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LABoral

LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries is specifically focused on the production and exhibition of art, science, technology and creative industries. This interdisciplinary space pays special attention to workshops for vocational and professional training, and to research into the intersection between creativity and new technologies.

Opening Programme, 30th March through 1st April

FEEDBACK
Focuses on art responsive to instructions, input, or its environment and creates one possible narrative of the history of ‘new media art’. Featuring historical and current art works that are all based on technology and systems of response, the exhibition traces the history of contemporary artistic practice involving digital technologies.

Curators: Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Jemima Rellie, Director of Digital Programmes, Tate Modern, London
Curatorial Advisor: Charlie Gere, Research Professor in New Media, University of Lancaster
Exhibition Design: Leeser Architecture

GAMEWORLD
Curator: Carl Goodman, Deputy Director, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria (New York)
Associate Curator: Daphne Dragona
Curatorial Advisor: Helen Stuckey
Exhibition Design: Leeser Architecture

Gameworld refers to the designed world within a video game; the emerging artistic, industrial and academic ecology surrounding video games; and the extent to which lived experience is being coloured by video games, their forms of representation and their techniques of machine-mediated interaction.

LABcyberspaces
Following an open invitation to artists all over the world to present works with a major component of digital creation and net art. The 10 selected works will be put on show as a snapshot or overview of artistic creation associated with technology and cyberspace as new challenges and new frontiers.

Jury: Alex Adriaansens, Director, V2 and DEAF, Rotterdam; Rosina Gómez-Baeza, Director of laboral Centre for Art and Creative Industries, Gijón (Asturias); Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gerfried Stocker, Art Director, Ars Electronica, Linz
Development of presentation: Manuela Pfaffenberger
Exhibition Design: Quero-Kawamura-Ganjavian

EXTENSIONS-ANCHORS
This project is an open coordinated network of exhibitions and/or interventions conceived to connect the new Centre for Art and Creative Industries with its surrounding environs and artists, with a goal of recovering the tradition of dialogue between arts and industry. The project will feature work by young artists or those particularly engaged with non-commercial and minority idioms, with a total of fourteen exhibitions or interventions in two phases.

Curator: Francisco Crabiffosse, independent curator, Oviedo
Artists: Pablo Armesto, Paco Cao, Maite Centol, , Soledad Córdoba, Carlos Coronas, Juan Fernández and Chechu Álava, Dionisio González, Adolfo Manzano, Juan Carlos Martínez, Natalia Pastor, Fernando Redruello, Avelino Sala, Cuco Suárez and Aurora Suárez.

THE E-IMAGE ERA
International essayists and thinkers ponder the reach of the electronic image in art today. Pencilled in are François Bucher, Jordan Crandall, Pedro A. Cruz, Alexander Galloway, Anna María Guasch, Lev Manovich, Juan Martín Prada and Siegfried Zielinsky

Series Director: José Luis Brea

Other Programmes

LED THROWIES WORKSHOP
Collaborators: Graffiti Research Lab at Eyebeam R&D OpenLab

Two members of the Graffiti Research Lab will lead a workshop to instruct monitors in the basic principles of putting together LED Throwies. The workshops will be open to youth organisations to show young people how to make them. The workshop will conclude with a LED throwing session with large numbers of young people throughout the whole of Asturias.

LEV FESTIVAL (Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual)
Organised: Datatrón

Contemporary digital art and experimental music show, a first in Asturias, with the participation of precursors of electronic music and up and coming names.

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

British Council

BREAKING STEP / U RASKORAKU
displacement, compassion and humour in recent art from Britain

24 March – 10 June 2007
Exhibition opening: Saturday 24 March at 1pm

Museum of Contemporary Art - Belgrade
Usce 10. Blok 15, 11070 Novi Beograd, Serbia
T: +381 11 311 6965

Artists: Adam Chodzko, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska, Jeremy Deller, Henry VIII Wives, Inventory, Alan Kane, Jim Lambie, Jonathan Monk, Mike Nelson, Toby Paterson, Gillian Wearing, Cathy Wilkes, John Wood and Paul Harrison.

Curators: Branislav Dimitrijevic, Caroline Douglas, Sinisa Mitrovic, Jelena Vesic

Organised by the British Council and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade.

Breaking Step / U raskoraku brings together new work by fifteen major figures of the British art scene. The exhibition is the culmination of a four-year collaboration between the British Council and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. Breaking Step / U raskoraku is neither a survey nor an attempt to construct a historical narrative, but rather a critical consideration of some of the most pronounced tendencies in contemporary British art.

In recent years, one such tendency has been an effort to break away from ideas and interests prevalent in the early to mid 90s, with which contemporary British art is still widely identified. In relation to the art system and its institutional structures, artists today seem to occupy an uncertain position, participating in the process of distribution and promotion, yet constantly problematising and renegotiating their own role within it.

The artists in the exhibition demonstrate an involvement with a broader range of interests and a personal and dynamic engagement with a wider social reality, as well as with new collaborative and participatory models and alternative artistic interventions. An important aspect of Breaking Step / U raskoraku is the inclusion of a series of new projects commissioned in response to the specific local situation in Belgrade.

While they work within traditional representational modes, in a general sense, the artists in Breaking Step / U raskoraku consistently seek to undermine the ideological function of these modes. To this end, they employ a number of strategies – displacement, re–enactment, decontextualisation, repetition or an amalgamation of disparate references and media – inherited from Conceptual Art, but often used in an uncharacteristic manner. It is this close connection with the politics, ethics and aesthetics of Conceptualism that forms one of the strong thematic threads running through the exhibition.

Another unifying factor is the selected artists’ use of humour in their work. Whether pointed and unswerving or subtle and understated, it is of a kind far removed from the postmodern irony of the 90s. It is a humour with sympathy, evincing a capacity simultaneously to show affection for something and to think critically about it; a form of playful teasing by those close to, and concerned for, the target of their wit.

Most importantly, what connects all the practices in Breaking Step / U raskoraku is their systematic defiance of our expectations, evading attempts at an easy classification. In other words, works selected for this exhibition share the sense of being at odds with whichever framework we might apply to interpret them: they are site–specific while questioning the idea of site–specificity, marketable but not market–driven, compassionate but not sentimental, and intimate yet far from comforting.

The Museum of Contemporary Art is publishing an ambitious catalogue and will be organising numerous public events during the exhibition’s run. The British Council has commissioned a Teachers Pack, encouraging school children to visit and explore the exhibition. The British Council has also produced an accompanying Exhibition Guide (in Serbian and English).

MOCAb opening hours: Wednesday – Monday, 10am – 6pm

Press contact: Ana Nikitovic anan@msub.org.yu or visual.arts@britishcouncil.org

For more information see: http://www.msub.org.yu and http://www.breakingstep.net

For more information go to: http://www.msub.org.yu

Palais de Tokyo

News from the upside-down.

Opening March 22, 2007
DEWAR 1 GICQUEL /
DAVID NOONAN
8:00 pm to midnight.

Physicists use a short horizontal bar above a letter to indicate particles of anti-matter. Loosely inspired by this practice, the Palais de Tokyo presents M, a program consisting of five solo exhibitions and two collective shows permeated by the idea of inversion. After FIVE BILLION YEARS, which questioned the elasticity of time and space, M brings together works that act like oscillators, bridges or tipping points between opposite polarities. "The result of a/b is not the number c, such as a/b=c, but the sign ( / ) separating a and b" said Marcel Duchamp. Art, in this sense, is no longer a product but is the fraction bar itself, the discreet sign of a transformation, an operator of inversions.

Each session is composed by differents rythms. Exhibitions last either three months, six weeks, one month or one night. From 22 March, the two new exhibitions will alter the balance of this part of our programme. David Noonan shows more of the shifts and accidents of memory on the frontier between folklore and mysteries, while Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel working together will recompose the codes of contemporary sculpture by crossing craftsmanship with an industrial approach, art with design, pop with conceptual art. In addition there will be modules devoted to young artists and special projects, the slow composition/decomposition of Michel Blazy’s POST PATMAN exhibit, and the celebratory utopia of the collective GROW YOUR OWN exhibition.

Solo exhibitions:
Michel Blazy : Post-Patman (Feb 1 - May 6)
Dewar & Gicquel (March 22 - May 6)
David Noonan (March 22 - May 6)
PAST/
Joe Coleman (Feb 1 - March 11)
Tatiana Trouvé : Double Bind (Feb 1 - May 6)

Special project conceived by Peter Coffin :
Grow Your Own: an exhibition about micronations, model and concept nations (Feb 1 - May 6)
PAST/
Music for Plants (Feb 1 - March 11)

Modules :
Koki Tanaka : Setting Up and Taking Down (March 1 – April 1)
Ajemian Brothers : From Beyond (March 1 – April 1)
Bernadette Genée and Alain Le Borgne : Elementary units (April 5 – April 29)
PAST/
David Ancelin : Avis de grand frais (Feb 1 – Feb 25)
Camille Henrot : King Kong Addition (Feb 1 – Feb 25)

Thursdays at M : From Guy Debord to Black Sabbath through the looking-glass (conferences, concerts, screenings every Thursdays)

Thanatotactics by Eyal Weizman (March 15 – 19h30)
Artificial Life by Claude Lattaud (March 22 – 19h30)
Antipodes (March 29 – 19h30)
Spilt-Screen (April 5 – 20h00/24h00)
Jabberwocky by Pacôme Thiellement (April 12 – 19h30)
Doppelganger by David Cohen and Michael Polish’s Twin Falls Idaho (April 26 – 19h30)
Ledoux’s Brothel (May 3 -19h30)
PAST/
The cavern of antimatter by Laurent Jeanpierre (Feb 8 – 19h30)
Navigation has always been a difficult art by Tom McCarthy (Feb 15 – 19h30)
Second Life with Alain Della Negra and Kaori Kinoshita (Feb 22 – 19 h30)
From Beyond by Lucas ans Jason Ajemian (March 1 – 20h30)
Antimatter by Christophe Galfard (March 8 – 19h30)

http://www.palaisdetokyo.com
+ 33 (1) 47 23 54 01/36 86

For more information go to: http://www.palaisdetokyo.com