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Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF)
14th June - 7th September 2008
http://www.liaf.no

The fifth Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) will take place between 14th June and 7th September 2008 at the Lofoten islands in Northern Norway. The festival is entering a new phase with an emphasis on site-specificity and commissioned work. This year’s festival is curated by Taru Elfving & Rickard Borgström.

The key aim of LIAF 2008 is to create an event that involves the local inhabitants and the participating artists in a dialogue around the questions of sustainable future and expanded community. The festival hopes to act as an opening, initiating encounters and shared visions in the present of the yet-to-come. A number of international artists have been invited to produce new pieces in response to and in communication with the place as well as to show previous work alongside the new commissions. The festival will also present an open call video program, co-curated with Maria Bustnes.

LIAF 2008 will take place in temporary exhibition spaces and specific local sites in and around Svolvaer, the capital of Lofoten. Further details of the forthcoming exhibition and other festival program will be announced soon.

For more information visit http://www.liaf.no and register your details to receive updates.

LIAF is funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs, Nordland County Council, Municipality of Vågan and supported by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Norwegian Art Council, Nordic Culture Point.

Email: post@liaf.no
Cell: +47 47868901
Fax: +47 76070015
web: http://www.liaf.no
Address: Postbox 285, N- 8301 Svolvær, Norway

Canadian Centre for Architecture

JAMES STIRLING MEMORIAL LECTURE ON THE CITY COMPETITION
http://www.cca.qc.ca/stirling

A collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
and The Cities Programme, London School of Economics

For additional information:
http://www.cca.qc.ca/stirling or contact stirlinglectures@cca.qc.ca

Conceived in homage to architect James Stirling, who believed that urban design is integral to the practice of architecture and a vital topic for public debate, the James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City competition was inaugurated in November 2003 as a unique forum for the advancement of new critical perspectives on the role of urban design and urban architecture in the development of
cities worldwide.

The intent of this bi-annual lecture competition is to promote innovative approaches to urban phenomena, and to re-position architecture at the centre of debates on the city of the 21st century. We are seeking proposals for research projects that provoke critical as well as theoretical debate and simultaneously advance practical knowledge. The previous recipients are Teddy Cruz of San Diego (2004–2005) and Eyal Weizman of London (2006–2007).

The 2008–2009 James Stirling Lecture will be presented in autumn 2008 at the CCA in Montréal, and in fall 2009 at the LSE in London. The Stirling Lecturer will receive an award of 5,000 CAD, in addition to travel expenses in connection with the Montréal and London presentations.

Applicants must submit their material by registering on the CCA website at the following address: http://www.cca.qc.ca/stirling

The submissions must contain the following:
• curriculum vitae (maximum 5 pages);
• abstract of proposed lecture (maximum 250 words);
• a research plan (maximum 1500 words and 5 images), which should include a description of the genesis of the proposed topic within the context of the applicant’s research and design work, as well as a general plan for conducting research and developing the project.

Submissions must be sent in one pdf file. All materials must be submitted in English. The winning lecture will be presented in English.

Deadline Submissions must be received by 28 March 2008.

Applicants will be notified of the jury’s decision no later than 30 May 2008.

CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE
1920, rue Baile
Montreal, Québec, Canada
H3H 2S6

La Criée center
for contemporary art

View of the Bolex-mobile on the Arctic ice pack, 2008
Copyright: Laurent Duthion, 2008.

Laurent Duthion
Coefficients de réalités
14 March - 27 April 2008

Opening Friday, 14 March, 6:30 p.m. at La Criée

http://www.duthion.net/

La Criée center for contemporary art
place Honoré Commeurec – halles centrales
35000 Rennes_France
tel.: (+33) (0)2 23 62 25 10
fax (+33) (0)2 23 62 25 19
la-criee@ville-rennes.fr

http://www.criee.org

Based in Rennes, artist Laurent Duthion is a confirmed experimenter with sensations, objects and environments. Intensely curious about scientific research, he works with soil and crop researchers and has spent time in the Antarctic collecting samples of odours and discovering new vegetable and
animal species.

For Duthion the question is not one of blindly applying scientific experiments to the sphere of art, nor of claiming to revolutionise science with an artistic vision. He roams the fields of art and scientific research in order to upset our certitudes and put our perception of the body and space to the test. Art and science come up with new possibilities for human freedom, especially via their capacity to put together critical visions of our individual and collective relationships with the world.

At his exhibition at la criée centre for contemporary art, Laurent Duthion will be presenting ten experimental creations including:
– events at the private view: an underwater tasting using a sculpture-object (Aquarhine) and a buffet based on recipes invented by the artist
– installations that disturb our retinal and olfactory perceptions: fragrant synthetic fat, a reflective microbead wall, and Porte de Fresnel , a magnifying door
– a sculpture-object and a film testing the capacity of bodily energy to produce images: the Bolex-Mobile bicycle and Sunfest, an experiment filmed on the Arctic ice pack
– a topography of words and images covering the entire floor area and making palpable the experimental processes used by the artist (Paysage des négociations)
– the presence of an animal, a vulturine guineafowl, representing both an aspect of living systems and a visual logo.

No question, then: this la criée exhibition is the absolute opposite of a simple hanging of works. Coefficients de réalités invites the visitor to take the sensation test and go further in his construction of what is called reality.

Further information about Coeffients de réalités and events organized around the exhibition :
http://www.criee.org and http://www.duthion.net/

Production : La Criée center for contemporary art

Admission free
Tuesday to Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday from 2:00 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Closed on Mondays and public holidays

Sponsors: Alternative Bicycles, API (Année Polaire Internationale), IFF (International Flavours and Fragrances), IPEV (Institut Polaire Paul-Emile Victor)