STANDING STILL / TRAVELLING SLOWLY (VIDEO) consists of 10 split-screen tapes with a total duration of 19 hours. They are projected floor to ceiling, up to 6x16 meters. Each film is composed of 2 synchronized DVCam tapes, shown side by side. The soundtrack consists of in-camera ambient recordings creating a fake stereo effect and repetitive echoes. The films were shot in 10 different countries all over the world.
UHC (Ultimate Holding Company) is an inter-disciplinary art collective, based in Manchester in the UK. Founded in 2002, they work collaboratively over multiple media as well as running a not-for-profit workers co-op specialising in graphic design and visual communications for an ethical client list.
Some of their projects:
Carbon Map //2006
UHC collaborated with inter disciplinary art collective Platform on a commission for the Transport Planning Society.
Who
Based
on research from Platform, UHC created a carbon map of the world
showing global locations of oil and gas production, consumption and
impact. The large format print will be displayed at the Transport
Planning Society's London headquarters and at events around the UK.
The Transport
Planning Society
The
Transport Planning Society is a society for the benefit of the
community, to facilitate, develop and promote knowledge, understanding
and best practice in transport planning.
Luncheon on the Barge
As part of the Futuresonic 2006 festival, UHC took part in a collaborative project with artist Gustaff Iskandar from Bandung, Indonesia.
Who
Gustaff Iskandar, director of the Common Room arts project in Bandung, Indonesia, visited Manchester to stage his 'Luncheon on the Barge' project on the Bridgewater Canal.
What
Gustaff came to Manchester in order to collect stories and narratives from the city and to tell stories from his own. He wanted to form a comparative study of Manchester and Bandung, two cities from different continents but both undergoing the effects of neo-liberal governance.
How
UHC introduced Gustaff to Manchester, helping him research his project. An artist from UHC then took part in the 'Luncheon on the Barge' with four other participants including a Libyan refugee and a local environmental campaigner. 'Luncheon on the Barge' consisted of an exchange of stories between Gustaff and the Mancunian residents and a comparison of the narratives of Manchester and Bandung.
Power lines in the desert near Dubai,
taken by Mariana Canepa Luna during a recent visit to Sharjah, UAE
RSA Arts & Ecology supports the work of the arts in examining and addressing social and environmental concerns in an interdisciplinary and international arena. The entire programme is informed by the notion of ecology as the study of relationships between an individual and their cultural, social, political, economic and natural environments, and by the belief that the arts can play a central role in providing creative insights into the challenges facing contemporary society.
Initiated in April 2005, the programme has since consisted of a series of initiatives including conferences, ongoing discourse, international research trips, education pilots, artists’ projects and commissions, and a publication. The RSA is creating a growing network of groups and individuals concerned with the issues - alongside and working with other organisations who have similar concerns. These include Tipping Point, Cape Farewell and Arts Catalyst. More information about these projects can be found throughout this website.
Over the next three years, the ambition of the RSA Arts & Ecology programme is to become an international hub and a portal to increase the level of information and exchange. The project will act as a catalyst in seeking to involve a far greater number of artists, while simultaneously supporting, profiling and helping develop the visibility of artists' work, sharing the outcomes and experience with others.
Vivan Sundaram
Father – Daughter from the series Retake of Amrita 2001
© Vivan Sundaram
Exhibition at the Tate Modern
28 February
–
22 April 2007
Amrita Sher-Gil’s vibrant canvasses and her short but dynamic life have established her as one of India’s most celebrated modern artists. Born in Budapest in 1913, to a Hungarian mother and Sikh father, she trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where she became influenced by Realism. Upon returning to India, she adopted this modernist approach to portray the poor and yet colourful lives of local people, making her art a true fusion of east and west. This eye-opening display presents several of her vivid paintings, alongside revealing photomontages by her nephew, Vivan Sundaram.
Delete! Delettering the Public Space was a huge public installation
that took place on Neubaugasse in Viennain June 2006. During this two-week period, all signage have been covered by yellow
foils and plastic. All signage (barring those needed for safety),
company logos, advertising, symbols and pictograms were obscured in
order to focus on various aspects to this art project organized by
Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf.
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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
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 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.
Exhibtion of O-de (Aude Moynot) du 1/03 - 31/03, 2007
Espace Guillaume expo
32,rue de Picardie
75003 Paris France
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.
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
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.
© 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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Sandrine Marc shares her Tokyo's experience on her website.
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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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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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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Discover the beautiful work of Olivier Culmann / Tendance Floue in Kolmanskop, Grillenthal, Bogenfels, Pomona, Elizabeth Bay...lost towns in the Namib desert.
© arthur andrieu
À 360 Productions has presented during the Villeneuve-sur-Lot book fair, the exhibition "The Sahara of the culture and the people", created by our team to explain their mission and programs in the Sahara. 14 well known artists have shown their artistic works.
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.
© 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.
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
