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'connecting urban spaces' at green papaya artspace - Manila - Philippinnes
CONNECTING URBAN SPACES WEDNESDAYS OPEN PLATFORM February 18 features the artists: Adriano Casanova, Rafael Suriani, Nicholas Buer, Aline Von der Assen, Samantha Orui, Marcus Bastos, Claudio Bueno, Denise Agassi, Nacho Duran, Augustina Barthes, Daniel Medina, Juan Estanislao Ortiz, Noemi Bénézeth, Sebastian Bravo, Monika Meireles and Mark Sanvatus (WOP resident/mediator/curator)
It is easy to dismiss virtual environments as pale renditions of our alternate lives, utopian visions and replacements for interpersonal interaction but its inevitability remains. While junkies attest to its necessity, cynics remain doubtful. And yet no doubt there is comfort in knowing that no one lives in isolation any longer. Almost dreadful in fact, you can run but never hide. Could it be true that each one of us will always long for some kind of connection no matter how strange, circumstantial, perverse or 'unreal' it is. Our favorite wise man once said that appearances work in so far to sustain our belief. Then there is also that question of increasing homogeneity masked behind divergence, plurality and open societies.
There remains the disputable dictum: the devil is in the details. Or is it god? Unknown to most, new nomadic communities have been cropping up thanks to that new dystopian universe called the web. This Wednesday as growing networks both oblique and congruent slide into each other's reality, Mark Salvatus continues with his residency presenting the online project Connecting Urban Spaces together with a nomadic artistic community built the last two years. If you are beginning to get used to our incessant calls to go out and get over the hump, here we are again calling out its never late nor too early the week to go out
It is easy to dismiss virtual environments as pale renditions of our alternate lives, utopian visions and replacements for interpersonal interaction but its inevitability remains. While junkies attest to its necessity, cynics remain doubtful. And yet no doubt there is comfort in knowing that no one lives in isolation any longer. Almost dreadful in fact, you can run but never hide. Could it be true that each one of us will always long for some kind of connection no matter how strange, circumstantial, perverse or 'unreal' it is. Our favorite wise man once said that appearances work in so far to sustain our belief. Then there is also that question of increasing homogeneity masked behind divergence, plurality and open societies.
There remains the disputable dictum: the devil is in the details. Or is it god? Unknown to most, new nomadic communities have been cropping up thanks to that new dystopian universe called the web. This Wednesday as growing networks both oblique and congruent slide into each other's reality, Mark Salvatus continues with his residency presenting the online project Connecting Urban Spaces together with a nomadic artistic community built the last two years. If you are beginning to get used to our incessant calls to go out and get over the hump, here we are again calling out its never late nor too early the week to go out
Fanzine 10x15
Fanzine 10x15.
Virtual Magazine 10x15.
Fanzine dedicado a la fotografía contemporánea.
Virtual magazine about contemporary photography.
Open Call for Neo-Urban Planners
This will be my other project for Green Papaya residency, the Connecting Urban Spaces will be shown in FebruaryOpen Call for Neo-Urban Planners
Project by Mark Salvatus @ Green Papaya (Jan-Feb 2009)
WEDNESDAYS i'm-n-love OPEN PLATFORM
http://neourbanplan ner.blogspot. com/
*What if you were tasked to take over MMDA (Metro Manila Development Authority) and make a new urban plan? What will you do? What will you change? Be creative! be innovative! It can be simple to grand / utopian plan... or serious to fun-unrealistic one... grab your camera and roam the city and see what you can do...
Urbanization
In a 1975 survey, one out of three people all over the world live in urban areas, with most of the 1.5 billion "urbanites" living in districts with less than a million residents. (Many of these urban dwellers, in fact, live in communities with a population of less than 5,000) Over the years, the urban residency has swelled significantly that half of the world's population is living in cities. Parallel to this growth in urban population (and the continuous rise of smaller cities) is the emergence of "mega-cities" -- urban areas of no less than 10 million people.
Between 1975 and 2005, the number of mega-cities has grown from a meager three (two of which were in industrialized, first-world countries) to a record-breaking 20 (with 15 of them belonging in developing nations).
SOURCE: United Nations Population Division, World Urbanization Prospects:
The 2005 Revision (2006).
Layers
In East Asia alone, more than 2 million people have moved into urban areas. The rapid exodus to these specific areas indicates more opportunities in wealth and a chance for a better future for some. In the Philippines, where the Metro Manila region is the official hub of economy, education, and contemporary culture, more and more people from the rural areas are moving into the city to try their luck. Away from home, these people would often bring their customs and traditions with them as they settle in the metro; thus making their rural culture an integral part of the urban setting.
There are layers upon layers of old and new structures; chaos in the streets; graffiti, may it be political or apolitical, street vendors, MMDA, gigantic billboards, and the overwhelming influence of Western cultures--malls in every district, pocket shanties, layers of sound - among others. And in the last 3 decades, Metro Manila became a very problematic region in terms of urban planning, drainage systems, pollution, over-population--and these problems affect the city dwellers negatively.
Urbanist
Having lived in Manila for more than a decade, the projects that I am doing for W.O.P. will revolve around urbanism and the urban culture, and how artists, creatives, and ordinary people see their city in different perspectives. I will be doing personal and collaborative works that will be presented as exhibitions, screenings, talks etc.
What is our role in changing the city?
We are making a new urban plan for our city. We are the neo-urban planners.
Project: The city as our creative juice
*Neo Urban Planner
This will be an online project, I will make a multiply or a blogger account wherein I will ask people living in the city (Manila, Cebu, Davao etc) to take a photo of a certain area wherein they want to improve. They will become an urban planner and encourages creativity in all its forms in ways that are intrinsic and integral to the daily life of the city. Just think that you are the current MMDA chairman. Be creative and innovative. No pink please…
The project will be presented every Wednesday and the person who submitted a plan will be invited to show and discuss what he thinks should be improved. The collected photos and proposals form the people who participated on the online call
will be used for a future exhibit or publication.
example plans:
*Make a hanging garden on all the foot bridges
*Make a graphic design that will be printed on tarpaulin and give it to pedicab drivers - pang tarapal etc...
email your plans to markrams@yahoo. com with the subject "Neo-Urban Plan"
*there is no specific deadline just send it until Feb 2009
Wilfredo Prieto, Galeria Baró Cruz
"apolítico, 2001"
Galeria Baró Cruz traz a São Paulo o premiado artista cubano Wilfredo Prieto
Ganhador do Cartier Award 2008 da Frieze Art Fair, artista ocupa toda a galeria com as instalações “Mute” e a inédita “Termo Médio”em sua primeira mostra individual no Brasil.
Abertura no sábado, dia 8 de novembro, das 11 às 16 horas.
A Galeria Baró Cruz inaugura no sábado, dia 8 de novembro a mostra “Termo Médio” do renomado artista cubano Wilfredo Prieto, apresentando duas instalações de grandes dimensões. São elas “Mute”, realizada anteriormente no Canadá e a inédita “Termo Médio”. A exposição fica em cartaz de 8 a 29 de novembro de 2008.
*vista da exposição
"termo médio", 2008
“Termo Médio”, primeiro projeto inédito de Wilfredo Prieto no Brasil, apresenta um espaço vazio e cheio ao mesmo tempo. A instalação de raro minimalismo anula a visualidade, a contemplação do objeto concreto para despertar o resto dos sentidos. O espaço do andar térreo da galeria está dividido em três salas contíguas, completamente vazias, separadas por franjas de PVC. A primeira delas está submetida a temperaturas baixas, quase intoleráveis, em seguida há outra em temperatura ambiente e, por fim, uma sala com ar demasiado quente. A temperatura é o único elemento que preenche o espaço, conotando a obra a partir de sua relação entre os opostos vazio e cheio, frio e calor.
Para a também cubana Direlia Lazo, em texto de apresentação da exposição, “Sem se pretender política, a obra emana significados afins apresentando sua sala intermediária como uma zona de tolerância e de concílio entre situações extremas de calor e frio. A obra busca conferir significado a este espaço como um trajeto de aparente imunidade, desdobrando sua eloqüência em circunstâncias e contextos diferenciados”.
A eloqüência do gesto e a aparente neutralidade da ação definem a visualidade de Wilfredo Prieto. Seu trabalho é desigual em escalas e contextos, agudo e crítico em seus fundamentos e aborda os conflitos da contemporaneidade, aludindo às significações contextuais e ampliando seu alcance a preocupações filosóficas e mesmo globais, segundo a crítica cubana.
“Termo Médio” se manifesta como uma experiência que somente o espectador que percorrer os três espaços pode vivenciar. O público perceberá o silogismo, fazendo sua entrada por um extremo ou outro da obra, habitando cada espaço polarizado e de intercâmbio. A disposição dos espaços e o clima manipularão a visita do visitante orientando-o sensorialmente para um ou para outro.
A instalação “Mute” (Mudo, em inglês), por outro lado, versa sobre os contrastes e contradições de um dado espaço através do uso de iluminação típica de discotecas em uma sala totalmente escura, porém sem som algum, criando uma espécie de desorientação por parte do espectador que adentra a obra, instalada no primeiro andar da galeria. Segundo a crítica Ingrid Mayrhofer, em catálogo crítico sobre a obra, “aspectos de perda simbólica e disfunção sistemática desenvolvem-se à medida que o visitante contempla a obra, criando um espaço heurístico entre o objeto e a ação”.
Para Wilfredo, “o espectador pode ver o movimento das luzes e sentir a ausência contraditória da música, sentindo a dupla reação do contraste entre o que é esperado desse ambiente e o que ele de fato vivencia nele”. Ao final da visita à obra, segundo o artista, o que se sente é uma sensação de vácuo e falso brilho, uma espécie de glamour incompleto.
Cartier Award 2008 e Frieze Art Fair
Wilfredo Prieto foi anunciado o ganhador do Cartier Award 2008 da Frieze Art Fair, a renomada feira de arte contemporânea londrina, em maio deste ano. Com a premiação, o artista apresentou uma enorme instalação durante a o evento realizado entre os dias 14 e 18 deste mês, onde um tapete vermelho passava por toda a extensão do pavilhão até terminar numa haste de bandeira, localizada do lado de fora do edifício, conectando o universo da feira à área externa do Regent’s Park. Selecionado entre mais de 400 candidatos do mundo todo, Wilfredo, nas palavras do curador dos projetos da Frieze Neville Wakefield “se destaca entre seus colegas por criar arte que levita o cotidiano com grande economia de recursos, conjugando temas esculturais e geopolíticos de forma provocativa e poética”.
Segundo o curador e crítico cubano Gerardo Mosquera, a obra do artista inscreve-se na antiga tradição de visualidade direta, que não carece de textos a serem lidos nem longos vídeos a assistir. Para Mosquera, o conjunto da obra do artista é marcado pela simplicidade, ativação de objetos do cotidiano, uso da arte como uma atividade dessacralizada e também por uma estética minimalista particular que está em sintonia com a expansão global dos circuitos artísticos. Para ele, em texto da corrente edição da revista de arte colombiana ArtNexus, “Wilfredo especializou-se em sintetizar as questões mais complexas com apenas um toque de luz”.
Wilfredo Prieto
Nasceu em 1978 em Sancti-Spíritus, Cuba e reside em Barcelona, Espanha. Graduou-se no Instituto Superior de Arte da Umiversidade de Havana em 2002. Já teve obras foi exibidas no SMAK (Ghent, Bélgica) em 2008, na 52ª Bienal de Veneza, no Museu do Louvre (Paris, França) assim como na VIII Bienal de Havana em 2006 e na Dia Art Foundation (Nova York, EUA) em 2003. Possui trabalhos na Daros Collection for Latinamerican Art (Zurique, Suíça) e na Verbund Samlung (Viena, Áustria).
Serviço:
Evento: “Termo Médio”, mostra individual com duas instalações do artista cubano Wilfredo Prieto
Abertura: sábado, dia 8 de novembro, das 11 às 16 horas
Período expositivo: de 10 a 29 de novembro de 2008
Local: Galeria Baró Cruz
Endereço: Rua Clodomiro Amazonas, 526, Itaim Bibi - São Paulo, SP
Telefone: (55 11) 3167 0830
Horários de funcionamento: de segunda a sexta, das 11 às 19 horas e aos sábados, das 11 às 16 horas
Entrada
convocatória "vazio off bienal"; por tom lisboa
A curadoria de Bienal de São Paulo inaugurou, no dia 25 de outubro de 2008, um andar inteiramente "vazio", uma metáfora cujas finalidades não convêm serem analisadas neste momento. O que importa é que este espaço não-expositivo deixou aberta uma lacuna para o público, a crítica e os artistas projetarem seus conceitos sobre aquilo que era não-visto. Se formos levar em consideração o acúmulo de matérias, entrevistas e até o apelido de "Bienal do Vazio", podemos concluir que, neste caso, a tarefa de projetar uma ausência foi mais perturbadora do que a do que a presença da arte em si.
Desta forma, assim como as Off Bienais procuram ampliar os discursos da "mostra visual" oficial, o Vazio Off Bienal quer construir e multiplicar novos espaços vazios (veja o molde do Vazio Off Bienal). Ao invés de tentar preenchê-lo com imagens ou ações, a idéia desta Off Bienal é mantê-lo intacto e, assim, intensificar e problematizar a discussão sobre visibilidade. Por isso, as fotos enviadas com os respectivos "vazios" não precisam ter como tema a Bienal de São Paulo. Afinal de contas, o vazio é um tema pessoal.
release
VAZIO OFF BIENAL PROPÕE A DISSEMINAÇÃO E A CONVIVÊNCIA COM O VAZIO
A 28ª Bienal de São Paulo não havia completado três dias desde sua abertura e já tinham sido registradas duas tentativas de ocupação não-autorizadas do segundo (e vazio) andar desta mostra. O artista visual Tom Lisboa, no entanto, busca o caminho inverso ao lançar sua convocatória para a primeira VAZIO Off Bienal.
Diferente das ações anteriores, que buscavam preencher o que havia sido "esvaziado" pela curadoria da Bienal, a VAZIO Off Bienal propõe a multiplicação de "espaços vazios" e, ao mesmo tempo, intensificar e problematizar a discussão sobre visibilidade. "O que importa é que este espaço não-expositivo deixou aberta uma lacuna para o público, a crítica e os artistas projetarem seus conceitos sobre aquilo que era não-visto.", afirma Lisboa.
Assim como qualquer "Off Bienal" de obras visuais (tais como fotografia ou pintura), o objetivo da VAZIO Off Bienal
é ampliar o discurso do "vazio" da mostra oficial. A idéia é simples: basta imprimir e construir o "vazio" (existe um "molde do vazio" que pode ser baixado no site da VAZIO Off Bienal), tirar uma foto com este "vazio" e enviar esta imagem para publicação na internet.
A participação é livre, gratuita e os trabalhos fotográficos podem ser enviados, por email, até o dia 5 de dezembro. E como a proposta é expandir o conceito do vazio, as fotos não precisam estar tematicamente relacionadas à Bienal de São Paulo.
Afinal de contas, com diz o artista: "O vazio é um tema pessoal e que desconhece fronteiras geográficas".
VAZIO OFF BIENAL
Lançamento: 28 de outubro de 2008
Envio das fotos até 5 de dezembro
(as fotos devem ter no máximo 15x21cm, em 72dpi e serem encaminhadas para o e-mail tomlisboa@terra.com.br)
Fotos e Regulamento para participação no site: www.sinTOMnizado.com.br/vazio
EMYAN :: 1st Online Arts Festival :: October 2008
http://www.emyan.org/onlinefestival/
المعلومات بالعربية:
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شبكة شباب فنانى الأورومتوسطى تعلن عن دعوة للمشاركة فى مهرجان الفنون على الانترنت - الاصدار الاول. سيقام المهرجان على موقع الشبكة فى أكتوبر القادم. المهرجان مفتوح لشباب الفنانين من سن 15 الى سن 30 المقيمين فى احدى دول الأورومتوسطى. و لجميع مجالات الفنون التى من الممكن نشرها على الانترنت. الهدف من المهرجان هو نشر الوعى بأهمية الأدوات المتاحة على الانترنت فى مجالات الفنون المختلفة.
كل المشاركات يجب أن تكون أنتجت بعد أول يناير 2005 , أخر موعد لارسال المشاركات عن طريق الاستمارة الاليكترونية الموجودة على الموقع هو 20 سبتمبر 2008
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Information in English
Introduction:
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The use of internet tools has been in increase in our social and professional lives since new techniques were adapted to facilitate the use of communications tools over the internet in general.
Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.
In order to promote the use of internet tools in arts, EMYAN launched in May 2007 art 2.0 Initiative.
Leaping into the world of information and communication technology gave the today arts a new dimension which will help forming the arts of the future. Giving new ideas of creation of new arts and also merging of some of the existing arts.
New aims and purposes of art have been arisen in the last few years arguing the world to put a definition of this newly created multi-purpose easy to distribute art.
Euro-Med Young Artists Network is launching a call for entries for its 1st Online Arts Festival which is scheduled to be held online on October 2008.
The festival is in its pilot edition and is organized under EMYAN ZeroBudget Initiative, if it is proved to be successful and gets good feedbacks, it will be adapted to be organized annually and put under more development for its second edition next year.
The festival is open for young artists (up to 30 years old) living in one of the Euro-Med countries in all fields of arts that can be published on the web, special section for web-based arts.
Aiming to promote the use of Information Technology (IT) in arts in the EuroMed area. The IT represents a new artistic trend which has been growing in scale in the last few years. Young web users will be able to design and disseminate new production.
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Initiatives:
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- art 2.0 Initiative.
- ZeroBudget Initiative.
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Campaigns:
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- 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
- 1001 Actions for Dialogue.
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United Nations Declaration and Recommendations related to this theme:
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Articles of the 1980 Recommandation related to this theme:
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V. Member States should promote and protect the status of artists by considering artistic activity, including innovation and research, as a service to the community.
VI. 6. Member States are invited to:
(c) compensate any prejudice artists might suffer in consequence of the technical development of new communication and reproduction media and of cultural industries by favouring, for example, publicity for and dissemination of their works, and the creation of posts. (...)
Points of the 1997 Declaration related to this theme:
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14. The new technologies help to promote artistic exchanges. These technologies constitute a vast field of investigation for artists in terms of their creative and training potential.(...)
The arts and the new technologies:
34. The success of electronic information and communication networks depends to a large extent on the quality of the contents that they will be able to transmit. For this reason :
a) the information technology sector should be encouraged to facilitate the provision of the necessary equipment to art teaching institutions, particularly in the developing countries ;
b) artists should be encouraged to become better acquainted with the new technological tools with a view to increasing their creative opportunities. Co-operation between artists and experts in the new technologies should be strengthened to that end ;
c) it is recommended that the new technologies be used for the safeguarding of the cultural heritage and oral traditions.
35. So as to preserve artistic and cultural diversity, States are requested to support professional organizations of artists in their efforts to master new communication tools, with a view to guaranteeing all artists free access to the distribution of their works while safeguarding their rights.
virtual exhibition at clubinternet.org 4 K.I.S.S.
Announcement for clubinternet.org #4 K.I.S.S.
Opening on august 29th 2008
Featuring works of:
Yariv Alter Fin / John Micheal Boling / Victor Boulet / Mark Callahan / Chris Coy / Benjamin / Coonley / Petra Cortright / Harm van den Dorpel / David L. Mitchell / Constant Dullaart / Daniel Eatock / Justin Kemp / Dennis Knopf / Stan L. / Oliver Laric / Jan Robert Leegte / John Michael Boling & Guthrie Lonergan / Jonathan Puckey / Rafael Rozendaal / Pascual Sisto / Ola Vasiljeva / Jordan Wolfson
KISS principle
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: WP:KISS. For other uses, see Kiss (disambiguation).
The KISS principle (acronym for "Keep It Simple, Stupid") states that
design simplicity should be a key goal and unnecessary complexity
avoided. It serves as a useful principle in a wide array of
disciplines, such as software development, animation, journalism,
photography, engineering, and strategic planning. Common variants of
the acronym include: "Keep It Sweet & Simple", and "Keep It Short &
Simple".
Roadworks, Nick Dawes
Nick Dawes.
Roadworks, 2000
gloss household paint + acrylic on canvas
47 x 47 cm
Nick has employed a system of self imposed rules to navigate and structure the activity of making a painting. The idea originally was to set a limitation on choice, make as few decisions as possible and act upon only those that were absolutely necessary. 'I thought that if the construction of the work was about a denial of choice then what was left out was as important as what was left in. Choosing to ignore the endless variety of the colour chart, and remaining neutral and objective towards the subject, I decided to concentrate on familiar objects that would specifically delineate and control my decisions as a painter.' Nick discovered that by using ordinary traffic signs as visual object matter he could reduce painting down to its basic component parts. Limited by a set of standard lines shapes and colours, the paintings could generate themselves, the signs would dictate how the paintings would be made, what colours should be used, what kind of support they would need, and the material required to paint them.
Escurecendo no Copan, Tata Pedrosa
video: Tata Pedrosa e Nicolas Borja
music: Nicolas Borja
remix por: Tata Pedrosa
Duration: 02:08
'A Sunday Ride', David Medalla, Philippines
An extract of video "A Sunday Ride" - David Medalla performance in Brighton on 10 August 2003.
David Medalla David Medalla is a Filipino international artist, who was born in Manila, the Philippines in 1942. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in London, New York and Paris.
Medalla is also the diretor of the London Biennale.
The Desert Sweepers, Su-Mei Tse
click on the image to see the film
The Desert Sweepers
This strange and hallucinatory film by Su-Mei Tse depicts a collection of street sweepers brushing the desert sand into piles with plastic brooms. Occasionally the workers stop to take a break and look out over the eternal horizon before continuing with their work, yet the piles of sand never get bigger and their actions never tire, leaving the viewer the only witness to the futility of their task.
Su-Mei Tse
Su-Mei Tse's understated films, paintings and sound installations have been compared to haiku poetry for their elegant and spartan imagery. From her film of road sweepers standing in a vast line across the horizon to the image of a young woman playing a cello amid an alpine landscape, Tse finds the sublime in the poetic and the prosaic. In 2003 she represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale and won the Golden Lion award. Since then she has shown in London, Paris and New York.
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