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19-22 March 2008

Art Projects at Art Dubai: Pakistan Pavilion, Art Park and Global Art Forum to feature at Art Dubai 2008

Madinat Arena, Madinat Jumeirah
http://www.artdubai.ae

Art Dubai’s 2008 art projects will feature new projects from leading international artists such as Wim Delvoye, Tarek Zaki, Amir H. Fallah, Sunil Gawde and Marwan Rechmaoui as well as a special exhibition of contemporary art from Pakistan curated by Salima Hashmi: “Desperately Seeking Paradise” which will take place in the Pakistan Pavilion.

“Desperately Seeking Paradise” features eleven artists from Pakistan whose work circumscribes the many pathways and many notions of paradise that possess us today. Amongst the participants are artists such as Rashid Rana, Naiza Khan, Farida Batool, Imran Qureshi and Mohammad Ali Talpur.

John Martin, Fair Director comments:
“We are pleased that amongst this year’s highlights is a curated show of Pakistani contemporary art. Sixty years of turbulent history have only served to challenge the creative energies of artists who are now emerging on the international art scene as an innovative and creative group. This exhibition is the first in a series of annual projects that will focus on artists from across the region.”

Art Dubai is also pleased to announce a new project space for the Middle East’s first contemporary art fair. Art Park, situated in the underground car park at the Madinat Arena is a space devoted to experimental and site-specific works with a particular emphasis on video.

Art Park includes projects by Idris Khan (Yvon Lambert, Paris/New York), Jittish Kallat (Albion Gallery, London) and Mohammed Zeeshan and Khalil Chishtee (Green Cardamom, London) will be on display. Video work by Susy Gomez (Horrach Moya), Lida Abdul (Giorgio Persano), and Kader Attia (Albion Gallery). The Art Park will also include the Bidoun Cinema, featuring curated video programmes with a Middle Eastern focus. The Bidoun Lounge, designed by Dubai design company Traffic, will also host a ‘video bar’ with continuous screenings.

“Art Projects are an integral part of the development of Art Dubai and offer visitors the chance to experience major works by international artists. As part of the on-going commitment to innovative regional art, we are pleased to inaugurate the first Art Park project space that this year focuses on video work from the Middle East curated by Bidoun, alongside other international video works”,
says Martin.

Art Dubai is also proud to present the second instalment of its Global Art Forum, a series of lectures and discussions featuring leading contemporary art thinkers. Global Art Forum: 2 continues to create links between East and West through the exploration of professional and public interests in art. The Forum examines public support for the arts, corporate and private collecting and art patronage.

For press enquiries please contact Nebat Sukker at Brunswick Arts Consulting LLP, 16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3ED, E: nsukker@brunswickgroup.com , T: +44 (0) 20 7396 5317.

Confinement, looped film, Shakuntala Kulkarni

The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces is an exhibition of thirty-six works of art, each of which considers The Veil, its many manifestations and interpretations and puts veils and veiling into context.

Visible and Invisible Spaces intends to engage received wisdom about the veil – particularly current clichés and stereotypes about Islamic practices – and to reflect on the great ubiquity, importance and profundity of the veil throughout human history and imagination. Visible and Invisible Spaces asks artists to investigate the veil in its broadest contexts. The exhibition will be divided into three categories to be interpreted widely: The Sacred Veil, The Sensuous Veil , and The Sociopolitical Veil. Visible and Invisible Spaces, however, is not a documentary exhibition.
Visible and Invisible Spaces is a visual companion to Jennifer Heath’s edited volume, The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics (University of California Press, forthcoming 2007). The exhibition, Visible and Invisible Spaces, invited visual artists – including videographers, filmmakers and new media artists, as well as painters, sculptors, performance and installation artists – from around the world to investigate and re-vision the veil.

These artists include: Sama Alshaibi, Tulu Bayar, Tiffany Besonen, Elizabeth Bisbing, Christine Breslin, Jo-Ann Brody, Fatma Charfi, Frances Charteris, Juliet Davis, Rebecca DiDomenico, Yassi Golshani, Ana Maria Hernando, Valari Jack, Tsehai Johnson, Tania Kamal-Eldin, Deb King, Mary Kite, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Anita Kunz, Judith Selby Lang, Victoria May, Aphrodite Desiree Navab, Brenda Oelbaum, Sara Rahbar, Sharmila Samant, Larissa Sansour, Asma Shikoh, Mary Tuma, Kerry Vander Meer, Arien Valizadeh, Eve Whittaker, Sherry Wiggins, Helen Zughaib.

In addition, Visible and Invisible Spaces features the 23-artist (Euroamerican and others) portfolio in book form, Re-Interpreting the Middle East, which grounds the show and acts as a kind of cultural ballast. The exhibit also includes an audience-interactive piece, “What Does the Veil Mean to You,” wherein viewers write responses on brightly colored silk headscarves that are displayed on laundry lines.

The veil is infinitely visual, yet it is also a means of concealment. The veil is itself mystery, even as it is the shroud that guards the mystery. Veiling is found everywhere and begins in Nature – such as eclipses and the periodic shedding of animals’ outer bodily layer (feathers, skin, fur or horn) before re-growth. As much as the veil is fabric or a garment, the veil is also a concept. Veils can be illusion, divination, vanity, artifice, architecture, clothing, hair, deception, curtains, magic, alchemy and transformation, dream, euphemism and metaphor, depression, hallucination, masquerade, beauty, eloquent silence, holiness, birth, liberation, imprisonment. Veils are the ethers beyond consciousness, the hidden hundredth name of god, the final passage into death, even the biblical apocalypse – the lifting of god’s veil to signal the “end times.”

To be veiled is, to some degree, to be unseen, the condition of both great attraction and repulsion. The artists featured in Visible and Invisible Spaces will speak to these myriad aspects of the veil and more.

Visible and Invisible Spaces begins traveling in 2008. The exhibition provides excellent opportunities for community and co-curricular activities.

Jennifer Heath
Curator/ Editor, The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics (University of California Press, forthcoming, 2008)

Mangolite

Live Art on Camera
15 March – 19 April 2008

Opening evening: Friday 14 March 6-8.30pm
Artists and photographers in Live Art on Camera:
Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Dona Ann McAdams, Hans Breder, Stuart Brisley and Leslie Haslam, Hollis Frampton, Hugo Glendinning, Gutai Group, Lisa Kahane, Ute Klophaus, Jennifer Kotter, Kurt Kren, Antonio Lauer, Babette Mangolte, Rosemary Mayer, Fred W. McDarrah, Robert R. McElroy, Ana Mendieta, Peter Moore, Ohtsuji Kiyoji, Leda Papaconstantinou, Adrian Piper, Tony Ray-Jones, Carolee Schneeman (from the Schneemann archive photographs by Arman, Manfred Schroeder, Harvey Zucker, Al Giese, Massal, Cheney, Sally Dixon and Anthony McCall) and Manuel Vason.

Live Art on Camera reveals the work of photographers who documented seminal performance art events from the 1950s to the present in Europe, the United States and Japan. These events (often experienced live by only a small audience) are primarily received through still images: arguably subjective records, translated through the ideas and aesthetics of the photographer.
The exhibition contextualises performance photography within the photographers’ wider practices. Many are well known in very different contexts (from reportage to cinematography and architectural photography) as well as being acknowledged as artists in their own right.
Works featured include Japanese photographer Ohtsuji Kiyoji’s photographs of the 1950s Gutai group, shown alongside his surrealist photography, and writings. Peter Moore’s architectural photographs of Penn Station, documenting the station’s gradual destruction from 1962 to 1966, are seen in relation to examples from his extensive archive of USA performance photographs, including Allan Kaprow’s and Wolf Vostell’s Happenings. The relationship between the ‘photographed’, the camera and the viewer was addressed in early works by Babette Mangolte, such as her film The Camera: Je, 1977 and A Photo Installation, 1978. In a parallel practice Mangolte also extensively photographed performance works by Yvonne Rainer, Robert Whitman, Joan Jonas, Richard Foreman and Trisha Brown.
In the case of Carolee Schneemann’s work many different photographers documented single performances. The exhibition reveals the diverse photographic styles of these individuals, compared and contextualised in relation to their ongoing practices
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue containing essays by Kathy O’Dell, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Barbara Clausen, Alice Maude-Roxby and Babette Mangolte, and interviews with the photographers.
Live Art on Camera is a John Hansard Gallery exhibition curated by Alice Maude-Roxby.

SCOPE Basel 2008

SCOPE Basel 2008
INVITATION TO APPLY

http://www.scope-art.com

Building on the success of its international art fair program, SCOPE Art Fair is proud to announce the return of its most successful art fair, SCOPE Basel 2008, June 3 – June 8, 2008. Situated directly on the Rhine river, SCOPE Basel’s 60,000 square-foot, air conditioned, glass faced pavilion is within walking distance of Art Basel 39. Serviced by shuttle, water taxi and pedicab, SCOPE Basel will present its most international fair focusing on emerging galleries from all over the world.

Alongside featured curation, screenings, and special projects, SCOPE Basel is a flagship invitational fair chosen by an elected selection committee. Each committee member will be a representative from a particular city or region, inviting the most significant emerging galleries, curators, and artist projects, striving to scout the most emerging contemporary talent. SCOPE’s one hundred international exhibitors will uphold its unique tradition of one-person and thematic group shows, bringing visitors a real-time international survey of the emerging contemporary art world available nowhere else.

Consistently redefining what an art fair is, SCOPE Art will introduce Museum Presents, a non-commercial exhibition space in the SCOPE Basel 2008 pavilion focusing on emerging contemporary art market trends. Concentrating on emerging artists from India, North Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, and Indonesia, SCOPE’s first edition of Museum Presents will feature India. Introducing artists, curators, and cutting-edge galleries to new audiences internationally has made SCOPE the most comprehensive destination for the emerging art world available anywhere. With art fairs in Miami, Basel, New York, London, and the Hamptons, SCOPE is proud to be an influential presence in the expanding global
art market.

SCHEDULE:
FirstView: Tuesday, June 3, 10am-5pm
Press Conference: Tuesday, June 3, 1pm
Press Brunch: Tuesday June 3, 2pm

Wednesday - June 4, 10am to 8pm
Thursday - June 5, 10am to 8pm
Friday - June 6, 10am to 8pm
Saturday - June 7, 10am to 8pm
Sunday - June 8, 10am to 6pm
Location: Uferstrasse 80

We invite you to apply by accessing the application on our website – SCOPE Basel

For questions about your application please contact:
Stephanie Sherga
Exhibitor Relations
SCOPE Art Fair
355 W 36 St 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018
(001) 212-268-1522
(001) 212-268-6258
stephanie@scope-art.com

SCOPE New York 2008

SCHEDULE
FirstView: Wednesday March 26, 2008 3pm - 9pm
Thursday - March 27, 10am - 8pm
Friday - March 28, 10am - 8pm
Saturday - March 29, 10am - 8pm
Sunday - March 30, 10am - 6pm

LOCATION
SCOPE Pavilion
Lincoln Center
Damrosch Park
Corner of West 62nd Street and Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10023

Click here for SCOPE New York Exhibitors
Click here for SCOPE New York Schedule
Click here for SCOPE New York Special Projects
Click here to register as Press

For more information on SCOPE please visit our website http://www.scope-art.com

Festival of Regions

FESTIVAL OF REGIONS 2009. NORMALITY.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Festival of Regions
Marktplatz 12, 4100 Ottensheim, Austria
Tel: ++43(0)7234 85 2 85,
Fax: ++43(0)7234 85 2 85-4
office@fdr.at
http://www.fdr.at

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 20 April 2008 (postmark)
Duration of Festival: May / June 2009

In the spaces into which cities extend, the planning potential in politics and society overlap with how people plan their lives. At the point where master plan meets home improvement, in everyday life situated between parking management and the desire for recreational spaces, permeated by hopes of improving one‘s social status and the fear of losing it, historical and topical ideas about communal well-being and society intersect with the daily struggle to live a good life.

In 2009 the Festival of Regions will be oriented toward the southern edge of the city of Linz, along the Traun River, with a focus on the satellite town of Auwiesen and the residential complexes of solarCity. From Allende Square to Lunar Square, beyond the inner urban orientation toward concentration, commercial use and entertainment, and at a certain safe distance from the cultural spectacles propagated on all sides, the Festival of Regions is interested in the factual or imagined state of normality in urban life and in seeking out its cultural expression.

The Festival of Regions has been taking place biennially since 1993 at changing locations in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria and, during this period, has developed into a contemporary focal event for current, site-specific art and culture. At the intersection of art and everyday life, the Festival‘s projects draw people and places into a critical engagement with social, political and artistic questions.

Call for submissions
The Festival of Regions is inviting project proposals from the areas of site-specific art and culture, art in public space, everyday culture, art education, performance and participatory practices for the 2007 festival program.

Who can make a project proposal?
Anyone with an idea on the theme: individual artists or artists collaborating in a team, individuals working in the area of culture and society, scientists, initiatives, associations, NGOs or working groups.

Who will select the projects?
The board and director of the Festival of Regions will make a preliminary selection with the support of an independent international program advisory board. Within this preliminary selection, the festival director will design a program. A decision will be made without the possibility of recourse to legal action. Direct invitations and commissions will round off the program.

Who is organizing the Festival of Regions?
An independent association called the Festival of Regions in cooperation with Linz 2009 – European Capital of Culture with support mainly from the State of Upper Austria, the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, the city of Linz and individual financial sponsors.

The association’s board is composed of Susanne Blaimschein, curator and exhibition organizer, Gabriele Heidecker, architecture communicator and cultural worker, Dagmar Höss, artist, curator and art communicator, Eva Immervoll, managing director of the KUPF Cultural Platform Upper Austria and cultural worker, and Gerald Priewasser, artist and designer.
Festival director: Martin Fritz

What should the project proposal include?
1 Project description
2 A concise description of the project in no more than 500 characters
3 A visualisation, script or other presentation of the project and its realization that is as vivid as possible
4 Place of realization or spatial-situational requirements
5 Presentation of the project’s authors and initiators
6 Organizational framework
7 Timetable for project development and realization
8 Financial plan
9 Project director including address, telephone number and e-mail address

The project proposal can be submitted in either English or German and should be a maximum of seven pages long.

Miscellaneous
The Festival of Regions cannot accept any responsibility for the documents submitted. The rejection of a proposal does not give the authors of the project any claim on the Festival of Regions or any other persons acting on behalf of the Festival.

Additional Information
http://www.fdr.at