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Entrevista a R. Kapuscinski

Saló de lectura. Entrevista a R. Kapuscinski (spanish)

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski died on January 23, 2007, at the age of 74. As a foreign correspondent, Kapuscinski covered coups and revolutions in the developing world for forty years. Many of his articles appeared in a series of books that made him famous: The Soccer War, Another Day of Life, and Shah of Shahs. Listen to this interview originally aired in 1988.

Valéry Grancher

Valéry Grancher, “The Shiwiars Project” author won the artistic project call organized by Art aux Poles and IPEV (the french polar institute Paul Emile Victor). It was announced over Internet and on the palais de tokyo website: This french international Art Center brought together the people herafter to constitute a jury: Caroline Bourgeois (Le plateau), Marc Sanchez (Palais de tokyo), Françsoise Vincent and Elohim Feria (Art aux Poles), Alain Lesquer (French Polar Institute Paul Emile Victor).
This year, during the summer in the fourth polar year context Valery Grancher will stay at the german french scientist base called Cordel. This French man is one of the first to carry out an artistic project to Ny Alesund in Svalbard! 125 years after the first international polar Year and 50 years after the international geophysical Year, international scientific community organizes the fourth international polar Year of March 2007 at Mars 2008. There is no doubt that this year will focus good number of media fires on the scientific, climatic, strategic, energy, policies related to these territories and why not artistic? Thus its project will name “Ny Alesund Pôle 0”!
You will be able to follow the advance of this project on his new blog, there

Kalash film

Kalash
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Cornelis van Voorthuizen - Photoinstallation

Detail from: Ukraine

The Memory Carpet
The current installation at Gallery G18 (27.2-4.3) is a big mosaic compiled of the photographers life and work during the last decade from past to present. Moments of impact, flashbacks, encounters with friends - a carpet of memories, such as we all experience our own memories. We all like to collect pictures of important moments on the fridge or bulletinboard, moments that are precious or even life altering. The installation could be seen as a large scale fridge-installation of photos, a dialogue of images and encounters of importance. The print quality ranges from duraflex , cibachrome, different fiber papers , resin coated papers etc... the photos represent a collection of everything from snapshots to medium format.

About the artist
Since his childhood i Rwanda, Kenya and the US, the dutch photographer Cornelis van Voorthuizen has lived and travelled across all continents, photographing and making connections between friends and strangers. His work has been exhibited world-wide and published in prestigious magazines and books over the past 20 years. The passion for seeing the world through the lens has held Cornelis almost inseperable to the camera, a duo that hardly ever is seen separate from eachother.
www.photocornelis.com

Galleriet G18
Adress: Georgsgatan 18, 3:rd floor.
00120 Helsingfors
Finland
www.gallerietg18.fi

Graffiti Research Lab

Graffiti Research Lab and friends hacked together a high powered projector with some computer components and a camera to track the writings of a 60mW Green Laser on the side of a building in Rotterdam and project it as blue graffiti. See the video.

Struggle for indigenous autonomy

Los olvidados de Oaxaca
The struggle for indigenous autonomy in Mexico.

Thanks to the LIMEDDH (Liga Mexicana por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos) and the OPIZ (Organización de los Pueblos Indígenas Zapotecos), Alexa Brunet, photographer, and Yves Bonnardel, writer, undertook an extended investigation into state repression in Mexico in January - February 2006.
“Los olvidados” (the forgotten ones) brings together a series of 'on site' portraits and testimonials of Mexican villagers. The project focuses on two indigenous communities in the state of Oaxaca : Loxicha and San Juan Lalana.
The members of these communities assert their right to be liberated from a corrupt power, to live from their land, and to live autonomously and according to their own customs.

The government of the state of Oaxaca is seeking to impose their power on local representatives, in order to profit from the resources of these regions, rich in land, cattle and minerals. The people that we have presented in this investigation have all been victims of violent reprisals. People close to them have been arrested, they have been threatened, sometimes abducted, tortured, and detained without charge for having defended their rights for better living conditions.

The aim of this collaboration is to make the situation of these two communities known to the general public and to contribute as far as possible to a just resolution of the conflict.

Texts : Yves Bonnardel
Translated from French by Ivora

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Airport

Exhibtion of O-de (Aude Moynot) du 1/03 - 31/03, 2007
Espace Guillaume expo
32,rue de Picardie
75003 Paris France

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The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)

Dedicated to the increase and diffusion of information about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived.

The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth's surface. The Center embraces a multidisciplinary approach to fulfilling the stated mission, employing conventional research and information processing methodology as well as nontraditional interpretive tools.

The organization was founded in 1994, and since that time it has produced over 30 exhibits on land use themes and regions, for public institutions all over the United States, as well as overseas. Public tours have been conducted in several states, and over ten books have been published by the CLUI. CLUI Archive photographs illustrate journals, popular magazines, and books by other publishers, and have been used in non-CLUI exhibitions, and acquired by art collectors.

The CLUI exists to stimulate discussion, thought, and general interest in the contemporary landscape. Neither an environmental group nor an industry affiliated organization, the work of the Center integrates the many approaches to land use - the many perspectives of the landscape - into a single vision that illustrates the common ground in "land use" debates. At the very least, the Center attempts to emphasize the multiplicity of points of view regarding the utilization of terrestrial and geographic resources.

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Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard

Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard presents her new works at Cyrille Varet show-room, to help I Love you + or -, an awareness programme fighting against stigma towards people affected by HIV/AIDS organised by Designing Hope Africa, together with its French counterpart Dessine l'Espoir and Ithemba.

Exhibition Dates: 4/02 - 2/04, 2007

Contact:
cvaret@dessinelespoir.org
+33 1 43 46 79 18
+33 1 44 75 88 89
67 Avenue Daumesnil
75012
Paris - France

Sustainable design

Mathieu Acquart, a young designer realize a world tour in 8 months in 15 countries to meet some people and actions on the theme of sustainable design, respectful of the human kind and the environment, to improve the knowledges on this subject and to promote its use.

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Conteners, a nomadic art center

Conteners is a nomadic art center organised around merchandise containers, the 6mx2,5mx3m giant Lego blocks that one encounters along all the roads and in all the ports of the world..

Each year, the Conteners team selects at least 3 international ports and invites artists (from all artistic disciplines) in each city to take hold of a container in order to create a work of art in it.

From one to three months , artist and container are residents in a specific territory. The container, an empty and sensitive object, functions in the same way as a sponge, absorbing and compiling the elements that are an essential part of the local and popular memory and of the work in progress. The artist seizes all these elements in order to inhabit the container that will be used as a canvas, a mini concert hall, a performance theatre, a projection space, the basis of an installation...

After having been on display in the town they were originally created in, all those artistic units travel via road, rail or sea to successively compose an itinerant art centre, a great funfair of mobile art in each of the three container cities.

Through its mobility, this convoy of the arts reaching out to its audience in obsolete industrial areas and ports on the fringe of city centres redefines the relationships between society, its artists and their works...The]] www.conteners.org web site is a kind of “black box” for the project, and gives information in real time on the genesis, the progress and the situation of the container artworks, each of which are provided with a georeferenced chip card.

At the crossroads of art, science and industry, Conteners forms a network of energies, ideas and works to reinvent creativity in a world dominated by trade. At once a tool for creation and a collective work of art, a nomadic museum and an ephemeral installation, this mobile silo and symbol of standardisation aims at becoming the vehicle of the container generation dreams and utopias.

Containers are symbols of globalisation and of a growing uniformity in exchanges, but they can sometimes make up alternative, humanistic and sometimes tragic spaces : drug smuggling devices, hideouts for illegal immigrants, anti sniper walls, emergency housing during great natural disasters...As containers embody at once mobility and isolation, restriction and openness, gravity and antigravity, they offer artists a space for the imagination, an opportunity to redefine the artistic process, from the moment the work is created till the moment it encounters its audience at the four corners of the world.

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Tara expeditions

The challenge of the polar schooner Tara is to drift on the Arctic pack ice for two years. On her board, scientists take turns to study the effects of the climate warming.

In September 2006, the scientific polar schooner Tara began her Arctic drift which will last for two years. Indeed, her rounded and flat hull enables her to resist to the extreme pressures exerted on her by the pack ice and to be carried through by it.

Led by Etienne Bourgois, the expedition takes place within the International Polar Year (IPA) 2007-2008 and is a major partner of the European scientific programme DAMOCLES. This extensive programme gathers more than 45 laboratories to develop an observation and long term prediction system of the Arctic Ice Sea so as to evaluate and foresee the risks and impacts of climate changes on our environment.

Bringing together science, technology, education and communication, Tara Arctic is a great human adventure of which the aim is to raise the world citizens awareness on the importance of ecological equilibriums.

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The tranquil waters of Grasmere

© Tony West

On 8th March 2005, Steve Messam and six gallant volunteer artists floated seven large red inflatable balls, ranging from 6ft to over 12ft diameter on the tranquil waters of Grasmere, Cumbria. The half-mile long installation remained on the lake for 4 days before a change in wind direction and overnight gales forced the removal of the temporary piece.

The other idea of the installation is to challenge people's ideas of things in the Lake District landscape and to raise awareness of the inovative arts scene in the Lakes.

The piece was supported by the Cumbria Tourist Board, the National Trust, the Lake District National Park Authority and South Lakes District Council.
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Chocolate Expert

Discover David Lebowitz's blog, an American Pastry Chef and Chocolate Expert, Living In Paris. Follow is Paris' experience and listen to his advices to find some of his favorite places to get something really good to eat.

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Tracks accross time

The battle to save a unique collection of prehistoric footprints

© Teresa Manera

An endangered window into South America's ancient past has gained a new lease on life, thanks to the pioneering efforts of an Argentinian scientist intent on preserving prehistoric animal tracks etched into a remote stretch of coastline that is under threat from rising sea levels, human destruction and developers.

Teresa Manera de Bianco, a palaeontologist and geologist who, with her husband, found the fossilised tracks in 1986 when a winter storm partly blew the sand off a three-kilometre rocky shelf, has raced against time to record the tracks before rising sea levels put them permanently beyond reach. She has also struggled to convince local residents that the tracks, laid down 12,000 years ago when the area was an inland pond teeming with birds and mammals, are worth protecting from destruction.

For her endless curiosity about the animals that produced the tracks and her dedicated quest to preserve them for study by scientists and local people alike, Manera won a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2004.
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The waste of the world

We think that we’re going to read "The Way of the World", but it soon becomes evident that it’s "The Way of the World" that has got hold of us. This is how it starts: to begin with you can’t read anything else, that you can accept, but soon you can’t read anything at all. Bouvier has a way of squeezing out each moment of happiness till the very last drop and preserving the product of this distillation in the phials of his memory in order to draw on it for his survival each time that happiness can’t be found… And for you, where does that leave you? You understand intensely what an enormous turmoil it must have meant for Nicolas Bouvier to fix this journey forever in the scarcity of his words: words perfectly made one for the other, that it becomes intolerable to not be him, at the time and the place when he wrote.

We have to exorcize this book, to reopen it, to accept that it can be a companion on the road of life again- that’s to say how it is possible to recount today, to paraphrase Nicolas, what it means to "undo" "the Way of The World".

Others, dealing with the same problem, had the chance to sort out this question face to face with him. This is not the case for us. Nicolas Bouvier died in 1998. At that time we hadn’t yet been completely obsessed by "the Way". Years later , when it became pressing to offload the weight, seeing that Nicolas was long longer there, the only way to do it was to make the trip. Of course our experience might have taken shape in another way, by staying where we were for instance, but it would have taken someone else and someone much stronger to have done it that way.

More picture from Frédric Lecloux / Vu'

Tokyo's experience

Sandrine Marc shares her Tokyo's experience on her website.

Tiina Itkonen

Inughuit, is a serene tribute to the Inuit people of Greenland. Itkonen spent four months living with Polar Eskimos in 1995, 1998 and 2002. The images are from her book 'Inughuit' a portrait of the lives and landscapes of modern Polar Eskimos. Born in Helsinki, Itkonen was Finnish Young Photographer of the year 2003 and her work is already held in collections at the Helsinki City Art Museum, The Finnish Museum of Photography and the Modern Museum in Stockholm.
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Central African Republic

Frederic Sautereau, member of the Oeil Public photo agency, is just back from a travel to Central African Republic.

''More than 150,000 Central Africans had been internally displaced, conflict in the north had affected about a million people''. Toby Lanzer, United Nations Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator in Central African Republic. Press Conference, 16 January 2007.

Since October 2006, Central African Armed Forces (FACA) have burned more than 2000 houses in the only region of Kaga Bandoro. Atrocities, rapes, summary executions, burnings of villages, destruction of harvests, many witnesses accuse the Central African Armed Forces (FACA). The people run away from their villages and hide in the bush where the FACA doesn't dare entering by fear of the rebellion that appeared as an answer to Francois Bozize's access to power after the overthrow of President Patasse in 2003.
The villagers are caught between the rebels they are accused of supporting, and the Central African military. They survive near their fields wher they lack of food, care, and clothes. Only two NGOs are there, Caritas, and MSF.

According to an a 40 year old agreement, the Fench army is in Central African Republic and gives a logistical and technical support (equipment and soldiers transportation) to the Central African Armed Forces (FACA).

To discover other work from Frédéric Sautereau

Jacob Holdt

Jacob Holdt is a special photographer. You can find on his website a part of his works and ...his cv.
Extract:
"Having hitchhiked more than 5 times around the globe I thought I had the world record until I saw in Guinness that an American hitched even longer in the 60's.
Well, that was back in the days when you didn't have to wait very long for a ride...."

The Mobile Studios

From April until the end of May 2006, the Mobile Studios has travelled as a nomadic multimedia platform from Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade to Sofia, and temporarily possessed the urban spaces in these cities. The Mobile Studios are an internationally networked pilot project of a mobile, autonomous production laboratory for young artists, musicians, performers and cultural programmers. In a subsequent program, artists and cultural producers were invited to recreate the studio as directors. Mobile Studios are consisting of three corresponding units: the Editorial-, the Talk- and the Live Studio.
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Iraq In Fragments

An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied.

American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. Winner of Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing awards in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival documentary competition, the film was also awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
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Alec Soth

In the follow-up to his critically-praised monograph "Sleeping by the Mississippi", Alec Soth turns his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. But as with his photographs of the Mississippi, Soth's pictures of Niagara are less about natural wonder than human desire. "I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers," says Soth, "the relentless thunder of the Falls just calls for big passion."

While the subject may be intense, these are quiet pictures. Using a large-format 8x10 camera, the photographs are rigorously composed and richly detailed. Working over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls, Soth captures newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots and pawn shop wedding rings. Throughout the book, Soth also includes a number of love letters from the subjects he photographed. Readers are privy to intimate confessions of teenage crushes, workplace affairs, heartbreak and suicide.

Oscar Wilde wrote of the Falls, "The sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life." In Soth's "Niagara", we see both the passion and the disappointment. His pictures are a remarkable portrayal of modern love and its aftermath.
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Kimiko Yoshida

Japanese artist Kimiko Yoshida creates installations of photographic self-portraits inspired by different cultures and traditional jewels.

Here, "The Black Akha Bride, Thailand. Self-portrait". Courtesy Pace/Primitive, New York, 2004.
C-print mounted on aluminium and Diasec, edition 10, 120 x 120 cm

Installation in the desert

The group D.A.ST. is an interdisciplinary collaboration between three artists: Danae Stratou, Sculptor, Alexandra Stratou, Industrial Designer, and Stella Constantinides, Architect. The group was formed in May 1995, based on our common desire to create an installation in the desert. The parameters that we had set for this project described a site specific work of such a scale that it would be experienced through walking.
The site that was chosen is a flat expanse of sand that lies between the Red Sea and a body of mountains. The work covers an area of one hundred thousand square meters and involves the displacement of eight thousand cubic meters of sand. One hundred and seventy eight conical volumes form two interlocking logarithmic spirals that move out from a common center with a phase difference of one hundred and eighty degrees in the same direction of rotation.
One spiral consists of incised cones, while the other of protruding ones; the incised cones are the result of the displacement of sand to create the protruding cones. The center, a one thousand two hundred cubic meters earthen vessel with a W section is the union of the positive and negative cone. It is filled with water to its rim so that the protruding cone in the center forms a tiny island at the level of the horizon."
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Wine world tour

We would like to welcome you to the wineworldtour website and invite you to share our wonderful journey. Visit mouth watering to discover how our wine world tour was conceived; go to on the road to travel through 37 wine regions and almost 200 wineries; jump to the looking through the kaleidoscope page to let your imagination wander through the 17 countries we visited; follow insatiable thirst where we share with you our upcoming projects; click on cheers to read and download mementos of our adventure; finally, hit contact to get in touch with us.

Bon voyage and bons vins…
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Image Aiguë Compagnie Christiane Véricel

Since 1983, the Image Aiguë Company, under the direction of Christiane Véricel, brings together about twenty artists, technicians and administrative, to create shows with actors of different ages and nationalities, met during trips in several countries and united by the stage where they speak their own native language.

Day after day, the Image Aiguë Company was built on a collaboration between artists sharing the same aspirations. Having an acute look on the main themes of actuality, Christiane Véricel finds there the inspiration for her federating shows. Their conception and their realization generate an understanding and a strong emotion that the actors, children, teenagers and adults, share with the public.
After having worked in distant countries, since several years, it seemed essential to the Company to lead its actions more particularly in Europe. So, since 2003, the Company created a European artistic project with the title 'A singular approach : the theatre to assert oneself as a citizen of the world', which will lead it to the end of the year 2005 in Bremen (Germany), Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Chalon-sur-Saône (France), Antwerp (Belgium), Palermo (Italy).
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