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Raid Projects

Craig Leonard —
Gift For The Screamers
Opening reception: August 4, 7-10 pm
August 4 - 25, 2007

Raid Projects
602 Moulton Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90031
Tel: 3230441-9593
info@raid.com

http://giftforthescreamers.blogspot.com

Multidisciplinary artist Craig Leonard has given himself the task of finding the former members of the legendary Los Angeles punk band the Screamers in order to give them handmade records of their archival recordings.

In a continuation of his research-based practice, Leonard’s "Gift for the Screamers" draws on the multifarious categories of sculptural installation, archival research, performance, audio experimentation, and community activism.

In the archives of the Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (1973-80), Leonard uncovered what he thinks could be punk’s Holy Grail. For four months in 1977, the Centre housed the first punk club in Toronto under the title "Crash & Burn". One of the artifacts in the Crash & Burn collection is a rare demo tape from the Los Angeles synth-punk band the Screamers. During their active years (1977-81) the Screamers played several electrifying live shows but in the end never released an official record.

In true DIY fashion, Leonard has used the original recordings to create playable records, which he fabricated in the gallery space, simply using a rubber mold and liquid plastic. The finished records will be given to the former members of the Screamers as a symbol of the record the band never ended up making. Along with the multiple handmade records, the centerpiece of Leonard’s installation is his rudimentary "laboratory" displaying the remnants of the record-making process.

Craig Leonard’s recent projects have relied on research and community partnerships including: an examination of Cuba’s underground libraries; a compilation of obsolete concepts from the Oxford English Dictionary; and a proposal for an anti-canon of Canadian literature. Leonard teaches Intermedia at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Raid Projects is dedicated to promoting the understanding and engagement with contemporary art via exhibitions that reach diverse audiences in Los Angeles, and internationally, and offer the opportunity to establish a dialogue with significant developments of our time in contemporary art practices globally. By an ongoing program of collaborations with a wide range of artists and curators we aim to present and document challenging new work in all mediums by younger, as well as more established artists, from Los Angeles, across the United States and abroad.

Since its founding in 1999, Raid has created over 100 exhibitions, both at the Los Angeles gallery and at museums, institutions, universities and alternative spaces worldwide, that have included the work of more than 500 artists from around the world. Previous projects have been manifested in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Istanbul, Mexico City, Sydney and other cities.

For more information go to: http://giftforthescreamers.blogspot.com

Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea

Call for entries
International Prize for Performance
Third edition

The official announcement of the International Prize for Performance, organized by the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento, in collaboration with centrale FIES is out. The Prize, which counts its third edition this year, can be characterized as the first and only prize for performance that exists in the world and proposes the same formula as last years, which saw high participation numbers from both the public and the artists.

All artists of all nationalities, from all formative backgrounds (visual arts, dance, music, poetry, etc.) and born from January 1st, 1972 are invited to participate. The first prize is fixed at 5,000 euros and there will also be minor prizes awarded.

The initiative aims to select among the participants twelve young performers from all over the world, who are invited to realize a never before seen performance on the evenings of October 5th and 6th, 2007 at the former hydroelectric power station Centrale di Fies in Dro (Trento). Performances will run under the eyes of a jury composed of some of the most absolute names in the Italian and international contemporary art world, one of whom will be president, the artist and performer Jimmie Durham.

Other members of the jury are specialists with different backgrounds, in order to guarantee the Prize a multidisciplinary character; they are: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (art critic and Artistic Director of Galleria di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Bergamo), Rune Gade (Associate Professor at Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen), An-Marie Lambrechts (Artistic Director of Toneelhuis Theater, Antwerp), David Weinstein (Director of Programs of P.S.1, New York), Barbara Boninsegna (Artistic Director of drodesera FIES), Fabio Cavallucci (Artistic Director of Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento).

Applications must include all materials, as specified in the official announcement, and be sent via email to performance@galleriacivica.it (posted materials will not be accepted).

The expiration date for the application form and materials is fixed at 12:00 AM on Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 (Italian time).

The official announcement is available at http://www.workartonline.net

For more information go to: http://www.workartonline.net

Pompidou Center

Les Cahiers du Musée
national d’art moderne Out Now

Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne is a leading international art magazine published quaterly, in french, by the Pompidou Center in Paris. Its trend-setting articles cover the realms of art history and modern and contemporary art practice.

Thematic issues alternate with mixed issues, yet every one features original essays by established authors and up-and-coming writers, both French and foreign, along with historic texts that are otherwise unavailable. Because the review keeps in close touch with current art practice and intellectual theory on an international level, as well as with the activities of the Musée national d’art moderne within the Pompidou Center, it has become a crucial working tool and source of reflection for all professionals and amateurs on the art scene.

The appearance and layout of the Cahiers du Mnam were completely revamped, providing greater flexibility between text and image and making the review more pleasant to read. The cover, henceforth in color, is regularly commissioned from a practicing artist who may also design a specific project for the printed interior of the same issue.

For issue no. 100, which coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the Pompidou Centre, eight artists are taking the journal over with 16-page projects specially conceived for its printed space. Annette Messager opens the series, next come Albert Oehlen, Patrick Faigenbaum, Chloe Piene, Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau, Wim Delvoye, and Thomas Hirschhorn.

Email: cahiers.musees@centrepompidou.fr

For more information go to: http://www.centrepompidou.fr