‎!!! OPEN CALL !!!

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Kurátorský rezidenční pobyt 2012

CENTRUM PRO SOUČASNÉ UMĚNÍ FUTURA VE SPOLUPRÁCI S RESIDENCY UNLIMITED A PODPOROU ČESKÉHO CENTRA NEW YORK, VYHLAŠUJE VÝBĚROVÉ ŘÍZENÍ NA 5-TI TÝDENNÍ REZIDENČNÍ POBYT PRO ČESKÉHO KURÁTORA V NEW YORKU S NAVAZUJÍCÍ VÝSTAVOU V KARLÍN STUDIOS V ROCE 2013

Podmínky :

Termín pro podání přihlášky je 1.2.2012.

- Rezidence je určena českým kurátorům a teoretikům na poli současného umění.

- Dostatečná znalost AJ jazyka nutná.

- Rezidence se musí uskutečnit mezi 1. březnem a 31. květnem kalendářního roku 2012.

- Centrum pro současné umění FUTURA garantuje hradit vybranému rezidentovi ubytování, Residency Unlimited poskytne profesionální podporu a asistenci, České centrum New York uhradí cestovné. Diety nejsou hrazeny. V případě zájmu ze strany rezidenta FUTURA pomůže s hledáním vhodného grantu – iniciativa je však zcela zásadní. Výsledkem rezidence bude výstava v prostoru Karlín Studios v roce 2013.

- Zájemci o rezidenci, prosím posílejte své CV a 1-2 normostrany návrhu výzkumného projektu/plánované výstavy v anglickém jazyce v elektronické podobě na adresu virginia@futuraproject.cz Akceptovány budou dokumenty .doc a .pdf do 10MB. Přihlášky, které nebudou odpovídat těmto kritériím nebudou zohledněny. Rozhoduje kvalita předkládaného projektu.

- Výsledky výběrového řízení budou známy nejpozději do 15. února 2012. Výsledky budou zveřejněny na webových stránkách FUTURY a zaslány emailem.

S případnými dotazy se obraťte na Virginii Vargolskou, koordinátorku rezidenčního programu :
virginia@futuraproject.cz

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Curator’s residency program 2012

FUTURA – CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, IN COLLABORATION WITH RESIDENCY UNLIMITED AND THE SUPPORT OF CZECH CENTER – NEW YORK, IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE AN OPEN CALL FOR A 5 WEEK CURATORIAL RESIDENCY IN NEW YORK WHICH WILL BE FOLLOW BY AN EXHIBITION PART OF KARLIN STUDIOS 2013 PROGRAM

Terms and conditions :

- Deadline for applications February 1st 2012.

- The residency is open to curators and theoreticians in the field of contemporary art of Czech nationality.

- Sufficient knowledge of English language is requested.

- The 5 weeks residency must take place between March 1st until May 31st 2012.

- FUTURA – Center for contemporary art provides accommodation, Residency Unlimited offers professional support and assistance, Czech center New York covers travel costs. Per diems are not included. FUTURA can assist applicants in the search for grants, which would cover further costs – initiative is however essential. Besides, the curatorial project developped during the residency will be finalized with an exhibition part of Karlin Studios 2013 program.

- Please send your updated CV and research project/exhibition proposal of maximum 2 pages in English, in .doc or .pdf (up to 10Mb), by email to virginia@futuraproject.cz . Resident will be selected only upon quality of the research project/exhibition proposal.
- Results of the open call will be announced by February 15th 2012. The selected resident will be informed via email and result will be also announced online.

For further information and/or questions, please contact Virginia Vargolska – residency program coordinator :
virginia@futuraproject.cz

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JANUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 11, 2012
OPENING: THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 6-8PM @ Mixed Greens Gallery

One of our current artists in residence, Erin Dunn is pleased to invite you to a group exhibition that opens next Thursday (Jan 12th – Feb 11th, 2012) from 6-8 at Mixed Greens Gallery.

Jessica Cannon, Bonnie Collura, Erin Dunn, Susan Hamburger, Valerie Hegarty, Patrick Jacobs, Brian A. Kavanaugh, Sophia Narrett, Hilary Pecis, Seth Scantlen, Melanie Schiff, and Dana Sherwood.

Mixed Greens presents End of Days, a group exhibition featuring the work of Jessica Cannon, Bonnie Collura, Erin Dunn, Susan Hamburger, Valerie Hegarty, Patrick Jacobs, Brian A. Kavanaugh, Sophia Narrett, Hilary Pecis, Seth Scantlen, Melanie Schiff, and Dana Sherwood. As an introduction to our 2012 schedule, this exhibition explores the notion of revelation—both apocalyptic and transcendent. Each artwork functions as a moment of suspended time, capturing the world in a state of silent reflection, imagined ecstasy, mangled deterioration, or a complicated combination of all three. In a nod to Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights and the dozens of end-of-the world scenarios circulating around the year 2012, this exhibition focuses on visual anxieties, and considers an end scenario that is for some a paradise, and for others a paradise lost.

Mixed Greens Gallery

531 W 26th Street, 1st Floor

New York, NY 10001

http://www.erinmariedunn.com/

In his lecture at Check-in Budapest, Boskovic will talk about the programmatic initiatives of Residency Unlimited which creates customized residency formats in strategic partnerships with local art institutions.

Check-In Budapest is curatorial visitor program that collaborates only with internationally renowned experts in the field of contemporary visual art. The goal of the program is to facilitate international art professionals to become acquainted with the actors and current trends of the Hungarian art scene. Through public lectures, the invited guests can further introduce their research areas, current projects and their own art scenes.
The program has resulted in a number of partnerships and projects with the invitation of Hungarian artists to participate in international biennials and other exhibitions. As Hungarian partner, ACAX co-ordinates and supports the artists’ involvement in these significant events, assisting also in the production of new works. The program operates by invitation only.

Date: 9 January 2012 (Monday), 6 pm
Place: Labor (1053 Budapest, Képíró u. 6.)

The lectures will be held in English. All are welcome!

The Check-in Budapest program is supported by the Ministry of National Resources | Collaborating partner of the current event: Labor

ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange

We are proud to that Claudia Cannizzaro is preparing to head to Malaysia for her 2012 residency.  Claudia will be working within the residency program at RU partner Shalini Ganendra, a fine art gallery located in Kuala Lumpur.  Her work is textile-based and deals with ideas of tradition, rituals, symbols and politics.  During her two month residency at Shalini, she will explore contemporary Malaysian political issues through her work.

RU’s artist in residence abroad Jeff Grant has been hard at work at the CJ Artist Residency program in Cheonjgu, Korea, through the Fine Arts Department at Chungbuk National University (Cheongju).  He is currently preparing to contribute pieces to a group show on December 22nd and give a presentation for Chungbuk National University professor and RU affiliate Iksong Jin.

We are pleased to announce that Former RU artist in residence Tomaz Hipólito’s new draw_03 show opens in Lisbon, Portugal this Thursday, December 15.  An opening reception will be held at 10 pm at Appleton Square, Rua Acácio Paiva, 27 R/C.  This project is a continuation of draw_02, which Tomaz did here in New York with RU.

RU Artist in Residence Karol Radziszewski’s solo exhibition Body of Work has been featured in POSI+TIVE, an Italian online magazine.  POSI+TIVE reports on art, photography, design, culture, fashion, and architecture around the world.

Read the article and see the photographs here.

Sat Dec 10th, 2012 5-7pm

Printed Matter, Inc.
195 10th Avenue
New York, NY 10011

Printed Matter is pleased to launch the latest issue of DIK Fagazine, “BEFORE ’89,”  the first artistic magazine from Central and Eastern Europe concentrated on homosexuality and masculinity, published in English and Polish. Join us for a launch event, Saturday, December 10th, 5-7PM , with editor Karol Radziszewski, joined in conversation by Boshko Boskovic, Program Director of Residency Unlimited.

The newest issue of DIK Fagazine, “BEFORE ’89,” is the culmination of extensive archive work, as well as travels across Europe, that touches on a cultural legacy specific to Poland. Drawing from a range of contributors, the magazine follows a trail through Poland, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Serbia, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

Bruce LaBruce’s text gives the impression that’s describing a time when communism is alive and well, and not Poland in the year 2000. Wolfgang Tillmans, who first visited Warsaw in 2011, provides an account of the anniversary of the plane crash in Smolensk, celebrated in the overblown national-religious vein of the Polish right.

The publication follow the trail through park cruising areas, train station, beaches and other casual hook-up spots, at points envious of the sexual encounters with strangers. Ryszard Kisiel shares the astonishing story of his zine titled “Filo”, partially reprinted here. Slava Mogutin uncovers the story of homosexuals in the Soviet Gulags. Finally BEFORE ‘89 conducts a search investigation for Michel Foucault’s Polish lover.

DIK Fagazine is published by Karol Radziszewski, retails for 15.00 and is available at Printed Matter or online here.

Karol Radziszewski lives and works in Warsaw (Poland) where he received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2004. He works with photography, video, film, installations and creates interdisciplinary projects. His practice extends to magazines, artist books, fashion as well as curatorial concept projects. Publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine, Radziszewski has exhibited at institutions including The National Museum in Warsaw; Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Museum Of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad; Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz; The National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; 4 Prague Biennale; New York Photo Festival; Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism; Biennale of Young Artists, Tallinn; Real Art Ways, Hartford; New Museum, New York; Cobra Museum, Amsterdam.

Boshko Boskovic is the Program Director of Residency Unlimited, a New York based residency program that supports international artists and curators. He has curated exhibitions such as Monument-Movement, Center for Photography & Moving Image, New York, Not so Distant Memory, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art & National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russa, Daniel Rothbart – But I’m An Amerian, KCB, Belgrade Band of Outsiders, CAC, New York, Power of the Brand, Contemporary Art Museum in Banja Luka, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Bite A Bunny for a Day, Exhibition 211, New York, New Paintings – Aleksandra Popovic, MC Gallery, New York, Video Integration, Belef, Belgrade, Performing Body, Marina Abramovic, Speed Art Museum, Louisville.

Ana Prvacki – Wandering Band at the Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum

RU’s Boshko Boskovic and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria made a visit to Scholastic Art and Writing’s residents at Atelier.  This brand new residency is comprised of past Scholastic Art and Writing Award winners.  The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers is a nonprofit with a long history of recognizing the talents of students in grades 7 through 12.  These awards give young artists and writers the chance to earn scholarships and have their works exhibited or published, giving them national exposure.  During their studio visit, Boshko and Sebastien met the artists and discussed their work with them.

For more information on Atelier: Inside the Artist’s Studio, click here.

Celeste and The Invisible Dog are promoting Brooklyn Open Studios, a day in which it will be possible to visit artists in their studios in Brooklyn.

Saturday, November 12, 2011. from 3pm-5pm.

Curated by Residency Unlimited (RU)

Curator: Nathalie Angles

Artist: Amelia Saul

Residency Unlimited artist in residency.

Visits will take place at 360 Court street (Caroll Gardens)

MORE ON BROOKLYN Open Studios

NOVEMBER 11 – 12 -13

Opening hours:
11 November: 2pm to midnight
12 & 13 November: 10am to 7pm

Everyone is invited to attend and meet the selectors, jurors and finalist artists at the awards night!
See the 50 finalist works our international Selection Committee have chosen.

Friday 11 November / Openings & Awards
2pm
Openings – Celeste Prize and Producing Censorship

2 – 4pm
Projection of 10 finalist works Video & Animation

4.30pm
Producing Censorship presented by curators, Aria Spinelli & Jason Waite

5 – 10pm
Live media performances

10pm
Celeste Prize awards, presented by jurors Eugene Tan & Sara Reisman

Saturday 12 November / Talks & Brooklyn Open Studios
11am
Open talk with Celeste’s curators

10am – 7pm
Brooklyn Open Studios

11 – 13 November / Special Guests
CelesteLab – Open source, exchange platform
Photographer by Fonlad Festival

Call for Submissions

Dial 9 Arts is looking for donations of art works for a silent auctions for an upcoming fundraiser in Nyack, NY on November 18^th 2011.  Work can be any size and medium, handmade crafts are also welcome.  Artist’s name and contact information will be displayed along with art work. We are looking for artists to join the organization as a Dial 9 Artist, with access to a large community of potential buyers and networking opportunities. A donation is a great way to begin the application process for future exhibition.

If you are interested please email Molly@dial9arts.com.  A pick up in NYC can be arranged.

Dial 9 Arts is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to showing working artists.  We provide a space and show for one or more artists while also donating a percentage of funds raised at the show to a local charity. We believe in providing a welcoming and open space to not only artists but also viewers. We are passionate about art and art lovers regardless of art knowledge or education. Dial 9 is an Inclusive group interested in bringing people together. Our overall mission is to reengage artists who feel excluded from the art sphere by a need to work in a possibly unrelated field. We wish to make art (creating, or viewing) an accessible part of everyday life, enabling all people to experience art.

www.dial9arts.com

RU Artist in Residence Melissa Calderon’s work will be featured at Hunter College’s LABOR Artist Reception & Inauguration this Friday, October 21st from 5pm – 8pm. It will take place at the new home of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies & Hunter College’s new gallery in Spanish Harlem. LABOR features the work of Antonio Martorell, Juan Sanchez, Nitza Tufino, Miguel Luciano, and Melissa Calderon. Calderon will be showing a new, large scale sculpture titled SOUL|SOLE which will be on view for the first time at tomorrow’s reception. There will be food and drink, so come be merry and visit Hunter College’s newest gallery!

RU artist-in-residence Tomaz Hipólito was interviewed for Trans Artists, a free monthly online newsletter dedicated to artist-in-residence opportunities worldwide. In this article, Tomaz talks about how he interacted with the architecture of New York during his RU residency.

An interview with Tomaz Hipólito at the New Museum cafe.

Trans Artists: How did you end up in New York?
Last year I had an exhibition here at the Emily Harvey Foundation and I met, Nathalie Anglès from Residency Unlimited , she invited me to come here. I came for 6 months to do a residency, I’ve been here for 4 months now.

Can you tell something about the project you are working on right now?
When I arrived here Residency Unlimited asked me what I needed and I asked for permits to access the rooftops of the highest buildings of New York City. I wanted to start my research from the top. I came to New York with a blank sheet, with nothing on my mind, I wanted to observe, familiarize myself with the city and from there find a focal point for my work. I found out that the thing in this city that affects me the most are these skyscrapers. I’ve been in Hong Kong and Sao Paolo and have seen huge buildings all over the world, we don’t have these kind of buildings at home in Portugal. They are unfamiliar and perhaps therefore the objects of my affection. Probably because I am an architect and will be here for 6 months long I figured these buildings will interact with me in some way so I decided to approach them from the top. I got a license to shoot from great buildings and the real estate firms allow me to choose from a lot of buildings, that is the good thing about artists, the can go anywhere. Sometimes I spend 6 hours on a rooftop from 6 pm to midnight, it’s stunning.

Read the full interview here.

FRAME welcomes artists, curators, researchers and other professionals in the visual arts to meet curator Boshko Boskovic from New York. Boskovic will give a talk at FRAME on Thursday 20 October at 3 pm. After the talk (approx. 45 minutes), the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions, discuss, comment and, in turn, tell about interesting current Finnish projects in the arts.

Boshko Boskovic is the Program Director of Residency Unlimited, a New York based non-profit arts service organization, and he has also worked at the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. During his tenure as Associate Director at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, he worked closely with artists such as Los Carpinteros, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov and Johan Grimonprez.

Boskovic has curated exhibitions at the New York Center of Photography and the Moving Image, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Exhibition 211 (New York), Gallery MC (New York), Belef (Belgrade) and Speed Art Museum (Louisville).

In addition, he has published essays for the following exhibitions: But I’m an American (Cultural Centre of Belgrade), Taxi to Berlin (Antje Wachs Gallery, Berlin), Where Have All the Children Gone (Galerie Steinek, Vienna), Dark Star (Galerie Perpetuel, Frankfurt), Cinematic Sculptures (Cultural Centre of Belgrade) and Beyond the Magic Mountain (Gallery MC, New York).

The talk and ensuing discussion will be in English.

Meet the Curator: Boshko Boskovic
Thursday 20 October, 3 pm
FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
Kaapelitehdas – Cable Factory
Tallberginkatu 1 C 96, entrance C, 4th floor

RU partner organization Elastic City, is fundraising for its 2012 season. With your support, Elastic City will produce its third season of conceptual and poetic walks. Started in May 2010, Elastic City commissions artists to give sensory, performative and ritualistic walks in New York City and beyond. Eventually, we’d like to expand to give walks in all parts of the world.

Some themes of past walks have included: making monuments with our bodies in response to existing public monuments; ridding space of bad luck and bringing forth good luck through the creation of new folk rituals; and sculpting visual and sound poems using found objects.

These are all experiential, participatory walks–as opposed to the ‘moving lecture’ model that defines fact-based walking tours. When you arrive at an Elastic City walk, you are welcomed as an active participant. The artist leading the walk offers you their lens, guidance and techniques to further the poetry in our relationships with each other and the surrounding environment.

Elastic City has received wonderful press thus far–a feature in the New York Times, The Economist, and even a cartoon from Roz Chast in the New Yorker!

Look below to watch a 3 minute video of a walk by Juan Betancurth & Todd Shalom: 4ever 21, a walk for eternal youth.

4ever 21 by Juan Betancurth & Todd Shalom from Elastic City on Vimeo.

Funding would produce our 2012 season, which includes the following costs:

Artist fees: $10,000

Marketing & Publicity: $8,000

Legal & insurance: $4,000

Intern stipends: $2,000

Office expenses: $1,000

Total: $25,000

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Look to the right–we have some wonderful rewards to offer in exchange for your support. Many of them are intangible–we offer experiences. We hope you’ll take us up on one.

For $25, you’ll receive an 8×10 photo–your choice of one from an assortment of images from our walks, such as:

To learn more and to contribute to Elastic City’s Kickstarter, click here!

There are 12 days left to back this exciting project on Kickstarter!

Casita: Press Play is a video art laboratory at Casita Maria in the South Bronx.  It is a collaboration between 14- and 15- year-old budding dancers, singers, writers and artists from Casita Maria (or ‘Casita Kids’, as they call themselves) and Amelia Saul, a performance and video artist. The aim of Casita: Press Play is to make excellent, original performance and video art; to cross-pollinate the New York contemporary art world with the South Bronx; and to give the Casita Kids the know-how to make their own videos and show them all over the world, through YouTube.

From October through December 2011, Amelia will run two after-school workshops a week, which lead the Casita Kids through the entire process of making video: writing short scripts, workshopping ideas, choreography and rehearsals.  In the second month, the group will produce and shoot the videos.  In the last month, they will move on to post-production: editing, sound design, and screening.  Amelia will bring in professionals to lead related workshops along the way: improv, acting, dramatic writing, production, dance/fight choreography, cinematography, video editing, and more.  Once the videos are finished, the group will post the work on YouTube, and create a channel.  YouTube is chosen specifically because it is the perfect democratic platform to empower the Casita Kids to share their vision with the world. The workshop will culminate in a screening and performance at Casita Maria in the Bronx, and Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn.

To enrich these practical lessons the group will explore the use of games as devices to tell stories.  They will delve into the brilliant world of Augusto Boal, and explore his book, Games for Actors and Non-Actors.  Boal’s theater games create atmospheres of freedom and playfulness, where comic timing and acerbic social commentary co-exist.  Rich fodder for great video art.

Your donations go towards the workshops, the visiting experts (as listed in the first paragraph), video production and shoot costs (equipment rental including sound gear, lights, and possibly cameras), screening/exhibition costs (publicity, equipment rental, etc.).

In gratitude we are offering the following, all made in the Casita: Press Play studios:

–An invitation to a private reception at Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn in early 2012,  with performances by the Casita Kids and Amelia Saul.

–A DVD of our videos, special behind-the-scenes footage and outtakes.

–A limited-edition T-shirt designed by the Casita Kids.

–A limited-edition hand-made book with details and illustrations of the original games created during the workshops.

To contribute to this project, click here.

Thank you for your support, and see you in January!

This project was created for Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, in partnership with Casita Maria.

RU artist in residence Tomaz Hipólito has been featured on TVI 24, a Portuguese news channel.

Watch the video here!

Tune in Screening: Psychedelic Moving Images from Socialist Yugoslavia
Curated by Branko Franceschi
Sunday, October 2nd opening reception 6 – 9 pm

OU by Marjan Ciglic (OHO), 1969 | 70, still frame, color, 8 mm, 3’ 25’’ (Courtesy of Marinko Sudac Collection)

The Tune in Screening program focuses on film production and popular music created in Yugoslavia from mid 60s to mid 70s. It presents a variety of materials, predominantly a 75-minute loop of experimental film and rock music that exemplify the openness and permissiveness of Yugoslavia’s brand of socialism when incorporating culture from the capitalist West. The Tune in Screening program demonstrates how imports from the West had a profound effect on the local society, arts and, especially, the public visibility of this psychedelic lifestyle and popular culture.

The first half of the decade was marked by the highest GDP in Yugoslavia’s history and an opening of the country’s borders to all citizens for travel or work abroad. But towards the decade’s end, an economic decline and cracks in the monolithic state began to appear and would continue throughout the 70s. While on one hand, the state apparatus was supportive of some of the most radical and internationally recognized artistic manifestations of the era, such as New Tendencies Movement (1961 – 1973), GEFF – Genre Experimental Film Festival (1963 – 1970) and Music Biennale (1961 – ongoing) in Zagreb (Croatia), or BITEF, International Theatre Festival (1967 – ongoing) in Belgrade (Serbia), it was at the same time harshly repressive with crackdowns on demonstrators, the imprisonment of political opponents and cultural workers, bans on movies and periodicals promoting cultural and political ideas, and attempts to introduce Western-style democracy to the country. Nevertheless, the combination of these opposing policies served to create one of the most vibrant and culturally exciting societies of the era, featuring distinctive inventions such as the Self-management mode of Socialism and the Non-aligned Countries Movement, which together positioned Yugoslavia as something of a global phenomenon and leader.

The changes in Yugoslavia’s socialist society from 1966 to 1976 coincided and were closely intertwined with the complex political and social changes that were occurring globally. Yugoslavian socialism was greatly influenced by the transformative movements throughout the world. Notions of counterculture and social (r)evolution, when introduced in the local context, were used to promote its specific goals of softening the socialist rule, gaining more civil liberties, introducing higher life standards and more color into both everyday life and the accompanying pop culture.

In the process, great art was created. This program also features a selection of Yugoslavia’s pop and rock music classics to accompany the presentation of some of the period’s most significant artworks. These artworks, unlike the official state-sanctioned modernism on one side of the era’s aesthetic divide or its underground conceptual and neo-avant-garde counterpart, were boldly present in the everyday life of all citizens.

Films:
- Vladimir Petek, Times, 8 mm, b/w film, 4’, 1966
- Naško Kriţnar (OHO), 19th Nervous Breakdown, 8 mm, b/w film, 4’03’’, 1966 (featuring Marko and Marika Pogačnik)
- Ante Verzotti, Fluorescences, super 8mm, 4’2’’, 1967
- Ivan Martinac, Focus, 35 mm, b/w, 7’12’’, 1967
- Marjan Ciglić (OHO), Fulia Quanso, 8 mm, color, 5’39’’1967
- Marjan Ciglić (OHO), OU, 8 mm, color, 3’25’’, 1969/70
- Miroslav Mikuljan, Seisana, 8 mm, 16mm, b/w, 4’53’’, 1970
- Slobodan Šijan, Kosta Bunuševac in a Film About Himself, 8 mm, color, 15’, 1970
- Petar Trinajstić, Oh Fish, My Little Fish, 8mm, color, 3’33’’, 1973
- Ljubomir Šimunić, Gerdy, The Wicked Witch, 8 mm, color, 14’, 1973 – 1976
All films transferred on DVD.

Visual Arts:
- Marko Pogačnik (OHO), Rolling Stones, object painting, 1968
- Marina Abramović, Rhythm 2, 1974 performance documentation, super 8 mm, 2 screen projections, b/w, color, mute, (33’53’’ & 25’24’’), transferred on DVD

Music:
- Uragani: Shell (1967)
- Grupa 220: City (1967), Somewhere There Is Someone like You (1968)
- Josipa Lisac: My Life (1970), Evening at Luna Park (1973)
- Time: Song No 3 (1972), King Alcohol (1972), Truth Machine (1972)
- Korni grupa: Voice from the Coast of Color (1972)
- Indeksi: Tide (1973)
- Zdenka Kovačićek: Click Theme No 1 (1973, live with Nirvana)

Acknowledgements:
Films by Vladimir Petek, Marjan Ciglič and Naško Kriţnar, and Marko Pogačnik object painting thanks to Marinko Sudac Collection. Films by Ivan Martinac, Miroslav Mikuljan, Petar Trinajstić, and Ante Verzotti, thanks to Croatian Film Club’s Association
Films by Slobodan Šijan and Ljubomir Šimunić thanks to the authors

Marina Abaramović’s performance documentation thanks to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. Music thanks to Croatia Records, except Korni grupa by anonymous.

Special thanks (in alphabetical order): Nathalie Anglès, Lindsey Berfond, Ţelimir Koščević, Dijana Nenadić, Natalia Mount, Marko Pogačnik, Stephan Stoyanov, Marinko Sudac, Siniša Škarica, Stevan Vuković.

Thursday, September 29, 2011, 7-9pm.
Hosted by AC Institute 547 W. 27th St, #610
New York, NY 10001

Refreshments/Champagne to follow (offered by AC Institute)

Following his performance at MoMA last week, an engaged and theoretical explanation of his action will occur at a presentation with Fred Forest and Holly Crawford (Artist and Art Historian), moderated by Stéphanie Jeanjean (Art Historian, PhD Candidate, CUNY).

More Info here

Special Gallery Tour:
“Reflections on Permutations”
from Shift and Flow
Sunday, October 2, 2:00–3:30 PM

RU Artist in residence Melissa Calderon has two exciting exhibitions coming up on Tuesday, September 27th.

The first show, Labor, opens at Hunter College’s New Spanish Harlem Art Gallery with a VIP lunch on Tuesday, September 27th at noon. This show is comprised of all new work based on research from the Center of Puerto Rican Studies archives.

The other, Disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas is that same evening at Middlesex County College from 5pm to 7pm. Calderon will be performing Linger, a performance installation that will take place for the duration of the evening. This will be followed by an all-day symposium at Rutgers University on October 14th from 10am to 5:30pm.

French artist Fred Forest seeks five motivated students to participate, on a volunteer basis, to his performance in a major art institution in New York on Friday September 23, 3pm to 6pm (dress code: White Tee-shirt, Blue jeans).

To apply, please email fredforest@wanadoo.fr.

Participez à L’aventure de l’art : L’artiste Français, Fred Forest recherche, 5 étudiantes motivées pour participation bénévole à sa performance au  MoMA (Tee shirt blanc, Jean bleu) le Vendredi 23 septembre de 3 pm à 6 pm faire offre pour casting à fredforest@wanadoo.fr  Merci

Arte Institute created a video about Tomaz Hipólito’s screenings and performance at Union Square Park for their Summer Nights Series. It features interviews with Tomaz, RU director and founder Nathalie Anglés, Portuguese artist Gabriela Albergaria and curator Alexandra Pinho.

For more information, click here.

Duration: October 1- May 31, 2011

Application Deadline: Sept. 9, 2011

Within the framework of Residency Unlimited’s (RU) partnership with the chashama (*) studio Program at the Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT), RU is looking to invite a New York based artist to participate in its residency program for 8 months. During this time, the selected artist will benefit from a studio at BAT and Residency Unlimited’s customized support.

Click here for more information about RU’s partnership with chashama

(*) chashama is an NYC arts organization whose mission is to support artists working in all media. chashama adopts vacant properties that are donated by their owners and converts them into theaters, galleries, studios, and window performance sites. chashama then re-grants this space for free or at heavily subsidized rates. Since 1995, chashama has transformed more than 40 vacant properties and has given more than 6,500 artists access to space.

What does this residency provide?

• A chashama studio space at Brooklyn Army Terminal, located at 140 58th Street, Brooklyn NY at a cost of $188 per month starting October 1st 2011 until May 31st 2011. The surface of the studio is approx. 200 sq ft. and is accessible 7 days a week.
• From its headquarters based at 360 Court Street in Brooklyn, Residency Unlimited (RU) will provide the selected artist with customized support and access to its general programming.For detailed information please check http://www.residencyunlimited.org/what-is-a-ru-residency/

What are the criteria for selection?

• Artist must be living in New York City and is in need of a working studio.
• Artist agrees to cover the monthly rent for the studio. ($188 per month for 8 months)
• Artist agrees to develop a body of new work

To apply, please submit the following by September 9, 2011
via email to nyc-opencall@residencyunlimited.org

• Your up-to-date CV (Word, or PDF only)
• A short statement detailing what you intend to work on during the residency. (500 words max – Word, or PDF only)
• 5 images of your work (max 300kb each)
• Links to video (if applicable) Do not attach video files!
• Links to audio samples (if applicable) Do not attach audio files!
• Writing samples (if applicable, as an attachment)

Application Deadline: September 9, 2011

All applicants will be informed of their application status by Sept 14th, 2011.

If you have any questions regarding this open call, please contact us directly

ACE HxWxDxTx2
August 4th-August 30th
Performances and receptions:
CENSURA August 12th 6-9pm

Hunter College / Leubdsorf Gallery
695 Park Av. (Lexington with 68 st.)

CENSURA
While the conceptual framework of HxDxWxTx2 undercuts the traditional exhibition practice of selecting complete, autonomously created work, Hipolito pushes this concept further in CENSURA. What is At play are notions of chronological time, its relationship to comprehensible space, and hierarchies of influence in a combination of text, video and performance. Paralleling the liminal quality of the window space, CENSURA is an exercise in the age-old dichotomy between object and objectified in the context of art, as manifest in the urgent dialogs of boundaries of autonomy and engagement. Here, Hipolito’s characteristic investigation reveals and confounds curatorial agency and collaboration with ACE curator, Sophia Marisa Lucas.

ABOUT ACE
ACE is a curatorial collective of Hunter College MFA’s and MA’s. ACE creates events and exhibitions through out the semester at the two Hunter Art Department locations

http://hunterace.wordpress.com/

It’s gonna be a MASSIVE PARTY for LUMEN. Here’s your invite!

Come down to Spattered Columns for one heck of a party. Check out a performance by Quinn Dukes McDivitt, and videos by Matthew Sleeth and Sander Houtkruijer. Music by DJ Mountains. Our sponsor BOMB Lager will be there handing out free merchandise ALL NIGHT LONG.

All proceeds from the party go to the participating LUMEN artists and curators. Tickets are pretty cheap, $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Where else does $10 get you food, drinks, art, and cool people??

Get your tix: http://statenislandarts.org/lumen.html

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ABOUT LUMEN:

Fred Forest, currently in residency with RU, is launching a great project on the July 1st, at the Centre d’Art le Lait d’Albi.

Press Release

*” FLUX ET REFLUX LA CAVERNE INTERNET “
*Une action de l’artiste Français Fred Forest avec le Centre d’Art  le LAIT d’ALBI

Sat July 2nd- Sun Oct 30th, 2011
Moulins Albigeois – 41 rue Porta – 81000 Albi, France

HELP TO SUPPORT ” FLUX ET REFLUX LA CAVERNE D’INTERNET ” THE FIRST
WORLDWIDE AND CRITICAL SOCIAL NETWORK LAUNCHED BY AN ARTIST, THROUGH
YOUR PARTICIPATION AND BY CIRCULATING THIS INFORMATION
http://www.webnetmuseum.org/php/en/php-news_en/show_news.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Forest

Our partner organization freeDimensional is hosting a panel with artist & performer, Chaw Ei Thein.

World Policy Institute, freeDimensional and
Asian American Writers’ Workshop present
A Talk with Chaw Ei Thein
Moderated by Todd Lester

June 8, 2011, 6:30pm
Asian American Writers’ Workshop

In one of the busiest street markets in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma), Chaw Ei Thein and a friend, the artist Htein Lin, created a performance to comment on the inflated prices under the current Burmese government. They were arrested for the simple gesture of selling small items like candy and ribbons for miniscule amounts of money. For criticizing the government, Thein was exiled from her country. She now continues her work as a performance artist and painter in the United States, where she has applied for political asylum. Thein’s art expresses the pain and fear Burmese people deal with living under an oppressive government, as well as Thein’s own physical and emotional struggle as both a Burmese woman and as an activist-artist in a life of exile. Following a brief performance, Thein will discuss the limitations on civil rights and freedom of speech that drove her to seek asylum from Burma, where 2000 political prisoners are serving decades-long sentences for speaking out. She also will give perspectives on the challenges facing asylum seekers in the United States.

Where:
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street (Between 6th and 7th Avenues)
6th Floor, Buzzer 600
New York, New York 10001

Register and buy tickets below:

http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/528901/47f7318ac7/249295385/815f3c1a80/

We are pleased to announce that Melissa A. Calderon has been selected to launch the new community based program Residency Unlimited at Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education Residency with a 3 month residency that began on May 1st, 2011.

Click here for more details on this partnership and the conditions of the residency

Bronx-based, multimedia artist Melissa A. Calderon is seeking donations of old shoes to be included in a large scale sculpture. Below is a mock-up of the proposed sculpture. Donations are currently being accepted now through the summer – until the goal of 500 pairs of shoes is met.

The artist is looking specifically for women’s high heel or work/dress shoes – dressy flats are acceptable as well.

This work will be done in collaboration with the students at Casita Maria during the artist’s residency. The work will then be on exhibit this fall at Hunter College’s new Spanish Harlem gallery in its inaugural exhibition curated by Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell and Curator Susana Torruella Leval.

Below is a mock-up of the proposed sculpture. Donations are currently being accepted now through the summer – until the goal of 500 pairs of shoes is met. The artist is looking specifically for women’s high heel or work/dress shoes – flats are acceptable as well.

If you have a donation for Melissa – please email her and she can arrange for a pick up or be able to let you know of drop-off locations in Brooklyn and The Bronx. She will be needing as many shoes possible – so if you have friends or work colleagues who could donate as well, please forward this message along. Any shoes in good condition after the work is deinstalled from Hunter will be donated to charity.

For Drop Off Info & To Contact the Artist:

Melissa A. Calderon
www.melissacalderon.com
914.246.1851
melissaacalderon@gmail.com

about the artist
Melissa A. Calderon was born in 1974 and attended CUNY Lehman College in the Bronx. Using installation, photography, sculpture and video, the foundation of her work remains rooted in exploring the gap of disconnection from traditional roles; whether they are gender or culturally based. She has exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Queens Museum, The Portland Museum of Art, Longwood Art Project and BronxArtSpace among others. Melissa is a PEPATIAN artist; a South Bronx-based organization dedicated to creating, producing and supporting contemporary multi-disciplinary art by Latino and Bronx-based artists. Recently, Melissa was included in Frescos, featuring the work of 50 young contemporary artists from Puerto Rico and is currently working on an exhibition opening Fall 2011 curated by Antonio Martorell and Susana Torruella Leval. Calderon is currently am artist-in-residence at Casita Maria/Residency Unlimited. A self-taught artist, she lives and works in the Bronx.

about Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education
Casita Maria, headquartered in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, was established in 1934 by Claire and Elizabeth Sullivan as the first charitable organization to serve Hispanics in New York City. It remains dedicated to its original mission – to empower youth and their families by creating a culture of learning through high quality social, cultural, and educational opportunities – delivering services to the mostly Hispanic youth, families and seniors of the community it serves. In 2009, Casita Maria inaugurated a state of the art facility encompassing performance spaces, exhibition gallery, dance and music studios, and more on its Simpson Street campus. This 90,000 square foot, six-story educational and cultural facility in collaboration with the Department of Education has enabled Casita Maria to expand its scope and capacities as a beacon of excellence.

RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES
International Conference on Artistic Residencies
& Eastern European Res Artis Meeting 
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle
Warsaw, Poland
November 16-19th 2009

CONFERENCE – Introducing new disciplines

This panel aimed to discuss various strategies for developing artistic residencies in context as they adjust to the contemporary conditions of art and culture. Interdisciplinarity became a way to manage with the artists wide spectrum of interests in diverse media and science. From another side, the development of new media technology impels creating residencies which provide artists with professionally equipped studios. The presentations questioned different approaches to residency models and perspectives of introducing new disciplines. What are the arguments towards specialising in narrow disciplines? Which model provides artists with appropriate work conditions? Introducing new disciplines-in-residence also means design, curating, architecture, humanities. What are requirements for such programmes? How does this broad approach reflect the institutional setting?

Invited speakers:
Stella d’Ailly (SE), Director Mossutställningar, Erik Berg (SE), Curator Mossutställningar
Nathalie Angles (US), Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria (US), Founders and Directors, Residency Unlimited
Hagen Betzwieser (DE), Artist, IAT
Marianna Dobkowska (PL), Curator, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle
Magnus Ericson (SE), Project manager, IASPIS
Moderator: Kaja Pawełek (PL), Curator, CCA Ujazdowski Castle

http://www.re-tooling-residencies.org/introducing-new-disciplines

A Crime must be Committed, 2010

click to view photos of screening

Tuesday, March, 15, 2011
screenings at 6.30 and 7.30

2 films by Rebecca Ann Tess
followed by a Q & A in the presence of the artist

Dad Dracula is Dead (2009) and A Crime must be Committed (2010) are the first two installments of a three-part video project by Rebecca Ann Tess that refers to certain stereotypes of character presentation in European and US film and television history. Dad Dracula is Dead looks back to the cinema of the twenties and thirties, a time of transition not only from silent film to talkies but also for an increasingly regimented film industry. Although censorship codes were relaxed after World War I, there was a concurrent tendency to establish new control structures to accompany the birth of film as a mass medium. Dialogue from the movies of that era, excerpted fromDifferent from the Others, The Soilers, Girls in Uniform, Queen Christina, Sylvia Scarlett, and Dracula’s Daughter, is repeated in Dad Dracula is Dead, performing a loop within this history.

The second part, A Crime must be Committed, deals with the crime and detective genre, quoting films  and television series from the 1920s through to the early 20th century. This retrospective demonstrates how crime stories, constellations of protagonists, and their assigned roles have been subject to change over time. They have expressed evolving discourses where the relationship between good and evil has been renegotiated each time within the context of a new social-political situation. Rebecca Ann Tess examines these historical patterns and power relationships. She draws on the aesthetic of all these subgenres and recombines filmic figures and dialogues in novel ways to create a new story in a winding, non-linear narrative style.

The artist Rebecca Ann Tess is a “Residency Unlimited/Flux Factory” artist in residency whose stay in New York is made possible by Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur (Germany).

Location:
360 Court Street, Brooklyn , NY 11231 (subway F/G Carroll street, President Street exit)
Church entrance through green door.

IV. INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: RESIDENCIES AND EXHIBITIONS

Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 6:30-8:00pm
Speaker: Nathalie Angles, Director, Residency Unlimited

Taking advantage of opportunities abroad can advance your career back home. There are a myriad of residencies, fellowships, exhibitions, and other options throughout the world that are readily available at your fingertips. Nathalie Angles, Director of Residency Unlimited, will cover how to seek out these opportunities, identifying key resources in the U.S., as well as abroad. She will also discuss the many nuances to be observed when applying for international opportunities, as well as cultural and institutional obstacles to keep in mind.

Cost: FREE for members, $5 for non-members. RSVPs are REQUIRED. To RSVP, please email jessica.gildea@cueartfoundation.org, or call 212-206-3583.

http://www.cueartfoundation.org/upcoming-events.html

Duration: May 1- July 31, 2011

Application Deadline: March 10, 2011

All applicants will be informed of their application status by March 28, 2011

Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education and Residency Unlimited (RU) are joining efforts to create a new community-based residency program at Casita Maria’s state of the art facility in the South Bronx, NY. We are looking to work with artists for whom audience participation plays a major role in their practice and who will work alongside Bronx-based youth and their families as they develop new work.

What does this residency provide?

-A two-fold experience with 2 vibrant organizations putting their resources together to present and disseminate the creative product to a broad range of audiences.

- A studio space for 3 months starting May 1^st at Casita Maria free of charge. Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education is a nonprofit community-based organization and home to the Bronx Studio School for Artists and Writers (a NYC public 6^th – 12^th grade school). The resident artist can work closely with the young students served by the organization.

- From its headquarters based at 360 Court Street in Brooklyn, Residency Unlimited (RU) will provide the selected artist with customized support and access to its general programming

- Public presentation of the new work developed will be organized in a format to be determined once the project is defined.

What are the criteria for selection?

Besides quality of the artist’s work, the core criterion is the artist’s willingness to work with the communities of which Casita Maria is a part.

The studio space at Casita Maria will typically be open from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm each week day. In addition, occasional weekends and evenings will be made available.

Eligible applicants must be able to commit to spending 25 hours of time @ Casita Maria per month, with the purpose of executing a selected project.

For more info please, please check out Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education and Residency Unlimited.

To apply, please submit the following by March 10th, 2011

(applications are now closed)

• Your up-to-date CV (Word, or PDF only)
• A short statement (500 words max) detailing what you intend to work on during the residency.(Word, or PDF only)
• 10 images of your work (max 300kb each)
• Links to video (if applicable) Do not attach video files!
• Links to audio samples (if applicable) Do not attach audio files!
• Writing samples (if applicable, as an attachment)

Application Deadline: March 10, 2011

All applicants will be informed of their application status by March 28, 2011

For more info please, please check out Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education and Residency Unlimited.

If you have any questions regarding this open call, please contact us directly

Click to play a video of Virtual Corps Q&Aclick to view photos of screening

Virtual Corps

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Two screenings:

5:00 – 6:00pm & 6:30 – 7:30pm

(RSVP necessary)

curated by Aily Nash

Virtual Corps grew out of an exquisite corpse approach, focusing on the relationships that develop between the works as one transitions into the next. The chosen works are varied explorations of the virtual which, when examined sequentially, reveal converging meanings. We begin by considering self-exploration at its most primal; recognizing one’s body and its consequence in space. Movement in place is considered both in the traditional sense of virtual reality, as well as in the stasis of the mise-en-scène that foregrounds a webcam. These acts and performances in confined private spaces have broader implications that resonate in an exterior space, perhaps not physically, but virtually. In some cases, these movements take on symbolic effect as gestures that speak to one’s cultural, political, and geographic context, and we begin to see how these contexts profoundly influence how we move. The reiteration of popular culture through private quotidian performances calls into question what inspires us to perform, communicate and share with the virtual community, in a way that is specific to its anonymous atmosphere. The works explore the hinterland between the act of defining one’s individualism within the globally expansive culture industry, and recognizing that we are also products of it. The subjects seek self-discovery while mediating what it means to be both the same and different from the world outside of us, endeavoring to connect and communicate however remote and faceless their audience may be.

This program was curated in participation with the College Art Association’s ARTspace Media Lounge project.

The Third Body, Peggy Ahwesh, video, 2007, 9 min

Running Man, Mirak Jamal, video, 2010, 13 min

Around the World, Alex Kalman, video, 2010, 9 min

My Way 1, Amie Siegel, video, 2009, 9 min

Lenny, Cyril Amon Schaublin, video/super 16, 2009, 17 min

total running time: 57 minutes

Peggy Ahwesh, Alex Kalman, and Amie Siegel will be present at the screening for Q & A

Location:

360 Court Street, Brooklyn , NY 11231 (subway F/G Carroll street, President Street exit)

Church entrance green door.

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RSVP by filling out this form:

(both 5pm  & 6:30pm  screenings are closed)

Tuesday January 18 2011, 6.30pm

Discussion/Presentation
by Khaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne

click to view photos of event:

Performance artist and pop musician Khaela Maricich (who performs as TheBlow) and installation/conceptual artist Melissa Dyne will discuss their current collaboration: a music based performance piece, which they arepresenting in a diversity of contexts, from rock clubs to museums, in an exploration of the possibilities and assumptions inherent in each setting.They will demonstrate, among other things, their experience brushing against the invisible boundary lines of convention, the strangeness of the creation of a pop icon, and the intricacies of the collaborative process.

Further venues of this lecture will include the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg and The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon among others.

In light of Residency Unlimited’s interest in exploring new residency formats and working collaboratively, this event is the first of a series of evenings dedicated to the investigation of collaborative practices.

Location:
360 Court Street, Brooklyn , NY 11231 (subway F/G Caroll street)

During the Fall Semester 2010, Residency Unlimited was a case study for the Development for the Visual Arts course at the NYU Steinhardt Visual Arts Administration Program.  Students spent the fall semester to devise a fundraising strategy for 2011 and beyond.

Below is Melissa Rachleff Burtt, clinical associate professor in discussion with RU founders Nathalie Anglès and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, for the final class of the course.

This holiday season support our arts organization

with Black Friday (Thalia & Adri)
& Joro Boro

$1.00 Artist Print Raffles

Residency Unlimited Holiday Fundraiser
LUXOR LOUNGE
40-26 28th St. Long Island City, NY 11101
1 1/2 blocks from Qns Plaza – Subways, 7, N, Q, E, R, M

$5 – 10-pm-12pm
$10 after

LADIES OPEN BAR TILL 11pm!!

Flyer is below! Courtesy of Black Friday (Thalia & Adri)

Ana Prvacki:
PERFORMING DAILY PRACTICE by Ana Prvacki
6 December 2010 through 7 December 2010, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
www.gardnermuseum.org

Anne Percoco:
- Convergence
Project Vortex Benefit
Lumenhouse, 47 Beaver St, Brooklyn
October 16 to December 12
Opening Reception: October 16, 7:00-9:00 PM
http://projectvortex.org/

- Insatiable
Women’s Studies Research Center
515 South Street
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
January 25 to March 15
Reception: Thursday, February 3, 5:00-7:30 PM

Edward Schexnayder:
- Edward has a forthcoming project that is a formalist response to immigration in print to be published in the next issue of Vector magazine (coming soon)

Eve K. Tremblay:
- Péripéties
curated by Sylvain Campeau
Exposition itinérante, présentée à la Maison de la culture Plateau Mont-Royal
from November 12 to December 12 2010
www.occurrence.ca

- Le tarôt de Montréal
curated by Marie-Claude Bouthillier
18 nov 2010 au 10 jan 2011
M.d.c. Côte-des-Neiges
http://www.voir.ca/publishing/article.aspx?zone=1&section=20&article=70499
http://www.marieclaudebouthillier.org/2010_tarotDeMontreal/2010_tarotDeMontreal.html

Rebecca Ann Tess:
- A Thousand Endless Tales – Dancing the Line of Flight
(Story Telling) in Zurich
from 1 October to 21 November 2010
http://www.endlesstales.ch/home.html

- New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages
at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the MMK Zollamt
Opening: December 10
http://www.fkv.de/frontend_en/ausstellungen_vorschau_detail.php?id=691

Special Features artists Peter Hristoff and Marie Losier:
- C’est La Vie! That’s Life!
Pera Museum, Istanbul
26 – 28 November 2010
Program Curators
http://en.peramuzesi.org.tr/pera_film/detail.aspx?SectionID=QbUOMr6zPJaIBIh7lBmuzQ%3D%3D&ContentID=IRPsNXke9F0LSfIHWetbYg%3D%3D

Judith Souriau profiled Anne Percoco’s Repaired Things in Arts Plastiques, the arts blog of the French daily newspaper Libération. Enjoy!

http://artsplastiques.blogs.liberation.fr/participatif/2010/11/repaired-things.html or Download the PDF file

mardi 16 novembre 2010

Repaired things: l’art de la récup’

par Judith SOURIAU

L’artiste américaine Anne Percoco, actuellement en résidence à New York, répertorie des objets de grande consommation détériorés puis réparés: une célébration du système D à l’ère de l’«over-consumption».

C’est un lieu commun de dire que, dans nos sociétés occidentales hautement consuméristes, nous ne réparons plus rien mais remplaçons plutôt ce qui est abîmé, cassé, ou juste désuet. Là où nos grand-mères portaient leurs sacs à main chez le cordonnier et investissaient dans un lave-linge pour la vie, Zara et Darty nous en fournissent de nouveaux pour le prix d’une réparation, et on se demande si nos enfants porteront leur voiture au garage ou directement à la casse.

Alors que nous nous essoufflons tout doucement de cette surconsommation, la très jeune artiste américaine Anne Percoco a recensé, aux Etats-Unis et ailleurs, des initiatives et des objets réparés. L’idée lui est venue lors d’une résidence de trois mois en Inde où, en bon rejeton de l’Amérique de «over-consumption», elle fut marquée par l’habileté des habitants à donner une seconde vie aux objets les plus banals. A son retour, elle crée le blog «Repaired Things», qui inventorie les objets les plus simples mais aussi les plus créatifs de l’économie du système D (celle qu’on trouve en bas de chez soi si tant est que l’on cherche). Les objets sont classés par catégorie, et les mots-clé correspondent aux types de détérioration (cassé, émietté, détérioré…) et de réparation (cousu, scotché, noué…).

Les entrées «Toaster» et «Wall» sont d’une grande poésie. Quant au «Tree cushion» de Bangalore, dans la série Architecture, il vous laisse simplement coi.

Voir aussi le «Remarkable Repairs contest» du site néerlandais Platform 21. 

We want to welcome Rebecca Ann Tess, recently arrived from Frankfurt. She is the current RU/FF partnership based artist in residence.

Rebecca is currently working on post production of a new film project entitled “A crime must be Committed”. (Still image below)

‘A crime must be Committed’, 2010

Rebecca Ann’s residency is made possible by Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur (Germany),

Du 17 octobre au 14 novembre

Mishima in Red Hook, 2009 (avec Anne-Laure Dubé)

Du 17 octobre au 14 novembre 2010, le Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides présente « H²EAU », une exposition sur l’eau et sa présence dans nos vies, dans le cadre du programme Repérage Collection Loto-Québec. Dix-huit artistes de la région des Laurentides y participent. Une trentaine de leurs œuvres en lien avec cette thématique rassembleuse sont regroupées en quatre sous-thèmes : « L’imaginaire : lien poétique », « Échos sensibles », « Intervention humaine » et « Salée, poivrée? ».

En parcourant l’exposition, le visiteur découvrira des œuvres – photographies, vidéos, peintures, installations et gravures – faisant résonance à la relation poétique, émotive, utilitaire ou abusive, qu’entretient l’humain avec l’eau. L’homme face à la vastitude de la mer, l’eau comme support de la chaîne alimentaire et l’eau comme préoccupation environnementale sont parmi les sujets évoqués. La singularité du concept et du visuel de chacune des œuvres crée une ambiance où se côtoient le lyrisme, le jeu, l’ironie et le formalisme, rehaussant la richesse et la qualité du travail de l’artiste.

« De par la portée universelle et le caractère actuel de sa thématique, l’exposition « H²EAU » devrait tout autant interpeller les jeunes que les adultes, l’eau étant un élément essentiel à la vie et indispensable à la survie de l’humanité », souligne le directeur général du Musée, monsieur André Marion.

Madame Hélène Brunet Neumann, jeune artiste en arts visuels et historienne de l’art de la région, agit à titre de commissaire de l’exposition. « Les artistes qui y participent ont relevé le défi artistique et technique de créer des œuvres reflétant à la fois les attributs physiques de l’eau, sa fluidité, son mouvement, sa puissance et sa densité, ainsi que son pouvoir de susciter de l’émotion. La mise en espace du parcours en quatre sous-thèmes reliés à l’eau crée une harmonie entre la diversité des médiums utilisés et des langages artistiques proposés. Le visiteur est donc convié à un véritable plongeon dans les eaux foisonnantes de la création », commente-t-elle.

Vernissage : le dimanche 17 octobre à 14h

Invitation spéciale pour les membres du Musée :
visite de l’exposition avec la commissaire
Hélène BRUNET NEUMANN, le dimanche 17 octobre à 13h.

Le Musée est ouvert du mardi au dimanche, de 12 h à 17 h. Pour des renseignements, communiquez au 450 432-7171 ou visitez notre site,www.museelaurentides.ca.

In October 2010, Residency Unlimited was invited to attend the General Members Meeting of Res Artis The Americas: Independent Artistic Practices in the Era of Globalization, October 6th through 10th, 2010, in Montréal and Québec City (Canada).

The 2010 Conference will examine the state of residencies in the Americas by taking stock of the experiences, local initiatives, and self-management models impacting methods of production and distribution, as well as the creative contexts for contemporary work. Our intention is to allow Conference participants to meet the most representative interlocutors from the Americas’ vast cultural scene and to understand the stakes and factors both distinguishing and uniting them.

RU Founder/Director, Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria was a panelist during the conference in a discussion on Sustainable Partnerships:

Session C: Sustainable partnership

Francine Royer, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (QC)
Ayeh Naraghi (UNESCO)
David Panton, Acme Studios (UK)
Juan Jose Dìaz Infantes artist, curator and cultural activist (MX)
Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Residency Unlimited, New-York (US)
Monique Badaro (BR)
Pierre Beaudoin, moderator

Partners for life or partners in an adventure? In this session we seek to give voice to government bodies and organizations who, when putting in place residency programmes and international exchanges, develop short, medium and long-term strategies to deal with policy. How is hosting someone in residency favored or penalized by governmental policy/policies and the framework of international agreements? How may we establish a hosting policy that is independent and equitable, or is that even possible? How can the strategies and mechanisms put in place by organizations create sustainable ties outside of national policies?

Transcripts and video coming soon!