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EINDHOVEN CAUCUS
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VAN ABBEMUSEUM
BILDERDIJKLAAN 10
EINDHOVEN - THE NETHERLANDS
+31 [0]40 238 1000
info@vanabbemuseum.nl

http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl

For the international CAUCUS, held in the Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands, from 10 November to 2 December 2007 as part of the award winning project Be[com]ing Dutch, the Van Abbemuseum is now accepting applications from cultural producers worldwide, including visual artists, architects, writers, filmmakers, journalists, curators, composers, performers and other creative thinkers, who are interested in participating full-time in the complete three week programme.

CAUCUS November - December 2007
The CAUCUS starts from the principle that art proceeds from a discursive and critical culture. It seeks, in the context of art educational practices, to stimulate and transform. Thinkers and artists from all over the world will come to Eindhoven to inspire the future, and act as interlocutors for a group of local people and international students. Contributors include abroad range of critical theorists such as Rosi Braidotti, Homi K. Bhabha, Galit Eilat, Boris Groys, Dieter Lesage, Chantal Mouffe, Nikos Papastergiadis, Paul Sniderman, Paul Scheffer, Shepherd Steiner, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gerard Raunig and inspiring artists writers and cultural producers such as Yael Bartana, Abdelkader Benali, Igor Dobricic, Tone O. Neilsen, Sarah Pierce, Bik Van der Pol, Renee Ridgeway, Artur Zmijewski and many others. For the completed programme check for updates on the website http://www.becomingdutch.com The CAUCUS is developed by Charles Esche, Annie Fletcher and Esra Sarigedik as
part of the two year project Be[com]ing Dutch by the Van Abbemuseum and partners.

BE[COM]ING DUTCH
Be[com]ing Dutch aims to open up an exploratory debate which puts our ideas of national identity at risk and examines and challenges the processes of inclusion and exclusion today. As questions of cultural identity and normative ‘national’ values become ever more of an issue in political and cultural debate, the concept behind Be [com]ing Dutch is to move the agenda on from notions of toleration and difference towards building a shared but agonistic democracy on the cultural level through the use of one of the few remaining public sphere institutions left to us — the museum. The CAUCUS will attempt to look at the meaning of and context for a global visual culture right here (Eindhoven) and right now (2006-8). The four week intensive meeting will offer a programme comprising of a lecture series, publications, screenings, performances, collective production, radio programmes, workshops and other activities. Central paradoxes of the CAUCUS include:

B The revival of nationalism versus the reality of globalisation and migration. How can art imagine a way out of this dichotomy?
B The re-emergence of religion as the dominant cultural identifier versus the secular globalisation of capital. How can art imagine identity differently today?
B The autonomy of art versus its use (critically, economically and socially)
B How can a museum effect change in a provincial city (Eindhoven).
B Can art change politics, does politics determine art?

APPLICATION
Application closes on 15 September 2007. In order to submit your application please log on to http://www.becomingdutch.com

Be[com]ing Dutch is being developed by Charles Esche and Annie Fletcher and many others in- and outside the Van Abbemuseum. Institutional partnerships include: BAK [Utrecht], Goldsmiths College [London], Kosmose [Eindhoven], National Sculpture Factory [Cork], New Museum of Contemporary Art [New York], Royal University College of Art [Stockholm], Stichting InterArt [Arnhem] and TransLocal Express - Biennale of Young Artists [Tallinn]. The project Be[com]ing Dutch by the Van Abbemuseum has been awarded the Development Award for Cultural Diversity 2006 by the Mondriaan Foundation.

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

Friends of the Blanes Museum Foundation

Regional Meeting of Art
Region: Frictions and Fictions
Art in Transit — A dialogue with history
Montevideo 2007, Uruguay (Mvd-Era07)
August 9 to September 30

Blanes Museum
National Museum of Visual Arts
Spanish Cultural Centre of Montevideo

Concept and production:
Blanes Museum and Friends of Blanes Musem
Millán 4015-11700 Montevideo
598 2 3362248

http://www.encuentroregionaldearte.org.uy
http://www.era.org.uy

The Friends of the Blanes Museum are pleased to announce the Official Launch of the international project Regional Meeting of Art. Region: Frictions and Fictions. Art in transit- A dialogue with history (Mdv-Era07), which will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay. The idea is to create a continuous event from August 9 through to September 30, 2007, marked by an essentially binding and polemical character. The project will be held in differents venues as the Blanes Museum, the National Museum of Visual Arts, the Spanish Cultural Centre of Montevideo, but also in urban spaces as a site for the interventions of contemporary artists.

It is the first more important international exhibition in Montevideo.Conceived to promote the dialogue between an ERA world-region project (which includes a historical exhibtion and a contemporary international art exhibition) and an ERA city-region project (with the participation of artists from the local art scene), it will include different formats of contemporary artistic practices, together with the organisation of conference cycles and theoretical debates, with the publications of the records and dissemination of the event.

The project organized in is structured on the idea of contributing to generate active links between people who work in the areas of artistic creativity and thinking, and those who develop knowledge on the basis of research in social sciences, anthropology and political sciences.The selected central theme for all interventions by artists and analysts will revolve around the contemporary crisis of the concept of ‘region’. The border policies, the multicultural dynamism created by migration and the stigma — oftentimes — of risk, of clandestinity, and the rupture and pervading effect of urban life on the public and private spheres, the subtle forms of cultural colonialism in the framework of an economically globalised world and, finally, the crisis of place suffered by subjects in this context, are some of the factors that will be approached through the view of contemporary art, in a dialogue with the view of XIXth Century "regionalist art" (Argentine, Brazil, Paragua
y and Uruguay) images gathered for the first time in an ehibition.

Era region-world project:
Regional Art of the 19th Century. History of art was put together from a European perspective and centred on the succession of stylistic changes, and later on the succession of the avant-gardes. This accounts for the need of the art from the Rio de la Plata to find a perspective to "deconstruct" the heavy burden of European historiographical tradition. With this exhibition project we advocate that the visual culture of liberalism has subjected the regional visual tradition, and the existing silence on this issue has persisted in the construction of the histories of art.

La Cuadratura del Cono / Border Jam attempts to respond to current issues on the concept of region, establishing a dialogue with the historical art exhibition of the 19th Century. It seeks to suggest, in an impressive and metaphorical manner, the existing tensions in the physical, social, cultural and intellectual borders of our times. The curatorial approach of La Cuadratura del Cono shall not be specific. It will not provide direct comments on the historical processes of the 19th Century, but rather introduce works of art that refer, in a complex, critical and provocative manner, to the outcomes of these processes — borders, states, nationalism, power structures — as we experience them today. It will gather 19 artists from 11 countries: Monica Bonvicini; Luis Camnitzer; Claudia Casarino; Claudio Correa; Jose Damasceno; Lucia Egaña; Shilpa Gupta; Mona Hatoum; Ricardo Lanzarini; Cristina Lucas; Teresa Margolles; Amalia Pica; Miguel Angel Rios; Osvaldo Salerno; Ferna
ndo Sanchez Castillo; Santiago Sierra; Vibeke Tandbergy Pablo Uribe.

Era region-city project: Public and private universities, groups of emerging artists and distinguished curators from the local art scene have been invited to work on projects which at the same time involve other foreign also emergent artists from the region: Frontera Incierta Enrique Aguerre; Fundacion Arte Contemporaneo Angela Lopez y Juliana Rosales; Harto Espacio Adela Casacuberta y Antar Kuri; Intervalo de Confianza Jacqueline Lacasa; Mariana Ures ; Marte Upmarket Mercedes Bustelo y Gustavo Tabares

The conference cycle and round tables will be held with the participation of distinguished specialists in various areas from differents countries as Estrella de Diego; Marcia Sprandel, Paulo Herkenhoff; Tumelo Mosaka; José Luis Brea; Laura Malosetti, Mario Consens; Ticio Escobar; Ana Tiscornia; Gustavo Buntinx; Constanza Moreira; Rafael Cippolini ; Cuauhtémoc Medina; Carlos Capelán; Virginia Pérez Ratton; Andrea Giunta; Hugo Achugar; Gerardo Caetano; Pablo Thiago Rocca; Jacqueline Lacasa; Nelly Richard among others.

Credits: Organized by the Friends of the Blanes Museum and the Municipality of Montevideo and coproduced by SEACEX(State Society for the Foreign Cultural Action) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation of Spain; the Regional Meeting of Art Montevideo 2007, was made possible by the support of Prince Claus Fund; Hivos-DoenStitchen; Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; British Council; UNESCO and BID, the Secretary of Foreing Affairs of México and the Brazilian Embassies in Uruguay among others institutions.

For further information visit our Web site:
http://www.encuentroregionaldearte.org.uy
http://www.era.org.uy
Press Contact
María del Pilar Pérez Piñeyro
General Producer ERA07
produdccion@era.org.uy / mapilar@chasque.net

For more information go to: http://www.encuentroregionaldearte.org.uy