At Home Anywhere
Contributed by At Home Anywhere on 13/08/2008 11:50 in New works
With this project we want to map the differences and similarities of the concept of 'home' within the European Union.
By spending one day and one night at someone’s home, we can record and collect rituals, habits and characteristics. Through a literature study, interviews with residents, analyses, comparisons with the tradition of living and creating a photo report, we will identify what makes people feel at home. In each country we will travel to the village that’s located most centrally within that country, the village or the city closest to the geographical centre. This place, on average, is the furthest away from the borders. Het Kadaster has calculated the geographical centers of each country specifically for this project.
There will appear a book and a travelling exhibition about the project.
http://www.athomeanywhere.eu/
Call for Expressions of Interest
Contributed by Enough Room for Space on 10/05/2008 00:22 in Call for participations
ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) and the ESF Expert Committee European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC)
The DEADLINE for online submission of Humans in Outer Space Call for Expressions of Interest is Saturday 31 MAY 2008.
Space age has reached its 50th anniversary. Development of robotic exploration to distant planets and bodies across the solar system, as well as pioneering human space exploration in Earth orbit and the Moon, paved the way for ambitious long-term space exploration. Europe has always played a significant role in the endeavours of humankind to explore other worlds and to understand the Universe in which we live.
Today, space exploration goes far beyond a merely technological endeavour, as its further development will have a tremendous social, cultural and economic impact. Space activities are now entering an era where the contribution of the humanities - history, philosophy, anthropology, the arts as well as the social sciences - political science, economics and law - will become crucial for the future of space exploration. Now that the awareness for the societal complexity of activities in space is growing internationally, it is vital that Europe, with a stronghold in natural sciences as well as its identity firmly rooted in the humanities and the social sciences, grasps the opportunity to involve their specific knowledge(s) in the long-term planning of exploration undertakings.
Our generation may be given the opportunity to explore new places and discover new worlds. Those adventures will be driven by the human desire of quest for knowledge and human curiosity. They will provide a main opportunity for equitable international cooperation. Humans divided on Earth will hopefully unite in space as citizens of one planet.
During 2007, the European Science Foundation (ESF) has set up the first comprehensive trans-disciplinary dialogue on humans in outer space. This dialogue goes further than regarding humans as better-than-robot tools for exploration. It investigates the human quest for odysseys beyond Earth’s atmosphere and reflects on the implications of the findings of extraterrestrial life.
The inherent human curiosity for exploring the unknown is at the heart of this dialogue, and has been addressed through collaboration between the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) and the ESF European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC), in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna. A conference on ‘Humans in Outer Space’ was organised on 11 – 12 October 2007 in Vienna, resulting in the Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space. The vision provides a European perspective in identifying the relevant needs and interests linked with space exploration by humans.
ESF’s Standing Committee for the Humanities together with ESF’s Expert Committee on Space Sciences have identified the topic as an area for cross-disciplinary collaboration, that should be addressed through a broad European approach. The main purpose of this call for Expressions of Interest is to identify key challenging topics from any discipline in this area and investigate the best ways to explore them.
This consultation process will provide ESF with the views of the European scientific community on these issues. All Expressions of Interest received will be synthesised in order to identify key topics of interest to be developed at the European level. One topic recognized by ESF and ESA as interesting for further cross-disciplinary collaboration is the human impact of human spaceflight. Human spaceflight is a major endeavour that calls together many scientific and technical disciplines. Up to now, the emphasis in this context has mostly been on engineering, physical and life sciences aspects, where major achievements have been obtained.
However, with Europe preparing itself for a decision on its ambition in future human spaceflight to further destinations than a low orbit around Earth, it is timely to address also the human and social aspects of having ‘some of us out there’.
The Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space clearly indicates that here is a very interesting field to explore. Europe could take the lead in bringing this a step further and provide a social sciences and humanities based framework for decisions and events that are expected to happen in the next decades. Examples include:
· Psychology of isolation
· Ethical aspects of human spaceflight
· Socio-economic costs and benefits
· Space law
· Religious implications of leaving Earth
· Administrative and social structures in Lunar or Martian settlements
· Finding non-terrestrial life forms: social, psychological, religious
implications
· Artistic expression as a means to share the human exploration experience
After selection by a multidisciplinary panel, the most engaging ideas will be pursued in a collaborative way through ESF-managed workshop(s) to be held in 2008 / 2009.
Submission
Submissions of Expression of Interest are invited from researchers based in Europe. The abstract should be submitted by 31 May 2008 via on-line form and should not exceed 400 words.
A panel will discuss the received ideas (Expressions of Interest) in June 2008. All applicants will be informed about the outcome of this exercise. The most engaging ideas will be pursued in a collaborative way through ESF-managed workshop(s) to be held in 2008 / 2009.
Further Information and Contacts
Dr. Monique van Donzel, Standing Committee for the Humanities
Dr. Jean-Claude Worms, European Space Sciences Committee
Ms. Marie Suchanova, general enquiries
European Science Foundation
1, quai Lezay Marnésia – BP 90015
67080 Strasbourg cedex – France
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 76 71 00
Fax +33 (0)3 88 76 71 81
Email: HiOS[at]esf.org
AFRIKA SOIRÉE
Contributed by dunja herzog on 08/05/2008 18:59 in
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IM KASKO 16. MAI 2008
DOKFILM 18.30h
“Félix Moumié. Der Tod in Genf”
Ein Film von Frank Garbely, 2005
LITERATUR 20.00h
Anja Becher und Chritsian Koul lesen Texte von:
Fatou Diome, Zakes Mda, Alain Mabanckou, Nuruddin Farah,
Okot p’Bitek, Tierno Monénembo und Ahmadou Kourouma.
BAR 19.30-02.00h
Mit Musik von Stephan N’Toum’Essia
Organisiert von Mohomodou Houssouba, Pia Gisler, Dunja Herzog
Kaskadenkondensator, Warteck, Burgweg 15, 2.Stock
Mehr Informationen unter:
http://www.kasko.ch/index.php?c=detail&id=248§ion=1&subsection=2
Diskurs 08
Contributed by Diskurs Festival on 29/03/2008 20:30 in Call for participations
From October 9th to October 12th 2008 the diskurs festival "cyborgs
crossing" takes place in Gießen. This year, as in the years before, the
diskurs festival is meant to create networks between young artists who
especially work in the domain of performative arts. We are looking for
works from the domains of theatre, performance, music and video, that
refer to this year's topic.
diskurs08 is searching for interfaces between discourses about theatre,
which is physically present by its nature, and about the presence of
technical media on the other hand. It aims to find out in which ways a
similar perception about arts and cultural change can be seen in both
art forms. diskurs08 asks for art work that deals with hybrid forms of
living organisms and machines, such as for example the cyborg as a
modern and postmodern icon. Also, art work that considers the machine in
itself as a performer can serve as adequate contribution. How compatible
are men and machines? How anthropomorph can and may technology be
thought of?
diskurs08 is looking for works that fathom the spaces between theatre,
performance and the media, and that again face the experiment of uniting
man and technology within the framework of arts.
Visual-Art-Café
Additionally we are looking for cinematic work for an own panel within
the festival program. diskurs08 is interested in fresh and experimental
shortfilms that try to modernize the genre of silent movies and make it
productive. diskurs08 wants to bridge the beginnings of the film history
to the relationship of man and machine nowadays.
diskurs08 takes care of travelling expenses, transport charges and
accomodation.
Please send all applications with a detailed description about the work,
including videos, pictures, texts or audio productions to the adress below.
Closing date for all art work is May 1st 2008.
diskurs08
kunstrasen giessen e.V.
Postfach 11 06 25
35351 Gießen, DE
Tel: +49 (0)641 9931248
info@diskursfestival.de
NO-GO-ZONES audio radio project
Contributed by No-Go-Zones on 13/01/2008 21:44 in Call for participations
an open access collection of mainly spoken word audio samples inviting you to
• use the archived recordings as a resource for your own work
• send us a 2-3 minutes record of the result (audio or audio /visual)
Hallo Listener!
here are some updates on our running DVD publication project:
• we have extended the deadline for submissions to 4th February 2008
• it would be helpful if you could let us know us by 18th January if you wish
to contribute to this publication and in which format
• we hope to include a wide variety of audio and audio/visual re-mixes
and re-edits of NO-GO-ZONES in the publication
• the DVD of the first 100 influences will be released in an edition of 500 by
Double Entendre in spring 2008
• some recent contributions are already accessible on-line and we’d like to thank
the senders and all of you for your active listening
recent contribution and archived recordings are accessible via the play lists here on this blog
for further information see also : http://www.myspace.com/nogozones
contact us at : nogozones@hotmail.co.uk
voiceoverhead
Contributed by A project by Achim Lengerer & Dani Gal on 12/01/2008 13:17 in Announcements
featuring: Casper Cordes, Harun Farocki, William Furlong, Sharon Hayes
Opening Reception: Saturday 12 January 2008, 21.00 hrs
Exhibition from 12 January – 1 March 2008
Location: SMART Project Space, Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, Amsterdam
Opening hours: Tue – Sat, 12.00 – 17.00 hrs
29 FEBRUARY 2008:
voiceoverhead and guests: an evening of live-performances
In their collaborative practice Achim Lengerer & Dani Gal deal with audio-acoustics and storage media used for acoustic material. Their core interests are audio-recordings, particularly of language, spoken word and speech, original footage taken from radio-broadcastings or other archives. Their work found its multiple form in the project 'voiceoverhead' which is rooted in a record collection of approximately 350 records, including footage documenting political speeches and language orientated radio-programs. The records aurally cover historical events and were originally designed to function as “documentations of the real”. This notion of the 'documentary' has been questioned throughout the history of the medium itself and developed as one of the inherent debates around the emerging modes of reproduction in the late 19th century - the phonograph, film and photography. Starting with the early Lumière-movie 'Workers Leaving the Factory,' this discussion emerges. Harun Farocki has shown, in his 1995 video-essay on the Lumière-sequence, the complexity of a playful representational conspiracy between the audience/viewer, the document/documentarian and the documented beginning at the birth of the genre itself. This act of conspiracy takes place when any document from the archive is brought back to the public sphere as a kind of reenactment of a communicative and rhetorical figure.
Lengerer & Gal developed the idea ‘voiceoverhead’ in order to locate the record collection and their artistic practice within a broader context and to include the work of other artists, filmmakers and musicians working with archived language materials in multiple ways and diverging modes. So too do divisions exist in the cultural field: such as electronic music that is entrenched in elements of language and radio-sounds and there is a sub-genre of visual artists, filmmakers and documentarians who also focus their work in this area. Both fields are conceptually and practically applying different approaches to the given speech material: differences in working and presentation methods, as well as differences in distribution and public reception. 'voiceoverhead' presents, confronts and merges the approaches applied in these diverse cultural productions in the exhibition and in an evening of sound performances, taking place on Friday 29 February.
'voiceoverhead' is a co-production with the Jan van Eyck Academy.
http://www.smartprojectspace.net/
CALL FOR ARTWORK
Contributed by Artists at War on 17/12/2007 22:46 in Call for participations
"I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel,"--Allen Ginsberg
Getting our shit together is essential as we transition from creative individuals to professional artists. Yet we see so many artists, singers, musicians blowing up in the public realm that have seemingly no opportunity to respond to the events of the day. Does a creative career require the focus that shuts out our concerns for history, suffering, justice or peace?
As Artists At Work aims to service the practical aims of building careers, Artists At War asks artists to respond to the larger world that our field belongs to. To use their skills and talents of their professional practices and respond to the war, the empire, the political situation that surrounds us. To become an activist.
We’re looking for propaganda, calls to action, critiques, soapboxes, solutions. . . . But this is also a forum for artists to reflect on their personal relationship to the war, its symptoms and causes. The artworks in this space will not stop the war--these are not the levers of global power. More importantly, we want to give artists an opportunity to escape the suffocating veil of capitalistic denial that we haze through, as we navigate career and life.
In addition to the website ArtistsAtWar.com, a small image of our artsists' projects will appear in the Artists At Work newsletter of GYST Ink, which reaches 20,000 artists and art professionals across the nation.
Specs: We are in the process of defining specifications for AAW project, but in the meantime, please contact steve@stevenlanderson.com.
ABOUT ARTISTS AT WAR
AAW is a collaboration between Los Angelenos Thomas McKenzie and Steven L. Anderson. Tom is a writer for Real Talk LA, an independent grantwriter for artists and theater groups, is active in U.S. Labor Against the War, and is the former publisher of the Pennisula Pulse (Door County, Wisc.). Steve is an artist, activist and former publisher of Cakewalk magazine. His website is StevenLAnderson.com.
CONTACT please email twmckenzie@sbcglobal.net and/or steve@stevenlanderson.com
Douala in Translation.
Contributed by iStrike on 16/11/2007 13:59 in Announcements
A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials. Marilyn Douala Bell and Lucia Babina editors, with episode publishers (www.episode-publishers.nl).
Douala, the economic and cultural capital of Cameroon, is one of the most important cities in Central Africa. Informal settlements, micro-economies and spontaneous use of the public space have a primary role in the formation of its urban identity. This fast growing city is the context in which doual’art, a research centre of urban practices, has been operating for more than 16 years. Since 1991 the co-founders, Marilyn Douala Bell and Didier Schaub have fostered cultural projects and commissioned site-specific art interventions, using art and culture to develop collective processes of urban change.
The publication brings together cross-disciplinary analyses of Douala that seek to go beyond predictable and prejudicial views about African towns. Douala becomes a thrilling case study in which artistic practices engage and affect the cityscape.
With contributions by Lucia Babina, Edgar Cleijne, Marilyn Douala Bell, Emiliano Gandolfi, Christian Hanussek, Salifou Lindou, Dominique Malaquais, Lionel Manga, Nsame Mbongo, Zayd Minty, Giulia Paoletti, Iolanda Pensa, Didier Schaub, AbdouMaliq Simone, Kamiel Verschuren, Alexander Vollebregt, Silvia Viganò and Hervé Yamguen.
The publication will be released the first week of December 2007, and presented for the first time in Douala (Cameroon), during SUD - Salon Urbain de Douala, an international festival of artistic site-specific interventions, that is going to take place from the 9 up to the 16 December 2007.
Both the publication and the event SUD are collaboration projects by doual'art (www.doualart.org) and iStrike (www.istrike.net).
The book was made possible by Mondriaan Foundation, Prince Claus Fund and Fondazione Lettera 27/WikiAfrica.
paperback/ 256 pp/ ISBN 978-90-5973-071-7
AN ATLAS, LACE, Los Angeles
Contributed by Enough Room for Space on 14/11/2007 01:00 in Announcements
26 September - 18 november 2007
AN ATLAS
Opening reception: Wednesday 26 September 7 - 9 p.m.
An Atlas is a traveling exhibition of artists working with “radical cartography”—a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change. The 10 participating artists, architects, and collectives take on issues from globalization to garbage and explore the map’s role as a political agent. The exhibition and accompanying catalog contribute to a growing cultural movement that cuts across boundaries of art, cartography, geography, and activism. It is a companion exhibition to the publication, “An Atlas of Radical Cartography," (upcoming Fall 2007, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, Los Angeles.)
Works include Ashley Hunt’s intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy’s mapping of the people who make and manage the “garbage machine” in New York City; Jane Tsong’s drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles’ watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson’s route map of CIA rendition flights.
AN ATLAS CONTRIBUTOR
An Architektur
The Center for Urban Pedagogy
Ashley Hunt
Institute for Applied Autonomy with Site-R
Pedro Lasch
Lize Mogel
Trevor Paglen & John Emerson
Brooke Singer
Jane Tsong
Unayyan
An Atlas is made possible in part by a grant from the LEF Foundation, and is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts. For more information, please visit www.an-atlas.com
Future eclipses
Contributed by Enough Room for Space on 01/11/2007 01:03 in Announcements
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