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Ambition d'art
Ambition d'art
Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne
16 mai au 21 septembre 2008
Vernissage le jeudi 15 mai à 18h30
Alighiero Boetti, Daniel Buren, Jordi Colomer, Tony Cragg, Luciano Fabro, Yona Friedman, Anish Kapoor, On Kawara, Martha Rosler, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner
L’Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, célèbre en 2008 ses trente ans et convie pour l’occasion son fondateur, Jean Louis Maubant, à concevoir une exposition accompagnée d’une importante publication.
L’exposition Ambition d’art, en partenariat avec le Conseil régional Rhône-Alpes et la Ville de Villeurbanne, constitue un temps fort et exceptionnel pour l’Institut autour duquel convergent différentes manifestations : un colloque, deux jours de rencontres internationales et, en région, un parcours d’expositions d’œuvres de la Collection Rhône-Alpes en résonance avec Ambition d’art.
Ambition d’art
« Les artistes changent le monde ; à tout le moins, certains ont essayé. Ou plutôt, il serait plus juste de dire que certains changent l’individu-spectateur, sous réserve que celui-ci accepte le dialogue avec l’art. C’était vrai il y a encore quelques années, quand le Nouveau Musée s’est auto-généré ; il est devenu depuis « Institut d’art contemporain », avec l’idée que l’art se travaille, s’étudie aussi. Évidemment, c’est encore vrai aujourd’hui, même si les utopies modernes et progressistes ont baissé la tête sous l’assaut du spectacle, du business ou du sauve-qui-peut individuel.
« Apprendre à lire l’art » – c’était le titre d’une des expositions de Lawrence Weiner à l’Institut – et l’on pourrait imaginer que ses programmes successifs, de 1978 à 2008, ont tenté de mettre en espace cette ambition. Lire l’art de son temps, c’est donc potentiellement lire son temps différemment, à la lumière de ce que les artistes apportent d’éclairages nouveaux. L’histoire de l’art, en fait, est toute entière dans ces va-et-vient permanents entre une société et ses créateurs.
Chacun de ceux qui participent à l’exposition Ambition d’art a transformé, peu ou prou, un pourcentage, peut-être plus important qu’on imagine, du public venu dans la vieille école de Villeurbanne. Provocations à réfléchir à notre situation au monde (Alighiero Boetti), à notre capacité de regard (Daniel Buren), à notre rapport à l’objet (Tony Cragg), à notre oubli des mythologies et du classicisme (Luciano Fabro), à notre rapport à une religiosité contemporaine enfouie (Anish Kapoor), au temps, au rapport individu/infini (On Kawara), au machisme et ses corollaires (Martha Rosler), à l’image reconstruite et à la peinture (Jeff Wall), à la poésie et à la générosité du dialogue (Lawrence Weiner), à l’étrangeté et au décalage (Jordi Colomer), à la ville et à la nécessité, toujours, de militer pour la survivance des utopies (Yona Friedman).
L’Institut a présenté, en trente ans, plus de 140 artistes en exposition personnelle ou en exposition collective restreinte. Gordon Matta-Clark, Giulio Paolini, Leonel Moura, Öyvind Fahlström, Gillian Wearing, Douglas Gordon, Melik Ohanian, bien d’autres auraient pu participer à Ambition d’art mais l’Institut n’a que onze salles et, fidèle à notre volonté de respecter artistes et public, j’ai pensé qu’il était juste d’organiser Ambition d’art comme un dialogue de onze expositions personnelles, d’où cette sélection. Le livre en deux volumes permet de réparer l’inévitable injustice de l’exposition et réunit tous les artistes qui ont participé à cette aventure.
Le challenge d’Ambition d’art, c’est de dépasser l’évocation des trente ans. Il ne s’agit pas de commémorer mais de réfléchir au présent à la lumière d’un passé très récent. Il s’agit aussi de tenter de mettre en perspective plusieurs temps du travail de chacun. Une manière encore d’offrir une lecture révélatrice de l’art de onze artistes parmi les plus importants de ces années d’entre-deux siècles ».
Jean Louis Maubant
Publication
Cette publication, en deux volumes, réunit tous les artistes qui ont participé à l’aventure de l’Institut d’art contemporain.
Le premier volume, intitulé Alphabet, rassemble les interventions des artistes, des extraits du colloque Muséographie de l’art contemporain organisé par le Nouveau Musée en 1979 et des textes critiques de professionnels de l’art interrogés sur « ce qui s’est passé dans l’art et ce qui a changé dans les structures de l’art contemporain en Europe depuis trente ans ».
Le deuxième volume, Archive, présente l’histoire de l’Institut d’art contemporain, exposition par exposition de 1978 à 2008, accompagnée de la liste des œuvres exposées et de documents d’archives des rencontres, colloques, leçons d’artistes, vernissages et correspondances avec les artistes.
Cette publication est coéditée avec les Presses du réel, dans le cadre de la collection De Mémoires.
Colloque
Dans le cadre de l’exposition, l’Institut d’art contemporain organise le colloque Ambitions d’art les 30 et 31 mai 2008 qui réunit artistes, critiques, historiens, philosophes et responsables de structures européens.
A l’aune des trente ans de l’Institut, le colloque interroge ce qui doit être apprécié en termes de transmission et d’évaluation des critères artistiques dans le contexte socio-politique d’aujourd’hui.
La Collection Rhône-Alpes en région
En résonance avec l’exposition Ambition d’art, l’Institut d’art contemporain organise un ensemble d’expositions de la Collection Rhône-Alpes en région. Il s’agit ainsi de prolonger la réflexion instaurée à Villeurbanne et de réfléchir à l’acte de collectionner, étape inhérente à l’acte de produire et d’exposer des œuvres d’art.
De fin mai à début octobre 2008 :
Palais Delphinal – Saint-Donat-sur-l’Herbasse (Drôme) // Galerie d’exposition du Théâtre de Privas –
Conseil général de l’Ardèche - Privas (Ardèche) // La Bâtie d’Urfé - Conseil général de la Loire,
Saint-Etienne-le-Molard // Maison de la Cure – Saint-Restitut (Drôme) // Angle Art Contemporain
– St Paul-Trois-Châteaux (Drôme) // Groupe Art Contemporain (GAC)/Chapelle Sainte-Marie –
Annonay (Ardèche) // Espace François-Auguste Ducros/ Maison de Pays– Grignan (Drôme)
IAC - Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne
RAM - radioartemobile
Sabato 31 maggio 2008 alle ore 19.00, RAM - radioartemobile è lieta di presentare la mostra Camere VI, sesta tappa del progetto “Camere” che, dal 2005, si conferma tra gli appuntamenti principali del programma artistico della galleria. La mostra ospita i lavori di tre protagonisti del panorama artistico internazionale: Jimmie Durham, Luca Maria Patella, ManfreDu Schu ed è inoltre accompagnata dal testo inedito Teatralità Nomade di Jan Hoet, direttore artistico del MARTa Museum a Herford (Germania) e curatore di fama internazionale.
RAM - radioartemobile
www.radioartemobile.it
Fight Global Warming -
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Music for Junkbuilding
Music for Junkbuilding
Il concerto previsto per il 17 maggio presso Triennale Bovisa è stato rinviato al 5 giugno 2008.
Music for Junkbuilding
Triennale Bovisa
5 giugno 2008, ore 21.30
La Triennale di Milano presenta nell’ambito della mostra Junkbuilding una serata di musica a ingresso libero con Casino Royale Quartet, Gianluca Petrella e Rajasful.
Programma dei concerti
a cura di elita
Casino Royale Quartet
In un percorso di rivisitazione costante del proprio lavoro ed alla ricerca di un approccio sempre originale, una delle più importanti band della scena musicale italiana propone il proprio repertorio in chiave acustica accostando ritmiche e liriche con un taglio intimista e romantico.
Gianluca Petrella “solo”
Il genio ribelle del jazz italiano è diventato una star internazionale grazie alle sue qualità tecniche e l’originalità di un progetto altamente performativo in cui si mescolano i suoni caldi del trombone a quelli freddi dei campionamenti elettronici.
Rajasful
Nato da un’idea di Dj Tayone e Bruno Briscik il progetto Rajasful è il simbolo della possibile simbiosi tra culture apparentemente lontane. Il virtuosismo ai piatti di Tayone e quello al violoncello di Briscik si intrecciano costantemente sino a far perdere le tracce di generi e stili musicali fondendosi in uno spettacolo unico, fresco ed assolutamente coinvolgente.
Junkbuilding
9 maggio – 5 giugno 2008
Triennale Bovisa
Concept Alberto Saruggia
A cura di Davide Giannella e Maria Chiara Piccioli
Catalogo Drago
http://www.triennale.it/
Philip K. Dick
"Forli' - Appuntamenti: all'Ex Filanda performance, incontri e proiezioni sull'opera e al pensiero di Philip K. Dick con Masque Teatro, Antonio Caronia, Gabriele Frasca. Ore 17.
Informazioni http://www.masque.it"
Week-end, gli appuntamenti di domenica 18 maggio
Second International Conference on Religion and Media
"The Second International Conference on Religion and Media will be held in Tehran and Qom, Iran, from November 9th to 12th, 2008. We cordially invite all media researchers and scholars, representatives from diverse religious traditions, professionals and students involved with the subjects of the conference to attend and submit a paper."
Further information could be found at conference website: http://www.religion-media.ir/
French media and cultural groups on the opening of the Qatar Museum of Islamic Art
"HIGH-POWERED delegation from the Qatar Museums Authority, comprising the board of Trustees’ chairperson HE Sheikha Mayassa bint Hamad al-Thani, vice-chairman HE Sheikh Hassan bin Mohamed al-Thani and chief executive officer and president of the Museum of Islamic Art Abdulla al-Najjar, will visit Paris to brief French media and cultural groups on the opening of the Qatar Museum of Islamic Art on November 22."
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Next Wave Festival
"The rhetoric of global culture tells us that we are being brought closer and closer together. By media, communication technologies, the free market and other snappy buzzwords which signify somewhat less transparent systems. But how close are we, and how much do we really know about each other?
The 2008 Next Wave Festival will explore new ideas of closeness and its conflicted nature: as a catalyst for connectedness, community and exchange, but also of claustrophobia, confrontation and invasion. The collapse of the private sphere into the public and the increasing tendency to live out our personal lives in very impersonal arenas. The demise of public space, as a concept and a reality…where is the space for vulnerability, intimacy, privacy and exchange in an increasingly globalised world? What is the potential for genuine, unexpected connections, and what might they look like?"
Jeff Khan, Artistic Director
Lucian Freud nude sets new world record at auction
"'Benefits Supervisor Sleeping,' a nude by artist Lucian Freud, sold for more than 34 million dollars (22 million euros) in New York, becoming the most expensive work ever by a living artist."
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Moving Towards a Balanced Earth
Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: Kick the (Carbon) Habit
World Environment Day 2008
For the 2008 World Environment Day, UNEP continues to explore and address the theme of climate change, with an emphasis on moving toward a low carbon economy. Background: The Earth maintains a natural carbon balance. Under normal conditions, the system gradually corrects imbalances and returns to a balanced state. However the rate at which humans are now burning fossil fuels, introducing excesses of carbon into the atmosphere, has surpassed Earth’s ability to maintain balance. As a result, the Earth’s climate has begun to experience massive change.
Nature strives for balance. Carbon balance is one part of nature’s process to maintain stases. Humans, collectively and individually, also strive for balance.
What does it mean to be in balance as individuals and communities? What is the connection between the Earth’s imbalance and our imbalance as a species? Can nature serve as a model and mentor for discovering a way of living in balance, for coming into a state of equilibrium? The excess of atmospheric carbon is just one symptom of our environmental problems; water and air pollution, toxic waste—all of these are also symptoms of imbalance. The symptoms are expressed on both planetary and personal levels. Other species may adapt or become extinct. How will humans adapt?
Participating Artists:
AES & F Group – Russia, Ken Aptekar – USA, Lise Bjorne – Norway, Lien Botha – South Africa, Antonio Briceno – Venezuela, Enrique Martinez Celaya – Cuba, Alison Clouston – New Zealand, Shane Cotton – New Zealand, Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere – New Zealand, Geoff Dixon – New Zealand, Chris Drury – UK, Mounir Fatmi – Morocco, Peter Fend – USA, Isa Genzken – Germany, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov – Russia, Walangari Karntawarra – Australia, Ik-Joong Kang – Korea, Gabriela Morawetz – Poland, Susan Norrie – Australia, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba – Vietnam, Susan Plum – Mexico, Ken Rinaldo & Amy Youngs – USA, Alexis Rockman – USA, Harriet Russell – UK, Soledad Salame – Chile, Lars Siltberg – Sweden, Cyprien Tokoudagba – Benin, Bill Viola – USA
Natural World Museum - Moving Towards a Balanced Earth
"Alba Art Show"
Tre week end, due mostre, un grande evento. La città celebra la grande arte contemporanea dando vita all’Alba Art Show, primo appuntamento internazionale per appassionati, addetti ai lavori e turisti organizzato dall’Associazione Amici dell’Arte di Alba. Destinato a diventare un punto di riferimento in Italia e nel mondo. Dal 17 maggio al 1 giugno 2008 la città sarà animata da ogni genere di espressione artistica: performance live, video-arte, passeggiate d’autore, esposizioni, incontri, conferenze. Gli spazi: il Palazzo Mostre e Congressi cittadino, le gallerie d’arte della città, le strade.
L’inaugurazione avrà luogo sabato 17 maggio alle 11 presso il Palazzo Esposizioni di Piazza Medford ad Alba, e l’intero fine settimana sarà dedicato alle body performance dal vivo. Sei artisti, selezionati dalla "Fondazione Abramovic", metteranno in scena rappresentazioni per cinque ore consecutive, sia sabato che domenica: Declan Rooney da Berlino (interagirà con il coro del Duomo "La Schola" formato da giovanissimi albesi), il duo TBL (TallBlondLadies) da Amburgo, Viola Yesiltac da New York, Branco Miliskovic da Amsterdam, Eunhye Hwang da Berlino.
La sezione video art comprende le opere di quattro artisti: Sigalit Landau, Jacco Olivier, Randy Moore e Davide Balliano.
Il fine settimana del 24 e 25 è dedicato all’intervento del professor Mario Deaglio (economista e editorialista de La Stampa) in programma per sabato alle ore 17. Tema: "Turismo, arte e territorio: una ricetta vincente per le economie locali"
Domenica ore 11 concerto nell’ambito di "Italy&Usa - Alba Music Festival" segue aperitivo.
L'ultimo week-end prevede: sabato 31 Maggio ore 17 intervento del professor Derrick de Kerckhove.
Tema: "Le nuove forme d’arte".
Ai visitatori sarà distribuita la mappa "Art Walk", per una passeggiata culturale nel centro storico di Alba dedicata a tutti gli spazi d’arte della città.
"Alba Art Show"
ART HK 08
ART HK 08 - Hong Kong International Art Fair
"ART HK 08, the largest ever international art fair to take place in Hong Kong is now open. Bringing together 100 of the worlds leading galleries at the landmark Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the Fair will run until Sunday 18 May.
Open to all, ART HK is a new annual art fair that welcomes established art collectors, new buyers looking to own their first piece and those just wanting to immerse themselves in the best of the world’s 20th and 21st century art."
Venice Biennale - Building Design
"Hadid, Coates and London-based landscape architect Gustafson Porter will contribute to curator Aaron Betsky’s main exhibition within the Arsenale, while AOC and Hadid will take part in the Architecture Beyond Building exhibition at the Italian pavilion."
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Gustafson Porter
Gustafson Porter:
"Gustafson Porter has been commissioned to create a landscape installation at this year's Venice Biennale.
The appointment of the London-based firm, which designed the Diana Memorial in Kensington Gardens, marks the first time in the biennale's 11-year history that a major landscape installation will be featured."
http://www.gustafson-porter.com/
Westergasfabriek Culturepark, Gustafson Porter | Amsterdam - MIMOA
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New Horizons Conference
New Horizons in Teaching and Research 2008 Conference May 19 - 22
The New Horizons conference will feature a wide variety of speakers and events over the course of four days. Join us beginning on Monday afternoon, May 19th, for open house events at major digital labs, centers, and teaching spaces around Grounds and for our opening plenary presentation by Dan Cohen: "Creating Scholarly Tools and Resources for the Digital Ecosystem". A reception will follow.
For Tuesday, we plan a series of faculty presentations on digital resources and instructional technology, lunchtime roundtable sessions on proposed UVA centers for Computational Science and Digital Humanities, and a late afternoon multimedia performance event.
Faculty presentations will continue on Wednesday, when the lunchtime roundtable topics will include ITC and Library-based "communities" and a discussion of infrastructure for teaching with technology. That evening, noted visualization specialist Ben Fry will show his beautiful work in "Computational Information Design".
The 2008 conference concludes on Thursday, May 22nd, with a set of hands-on workshops and a closing plenary session in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom (where box lunches will be served). This panel discussion on scholarship in an age of mass digitization will feature representatives from Google Books and the Open Content Alliance, and TAPoR director Geoffrey Rockwell.
New Horizons Conference
agliomania
agliomania:
"AglioMania (GarlicMania) refers to TulipoMania that took place in the early 17th century Netherlands. During this time, tulip bulbs were traded for enormous prices and eventually crashed , thus the term bubble economy.
AglioMania re-enacts the maniac trading phenomena with garlic produced in Italy during the 6 weeks of 'Enterprise of Art' exhibition at Palazzo delle Arti Napoli."
Blog World Expo
Blog World Expo :
"The 2008 BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place September 20-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with the exclusive 'Executive & Entrepreneur' conference beginning September 19th. The first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media. In addition to the only industry-wide exhibition, BlogWorld features the largest blogging conference in the world including more than 50 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes from iconic personalities on the leading-edge of online technology and internet-savvy business."
streetlab
Streetlab goes Stateside. On May 17 and 18, five young Dutch designers will be given the opportunity to present their work at a special NY edition of Streetlab. During the New York Design Week, Streetlab – a Dutch platform for young ‘street based’ artists and designers – will organize an exhibition featuring fashion shows, music and performances by five Dutch and five American designers. The event will be held at Milk Gallery in New York’s fashionable Meatpacking District.
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