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REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS DIRECTOR FIELDS SCULPTURE PARK

The Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center, in New York’s Hudson Valley, is seeking a new Director.

The Fields is an internationally acclaimed, 150-acre outdoor contemporary art venue in Ghent, New York with a well established curatorial tradition of presenting challenging and innovative art in the landscape. The new Director should be well versed and passionate about current developments in the international art world with particular emphasis on sculpture and site specific art. The Fields Sculpture Park plays a vital role serving the local and regional communities, as well as being an international destination. The Fields expects to undergo a period of rapid growth in the next few years with the planned opening of its indoor Visitor Center and Gallery.

The ideal candidate must have both curatorial and administrative experience. Applicant should have a proven curatorial record, as well as administrative experience including a history of working with budgets, board development, fundraising, PR and exhibition management. Other duties include the development of a docent and art education program and a comprehensive art and landscape maintenance plan.

The Fields is one of 5 programs at Omi International Arts Center, a non-profit Artists’ Residency Program. Over 100 artists, writers, musicians and dancers come to Omi annually to work together in a dynamic community. Situated in 300 acres of beautiful rural Columbia County, the residency programs are enhanced by the surroundings including the permanent and temporary collections of cutting edge art in the Park.

Applicant must live in close proximity to the Omi Arts Center in Ghent, NY or be willing to relocate. Position averages 4 days a week. Applicants must submit a letter of interest including salary history, CV, and a list of at least three references to Ruth Adams, Administrative Director, Art Omi , 55 Fifth Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10003. Further application materials, such as exhibition catalogues or publications, may be requested as needed. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.

For further information about Omi International Arts Center, please see our website at http://www.artomi.org.

For more information go to: http://www.artomi.org

The Great Learning

‘If the route’: The Great Learning of London [A Taxi Opera]

The live performance:
Studio Voltaire, Friday 9th March
at 7.30pm.
The radio works:
104.4 Resonance Fm, Wednesdays 9pm 14th of March - 25th April 2007

http://www.thegreatlearning.org

Wednesday 14th March 9pm Beatrice Gibson and Jamie McCarthy
Wednesday 21st March 9pm Celine Condorelli
Wednesday 28th March 9pm Simon Phillips
Wednesday 04th April 9pm Eyal Weizman in collaboration with Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer (Networked Cultures)
Wednesday 11th April 9pm Tom McCarthy (International Necronautical Society)
Wednesday 18th April 9pm Kaffe Matthews
Wednesday 25th April 9pm Beatrice Gibson and Jamie McCarthy

A collaboration between artist Beatrice Gibson and musician Jamie McCarthy, ‘If the Route:’ The Great Learning of London is a live performance and radio work in seven parts based on The Knowledge (the infamous London cabbie navigation system and mnemonic device students must master in order to become licensed cabbies) .

The Performance.
The live performance of the ‘if the route’ has been developed collaboratively with 10 students from Knowledge Point and four improvising string players.

A complex and fascinating mathematics of the everyday, The Knowledge involves learning 320 routes or runs mapped within a six-mile radius of Charing Cross. Traveling approximately 26,000 miles across the city on Honda C90’s, knowledge students memorize a total of 30,000 streets. ‘Calling over’ entails that after the completion of the days run[s], students must call them out, reciting them out loud. Partners form to call over runs to one another, using recital and repetition as a means to remember the city. Knowledge Point on Caledonian road, one of several taxi universities students may attend and whose curriculum includes a series of mnemonic devices to aid in their endeavor, is filled with pairs of men and increasingly the odd woman aurally reciting sets of directions to one another. Entering it is to be surrounded by the city fragmented and auralized into sets of sentences and street names, a veritable symphony performing the city as text .

Using the technique of calling over as its principle sound source, the performance of ‘if the route’ celebrates and elaborates this formidable system and poetic by re-contextualizing it within in the space of the gallery. Modeled on paragraph seven of Cardew’s original score, Gibson and McCarthy’s compositional structure emphasizes the practice of calling over as an ongoing process of repetition, memorization, rehearsal and navigation, articulated in a networked and non heirarchical manner.

The Score.
‘If the Route’ takes it title from The Great Learning, the well known score by the radical and experimental 60’s composer and musician Cornelius Cardew. Informed by similar developments and ideals in the Fluxus movement and realized around the same period, Cardew’s work was rooted in belief of the democratic potential of music as a social platform, his score’s often intended for implementation by untrained musician-performers. Cardew’s version of the Great Learning was a score in seven paragraphs, rooted in and acoustically generated by the Confucian text of the same name. Playing on the title of ‘the great learning’ as it relates to The Knowledge and its own system of learning, and borrowing from the methodology, structure and political intent of Cardew’s score, Gibson and McCarthy have used both aural and non aural research into the knowledge as the generative principle behind composition. The score for ‘if the route’ provides the basis for both realization of live perfo
rmance and the radio works.

The Radio Works.
Mirroring the seven paragraphs of Cardew’s score, the radio piece comprises seven parts and takes place over seven weeks. In keeping with the spirit of Cardew and the political gesture of experimental composition in general, seven practitioners from varying fields and disciplines have been commissioned by Gibson and McCarthy to use and translate the score for radio according to their own personal and varying interpretations.

Participants include; artist and architect Celine Condorelli, artist Beatrice Gibson, musician and composer Kaffe Matthews, musician Jamie McCarthy, artist and writer, Tom McCarthy, poet and cabbie, Simon Phillips, and architect and theorist, Eyal Weizman in collaboration with Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer (Networked Cultures)

‘If the Route:’ The Great Learning of London is generously supported by Arts Council England. Partnered by Studio Voltaire and Resonance FM.

With special thanks to London Contemporary Dance School at The Place.

For more information go to: http://www.thegreatlearning.org

BOZAR EXPO

San Keller:
Series Faire un effort

02.03 > 15.04.2007
Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR)
Rue Ravensteinstraat 23 - 1000 Brussels
http://www.bozar.be
+ 32 (0)2 507 82 00

As I myself am always part of the artistic action, Stefan Keller has to have an artificial equivalent: San. This figure, San, should not be seen from a purely literary, narrative perspective. San is driven by the desire to work ideas out in reality, precisely in order to escape from a fictional level. San is a metaphysical construction that makes it easier to reflect. San Keller wants to place lasting or ephemeral signs, alone or with others.
S. Keller

The NICC, in cooperation with the Centre for Fine Arts, has launched the "Faire un effort” (Make an Effort) programme: a series in which all the participants are thrown clearly into relief, a collective and more human process, with rhythm and time as its most important elements. Following Tris Vonna-Michell, San Keller (born in 1971 in Switzerland) is the latest guest. Stefan Keller studied at the School of Art and Design in Zurich. Action is the basic form of his artistic work. His artificial alter ego San Keller leads him "away from the interior seclusion of thought to the kingdom of real life, the world". The CLEVER AND SMART exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts brings together a variety of works and interventions that actively encourage the viewer to reflect.

Says Sylvia Rüttimann: "San Keller makes contact with his surroundings; in doing so, he takes account of the finely woven contextual waves that we normally take for granted. If you allow them to, his objects and actions incite you to reflect about how things are. Surrender, with a certain active approach and inquisitive observation, to San Keller’s experiments – as he does himself, in a way that is at once active and passive (when, for example, he talks to motorbike riders and allows himself to be carried away). By thinking, for example, about time and space, how they interact with each other and how we handle that. By thinking about language, communication, and social interaction. By questioning the unwritten laws and power relationships, not just between individuals but also between institutions; and, last but not least, by thinking about San Keller himself and about how he deals with us as an artist. Or how we deal with him. Keep your eyes peeled, in other words.
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Dates
02 March > 15 April 2007
Preview on Thursday 1 March at 6.30 pm

Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am > 6 pm
Thursday, 10 am > 9 pm

For more information go to: http://www.bozar.be