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Close to the river

Close to the river from The Shiwiars Project, by Valéry Grancher.

Artists4life at the Women's Forum

Robert Combas

À 360 Productions presents a part of the exhibition Artists4life at the 2006 Women's Forum for the Economy and Society - October 5-7, 2006 (Deauville, France)
The second edition of the Women's Forum is being held in Deauville from October 5 to 7, 2006. The event brings together influential women from various countries to discuss major economic, social and societal issues. The forum wishes to highlight women's contribution to economic and societal issues and is also the opportunity to introduce new approaches to various topics.

The artists:
Joël Andrianomearisoa - Alecio de Andrade - Jane Evelyn Atwood - Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard - François Boisrond - Samuel Bollendorff - Chantalpetit - Robert Combas - Henri Cueco - Nathalie Decoster - Richard Di Rosa - Guy Du Toit - Patricia Erbelding - Antoine Giacomoni - Elodie Lachaud - Nicolaas Maritz - Julie Mehretu - Miss Tic - Ricardo Mosner - IngridMwangiRobertHutter - Malcome Payne - Alicia Paz - Ernest Pignon-Ernest - Jean-Marc De Pelsemaeker - Armin Pflanz - Raghad - Christian Rouchouse - Antonio Segui - Yoyo Sorlin - Tony Soulié - Sue Williamson - Duncan Wylie - Yamada - Kimiko Yoshida.

DOCUBOOM !

À 360 Productions is launching the production of DOCUBOOM, a web documentary that will examine the state of the documentary's production in France. This project will last two years. The aim is to interview selected producers and directors to share their experience with the public.

At the end of the projet, Docuboom will be projected in universities and colleges in France.

Partners of the project: Panavision - Alga Techno; Tapages.

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Lynn Davis

© Lynn Davis
"Emin Minaret of Suleiman Mosque, Turpan, China," 2001
Sepia and selenium toned gelatin silver print
40 x 40 inches
[China #4]

Lynn Davis (American, born 1944) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970. She then trained with Berenice Abbott in New York. Davis had her first exhibition in 1979 at the International Center of Photography (New York) alongside her close friend Robert Mapplethorpe. Her work underwent a dramatic shift after her first trip to Greenland in 1986 when she gave up the representation of the human form for the landscape. Setting herself in the grand tradition of nineteenth century landscape photography, and driven by a quasi encyclopedic desire to record the natural and architectural monuments of the world, Davis has since documented the pyramids of Egypt, the ancient architectural ruins of Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Italy, and of the Middle East (Israel, Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Yemen), as well as mythical natural wonders, including the Grand Geyser in Yellowstone and Wave Rock in Australia. Davis's exploration of the African continent (including Mali, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania, and a second look at Egypt) resulted in the solo show Africa held at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson in 1999. Selections of the African images appeared the same year in Wonders of the African World by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 1999 also saw the publication of Davis's second monograph, the classic Monument, released by Arena Editions.

Davis's photographs have been exhibited internationally and collected widely. Her work appears in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the J. Paul Getty Museum which held an exhibition of Davis's prints in 1999. Davis has received several commissions from public and private institutions such as the Lannan Foundation -to work on an American project -, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the Nature Conservancy -to produce a photographic survey of the High Plateau of Utah.

Davis lives and works in New York.

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Less Travelled

Less Travelled is the road chosen by those who are willing to explore one step further. It refers to less frequented synaptic routes that mediate our new experiences and sensations. To forge new pathways creates original views and new insights. These are the roads less travelled.

To travel is to discover and to exchange, to carry with you, leave behind, to mix, grind and rediscover. Through reflection and confrontation in a completely new environment we may begin to form new views from the outside in and from the inside out. The works presented in this exhibition all respond to this dilemma. Anna Boggon's poetic reflections in cast glass and resin pieces combine with her periscope-cabinet which opens onto new vertiginous realities. Lu Chunsheng's 29-minute narrative video The History Of Chemistry leaves us with an unsettling sense of bewilderment. This feeling becomes even stronger in Yue Luping's Far People Project which deals with personal displacement within constructed and mediated group identities. Lastly, David Cotterrell's self-replicating portrayal of a projected maximum density urban settlement echoes the actual backdrop of a realised dream.

Less Travelled is the concluding exhibition of the Artist Links China programme, a joint project between Arts Council England and the British Council. Artist Links seeks to nurture a fragile cross-cultural environment between China and Britain through links between contemporary arts practitioners. As a development opportunity for artists, the programme has facilitated early stage development of over 60 artists' projects in China and in England. These artists are young, emerging and established practitioners. Their work covers theatre, dance, live intervention, new music, sound work, video and other lens based practice, installation, performance, ceramics, curating, digital work and other cross art form practice. Whilst some of the artists have international reputations, all are working very effectively within their own regions and countries.

Exhibition Dates: 07/09 -04/10,2006
120 Moganshan Rd, Building 6, 2/F

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CQMD Funky Brass Band

Ceux Qui Marchent Debout
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CQMD DVD

À 360 Productions has produced videos and interactive content for the first DVD of Ceux Qui Marchent Debout, "A funky brass band obviously inspired by the New Orleans grooves and bands, but also by James Brown, Charles Brown (they did a Go-Go cover) and others. " (source: David Byrne)

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Crossing the Sahara

© marine lefebvre

À 360 Productions has worked with Régis Belleville, an adventurer trying to cross the Saharan Desert from West to East. Our collaboration has resulted in the creation of a website, helping him to connect to the public and build relationships with other media during his expedition.

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