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Connection

Receive date deadline: December 28, 2007

Complete information and submission form may be found at:
http://becagallery.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/11/beca-gallery–1.html

BECA gallery is pleased to present ‘Connection’, an international emerging contemporary art group exhibition from February 9 – March 1, 2008. This call is open to all visual artists without gallery representation in New Orleans, LA, USA working in 2-D and 3-D mediums. Submissions from all countries will be accepted for consideration.

CURATOR and JUROR - Caroline Worthington, Curator of Art, York Museums Trust, York Art Gallery.

ELIGIBILITY - This call is open to all visual artists without representation in New Orleans, LA working in 2-D and 3-D mediums including painting, sculpture, mixed-media, drawing, printmaking, fiber, textiles, photography, digital art, graphics, etc. (We are currently unable to accept performance art, film or video submissions.) Artists must be a minimum of 18 years of age.

Gille Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, colourschool library

colourschool kicks off another round of events in December.

D&G Reading Group Or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours? with Vytas Narusevicius | Mon Dec 10 | 7 pm

The inaugural D&G reading group meets to discuss Deleuze and Guattari’s *One Thousand Plateaus*. Participants receive excerpts to read and consider as a group. All are welcome and encouraged to bring sections to share. For this session, Chapter 1: Rhizome is under discussion.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/dg-reading-group-1

Red Shoes Screening | Tues Dec 11 | 7 pm

colourschool presents the second in a series of screenings dedicated to the work of filmmakers Michael Powell and Emmerich Pressburger, who strategically employed colour as a vehicle for symbolism and expressionism. The role of the colour red is discussed in relation to the film.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/red-shoes-screening

Colour Exchanges: Artist Interviews with Johan Lundh | Wed Dec 12 | 7 pm | Guest Artist: Paul de Guzman

In place of the artist talk, colourschool presents an ongoing series of artist interviews conducted by Johan Lundh. Colour Exchanges follow a traditional interview format, but allow for and encourage participation by visitors in the midst of the conversation. Johann interviews Paul de Guzman for this session. Paul has previously participated in projects, exhibitions, and lectures at Dalhousie University’s School for Architecture and Planning, Dalhousie Art Gallery, The Power Plant, the Kenderdine Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Kinz Tillou + Feigen, Hofstra University Museum, apexart, Galerie Markus Richter, Galerie Dominique Fiat in Paris, and Transit – aktuele kunst.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/colour-exchanges-interview-with-paul-de-guzman

colourschool is located @ [IDS] ECIAD,1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3R9 or online at www.colourschool.org
Email: info@colourschool.org

colourschool is a school within a school dedicated to the speculative research and exploration of five colours: black, white, brown, yellow, and red. Providing a free and open space for critical investigations of colour, identity, artmaking, and knowledge production, colourschool attempts to develop a collaborative colour consciousness through a variety of events including reading groups, film screenings, listening labs, interviews, roundtable discussions, brown bag lunches, performances, and installations among other activities. All are welcome.

Art Basel

ART BASEL TO LAUNCH AIRPLANES AND PARACHUTES: A JONATHAN NAPACK ANTHOLOGY AT ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

Art Basel will launch AIRPLANES AND PARACHUTES: A JONATHAN NAPACK ANTHOLOGY, the collection of texts on contemporary art by the late journalist and Art Basel Asia Advisor Jonathan Napack (1967-2007) on Thursday, December 6 at 5:00 p.m. in Art Basel Miami Beach’s Art Salon section (Miami Beach Convention Center, Lobby D).

This anthology includes more than forty texts originally published in venues including SPY, The International Herald Tribune, New York, The Art Newspaper, Art in America, and ARTnews, and in catalogues of exhibitions including “Cities on the Move.” The book compiles Napack’s pioneering reportage and criticism on contemporary art in Asia - and particularly China - written during the decade from 1997 to 2007. Also included are several of Napack’s best-known texts from the years he spent as an art journalist in New York, and a selection of his culinary writings from the Asian Wall Street Journal. With all texts published in both in English and Chinese, the anthology marks the first time that many of Napack’s writings on China will be readable by their subjects.

The book’s title derives from Napack’s Chinese name jiangluosan, a homophone for “Jonathan” that means “parachute.” From his base in Hong Kong, Napack was a constant traveler throughout Asia and beyond, frequently “parachuting” into a given art scene for a few days at a time to research a story or see an exhibition.

Published by Art Basel, AIRPLANES AND PARACHUTES is a collaboration among many who knew and worked with Napack. It is edited by current Art Basel China advisor Philip Tinari and designed by Ou Ning, with a preface by Hou Hanru and photographs by Greg Girard. A special insert of remembrances includes texts and images by Ai Weiwei, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Mian Mian, and Yang Yong among others.

AIRPLANES AND PARACHUTES is produced by Office for Discourse Engineering, the Beijing-based
editorial studio.

For further inquiries please contact: info@artbasel.com

photo MIAMI 2007

THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR FOR PHOTO-BASED ART, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA.
DECEMBER 5-9, 2007
http://www.artfairsinc.com

Dates & Times
Wednesday, December 5th, 10am - 3pm
Thursday, December 6th, 10am - 7pm
Friday, December 7th, 10am - 7pm
Saturday, December 8th, 10am - 7pm
Sunday, December 9th, 10am - 6pm

Opening Reception (by invitation)
Tuesday, December 4th, from 6-10pm
For more information please contact Jen Haybach: jen@artfairsinc.com / (323) 937-4659

Location
Wynwood Art District / Midtown Miami
NW 31st Street and North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127

Contact Info
info@artfairsinc.com / (323) 937-4659

photo MIAMI, the International Contemporary Art Fair for Photo-Based Art, Video, and New Media, returns to the Wynwood Art District, in an exciting new location, December 5-9 during Art Basel Miami Beach. Organized by artfairs, inc., producer of internationally acclaimed photography and contemporary art fairs in Los Angeles, the second annual fair will be staged in a 40,000-sq. ft. marquee structure at NW 31st street and North Miami Avenue, just steps away from the Rubell Family Collection on the Midtown Miami development.

photo MIAMI modernizes the tradition of photography fairs, by offering an expansive and immediate overview of the best media based artwork being produced internationally and represented by an outstanding range of established and emerging art galleries.

Exhibitors
Galería 356, San Juan
ADN Galería, Barcelona
Alonso Art, Miami
Art Gaspar, Barcelona
Fundación Alfonso y Luis Castillo / Arte x Arte, Buenos Aires
ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Gijón
Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica
Galería Adora Calvo, Salamanca
Camara Oscura Galeria de Arte, Madrid
Galería Candela, San Juan
Chinasquare, New York
Cohen Amador Gallery, New York
Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
Cristinerose Gallery, New York
[DAM] Berlin, Berlin
DNA, Berlin
dpm Gallery, Miami
Estiarte, Madrid
Galerie f5,6, Munich
Lukas Feichtner Galerie Vienna
FGA, San Juan
Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris
Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris
Flowers, London
Goedhuis Contemporary, New York
Charles Guice Contemporary, Berkeley
Galerie Hafenrichter & Flüegel, Nuremberg
Hardcore Art Contemporary, Miami
Galerie J.J. Heckenhauer, Berlin
Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin
Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
Olivier Houg Galerie, Lyon
Galería María Llanos, Caceres
MARCdePUECHREDON, Basel
MKgalerie, Rotterdam
Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg
The New Art Project, Paris
Claire Oliver Gallery, New York
Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal
photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe
Galerie Polaris, Paris
Galerie Poller, New York
Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid
Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris
Scalo|Guye, Los Angeles
Galerie Schübbe Projekt, Düsseldorf
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale
Galeria Sicart, Barcelona
Skew Gallery, Calgary
Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
TZR Galerie, Düsseldorf
Van Kranendonk Gallery, Den Haag
Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf
Galerie Anton Weller - Isabelle Suret, Paris
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm

photo MIAMI 2007 Special Programming

Enemy of the Good
PERFORMANCE: Friday, December 7th @ 7pm
Premiering at photo MIAMI 2007 is multi-media artist Janet Biggs’ powerful new work exploring control, obsession and Man’s relentless pursuit of perfection. Biggs’ work will be presented as a performance with prestigious Van Cliberg Prize winner José Luis Hernández-Estrada on grand piano and cellist/composer William Martin, along with Equestrian Andres Rodrigues. Sponsored by Claire Oliver Gallery and photo MIAMI

Optical Borderline: Housing Development Project
Optical Borderline: Housing Development Project by Héctor Madera González is a multimedia piece that pays homage to Puerto Rican culture and comments on aspects of this culture that have been in flux since the 1970s. Using neon lights, slide projections, and wall paint, Madera creates evocative installations that trace a pattern based on antique fences found in homes from the 1950s-1970s.

Sex, Gum, Corruption and a Dead Pony
For photo MIAMI 2007, FGA has invited John Neff, (Chicago) and Ozzie Forbes (Argentina/Puerto Rico) and Stefano Pasquini (Italy) among other international artists to develop a virtual collage that investigates the role of corruption in contemporary society. The works featured comment on political, corporate, aesthetic corruption, and sociological corruption in a variety of media, including college, video, and sound. The exhibition, curated by Pedro Vélez, will be screened throughout the week in the photo MIAMI lounge, in the rear of the marquee.

Purified by Fire
Philadelphia-based artist Matthew Suib’s installation, Purified by Fire, is comprised of seamless video loops constructed from just a few seconds of iconic cinematic imagery and commercially available special effect stock footage. The individual works in the exhibition challenge the physical and moral gap that separates Westerners, and specifically Americans, from war and destruction. Purified by Fire will include an outdoor window projection visible after sunset outside the photo MIAMI marquee. Commissioned by photo MIAMI

The Last Painting Show
A show about painting, without painting — curated by Paco Barragán, head of the photo MIAMI selection committee. Participating artists include Lidia Benavides, Chus García-Fraile, Raphael Di Luzio, Jesús Portal, Ryno deWet and Mariana Vassileva. The Last Painting Show challenges the traditional boundaries of painting –flatness, canvas, frame, brush, paint, referentiality- by means of a series of pictorial photographies and moving paintings that call into question its status. Photo-based and new media art become thus an unconfessed but essential element in the actual painting debate, turning PhotoMiami into one of the most conceptually attractive art fairs.

General Information
For additional information on photo MIAMI 2007 please visit http://www.artfairsinc.com or call (323) 937-4659.

Tickets
Fair Access Pass (valid for the re-entry all week and admission to the AIPAD Photography Show, Miami, in the neighboring tent)
Tickets are available at the door.

VIP Services
Please contact Mariangela Capuzzo at mariangela@artfairsinc.com for VIP inquires.

Press Contact
Please contact Mary Kaye Daniels or Hayley Scheck at B|W|R Public Relations for all press inquires.
Mary Kaye Daniels: marykaye.daniels@bwr-ny.com (212) 901-3938
Hayley Scheck: hayley.scheck@bwr-ny.com (212) 901-3951

Artek Pavilion

Sustainability as an Attitude —
the Art of Recycling

The American debut of the Artek Pavilion at Design Miami
7-9 December 2007
http://www.artek.fi

Press Preview at the Artek Pavilion: December 6 at 6-7 pm

In Spring 2007 in Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, Artek and the forest industry company UPM presented Artek Pavilion in the Triannale garden, a legendary platform for international design. In September the Pavilion was erected in Helsinki, in the area between the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Design Museum. And now, in December 2007, this nomadic pavilion will be reconstructed at Design Miami.

Artek/UPM/Shigeru Ban –Collaboration

Artek Pavilion, “The Space of Silence”, is designed by internationally recognized Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who has been a remarkable trailblazer in applying ecological thinking and the principles of sustainable development to architectural design. Ban’s architecture emphasizes refinement and a highly developed innovativeness, especially in materials technologies. His original and bold approaches to the use of paper, cardboard and bamboo as construction materials, combined with a clean-lined and contemporary architectural aesthetics, have made him one of the most important architects of
our times.

The Art of Recycling

Artek Pavilion is built out of UPM developed wood-plastic composite. The principle raw material for this recycled material is self-adhesive label materials made of paper and plastic. This nomadic construction, an unconventional piece of ecological innovation with elegant beauty, stands for Artek’s attitude to sustainable development, amplifying the dialogue between design, architecture and art.

Artek 2nd Cycle

An installation of hundred used Aalto chairs will be on display in the Artek Pavilion. The patina and the aged surfaces evoke stories and imagination. Furniture’s provenance is coded and embedded into RFID/NFC tags, which are readable via mobile phones. Artek’s reputation is founded on commitment to quality and continuity. 2nd Cycle item is a proof of authenticity, longevity and graceful aging process of an original Artek product.

Artek Pavilion
Design Miami/
Palm Lot, 140 NE 39 St., Miami Design District, FL 33137, USA
Public Show Schedule: 7-9 December 11 am - 7 pm

Further information:
Artek: Anna Vartiainen, Marketing and PR Manager
anna.vartiainen@artek.fi tel. +358 40 823 9039

Artek was established in 1935 to promote humane and innovative design. The corner stones of Artek’s product development strategy are ethics, aesthetics and ecology. Combining the heritage of Alvar Aalto with ambitious product research, Artek today is more art and tech than ever.