo (Lagos, Nigeria)
length 3:51 min
[dis]connect - by Emeka Ogboh (Lagos, Nigeria)
length 1:58 min
Dreams (Smeard) Smeared - by Jude Anogwih (Lagos, Nigeria)
length 1:02 min
Carbon Blues - by Uche Joel Chima (Lagos, Nigeria)
length 2:44 min
Outage - by Outrage by Lillian Pilaku (Lagos, Nigeria)
length 2:16min
Elinor Beauregard - by Simone Bailey (San Francisco, CA)
length 1:35 min
Vanishing Point - by Patrick Lovejoy (NY & CA)
length 4:36 min

Glad to see Nigerian (Lagosian) Video Art exhibited to new audiences, and our very own Jude Anogwih and Emeka Ogboh featured. We were told that during the question and answer session much of the debate centred around the work of the Nigerian artists, leading to discussions around politics and environmental issues on the continent (Africa).

Triangle Arts Trust Workshop in Collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 18TH SEPTEMBER 2010.

I am happy to inform you about the first Triangle Arts Trust Workshop in Lagos organised in collaboration with CCA,Lagos to be held from the 4th-17th October 2010 at Stone House in Alakuko. The workshop hopes to accommodate 18 professional artists from Nigeria, across Africa as well as internationally. The workshop is open to artists working in all media. Whilst the focus will be artists from Nigeria (up to 10) priority will also be given to artists from the Global South. Applications are also welcome from around the world.


The two-week workshop will bring together a group of artists working in various disciplines to share ideas,experiences and to make new work inspired by the context and the opportunity to work alongside other artists.
Approximately 18 artists will participate in the workshop, half from Nigeria and the rest from other countries in Africa and further afield. During the workshop participants will also be invited to present their work to each other and to the public. The workshop will end with an Open Day, when the public will join the artists in celebrating the outcome of the two weeks.

Financial conditions:
The workshop will provide the successful applicants with full lodging and food, working space, local transportation and a small material stipend. International artists will be able to apply to have their international travel covered by the workshop.

Procedure for applications and deadline:
All candidates must apply using the application form and submit all the required documents listed in the form. Closing date for applications 18th September 2010. The completed application forms and required documents can be requested from info@ccalagos.org should be returned to this address.

While email communication is encouraged, artists may send their materials to the following address:
Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos
9, McEwen Street, Sabo, Yaba
Lagos, Nigeria

Please note that work or material sent by post cannot be returned.
Late applications cannot be reviewed. Successful candidates will be informed by 21st of September 2010

For more information or any inquiries, please contact info@ccalagos.org

VIDEONALE 13: Call for Submission

Call for Entries
Deadline: 20 September 2010

www.videonale.org

"A place for discoveries" – That's what the German magazine art wrote about VIDEONALE, the international festival for contemporary video art. From 14 April to 29 May 2011 the 13th edition of VIDEONALE takes place at Kunstmuseum Bonn/Germany. You can submit single or – this year for the first time – multi channel works created in the past two years for VIDEONALE 13. The entry deadline is 20 September, 2010 (post mark).

Founded in 1984 the biannually initiated VIDEONALE is counted amongst the oldest festivals for video art in Germany and Europe. Besides its high standard of presented works, VIDEONALE reached a widely accepted reputation in its attempt to develop new forms of presentation for video art. Like in the past also at VIDEONALE 13 a team of architects and designers will develop a cutting-edge exhibition architecture to meet the requirements of the reception of media art.

For the 13th VIDEONALE about 40 works will be chosen by an international jury of experts and afterwards be presented in a six-week exhibition in Bonn. The show will open with a four-day festival featuring a variety of events. Starting in late summer the works of VIDEONALE 13 will be shown at further art institutions worldwide in the context of VIDEONALE ON TOUR. The works of VIDEONALE 12 were shown at the video art fair LOOP Barcelona/Spain, at the Museum of Modern Art in Glasgow/Scotland, at INVIDEO festival in Milan/Italy, at Bavarian House in Odessa/Ukraine, at several venues in Taipei/Taiwan and at the National Gallery of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo/Bosnia-Herzegovina.

There's no set topic for submissions, but the submitted work mustn't be older than two years (i.e. starting January 2008).

The exhibits will automatically be taking part in the competition for the VIDEONALE-AWARD which will be awarded by an international prize-jury.

Deadline for submission is 20 September 2010. Further information and application forms are available at www.videonale.org.


Contact:

VIDEONALE e.V. im Kunstmuseum Bonn
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2
D-53113 Bonn
Germany
tel +49-(0)228-692818
einsendungen@videonale.org
www.videonale.org

Project 35 Screening Events in Lagos

Photo credit: Ho Tzu Nyen, Episode 3, Tang Da Wu – The Most Radical Gesture, from 4 x 4 – Episodes of Singapore Art, 2005

Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos Nigeria
August 26, 2010

Discs 1 and 2 of Project 35 will be screened on Thursday, August 26th. This event will also be accompanied by a talk.
Screening: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Talk: 12:00 pm


Lifehouse, 33 Sinari Daranijo, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
August 27, 2010

Discs 1 and 2 of Project 35 will be screened on Friday, August 27th.
4:00 - 7:00 pm

For more information contact Oyinda Fakeye on +234 7055680104 or email at info@vanlagos.org


Project 35
Curated by 35 international curators

Project 35 is an evolving exhibition of video works selected by 35 international curators and designed in a flexible presentation format, reflecting the diversity and unique nature of the many national and international art spaces ICI partners with. For Project 35, each curator has been invited to select one artist’s video that they think vital for contemporary art audiences across the globe. The result heralds the new decade, and showcases a new exhibition concept for ICI, with an eclectic compilation of works that reveal the global reach that video has achieved as a contemporary art medium today. It is most fitting that this project begins with Guy Ben-Ner’s Berkeley’s Island (1999), which refers to George Berkeley’s famous dictum “to be is to be perceived”. It is the curators’ and ICI’s hope that these videos are “perceived” by diverse communities within the exhibitions spaces that Project 35 will travel to, inspiring debate and functioning as an international catalyst for dialogue and exchange.

The works are presented in 4 chapters, each containing 8 to 9 videos, and the exhibition unfolds simultaneously in multiple spaces, chapter-by-chapter, over the period of a year. Project 35 will show a diversity of approaches to making video, as well as the interests artists are addressing in their practice. Taking advantage of the medium’s versatility, Project 35 can be viewed in an auditorium, foyer, or in a gallery space. The DVDs can be projected or viewed on a monitor, depending on host venue needs and interests. It may be a key program component in a project space for a year; presented in weekly, monthly or quarterly screenings; or running in the cafe or education room every afternoon.

Project 35 recalls the founding initiatives of ICI. It was 35 years ago that ICI organized its very first exhibition, a seminal survey of video art titled Video Art USA for the São Paulo Biennial. It presented works by artists that included Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Keith Sonnier, Steina Vasulka, and Bill Viola among others. These artists were pioneers working in a medium that was just beginning to gain traction in the field of contemporary art, and ICI proved to be an early and committed proponent of it. The international scope of ICI was clearly indicated in this first exhibition, which went on touring 4 more countries across Latin America. With Project 35, ICI further draws from its extensive international network of curators formed over the past 35 years to organize a new exhibition of international video art, and support new collaborations between curators, artists and exhibitions spaces on national and international platforms.


Artists
Disc 1: Guy Ben-Ner, Yukihiro Taguchi, Dan Halter, Zhou Xiaohu, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn & Phù Nam Thuc Ha, Kota Ezawa, Edwin Sanchez, and Robert Cauble

Disc 2: Sammy Baloji, Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Andrea Büttner, Alexander Apóstol, Daniela Paes Leao, Ranbir Kaleka, Ho Tzu Nyen, and Stephen Sutcliffe

Curators include:
Mai Abu ElDahab (Egypt/Belgium), Magali Arriola (Mexico), Ruth Auerbach (Venezuela), Nicolas Bourriaud (France), Zoe Butt (Australia/Vietnam), Yane Calovski (Macedonia), Lee Weng Choy (Singapore), Joselina Cruz (Philippines), Sergio Edelsztein (Argentina/Israel), Charles Esche (UK/Netherlands), Lauri Firstenberg (U.S.), Alexie Glass-Kantor (Australia), Anthony Huberman (Switzerland/U.S.), Mami Kataoka (Japan), Constance Lewallen (U.S.), Lu Jie (China), Raimundas Malasauskas (Lithuania/France), Francesco Manacorda (Italy), Chus Martinez (Spain), Viktor Misiano (Russia), Deeksha Nath (India), Simon Njami (Cameroon/France), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Switzerland/UK), José Roca (Colombia), Bisi Silva (Nigeria), Franklin Sirmans (U.S.), Kathryn Smith (South Africa), Susan Sollins (U.S.), WHW (Croatia), and more



About ICI
ICI organizes public programs in New York, across the U.S, and around the world that provide a platform for curators to share their research and experiences with the public. Through partnerships with a range of institutions, ICI enables new audiences and curators alike to understand and navigate the rapidly growing field of curating, while also increasing access to current developments in contemporary art internationally.

Through ICI on the Move, ICI is expanding its public programming reach nationally, working with venues that host our traveling exhibitions, developing visiting curator tours, and organizing public discussions at art fairs to bring emerging and established practitioners together to exchange ideas and share their experiences.

In 35 years of operation ICI has organized 116 traveling exhibitions, profiling the work of more than 3,700 artists. The shows have been presented in 590 museums, university art galleries, and art centers in 48 states and 25 countries worldwide.

Video Art For All (VAFA 2010)

Video Art for All open call for submissions for the November 2010 exhibition.

1. Requirement of the entry:
1.1 Submitted videos must have been completed after January 2008.
1.2 Running time must not exceed 10 minutes.
1.3 Non English spoken videos should have English subtitles.

2. Submission of the entry form and Delivery of the entry:
2.1 Entry form can be submit via e-mail.
2.2 Each submission should have one entry form.
2.3 Videos can be sent online with the entry form or can be sent by post on a
DVD with a printed version of the entry form.
2.4 If you choose to send a DVD, please label it with title, author’s name, running time
and aspect ratio.
2.5 If you choose to send online, only AVI, MOV or MPEG files via free
upload service like www.sendspace.com or www.pando.com would be accepted.
2.6 Videos without application form will not be accepted for the competition.
2.7 All deliveries from international participants must be marked:
NO COMMERCIAL VALUE, CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY.
2.8 The selected entry will be asked to send a mini-DV tape or a DVD.
2.9 Shipping expenses are the responsibility of the entrant.

3. Mailing address:
All required material should be delivered to one of the following address:
- vafa.videoartforall@gmail.com
- VAFA - Video Art For All
Rua Francisco Xavier Pereira 45-59, 3 Floor
Ed. Lun Hing Knitting Factory
Macau

4. Submission deadline:
The submission deadline is on September 30, 2010

5. Exhibition date and venue:
Exhibition will run from November 5, 2010 to December 3, 2010
at Casa Garden – Fundação Oriente, Macau.

Documenting Fiction… Falomo Roundabout experience

culled from the Guardian Newspaper 8th June 2010
by Tajudeen Sowole

AS one of the two main roads linking Lagos Island and Victoria Island, Falomo Roundabout was a delight to watch as seen during the presentation of a group exhibition. Organized by Goethe-Institut at the African Artists’ Foundation (AAF)’s art gallery, Ikoyi, the video art show titled Documenting Fiction featured works of Jelili Atiku, Oscar Enamino, Tunde Aboderin, Omeligho Udenta, Abimbola Ogunsanya and Olorungbemi Olushola. Others are Uchay Joel Chima, Jude Anogwih, Ikem Okolue, Azu Nwagbogu and Segun Adefila. The works are what the organisers described as the results of video art workshop of documenting forms of fiction in urban areas. The workshop was conducted by visiting German artists, Constanze Fischbeck and Daniel Kötter. In 2007, similar workshop was conducted by Kötter and had a theme that focused the fuel crisis of that period. A concept that fictionalised common activities of people around the Falomo Roundabout presented such works that captured the subjects in spontaneous as well as regular acts. In fact these works, offered the viewers the purpose of close circuit camera in public space. As one of the works was rightly titled, Different, Different Fever, three officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management (LASTMA) caught on duty, offered an insight on the attitude of Nigerians to work: while one of the officers in the control cubicle stationed by the road side was busy reading a copy of a national daily newspapers, two others were attempting to solve or prevent a traffic gridlock. And comes the drama or fiction moment as the voice over on the video got the officers engaged each other in dialogue. If some traffic officers’ ineptitude affects free flow of traffic, some motorists are equally nuisances on the road. The same work caught two ladies in the car as the one behind the wheel, took the short break of stop at traffic light junction to have her lunch. Another work titled Pedestrian Dilemma took the audience about a 100 metres away from the roundabout to a public space, which is currently an abandoned project. Apparently designed as a pedestrian subway to ease flow of vehicular movement at the Maitama Sule / Awolowo road Junction, this underground channel has not been functioning since built over five years ago. Reason: it appeared like a preposterously conceived idea. And just in case there is a Citizen Proper who decides to use this subway to cross from one end of the road to another, a performance in the work depicted that. With camera focusing just the legs of Proper, he walks to a halt at the entrance of the subway. He is unable to progress beyond that point because the gate is locked. And from his point of view, the camera peeps in to reveal a filth-filled subway, in fact a dumpsite. Documenting urban, according to the organisers, offers fictional ideas. “Thus, urban places can be documented through people, ideas and dreams. “Fiction” becomes vivid material when the story is told and retold through people.” The workshop, they explained focused the challenges of finding artistic strategies by using documentary techniques in video art and the root of fiction. “Each participant had to choose a specific urban location, which portrays the city, Lagos - in - transition and to find a strategy to work with some people around the location, maybe through sharing a common or individual dream, TV-soap opera, fairy tale etc.” Responding to question of how far Nigerian artists have improved in video art between 2007 and now, Kötter said it was difficult to assess the situation “because we are not working with the same artists.” He hopes that when he returns, “perhaps in 2013, we might say yes or no.” Indeed, video art exhibitions are not common here. Except for three or more done by Centre for Contemporary Art, CCA, Lagos and few others by Goethe, the genre is still unpopular.

Welcome

Its important as new media artists to take advantage of the internet to promote exchange, collaboration and knowledge in the realm of our practice. As part of our development of Video Art in Lagos and Nigeria the Video Art Network Lagos will be running a regular blog, which will provide information from both a local and international perspective.

Feel free to keep up to date with us on blogger http://vanlagos.blogspot.com/ and on twitter: @vanlagos