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Asia Contemporary Art Week

Asian Contemporary Art Week, (ACAW)
Sat March 15- Mon March 24, 2008

46 NYC museums and galleries join together to focus on Asian Contemporary Art. Over 100 Artists present their works at 60 special events, including receptions, exhibition viewings, screenings, Artists’ Conversations and walkthroughs.

New to ACAW is Artists in Conversation, a series of talks given by 35 leading and emerging artists speaking about their works and sharing their concepts and inspirations. Featured artists hail from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and, for the first time, from the Middle East: Lebanon, Palestine and Israel.
For detailed descriptions of events visit
www.acaw.net

SCHEDLUE OF EVENTS
15 SATURDAY
Sotheby’s
3-7 P.M. ACAW Opening Event and Conversation Panel with artists Tie Ying and Xu Zhongmin/ Sotheby’s Asian Auction Preview & Reception
17 MONDAY
The Museum of Modern Art
7 P.M. Akram Zaatari in Conversation / Screening
18 TUESDAY (UPTOWN)
Gallery Korea
1 P.M. Jean Shin and Ofri Cnaani in Conversation alongside Nam June Paik’s exhibit
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum*
4-5 P.M. Curatorial Walk Through of Cai Guo-Qiang’s retrospective
Marlborough Gallery*
5:30P.M.Viswanadhan in Conversation / 7-8:30 P.M. Opening Reception
Goedhuis Contemporary*
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: Grace Tong
Island Weiss Gallery
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: Chunhong Chang
The Korea Society
6:30-8 P.M. Exhibition: Toy Stories / Film Screening
China Institute*
8 P.M. Lin Yilin in Conversation
19 WEDNESDAY (MIDTOWN)
Whitney Museum of American Art
2 P.M. Biennial 2008: Artists in Conversation
Taipei Cultural Center
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: Snake Alley: Cutting Edge Taiwanese Contemporary Art
Tamarind Art
6-9 P.M. Opening Reception: Creative Circuit: Indian Contemporaries
Lower East Side Printshop
6:30-8 P.M. Tomie Arai in Conversation / Exhibition Viewing
20 THURSDAY (CHELSEA)
Arario Gallery
6-8 P.M. Exhibition Viewing / 7 P.M. Exhibition Walk Through With Hyongkoo Lee
Bose Pacia*
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: Ranbir Kaleka
Chambers Fine Art
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception / Shi Jinsong in Conversation
Chappell Gallery
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: Toshio Iezumi
ChinaSquare
6:30-8:30 P.M. Opening Reception for Group Exhibit alongside Curator’s Talk
Chinese Contemporary
6-8:30 P.M. One Year Anniversary Reception / Exhibition: Tu Hongtao
Kips Gallery
6-8 P.M. Exhibition Viewing/ Conversation: Fay Ku
Mary Ryan Gallery
6-8:30 P.M. Opening Reception: Lin Tianmiao and Wu Moonching
Max Lang
6-8 P.M. Exhibition Viewing: Hye Rim Lee
Max Protetch Gallery
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: Byron Kim and Qiu Jiongjiong
Moti Hasson Gallery
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: Zipora Fried and Jiha Moon
M.Y. Art Prospects
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception and Curatorial Talk: CE/VN: Cadavre Exquis VietNam and Takako Azami
Onishi Gallery
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: Ephemeral
Sundaram Tagore Gallery
6-8 P.M. Viewing and Reception: Drishti
Thomas Erben Gallery
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: Ashok Sukumaran
Winkleman Gallery
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: I Dream of the ‘Stans: New Central Asian Video
21 FRIDAY (DOWNTOWN)
88 Conversations
4-8 P.M. Artists Studio Reception
envoy
6:30 P.M. Kanishka Raja in Conversation / 7:30 P.M. Reception
New York University
6:30 P.M. Hiroshi Sunairi and Yuken Teruya in Conversation
Art Projects International*
6 P.M. Reception / 7:30 P.M. Pouran Jinchi in Conversation
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts*
6-9 P.M. Opening Reception: Power of the Brush, Leading Painters from Asia
The Gabarron Foundation
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: Taiwanese Contemporary Art
Sepia International / The Alkazi Collection*
6-8 P.M. Opening Reception: Course
Rubin Museum of Art
7-9:30 P.M. Dabid Abir and Frank Fu in Conversation / Performances
22 SATURDAY (Various Locations)
Japan Society*
11:30 A.M. Curatorial Walk Through of Shibata Zeshin
Sepia International / The Alkazi Collection*
12:30 P.M. Navin Rawanchaukul, Atul Bhalla, Osamu James Nakagawa and Jaye Rhee in Conversation
Max Protetch Gallery
1 P.M. Exhibition Walk Through with Byron Kim
Crossing Art
2 P.M. Back to the Garden: Artists in Conversation / 3:30 P.M. Film Screening / 6 P.M. Reception
Gary Snyder Project Space
2:30 P.M. Tadaaki Kuwayama in Conversation
Bose Pacia*
3 P.M. Ranbir Kaleka in Conversation
Queens Museum of Art
4 P.M. Jaishri Abichandani in Conversation / Exhibition Viewing
Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art
6-9 P.M. Catered Reception / 7:30 P.M. O Zhang in Conversation
Eli Klein Fine Art
6-9 P.M. Opening Reception: Zhang Hui
24 MONDAY
Asia Society and Museum*
6:30 P.M. Panel Discussion: India’s Burgeoning Art Scene / 8 P.M. Reception
Off Site Venues
The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, New Jersey
Parable of the Garden: New Media Art from Iran & Central Asia
Walsh Gallery, Chicago
Zhou Xiaohu: Solo Exhibition
The Armory Show
ACAW is organized by Asian Contemporary Art Consortium* in Association with Asia Society

Sponsors: ArtAsiaPacific, Sotheby’s, Art Radio WPS1.org and FORA. tv

PAC MURCIA

MARK DION
Restoring Authority
Wood structure, plaster, furniture, technique mixed
3 x 4 x 4 m
Courtesy of the artist and
IN SITU Fabienne Leclerc, Paris

ESTRATOS’’

CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECT MURCIA 2008
31 January to 31 March 2008

http://www.pacmurcia.es

The PAC MURCIA Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo (Contemporary Art Project) is one initiative conceived by the Regional Administration of the Region of Murcia to lay the foundations for a consistent and referential context in the contemporary art field. As well as the exhibition curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, titled ESTRATOS”, opened January 31th including site specific works by Lara Almarcegui, Juan Cruz, Mark Dion, Abraham Poincheval & Laurent Tixador and Marjetica Potrc.

Next Sunday, 2nd March, ABRAHAM POINCHEVAL & LAURENT TIXADOR bring Horizon moins vingt to a close, their adventure in the ESTRATOS’’ project. For 20 days the two artists excavated a tunnel in the Malecón gardens in the city of Murcia, totally cut off from the outside world. After a meticulous prior feasibility study, it was the actual resistance of the earth that determined the speed at which they advanced and the distance travelled. Horizon moins vingt, their most ambitious project to date, in fact brings together two separate lines of investigation explored by this artist duo in previous works, two systems they have daubed “Horizons”—associated with the idea of the journey—and “Symbiosis”—more associated with an act of survival in which it is necessary to acclimatise to the surrounding environment in which the project is developed.

Also in the public space is a work by LARA ALMARCEGUI, occupying a vacant lot in calle San Cristóbal in the centre of Murcia. After an initial study of buildings earmarked for demolition in the city, Lara Almarcegui conceived a direct, physical intervention reflecting on the very substance of the urban context. Her controversial La Montaña de escombros consists of all the debris from the demolition of the building formerly occupying the same plot and shows how a building can end up becoming a space for social and cultural use.

In her site-specific project for Murcia, MARJETICA POTRC explores the use of non-renewable resources such as water, looking at a global problem with a particular focus on this region. A Farm in Murcia: Rainwater Harvesting came about as the result of her contact with an association that creates connections between small farms and encourages the distribution of their fresh produce outside mainstream market channels. The rooftop of a small organic farm near the town of Bullas, in the region of Murcia, are designed to collect rainwater and later deposit it in a biological-purification tank from which it can then be used for irrigation.

One of the contemporary artists who has most lucidly addressed how disciplines like natural history or archaeology itself build our understanding of the world and of the past is the US artist MARK DION. He has created an installation for MAM (Archaeology Museum of Murcia), combining the meticulous reproduction and recovery of elements from Murcia’s former Provincial Prison together with expressly made pieces. In Restoring Authority Dion explores small everyday daily gestures of resistance while satirising the knowledge sanctioned by the institutional authority of the museum.

The idea of the connections with the historical place and with the strata making up the past, is the starting point for the works on show at CENTRO PÁRRAGA and ESPACIO AV, through the classic works of systematic documentation of industrial structures of BERND AND HILLA BECHER; the new topographies of PAUL NOBLE; the graphics and charts of MARK LOMBARDI; the photographic research of BLEDA Y ROSA on the cities that were the origins of various cultures making up our own cultural substratum; the layers of temporality that JIMMIE DURHAM unveils through the dissection of a tree; CYPRIEN GAILLARD’s fascination for entropic landscapes; the updating of failed utopias carried out by PAULINA OLOWSKA, the small narrations or forgotten and unknown real scenarios explored by JOACHIM KOESTER, or the motifs from the past VERNE DAWSON uses to reread the present, provide different versions of time and our way of experiencing it, in a more personal, and sometimes even autobiographical way as
in the works by KEITH TYSON, ILANA HALPERIN, GREGOR SCHNEIDER or DIEGO PERRONE.

At SALA VERÓNICAS, ALLAN McCOLLUM is showing The Dog From Pompei, a historical piece in his trajectory, consisting of a replica of pieces produced from a plaster cast of the famous “chained dog” at the Vesuvius Museum, that was smothered by the ashes of the Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD.

The former church of SAN ESTEBAN is the venue for the premiere in Spain of the latest project by EVE SUSSMAN & THE RUFUS CORPORATION, The Rape of The Sabine Women, a video-installation on that Roman myth. Meanwhile, at SANTA CLARA, JUAN CRUZ presents A Semblance of Activity, a video plus text work revolving around a historical review from a totally personal perspective.

Garnering great public success and widespread media repercussion, ESTRATOS’’ remains open through March 31st, when the exhibition catalogue will be presented. The catalogue will provide an overview of the archaeology of this project and will include everything happened during the time the project has remained open. Together with the catalogue, CENDEAC will release the second of the publications made in relation to this project, with contributions by the participants at the Heterochronies seminars including Ilana Halperin, Allan McCollum, Nicolas Bourriaud, Laurent Poincheval & Abraham Tixador, José Luis Molinuevo, Mary Ann Doane, Bleda y Rosa, Peter Osborne, Miguel Ángel Hernández, Manuel Cruz, José Luis Vilacañas, Pamela M. Lee and Gary Shapiro.

http://www.pacmurcia.es

For further information, please contact:
Press Office
T. (+34) 902 106 504
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colourschool March postcard

colourschool and Post Autonomy Debate with David Goldenberg | Sat Mar 1 | noon

For this event, a video/skype link to London connects Post Autonomy’s David Goldenberg with colourschool participants, who discuss and debate the limits of participatory practices.

http://colourschool.org/events/colourschool-and-pa

Resisting the University | Wed Mar 5 | 12-2 pm

colourschool attends the UBC Conference “Resisting the University,” presenting in the 12-2 pm session, “Unschooling Oppression: Critical Pedagogy and Alternative Models of Education” at the Student Union Building (UBC) Room 205.

http://colourschool.org/events/open-hours-10

White Reading Group with Eryne Donahue | Wed Mar 5 | 7 pm

In this session, the group continues discussing excerpts from Chapter 2: Coloured white, not coloured.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/white-reading-group-mar

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion with Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber, Stefan Römer | Fri Mar 7 | 4 pm

colourschool’s Brown Bag events comprise a series of lunch time discussions focused on a given subject or range of subjects. Participants may bring their lunch or take a brown bag provided by colourschool.

For this session, the artists discuss the project Differentiated Neighbourhoods of New Belgrade, which they participated in. The project explores different connotations of the term neighbourhood, in the vocabulary of its urban, architectural, and social context, as well as analyzes the historical development and actual dynamics of urban transformations of New Belgrade neighbourhoods.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/brown-bag-lunch-discussion-with-sabine-bitter-helmut-weber-and-s

Filling in a White Box with Heidi Nagtegaal | Mon Mar 10, 17, 31 | 4 pm

Using textile traditions, knitting, and crocheting, Heidi makes installations and sculptures that mix imagery, absurdity, and tradition. A recent project, Masks for Disappearing, combines fashion and theft, social awkwardness and racial politics by knitting balaclavas in white, tailored to different social uses. In another work, needles are wrapped in rainbow, crotched tubes that cover 3cc syringes, “cozying” a very loaded, dangerous, and pokey object.

Nagtegaal puts into play potential forms and functions of specific materials within colourschool’s space during her research. Visitors are welcome and encouraged to stop by during the course of her research project, which will culminate in… something.

http://colourschool.org/events/filling-in-a-white-box-5

Colour Exchanges: Johan Lundh interviews Germaine Koh | Tues Mar 11 | 7 pm

In place of the artist talk, colourschool presents an ongoing series of artist interviews conducted by Johan Lundh, whose practice adopts the “art of conversation” as a starting point for more dynamic explorations. Johan interviews Germaine Koh for this session.

Koh’s conceptually generated work is concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects, and common places. Her recent schedule has included shows at the BALTIC Centre (Newcastle), De Appel (Amsterdam), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), Ottawa Art Gallery, and le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Bloomberg SPACE (London), the Seoul Museum of Art, Artspace (Sydney), The British Museum (London), The Power Plant (Toronto), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.

http://colourschool.org/events/colour-exchanges-interiew-with-germaine-koh

Open Hours | Wed Mar 12,19, 26 | noon to 4 pm

colourschool’s doors are open for research, reading, and screening.

Everyone is welcome to stop by Wednesdays, noon to 4pm or by appointment.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/open-hours

D&G Reading Group or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours? with Vytas Narusevicius | Tue Mar 18 | 7 pm

colourschool’s D&G Reading Group regularly meets to read and discuss texts from One Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Gilles Deleuze’s and Felix Guattari’s landmark work, which continues to challenge the terms of debate in various disciplines including philosophy, psychology, culture, politics, economics, and art among other fields.

During D&G meetings participants receive excerpts to read and discuss as a group. In addition, all are welcome and encouraged to bring sections to share. For this meeting, we continue our discussion of Chapter 1: Rhizome.

Sipping “Tequilera” en Fuego: An Evening of Astrid Hadad with Francisco Granados Samayoa | Tue Mar 25 | 7 pm

According to Tim Weiner of the New York Times, Astrid Hadad is “outraged” and “outrageous” and the artist behind what “could be one of the most provocative stage acts since the Weimar Republic was in bloom.” As a diva-cum-performance artist extraordinaire, Hadad embodies and mixes the multiple facets of Mexico’s complex identity into performances and images that form a political cabaret, simultaneously embracing and skewering the heritage and stereotypes that both dignify and haunt Mexican national identity.

For this colourschool event, Francisco Granados Samayoa presents videos of Hadad’s videos and discusses them in relation to his own memories, practice, and politics.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/sipping-tequilera-en-fuego-an-evening-of-astrid-hadad

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.

ArtAsiaPacific

ArtAsiaPacific no. 57
(March/April 2008)

http://www.aapmag.com

ArtAsiaPacific no. 57 blazes ahead into 2008 by investigating themes of landscapes, paradise and destruction through the work of artists, curators and initiatives devoted to changing the art map.

This issue begins with ArtAsiaPacific senior editor Don Cohn’s investigation of the work of Taoist pyrotechnician Cai Guo-Qiang, who rose to fame with his explosion events at sights around the world, as he prepared for a landmark survey exhibition at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. Cai, who was raised in China and also spent a seminal period in Japan before moving to New York, has transformed the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda with a site-specific installation that explodes, as Cohn envisions, “in orgasmic cataclysm, immediately thereafter reverting to a yin state of cool repose and achieving a desirable balance in the process.”

This issue also scales the heights of Tibet in two features. Long-time China hand Meg Maggio interviews vanguard artist and curator Qiu Zhijie about the new mode of socially-conscious art he is practicing in China by taking students from the Hangzhou Academy of Art’s Total Art Studio on field trips to Tibet, where they created art works and conducted cultural surveys. In London, meanwhile, a group of expatriate artists from Tibet gathered for a roundtable with AAP contributing editor Eliza Gluckman to discuss the current state of art inspired by the place, mental and physical, known as Shangri-la.

On other frontiers, Gina Fairley explores the social dynamics of motorcycles and sporting subculture on barren Australian highways through the work of Shaun Gladwell. Rebecca Catching discusses the work of video artist Lida Abdul, a participant in the fifth edition of Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York who is also short-listed for the prestigious 2008 Artes Mundi Prize, to learn how she infuses fantasy and lament into images of a devastated Afghan landscape. And in anticipation of the Pakistan Pavilion at Art Dubai this month, Almanac co-editor Murtaza Vali looks at Lahore-based scholar and curator Salima Hashmi’s notion of “paradise” in art from Pakistan.

Continuing the theme in State of the Art, visionary patron Anupam Poddar, who will launch his family’s Devi Art Foundation in New Delhi later this year, assesses conditions for creating authenticity in the Subcontinent. Profiles visits with legendary Indian Progressives Group co-founder SH Raza, Central Asia’s MUSEUMstan network and Beijing-based Op-Pop painter Yan Lei. On the heels of a recent election, Brian Mertens delves into Thailand’s post-coup election politics with an in-depth review of “The Art of Corruption,” a group exhibition of artwork, agitprop shadow puppet-theater and graphics.

Projects in the Making introduces rising young US-based Iranian mixed-media and installation artist Sarah Rahbar to a broader international audience, while news and profiles editor HG Masters reviews several notable books from 2007, including User’s Manual: Contemporary Art in Turkey 1986-2006, Makoto Aida: Monument for Nothing and Rirkrit Tiravanija: A Retrospective (tomorrow is another
fine day).

Rounding out the issue, Exhibition Reviews stretch from Sydney to Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, New Delhi, Milan, Bern, Luxembourg and New York.

Stedelijk Museum CS

Allora and Calzadilla
Never Mind That Noise You Heard
Exhibition overview
Stedelijk Museum CS
Amsterdam

Jennifer Allora and
Guillermo Calzadilla

Never Mind That Noise You Heard
Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam
8 February - 4 May 2008

http://www.stedelijk.nl

‘The twisted soundtracks of war’
Amsterdam Weekly

The exhibition Never Mind That Noise You Heard provides an opportunity to see (and hear!) recent videos and installations by the collaborative artist team of Jennifer Allora (b.1974, USA) and Guillermo Calzadilla (b.1971, Cuba). In the exhibition, the Stedelijk Museum CS is presenting two large installations: Wake Up and Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech), alongside four video works. The production and usage of sound is central to all of these works, which were created between 2004
and 2007.

The selection of works presented all have in common a shared interest in noise and its structuring through music. The continuum between these two sonic ends becomes a potentially rich tool through which cultural, social, and political relationships can be both gauged as well as challenged. Many works in the exhibition are the outcome of the investigations of the artists into how power, militarism, and war are encoded in to sound. Each work explores innovative ways to generate sound. The resulting sonic experiments provide new frames of meaning to otherwise familiar forms of musical expression.

In all the works presented, the artists theorize less about music, but rather through it. The design and setting of the exhibition were created in close collaboration with the artists so that taken as a whole the entire display creates a unique musical composition.

Allora and Calzadilla live in Puerto Rico and have worked together since 1995. In this time, they have developed a multifaceted oeuvre, consisting of installations, videos, performances, social interactions, work in public space, photos, and collages. Their work is characterized by a sense of playfulness, humour, and social involvement, focusing upon local situations, concrete materials and forms, all the while providing a platform to hear resonances within a larger global context.

The exhibition ‘Allora and Calzadilla - Never mind That Noise You Heard’ is curated by Martijn
van Nieuwenhuyzen.

At certain times during the exhibition, singers from the Operastudio Nederland will present
live performances.

Stedelijk Museum CS
Oosterdokskade 5
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 (0)20 5732911
info@stedelijk.nl
http://www.stedelijk.nl