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In his beautiful debut film, Robert Adanto explores the work of some of China’s most talented emerging artists and their personal responses to the country’s rise as a global economic, political and cultural force. This is a unique opportunity to see this elegant and thoughtful film, introduced by the director.

The Rising Tide was recently part of CHINA NOW in the UK, as it was part of Constant Stream: China 08 at the Royal College of Art in London, where it screened with a film by acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke.

Featuring: Cao Fei, Zhang O, Chen Qiulin, Wang Qingsong, Yang Yong, Xu Zhen, and Birdhead

To learn more about the film visit:

www.therisingtidefilm.com

http://open-player.com/blog/2008/02/29/video-pick-robert-adanto-the-rising-tide

Friday, October 3rd at 8:00pm

Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena , CA 91101
(626) 449-2742

Non-Objectif Sud

NOS Open

June 15 - September 7, 2008
Saturdays and Sundays from 3 to 7 p.m

Non-Objectif Sud
La Barralière
Chemin de Visan
26790 Tulette, France
Tel: 33.(0)4.75.98.31.77

560 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA
Tel : 1-718.599.14.17
Tel : 1-646.325.45.81

http://www.nonobjectifsud.org

Non-Objectif Sud (NOS) is pleased to present its third annual exhibition entitled NOS Open which is taking place at La Barralière from June 15 through September 7, 2008. NOS invites artists, curators and colleagues to spend several days together, collaborate on and install an exhibition.

This summer, the participating international artists include Tanya Barr, Tania Kitchell, Ati Maier, Clive Murphy, Gary Rough, Blair Thurman and Lars Wolter who are exhibiting at NOS for the first time. Working in a variety of media from wall painting, drawing, photography and video to site-specific installations, sculpture and landwork, several artists interact with the surrounding provencal landscape.

Site-specific projects include Gary Rough’s first land work titled Eighteenth hole (for the Stonebreakers), a homage to St Andrew’s famed golf course, and Lars Wolter’s concrete/non-objective wall mural Untitled, a fractured grid overlayed with negative space. Other works by Rough comprise two series of drawings and an installation entitled Not too many, not too few, thirteen crosses made on site with materials gleened from the property as part of the NOS residency. Tanya Barr introduces her first video entitled Principle of Polarity, a pulsating nocturne shot from the rooftops of Williamsburg in Brooklyn as well as an installation entitled As Above, So Below created on site. Tania Kitchell’s The Garden Grows presents a series of wooden reliefs composed of drawings and texts addressing ideas of space and vegetation in the landscape and her own memories of previous visits to La Barralière. Ati Maier’s compact paintings and drawings explode the idea of landscape from a singu
lar view to a weaving vision of terrrestrial, cosmic and abstracted spaces in carnival colours. Her paintings carefully control a fleating chaos before the viewer, up–ending any sence of classical perspective. Clive Murhpy’s piece, a searing text into the wall, entitled You are beautiful because we care, was created as a performance during the opening. Blair Thurman works primarily in neon and his piece Good Hex offers a contemporary hex for the French barn.

An illustrated catalogue with a text by the free-lance writer Mark Baillie will presently be available.

For further information, please contact NOS directors Andrew Huston or Karole Vail at andrewhuston@gmail.com and karolevail@gmail.com

NOS thanks the artists for their participation, as well as its sponsors, colleagues, friends and family for their support and on-going assistance.

The Gallery Loop

Here Once Again
Where Art and Cinema Interact
25 July to 23 August 2008

Curated by Hyunjoo Byeon,
Ilaria Gianni, Jungmin Kwon

The Gallery Loop
335-11 Seokyo-dong
Mapo-gu, Seoul 120-210
+82 (0)2 3141 1075
http://www.galleryloop.com

Museum of Art
Seoul National University
San 56-1, Sillim-dong
Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742
+82 (0)2 880 9504
http://www.snumoa.org

Artemio / Elisabetta Benassi / Bonnie Camplin / Rä di Martino / Victoria Fu / Matthew Noel-Tod / Julie Orser / Biho Ryu+Project soojak / Jackie Reem Salloum / Hyun-Suk Seo / Ed Young

Here Once Again is a group show that focuses its attention on how artists of the last generation have been influenced by film history and how they have elaborated and interpreted images, figures, themes and films that have assumed an importance in visual culture. The show reflects and interprets how film history and cinematic media have provided – and continue to provide – a rich reservoir of visual material for artists to isolate, rethink, and place in new critical contexts.

In Here Once Again, the idea of appropriation and re-enactment will be analysed through the underlying critical processes employed by the participating artists, whilst using images, clichés, icons, characters and myths coming from cinematic imagery, they question and re-insert them through innovative approaches, within their practices, charging them with new political and conceptual attributes, and consequently subverting the basis of the entertainment industry.

Here Once Again is interested in analysing and exposing the process of interpretation of film employed by the artists, and in underlining the shift that occurs between the original version and the interpretation embedded in the artists’ works, as well as reflecting upon the activation of an involuntary memory in the audience.

The exhibition will show works that critically re-enact films taken from film’s history – questioning issues such as time, space, context, the idea of spectacle and the visual – and works that take an icon of film history as the main issue to critically relate with and rethink, ascribing to it different active political and social roles.

Artemio, Rä di Martino and Ed Young critically appropriate and subvert the role of film icons of blockbuster films. Bonnie Camplin, Elisabetta Benassi and Victoria Fu portray important characters of film history through a temporal and interpretational shift. Jackie Reem Salloum, Matthew Noel-Tod and Hyun-Suk Seo extract parts from various movies, reflecting upon the idea of constructing a new narrative. Julie Orser and Biho Ryu + Project soojak investigate cinematic codes and imagery through the use of specific filmic references.

A catalogue containing essays by Chung Sung-Ill, Maria Rosa Sossai, Maxa Zoller and texts by Louisa Adam, Haizea Barcenilla Garcia, Rahila Haque, Susan Gladwin, Isobel Harbison, Hanh Ho, Christine Kunze Takengny, Caterina Riva, Gaia Tedone, the Loop Media Center as well as by the curators will be published.

Sponsored by Seoul Foundation for Arts & Culture

Hangar Bicocca

Hangar Bicocca
spazio d’arte contemporanea
Milano, Italy

Is looking for its first Artistic Director

Application deadline
September 15, 2008

http://hangarbicocca.it

Hangar Bicocca is looking for its first

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Role:
The Artistic Director will work in close quarters with the Scientific Committee in order to develop an ambitious program of exhibitions and events; build an international network with contemporary art institutions worldwide; consolidate the relations with the neighborhood and with the public and private cultural institutions at local and national level; liaise with the General Director in the activity of fund-raising.

Requirements:
- Excellent knowledge of the international contemporary art scene
- Curatorial experience in contemporary art organizations
- Excellent communication, networking and leadership skills
- Innovative and interdisciplinary experience and/or approach to contemporary culture
- Excellent knowledge of English and good knowledge of Italian

Duration of the appointment: 3 years with the possibility to be extended.

Hangar Bicocca is a large space for contemporary art established in 2004 in the former industrial district of Bicocca in Milan, Italy.

The first three years of activity of the organization have been dedicated to studying the feasibility of the project and to testing the vast and diverse possibilities offered by 15.000 sq m of ex-industrial space.

This was implemented through a wide calendar of exhibitions and events.
In 2004 Anselm Kiefer was invited to create a site-specific work for Hangar Bicocca and in 2005 The Seven Heavenly Palaces was acquired as permanent installation.
Solo exhibitions by Mark Wallinger and Marina Abramovic followed, together with group exhibitions such as Collateral – When Art looks at Cinema and Urban Manners – Contemporary Artists from India and events such as lectures, concerts and live-media performances by Vito Acconci, Ludovico Einaudi and Peter Greenaway among others.
In 2008 Hangar Bicocca organized solo shows of Daniele Puppi and Lucy and Jorge Orta while a major exhibition of Alfredo Jaar is scheduled to open in October.

Hangar Bicocca has recently become a foundation.
A Scientific Committee has been formed in order to help delineate the cultural identity and the artistic guidelines of the foundation, which is willing to present a rather multi-faceted program of activities.
It will focus on contemporary art, but it will also produce and organize projects and events related to music, theatre and literature; main feature of the foundation will be the exploration of the boundaries between different disciplines and fields of contemporary culture. The Scientific Committee has been conceived with a dual governance: 4 members are professionals in the field of contemporary art and 4 are experts in the fields of science, philosophy and economics.

Members of the Scientific Committee are:

Lotte Darsø, Associate Professor in Innovation at Learning Lab Denmark, the Danish University of Education;
Paolo Fabbri, Professor in Art and Artistic Literature Semiotics at IUAV, Venice;
Giulio Giorello, Professor of Logics and Philosophy of Science at University of Milan;
Severino Salvemini, Professor in Management at Bocconi University, Milan;

Jan Hoet, founder of S.M.A.K. in Ghent and Artistic Director of MARTa in Herford;
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at Serpentine Gallery, London;
Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director of Palais de Tokyo, Paris;
Marina Wallace, Professor of Curation at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts and Director of Artakt, London.

Hangar Bicocca is now partly under restoration (11.000 sq meters are available) and by the end of summer 2009 its entire space of 15.000 sq meters will be fully refurbished and provided with three different exhibition spaces, education facilities, administration offices, restaurant-cafeteria and bookshop.

Hangar Bicocca is now looking for its first Artistic Director.

To apply for the position of Artistic Director please send an e-mail to ad@hangarbicocca.it including:
- Cover letter
- Detailed CV
- Document of max 3 pages explaining your short-term and long-term vision of Hangar Bicocca; the strategic direction you will give to Hangar Bicocca to be consistent with the mission; a simulation program for one year of activity with a low budget of 1 million EUR.

All material has to be sent in English.

Application deadline: September 15, 2008.

The Artistic Director will be appointed by the Scientific Committee in October 2009.

For more information about Hangar Bicocca please visit http://www.hangarbicocca.it