The Berardo Collection

The Berardo Collection is the result of an exercise in open-mindedness. We have made an effort to acquire works, which would illustrate, through their quality, the creative imagination of the artists. We do not accept any kind of limitation regarding movements, techniques or nationalities. On the contrary, we wish to keep these Collections open to the future and open to the public. Nevertheless visiting this site does not replace true contact with the work of art.

http://www.berardocollection.com/

ECATI 2008

Este ciclo de conferências assinala a criação da Escola de Artes, Comunicação e Tecnologias da Informação (EC ATI) da Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. Esta unidade orgânica sucede ao anterior Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação, e apresenta-se como um projecto científico e pedagógico inovador, que integra em si de forma original a formação técnica, conceptual, artística e criativa em diversos domínios do saber actualmente essenciais. Para além das suas regulares actividades de formação, esta escola integra ainda uma unidade de investigação (CICANT – centro de investigação em comunicação aplicada, cultura e novas tecnologias) e diversos laboratórios de I&D que lhe abrem possibilidades diversas nos domínios da prestação de serviços e investigação.

http://artestecnologicas.ulusofona.pt/

Wouldn't it be nice ...

Wouldn't it be nice ...
10 Utopien in Kunst und Design

Art and design have had an enduringly productive relationship. Artists and designers, as well as graphic artists, fashion designers, and architects, share common strategies, methods, and aims. While some artists employ design strategies to make socially critical statements, others use design as a way of reflecting everyday phenomena, emotions, or conceptual approaches. Many designers on the other hand, having dispensed with any belief in the ideal of neutrality, intervene increasingly in social, political, ethical, or ecological discourses. This exhibition confronts ten contemporary positions on the edge of reality, on the border of what is possible. Featuring: Jurgen Bey (NL), Bless (FR/DE), Dexter Sinister (GB/US), Dunne & Raby and Michael Anastassiades (GB), Alicia Framis (ES), Martino Gamper (IT/GB), Ryan Gander (GB), Martí Guixé (ES), Tobias Rehberger (DE) and Superflex (DK). A co-production with the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and the Haute école d’art et de design Genève.

museum für gestaltung zürich

swiss press photo 07

"Il premio principale nonche' 1° premio della categoria "Arte e cultura" e' andato a Michael Würtenberg di Zurigo per una foto che mostra un’azione di Greenpeace sul giacciaio di Aletsch, condotta in collaborazione con l’artista americano Spencer Tunick.

Gli altri vincitori per categoria sono Bruno Voser (Attualita'), Christine Bärlocher (Ritratto), Pierre Albouy (Sport), Michael Sieber (Vita quotidiana e ambiente) e Sylvain Savolainen (Estero)."

Foro della Storia svizzera – Mostre temporanee

Mimétisme

Pawel Althamer & Artur Zmijewski, Elisabetta Benassi, Charif Benhelima, Pierre Bismuth, Lieven de Boeck, Claude Cahun, Mircea Cantor, Andrea Cooper, Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska, Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg, Harun Farocki, Marlon Fuentes, Tom Holert, Sofia Hultén, Yayoi Kusama, Ted Gaier & Peter Ott, Ria Pacquée, Jean Painlevé, Jean Rouch, Constanze Ruhm, Tomas Schmit, Isabell Spengler, Erik Steinbrecher, Javier Téllez, Barbara Visser

Mimétisme is a group exhibition probing an alternative conceptual framework for "theatricality" in the visual arts. Rather than looking at formal exchanges between theatre and the arts, this exhibition brings together works that use and critically reflect the abilities to act and to become something else. In doing so, it leaves behind the dominant understanding of mimesis as realist pictorial representation in favour of what Walter Benjamin has referred to as the "mimetic faculty": the mind's ability to detect and appropriate similarities, to mirror others, to imitate, to immerse and to become.

Extra City

Doing It My Way. Perspectives on Belgian Art

Entitled “Doing It My Way. Perspectives on Belgian Art”, the exhibition is being staged in the MKM and will present the works of 16 contemporary Belgian artists, encompassing painting, objects and sculpture and video.

Featuring Thomas Bogaert, Berlinde De Bruyckere, David Claerbout, Wim Delvoye, Stefaan Dheedene, Jan Fabre, Michel François, Ann Veronica Janssens, Kris Martin, Hans Op de Beeck, Panamarenko, Matthieu Ronsse, Luc Tuymans, Hans Vandekerckhove, Koen Vanmechelen and Andy Wauman, the show juxtaposes ground-breaking and established, internationally acclaimed positions with those of rising, contemporary young artists who have yet to be discovered.

Duisburg - Museum Küppersmühle

ANTI Festival at ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival

ANTI Festival

"ANTI is an international contemporary arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public space. Over the past six years ANTI has presented live, sonic, visual and text-based art from today’s most exciting and innovative artists. A truly international festival and Finland’s foremost presenter of Live Art, ANTI is a meeting place for artists and audiences fascinated by how art shapes and responds to the places and spaces of everyday life.

ANTI announces the 2008 call for proposals and festival sites."

Contemporary Art Festival | Kuopio, Finland

7th International Performance Art 2008 Turbine Giswil Switzerland

7th INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART GISWIL
Samstag, 6. September 2008 ab 15.00 Uhr



Die jährliche Zusammenkunft von internationalen Performance KünstlerInnen in der Turbine Giswil wird 2008 am 6. September stattfinden.
Manchmal muss man auf der ganzen Welt suchen, um die KünstlerInnen zu finden, deren Arbeiten, deren Bilder sich so einbrennen, dass man sie nie wieder vergisst.
Dieses Mal haben Monika Günther und Ruedi Schill auf ihren Reisen u.a. asiatische Performance-Künstlerinnen entdeckt, die sie nach Giswil eingeladen haben: Lynn Lu aus Singapur und Ko Siu Lan aus Hong Kong. Die beiden Künstlerinnen sind auch in der Performance-Forschung tätig.
Ausserdem ist Herma Auguste Wittstock aus Berlin eingeladen, die eine extreme körperliche Herausforderung präsentieren wird. Herma Auguste Wittstock ist eine ehemalige Studentin von Marina Abramovic.
Dabei ist auch ein weiterer Vertreter der „Poésie sonore“: Bartolomé Ferrando aus Spanien.
Dazu kommen zwei Duos: „System HM2T“ mit Helge Meyer und Marco Teubner aus Deutschlnand und „Porte Rouge“ mit Joa Iselin und Christoph Ranzenhofer aus der Schweiz.
Die jüngere Generation der Schweizer Performance Art-Szene ist vertreten durch Gisela Hochuli aus Bern und Daniel Häller aus Luzern.

7th International Performance Art 2008 Turbine Giswil Switzerland - http://www.performanceart.ch/

ARTISTS

• Bartolomè Ferrando (Spanien)
• Daniel Häller (Schweiz)
• Gisela Hochuli (Schweiz)
• Ko Siu Lan (Hong Kong)
• Lynn Lu (Singapur)
• "Porte Rouge" Joa Iselin und Christoph Ranzenhofer (Schweiz)
• SYSTEM HM2T Helge Meyer und Marco Teubner (Deutschland)
• Herma Auguste Wittstock (Deutschland)

http://www.turbinegiswil.ch/

ACT art

ACT ART aims to create an event that celebrates difference within artistic practices, supports cross-discipline ways of working and offers a safe environment to exhibit work in all disciplines, including live art, performance, video, installation and selected 2D + 3D work. With a particular emphasis on works that are experimental, radical, challenging, confrontational and non-mainstream.

ACT art

Undisclosed Territories

Undisclosed Territories - live ART

ELISA ANDESSNER (Austria), CHUMPON APISUK (Thailand), RONALD APRIYAN (Indonesia), JÜRGEN FRITZ (Germany) , SLAMET GAPRAX (Indonesia), KURT JOHANNESSEN (Norway), MONICA KLINGLER (Switzerland), SIU LAN KO (Taiwan), TRAN LUONG (Vietnam), ALASTAIR MACLENNAN (N/Irland), MARTINUS MIROTO (Indonesia), BOT (Indonesia), BRIAN PATTERSON (N/Irland), RONALDO RUIZ (Philipines), ANDREA SAEMANN (Switzerland), TISNA SANJAYA (Indonesia), TONY SCHWENSEN (Australia), FITRI SETYANINGSIH (Indonesia), HIROMI SHIRAI (Japan), BARBARA STURM (Switzerland), MELATI SURYODARMO (Indonesia), SUPRAPTO SURYODARMO (Indonesia), VALENTIN TORRENS (Spain), IWAN WIJONO (Indonesia), YOYOYOGASMANA (Indonesia)

LECTURE AND FORUM PRESENTATIONS

SS (Atieq) SULISTYOWATI (Indonesia), TRAN LUONG (Vietnam), CHRISTINE BIEHLER (Germany), JÜRGEN FRITZ (Germany)

CURATOR - BORIS NIESLONY (Germany)

padepokan lemah putih

KHOJ LIVE 08

"As part of our 10 year celebrations, KHOJ is curating the first ever International Performance Art Festival in New Delhi, celebrating KHOJ’s consistent engagement with the genre of live art practices.

Live Art is an umbrella term encompassing a range of performance, performative and time based practices that are unrestricted by art form boundaries.

Planned from March 25th -30th 2008, the Festival will be a dynamic six day programme of events which will bring together exciting, diverse Indian and International performance artists in an attempt to showcase the different currents, positions and possibilities of contemporary performance art. Prominent art galleries across the city will host one evening each of performances over the course of the 6 days.
The Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, Alliance Francaise, Delhi, Palette Art Gallery, Anant Art Gallery and Gallery Espace are collaborating for this seminal venture."

KHOJ LIVE 08 | Khoj International Artists' Association

What is Live Art in Finnish?

"What is Live Art in Finnish?" is a co-production by liveartwork DVD and Amorph!08; a survey to contemporary Finnish performance art. It includes documentations from 18 artists. DVD is curated by Leena Kela and Suvi Parrilla. The Finnish special edition is part of liveartwork DVD collection of international performance art and live art documentations published by Christopher Hewitt.

From MUU studio, "What is Live Art in Finnish?" goes to Paris in June 2008, where it belongs to Amorph!08 festival for performative arts by Artists' Association MUU. Amorph!08 is curated by Juha Valkeapää.
In August "What is Live Art in Finnish?" returns to Helsinki to be a part of Amorph!08's Helsinki edition.

Artists and works:

Annette Arlander: Witches´Broom
John Court: Marking Space
Maija Hirvanen: Being Greta, rehearsal version
Helinä Hukkataival: Three Portraits
Essi Kausalainen: In Light
Leena Kela: Airplane!
Antti Laitinen: Snowman
Hyun-Joo Min: Nail
Kukkia-group (Tero Nauha, Karolina Kucia & Dwi Setianto): Turdus Merdula
Irma Optimist: Natural Artifice
Mimosa Pale: Limit
Suvi Parrilla: Rush
Jouni Partanen: Breather
Pessi Parviainen: Nail Road 5
Roi Vaara: The One and The Same
Juha Valkeapää: Some Colour?
Inari Virmakoski: Life is but a Dream
Willem Wilhelmus: Put a Finger Between the Time

FRAME has supported artists in DVD production.
www.liveartwork.com

Andrea Iten

"Andrea Iten
www.andreaiten.ch
TRACKS
interaktive Medienistallation

Doppelvernissage mit Tiefparterre:
Samstag, 5. April 2008 / 17:00 Uhr
mit Sibylle Omlin, Kunstwissenschaftlerin, Kuratorin Basel"

Kunstraum Kreuzlingen - CH

Diagonale 08

Die Diagonale 08: alle Filme, alle Specials, alle Kooperationen mit befreundeten Festivals und dem ORF, die Personalen, und das Werkstattprogramm ‚Liebe Arbeit Kino’.
Was sich an dieser Stelle weniger abbilden kann, sind grundsätzliche Entscheidungen zur Diagonale-Struktur und vor allem zur Haltung des Festivals: Wir verstehen die Diagonale als Interessenvertreterin des österreichischen Films.
Die für den Film Schaffenden sollen durch das Festival ihre Arbeit und ihr Engagement anerkannt und ihre Forderungen unterstützt sehen. Erklärtes Ziel der Diagonale ist es, allen- dem Publikum, den politischen und wirtschaftlichen EntscheidungsträgerInnen- vor Augen zu führen, wie stark und gewinnbringend mit dem österreichischen Film auf allen Ebenen zu rechnen ist: als Erfahrungsort künstlerischer Auseinandersetzungen, als Produktivkraft einer anzustrebenden kulturellen Identität, als Wirtschaftsfaktor.

http://www.diagonale.at

Prototypisieren

"Prototypisieren. Eine Messe für Theorie und Kunst (28.3.-30.3.2008)

Eine erste Ausführung, der Inbegriff von etwas, das man sich vorstellt, ein Normalmaß, ein Testverfahren: das alles können Prototypen sein. Der Wortgeschichte folgend (gr. proto: vor), versteht man unter Prototypen oft "Vor-Bilder" oder "Vorlagen", auch die so genannten besten Beispiele. Prototypisieren kann als das Verfahren bezeichnet werden, das vor der Serienfertigung, also "vor dem Produkt" liegt, aber auch - und das ist thealits Anliegen - "vor der Theorie", "vor dem (Kunst)Werk". In diesem "Vor-Gängigen" wird dabei ein Typ gebildet, eine Typisierung vorgenommen. Nun sind die Prototypen, das ist spätestens seit der Konzeptkunst bekannt, möglicherweise auch Objekte, die niemals in Serienfertigung gehen würden.
Und nicht nur das. Es können Konzepte sein, die nur gedanklich realisiert, oder Impulse, die erst weiter entwickelt und ausgearbeitet werden sollen. Prototypenentwicklung in der Industrie dient als marktbezogenes, kosteneffektives Testverfahren - und akademische Paradigmen unterliegen zu nehmend der gleichen Logik. Prototypen sind eben auch Kunstwerk, Produkt und Theorie. Diese Möglichkeiten werden in einer Messe ausgestellt und gehandelt.

thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor

Glasgow Art Fair 27 - 30 March 2008

"Glasgow Art Fair 2008 will run from 27 to 30 March

Scotland's National Art Fair returns to the heart of Glasgow's city centre for its 13th year.

Presenting artwork from across all media from over 50 galleries and arts organisations representing more than 1000 artists, the Glasgow Art Fair remains the place to buy, sell and view art with the widest range of contemporary work outwith London.

This year's Fair will feature the largest selection of galleries yet with several international galleries along with ones exhibiting for the very first time in Scotland. Whatever your taste or budget, there will be something to suit with artists on display ranging from household names to emerging talents. Featured artists include Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Joan Eardley, SJ Peploe, Leslie Hunter, John Byrne, Terry Frost, Craig Mullholland, Kenny Hunter, Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin, Banksy, Dalziel Scullion and Rosalind Nashashibi.

Don't forget that if you see something you like, you could even take it home with you that day.

So make sure you get wrapped up in the Glasgow Art Fair!"

Glasgow Art Fair 27 - 30 March 2008

perche' no

Numero 0. Perchè l'arte è fino alla fine del mondo

Presentation on Wednesday 26th March at 17.00
Venezia, Università IUAV, Sede delle Terese, Aula B

presenta: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

http://www.perche-no.it/

The First Pregnant MAN - Mr. Lee Mingwei

POP! The First Human Male Pregnancy -
MAN OF THE YEAR - Mr. Lee Mingwei

From the first human male pregnancy to the first successful medical application of nanotechnology, RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center has dramatically advanced the art, science, and technology of medicine. [More]

Join physicians and scientists around the world in monitoring Mr. Lee's pregnancy online.

malepregnancy.com