June 27, 2009 at 9:59 pm · Filed under Installation, art, art and politics, labotanica news, music, new media, news, opportunity, performance, time-based art, video art
Low Lives is a new exhibition of live performance-based works by artists from different parts of the world and projected in real time at FiveMyles in Brooklyn, NY; Diaspora Vibe Gallery in Miami, FL; and labotanica, Houston, TX. Low Lives is curated by Jorge Rojas.
Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks, though seldom utilized for performance art, provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting and viewing performances. Low Lives is about not simply the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time but also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium. Low Lives embraces works with a lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a raw, DIY and sometimes voyeuristic quality to the transmission and reception of the work.
Artists selected to participate in this exhibition will transmit their work live through Ustream.tv a platform that allows for anyone with a computer, webcam and internet connection to broadcast live. Interested artists are encouraged to visit Ustream.tv and their Help Center page to familiarize them with the site.
Submission Requirements:
-Artists interested can submit previously created works or new work to be considered through links to artist’s websites or other web destinations. Duration of works must be under 5 minutes to be considered
- Artist statement including how work relates to the theme
- CV
- Email all submission materials to: keoqui@gmail.com
Important Dates:
June 30th- Submission deadline
July 15th- Artists notified on selection
August 8th- Show opens at FiveMyles, Diaspora Vibe Gallery & labotanica- 6:00 – 9:00 pm (EST)
June 21, 2009 at 8:54 am · Filed under art, art and politics, caribbean art, film/cinema, latin american art, new media, painting, performance, photography, public art, time-based art, video art
Posted by artistboard: Carolina Vasquez
www.labiennale.org
Istituto Italo-Latino Americano
Commissioner: Patricia Rivadeneira. Curator: Irma Arestizabal. Assistant Commissioner: Alessandra Bonanni. Venue: Artiglierie, Arsenale
Bolivia Mariano Gastón Ugalde
Colombia Alberto Baraya, Luis Roldán
Cuba Carlos Garaicoa, Ramsés Larzábal
Ecuador Fernando Falconi
El Salvador Nils Nova
Guatemala Darío Escobar
Honduras Paul Ramírez Jonas
Peru Sandra Gamarra
Dominican Republic Raquel Paiewonsky
Costa Rica
Federico Herrero
Natura e sogni (Venue: Università Ca’ Foscari, Facoltà di Economia, San Giobbe, Cannaregio)
Francisco Córdoba, Giuseppe Carta, Raffaele De Rosa
Curators: Francesco Elisei, Gregorio Rossi
May 19, 2009 at 1:58 pm · Filed under ARCHIVE, Installation, african diaspora, film/cinema, gay, obituaries, queer, rebirth, transgender
“Another icon has been dimmed. Octavia St. Laurent, who was one of the stars of Jennie Livingston’s seminal 1990 voguing documentary Paris Is Burning and who more recently graced Wolfgang Busch’s update film How Do I Look, passed away on the 17th. I’m waiting on details, but in the meantime let me tell you that Octavia radiated sheer sweetness as she pursued modeling, singing, and activism, all with the glow of a goddess.” michael musto, village voice
view st. laurent in paris is burning
source: http://whatilike.wordpress.com
May 15, 2009 at 12:20 pm · Filed under BLOG, event, exhibition
image: wura-natasha ogunji
Exit Art
May 20 – July 25, 2009
Opening: Wednesday, May 20, 7-10pm
Négritude, an experimental multi-disciplinary exhibition at Exit Art, explores the visionary 20th century political and artistic movement of the same name — coined by the Martinican poet, playwright, and politician Aimé Césaire in the 1930s — which flourished among Black intellectuals in post-World War I Paris and later spread to Africa, the United States and the Caribbean.
This exhibition seeks to define Négritude as an “archipelago”, with many “islands”, or perspectives.Négritude is an idea that developed in distinct ways in different countries due, in part, to language, culture, and the political climate. Exit Art — to reflect this diversity and to offer varying perspectives — invited four other individuals to organize this project in collaboration.
Négritude includes different “islands” created and produced by five individuals (Papo Colo, Tânia Cypriano, Rose Myriam Réjouis, Franklin Sirmans, Greg Tate) who are curators, cultural critics, scholars, filmmakers and artists, representing African-American, African, Caribbean and South American cultures. Over the course of several months, these individuals met to share their ideas and develop their “islands.” Each person was asked to produce their “island” of Négritude by presenting an exhibition of visual art; film screenings; music; performances; and/or public activities that detail their own experience, interest, or study of Négritude.
Négritude was a celebration of shared black heritage and an affirmation and valorization of pan-African identity and was a direct response to the effects of the African slave trade, French colonization of West Africa, and the New World plantation system. The beginnings of the Afro-Caribbean movement can be traced to literary movements in Puerto Rico and Cuba through the writing of Puerto Rican poet Luis Pales Matos, whose poem “Black Town” was published in 1927, and the Cuban Nicolas Guillen, although Cesaire’s version of Négritude would eventually eclipse them. Under the influence of Césaire, the Guianan Léon Damas, and Léopold Sédar Senghor, the future president of Senegal, Négritude became a global movement, ultimately becoming radicalized and re-envisioned as a strict rejection of the domination of “the West”.
Showcasing several generations of African-American, Caribbean, South American and African artists, performers and writers, Négritude features work that examines the history, impact, and transmutations of this cultural movement. It looks beyond the historical Négritude movement to investigate also the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism in the 1920s and 30s and contemporary responses to the concept of “blackness, highlighting the post-Civil Rights generation of black artists who have new perspectives on racial identity and politics.
Through a series of mini-exhibitions, film screenings, performances, readings, stories and discussions, Exit Art will examine the historical effects and contemporary impact of Négritude by exploring its archipelago, island by island.
Conceived by Papo Colo. Produced by Papo Colo, Tânia Cypriano, Rose Réjouis, Franklin Sirmans, and Greg Tate.
May 6, 2009 at 3:30 am · Filed under BLOG, public art, sound
Artist-run space in Houston launches!
Call for Entries
espacio-audio: audio projects
Deadline: June 1, 2009
Houston, Texas
espacio-audio (audio space) is a curated site-specific audio frequency dedicated to the promotion/ experimentation of audio art. It was created to addresses the lack of audio exhibition spaces in Houston, to serve as an outlet for audio experimentation, to promote audio artists within/ outside of the city of Houston and to challenge the physical boundaries of exhibition space through sound. It is drive-up/ walk-up site-specific frequency and is currently one of a handful of audio friendly exhibition spaces in Houston.
espacio-audio is currently seeking audio art proposals for our 2009-2010 season. The selected pieces will be aired for a three-month period at various locations throughout Houston. We are looking for works that transcend the existing perimeters of audio art. The pieces can be, but are not limited to, challenging, soothing, confronting or projecting opaque thought. There are no limitations on topics or proposed themes, no preference to abstraction or solidity of sound. We are simply looking for thought provoking proposals laced with innovation.
To apply please email the items listed below along with a description sheet and your audio sample to espacioaudio@gmail.com.
1) Overview of you project (500 words)
2) Description/theory behind your audio sample (1-2 pages)
2) Curriculum Vitae with updated address, phone number and email
3) Web site, blog and/or online audio samples
Applications must be received by June 1, 2009, 5:30 p.m. (This is not a post-marked deadline). Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. For additional information please visit http://espacio-audio.blogspot.com/
May 5, 2009 at 3:45 am · Filed under BLOG, latin american art
Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Video Performance, 4 min
2nd Biennial of the End of the World (Bienal del Fin del Mundo)
Intemperie - Exposed to the Elements
24 April - 25 May 2009
Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
As a continuation of the 1st Biennial of the End of the World, which took place in 2007 as a contribution to the International Polar Year, the event’s second edition deals again with the particular location of the place at the very edge of our inhabited world. But the theme of the second Biennial in 2009 is much broader: Intemperie (in Spanish “anomaly of the weather”, also used in a la intemperie as “without shelter”) is about the relationship between mankind and climate, and its threatening effects.
The 2nd edition of the Bienal del Fin del Mundo is divided in several chapters, some of them before and some after the main exhibition in Ushuaia.
2nd Biennial of the End of the World
Main exhibition in Ushuaia
Participants:
42 artists and groups
Venues:
Hangar, old aiport
5,000 sqm, at the shore of the Beagle Channel. Central venue of the Biennial, including more than 20 works, mainly video installations
Usina, old power plant
Works of 3 artists
Museo Marítimo (Ex-Presidio)
Old prison, now Maritime Museum.
Works of 9 artists
Public space
Installations of 8 artists
Cinema
Film installation “Rain” by Thomas Demand
Perito Moreno Glacier
600 km north of Ushuaia, in the Los Glaciares National Park. Projects by Esteban Alvarez.
Punta Arenas
In Chile, 250 km Northwest of Ushuaia, at the Strait of Magellan. Project by Sebastián Preece.
Email: info@bienalfindelmundo.org
Website: www.bienalfindelmundo.org
April 26, 2009 at 7:03 am · Filed under BLOG, Installation, Lecture, Writing/ Literature, feminism, latin american art, performance, time-based art, video art
"No Perdemos Nada con Nacer", Regina Jose Galindo
Performing Localities: Recent Guatemalan Performance Art on Video
iniva at Rivington Place (London, UK)
May 5th & 6th
Performing Localities explores the localised conditions within Guatemala and the artist’s body. Artists investigate the complex and contradictory relationships between indigenous traditions, patriarchal systems and corporate globalisation. Works are screened for the first time in the UK.
Artists include María Adela Díaz, Dario Escobar, Regina José Galindo, Jessica Lagunas, Anibal Lopez, Angel Poyon, and Sandra Monterroso.
Speakers include Guatemalan critic and curator Rosina Cazali, Professor Oriana Baddeley, Dr. Julian Stallabrass and curator Joanne Bernstein.
Iniva creates exhibitions, publications, multimedia, education and research projects, designed to bring the work of artists from culturally diverse backgrounds to the attention of the widest possible public.
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April 22, 2009 at 9:12 pm · Filed under BLOG, funding, labotanica news, opportunity
- labotanica announces grants program for creative projects
- low lives call for artists
- labotanica seeks home in houston, texas
- labotanica magazine #1: classifieds, call for entries
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labotanica announces grants program for creative projects
labotanica’s grants program offers small support for creative projects that intersect creativity and social transformation. Offered twice a year, grants are supported by ten dollar donations from the public. Grant awards vary depending on total donations contributed by the deadline. To apply, submit an online proposal and make a ten dollar donation via PayPal. The grants program is developed from a belief that funding should be accessible and reciprocal. labotanica funds small scale projects that have the potential to multiply and be much more. This money is seen as seed money to develop one time projects or projects that could seek more funding in the future. Works of all media and genres are considered, and applicants of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Potential projects could range from community gardens, murals, research, activism, writing, interventions, and workshops, among others. Grant deadlines are twice a year in January and July.
Next deadline: July 15, 2009/ Current balance: $200.00
Apply Support
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Low Lives: Call to Artists
Low Lives is a new exhibition of live performance-based works by artists from different parts of the world and projected in real time at FiveMyles in Brooklyn, NY; Diaspora Vibe Gallery in Miami, FL; and labotanica, Houston, TX. Low Lives is curated by Jorge Rojas.
Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks, though seldom utilized for performance art, provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting and viewing performances. Low Lives is about not simply the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time but also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium. Low Lives embraces works with a lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a raw, DIY and sometimes voyeuristic quality to the transmission and reception of the work.
Artists selected to participate in this exhibition will transmit their work live through BlogTV, a platform that allows for anyone with a computer, webcam and internet connection to broadcast live. Interested artists are encouraged to visit BlogTV and their FAQ page to familiarize them with the site.
Submission Requirements:
-Artists interested can submit previously created works or new work to be considered through links to artist’s websites or other web destinations. Duration of works must be under 5 minutes to be considered
- Artist statement including how work relates to the theme
- CV - Email all submission materials to: keoqui@gmail.com
Important Dates: June 30th: Submission deadline; July 15th: Artists notified on selection; August 8th: Show opens at FiveMyles, Diaspora Vibe Gallery & labotanica- 6:00 – 9:00 pm (EST)
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labotanica seeks home in houston, texas
labotanica is searching for an office space, and home for our budding archive and for future public programs. We are are open to sharing space in existing offices, warehouses, studios and organizations. Please contact us if you’d like a new neighbor, or have ideas for a future home for labotanica, preferably donated space.
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labotanica magazine #1: classifieds, call for entries
The next theme for labotanica’s proposition’s series is Classifieds. We are seeking any classified ads you may have for love, work, and creative exchange. Select ads will be posted for free in a online/ PDF printed magazine available to the public in the summer issue of labotanica (July/ August). Ads must be submitted by July 15, 2009. There are no parameters for the ad. This is an opportunity for exchange, collaboration, and dialogue. Submit ad at: la@labotanica.org
http://www.labotanica.org/news.html
April 20, 2009 at 7:41 pm · Filed under BLOG, funding, grant, performance, time-based art
Announcing The Franklin Furnace Fund, supported by Jerome Foundation and the
Starry Night Fund of Tides Foundation. Applications are being accepted from
now through the postmark deadline of May 1, 2009.
Each year Franklin Furnace awards grants to emerging artists, allowing them
to produce major works in New York. Works may engage the Internet as an art
medium and/or venue. Grants may range between $2,000 and $10,000. Artists
from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; full-time students are
ineligible.
Franklin Furnace has no curator; each year a new panel of artists reviews
all proposals. We believe that this peer panel system allows all kinds of
artists from all over the world an equal shot at presenting their work.
Every year the panel changes, as do the definitions of ‘emerging artist’,
‘performance art’ and ‘variable media art’. So if at first you don’t
succeed, please try again.
Since its inception in 1985 THE FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND has boosted the
careers of such emerging artists as Tanya Barfield, Patty Chang, Papo Colo,
Brody Condon, Karen Finley, John Fleck, Kate Gilmore, Murray Hill, Holly
Hughes, Mouchette, William Pope.L, Pamela Sneed, Jack Waters, Cathy Weis,
and Ricardo Miranda Zuniga.
For complete application details please visit www.FranklinFurnace.org and
click on “For Artists.” Thank you very much.
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
80 Arts - The James E. Davis Arts Building
80 Hanson Place, #301
Brooklyn, NY 11217-1506
T 718 398 7255
F 718 398 7256
http://www.franklinfurnace.org
mail@franklinfurnace.org
JOIN TODAY!
http://www.franklinfurnace.org/support/membership2008/index.html
Michael Katchen, Senior Archivist
Angel Nevarez, Program Coordinator
Harley Spiller, Administrator
Susie Tofte, Project Cataloguer
Martha Wilson, Founding Director
Judith L. Woodard, Financial Manager
March 29, 2009 at 6:28 am · Filed under Writing/ Literature, feminism, news, writers
Posted by: Carolina/ Artist Board
WETLANDS by Charlotte Roche translated
by Tim Mohr
Review by the Guardian
If you ever wondered what you’d be like if you weren’t shy, polite, tolerant, modest, sexually repressed, logical and constrained by modern standards of hygiene, this may be the book for you. Charlotte Roche’s heroine, Helen, is a wistful feminist creation, a walking, talking, bleeding, masturbating, haemorrhoid-bedecked apologist for anal sex and home-made tampons. She’s not without a touch of Munchausen’s, too, trying to use a self-induced hospital emergency to reunite her long-estranged parents.
This nut sees no connection between her delight in bacteria (she likes to rub her vulva all over public toilet seats, mopping up the stray pubic hairs and excretions of strangers) and the anal blister and concomitant infection that now require surgery of the bleakest kind. Most patients would subside into misery and humiliation afterwards, desperately awaiting release - either from “the ass ward” or from life itself. But Helen, despite a fear of never having a working sphincter again, embarks on an amorous pursuit of one of the nurses, and a campaign to spread her blood, germs and pee throughout the hospital.
In quieter moments she tends her avocado garden, which she forced her mother to transport to the hospital. A row of avocado pits stand sentinel to our heroine’s antics and, apart from being used occasionally as dildos, strike a quiet, restrained note in contrast to Helen’s feverish mixture of horniness, confusion, indignation and bloody-minded good cheer.
As with Chuck Palahniuk, there’s a consistent - and somewhat formulaic - endeavour here to gross you out. Helen is keen to inform us, repeatedly, that every squeezable, drainable, detachable substance produced by the body (hers, her lovers’, or yours) can be and should be eaten - except hair, which she shaves off weekly, and ear wax, for which she shows unexpected disdain. There’s no mention of belly button fluff either - but blackheads, snot, puke, pus, scabs, tears, smegma, eyelid crumbs, vaginal discharges, menstrual blood and other gunk are all acceptable fodder, especially when dried to a crust under the fingernails. “I’m my own garbage disposal. Bodily secretion recycler,” she tells us proudly. The passage in which she rips open her own wound to prolong her stay in hospital is even more challenging for the weak-stomached reader.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/07/charlotte-roche-wetlands-lucy-ellmann
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