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Kaikai Kiki Launches GEISAI MIAMI
New Art Fair Concept from Tokyo Led By Artists
Wednesday, December 5 - Sunday, December 9, 2007
Hosted by PULSE Contemporary Art Fair at
SOHO Studios, in the Wynwood Art District, Miami
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Apply at http://www.geisai.us/ starting Monday, August 6, 2007.

Six years since the first inception of GEISAI in Japan in the summer of 2001, Kaikai Kiki announces GEISAI Miami, the American debut of a fair that has been a launch pad into the art world for many young artists. Organized by the artist-led art enterprise Kaikai Kiki, GEISAI Miami introduces an entirely new type of fair in the booming Miami art market, allowing artists to represent themselves and to present their work directly to an audience of collectors, art professionals and art enthusiasts. The fair will run concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach, and will be hosted by PULSE Contemporary Art Fair at the Parliament Building of SOHO Studios in Miami’s Wynwood Art District from Wednesday, December 5 through Sunday, December 9, 2007.

Application for GEISAI Miami is open to artists of all nationalities that do not have ongoing commercial gallery representation at the time of their application. A jury of art world professionals, including Tom Eccles, Massimiliano Gioni, Walter Robinson, Lin Lougheed, and Carol Kino, will select approximately 20 artists from among the applicants. The selected artists will be invited to present their work in the Soho Building with no fee being charged for the booth that will be given to them.

Applications will be accepted at http://www.geisai.us/ starting Monday, August 6, 2007. The deadline for submitting applications is Monday, October 1st, 2007.

GEISAI Miami will occupy a 3,000 sq. ft. space on the second floor of the Parliament Building in the SOHO Studios facility.

Since its inception in 2001 in Japan, GEISAI has been held twice a year. By presenting a new art-collecting concept, allowing artists to exhibit their work directly, without a commercial gallery, to an audience of collectors, curators and art enthusiasts, GEISAI has established itself as an exceptional art fair. The name "GEISAI" is derived from the Japanese word for "art festival." Such festivals would typically take place within a university or art school.

Venue:
GEISAI Miami
Hosted by PULSE Contemporary Art Fair
Parliament Building of SOHO Studios, Wynwood Art District
2136 NW 1st Avenue
Miami, FL, 33127
United States

Dates:
Wednesday, December 5 - Sunday, December 9, 2007

Hours:
Wednesday 1pm - 6pm;
Thursday through Saturday 10am - 6 pm;
Sunday 10am - 5pm.

About Kaikai Kiki:
The artist-led art enterprise Kaikai Kiki was founded by Takashi Murakami in 2001, and evolved from its predecessor, the Hiropon Factory. Its goals as an enterprise include the production and promotion of artwork, the management and support of select artists, general management of events and projects, and the production and promotion of merchandise. With bases in Japan’s Motoazabu, Tokyo, and in Long Island City, New York, Kaikai Kiki is a unique organization looking to the future to broaden the horizons and practices of contemporary art. For more information on Kaikai Kiki, please visit http://english.kaikaikiki.co.jp/

For more information contact: geisai@kaikaikikiny.net

For further information, images, and interviews:

Media Contact:
Antoine Vigne or Andy Cushman
Blue Medium, Inc.
T: 212-675-1800
F: 212-675-1855
andy@bluemedium.com

For more information go to: http://www.geisai.us

Portland Art Focus 2007

Portland Art Focus
SEPTEMBER 2007

Experience international artists, adventurous curators and cutting-edge performances.

The world is coming to Portland.
You should too.

http://www.portlandartfocus.net

Portland Art Center
Piece Process
Multimedia Exhibition
September 6 - 28

Piece Process is a national traveling multimedia exhibition by artists of Middle Eastern descent, working in America, Europe and the Middle East. Through exquisite artworks, these artists create an environment of dialogue, tolerance, integrity, and dignity that addresses the difficult dialogue between Jews and Arabs. They represent multiple voices and shared possibilities that rise above hate and ignorance.

The Portland Art Center is a nonprofit exhibition space and resource center for the contemporary arts and serves as a support network and information hub for Portland, Oregon and the Northwest.

Museum of Contemporary Craft
CRAFT IN AMERICA: Expanding Traditions
Through September 23

The inaugural exhibition at the Museum’s expansive new downtown location surveys the dynamic evolution of the American craft movement since the Industrial Revolution, recognizing many of the significant social, cultural, political and artistic contributions that make American craft distinctly American.

Hoffman Gallery
Oregon College of Art and Craft
Craft Biennial: A Review of Northwest Art and Craft
August 2 - September 27

Featuring work by over 60 artists, this juried exhibition examines the state of modern craft in the Pacific Northwest.

Portland Art Museum
Camouflage
August 4 - November 4

Eight paintings that explore pattern, including a major new work by Damien Hirst, plus Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Christopher Wool, and Philip Taaffe.
(Also on view: APEX: Wes Mills, through October 7.)

Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
Reed College
Marko Lulic / Peter Kreider
A part of PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival
Curators Stephanie Snyder / Reed + Kristan Kennedy / PICA
September 4 - December 9

This commissioned installation brings together two artists that explore the material and social repercussions of modernism’s cultural cycles and cross-pollinations.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
2007 Time-Based Art Festival
September 6 - 16

A contemporary art festival of more than 200 regional, national and international artists presenting performance, dance, music, new media and visual arts projects. Join us for moments of movement and imagery throughout Portland, Oregon.

Feldman Gallery + Project Space
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Regina Silveira: OUTGROWN (TRACKS AND SHADOWS)
Part of PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival
September 6 - October 21

Brazilian artist Silveira utilizes the White Cube as the backdrop for her spatial experiments, constantly calling into question our reliance on two-point perspective as means of understanding representation.

Affair at the Jupiter Hotel 2007
Organized by Stuart Horodner & Laurel Gitlen
September 14 - 16

Forty rooms of contemporary art; adventurous and thoughtful dealers, curators, collectors and artists meet for an intimate art fair. Special exhibitions, tours of local collections, discussions and parties animate this immersive art weekend.

Portland Art Dealers Association (PADA)
Oregon’s foremost contemporary art galleries present regional and international exhibits year-round, including: Augen, Blackfish, Bullseye, Butters, Charles Froelick, Elizabeth Leach, New American Art Union, PDX Contemporary Art, Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Quintana, Laura Russo, Mark Woolley. Public receptions are held the first Thursday evening of every month.

Portland Art Focus travel packages available with The Jacobs Group
Packages include three-night deluxe hotel accommodations, tickets to art events, unique and exclusive events, select transportation and a VIP concierge service to help tailor your package to your tastes. http://www.thejacobsgroup.net | 866.362.1039

For more information about Portland Art Focus, visit: http://www.portlandartfocus.net

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

Contour 2007

Contour 2007 - third biennial for video art
Decoder

Mechelen, Belgium

18.08 - 21.10 2007
Thurs - Sun 2 - 9pm

Start:
De Garage
Onder den Toren 12, 2800 Mechelen
or
former Match supermarket
Borzestraat, 2800 Mechelen

http://www.contour2007.be

Participating artists: Aline Bouvy/John Gillis, Gerard Byrne, Neil Cummings/Marysia Lewandowska, Omer Fast, Cao Guimarães, Carsten Höller, Saskia Holmkvist, Hassan Khan, Tsui Kuang-Yu, Gabriel Lester, Deimantas Narkevicius, Rosalind Nashashibi, Cédric Noël, Gert Robijns, Lucy Skaer/Rosalind Nashashibi, Supersober (Bohdan Stehlik/Una Szeemann), Sarah Vanagt

Curator: Nav Haq

This summer the city of Mechelen will become the epicentre of the third edition of the
Contour Biennial for Video Art. The exhibition presents a selection of video works by international artists, both well-known and emerging. The most important exhibition of its type in Belgium, Contour 2007 will be presented in 12 exceptional architectural locations, all walking distance around the centre of the city.

Contour 2007 - third biennial for video art has been given the subtitle Decoder. The exhibition presents a number of video and film works in a double-edged line of enquiry. It investigates the perceptual and rhetorical mechanisms that exist which affect and shape how people assimilate their comprehension of the world. Within this investigation it also analyses the contemporary tendencies within lens-based media art practices for looking at the particular issue above, whether self-reflexive or not. The exhibition looks at the contemporary conditions and desires for consuming through the visual, and questions the capacity for effectively debating socio- and geo-political issues through this consumption. It is not intended to be a political biennial as such. Rather it looks at the means that exist through which we consume political concerns, and then interrogates itself to ask the reason why this act is relevant within contemporary art in the first place.

Aside from 8 existing works, Contour 2007 also presents no less than 9 new ones that have been created especially for this exhibition. As in previous editions, the format of a city tour combined with video art in different locations will be emphasised. The project is citywide, and a range of sites are being used. Historical sites play a role, as well as unused sites that formerly had some kind of public function. There are also sites that presently have active public relationships of various forms.

In order to give each edition of the biennial a new ‘artistic injection’, and therefore possessing it its own specific character, a new guest curator is appointed each time. This third edition is curated by Nav Haq, a young London-based curator, soon to be the curator at the Arnolfini, Bristol. The artistic team also includes London-based designer Sara de Bondt and Ghent-based architect house BARAK.

A catalogue with essays by Nav Haq and Nina Möntmann, plus interviews with all the participating artists, has been published to accompany the exhibition.

For more information contact :
Contour Mechelen vzw
Sint-Romboutskerkhof 2
B-2800 Mechelen
Belgium

+32-(0)15 33 08 01

Director: Lies Declerck
e-mail: lies@contourmechelen.be

Press Enquiries:
Inge Vanluyd
inge@mooz.be
+32-(0)479 64 52 76

For more information go to: http://www.contour2007.be