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The United Nations Plaza Radio Network

WUNP – 95.2 FM
The United Nations Plaza Radio Network

http://www.unitednationsplaza.org/radio.html

Inaugural Broadcast – LIVE
June 30th 9-11pm CEST (Berlin)

followed by an after-party at Salon Aleman

unitednationsplaza
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a
Berlin 10249 GermanyUNP
T. +49 (0)30 700 89 0 90
F. +49 (0)30 700 89 0 85
http://unitednationsplaza.org

WUNP – 95.2 FM
Internet stream: http://www.unitednationsplaza.org/radio.html

Local broadcast times: 9-11am Honolulu / 11am-1pm Anchorage / 12-2pm Los Angeles, Vancouver / 1-3pm San Salvador / 2-4pm Bogotá, Mexico City / 3-5pm Montréal, New York / 4-6pm Buenos Aires, São Paulo / 4:30-6:30pm St. John’s / 7-9pm Casablanca, Reykjavik / 8-10pm Algiers, Dublin, London / 9-11pm Berlin, Rome, Zagreb / 10pm-12am Beirut, Istanbul, Nairobi, Ramallah / 11pm-1am Baghdad / 11:30pm-1:30am Tehran / +1 day — 12-2am Islamabad, Moscow / 1-3am Dhaka / 1:30-3:30am Mumbai, New Delhi / 2-4am Chiang Mai, Hanoi / 3-5am Beijing / 4-6am Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo / 5-7am Sydney / 6-8am Vladivostok / 7-9am Auckland / 8-10am Anadyr / 9-11am Christmas Island /

Framework
WUNP is a radio station produced by neuroTransmitter [Valerie Tevere + Angel Nevarez] for United Nations Plaza. WUNP is a portal for broadcasting audio works and conceptual radio projects. Over the course of the summer and fall of 2007 WUNP will be on air across Berlin (95.2 FM) and beyond through internet stream: http://www.unitednationsplaza.org/radio.html

Inauguration
We will initiate our broadcast schedule on June 30th from 9-11pm with special in-studio contributions and conversations with: Fia Backström, Regine Basha and Julieta Aranda, Uta Meta Bauer and Piotr Nathan, Karl Holmqvist, Stefan Saffer, and Tirdad Zolghadr.

WUNP radio programs will be available for continuing use in cassette form and are accompanied by a script or blurb to radio broadcasters.

United Nations Plaza is organized by Anton Vidokle in collaboration with Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Martha Rosler, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Nikolaus Hirsch, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Tirdad Zolghadr.

For further information, please contact:

Ms. Magdalena Magiera
unitednationsplaza
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a
Berlin 10249 GermanyUNP
T. +49 (0)30 700 89 0 90
F. +49 (0)30 700 89 0 85

http://unitednationsplaza.org/
http://www.neurotransmitter.fm/

For more information go to: http://www.unitednationsplaza.org/radio.html

ART MATTERS

ART MATTERS RE-EMERGES AND
CROSSES INTERNATIONAL BORDERS WITH
GRANTS AWARDED TO 23 ARTISTS

http://www.artmattersfoundation.org

Art Matters, the innovative nonprofit foundation, is pleased to announce its re-emergence after a ten-year hiatus. Building on its important history of funding and advocacy for the visual arts, the organization hopes to once again serve as a catalyst for dialogue, debate and impact in the arts community and beyond. Responding to needs expressed by artists across the country, the foundation’s first initiative this May awarded $150,000 in grants to individual artists for projects that foster collaborations and communications across international borders (see list of grants below.) A second round of grants will be awarded this fall, and a third in spring 2008.

Art Matters invited over 100 artists, curators, and art professionals from a range of geographic locations to nominate U.S. artists involved in international collaboration. All visual media were eligible including film, video, digital arts, performance, installation, and site-specific work for which funds can be used for travel, research, and the execution of projects to be completed within the year. The artists are traveling to the Middle East, South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe; some will complete projects in progress, some will realize new work. "Artists are our most useful ambassadors," said Art Matters’ chairperson Laura Donnelley. "Art speaks to matters that link us as humans. People see only our military and our movies; we all need reminders that our creativity is bigger, truer, and more powerful."

Since its founding in 1985, Art Matters has supported the arts community in timely ways with grants to visionary artists and to small arts organizations, and advocacy on behalf of artists on critical issues such as AIDS, the culture wars, censorship, and funding. The foundation also produced the first mail order catalogue of artists’ multiples to raise money for fellowships.

Art Matters’ mission remains to support artistic experimentation and the importance of the arts in the world at large. The current emphasis to foster opportunities for direct exposure and interaction between artists and cultures around the world responds to several factors: the desire of many artists to engage with others abroad, the need to represent America internationally by creative means, and diminished support for U.S. artists who want to work outside the country.

Art Matters has been revived by board chair, philanthropist Laura Donnelly and its founding board comprised of artists and art professionals in diverse areas of the visual, media, and performing arts - Mary Beebe, Cee Scott Brown, Laura Donnelley, Linda Earle, Gai Gherardi, Alexander Gray, David Mendoza, Laurence Miller, Lowery Stokes Sims, Marianne Weems, Philip Yenawine, and Bruce Yonemoto. According to Philip Yenawine, "Our small size is one of our strengths. It keeps us open to change and responsive in ways that larger bureaucratic organizations cannot be. We are continuously experimenting and evolving to provide the right structure to enable artists to transform consciousness and inform audiences in new ways. We hope to inspire other grant makers and individuals to create innovative opportunities to support artists and further timely dialogue."

ARTIST GRANTEE LIST
23 Grants ranging in the amounts of $3,000 - $10,000

Radcliffe Bailey
Painting.
Virginia - Ontario, Canada

Sanford Biggers
Film and Video
Jakarta

Daniel Bozhkov
Site Specific Work
Bulgaria

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang
Performance
Arizona-Mexico border

Suheir Hammad
Performance
Palestine

Sharon Hayes
Performance
Paris and London

Wayne Hodge
Film and Video
Berlin

Bryan Jackson
Film and Video
Tokyo

Shaun El C. Leonardo
Performance
Mexico

Pavol Liska
Performance
Netherlands

Katt Lissard
Performance
Lesotho, Southern Africa

Charles McGill
Performance
Harlem, N.Y. and Hanoi, Vietnam.

Kori Newkirk
Installation
Dakar, Senegal

Clifford Owens
Site Specific Work
Ecuador

Deirdre Portnoy
Photography
South Africa and Mali.

Jackie Salloum
Site Specific Work
Palestine

Peggy Shaw (Split Britches Company)
Performance
Argentina

Cauleen Smith
Film and Video
Nigeria

The Speculative Archive (David Thorne and Julia Meltzer)
Film and Video
Syria

Temporary Services
Installation
Ljubljana

Allison Wiese
Site Specific Work
Mexico City

Jenifer Wofford
Site Specific Work
Philippines

Saya Woolfalk
Installation
Japan

For a more expanded history and information on Art Matters, visit
http://www.artmattersfoundation.org

Media Contact:
Maureen Sullivan
917.846.4477
media@artmattersfoundation.org

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

Afterall

Afterall Issue 15
Spring/Summer 2007

Afterall is a journal of contemporary art published in London and Los Angeles. Each issue focuses on artists whose work we find compelling, alongside texts on artworks, exhibitions and critical issues that are particularly significant today.

http://www.afterall.org

Afterall Issue 15

Essays:
Dieter Roelstraete on ‘catastrophilia’
Pablo Lafuente on Contemporary Arab Representations
Lars Bang Larsen in conversation with Suely Rolnik

Artists:
Jennifer Bornstein by Rachel Baum and Shepherd Steiner
Richard Hawkins by Dominic Eichler and Michael Ned Holte
Sanja Ivekovic by Natasa Ilic & Dejan Krsic and Katy Deepwell

Events, Works, Exhibitions:
Lane Relyea on Wolfgang Tillmans
Elena Filipovic on the Martha Rosler Library
Joshua Decter on General Idea’s AIDS Project
Charles Esche on Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s Riddles of the Sphinx

We are pleased to announce the publication of Afterall issue 15.

The current issue began with a general discussion of feminist art practice, and led to a debate around related themes — the complexities of presenting socio-political situations and artistic practice within a different time and context, and the variety of strategies that artists develop as means to self-representation. We chose to focus on Jennifer Bornstein, Richard Hawkins and Sanja Ivekovic as three examples of contrasting but complementary positions in relation to these questions. These artists’ perspectives are presented side-by-side with studies of single artworks — such as Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s Riddles of the Sphinx, the Martha Rosler Library and General Idea’s AIDS Project. We have also included texts considering general issues of representation, like Dieter Roelstraete’s discussion of the fascination with catastrophe, as well as essays on exhibition practice, such as Lane Relyea’s analysis of Wolfgang Tillmans’s use of installation techniques, Lars Bang L
arsen’s conversation with Suely Rolnik about her curatorial approach to the work of Lygia Clark and Pablo Lafuente’s enquiry into Catherine David’s Contemporary Arab Representations. These texts, we hope, offer a variety of ways to consider art in relation to issues of representation - of women, of political subjects and of art and the artists themselves.

Issue 15 is now available in bookshops across Europe, North America and worldwide.

For more information on Afterall or to subscribe, visit our website http://www.afterall.org

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