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      31 Aug 2008

      Let's face it, it' is about life

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      txt: Edinburgh festival: art as theatre - What is the most theatrical visual art at this year's festival? - Jonathan Jones on blogs.guardian.co.uk
      Let's face it, Edinburgh festival is about live performance. It's about theatre, it's about comedy, and although the Edinburgh Art Festival, now into its fifth year, keeps getting stronger, it would be ludicrous to think it's visual art that brings summer crowds to the city.
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      31 Aug 2008

      Wisdom tip: keep it simple

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      txt: Monicelli, la freschezza a 93 anni 'Ma l'Italia ora è alla deriva' [Monicelli: freshness at 93 years old 'But Italy is now drifting']
      Un consiglio ai giovani cineasti? "Scegliere storie di una semplicità elementare, che è la cosa più difficile. Non mettere troppe cose e troppi personaggi nel tentativo di renderle interessanti. Sono le storie semplici che nel tempo continuano a emozionare". ------------------------------ [en] A tip for young film makers? Choose stories of elemental simplicity, which is the hardest thing. Do not put too many things and too many characters in an attempt to make them interesting. These are the simple stories that continue to emotion us over the time.
      links: 65th Venice International Film Festival Corto Cortissimo section. video: tuffo nel lago ghiacciato - Bovinonline on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBSjuYCrBE0]
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      30 Aug 2008

      These considerations aside, however

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      txt: Manifesta 7 - Frieze Magazine
      When Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, was first instituted in 1993, it was in the spirit of cultural exchange, globalization and European integration that followed the end of the Cold War. In being an itinerant entity, Manifesta had a double remit: first, to present a picture of a pan-European cultural field; and second, to reflect specifically on the often troubled border zones in which the biennial was sited. [...] The slightly uncertain focus of this year’s Manifesta reflects perhaps as much biennial fatigue as this more widespread move away from such key biennial assumptions. Indeed, spread out across four sites (in three cities and one abandoned fortress) in the affluent Italian region of Trentino–South Tyrol, the four shows that comprised Manifesta all faltered – and, interestingly, in different ways – in responding to the notion of the continent at large, or even the specific history of the locale. These considerations aside, however, Manifesta brought together some very good work.
      video: Extreme Mountain Bike Crash with 170 kph - kutlesch on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNwmpLPhoHw]
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      29 Aug 2008

      Architecture is not building

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      txt: OUT THERE - Venice Biennale Architecture 11th International Architecture Exhibition The 11th International Architecture Exhibition entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky and organised by La Biennale di Venezia presided over by Paolo Baratta, will take place in Venice from Sunday, September 14th to Sunday, November 23rd 2008. The preview will be on September 11th, 12th and 13th.
      Betsky goes on to point out “what should be an obvious fact: architecture is not building. Buildings are objects and the act of building leads to such objects, but architecture is something else. It is the way we think and talk about buildings, how we represent them, how we build them. This is architecture. More generally, architecture is a way of representing, shaping and perhaps even offering critical alternatives to the human-made environment. In fact, buildings are not enough. They are the tombs of architecture, the residue of the desire to make another world, a better world, and a world open to possibilities beyond the everyday. In a concrete sense, architecture is that which allows us to be at home in the world”. “The challenge of the 11th – underlines Betsky - is to collect and encourage experimentation in architecture. Such experimentation can take the form of momentary constructions, visions of other worlds, or the building blocks of a better world. This Biennale does not want to present buildings that are already in existence and can be enjoyed in real life. It does not want to propose abstract solutions to social problems, but wants to see if architecture, by experimenting in and on the real world, can offer some concrete forms or seductive images”.
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      28 Aug 2008

      MyCreativity Reader: please read it, you creative.

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      via: neural.it - edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter - MyCreativity Reader txt: The MyCreativity Reader - The Institute of Network Cultures
      The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into the creative industries. The material develops out of the MyCreativity Convention on International Creative Industries Research held in Amsterdam, November 2006. This two-day conference sought to bring the trends and tendencies around the creative industries into critical question. The “creative industries” concept was initiated by the UK Blair government in 1997 to revitalise de-industrialised urban zones. Gathering momentum after being celebrated in Richard Florida’s best-seller The Creative Class (2002), the concept mobilised around the world as the zeitgeist of creative entrepreneurs and policy-makers. Despite the euphoria surrounding the creative industries, there has been very little critical research that pays attention to local and national and variations, working conditions, the impact of restrictive intellectual property regimes and questions of economic sustainability. The reader presents academic research alongside activist reports that aim to dismantle the buzz-machine. colophon: Editors: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter. Editorial Assistance: Sabine Niederer. Copy Editing: Michael Jason Dieter. Design: Katja van Stiphout. Cover Image: Hendrik-Jan Grievink. Printer: Veenman Drukkers, Rotterdam. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.
      video: Here & There - (2008) by Eoghan Kidney [vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/1264493]
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      26 Aug 2008

      In Venice, everybody is always lost so you don't feel bad

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      via: The Blitheness of the Art World by Felix Salmon www.portfolio.com txt: Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton - www.amazon.com
      A couple of tables away, amid a scruffier entourage, sat John Baldessari. The sage L.A. artist was drinking a no-nonsense vodka on the rocks with his long legs stretched out in front of him. This year he was staying at the five-star Danieli... "Now I receive a lot of invitations, but I usually say no," he said with some satisfaction... Although he despairs of the social hierarchies and the "visual overload," Baldessari has come to like Venice, in part because he has a bad sense of direction. "I'll turn the wrong way coming out of the elevator every morning," he said. "In Venice, everybody is always lost, so you don't feel bad when you pass someone you know sitting at a café for the third time in ten minutes."
      video: get lost - webglia on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=365176&dest=-1]
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      23 Aug 2008

      Biennale Cinema 65th Venice Film Festival

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      txt: Biennale Cinema 65th Venice Film Festival - Introduction by the Director of the 65th Mostra, Marco Müller
      If the cinema is no longer (or almost) the cinema, this may also bring to light aspects whose positive nature is not immediately discernible. The cinema has become a whole series of ideas, forces, properties, capacities, myths and stories. And, above all, it has turned into a new way of thinking, and an original and powerful one. So that, fortunately, when we set out to track down what, in the cinema, has come after the modern, we are always exposed to the danger of contagion, from the risk of hybridization.
      ----------------------- txt: Venice Film Meeting - www.comune.venezia.it Venice Film Meeting, la consueta vetrina delle produzioni veneziane andrà in scena nei giorni della Mostra del Cinema, dall'1 al 5 settembre, alla Multisala Astra del Lido. Articolato in cinque giornate di programmazione, con proiezioni pomeridiane in programma dalle 16 e ingresso libero sino ad esaurimento dei posti, Venice Film Meeting prenderà il via lunedì 1° settembre con la prima assoluta di Chi crea Venezia, una serie di otto ritratti di altrettanti artisti del secondo Novecento realizzati dal giovane filmaker veneziano Elia Romanelli; a seguire, Fedeli alla linea del pordenonese Tommaso Lessio, un viaggio molto personale nella storia della sinistra veneziana, premio Avanti al Torino Film Festival, i tre episodi al femminile dell'ultima edizione di Raccontare Mestre (Rione Pertini di Caterina Ferruzzi, Il nostro villaggio di Mila Trevisan, Vivere al Bachmann di Cecilia Irene Massaggia), Horizons del fotogiornalista Daniele Frison, i video vincitori del concorso Scuola e dintorni, diretto da Pier Paolo Fassetta e promosso dal Coordinamento Cinema e Scuola, e infine La torre del tempo di Toni Andreetta, che documenta i momenti salienti del recente restauro della Torre dell'Orologio di Piazza San Marco. La seconda giornata (martedì 2 settembre) sarà aperta dal documentario di Beatrice Barzaghi Con tocco lieve, che racconta i tempi e i luoghi delle donne nella Venezia di oggi, seguito dal reportage in Palestina di Piero Fontana e Nandino Capovilla Proprio così - Storie di quotidiana occupazione, dai video premiati alla quinta edizione del Videoconcorso Pasinetti, diretto da Giovanni Andrea Martini, dal corto a soggetto del filmaker lidense Enrico Mengotti Doppio binario, dal thriller d'amore di Solenn Le Marchand Mme Bateau e infine dal documentario di Pierandrea Gagliardi Pai nestri fogolârs, che ricostrusice la storia della Brigata partigiana Osoppo. Mercoledì 3 settembre apertura di programma con Le strade di Equal di Manuela Pellarin, un viaggio nel Veneto dei nuovi scenari lavorativi realizzato nell'ambito del progetto omonimo, seguito dal corto di Andrea Rossi e Mila Trevisan Linving Will, sul delicato tema della donazione degli organi, dai Corti in corsa del concorso ideato in occasione dell'ultima edizione della Su e zo per i ponti, dai lavori del laboratorio Mestre8luoghi, dal corto dell'Associazione Settimo Binario Niente sangue e infine dal documentario di Alessandro Munzi Ma questa storia non è importante, che descrive la vita quotidiana di una piccola comunità del Cadore. Giovedì 4 settembre, penultima giornata del festival con Robe da ciodi di Bibi Bozzato con Paola Brolati, Nero pece di Marco Rizzo, messosi in evidenza all'ultimo Mestre Film Fest, i lavori vincitori di Venice&Video, il documentario degli studenti del Liceo Morin Liberazione - La beffa del Teatro Goldoni, pagina indimenticabile della Resistenza veneziana, e infine Home (stories) dell'artista iraniana Ghazel Radpay, un film-performance realizzato in occasione della Biennale Teatro sui temi dell'asilo politico. Venerdì 5 settembre, ultima giornata del festival, apertura internazionale con la Venezia dell'artista moscovita Tatiana Danilyants, autrice dell'inedito Hidden Garden, seguito dal documentario di Valentina Monti Uganda Calling, prodotto da Mestiere Cinema, dai Micrometraggi di un giorno qualunque realizzati dagli studenti delle scuole superiori veneziane e mestrine nell'ambito del primo concorso per brevi filmati realizzati con i telefonini, dal documentario del giornalista Maurizio Crema e di Enrico Stocco Sulle ali del Leone e infine dal documentario di Antonio Pintus Mea culpa, che indaga sul folle progetto nazista di eutanasia dei cosiddetti malati di mente. Tutti i film e gli autori di Venice Film Meeting saranno presentati alla stampa nel corso degli incontri di mezzogiorno condotti da Marco Duse e in programma presso lo stand informativo della Venice Film Commissione, allestito nei locali a piano terra dell'ex Casinò, dove tutti i film della rassegna restano in consultazione permanente. Presentazioni in sala a cura di Erica Buzzo. Per informazioni: Comune di Venezia - Beni e Attività Culturali - Ufficio Attività Cinematografiche Palazzo Mocenigo San Stae 1991 30125 Venezia Tel. 041.5241320 - fax 041.5241342 circuitocinema@comune.venezia.it www.comune.venezia.it/cinema/ video: Venezia con gli occhi di un Gatto - Venice Film Meeting 2008 Opening - directed by Lucio Schiavon [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0QqxGRWp_M]
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      10 Aug 2008

      Venice Biennale 2009: UK, Swiss

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      link: - L'OFC envoie Silvia Bächli et Fabrice Gygi à la 53e Biennale artistique internationale de Venise (en) The OFC sends Silvia Bächli and Fabrice Gygi at the 53rd Biennale in Venice - Steve Mcqueen to represent Britain at the 2009 Venice Biennale video: Happy Tree Friends: Just Desert - MondoMedia on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr3e50OyDSo]
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      3 Aug 2008

      The artist today is no longer a simple producer of metaphors

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      txt: L'arte di reti e relazioni, la net art e la condivisione ("Network art and relations, net art and sharing") - Punto Informatico
      [en] The artist today is no longer a simple producer of metaphors. His is not a mere symbolic function in society. It is vice versa an active partecipatore involved "directly" in production processes and social problems around them. It is this sensitivity to work cooperatively, to be able to perceive and interact with the processes social and anthropological, as well as technological, keeping firmly in front of where the beacon of ethical values-oriented common good, instead of profit, this is the sensitivity and the priority that the school must be able to convey to their students. The keywords of the School are terms like report, cooperation, interdisciplinareità, interaction, intercreatività or communication. --------------- [it] L'artista oggi non è più un semplice produttore di metafore. La sua non è una mera funzione simbolica all'interno della società. È viceversa un partecipatore attivo che interviene "direttamente" nei processi produttivi e sociali che lo circondano. È questa sensibilità al lavoro cooperativo, al saper intuire ed interagire con i processi sociali ed antropologici, oltre che tecnologici, mantenendo ben saldo di fronte a se il faro dei valori etici orientati al bene comune, anziché al profitto individuale, è questa la sensibilità e la priorità che la Scuola deve saper trasmettere ai propri studenti. Le parole chiave della Scuola sono termini come relazione, cooperazione, interdisciplinareità, interazione, intercreatività, oppure comunicazione.
      video: "Face Gear" by Giuseppe Ragazzini [vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/1045435]
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      20 Jul 2008

      Venice Biennale 2009: Canada

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      see also: Venice Biennale 2009 first entries txt: Artist Mark Lewis will represent Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale of Visual Art
      It is critical that Canadian contemporary artists travel and exhibit their works internationally, said Robert Sirman, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, and there is no more prestigious international venue in the visual arts than the Venice Biennale. The Council is proud to play a major role in the Canadian representation in Venice. We are deeply proud and thrilled to be able to present Mark Lewis’ new project at the Venice Biennale, says Barbara Fischer. Often focusing on singular moments in the contemporary urban or rural environment, his quietly majestic works offer a cinematic experience of time while remarking on the ruptures of history. They combine, in a new way, pictorial traditions with the genres and techniques of film to analyze both, and thereby offer poignant perspectives on the displacements that characterize modern life.
      video: Copa Cabana- by Liza Manelli (Muppet Show Segment) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eek-XeZvHn0]
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