Il Teatro Vascello ospita nuovamente le contaminazioni della scena artistica contemporanea italiana e internazionale con la terza edizione di BOX: 25 giovani artisti di diversa formazione creeranno un percorso inedito attraverso arte visiva, installazione, design, video arte, performance e teatro.BOX è una sperimentazione collettiva ed eclettica rappresentata metaforicamente da un modulo: il cubo, la scatola. Misterioso luogo di incubazione, simbolo di identità tra forma e contenuto, ma anche indicatore di evoluzione esponenziale nel tempo e nello spazio. Struttura cubiche perturbanti, elementi di elaborazione creativa che si installano nel tessuto urbano.
Like the thousands of video surveillance cameras that hide in public, Wendy Richmond records people engaged in simple, personal actions. Shooting tiny movies with the stealth video camera in her cell phone, Richmond is a stand-in voyeur. She allows us to observe people in mundane routines so similar to our own: riding the train to work, striding along a city street, waiting at the airport, or just sharing a public space.
"Artists: Rossella Biscotti, Carola Bonfili, Alice Cattaneo, Alex Cecchetti, Paolo Chiasera, Danilo Correale, Andrea Dojmi, Michael Fliri, Giulio Frigo, Christian Frosi, Anna Galtarossa, Nicola Gobbetto, Francesca Grilli, Simone Ialongo, Marzia Migliora, Nicola Pecoraro, Alessandro Piangiamore, Farid Rahimi, Maria Domenica Rapicavoli, Davide Rivalta, Valerio Rocco Orlando, Marinella Senatore, Luca Trevisani, Nico Vascellari, Enrico Vezzi
This exhibition is devoted to the finalists in the Emerging Talents Award,. created by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and organised by the Centre of Contemporary Culture Strozzina – the CCCS of Florence - . The competition is designed to encourage young Italian artists and draw critical and international attention to their work."
Art plays a pivotal role in creating cultural momentum. The MANIFEST HOPE: DC Gallery celebrates that role and shines a spotlight on artists who use their voices to amplify and motivate the grassroots movement that carried President-Elect Barack Obama to victory.
'Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?' is a research project that consists of three platforms – an exhibition, a programme of public events and a publication – examining the juncture of the political and the erotic through the work of artists produced predominantly in the context of the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 70s. Part of OCA's Verksted series, the exhibition and public programme are the result of an extensive research project about the international perception of Scandinavia during the 1950s, 60s and 70s as a utopic region of socialism and sexual freedom. This project will introduce OCA's new premises at Nedre gate 7 in Oslo.
"René Block – Kurator, Sammler und Verleger – hat wie kaum ein anderer die Kunstszene der vergangenen Jahrzehnte mitgeprägt. Große Teile seiner Sammlung befinden sich als Dauerleihgabe im Neuen Museum und werden erstmals in einem breit angelegten Panorama gezeigt. Es setzt an in den sechziger Jahren, als René Block der wichtigste deutsche Fluxus-Galerist war, den zahlreiche Freundschaften mit den Protagonisten dieser Bewegung verbanden, vor allem mit Joseph Beuys, und reicht bis in die Gegenwart. Heute konzentrieren sich René Blocks Interessen auf die Kunst der sogenannten Peripherie, also die Kunst abseits der etablierten Zentren. Dieses neue Gesicht der Sammlung Block steht im Mittelpunkt der Schau, die zu Entdeckungsreisen in die Türkei, auf den Balkan und nach Skandinavien einlädt. Auch hier kann die Ausstellung mit großen Namen aufwarten, darunter Ayşe Erkmen und Gülsün Karamustafa."
Nam June Paik - Driving media. Exhibition and Conference
In Poland, Nam June Paik is recognized mostly due to his legend, rather that his works and views. His grand exhibitions, organized in the 1990s, when he was still alive, didn't make it to our part of Europe. The only monographic exhibition organized here took place during the WRO Biennale in 1999, where the NY-based artist and curator Stephen Vitiello presented a comprehensive retrospective of Paik's video works, developed together with the artist. Paik himself was unable to travel to Wrocław due to his illness.
The International Media Art Biennale WRO 09 is organized by WRO Center for Media Art Foundation. The competition is open to any work created using electronic media techniques, exploring innovative forms of artistic communication.
CURSO TRANSFORMACIONES. ARTE Y ESTÉTICA DESDE 1960 / 2ª edición
La primera edición del curso Transformaciones tuvo una orientación introductoria, proponiendo temas generales de información y difusión sobre los cambios acontecidos en diversas prácticas artísticas a partir de los años sesenta. En esta ocasión el curso se centra en cuatro bloques temáticos: arte público, actualidad de la pintura, relación entre arte y tecnología y algunas cuestiones relativas a lo que se conoce como institución arte. Las cuestiones elegidas, además del interés intrínseco que poseen, se corresponden con las preocupaciones de los asistentes de la pasada edición que comunicaron sus preferencias en una encuesta que se realizó durante la celebración del curso.
IF WE CAN’T GET IT TOGETHER Artists rethinking the (mal)function of communities
Shaina Anand, Egle Budvytyte, Kajsa Dahlberg, Hadley + Maxwell, Luis Jacob, Hassan Khan, Emily Roysdon, Haegue Yang
Exploring experimental and imagined social formations, 'If We Can't Get It Together' proposes that the idea of "community" calls out for radical renewal. Sometimes organized around as-yet-unrealized ideals, the new communities explored in the exhibition implicitly ask: what effect does today's upsurge in temporary social groupings-brought on by global migration and newly fluid notions of identity-have on communal and public life?
“Saints and Sinners” takes advantage of the rich diversity of the Rose collection, as well as the distinctive architecture of its upper and lower atrium galleries to present a light-hearted look at a fundamental division in modern and contemporary art between the spiritual and the material, the eternal and the everyday, and abstraction and the natural world.
"Haegue Yang’s practice stems from her interests in the subtle irregularities and minute possibilities that destabilize conventional order. Through deliberate acts of erasing, misplacing, or rearranging the ordinary, Yang’s work directs attention to the underlying structures that regulate perception and experience. The artist explains: “I am truly interested in how one can be a political being…[and] attempt to be engaged without dogma.” Yang’s quietly complex installations employ devices such as humidifiers, scent emitters, lights and customized blinds that provoke the sensorial as an integral part of looking and experiencing."
When the U.S. launched its military campaign in Iraq in the name of democracy, it announced at the same time a 'war of ideas,' a marketing campaign to export American values worldwide. Democracy has become a global brand. The exhibition OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding is an interdisciplinary investigation of democracy positioned as a consumer brand.
"This exhibition brings together artists working in various media on the subject of flowers. The artworks’ bright colors and exuberant forms will afford a welcome relief from the winter doldrums and a foretaste of warmer days ahead. Combining fine and craft artists, this exhibition will include around fourteen artists working in metal, found objects, wire, paper, encaustic, photography, ceramics, painting, and fabric. All of them have explored flowers for sustained periods of time and their observations range from botanical accuracy to flights of fancy."
Participating Artists include: Judith Allen-Efstathiou, Lucy Breslin, Lois Dodd, Lauren Fensterstock, Penny Gentle, Beverly Hallam, Connie Hayes, Sara Lemieux, Patrick Plourde, Leslie Pontz, Isadore Seltzer, Joyce Tenneson, Susan Headley Van Campen, and Shoshannah White.
"Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1], the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, opened to the public on November 1, 2008 in museums, historic buildings, and found sites throughout New Orleans."
"For KKProjects’ New Orleans Biennial exhibition, Tony Oursler is collaborating with St Roch neighbors to create film projections at three locations; a brickyard, a warehouse, and a tree. Directing remotely via cell phone, Oursler reads poetry in a variety of (rather comical) pitches, which are chorused by the neighbors. The session was recorded by documentary filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker in the remnants of Kysa Johnson’s installation in Double Shotgun."
This exhibition shows for the very first time a real historical retrospective of video art from 1965 until nowadays, with a selection of works belonging to the New Media collection of the centre Georges Pompidou. Video as a creative mean of expression has appeared in the 60’s and has considerably developed during the last 40 years. It is marking our time as much as photography marked 19th Century.
CROSSBREEDS is a platform for artistic perspectives/ positions, which deal with the interleave of media, dance/performance and film/new media by means of performances, installations, (short) films, workstations, discursive formats or hybrid works in between.
"Regina José Galindo: The Body of Others 31 January - 29 March 2009
The first solo exhibition in the UK of Regina José Galindo presents videos, photographs and a new performance by the Guatemalan artist and poet. Recipient of the Venice Biennale 2005 Golden Lion award for young artists, Galindo has become renowned for her bold performances addressing social and political concerns in Guatemala."
"Light InSight" exhibition offers new perspectives on the past, present and future possibilities of the existence of "light", here investigated from the perspective of perception, beyond art and science.
Light is the most basic of media. Not only in visible light's relationship to our daily functioning, but in that light fundamentally enables the very existence of so much in this world. The living orgasms and environments of the earth form and their ecosystems are maintained by their relationship with solar energy. Throughout human history, light, beyond its role as a necessity for our physical beings, has been continually reinvested with powerful new significance by religion, science, and philosophy. In the arts, especially since the development of optical devices in the Renaissance, light has served to organize visual systems and new artistic expressions, starting with the laws of perspective derived from the "camera obscura". And of course in the Enlightenment, light was seen as a direct metaphor for aspiring towards knowledge and apprehending the world.
From the 19th century, light was redefined as a spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, and optical technology has since developed, with the appearance of electricity, whether visible or invisible, natural or artificial, to be firmly fixed throughout our lives. In the context of art, though of course people have been experimenting with optical arts and technologies throughout history, light has taken on particular importance as both material and medium since the early 20th century. Now in the 21st century, with the advent of digital technology, optical devices are widely used in many fields, whether in nano- and bio-technology, communications, moving images, entertainment, education, or medicine.
Now, given this historical context, how can we best exercise the potential of light in the future? In this exhibition, we introduce experimental works and projects with unique visions of concept, phenomena, and process, in which the viewer can experience the transformation of our senses and physical perceptions afforded by the continuous expansion of optical and light technology. One work may refer to the existing visual system while at the same time critically undermines it... another may expose the viewer to deviations in their senses via light... or another might visualize light
"... This trend towards interactivity has steadily grown given artists increased access to new technology, and is the driving force behind Act/React. Interactive art encourages a dialogue between the art work and the participant. Visitors have the ability to act upon the work and are invited to elicit a unique response within the context of the piece, becoming more than just a passive viewer. It was exhilarating to watch people experiencing the work themselves..."
"The Queensland Government and Queensland Art Gallery congratulate Peter Alwast, winner of the inaugural Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award.
The award is Australia’s most significant prize for new media art. Nine artists were short-listed for the biennial acquisitive award: Peter Alwast (QLD), Julie Dowling (WA), Anita Fontaine (QLD/The Netherlands), David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (NSW), Natalie Jeremijenko (QLD/United States), Adam Nash (VIC), Sam Smith (NSW), John Tonkin (NSW) and Mari Velonaki (NSW)."
