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Call for Applications: Balmoral Scholarships and Scholarships of the Rhineland-Palatinate for 2008

Application Period for 2008 Scholarships: 15 May to 15 July 2007
Application Deadline (date of postmark): 15 July 2007

Residential Scholarships at the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
15 May 2007 is the starting date of the application period for Balmoral Scholarships in Bad Ems. Seven residential scholarships will be awarded, six of those to artists. In order to promote the dialogue between research and art, this year, for the first time, one of the scholarships will be awarded to a junior scholar of the humanities (preferably in the field of Art Theory). Working in agreement and close cooperation with the Künstlerhaus and the artists holding a scholarship, s/he will play an active part in the organisation and the activities of the institution. Additionally, Balmoral will award a project grant to allow a selected visual artist to realise a project elsewhere. This will eventually be presented at Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral.

The scholarships and the project grant run for six months each. The scholarships are endowed with 1,200 Euros per month and include free accommodation at the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral.

Requirements for Entitlement
Candidates for a Balmoral Scholarship may include artists from the fields of painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, graphic art, design, photography, video, as well as new media, landscape art or nature art. Applicants will be required to possess a degree in art and to have continuously worked as artists for at least three years. Artists of all ages and nationalities are invited submit their application. The art theory scholarship will be awarded to a person no older than 35 years of age or a person who graduated within the last five years. In order to enable artistic dialogue and interdisciplinary collaboration, candidates are ideally required to speak German, English and French.

Foreign Exchange Scholarships
The six-months scholarships in London and New York will be awarded exclusively to artists from the Rhineland-Palatinate region. As part of an exchange with the Chinese province of Fujian, twinned with the Rhineland-Palatinate, the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral offers, for the first time, two scholarships of two months each for an exchange visit to China (Xiamen and Fudzhou). These Foreign Exchange Scholarships are endowed with 500 Euros per month.

Since 2005, Balmoral has also been in charge of the
Scholarships awarded by the Rhineland-Palatinate:
- two six-month scholarships for the Cité internationale, Paris
- one five-month scholarship at Wiepersdorf
- one three-month scholarship for the Centre d’art contemporain de Saint-Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, Burgundy

Candidates for these scholarships have to fulfil further requirements in addition to those detailed above. See internet.

Allocation of Scholarships

Scholarships are allocated by an selection committee of experts who will pay particular attention to the development potential of the applicant’s artistic / theoretical work. Once the scholarships have been awarded, the members of the selection committee are made public in the press.

Application forms and further information are available in pdf format on our hompage: http://www.balmoral.de/stipendien

Bad Ems, May 2007

Dr. Danièle Perrier
Geschäftsführende künstlerische Leiterin
Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
Tel. 02603/9419-0
Fax 02603/9419-16
info@balmoral.de
http://www.balmoral.de

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The Vera List Center for Art and Politics

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is pleased to mark a presence at Kassel, Germany, this summer with:

several works by Martha Rosler, member of the Vera List Center’s Advisory Committee
and
“9 Scripts from a Nation at War,” 2007, a video project by the 2006/2007 Vera List Center Fellows: David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes, Andrea Geyer

“9 Scripts” investigates the idea of the individual as defined by and through the expectations and exigencies of society and politics, specifically in the context of the American war in Iraq. Within continuously shifting perspectives, the work is essentially structured around a central question: How does war construct specific positions for individuals to fill, enact, speak from, or resist.

“9 Scripts from a Nation at War” was developed, in part, during a Vera List Center Fellowship at The New School, New York, with support from the American Art Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation and the Swing Space Program of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Martha Rosler’s works will include “Kassel Gardens (from the Perspective of a Mole)” (2007), as well as “The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems” (1975/76), “Hothouse (Harem)” (c. 1975), and “Flower Fields (Color Field Painting)” (1975). They will be displayed in various venues and parks in Kassel and present views of landscape and the natural world invested with history, beauty, metaphor, and subversion.

All are to be presented in an international exhibition in the city of Kassel, held from June 16 through September 23, 2007.

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School advances the discourse on the role of the arts in society and their relationship to the socio-political climate in which they are created. It organizes public programs that respond to pressing social and political issues of our time as articulated by the academic community and visual and performing artists. The center complements the university’s educational mission and brings together scholars and students, the people of New York, and national and international audiences to explore new modes and possibilities for civic engagement.

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics
The New School
66 West 12th Street, room 903
New York, NY 10011
212.229.2436
kuonic@newschool.edu

For more information go to: http://www.nsu.newschool.edu/vlc/

Poletti Foundation

Stefano Cagol: HEAD FLU

Public Art Intervention

Venice
Tronchetto
June 5 - July 5, 2007

In collaboration with
Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice
Cornice Art Fair Venice

Commissioned by
Poletti Foundation
http://www.fondazionepoletti.com

Poletti Foundation is proud to present a public art intervention by Stefano Cagol.

White spheres rise in the sky of the water town - two, big, visible, but at the same time fluctuating, void, suspended.

‘Head’, and ‘Flu’, influenza, influence. Head flu, influence of the head seems to entreat a moment of meditation. On the other hand, the word ‘Head’ detects a balloon, an inflated balloon, an empty pumpkin, which shows the opposite of reasonableness. So the association appears critical, ironical.

As ideal points of suspension, they allow for an open interpretation of the observer, as much as a series of badges virally distributed. This is in fact the other typical tool of propaganda, also used in previous works by Cagol. The badges, with a black writing on a white background like the balloons, through a sequence of associations, show the influences that direct us at the moment: bomb flu, pussy flu, bird flu, art flu, mind flu, techno flu, media flu, beauty flu, ass flu, head flu…

Stefano Cagol’s public art intervention Head Flu in Venice faces the concept of – physical and mental, positive and negative – influence on a society in which centers of gravity and orders of value are altered. He succeeds by evoking bubbles and power points through a word game that become all one with the use of modalities typical of propaganda.

This project is part of his recent in-depth research developed during last year with the Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe installation in Auguststrasse at the Berlin Biennale, and with the Power Station satellite intervention at the Singapore Biennale.

Stefano Cagol ( http://www.stefanocagol.com ) holds in 2007 a solo show at NADiff - New Art Diffusion, Tokyo, a solo public project at Beurs Schowburg, Brussels, and a solo show at Priska Juschka Fine Art, New York.

He realizes a project together with Stealth.ultd at Kunst Merano Arte for ‘Fromandto’, and is present at National Museum of Arts of Hanoi for ‘Tendencies of contemporary research’, at National Gallery of New Delhi for ‘The edge of vision’, and at New Chinatown Barbershop of Los Angeles for ‘LA auction’.

Poletti Foundation is main sponsor of Cornice Art Fair Venice.

Location:
The Tronchetto area is the gateway to Venice, accessible by boat or by car. There are also very frequent public transport services from all areas of Venice and from the mainland. A boat shuttle service runs continuously between Cornice Art Fair at Tronchetto and the Biennale.

Private reception (invitation only) June 8, 6.30 p.m., VIP Lounge of Cornice Art Fair Venice

Info:
Mob. +39.348.7081417
info@fondazionepoletti.com
http://www.fondazionepoletti.com

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