While reflecting on arts in the wake of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake, the coming second Aichi Triennale, “Awakening – Where Are We Standing? – Earth, Memory and Resurrection,” will bring together from within and outside Japan cutting-edge contemporary arts, performing arts including dance and theater, and operas which manifest and resonate with the socio-political reverberations occurring in various areas of the world.
The curatorial proposal for the Ninth Edition of the Mercosul Biennial conceptually focuses on the interaction between nature and culture, and the ways in which visual artists address unknown, unpredictable and seemingly uncontrollable phenomenon. The curatorial endeavor of the Mercosul Biennial considers the natural causes and effects that propel human travel and social displacement, technological advancement and world development, vertical expansions in space and transversal explorations through time. It involves looking at the affections these movements inflect, the affects that manifest. It entails dwelling, mining, investigating and exploring what is underneath and above the social realm.
The “Serial Box Video Festival” is an intermittent public exhibition in downtown Columbia, Missouri, organized with support from the University of Missouri. Serial Box Projects seeks submissions for the latest installment of this ongoing project. Materials must be received by October 24, 2012.
Through the Roadblocks exhibition consists of 12 collaborative artworks curated by Antonis Danos & Helene Black.
The challenge facing the curators has been the consideration of what is the art of a place or region or, more importantly, what are the problems associated with curating an exhibition from a politically and geographically defined region, namely, the Mediterranean and the Near East, a space punctuated with roadblocks and borders as agents of exclusion and obstacles to crossings. Nonetheless, people and ideas do cross roadblocks exposing the porosity and instability of these enforced demarcation lines. Many artists’ works from this region propose a transnational narrative, suggesting that notions of collectivity and shared identity are much more fluid and circumstantial than narratives of nationalism and/or ethnicity would have us believe.
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group have joined forces to strengthen their commitment to encourage cultural diversity and coexistence among communities. The BMW Group Award for Intercultural Innovation, in support of the Alliance of Civilizations, under the auspices of the United Nations (otherwise known as the Intercultural Innovation Award) searches for innovative and sustainable projects around the world that are encouraging dialogue and cooperation among people from different cultural backgrounds using novel and creative methods.
Cda-Projects Grant has offered a €10,000 grant annually since 2011 to support the production of an artistic research project.
The Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art will be held from 19 September-20 October 2013 at Manege in Moscow. The Curator will be Catherine de Zegher. The Commissioner and Artistic Director of the Biennale is Joseph Backstein.
We are looking for 15 feature-length audio-visual concepts that can be made within €150,000 and could be completed – developed, produced and edited – within 5 months and screened at the Biennale in 2013!
The Call is open from the 30th of August 2012 to the 22nd of October 2012 only to teams of directors at their first or second feature and producers with variable degrees of expertise who must have produced at least 3 short films distributed and/or presented at Festivals.
There is no age limit and no participation fee. Participants will have to cover their travel costs but there will be the possibility – for participants travelling from outside Europe – to request a scholarship to partially or totally cover these costs.
The Artistic Director of the Venice International Film Festival and his team will complete the selection by the beginning of December 2012. The selected teams will then sign an agreement with the Biennale that assures their presence throughout the whole Biennale College – Cinema process.
Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland is seeking proposals for an upcoming major exhibition OSCILLATOR.
ArtistTalk Culture and Knowledge platform invites you to submit your video recordings to an international competition for the best interview with an artist or cultural worker of any medium, profile or age.
ArtistTalk is an online collection of interviews about art and culture, to which you may contribute with a video interview. We invite you to engage in conversation with your favourite or least favourite artists, ask the right questions, engage in a debate on their work, and share your interview with everyone on ArtistTalk!
SB 2013 is inviting artists to submit their proposals for consideration. All material will be reviewed by members of the curatorial team and shortlisted artists may be invited for further discussion with the curators and possible inclusion in the Biennale. The open call begins from Friday, 7 September and will close on 21 December 2012.
The fourth edition of Singapore’s premier contemporary art exhibition, Singapore Biennale 2013 (SB 2013), will return in 2013! Titled “If The World Changed,” it will take place from 26 October 2013 to 16 February 2014.
The 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art will comprise engaging presentations and thought-provoking speakers and discussions. Join us for informed dialogues, dynamic debates, enlightening keynotes and experimental incursions into the extensive and diverse practice of electronic media arts.
The Open Competition is open to any photographer aged 18 or over – whether amateur, professional, or student. The Syngenta Photography Award is an invitation to create images that make people stop and think.
The Swedenborg International Short Film Festival 2012 is now open for entries. Following the success of last year, we hope the festival will continue to establish itself as an annual landmark event on the UK film calendar.
The Society for the Humanities focal theme for 2013-2014 is “OCCUPATION: From Space and Time to Practice and Politics.” Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. Selected Fellows will collaborate with the Director, Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, an international research center on new media. The Senior Scholars in Residence will be Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, and Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley.
Art is getting noisier every day. Whether made by sculptors, video artists, composers, printmakers or installation artists, there’s no question but that “Sound Art” is a genre ascendant. The Turner Prize went to a Sound Artist last year, phonography has revived an interest in R. Murray Schafer’s Soundscape theories, and critical writing is beginning to proliferate on the topic. It’s time for Leonardo Music Journal to give this field a closer look.
The Through The Roadblocks: Realities In Raw Motion conference is co-organised by NeMe, the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts (Art History and Theory Research Lab) of the Cyprus University of Technology, and the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture.
Through the Roadblocks: realities in raw motion aims to examine the complex dynamics and often overlooked inter-connections between inclusion and exclusion, sharing and denial, identity and borders, the status of citizenship and the fundamental aporia of democracy in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Akbank Sanat announces the first edition of the International Curator Competition. Curators from around the world are encouraged to submit proposals by November 5, 2012.
SIMULTAN is a festival dedicated to media art and artistic experiment, which aims to create a bond between different media and encourage new and innovative forms of artistic expression, in the field of visual, sound art and music.
