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1. Premiu Henkel pentru Arta 2005 From: "Roxana Poede" 2. Premiul Henkel pentru Tineri Artisti From: "Roxana Poede"
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 17:57:14 +0300 From: "Roxana Poede" Subject: Premiu Henkel pentru Arta 2005
Incep inscrierile pentru a patra editie a Premiului Henkel CEE pentru Arta
Competitia din acest an este dedicata desenului contemporan
Henkel Central Eastern Europe (Henkel CEE) invita artisti din Europa Centrala si de Est sa participe la cea de-a patra editie a competitiei "Premiul Henkel CEE pentru Arta". Acest premiu acopera intr-un interval de trei ani, trei domenii ale artei contemporane: desen, fotografie si design. Editia din acest an este dedicata, din nou, desenului contemporan.
Editia de anul acesta a Premiului Henkel CEE pentru Arta este dedicata desenului
contemporan. Castigatorul va fi ales de un juriu international si va primi 5,000 Euro. In afara premiului, Henkel CEE il va sprijini pe castigator sa isi deschida o expozitie si in tara sa de origine. O alta componenta atractiva a Premiului Henkel CEE pentru Arta este o expozitie a celor mai bune lucrari ale artistilor inscrisi in competitie, care va avea loc la Viena in noiembrie 2005.
Pentru prima oara in istoria acestei competitii, anul acesta, premiul urmareste o implicare mai activa pe plan regional, prin organizarea unei preselectii locale in tarile cu mai mult de cinci concurenti inscrisi in competitie. In acest caz, un juriu alcatuit din personalitati importante ale mediului artistic local si un reprezentant al companiei Henkel Romania, va selecta in luna iulie cinci lucrari care vor intra in procesul final de selectie de la Viena. Stabilirea procesului decizional si la nivel local urmareste cresterea interesului pentru acest
premiu din partea publicului larg.
In cazul in care sunt maximum cinci inscrieri in competitie, lucrarile vor fi transmise direct la Viena, unde va avea loc selectia finala. Rezultatele finale se vor comunica la Viena in luna septembrie, in cadrul unei festivitati speciale.
Pentru inscrierea in concurs sunt necesare urmatoarele materiale: - Curriculum vitae si documente care sa ateste dezvoltarea profesionala a artistului (in lb. engleza sau lb.germana) - 3 desene originale neinramate (doar in tub de carton sau plastic)
- Dimensiunile acestora nu trebuie sa depaseasca 120 cm x 85 cm (in cazul unui desen mai mare se va trimite o fotografie color a desenului, cu dimensiunile 18 cm x 26 cm) - Nu se accepta reproduceri grafice (cu exceptia monotipului) - Nu se accepta fotografii - Nu se accepta grafica pe calculator (cu exceptia cazului in care lucrarile s-au realizat folosind un mouse de calculator sau palmul) -
Lucrarile nu trebuie sa fie anterioare anului 2000 - Competitia este deschisa artistilor din urmatoarele tari: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Bielorusia, Bosnia si Hertegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republica Ceha, Estonia, Georgia, Ungaria, Letonia, Lituania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Polonia, Romania, Rusia, Serbia si Muntenegru, Slovacia, Slovenia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan si Ucraina.
Henkel CEE nu isi asuma responsabilitatea pentru pierderea sau deteriorarea lucrarilor de arta. Juriul va selecta finalistii si castigatorul premiului dintre lucrarile inscrise in concurs.
Lucrarile create de cei cinci finalisti nominalizati vor fi expuse publicului in cadrul unei expozitii organizate la Viena in luna noiembrie 2005. Artistii vor fi rugati sa permita expunerea lucrarilor lor in cadrul expozitiei. Compania va suporta costuri de transport de aproximativ 150 Euro.
Lucrarile inscrise de artisti in concurs vor fi
returnate dupa deliberarea juriului sau dupa expozitie. Nu se percepe taxa de participare la concurs.
Inscrierile pentru premiul Henkel pentru Arta, editia 2005 se vor depune pana cel tarziu 24 iunie 2005 (data postei) la urmatoarea adresa:
Graffiti BBDO
Departamentul de Relatii Publice Str. Dr. Nicolae Turnescu nr. 1A Bucuresti
Pentru mai multe informatii, va rugam contactati Graffiti BBDO, Roxana Poede, tel: 021 - 316 02 00/ fax: 021 - 316 02 07/12 Roxana Poede Graffiti BBDO
Str. Dr. Turnescu 1A Bucuresti, Romania Mobile: +40722. 974.679 e-mail: roxana_poede@... www: http://www.graffiti.bbdo.ro
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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 18:01:47 +0300 From: "Roxana Poede" Subject: Premiul Henkel pentru Tineri Artisti
* Premiul Henkel pentru tineri artisti Programul Artists-in-Residence derulat de KulturKontakt Austria
Programul Artists-in-residence derulat de KulturKontakt Austria ofera o bursa de trei luni la Viena pentru tineri artisti din domeniul artelor frumoase precum si pentru fotografi din tarile Europei Centrale si de Sud-est. Bursa acopera costurile de cazare, atelier, asigurare, si o indemnizatie lunara de 900 euro, o bursa pentru pentru instrumente si o prezentare a lucrarilor la sfarsitul celor trei luni. Artistilor li se pun la dispozitie 2 ateliere iar fotografilor-unul.
Henkel Central Eastern Europe anunta Premiul pentru Tineri Artisti ca parte a programului Artists-in-residence care se adreseaza artistilor si fotografilor din urmatoarele tari: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Bielorusia, Bosnia si Hertegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republica Ceha, Estonia, Georgia, Ungaria, Kazakstan, Kirgystan, Letonia, Lituania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Polonia, Romania, Rusia, Serbia si Muntenegru, Slovacia, Slovenia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan si Ucraina. Limita de varsta este 40 ani. Castigatorul va primi o bursa de trei luni de la KulturKontakt Austria si un premiu in bani in valoare de 1,500- Euro de la Henkel CEE. Acesta va fi ales de un juriu international si va fi anuntat in scris. Juriul se va intruni la inceputul lui septembrie la Viena, rezultatele putand fi vizionate pe pagina web a KulturKontakt Austria (www.kulturkontakt.or.at).
Materialele necesare pentru inscrierea in concurs
trebuie sa includa urmatoarele: - Curriculum vitae si documente care sa ateste dezvoltarea profesionala a artistului (lb.engleza sau lb.germana) - Exemple de lucrari sub forma de fotografii, slide-uri, dosar si/sau cataloage de arta (dimensiune maxima: A3). Nu se accepta CD-uri - Lucrarile de arta vor fi returnate dupa intrunirea juriului fara costuri pentru concurent. Lucrarile de arta cu dimensiuni care depasesc cele prevazute sau inscrierile pe email nu vor fi luate in considerare.
Inscrierile pentru Premiul Henkel pentru Tineri se vor trimite pana cel tarziu 24 iunie 2005 (data postei) la urmatoarea adresa:
KulturKontakt Austria Department of Cultural Promotion and Sponsoring Universitätsstraße 5 A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Pentru mai multe informatii, va rugam sa contactati KulturKontakt Austria pe adresa de e-mail: kultur@... sau la numarul de telefon +43-1-523 87 65 Ext. 43. Roxana
Poede Senior PR Executive Graffiti BBDO
Str. Dr. Turnescu 1A Bucuresti, Romania Mobile: +40722. 974.679 e-mail: roxana_poede@... www: http://www.graffiti.bbdo.ro
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FLAG METAMORPHOSES
http://www.thyes.com/flag-metamorphoses
First deadline: July 31, 2005
First presentations in art contexts (as DVD
screenings):
September 7, 2005, Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn,
Germany
www.videonale.org
Oct. 7 - Nov. 12, 2005, Commercio Gallery, Zurich,
Switzerland
www.commercio.ch/galerie
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You are invited by Swiss / German artist Myriam Thyes
to take part in a collaborative art project for the
internet:
FLAG METAMORPHOSES
Continuously growing and animated by as many
participating artists from across the globe as
possible, the flags of all nations in the world will
be morphed into each other through flash animation.
Although the iconography of a flag while blowing in
the wind may appear transient, it is long-established
and changes far less frequently than the country it
represents. Using digital media however, we can make
the symbols dance.
This work will be an exploration into the meaning of
imagery on flags, aiming to create interrelated
associations through questioning, reassessing,
fluidizing and re-mixing of diverse national
iconography.
To find out how to participate with or without
knowledge of flash, please visit:
http://www.thyes.com/flag-metamorphoses
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va multumim, organizatorii ____________________________ simultan_video/sound experiment (timisoara, 26-27 mai 2005) -------------------------------------
Evenimentul este deschis tuturor artistilor (grupurilor) care lucreaza cu imaginea video si nu numai. Cei interesati pot aplica, fara restrictii tematice, cu maximum 3 lucrari( film, animatie, vj-ing movie) a caror durata (fiecare in parte) sa nu depaseasca 100 de secunde.
Detalii tehnice: - inainte de movie se inregistreaza 10 secunde blank. - lucrarile se trimit in format quicktime (de preferat) sau microsoft avi 720x576 cu compresie dv-pal si sunet de 48kh, pe suport cd/dvd (data) sau caseta mini-dv.
Pentru fiecare video in parte se completeaza un formular de aplicare, care sa contina o scurta descriere a lucrarii, un cv si foto al artistului atasat (pentru catalog).
Lucrarile se trimit pe adresa: Vreme Sorin OP.1 - CP.341, Timisoara Romania
Aplicatiile se trimit si prin e-mail pe: simultan@...
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Pentru informatii suplimentare contactati simultan@... Levente KOZMA, tel. 0740300806
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Subject: 15 Scholarships in International MFA Program
15 Scholarships in International MFA Program to Promote Independent Thinking and Innovative Art Work
Transart Institute announced today that through a generous grant from Foundation M and other sources 15 scholarships amounting to $37,500 have become available to students of their low-residency Master of Fine Arts program and non-degree summer workshops.
Transart Institute's low-residency MFA in New Media program - the first of its kind anywhere - offers an opportunity for working professionals to further their career with self-directed artistic study supported by self-chosen artist mentors and Transart Institute faculty and intensive summer residencies including lectures, seminars, workshops, critiques, exhibitions and performances. The unique transdisciplinary program creates the possibility of interaction and cooperation between performance and video artists,
programmers, sculptors, vjs, curators, painters and game designers etc. Genres include: animation, architecture, cyberart, film, video, graphic design, installation, interactive art, interdisciplinary art, performance art, photography, and sound/music. The summer workshops which are an integral part of the MFA program are open to the public by application.
Eight scholarships of $2,500 will go to accepted students of merit and financial need and two scholarships of $5,000 are available to candidates from East European and new EU-member countries. Five full scholarships of $750 will be given to participants of the Transart Institute's non-degree summer workshops which are open to all. Recipients will be selected on the basis of creative potential as exemplified by portfolio.
Scholarship application deadline for the academic year 2005/06 is May 31st, 2005.
Further information is available at the Transart Institute's
website: www.transartinstitute.org
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Vlad,
prea multe nu pot sa-ti spun, Edi a venit cu o bursa din Leipzig pentru cateva
luni. A inchiriat un apartament destul de central unde locuieste (baia si WC-ul
sint afara in curte, nu are mobila, covor, etc. deci sta destul de nasol). A
zugravit, a inchis o usa cu gipscarton etc, spatiul arata bine. Galeria nu e
finantata, artistii invitati vin pe banii lor. Edi da spatiul, tiparest
invitatie, si da vin & biscuiti la vernisaje.
Ideea e sa aduca cati mai multi artisti din Germania, pe de alta parte sa dea
posibilitate pt. artistii tineri din Romania sa expuna. Proiectul va continua in
Leipzig (unde am inteles ca deja a negociat un spatiu destul de mare).
A.
Citat Vlad Nanca <vladnanca@...>:
> Attila,
> Spune-ne si noua mai multe despre noul apartament/galerie. Poate niste poze
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> "Attila Tordai-S." <atordai@...> wrote:
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> Atelier 169 este o galerie privata initiata de artistul Edi Klein in
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> apartament.
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> Atelier 169 s-a deschis oficial pe 22.04.05 cu expozitia Voyage-Voyage
> (Csaba
> Csiki, Yvette Martini si Peter Szabo - Cluj/Budapesta)
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> Astazi, 06.05.05, ora 18:00, se deschide expozitia:
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> IT IS SOMETHING (THAT) - Axel Toepfer (Germania)
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> Adresa: str. Avram Iancu, nr. 16, Cluj
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> Edi Klein este student la Facultatea de Arta din Leipzig, in prezent
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Atelier 169 este o galerie privata initiata de artistul Edi Klein in propriul
apartament.
Atelier 169 s-a deschis oficial pe 22.04.05 cu expozitia Voyage-Voyage (Csaba
Csiki, Yvette Martini si Peter Szabo - Cluj/Budapesta)
Astazi, 06.05.05, ora 18:00, se deschide expozitia:
IT IS SOMETHING (THAT) - Axel Toepfer (Germania)
Adresa: str. Avram Iancu, nr. 16, Cluj
Edi Klein este student la Facultatea de Arta din Leipzig, in prezent
bursier la sectia foto a Universitatii de Arta si Design Ioan Andreescu.
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British Council te invită la Bienala de la Veneția
Vrei să participi la deschiderea Bienalei de la Veneția, unul dintre cele mai importante evenimente de artă contemporană din întreaga lume? Intră în concursul organizat de British Council și poți fii unul din cei patru participanți la un program educativ organizat în parteneriat cu Pavilionul Britanic din cadrul Bienalei, care anul acesta găzduiește expozița artiștilor Gilbert & George.
Artiștii britanici Gilbert & George și-au câștigat reputația internațională lansând conceptul de sculptură vie în anii ’60. De atunci, ei au lucrat în diverse domenii și
tehnici, uimind publicul de pretutindeni cu interpretarea neortodoxă a termenului „sculptură”. Gilbert & George au fost invitați să reprezinte Marea Britanie la ediția din acest an a Bienalei de la Veneția. British Council are rolul de administrator al Pavilionului Britanic din cadrul prestigioasei manifestări, care a fost rampa de lansare pentru sculptura britanică încă de la începutul anilor ’50.
Pentru a participa, trebuie:
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să ai între 18-30 de ani - să vrei să scrii despre arta și cultura contemporană - să ai cunoștințe temeinice de limbă engleză.
Experiența anterioară
în jurnalismul cultural constituie un atu, dar nu este obligatorie.
Trimite-ne
o cronică inovativă și bine documentată, de maximum 400-600 cuvinte (variante în limba română și engleză) pe tema: Gilbert & George: sculptură vie!?!
Dosarul de înscriere complet
trebuie să conțină, pe lângă cronică:
- CV în limba engl
eză, cu date de contact
- Copie după pașaport valabil
- O scurtă scrisoare de intenție din care să rezulte acordul de a publica materiale în ziare/reviste/alte medii de informare și disponibilitatea de a călători la Veneția în perioada 10-17 iunie a.c.
Trimite dosarul prin e-mail la adresa: Codruta.Cruceanu@... sau depune-l la cel mai apropiat Centru British Council din București, Iași Cluj sau Timișoara până luni, 16 mai 2005, orele 9.00 a.m. Candidații selectați vor fi contactați telefonic pe 20 mai, pentru un interviu final. Câștigătorii vor fi anunțați pe 23 mai. Premiul constă în acoperirea cheltuielilor de participare la programul educativ organizat de British Council România și Departamentul de Arte Vizuale al British Council Londra (transport cu avionul, cazare și masă, bilete de intrare pentru vizitarea Pavilionului Britanic și a altor expoziții britanice, scoțiene, irlandeze din cadrul Bienalei, materiale și mape de presă).
Mai multe detalii despre Gilbert & George poți afla la www.britishcouncil.ro/......
British Council Telefon 307.96.00
Calea Dorobanților 14 Fax 307.96.01
București 010572 Email bc.romania@...
România Web www.britishcouncil.ro
British Council este organizația internațională a Marii Britanii pentru relații culturale și educaționale. Suntem prezenți în 220 de orașe din 110 țări din întreaga lume. Oferim oamenilor de pretutindeni o deschidere către creativitatea și realizările britanice și stabilim relații durabile între Marea Britanie și alte țări. Ne desfășurăm activitatea în special în educație, societate civilă și domeniul creativ. Suntem o organizație apolitică, dar ne bucurăm de o strânsă colaborare cu guvernul britanic. În anul 2004-2005 British Council a înregistrat un venit de 475.4 milioane de lire sterline, dintre care 172 milioane au fost donați de guvernul Marii Britanii. Pentru mai multe informații despre activitatea British Council în România vizitați: www.britishcouncil.ro
Europe is on the move. With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the European integration process has opened up new perspectives for the people of Europe. Those involved in the process are facing new opportunities but also risks. The great ideal of freedom of movement and prosperity for all European citizens is set against concerns about the negative effects of uncontrolled economic, political, and military growth.
Many artists keep an attentive eye on European affairs. Many comment on these developments on an analytical and critical level and encourage us to see these events from a new angle. Fourteen artists are involved in the program "Hey Europe!" and their contributions are all statements on the ongoing "Discovery of Europe".
In Europa ist vieles in Bewegung geraten. Beginnend mit dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs 1989 sind im europäischen Einigungsprozess neue Perspektiven eröffnet worden, neue Chancen haben sich aufgetan, aber auch Risken für alle Beteiligten. Der großen Vision von gleicher Bewegungsfreiheit und Wohlstand für alle europäischen BürgerInnen steht die Sorge vor negativen Auswirkungen bei unkontrollierter wirtschaftlicher, politischer und militärischer Entwicklung gegenüber.
Zahlreiche KünstlerInnen verfolgen die Ereignisse auf europäischer Ebene mit gespannter Aufmerksamkeit und begleiten diese in ihrem Werk analysierend und kritisch kommentierend und regen zu neuen Sichtweisen auf die Vorgänge an. In das Programm von Hey Europe!" sind vierzehn KünstlerInnen und Gruppen involviert, deren Beiträge als Kommentare zur ständigen Entdeckung Europas" verstanden werden sollen.
Curated by Margarethe Makovec + Anton Lederer, < rotor > association for contemporary art, Graz, http://rotor.mur.at
(LOGOS:) < rotor >, G&G, BKA-Kunst
(14 ARTIST PAGES)
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Erik Binder
More Luxus! 2003, courtesy: Billboart Gallery Europe
Billboard in front of Seggau Castle
Bildwand vor dem Schloss Seggau
The limousine version of a koda is merely a result of desktop editing. It becomes a symbol for the high expectations on the one hand and the limited possibilities on the other hand in the European integration process.
Der durch Bildmanipulation am Computer zu einer improvisierten Limousine verlängerte koda steht symbolhaft für die hohen Erwartungshaltungen und zugleich begrenzten Möglichkeiten im europäischen Erweiterungsprozess.
Erik Binder, born 1974 in Hnúta-Likier, Slovakia, lives in Bratislava, Slovakia
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Christian Eisenberger
Beständiger Aufbruch
2005
Intervention in the passage between conference area and dining hall
Intervention im Verbindungsgang zwischen Konferenztrakt und Speisesaal
Intervention am Glas des Verbindungsganges zwischen Konferenzsaal und Speisesaal und Intervention am Glas des Verbindungsganges zwischen Konferenzsaal und Speisesaal und
Intervention am Glas des Verbindungsganges.
Christian Eisenberger, born 1978 in Semriach, lives in Vienna and Semriach, Austria
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Alen Floričić
Untitled No 05/00
Video, 3.30 min, 2000
Screening on Friday, May 13, at 11:00 am
Screening am Freitag, 13. Mai, um 11:00 Uhr
By frantically moving their arms, the artist and his alter-ego manage to stay in the air for a short amount of time. The dream of flying, and the freedom we associate with it, just cannot come true: The actors can only rise half a meter, before falling back on the ground again and again.
Der Künstler und sein Alter Ego schaffen es, sich mit intensiven Flatterbewegungen kurze Zeit in der Luft zu halten. Der Traum vom Fliegen und der damit verbundenen Freiheit wird nicht wahr, denn die Akteure steigen maximal einen halben Meter auf und fallen immer wieder auf den Boden zurück.
Alen Floričić, born 1968 in Pula, lives in Rabac, Croatia
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ejla Kamerić
Untitled/ Daydreaming
Video, 6.30 min, 2004
Screening during the official opening ceremony, Wednesday, May 11, 7:00 pm
Screening am Eröffnungstag, Mittwoch, 11. Mai, um 19:00 Uhr
Posing in an opulent and luxurious robe, the artist seems pensive. In Bosnian language we hear quotations by politicians which tell us about how we "must help those in need" to "become a part of our value system".
Die Künstlerin wirkt nachdenklich, wie sie in opulente Kleider gehüllt posiert. In bosnischer Sprache werden Zitate von Politikern vorgetragen, über den Umgang mit Bedürftigen, denen geholfen werden muss", damit sie Teil unseres Wertesystems werden".
ejla Kamerić, born 1976 in Sarajevo, lives in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Kunst-fu
Exercices of the Masters
Video, 9 min, 2002
Video Installation in the conference area and screening of a preview on Wednesday, May 11, at 8:00 pm
Videoinstallation im Konferenztrakt und Screening einer Sequenz am Eröffnungstag, Mittwoch, 11. Mai, um 20:00 Uhr
The video is a collection of five individual clips, in which the members of Kunst-fu ironically work on their mastership and perfection in different categories. In one sequence the "masters" are occupied with polishing a globe by using all kinds of different cleaning equipment.
Das Video setzt sich aus fünf Clips zusammen, in denen sich Kunst-fu in ironischer Weise in Meisterschaft und Perfektion üben. In einer Sequenz sind die Meister" damit beschäftigt, die Erdkugel mit diversen Reinigungsmaßnahmen auf Hochglanz zu bringen.
This Kunst-fu video is a collaboration between Erik Binder, born 1974 in Hnúta-Likier, Slovakia and Palo Cejka, born 1973 in Bratislava. Both live in Bratislava, Slovakia
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Kurt&Plasto
Greetings from Europe
2005
Installation in the Courtyard of Seggau Castle
Installation im Schlosshof
In a collection of twelve posters the artists use people or events which have some significance for Europe and at the same time have the letters "E" and "U" in their name.
In einem Set von zwölf Postern verwenden die Künstler Persönlichkeiten oder Gegebenheiten, denen eine europäische Dimension eigen ist und in deren Namen die Kombination der Buchstaben E" und U" vorkommt.
Kurt Almir, born 1971 in Sarajevo. Plasto Samir, born 1970 in Sarajevo. Both live in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Athanasia Kyriakakos
Coffee Bride
2005
Performance during the official opening ceremony, Wednesday, May 11, at 9:00 pm
Performance am Eröffnungsabend, Mittwoch, 11. Mai, um 21 Uhr
The artist is aiming to get in contact with the audience by offering freshly brewed "Greek Coffee". The climax of the performance is reached when she predicts the future of the coffee-drinkers by analyzing the coffee-grounds on the bottom of their cups.
Die Künstlerin sucht den Kontakt zum Publikum und bietet als Kommunikationsbrücke frisch zubereiteten Griechischen Kaffee" an. Als Höhepunkt der Performance wird den Kaffeetrinkenden aus dem Sud die Zukunft gelesen.
Athanasia Kyriakakos, born 1968 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, lives in Athens, Greece
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Vladimir Nikoli
ć
Rhythm
Video, 10.45 min, 2001
Screening on Saturday, May 14, 9:00 am
Screening am Samstag, 14. Mai, um 9:00 Uhr
Five people make the sign of the cross to the beat of techno music. This arrangement illustrates the clash between different ways of life and juxtaposes traditional and "trendy" value systems.
Fünf Personen bekreuzigen sich minutenlang im Takt von Technobeats. Die Anordnung kann als Sinnbild für das Aufeinanderprallen verschiedener Lebenseinstellungen, als Gegenüberstellung von traditionellen und hippen" Werten verstanden werden.
Vladimir Nikoli
ć, born 1974 in Belgrade, lives in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
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Dan Perjovschi
Drawings
2000- 2005
Drawings as a contribution to the conference publication Der Vielfalt verpflichtet - Europa im Gespräch"
Zeichnungen als Beitrag in der Konferenzpublikation Der Vielfalt verpflichtet - Europa im Gespräch"
In eight drawings, the artist answers questions on Europe asked by theorist Herwig Höller from Graz. Dan Perjovschi
is a master in summarizing complex social developments in a few pen strokes.
Der Künstler antwortet mit acht Zeichnungen auf ebenso viele vom Grazer Theoretiker Herwig Höller gestellte Fragen zu Europa. Perjovschi ist ein Meister darin, komplexe gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen mit wenigen Strichen zusammenzufassen.
Dan Perjovschi, born 1961 in Sibiu, Romania, lives in Bucharest, Romania
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Oliver Ressler & David Thorne
Boom!
2001- 2005
Three Postcards
Drei Postkarten
Boom! is a continually extended series of slogans in the form of overlong internet-addresses. At first look they seem to praise the advantages of Neo-Liberalism when in fact they point out the contradictions and short-comings of the capitalist system through exaggeration.
Boom! ist eine kontinuierlich erweiterte Serie von Textbotschaften, die als
überlange Internetadressen die Vorteile des Neoliberalismus scheinbar anpreisen und durch Überzeichnung auf Versäumnisse und Widersprüche in diesem System aufmerksam machen.
Oliver Ressler, born 1970 in Knittelfeld, Austria, lives in Vienna, Austria. David Thorne, lives in Los Angeles, USA
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Erzen Shkololli
Hey You...
Video, 4.16min, 2002
Screening on Thurday, May 12, at 9.00 am
Screening am Donnerstag, 12. Mai, um 9:00 Uhr
A female singer in a traditional costume from Kosovo addresses a "Letter to Europe" in teh form of a folk song. She describes the European attitude towards her country and demands that we do not forget the Albanians.
Eine Sängerin in kosovarischer Tracht adressiert in ihrem auf traditionelle Art vorgetragenen Lied einen Brief an Europa". Sie thematisiert den Umgang der Europäer mit ihrer Heimat und appelliert an alle, die Albaner nicht zu vergessen.
Erzen Shkololli, born 1976 in Peje, lives in Peje, Kosovo
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Mladen Stilinović
Krumpira, krumpira
Video, 4.10 min, 2001
Screening on Thursday, May 12, at 11:00 pm
Screening am Donnerstag, 12. Mai, um 11:00 Uhr
A common practice in Croatia, the artist loudly offers the viewer potatoes (Krumpira). While in front of him he actually displays cream cakes a metaphor for the divergence between the words we say and the things we do.
Der Künstler preist lautstark den Verkauf von Kartoffeln (Krumpira) an, wie es in Kroatien üblich ist. Vor sich auf einer Kiste hat er aber tatsächlich leckere Cremeschnitten liegen - eine Metapher auf die oftmalige Divergenz zwischen Wort und Tat.
Mladen Stilinović, born 1947 in Zagreb, lives in Zagreb, Croatia
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Version
The Map of the World
2003
Installation in front of the conference hall
Installation vor dem Konferenzsaal
Attached to a metal board, we find a map of the world, where all capitals names have been erased. However, the audience gets magnets with city names so they can shift them around wherever they please.
Auf einer Metalltafel befindet sich eine Weltkarte, aus der sämtliche Städtenamen gelöscht worden sind. Es gibt sie jedoch als Magnetschriften und das Publikum kann die Städte nach Belieben in die Länder einsetzen.
Version, founded 2001 at Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The group members Gabriela Vanga, Ciprian Muresan, Mircea Cantor live and work everywhere
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Sislej Xhafa
Stock Exchange
Video, 3 min, 2000
Screening on Friday, May 13 at 9:00 pm
Screening am Freitag, 13. Mai, um 9:00 Uhr
In the Ljubljana railway station the artist acts like a stock exchange broker. It seems as if the arriving and departing trains indicate ever new developments. When in fact life in train stations like this are, as we all know, rather unspectacular.
Am Bahnhof von Ljubljana agiert der Künstler wie ein Börsenmakler. Wild gestikulierend geben ihm eintreffende und abfahrende Züge scheinbar laufend die Wertungen vor. Tatsächlich ist das Treiben auf Bahnhöfen wie diesem bekanntlich meist unspektakulär.
Sislej Xhafa, born 1970 in Peje, Kosovo, lives in New York, USA
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As cherry blossoms dot the skies with their delicate pink petals, we marvel at another fascinating export from Japan contemporary art. A Neo-Pop explosion of animated wonders sends Yoshitomo Nara, Hideaki Kawashima, and Takashi Murakami, along with his Kaikai Kiki crew, floating into New York City. Meanwhile, our inquisitive reviewers look to shows in London, Madrid, Paris, Vienna, and Zurich, discovering a fresh assortment of artistic colors, shapes, and ideas that enliven the exchange of views between East and West.
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Christina Mackie Snags Beck's Bounty (BBC, April 26) Multimedia sculptor Christina Mackie has won the prestigious Beck's Futures Prize for contemporary
art, often considered the younger, hipper alternative to England's coveted Turner Prize. Mackie creates "emotional landscapes" through the use of objects and video projection. Famed photographer Wolfgang Tillmans was on the judging panel for the Ł26,666 award.
Paris Authorities Tackle Train Tagueurs (IHT, April 15)
In an attempt to curb graffiti, Paris transportation authorities are offering taggers the chance to channel their creative energy into an art contest and exhibition. Graffiti art is estimated to cost authorities up to 20 million euros a year. In June, 60 tagueurs will go on trial in Versailles, accused of damages amounting to 1.5 million euros.
WTC Design Enduring Bureaucratic Backlog (The Sunday Times, May 1) Architect Daniel Libeskind's World Trade Center design, originally scheduled for completion in 2009, is again encountering delays. Now Police Department security concerns are requiring additional revisions. While officials continue to bicker about who's to blame and who will pay, Libeskind has re-created his tower in a Sacramento project. The 37-story "Aura"
condo is strikingly similar to his design for the second-tallest building at Ground Zero. According to him, however, the issue is that both designs "respond to light."
Artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Dies, 81 (The Guardian, April 23) British artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, credited as one of the progenitors of Pop Art, has died. A collage-based sculptor and printmaker, Paolozzi grew up in Scotland, the child of Italian immigrants. A founding member of the seminal Independent Group of artists, Paolozzi was knighted in 1989.
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Balancing a tricky take on Japanese culture atop a double-edged sword, Japan's most popular Neo-Pop artist, Takashi Murakami, recently rolled back into his home-away-from-home, New York City, to stage the final chapter of his worldwide curatorial feat, Superflat. Creating a context
for his art, as well as the output of his artistic pals and Kaikai Kiki crew, Murakami blames the malaise of his generation on the atomic bomb and the paternal role played by the US in postwar Japan. According to his theory, this cultural condition fueled the development of otaku, an infantile subculture that's obsessed with cartoon characters. In turn, otaku spawned the brand of art that's currently on view in Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture at Japan Society, where the show's title references the deadly bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Merging high art with pop culture,
Murakami offers a conceptual umbrella that encompasses manga, anime, computer games, melodrama, apocalypse, shopping, and of course, cuteness. From monsters and mushroom clouds to Hello Kitty and Sailor Moon, fears and attractions are flattened to a state of comic book comprehension. He follows a factory form of production that kicks Warhol's notion of art as business up a notch while adding a dash of Keith Haring's Pop Shop appeal. His popular DOB character is a sly mix of Mickey Mouse and Doraemon, an animated cat, and his recent work, which he no longer paints himself, celebrates a commercial logo.
Fortunately, the talents of his assistants run deep and those who have been with him the longest have developed styles of their own. Aya Takano explores sci-fi supernaturalism in an expressionistic style. Mr. proudly sports a Lolita complex with wickedly amusing paintings,
sculptures, and performances. Computer graphics whiz Chiho Aoshima creates apocalyptic visions strangely populated with female figures. Chinatsu Ban whimsically embraces elephants and underpants with equal enchantment. Yoshitomo Nara, an equal to master Murakami on the art world playing field, puts a bad boy hat on innocence with a cast of melancholy characters, while his protégé Hideaki Kawashima beguiles us with ghostly visions. (PL)
Scottish artist Jim Lambie's installations and sculptures combine found furnishings with pop-cultural references, including record sleeves and thrift-shop fashions. Lambie, who also DJs, allows the viewer to recognize and connect with the objects, but not in the way they are presented. High-heeled shoes lie nonchalantly in the middle of the gallery, while a mirror, painted on one side with a beady eye, casts an unsettling look on what you're wearing. Split Endz turns two wardrobes into a multi-mouthed, pink, wooden monster with a mop of belts for hair and sneakers for feet, making a fun riposte on the all-consuming world of fashion. (SR)
Bernard Frize's exhibition at the sumptuous new Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in the heavyweight Marais district combines minimalist simplicity with dizzying intrigue. After more than 20 years devoted to painting, Frize approaches his work as deliberately as cooking a recipe. In this new series, based on mathematical designs created through knots and braids, he worked with
assistants to synchronize the movement of four hands as they spontaneously weave through a ready-made pattern. The result provokes an active desire in the viewer to follow the choreography of the strokes, unlock the secrets of the design, and digest the brilliance of the colors. It's an enchanting game quite like playing Twister on a rainbow with Confucius. (MS)
How many words are there in the English language for female genitalia? Would you believe 1,724? That's how many highbrow provocateur and installation engineer Jason Rhoades found, and that's how many individual neon signs spelling the words hang from the ceiling of the gallery's upper floor. True to form, he designed the work as a site-specific installation, working with the metal roof beams as a point of origin for his trademark aluminum armature. The suspended neon pieces hang in delicate organic clusters like grapes, from a lattice of red wooden wagon wheels. The warmth of the gently colored pastel light creates an unlikely intimacy, stretching Rhoades' boundaries as an artist in the process. (SND)
Sarah Lucas Zürich Kunsthalle Zürich Now through June 15
This mid-career survey of works by YBA bad girl Sarah Lucas covers the past 15 years of her sometimes vulgar, sometimes subtle sculptures, photographs, collages, installations, and drawings. Situated within the former Löwenbräu brewery, the expansive exhibition features iconic works such as Bitch Lucas' sculptural critique of Allen Jones' sadomasochistic Pop furniture and her Self Portrait with Fried Eggs, a prime example of her frequent use of food as a creative material. In piece after piece, Lucas
challenges and skews gender stereotypes, often using her own body as a canvas for her investigations into androgyny and the artifice of femininity. (AK)
At the modest age of 34, Yang Fudong has taken the international art world by storm. With his already iconic photographic series, The First Intellectual (2000), which depicts a bleeding corporate worker clutching his valise in one hand and a brick in the other, Yang expresses the disorienting malaise of big-city living. The most ambitious Chinese artist of his generation, he's currently at work on the third part of Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, a five-part film of epic scope
that tackles contemporary anxieties while referencing early 20th-century Chinese cinema. Look out Matthew Barney the intellectuals are here. (CYL)
Hideaki Kawashima's paintings are filled with luminous, full red lips and large, marble-like eyes. Following an ardent tradition of portraiture, he is interested in the features of people that are burned into our memories. Kawashima made his first splash with a slender version of St. Sebastian punctured by three arrows, but since then his focus has turned to studies of feminine heads with piercing eyes. Crafted with pristine realism, these works have ventured into the gothic, the enchanted, and the carefree. Abstracted, simply but fetchingly, with contours of balloon-shaped heads and wisps of hair, the figures are delicate and dainty, but they have been dealt both Boschian blows and Brueghelian delights to arrest the roving eye.
Kawashima, who studied with Yoshimoto Nara and served a two-year stint as a Buddhist monk, is no stranger to the strange. Influenced by Mark Ryden and Pierre et Gilles, he and his otherworldly figures plot out an ethereal vision that is gaining popularity throughout Asia, Europe, and now in the States seducing with eyes, lips, and all. (ML)
Andrew Maerkle interviews Takashi Murakami, artist and curator of Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture, about the exhibition.
AK:Little Boy concludes your Superflat trilogy of exhibitions first begun in 2000. Have your views on this style changed over the past few years?
TM: I've come to appreciate the words of Donald Judd, who once asserted that he himself was not a minimalist. Obviously, when he began, it presented a neat commercial package. It's a good way to draw attention in the art world, but most artists don't aspire to be boxed into a category. I realized that in order for my kind of art to be viable in the US it was expedient to categorize it, but part of me longs to move beyond that.
AK: So Superflat is just one expression of your ideas?
TM: It's true I dreamed up the concept of Superflat, but to the extent that I'm no longer confined by that style, it's not an aggressive move away.
AK: Lately, you've been emphasizing the work of the younger artists at Kaikai Kiki. Do you view yourself as a teacher, and if so, what is the attraction of such a role for you?
TM: I actually don't aspire to be a teacher. In some ways, I rebut the very romanticized role the recent New York Times article played out for me. I run a management company. I take a percentage of the artists' earnings, and it's not like I teach them, I'm more interested in that business model.
AK: Do you help your artists to grow?
TM: It's not just a cold financial arrangement. If anything, the word "coach" applies to me. I try to help artists navigate towards their most authentic selves. To the extent they've been transformed through meeting me, it may appear that I tried to control that process, but my sense is that I'm helping them reach their own authentic vision.
AK: What comes next, after Superflat?
TM: Actually, I'm interested in emerging artists from Taiwan and Hong Kong. It's not like there's anything original about them, but somehow, cumulatively, their art is powerful, and I'm interested in how they mash-up sources from other countries. Only time can prove what will be a masterpiece, so I'm really just interested in things that have energy and charge right now.
A groundbreaking artist, curator, and founder of the Kaikai Kiki group, Takashi Murakami is renowned for his Superflat Monogram in collaboration with Louis Vuitton. Consistently stretching the boundaries between high and low art, his work is coveted by art collectors, exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, and available as fashion and collectible toys.
Though this monograph may look like a children's book, inside something darker and more menacing is at play. A stylish overview of Yoshitomo Nara's drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture, Lullaby Supermarket charts his course from '80s expressionism to the mid-'90s development of the snub-nosed, wide-eyed kids, cats, dogs, and bunnies that continue to populate his oeuvre. Inspired by punk music and pop culture, Nara constructs a world of sweet young things who have fallen from grace. Defiant, troubled, and lonely, his anti-cute characters are the visual poetry of a contemporary nomad whose art has achieved worldwide popularity. (PL)
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When MTV aired its first ever music video on August 1, 1981, it was no coincidence that it was Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles. Since that moment, the music video has grown to be a discipline apart, acting as a showcase for creativity and innovation. Fast forward two decades to 2001 and no one had yet thought of recording an album with the videos already built in to it. Then along came UK duo HEXSTATIC from Ninja Tune with their debut audio-visual LP Rewind. It featured a CD-Rom music video, which the user could play on their computer and watch while listening to the music.
HEXSTATICare Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, and together they have been vibing club-goers since '95, taking the AV/VJ phenomenon to new levels and consistently breaking new grounds in Audio-Visual entertainment.
HEXSTATIC are performing the second time in a museum after Guggenheim in Bilbao, last year.
" the sweep and creativity of HEXSTATICs mixing stand out HEXSTATIC clips are as meaningful as they are busy Though definitely caffeinated and propulsive enough for the clubs, HEXSTATIC is also warm and reflective enough to establish Warren-Hill and Brunson as artists during the coming years." Steven Boone, leading US new media magazine Res.
MNAC/ DC Communication/ with the support of British Council present
HEXSTATIC LIVE (Ninja Tune-UK)
/ 7 May 2005/ MNAC/ 21h00
A/V Legends in Bucharest
When MTV aired its first ever music video on August 1, 1981, it was no coincidence that it was Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles. Since that moment, the music video has grown to be a discipline apart, acting as a showcase for creativity and innovation. Fast forward two decades to 2001 and no one had yet thought of recording an album with the videos already built in to it. Then along came UK duo HEXSTATIC from Ninja Tune with their debut audio-visual LP Rewind. It featured a CD-Rom music video, which the user could play on their
computer and watch while listening to the music.
HEXSTATICare Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, and together they have been vibing club-goers since '95, taking the AV/VJ phenomenon to new levels and consistently breaking new grounds in Audio-Visual entertainment.
HEXSTATIC are performing the second time in a museum after Guggenheim in Bilbao, last year.
" the sweep and creativity of HEXSTATICs mixing stand out HEXSTATIC clips are as meaningful as they are busy Though definitely caffeinated and propulsive enough for the clubs, HEXSTATIC is also warm and reflective enough to establish Warren-Hill and Brunson as artists during the coming years." Steven Boone, leading US new media magazine Res.
MNAC/ DC Communication/ with the support of British Council present
HEXSTATIC LIVE (Ninja Tune-UK)
/ 7 May 2005/ MNAC/ 21h00
A/V Legends in Bucharest
When MTV aired its first ever music video on August 1, 1981, it was no coincidence that it was Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles. Since that moment, the music video has grown to be a discipline apart, acting as a showcase for creativity and innovation. Fast forward two decades to 2001 and no one had yet thought of recording an album with the videos already built in to it. Then along came UK duo HEXSTATIC from Ninja Tune with their debut audio-visual LP Rewind. It featured a CD-Rom music video, which the user could play on their computer and watch while listening to the music.
HEXSTATICare Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, and together they have been vibing club-goers since '95, taking the AV/VJ phenomenon to new levels and consistently breaking new grounds in Audio-Visual entertainment.
HEXSTATIC are performing the second time in a museum after Guggenheim in Bilbao, last year.
" the sweep and creativity of HEXSTATICs mixing stand out HEXSTATIC clips are as meaningful as they are busy Though definitely caffeinated and propulsive enough for the clubs, HEXSTATIC is also warm and reflective enough to establish Warren-Hill and Brunson as artists during the coming years." Steven Boone, leading US new media magazine Res.
MNAC/ DC Communication/ with the support of British Council present
HEXSTATIC LIVE (Ninja Tune-UK)
/ 7 May 2005/ MNAC/ 21h00
A/V Legends in Bucharest
When MTV aired its first ever music video on August 1, 1981, it was no coincidence that it was Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles. Since that moment, the music video has grown to be a discipline apart, acting as a showcase for creativity and innovation. Fast forward two decades to 2001 and no one had yet thought of recording an album with the videos already built in to it. Then along came UK duo HEXSTATIC from Ninja Tune with their debut audio-visual LP Rewind. It featured a CD-Rom music video, which the user could play on their computer and watch while listening to the music.
HEXSTATICare Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, and together they have been vibing club-goers since '95, taking the AV/VJ phenomenon to new levels and consistently breaking new grounds in Audio-Visual entertainment.
HEXSTATIC are performing the second time in a museum after Guggenheim in Bilbao, last year.
" the sweep and creativity of HEXSTATICs mixing stand out HEXSTATIC clips are as meaningful as they are busy Though definitely caffeinated and propulsive enough for the clubs, HEXSTATIC is also warm and reflective enough to establish Warren-Hill and Brunson as artists during the coming years." Steven Boone, leading US new media magazine Res.
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In 2006 KulturKontakt is going to carry on with its established and successful Artist-in-Residence-Program for the fine arts and for photography.
Once again we can additionally offer two arts awards in cooperation with the company Henkel CEE this year. We kindly ask you to inform interested artists about these awards.
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catre stat sa directioneze 1% din impozitul platit in cursul anului
precedent unei organizatii nonprofit.
Iata si noi - Fundatia AltArt - ne-am lansat campania 1%. Vom folosi
fondurile stranse pentru deschiderea primului centru de arta new media din
Romania.
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Fundatia AltArt si Festivalul International de Film Transilvania
organizeaza
++aniMOTION - workshop de animatie++
Cluj-Napoca, 28 mai - 2 iunie 2005
++argument
Desi Alba-ca-Zapada ramane un reper al genului, animatia acopera o zona de
expresie artistica mult mai larga, combinand diverse tehnici, materiale si
abordari. Alaturi de Disney, artisti ca Jan Svankmajer, Michael Dudok de
Wit, Brothers Quay, Ryan Larkin au explorat variate forme de naratiune
vizuala animata orientate in special catre publicul adult, contribuind la
definirea animatiei ca un gen de sine statator. O data cu dezvoltarea
spectaculoasa a animatiei generate pe computer, perspectivele genului au
fost largite intr-o maniera considerabila. Animatia este acum utilizata in
internet art, instalatii interactive, in artele spectacolului si in VJ
shows. Industriile creative - productia de efecte speciale pentru filme,
jocuri de calculator, reclame si videcolipuri - au generat o crestere
spectaculoasa a cererii de animatie, contribuind semnificativ la extinderea
si redefinira genului. Prin organizarea acestui workshop AltArt urmareste sa
incurajeze productia de animatie in Romania.
++despre workshop
Workshop-ul se adreseaza tinerilor dornici sa devina creatori de animatie:
artisti, elevi, studenti etc. Cursul, cu o durata de o saptamana, se va
desfasura la Cluj, in cadrul Festivalului International de Film Transilvania
(www.tiff.ro).
Pe parcursul celor sapte zile de lucru, participantii vor invata despre:
tehnici de animatie, elemente de productie - echipamente, roluri in echipa
etc, dezvoltarea unui scenariu si a unui shooting board, temporizare si
dramatizare, montajul mixt animatie-video si integrarea animatiei in
platforme interactive etc.
Tehnici de animatie abordate: animatie organica, animatie desenata, animatie
Flash si animatie 3D.
Atelierul se bazeaza pe experimentare si exercitii practice. Participantii
vor lucra in echipe, avand de realizat pe parcursul workshop-ului un film de
animatie de cca. 2 minute. Filmele vor fi prezentate intr-o sectiune
speciala a festivalului, publicul stabilind prin vot echipa care va castiga
distinctia pentru cea mai buna animatie.
Limba de lucru a atelierului este engleza.
++inscrieri
Cei interesati sunt invitati sa trimita formularul de inscriere completat,
insotit de un CV pe e-mail la adresa office@.... Optional,
candidatura poate sa includa o selectie cu imagini din lucrari realizate
anterior (animatii, filme, fotografii, modelaje, grafica etc.). Acestea pot
fi trimise prin e-mail, daca dimensiunea cumulata a fisierelor nu depaseste
1Mb, sau pe suport CD, DVD sau caseta VHS prin posta.
Formularul de inscriere poate fi descarcat de pe www.altart.org sau obtinut
scriind la office@....
++termen limita
17 mai 2005
Selectia participantilor va fi facuta de un juriu format din expertii care
vor conduce activitatile din cadrul workshop-ului, pe baza abilitatilor si
interesului demonstrat prin materialele de candidatura. Cunoasterea limbii
engleze este eliminatorie. Vor fi selectati 12 participanti. Pentru
participantii din afara Clujului organizatorii vor asigura cazarea si masa
de pranz pe durata workshopului.
++finantatori
Programul Cultural Elvetian in Romania PRO HELVETIA/SDC
Institutul Goethe Bucuresti
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Fundatia AltArt
Cluj-Napoca
tel 0723 263072
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John Cage - BBC Symphony Orchestra performs 4 min 33 sec of Silence [128K-MP3]
BBC Symphony Orchestra performs 4'33 of silence
Radio 3 plays 'silent symphony'
BBC Radio 3 has aired more than four minutes of complete silence... by design.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra gave a performance of composer John Cage's seminal piece 4'33", which does not contain a single note.
Radio 3 broadcast the entire composition live, even having to switch off its emergency system that cuts in when there is apparent silence.
The performance took place on Friday night at London's Barbican Centre.
It was part of a weekend of Cage's work. The late avant-garde composer wrote the piece in 1952.
TV viewers were also able to watch the event when BBC Four broadcast the concert, which also featured works that music lovers could hear.
Cage's reasoning for composing 4'33" was to demonstrate that wherever we are what we hear mostly is noise.
Mostly what you could hear was people getting up and walking out.
BBC Symphony Orchestra general manager Paul Hughes of the 1952 première:
His estate won a bizarre copyright battle in 2002, when composer Mike Batt agreed to pay a six-figure sum to a charity because his album featured a tongue-in-cheek silent track which he credited as co-written by Cage.
General manager Paul Hughes told BBC Radio 5 Live the orchestra had rehearsed to get in the right frame of mind.
Despite having no notes to play, the musicians tuned up and then turned pages of the score after each of the three movements specified by the composer.
The silence was broken at times by coughing and rustling sounds from the audience, who marked the end of the performance with enthusiastic applause.
Mr Hughes denied the performance was a mindless gimmick and said Cage believed music was all around us all the time and the piece was his attempt to make the audience focus on sounds that were part of our everyday lives.
But the audience at the premiere in 1952 was so discomforted that mostly what you could hear was people getting up and walking out, he said.
They were completely outraged and extremely angry, Mr Hughes added.
He said Cage, who died in 1992 aged 80, was very proud of the silent composition.
In readiness for the performance, Radio 3 bosses switched off their emergency back-up system - designed to cut in when there is an unexpected silence on air.
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Anacronica si monopolista. Acestea sint metehnele de care sufera Uniunea Artistilor Plastici in viziunea tinerilor artisti independenti. Nemultumiti de faptul ca nu pot expune in galerii daca nu sint membri UAP, ei cer reformarea din temelii a acestei structuri. Daca nu esti membru UAP, in Romania aproape nimeni nu crede ca esti artist plastic autentic, chiar daca ai in palmares mai multe participari la expozitii internationale decit un coleg de breasla cu carnet. Ca si in cazul altor uniuni de creatie, UAP se identifica integral cu domeniul artelor plastice, cu toate ca in ultimii ani din ce in ce mai multi tineri aleg sa stea departe de acest organism. Pe acestia, asadar, nu-i reprezinta UAP, care le fura insa dreptul de a expune in galeriile de arta primite cadou de la stat. De la statutul de forma noua si superioara de organizare pentru realizarea unitatii de conceptie si de metoda intre artistii de toate generatiile si nationalitatile, definit la infiintarea sa, in 1950, UAP - sustin protestatarii - nu a evoluat deloc in conceptie.
Cu Zamfir Dumitrescu in frunte, catalogat ca fiind unul dintre pictorii de casa ai cuplului Ceausescu, devenit recent si senator PSD, UAP pare incremenita in proiect.
Arta de tip TPL (toamna pe lac)
Principalele nemultumiri si acuzatii ale tinerilor artisti care au semnat o petitie impotriva UAP - postata pe www.petitiononline.com - sint legate de administrarea galeriilor de arta. Exista zeci de galerii de arta, care ori au fost transformate in buticuri, ori expun, fara nici o coerenta in program sau viziune, un amalgam de artisti, in marea lor majoritate rupti de realitatile lumii si creatiei contemporane, se spune in memoriu. Vlad Nanca, initiatorul petitiei, acuza in principal calitatea lucrarilor expuse in unele galerii UAP si faptul ca acestea nu sint specializate, fiind transformate in magazine in care se vind de-a valma gallé-uri, icoane si pandantive. Imi doresc sa vad expozitii normale in galeriile UAP, insa ceea ce promoveaza acestea este arta de tip TPL, adica «toamna pe lac». Cred ca, din acest punct de vedere, UAP poate fi comparata in acest moment cu o intreprindere de stat, pe care ori o inchizi (cum s-au inchis
minele), ori o reformezi, isi exprima acesta punctul de vedere.
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Daca nu esti membru UAP, in Romania aproape nimeni nu crede ca esti artist plastic autentic, chiar daca ai in palmares mai multe participari la expozitii internationale decit un coleg de breasla cu carnet. Ca si in cazul altor uniuni de creatie, UAP se identifica integral cu domeniul artelor plastice, cu toate ca in ultimii ani din ce in ce mai multi tineri aleg sa stea departe de acest organism. Pe acestia, asadar, nu-i reprezinta UAP, care le fura insa dreptul de a expune in galeriile de arta primite cadou de la stat. De la statutul de forma noua si superioara de organizare pentru realizarea unitatii de conceptie si de metoda intre artistii de toate generatiile si nationalitatile, definit la infiintarea sa, in 1950, UAP - sustin protestatarii - nu a evoluat deloc in conceptie.
Cu Zamfir Dumitrescu in frunte, catalogat ca fiind unul dintre pictorii de casa ai cuplului Ceausescu, devenit recent si senator PSD, UAP pare incremenita in proiect. 
