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Art All Around

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Call for Artist Project:
Art All Around ™, A Unique Arts and Industry Collaboration

Application Deadline: June 25, 2008; Submission guidelines at
http://www.artallaround.com

Available Cash Prizes: 10,000 USD for 5-semifinalists; one of 5 semi-finalists receives an additional 20,000 USD for one winning design, totally 30,000 USD for grand prize winner; travel and accommodations in Maine, United States for one week for 5 semi-finalists in August, 2008.

Participants: Everyone of any nationality and of any age. In the case of a group project, the collective must designate one member to represent them.

Jurors: Paco Barragán, Independent Curator and Art Consultant, Madrid, Spain; Mark H.C. Bessire, Director and Lecturer, Bates College Museum Art, Maine; Linda Earle, Executive Director of Programs, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Oliver Kielmayer Director, Kunsthalle WinterthurZurich, Switzerland; W. WestonLaFountain, Gallery Director, The Jameson Art Group; Elizabeth M. Salamone, South Portland Resident, Architect and Designer Liaison Creative Office Pavilion; Alice Spencer, Artist and Co-Founder, Peregrine Press, Portland, ME; Edward Leger, Programme Officer Arts Branch, Province of New Brunswick, Canada; Sener Pasalic,Manager, Natural Gas Desk Marketing, Sprague Energy, Portsmouth, NH.

Description: The Maine Center for Creativity announces an open call for a juried design competition for a major public art work using Portland, Maine’s Sprague Energy Corporation 16 of more than 35 above-ground storage tanks as a canvas. From land, sea and air, the Sprague “tank farm” is a prominent feature on the Portland Harbor. The Art All Around™ competition invites entrants to submit a graphic vision for painting 8 entire tanks (tops and sidewalls, shown in purple on the site aerial map at http://www.artallaround.com ) and the tops only of 8 additional tanks (shown in red on the site aerial map at http://www.artallaround.com ) within the Sprague tank farm. Approximately a quarter-million passengers travel past on the highway everyday. In addition, everyone who flies into the Portland Jetport sees this site from above.

The final site-based project includes a total of 16 tanks. Each entrant will submit 4 JPG images, which represent photographic views of only 9 of the tanks. All entrants will download the same 4 JPG images to alter to present their design entry. There are a limited number of commercial paint colors to use. (See Submission Requirements at http://www.artallaround.com ).

Five semi-finalists will be selected from Stage I of the competition. Stage II will bring the 5 semi-finalists to Portland for a site visit and a more in-depth study of the Sprague tank farm site. The 5 semi-finalists will need to submit a comprehensive design presentation showing how their design will apply to all of the 16 storage tanks. Although Stage I of the competition does not involve submitting designs for all of the tanks to be painted, all entrants should be aware of the fact that the separate tanks will need to work together as an aesthetic whole.

Only one winner will be selected whose vision will be applied to 16 of the tanks. As a result, there will be no multiple winning designs for different tanks and there will be no combining of designs after submission. Note that the winner will not physically paint the tanks or supply the paint for the project. Rather, the winner will only provide the graphic design and specifications. Entrants should be aware that industrial painters ultimately applying the paint to the tanks will not be able to reproduce graphic designs that are too intricate.

Questions:
Jean Maginnis
info@mainecenterforcreativity.org

Nottingham Contemporary

Remember Revolution
68 at 40

1st - 31st May 2008

Exhibition, films, talks, happenings

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

By asking people to Remember Revolution we are not mourning the death of radical political possibility. Rather we are asking how the events of ’68 inform our own forms of protest. While interest in traditional democracy is waning can the past help activate new forms of political participation? What alternatives exist to the global dominance of the ‘Neo-Liberal’ economy, whose freedoms keep two-thirds of the world’s population in poverty and threaten the survival of the planet? If power is increasingly immaterial and beyond the grasp of nation states, what strategies have been developed to counter it?

Nottingham Contemporary is examining these and other questions with a season to commemorate May ’68, the month when a million people took over the streets of Paris.

Italy in the 1970s, where ’68 lasted for the next ten years, is the starting point of Disobedience, a remarkable archive curated by Marco Scotini and shown for the first time in the UK. An atlas of political resistance played out around the world, the exhibition offers close-up encounters with six movements, 1977: the Italian Exit, Reclaim the Street, Disobedience East, Argentina Fabrica Social, Protesting Capitalist Globalisation and Disobedience and the Society of Control.

The archive charts the relationship between recent art, film, critical media practices and political activism. “Can we retain a clear separation between intellectual production, political action and culture,” asks Scotini. Increasingly the answer is no.

Artist Luca Frei has created Untitled (Interferences), a striking sculpture/design for Disobedience in Nottingham. For Frei, making art is part of public life. He explores the potential of social change by inviting involvement and creating conditions for active learning.

Disobedience is complemented by a retrospective of the work of Peter Watkins, Britain’s most uncompromising political filmmaker. In collaboration with Broadway Cinema, Nottingham Contemporary will be showing many of his most important films. Pivotal conflicts, such as the Paris Commune, the Hungarian Uprising and the Battle of Culloden are restaged using amateurs. These “histories from below”, told from the perspective of the ordinary majority, are presented as events unfolding in the present tense. Culloden (1964) alludes to television reporting of the developing war in Vietnam,
for instance.

His films expose the way political events are framed and distorted by the mass media. We see the events of the 1871 Commune in Paris through the anachronistic television cameras of two news crews, for instance, one supporting the Versailles regime, the other the popular uprising. In The War Game, commissioned by the BBC, his astonishing realism was applied to events that could have plausibly occurred in the near future. Its depiction of nuclear war breaking out in Kent, extrapolated from the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was so shocking that the Government covertly forced the BBC to ban it, Watkins says.

Watkins’ work has been a reference point for many international artists who have been developing participatory, political forms of art during the past ten years. We are highlighting this by showing The Battle of Orgreave, a pivotal event in the 1984 Miners’ strike restaged 17 years later by Turner Prize Winner Jeremy Deller and filmed by Mike Figgis.

Disobedience is at ‘Beatties’, Mount Street, Nottingham, 1- 31st May, Mon-Fri 10am - 6 pm, Sat 10am - 1 pm. Closed Monday 26th May. Free.

Peter Watkins Retrospective is at Broadway Cinema, Broad Street, Nottingham, Fri 30th May - Sun 1st June. For times and ticket prices see http://www.broadway.org.uk

Nottingham Contemporary is currently under construction in the city’s historic Lace Market. Designed by the acclaimed architects Caruso St John, it will open to the public in spring 2009.

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

ART TLV 2008

ART TLV 2008
SEPTEMBER 24TH 2008

ART TLV IS AN INTERNATIONAL ART EVENT OPENING IN SEPTEMBER 2008 IN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL. THIS EVENT BEGINS A TRADITION OF INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS SHOWCASING THE WORK OF EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED ISRAELI ARTISTS, ALONGSIDE LEADING ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

DR ANDREW RENTON IS THE CURATOR OF ART TLV 2008.

THE PREVIEW DATES ARE SEPTEMBER 24-25-26 WITH SPECIAL PERFORMANCES, TALKS
AND SEMINARS.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU ALL.