Thursday, 7 October 2010

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.

Wednesday, 6 October 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/

Thursday, 16 September 2010

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).

Monday, 13 September 2010

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

Friday, 20 August 2010

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.

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