OPEN CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2011 UNIDEE in Residence
Contributed by UNIDEE - University of Ideas on 11/01/2011 11:29 in Announcements
OPEN CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2011
UNIDEE in Residence 2011: 15th June-15th October
Application Deadline:20th January 2011
UNIDEE – University of Ideas is the international pole of formation and exchange between knowledge and diverse problematics, open to a varied and multidisciplined group of creatives, professional people and students. Here art abandons the conventional cannons and places instead to integrate itself with society and with other disciplines: communication, production, economics, politic, architecture, design, literature, music, spirituality, ecology and nourishment.
UNIDEE in Residence runs for four months - from June to October - to explore the rapport between art and society and to investigate methodologies of creative interventions able to activate projects for a socially responsible change in society. Unidee in residence forms a new professional skill: that of 'activator' of projects for a Responsible Transformation of Society, which reunites the characteristics and skills of the artist, curator, business people and managers of cultural projects. At Cittadellarte the residents' acquire a professional creative dimension that is productive and socially relevant, capable of responsibly confronting the problematics of real society and that offers innovative proposals to companies and administrations in different contexts.
The UNIDEE programme develops in direct synergy with the activities of Cittadellarte, interacting with the exhibitions, research and projects of the Uffizi in the areas of ecological architecture (Architecture Office), sustainable design (Production Office), of economic alternatives (Economics Office), of intercultural Dialogue (Politics Office and Love Difference Project), of the relation between ecology and creativity (Ecology Office and ReMida Project), of affective cuisine (Nourishment Office), of art and social change (Art Office) and of the spirituality of art (Spirituality Office).
The residents in this way have the opportunity to enter into contact and collaborate with the diverse realities of the territory and with the businesses and institutional partners of Cittadellarte. Numerous meetings, lectures, workshops with experts from the creative world, business and art are organised that share with the residents their experience and knowledge.
The open studio UNIDEE in Progress, which takes place at the end of the formative course, presents the ideas and projects developed to the public.
www.cittadellarte.it/progetti.php?prog=28#sub
UNIDEE Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto
Via Serralunga, 27
13900 Biella
Italy
contact: unidee@cittadellarte.it
Phone: +39 015 0991 462
John Cage Of what is and what might have been
Contributed by SCHUNCK on 21/07/2010 12:20 in Announcements
John Cage Of what is and what might have been
Deadline 22 August 2010
SCHUNCK* is launching an OPEN CALL for artistic projects
inspired by John Cage. The entries will be showcased during
the exhibition and on the website, then a selection of entries will be realised up until 28 November 2010.
The motivation behind this open call is the exhibition titled The
Anarchy of Silence John Cage and Experimental Art in SCHUNCK* showing from 3 September through 28 November in Heerlen, the Netherlands. During the exhibition, SCHUNCK* will organise an accompanying programme in collaboration
with Cultura Nova titled John Cage Of what is and what
might have been. Room will be made in this project for your
entries as part of the OPEN CALL.
As a musician, writer and philosopher, Cage strove to push back the boundaries of the acceptable - not
only in music but in other disciplines too. This approach formed the cornerstone for a philosophical exploration free of disciplinary conventions, free of taste and of traditional models of aesthetic experience.
Present-day artists give their interpretation of Cage's oeuvre in a series of concerts, installations, lectures
and performances: they show what is and what could have been.
John Cage
John Cage was and is a source of inspiration for artists due to his commitment to everything new, the non-subjective and the changeable. Words as a non-intention and indeterminacy are an essential part of
that. Cage composed his first works in 1951 including Music of Changes, with help from games of chance. He changed the mental models surrounding 'compositions' and embraced technology, which redefined the effect of art on sensory perception. He used his work to break the existing, traditional boundaries within
and between various forms of art, as well as the common ways of showing and exhibition.
Exhibition
With The Anarchy of Silence John Cage and Experimental Art, not only is SCHUNCK* presenting the
largest exposition dedicated to the composer since his death in 1992. It is also presenting the first exhibition to place John Cages’ work in the context of music history and the history of the visual and performing arts.
The exhibition follows Cage's career in chronological order from 1930 until the late 1980's. It includes over two hundred works, including original scores, paintings, noise works, films and multimedia installations by
not only by John Cage himself but also by Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, La
Monte Young, Nam June Paik and Fluxus, and others. Cage put a bomb under the artistic conventions of his time. As John Cage Of what is and what might
have been shows, his influence is still felt today. The retrospective, put together by Julia Robinson and realised in co-production with the Henie Onstad Art Centre in Norway and MACBA Barcelona, presents
John Cage as an all-round innovator.
SCHUNCK*, Postbus 1, 6400 AA Heerlen, t +31 45 5772200, e info@schunck.nl, www.schunck.nl
Entries
Novel idea, developed concept or ready-made implementation, from the musical arena, the visual arts, performance, dance, philosophy, literature or architecture –
Send your project proposals between now until 22 August on various media to opencall@schunck.nl or Schunck, Open Call, P.O. Box 1, 6400AA
Heerlen, the Netherlands.
A jury will decide from 3 September through 28 November 2010 which entries will be considered for implementation and how much money is available for this. By submitting an entry, entrants agree to the
publication of its contents.
For more information on the terms and conditions, see www.SCHUNCK.nl
NEW LIFE RESIDENCY - Open Call
Contributed by Wooloo on 09/07/2010 17:18 in Announcements
NEW LIFE RESIDENCY is the world's first non-visual residency program for artists. The residency is organized by Wooloo as a work of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, and will take place this fall in the Region of Murcia, Spain.
For one week each, five artists will be selected to live and work in a dark, visually distorted exhibition space. To support them in their life and work for the week, the artist will collaborate with a local Murcian assistant who is blind.
In cooperation with her/his assistant, the artist will use the one-week residency to create a guided tour of the non-visual space and experience in which s/he is living. The blind assistant will be the guide of this tour in darkness and the tour will be open to the biennial audience.
Additional to the guided tour, the five selected concept proposals will furthermore be exhibited in one of the main museum locations of Manifesta 8 and will be on view throughout the biennial from October 7th, 2010 (preview) to January 9th, 2011.
The five NEW LIFE RESIDENCY periods are:
October 4th to October 9th, 2010
October 11th to October 16th, 2010
October 18th to October 23rd, 2010
October 25th to October 30th, 2010
November 1st to November 6th, 2010
Artists are now invited to apply for the residency at www.wooloo.org/residency
The deadline for work proposals is August 15th, 2010.
ABOUT WOOLOO
Wooloo (founded 2002) is a networked artist group operating through the online community www.wooloo.org
Mixing digital communication with physical participation, Wooloo has developed a working method based on the advocacy of collectivity. While the Wooloo website currently connects the resources of more than 13.000 cultural producers in 140 countries, the group's various projects function as social experiments in direct collectivism.
Recently, Wooloo organized the housing of three thousand activists with private families during the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen. Supplying the infrastructure for visitors to come and voice their opinion - and for strangers to share their homes and experiences - the NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN project was a large-scale exercise in communal cooperation.
Wooloo projects have been presented in such places as Artists Space (USA), Basel Kunsthalle (Switzerland) and the Third Guangzhou Triennial (China).
FURTHER INFORMATION
Sixten Kai Nielsen . T +45 6166 1566 . contact@wooloo.org
www.wooloo.org
www.wooloo.org/residency
www.facebook.com/wooloo.org
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/
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
Future eclipses
Contributed by Enough Room for Space on 01/11/2007 01:03 in Announcements
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