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      4 Sep 2010

      Infart 2010 – hello nasty!

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      INFART 2010 – HELLO NASTY! 3-4-5 September – Bassano del Grappa (VI) Italy Urban art, Music & Conference Festival

      txt: Infart 2010 – hello nasty!

      After the success of the previous editions Infart strikes back among the most important European Urban Art festivals. An invasion consisting of paintbrushes, spray cans, pictures, collages, stencils, sculptures and installations. During the opening day on September 3rd, together with the exhibition show taking place in the Castello degli Ezzelini, a video installation about the European and international Writing scene will be held through the use of rare archive images. This video installation is curated by Andrea Caputo, creator of All City Writers, a publishing project that recalls 30 years of this movement, starting from its origins in the Bronx of the 70’s NY until the explosion of the culture in Europe in the last two decades.

       

       

       

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      15 Sep 2008

      Venice Biennale Architecture: Out Where?

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      [links]+[txt] Out There: Architecture Beyond Building 11th Venice International Architecture Exhibition - Jacaranda blooms as Venice swoons - www.theaustralian.news.com.au a lot of very strong ideas here and the crossover between artists and architects - Venice Biennale: The highlights - www.bdonline.co.uk: first you enter a room that describes personal loss, then on to the garden, which is about you have, with the route ending, happily enough, in paradise (shown) - Out Here: Disquieted Architecture - www.e-flux.com: architecture in a contemporary landscape marked by questions of ephemerality, transience, frequent paradoxes and continuous movements in time and space. - Hadid's Space-Age Sculptures Land in Venice Villa for Biennale - www.bloomberg.com: Two sculptures of flamboyant and curvaceous metal have taken over the Hall of Giants near Venice. - S'pore ideas bloom in Venice - www.straitstimes.com (singapore): A cacophony of sounds heralded the opening of the Singapore Pavilion
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      12 Sep 2008

      Calatrava bridge is open. Well, not so open

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      txt: Venice cancels opening ceremony for hated Santiago Calatrava bridge - www.timesonline.co.uk
      Massimo Cacciari, the centre-left mayor, said that it was "typical of this city to do itself down". The absence of facilities for the physically handicapped could be traced to the beginning of the project, when planners had assumed the disabled would use the existing ferryboat across the canal.
      img: Ponte di Calatrava (Venezia) - marcomassarotto on flickr.com
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      14 Jun 2008

      Blublu: video art

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      If you loved "Muto" have a look at the other videos by Blu, you'll love them as well: always restless, always full of thoughts, simple and involving. And go to www.blublu.org, his site deserves definitely a visit. video: Child by blu on Vimeo.com [vimeo 426534]
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      17 May 2008

      Long Weekend 2008 + Margini Festival

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      txt: UBS Openings - The Long Weekend 2008

      UBS Openings: The Long Weekend brings you three days and nights of extraordinary live events and performances at Tate Modern. During the day, the gallery will be buzzing with performances to watch and opportunities to get involved, themed around the States of Flux Collection display, which explores change, progress and movement.

      On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Turbine Hall is the dramatic setting for spectacular evening events combining music and visuals.

      There is also the chance to see the exhibitions Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Street & Studio and Street Art.

      Programme

      Friday 23 May 2008

      • Konono No. 1 & Djibril Diop Mambéty 21.00–23.30

      Saturday 24 May 2008

      • Make a Salad 13.00–17.00  free
      • Nan Goldin with Patrick Wolf and John Kelly 21.00–23.00

      Sunday 25 May 2008

      • Early Computer Animation Screening 21.00  free

      Monday 26 May 2008

      • Graffiti Research Lab 19.00–22.00  free

      All weekend (Saturday 24 – Monday 26 May 2008)

      • Art Talks 11.00–15.00  free
      • Flux-Olympiad 10.00–17.00  free
      • Flux-concerts  10.00–17.00  free
      • Willem de Ridder 10.00–17.00  free
      • Gustav Metzger 10.00–17.00 free
      • Quicksilver: The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs  10.00–17.00  free
      txt: MARGINI Festival - Livorno now links: - Margini - festival delle arti ai margini - Programma Margini Festival - .pdf [it]
      This three-day event entitled Margini is dedicated to 'marginal arts' and focuses on two districts (or quartieri) of Livorno that, until recently, were associated with urban decay and social problems. Known as Shangay and Corea, these areas have now been redeveloped, from an architectural, social and cultural point of view. The Margini festival focuses attention on street art and will feature street artists of international fame, such as Blu, Ericailcane, Dem and Run, all of whom will be leaving their mark on the area during the festival which aims to be an open air artistic workshop. There will also be exhibition of works by artists including Michelangelo Setola and Riccardo Bargellini, and a series of art workshops organised by the Blu Cammello gallery. Music will be provided by The Cage Club in the form of a dj set (Friday and Saturday at 7.30pm), the Magicaboola Brass Band (Thursday 9.30pm in Shangay), and the Senegalese band Africa Jembee and the Morning Skifflers on Saturday from 6pm to midnight.
      video: What is a Friend? - notebookbabies on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHmsVRshwU]
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      15 May 2008

      Multiversity in Venice

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      link: www.sale-docks.org
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      txt: MULTIVERSITY, or the Art of Subversion 16, 17 and 18 May 2008 S.a.L.E. DOCKS VENICE www.sale-docks.org multiversity.sale@gmail.com
      The event “Multiversity, or the Art of Subversion” is the fruit of a joint effort between Uni.Nomade and S.a.L.E. (Signs and Lyrics Emporium), between a trans-territorial network of militants and researchers carrying out a critical analysis of the themes of contemporaneity and a self-managed space, called S.a.L.E. docks, born a few months ago in Venice so as to intervene on a practical level in the world of cultural production. A world which, not only in Venice, has affirmed itself as preferred area for current capital valorisation processes. In fact, if we concentrate on contemporary art, this undoubted importance can be seen on at least three levels. The first is the central role which immaterial assets and knowledge, creativity and affections, relational and communicational talents assume for contemporary forms of production: artistic production cannot get away from this centrality. The second is the relationship between cultural production and the metropolis where the interlacing between town-planning and architecture, fashion and design, art and literature, in that productive social space par excellence – the urban basins – becomes on the one side a crucial element in the process of subjectification through which are built the multiplicity of forms of life which inhabit it, to the other decisive factor for defining the strategic positioning of each metropolitan area in the economic competition between global cities. The third is the relationship between the art market and the financial capital: at a global level, banks and multinationals are the among the main investors in a sector which today seems to be the only one to have not been even slightly touched by the crisis which has overrun the world system of money circulation. What we are now seeing is a complex capturing system, which capital has brought into play in the multiple flow of informal cultural production, from the appropriation of the ability to cooperate of individual intelligences and individual ways of life, to ensure the valorisation of what has been defined as the “symbolic collective capital”. The complexity of these dynamics depends on a double mechanism of exploitation, where the first aspect is made up of the barriers of intellectual property and from each further moment of private appropriation of general social knowledge, while the second is the parasitic rapport which is established towards the creative production by those speculative interventions occurring in the body of the metropolis, there where state and private institutions, large events and art fairs, and cultural zones and meta-zones are established. Where S.a.L.E.’s experience wants to immerse itself critically, what the Multiversity event has decided to face, is called “culture factory”, that is the place of valuation of cognitive capitalism, but it is only so in the measure in which it, before anything else, the place of creative subjectivity, of the expression of the multitudes, and consequently, the space of a face-to-face between creative freedom and autonomy of cooperation on the one hand, and the system of dominion and exploitation of this productive force on the other. In this light, Multiversity, will present, discuss and compare, with the most advanced European and global experiences, the first results, although partial, of an enquiry on the city’s job insecurity linked to contemporary art and intangible work. Here the main question is to understand widespread behaviours and the methods of intervention which could change a social composition, already central in the forms of contemporary production, in a political composition. Examined also will be the core issues of the role of university training on the one side, and the communication network on the other side, played within the most complex organisation of the work of the “culture factory”. An indispensable requisite for this discussion is the comparison around contemporary art understood as a “wider social institution”: from the historical-artistic events which drove art in the post-war period from the transcendental space of medial specificity to the social space with its relationships of strength, to the relationships established between art, social movements and cultural activism outside of any avant-garde rhetoric, to the methods of capture by the institutional artistic system and by the financial ciruits of a vast heritage of critical thought and conflicting ways of life. For these reason, the Multiversity event will be organised into three seminar sessions: 1. Art and activism This means problematizing historical events and contemporary forms in the interlacing between art and activism. Some of the questions to start off the discussion will be: Which road was travelled to reach the conception of the work as transcendental to a conception of the same as object, process or dynamic able to intervene within man’s space-time and subsequently, within social processes? How did we go from a judgement of the work based on a topography of its material characteristics to one based, instead, on the analysis of its function, or even its efficiency in social terms? How does it function today, in this post-Ford era, activist art? What, once all avant-garde rhetoric is abandoned, is the position of art and artists with respect to movements? 2. Art and the market: between creative freedom and financial capture This second point must necessarily move from gathering date on the size of the art market and its relationship with financial capital. Art is taken here as an example of paradigmatic value because of the extreme paradox which affects it: if artistic work expresses a maximum level of creative freedom, at the same time it is subject to maximum fixation within the financial capital. 3. Art and multitude: for the survey into social composition, conflicts and organisation of live work in the “culture factory” This session will examine the core of the relationship between singularity and multitude, and between individual production and construction of the common. There are two research plans which will proceed in parallel. The first is historical-artistic and concerns the attempts which, starting in the 60s, were developed by artists in response to the rhetoric of the individual genius, up to the current platforms of collective production tied to the affirmation and diffusion of social hacking. The second plan concerns the survey into social composition of precarious workers which has grown around the culture industry’s drive. From the students in the training circuits to temporary workers in the cooperatives for logistics and stage design, trainees, networkers, project consultants, freelancers, to that global class of artists and professionals intent on becoming an integral part of the international art system. In all this wide social galaxy, we will need to investigate the material conditions of life and work, needs and aspirations, desires and possible assertions. . All this to get to the key point: how to transform this social composition into a political composition? PROGRAM 1) FRYDAY 16 ore 17 Art and Activism. Marco Baravalle, Claire Fontaine, José Pérez de Lama (Osfa), Brian Holmes, Marko Stamenkovic. ore 21 Performance: Margine Operativo. 2) SATURDAY 17 ore 9.30 Art and Activism (second session) Marco Scotini, Giovanna Zapperi, Judith Revel, Maurizio Lazzarato. ore 14 Art and Market. Chiara Bersi Serlini, Anna Daneri, Matteo Pasquinelli, Pier Luigi Sacco, Angela Vettese. ore17.30 Hans Ulrich Obrist ore 18 Art and Moltitude. Antonella Corsani, Adam Arvidsson ore 21 Performances VS Music 3) SUNDAY 18 ore 9.30 Art and Moltitude (second session) Antonio Negri, Alberto de Nicola, Gigi Roggero, Pascal Nicolas le Strat ore 18 Massimo Cacciari One lesson on: “One: Number 31” by Jackson Pollock “Brodway Boogie-Boogie” by Piet Mondrian Will participate to the discussion during the seminar: Beppe Caccia, Octavi Comeron. Andrea Fumagalli, Cristina Morini, Margine Operativo, Sandro Mezzadra, Alessandro Petti. During the days of the seminar till June 16, S.a.L.E. will host a selection of works by: Claire Fontaine, Marcelo Exposito, Andrea Morucchio, Lab. Cartografia Partecipata. Info and program updating: www.sale-docks.org
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      13 May 2008

      Wall Animation

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      via: Wooster Collective link: blublu.org video: MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4] txt: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
      We don't need no education We dont need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone! All in all it's just another brick in the wall. All in all you're just another brick in the wall. "Wrong, Do it again!" "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?" "You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"
      video: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 (1980) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3aIQyL9Mh0]
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      9 May 2008

      Berlin ist arm aber sexy

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      via: stylesreportberlin.com txt: Urban contemporary - INTOXICATED DEMONS GALLERY
      Is “urban contemporary art” just another modern term for selling products to the suburban youth? Does it explain the different way of living in the city instead of growing up in the country? Nevertheless, we’re not an encyclopedia spending time on scientific explanations. We would like to show you art in a different way. Urban Contemporary is a term for art that is also recognized as “Street Art” or “Urban Art”, Graffiti and Skateboard culture as its roots. After years in the “underground” this art movement has found his way into the art scene through the addition of more commercial elements like fine illustration, comic and graphic design. Some of the artists are already well known, like for example Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, Doze Green, Banksy and others. Let’s come to a point and say: Urban art is a creative melting pot of several different techniques whether they are so called “classic painting” (oil or acrylic) or made with spraycans, markers, stencils, stickers, analog or digital. It reflects our suburban living and the way we think about it. In the end, it’s important so say: There is not really a frontier between so called “fine art” and so called “urban art”. The space between both is liquid. It depends on you - it’s mostly the way you look at it and the way YOU feel it!
      video: Berlin's Street Art 2008 - thankyouradio on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs9MFG1OqH0]
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      5 May 2008

      Yes we Can

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      via: Video From The Cans Festival - Wooster collective txt: www.woostercollective.com
      woo·ster (noun) A street in the Soho section of New York City col·lec·tive (noun) Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision. The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.
      video: Cans Festival London - KrisBlomme on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DKrxk1E_yw]
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      25 Apr 2008

      Where is art?

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      txt: Art 38 Basel - Public Art Projects - on www.kopenhagen.dk
      On Messeplatz in front of the Art Basel fair, visitor’s can witness nine public art projects. The nine works are each very different and show a wide range of artistic techniques, interests and fabrics. From Wim Delvoye’s amazing and monumental reconstruction of a big trailer with a truck, to Tadashi Kawamata’s Tree Hut – a wood hut runned up in one of the existing flagpoles, to Paul McCarthy’s perverse Santa with Butt Plug, Mike Nelson’s exotic old bus, Elmgreen & Dragset’s flashy, melting postcard-selling kiosk, and the delicate 11-meter-high Baton by Not Vital, to the poetic and beautiful round, polished steel mirror of the sky by Anish Kapoor, the LSD-influenced work of Thomas Zipp, and finally the 1:1 funny house build by Vedavamazzei. Enjoy the pictures....
      img: crack - moufle on flickr.com
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