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SuperBodies

vti — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:13:14 +0000

3rd Triennial for Contemporary Art, Fashion and Design

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‘SuperBodies’ is the third edition of the triennial for contemporary art, fashion and design organised by the city of Hasselt. The first edition was simply called ‘Super!’ Starting with the second edition, a specific theme was chosen for each edition. In 2009 that theme was ‘stories’. Hence the title ‘SuperStories’. For 2012, the chosen theme is the human body. So this edition is called ‘SuperBodies’.

However, in spite of its name, ‘SuperBodies’ is not an exhibition about super-bodies and super-people. On the contrary, it is actually about just regular bodies. Because even though bodies are not all that extraordinary or perfect, they do do wonderful things—they are, in fact, wonderful machines.

For decades now, the body had been ubiquitous, in art as well as in the popular media, in fashion and in design. Even dance focuses more and more on the body in and of itself, not on the steps that the dancers perform. However, the media in particular seldom shows regular bodies. On the contrary, they wholesale extreme bodies—extremely perfect, heroic, ecstatic or just extremely pitiful. Those bodies are so different from the normal that they fascinate us because of their oddity. That fascination goes hand in hand with a considerable attention to the culture of body. Sometimes it seems as if one expects a final truth—an ultimate fulfilment—from the body.

Our mortal body however seldom succeeds in fulfilling all those big expectations. The body of the media is far removed from everyday life. However, as long as we blindly stare at that extraordinary body, we will not be able to see how extraordinary the ordinary body is. Innumerable bodily processes, which we barely notice, steer our being and our thinking. That is the point of departure of this exhibition. Can one reflect on this and then turn a performance of those unobserved bodily processes into art? How do these processes relate to our conscious thoughts and feelings? And what then is there to see? Curator Pieter T’Jonck asked himself these same questions during the compilation of this exhibition.

He discovered that many, leading artists had devoted (a portion of) their oeuvres to these questions, long in the shadow of the great force of media. Although now they reap ever increasing recognition because they confront us with material things and how we perceive and experience them.

Things that we do daily, without thinking but which are all mediated by our bodies.

Artists collaborating are Lemm&Barkey, Meg Stuart, Ivo Dimchev, Trisha Brown, Lisbeth Gruwez, Deufert & Plischke, William Forsythe, Superamas, and many more!

More info:
SuperBodies, 3rd Triennial for Contemporary Art, Fashion and Design
4/2/2012 > 27/5/2012
Different locations in Hasselt BE
www.superbodies.be

Visual Arts

Call for applications - SoundImageCulture 2012

bam — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:40:17 +0000

SoundImageCulture 2012
Deadline for application: 10 January 2012

SoundImageCulture / SIC is a group of artist-anthropologists committed to artful storytelling through real human encounters that challenge documentary conventions, and opens up to sound and image installations. SIC offers a nine-month master class to assist professional filmmakers, social scientists and artists in the realization of their personal project. The SIC involves a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives and practical workshops so as to link formal and ethical questions during the production process as each creator develops their original, personal point of view.

Informed by developments in cultural theory, social sciences, and the visual arts (Laura Marks, Arjun Appadurai, Jean Rouch, Trinh Minh-ha en Jonas Mekas) we question the relation between artist, subject and viewer. The answer is not to eschew representation; rather, SIC proposes an ethical reflection on how 'the other' is presented in contemporary media: we believe this to be an urgency of the multicultural society we live in. The SIC involves nine months of artistic coaching through collective seminars, individual advising, group critiques, and inter-artist dialogue. For additional perspectives, we occasionally host visiting artists and critics.

The deadline for the call for projects SIC 2012 is 10 January 2012. SIC 2012 will be organized from April till December 2012.

Organised by SIC vzw-asbl, with the support of the Flemish government Kunsten en erfgoed.
Partners: Argos, Beursschouwburg, Pianofabriek, KASK-University college Ghent.

More info: www.soundimageculture.org

Audiovisual Arts

Bucharest - Melancholy is not enough... - Curated by Niels Van Tomme and with work by a.o.Lotte Van den Audenaeren

bam — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:22:19 +0000

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Niels Van Tomme is a Belgian-borned curator, researcher, and art critic based in New York City and Washington, DC who serves as the Director of Arts and Media at Provisions Learning Project. He has curated numerous exhibitions, and co-organized public art projects such as The State of Things at the MCA (Denver). As a contributor to various journals and magazines including Art Papers, Afterimage, EXTRA, and hART, he investigates the sociopolitical aspects of contemporary culture.

Participants: Lotte Van den Audenaeren (BE), Anne-James Chaton (FR), Andrea Galvani (IT), Jo Mitchell (UK), Matthias Wermke & Mischa Leinkauf (DE).

Melancholy is not enough...
15 December 2011 - 19 February 2012

More info: www.pavilionunicredit.ro

Audiovisual Arts

The Sundance Institute awarded Johan Grimonprez for his new film 'The Shadow World'

bam — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:09:01 +0000

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The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program awarded a grant to Johan Grimonprez for his new film 'The Shadow World' in which explores the arms industry: a business in which profits are calculated in the tens of millions of dollars, while losses are counted in human lives.

The film reveals how the international trade in conventional weapons - with the complicity of governments and intelligence agencies, investigative and prosecutorial bodies, weapons manufacturers, dealers and agents – fosters corruption, determines foreign and economic policies, undermines democracy, and creates widespread suffering. By revealing how this trade works, we aim to take apart the monolith that has been constructed as inevitable and that has penetrated every layer of our societies- even as far as our psyches and explore how greater transparency and meaningful oversight demanded by ordinary people around the world can change this most secretive and damaging of trades. The project will unfold through a major book release this November 2011, a feature documentary film, an immersive trans media project, and an audience and civil society engagement strategy.

Johan Grimonprez achieved international acclaim with his experimental film, Dial H-I- S-T-O-R-Y. The film tells the story of airplane hijackings since the 1970s and how these changed the course of news reporting. Its premiere at the Centre Pompidou and Documenta X in 1997,eerily foreshadowed the events of September 11th, 2001. The film went on to win the Best Director Award at the San Francisco and Toronto Film Festivals. Don Delillo and Slavoj Zizek were both contributors to the film. In 2009, Grimonprez made Double Take. Casting Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period, the film targets the global rise of 'fear- as-commodity in a tale of odd couples and double deals. Acclaimed by critics as "wildly entertaining" it premiered at Sundance and Berlin, winning the Black Pearl Award in Abu Dhabi and the New Media Grand Prize in LA. Grimonprez's productions have traveled the main festival circuit from Telluride, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, to Tokyo and Berlin. Curatorial projects were hosted at major exhibitions and museums worldwide such as the Whitney Museum in New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and the Tate Modern in London. Grimonprez's work is included in numerous collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Kanazawa Art Museum, Japan, the National Gallery, Berlin and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. Grimonprez is currently a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts (New York).

More info: www.sundance.org - www.zapomatik.com

Audiovisual Arts

Chantal Akerman at M HKA

bam — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:46:37 +0000

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The M HKA is holding the very first large-scale retrospective of the Belgian film-maker and artist Chantal Akerman, who has now lived in Paris for many years. It is also the first time her work has been shown in Belgium since her exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels in 1995. Akerman is one of the most influential film-makers of her generation and has long been a feminist icon. She was able to establish this reputation with her early masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Since the mid-nineties, however, she has also been increasingly active as an artist, and her film and video installations have been shown at the Venice Biennale, Documenta 11 and elsewhere. The exhibition at the M HKA will focus mainly on this latter aspect of her work and will be accompanied by an ambitious monograph.

Chantal Akerman
Too Far, Too Close
10/02-20/05/2012

More info: www.muhka.be

Audiovisual Arts

Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid

bam — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:42:17 +0000

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Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid

The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid constitutes a unique artistic and cultural platform in Europe for artists, professional networks and various audiences. The venues in the three cities are in particular the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Reina Sofia National museum and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid.

From 18 to 26 November 2011 the "Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid" created a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art in Paris.

This year's programme has been selected from 5500 submissions as well as by invitations made to some artists and filmmakers. It is the result of an elaborate international search for works: 150 works from Germany, France, Spain, Belgium and 40 other countries, gathering internationally-known artists and filmmakers with young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time.

A number of Belgian artists will show their work during the fetsival: 'Stardust' by Nicolas Provost, 'Sea of Tranquillity' by Hans Op de Beeck, 'Leave' by Hamza Halloubi, 'Singulier Pluriel' by Loic Vanderstichelen and Azilys Romane, 'I may have lost forever my Umbrella' by Johan Grimonprez, 'The Corridor' by Sarah Vanagt, 'ET[' by Peter Downsbrough, 'L'attaque des clones' by Charlène Marchand.

More information: www.art-action.org

Audiovisual Arts

Call for proposals - Digital Cinema in Flanders - deadline 18 November

bam — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:08:10 +0000

Digital Cinema In Flanders (DICIF) functions as a forum for debate and common decision-making in view of facilitating the digital transition of Flemish film exhibitors. Faced with the risks associated with a further delay in the installation of digital equipment in their venues, the 15 cinema owners associated in this "buying group entity" (representing 16 venues and 43 screens) decided to cumulate knowledge and negotiating strength in view of a common solution to digitise their screens.

DICIF invites you to put forward a proposal as to how you can assist it in this digital transition. Applications are welcomed from appropriately qualified and experienced companies, or from a consortium of companies who have decided to work together and whose collective approach may more fully meet the needs and requirements of DICIF.

You can find the Call for Proposals HERE (download file).

Please note that, given the need to find a quick solution, the deadline for applications is set at 18 November 2011.

Researcher Sophie De Vinck (IBBT-SMIT) assists DICIF with the tendering process and is the contact person for this call. Please direct all questions to dicif.call@gmail.com as well as to sdevinck@vub.ac.be.

The DICIF Steering Group
c/o Patrick DeboesSphinx CinemaSint-Michielshelling 39000 Gent

Audiovisual Arts

Visual Arts Platform (VAP)

bam — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:17:27 +0000

Together with the Danish Arts Agency, the Arts Council England, the Mondriaan Foundation and Pro Helvetia, BAM launched the Visual Arts Platform (VAP), a European network of arts agencies. This network is intended for sharing knowledge, information and data, and setting up collaborative projects around international visual arts policy.

The members of the Visual Arts Platform are institutions with a task or objective to stimulate and/or support the international presentation and exchange of professional visual arts and that meet the following conditions:

the institution contributes to or has an influence on the defenition of the international cultural policy in its own country or is involved in the implementation thereof;
the institution is active in the international promotion of professional art and artists from its own country;
the institution is active in the organisation, support, facilitation or stimulation of international activities, collaborations or presentations by artists or institutions;
the institution is involved in state presentations on behalf of its own country;
the institution operates on national and international level.

Its objectives are:

to stimulate international exchange and collaboration in the field of policy and strategy for the professional visual arts, in and outside of Europe;
to facilitate exchange of knowledge and information between the members;
to function as a platform for debate and international exchange.

The Visual Arts Platform attempts to achieve its objectives by:

facilitating collaboration between the members;
facilitating the development of policy, strategy and vision by the members, individually and together;
communally defining position on matters designated by the members;
organising regular meetings.

Audiovisual Arts

The Netherlands - Amsterdam - de Appel - Sven Augustijnen - Spectres

bam — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:16:27 +0000

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Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen made his name with films in which he analyses cultural and historical places and events from a personal perspective, in a way that is at the same time very precise and ambiguous. This autumn, Augustijnen is presenting his latest film, "Spectres", as part of a solo exhibition in de Appel. In this film essay, the artist presents a controversial view of Belgian colonial history, a historical era that recently attracted a great deal of attention in the Netherlands following the publication of "Congo" by David van Reybrouck, who won the Libris prize. However, the questions raised by Augustijnen go beyond these national colonial events. How does a country or an individual deal with a colonial past? How does a nation process the suffering it has inflicted, dubious political acts or moral bankruptcy? Who is guilty, admits to guilt and what are they guilty of?

"Spectres" focuses on one of the darkest pages in the colonial history of the Belgian Congo in about 1960 in a documentary thriller, set to the music of Bach's St. John's Passion. Augustijnen follows Jacques Brassinne de La Buissière, a French-speaking Belgian who is now 82 years old and who was a high-ranking official when the prime minister of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was murdered in 1961. Brassinne conducted a personal investigation into the truth of this murder for thirty years. With his delicate psychological portrait, Augustjnen shows how the friction between personal involvement and an objective writing of history, between fact and fiction, truth and conviction, wholly obscures the question of guilt which arises.

Image: Sven Augustijnen, "Spectres", 2011 © Sven Augustijnen. Courtesy: Jan Mot, Brussels

Sven Augustijnen
Spectres
15 October 2011 - 12 February 2012

More information: www.deappel.nl

Audiovisual Arts

Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen receives Evens Arts Prize 2011

bam — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:07:20 +0000

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The work of the Belgian visual artist Sven Augustijnen expands and undermines the traditional codes of documentary practice and questions the narratives underlying current political and social practices. The artist was selected as the recipient of the award by an independent jury which chose from a list of 20 internationally acclaimed artists, nominated by representatives of major European art institutions. The prize carries an award of € 15,000 and support for a publication.

The public presentation of the award took place on 17 October 2011 at the Centre Pompidou and the award-winner's new film, Spectres was shown in première in Paris.

2011 Selection Committee

Pierre Bal-Blanc, CAC, Bretigny - Tanya Barson, Tate Modern - Andrea Bellini, Castello di Rivoli, Turin - Stephan Berg, Kunstmuseum, Bonn - Ann Demeester, De Appel, Amsterdam - Jacob Fabricius, Malmo Konsthall - Enrico Lunghi, Mudam, Luxembourg - Jaroslaw Suchan, Art Museum, Lodz - Dirk Snauwaert, Wiels, Brussels - Lynne Cooke, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

2011 Prize nominees

Tris Vonna Michell - Katerina Šedá - Roman Ondak - Rosa Barba - Joachim Koester - Ellen Gallagher - Duncan Campbell - Société Réaliste - Zarina Bhimji - Keren Cytter - Sven Augustijnen - Bert Theis - Sven 't Jolle - Anna Rispoli - Ján Mančuška - Kris Martin - Seamus Farrell - Marcel van Eeden - Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet / les gens d'Uterpan - Achim Reichert & Marco Fiedler / Vier5

2011 Jury

Dorian van der Brempt, deBuren, Brussels - Joana Mytkowska, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw - Maria Ines Rodriguez, Musac, Leon - Nicolaus Schafhausen, Witte de With, Rotterdam - Marc-Olivier Wahler, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

President of the Jury: Ernest Van Buynder, Board Member of the Evens Foundation and former Chairman of MuHKA in Antwerp.

More information: www.evensfoundation.be

Audiovisual Arts

E-Culture Fair 2011 - Garden of E - Connecting culture, creativity, research and technology

bam — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:09:09 +0000

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The E-CULTURE FAIR 2011 is a showcase of Flemish innovative projects resulting from collaborations in culture, creative industries, research and education. This GARDEN OF E- focuses on a variety of e-projects concerning digital heritage, user participation, gamification, edutainment, the internet-of-things, open source collaboration and innovation etc. The set-up of the fair with installations, prototypes, demos, live presentations and living lab experiences encourages encounters, exchange and future collaborations between Flemish and international creatives, artists, researchers, designers, platforms and institutions.

The E-CULTURE FAIR aims at everyone who is curious about the digital culture of today and tomorrow. It is a unique chance to discover en try out projects, and to meet developers, project managers and designers.

The E-CULTURE FAIR 2011 is organized by support organizations working in the arts in Belgium (BAM, VTi, MCV, VAi) in coproduction with Flanders DC, IBBT and Z33, as a partner event of the Creativity World Forum which is organized by Flanders DC. ECF 2011 is supported by the Flemish Authorities: the Department of Culture, Youth, Sports and Media and the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation.

E-CULTURE FAIR 2011: GARDEN OF E- Connecting culture, creativity, research and technology
16 & 17 November 2011

Location:
Ethias Arena, Grenslandhallen vzw
Gouverneur Verwilghensingel 70, B - 3500 Hasselt

More information: www.eculturefair.be

Audiovisual Arts

Austria - Viennale 2011 - The Good Life by Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir

bam — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:29:50 +0000

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The Good Life (2009) by Ronny Heiremans und Katleen Vermeir. will be presented at the Viennale 2011 in Vienna. The Viennale special program 'Between Inner and Outer Space' focuses on art spaces: museums, galleries and exhibition spaces as central places of presentation, and studios as production sites. The six programs in this presentation are comprised mainly of short films, which are arranged thematically and revolve around esthetic, economic, performative, architectural and political issues. The series was inspired by David Lamelas's A Study of Relationships between Inner and Outer Space (1969). The Argentinean artist's film takes an empty exhibition space as its starting point to subsequently sketch the social, urban, sociological and climatic conditions of London, before proceeding to simple, subversive street interviews and finally closing with the Moon landing. Away from the white cube, away from conservative institutions was a popular motto during the 1960s and 1970s, which is also reflected in Da ist eine kriminelle Berührung in der Kunst (1976) by Ulay and Mono Lake (1968/2004) by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson. At present this movement appears to be retrograde. Even the alternative and subcultural art scene is meanwhile in direct alliance with established institutions. The way in which the latter present themselves under today's changed socio-political conditions is also recounted in Scena (2003) by Deimantas Narkevicius and The Good Life (2009) by Ronny Heiremans und Katleen Vermeir.

Curated by: Christian Helbock and Dietmar Schwärzle

A Viennale/Künstlerhaus Wien co-production

The Good Life (a guide tour)
Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir
20 October - 2 November 2011

More information: www.viennale.at

Audiovisual Arts

South Korea - Seoul - EX-iS Experimental Film & Video Festival - Pieter Geenen

bam — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:55:57 +0000

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EX-IS Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul is showing Pieter Geenen's 'relocation'. The film reflects on how and to what extent Mount Ararat still defines Armenian identity. What is its iconologic value, and how does it play part in Armenian collective memory?

Pieter Geenen lives and works in Brussels (Belgium). In his audiovisual productions he questions the landscape as a bearer of meaning. Geenen is interested in the suggestive and evocative qualities of the landscape in different geo-political and geo-social realities. In his work the image manifests itself slowly, exploring the subtle and hidden characteristics of things. Listening and watching becomes intense, intimate, alienative, contemplative and almost tangible in the context of an undisturbed stillness.

EX-Now 4
EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival
Screening of 'relocation' (2011)
1-7 September 2011

More information: www.ex-is.org

Audiovisual Arts

Nicolas Provost's debut feature selected for the 68th Venice Film Festival & 36th Toronto International Film Festival

bam — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:22:39 +0000

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The Invader, the debut feature by creative video artist Nicolas Provost, has been confirmed for the line-up of the 36th Toronto International Film Festival (18-28 September). The film is selected for the fest's Discovery section, which puts a 'spotlight on the most exciting work from up-and-coming directors from around the world'.

In early September, The Invader is to receive its world premiere at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Together with Provost's new short, Moving Stories, The Invader is screening in the Horizons competition.

The Invader is the story of an illegal African immigrant whose journey begins in Brussels as he searches, like many other immigrants, for a better life. Through his confrontation with a harsh society, he slowly but irreversibly starts to embody our worst fears and becomes the monster we have created. The film features talent such as Italian actress Stefania Rocca (The Talented Mr Ripley) and Issaka Sawadogo, who also features in Hotel Swooni by Kaat Beels.

The Invader is a co-production between Versus Production and Antonino Lombardo's Prime Time and was supported by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF).

More information: www.flandersimage.com

Audiovisual Arts

Québec - Montréal - Musée d'art contemporain - Workspace Unlimited - RealTime UnReal

bam — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:07:25 +0000

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Within Workspace Unlimited, Kora Van Den Bulcke and Thomas Soetens work on creating hybrid spaces where the thin line between the reality of the physical environment and perceptual reality becomes blurred. "What we experience in virtual space changes our perception of our experience of reality."

The collective's investigations examine media culture, traditional conceptions of space, perception, representation, and the boundary between the real and the plausible.

Van Den Bulcke and Soetens' latest project, RealTime UnReal, a double, stereoscopic projection commissioned by the Museum of the Moving Image in New York for its reopening this past January, is presented as part of the Projections series.

Workspace Unlimited
RealTime UnReal
31 August - 2 October 2011

More information: www.macm.org - www.workspace-unlimited.org

Audiovisual Arts

Tuur Van Balen, Jasper Rigole & Wim Janssen winners at Prix Ars Electronica 2011

bam — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:32:46 +0000

Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for everyone who uses the computer as a universal medium for implementing and designing their creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society.

The "Hybrid Art" category is dedicated specifically to today's hybrid and transdisciplinary projects and approaches to media art. Primary emphasis is on the process of fusing different media and genres into new forms of artistic expression as well as the act of transcending the boundaries between art and research, art and social/political activism, art and pop culture. Jurors will be looking very closely at how dynamically the submitted work defies classification in a single one of the Prix categories of long standing.

Award of Distinction

Pigeon d'Or / Tuur Van Balen

Honorary Mentions

OUTNUMBERED, a brief history of imposture / Jasper Rigole
Continuization Loop / Wim Janssen

More information: www.aec.at

Audiovisual Arts

Germany - 4. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg

bam — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:26:15 +0000

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The 4th edition of the Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg bears the title THE EYE IS A LONELY HUNTER: IMAGES OF HUMANKIND. The festival takes as its point of departure a humanist perspective in the tradition of documentary photography. It will showcase a variety of practices that are situated at the intersection between documentary and artistic photography, practices that are characterised by a strong sense of visuality but also a keen sense of sociopolitical awareness.

The 4th Fotofestival will focus on the new and critical ways photography transports anthropological knowledge and aims to be a photographic survey of the human condition as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, seen from a plurality of geographic angles. While acknowledging the post-modern discourse of the camera's capacity to lie and the 'demise of photographic truth', the 4th edition of the Fotofestival argues for photography's capacity to bear witness to the human condition and to human experience within real social and political conditions.

Curators: Katerina Gregos (GR/BE) and Solvej Helweg Ovesen (DK/D).

Artists: Bani Abidi, Mac Adams, Ravi Agarwal, Said Atabekov, Sven Augustijnen, Roger Ballen, Olaf Otto Becker, Plamen Bontchev & Sofia Burchardi, Marie José Burki, Edward Burtynsky, Peggy Buth, Mariana Castillo Deball, Philippe Chancel, Chen Chieh-Jen, Gohar Dashti, Fouad Elkoury, Köken Ergun, Hasan & Husain Essop, Simon Fujiwara, Peter Funch, Agnès Geoffray, Alexandros Georgiou, Francesco Giusti, Geert Goiris, Igor Grubic, Cao Guimarães, Jacob Holdt, Pieter Hugo, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Rinko Kawauchi, Panos Kokkinias, Aglaia Konrad, Heta Kuchka, Florian Maier-Aichen, Ryan McGinley, Vincent Meessen, Barbara Metselaar Berthold, Boris Mikhailov, Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev, Boniface Mwangi, Kirstine Roepstorff, Torbjørn Rødland, Bruno Serralongue, Jeremy Shaw, Taryn Simon, Johan Spanner, Beat Streuli, Fiona Tan, Guy Tillim, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Tris Vonna-Michell, Paolo Woods, Yang Yongliang, Tobias Zielony

4. Fotofestival
10 September - 6 November 2011

More information: www.fotofestival.info

Audiovisual Arts

Contour 2011 - 5th Biennial of Moving Image

bam — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:43:41 +0000

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Contour Mechelen presents the 5th Biennial for Moving Image from 27 August until 30 October 2011. Mechelen hosts a unique initiative for people with an interest in contemporary art as well as architectural history. Contour presents artists working with film, video and installation in special locations in the historical inner city of Mechelen. The fifth edition bears the mark of curator Anthony Kiendl (CAN). Kiendl examines the links between sound, image and social change. In this research, rock music plays an important role. Contour 2011 is a thought-provoking encounter between history and contemporary art: a visually and intellectually rewarding cultural journey.

Artists: Cory Arcangel (US), Pierre Bismuth (FR), Chicks On Speed (AUS/DE/US), Edith Dekyndt (BE), Gabriela Fridriksdottir & Lazyblood (IS), Noam Gonick & Luis Jacob (CAN), Dan Graham (US), Rodney Graham (CAN), Brion Gysin & Ian Sommerville (UK), Joachim Koester (DK), Adam Pendleton (US), Postcommodity (US), Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer (US/CAN), Dennis Tyfus (BE), Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (BE), and Jennifer West (US).

Contour 2011, 5th Biennial of Moving Image
27 August - 30 October 2011

More information: www.contour2011.be

Audiovisual Arts

Germany - Berlin - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid

bam — Sun, 22 May 2011 10:15:07 +0000

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The 'Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid' will create a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. In the presence of artists and filmmakers from all over the world, this rare event will propose an international programme of film, video, multimedia. It includes 24 screenings, a video exhibition, a cycle of debates and panel discussions.

With works by a.o. Aglaia Konrad, Willem Oorebeek, Michel François, Loïc Vanderstichelen, Karel De Cock, Hans Op de Beeck, Vincent Meessen, Peter Downsbrough.

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
28 June - 3 July 2011
Haus der Kulturen der Welt

More information: www.art-action.org

Visual Arts

USA - San Francisco - SFMOMA - David Claerbout - Architecture of Narrative

bam — Tue, 17 May 2011 07:13:14 +0000

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The ambiguous relationships between photography and cinema, stillness and motion, historical past and perpetual present are the subjects and substance of David Claerbout's contemplative video installations. The Belgian artist manipulates cinematic time, often depicting a single moment analyzed from multiple camera perspectives. At SFMOMA he presents a quartet of projections that explore the shifts in attention between the narrative scene in the foreground and the underlying social context of the architectural background. In its U.S. premiere, The American Room (2009-10) constructs and navigates the physical and political space of a formal concert. Also featured are Sections of a Happy Moment (2007) and Kindergarten Antonio Sant'Elia 1932 (1998), both built from photographic images of children's play; and White House (2005), which repeatedly reenacts a 10-minute violent confrontation over the course of a day.

Image: David Claerbout, Sections of A Happy Moment (still), 2007; single-channel video projection with stereo sound, 25:57 min.; Collection of Aaron and Barbara Levine; © 2011 David Claerbout

From 21 May to 6 September 2011

More information: www.sfmoma.org

Audiovisual Arts

Switzerland - Zürich - VIDEOEX Festival 2011 - Guest City Bruxelles / Brussel

bam — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:11:53 +0000

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VIDEOEX Festival 2011
Guest City Bruxelles / Brussel
21 May - 29 May 2011

For its 13th edition, VIDEOEX, the international experimental film and video festival in Zürich, is bringing a number of Brussels based artists for a special focus on the guest city.

An extensive programme will present recent and historic works by Johan Grimonprez, Els Opsomer, Vincent Meessen, Annik Leroy, Pieter-Paul Mortier, Pieter Geenen, Herman Asselberghs, Manon de Boer, Sven Augustijnen, Henri Storck, Eric Pauwels en Chantal Akerman. The programme will also show works by Marcel Broodthaers, Boris Lehman, Anouk de Clercq, Kurt D'Haeseleer, Bernard Gigounon, Potential Estate and others. Part of the programme was selected by Courtisane.

List of presented works: Forgotten Frontiers, Marcel Broodthaers, Chantal Akerman, Johan Grimonprez, Defining Features, Politics of Perception, Here and Elsewhere, Ghost of the Image, Past and Present, The Cinematic Look, Potential Estate: Cabinet Voltaire, Bruxelles capitale d'Europe.

More information: www.videoex.ch

Audiovisual Arts

Ghent - Courtisane Festival 2011 - 10th edition

bam — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:49:45 +0000

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Courtisane Festival Film Video and Media Art
30 march 2011 - 03 april 2011

The Courtisane Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary. The search for relevant and alternative cinematographic forms and experiences brings every year new surprises and revelations. Resistant and poignant, experimental and reflexive, complex and sensual: the works in the programme represent a kaleidoscopic mosaic of styles, media, gestures, languages and emotions; a patchwork of recent and historical works that share an insatiable hunger for experimentation and a creative obstinacy.

On top of the yearly selection of recent film and video works by Belgian and international artists, Courtisane celebrates the work of several "Artists in Focus": a committed activist filmmaker (Sylvain George), a poet of 16mm film (Robert Fenz) and a seminal avant-garde filmmaker (Robert Beavers). They will each present a selection of their own work as well as a compilation of works by other filmmakers that have influenced their practice. In the same context Sylvain George and Robert Fenz will also collaborate with, respectively, jazz legends William Parker and Wadada Leo Smith. Two unique encounters of cinematographic ingenuity and singular music improvisation which will surely generate sparks.

Film Socialisme, After Empire, Qu'ils reposent en révolte (des figures de guerre), Meditations on Revolution... Many of the titles in this year's festival programme reveal that a combative questioning of the dominant socio-political system is not only expressed in terms of a radical philosophical and activist discourse, but also artistically and cinematographically. The question of what "political cinema" can mean – and what it means to make cinema politically – is the implicit red thread that runs through the programme of Courtisane 2011.

More information: www.courtisane.be

Image: Robert Beavers, Sotiros (1976-78/1996), Robert Fenz, Meditations on Revolution, Part II: The Space in Between (1997)

Audiovisual Arts

Ghent - Vooruit - Berlinaire - New Audio Visual Arts Festival

bam — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:13:30 +0000

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April 8-9 2011

BERLINAIRE – A unique intercultural audio visual arts festival series debuts in the Vooruit in Gent.

Despite of (or maybe due to) the tough history of the separation of "the two Berlins", the city has quickly become a melting pot of cultures after the wall came down in the late 80´s.

A new internationally known and cherished gathering point and workplace for artists of all areas was almost instantly born. Musicians, designers, filmmakers, producers, networkers and other cultural artists choose Berlin and turn to it as the cultural capital of Europe. Both enriching and absorbing the local scene, they come to live here and become an important part of its charming, cosmopolitan nature.

Berlin's club scene has kept and developed its attractive uniqueness and esteem for outstanding events over the years and seizes new trends from the past, present and tomorrow by manufacturing them within its dynamic community.

The cultural imprint of the past decades – treasured self-made parties, carefully selected line-ups, well chosen venues and concepts and the lovingly decorated event locations off the mainstream – are celebrated every day with synergies and dynamics that can be found nowhere else in Europe.

BERLINAIRE grasps some of the basic and most essential elements of Berlin's unique club culture of today and thus brings a real taste of this European capital of culture(s) to all lovers of contemporary arts and crafts.

More information: www.berlinaire.com

Audiovisual Arts

US - Blaffer Art Museum - It's a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards - Johan Grimonprez

bam — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:11:17 +0000

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'It's a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards' centers on an exploration of Grimonprez's style of film and art practice. Informed by an archaeology of present-day media, his work seeks out the tension between the intimate and the bigger picture of globalization. It questions our contemporary sublime, one framed by a fear industry that has infected political and social dialogue. By suggesting new narratives through which to tell a story, his work emphasizes a multiplicity of histories and realities. Grimonprez is, in his own way, trying to make sense of the wreckage wrought by history.

The exhibition at the BLAFFER ART MUSEUM will feature seminal works from Grimonprez such as 'dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y' (1997), 'Looking for Alfred' (2005) and 'Double Take' (2009). It will also include earlier films – 'Kobarweng or Where is you Helicopter?' (1992), 'It will be all right if you come again, only next time, don't bring any gear, except a tea kettle…' (1994/2003) - and the ongoing project 'Maybe the Sky Is Really Green and We're Just Colorblind'. The intriguing 'Maybe the Sky Is Really Green and We're Just Colorblind', termed a 'You-Tube-o-Theque/Petroteque' by the artist, is a curated selection of video clips drawn from the internet, cell phone videos and television to be browsed by the viewer.

More information:
January 15 - April 2, 2011
www.class.uh.edu/...

Visual Arts

Moving Stories

bam — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:51:31 +0000

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'Moving Stories' is an international co-operation project supported by the European Union. Six partner organisations from Belgium, Italy, Austria, Germany, France and Poland are producing and exhibiting six new works of art in 2009-2011.

'Moving Stories' is a project that crosses borders and opens up new horizons, an inquiry into narrative modes in media art. The six European partner organisations function as a laboratory for innovation in exhibition and presentation.

Six artists were asked to explore new or innovative strategies involving moving images, each in a highly personal artistic way: along the lines of fiction or documentary, fact or suggestion, linear or interactive approach. Each partner co-produced the work of one artist. The end results are six fully developed works of art, all of them variations on the same theme, i.e. innovation of narration.

'Moving Stories' is a travelling exhibition. The six new works are presented by the six partners in their countries throughout 2011. The results of 'Moving Stories' will also be compiled in a publication.

Artists: Candice Breitz, Masbedo, Mihai Grecu, Nicolas Provost, Paweł Janicki, Rainer Gamsjäger

More information:
March 16 - October 10, 2011
www.moving-stories.eu

Visual Arts