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Atlantic Center for the Arts

2009 Master
Artists-in-Residence Program

Atlantic Center for the Arts
1414 Art Center Avenue
New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168
USA
T. 386-427-6975

http://www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org

ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS
2009 MASTER ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Residency #132
FEBRUARY 16 - MARCH 8 (application deadline: October 17, 2008)
Molissa Fenley, dance/choreography
Bob Holman, poetry
James Siena, visual arts

Residency #133
APRIL 13 - MAY 3 (application deadline: January 16, 2009)
Denise Duhamel, poetry
David Felder, music/composition
Visual Artist, TBA

Residency #134
MAY 18 - JUNE 7 (application deadline: February 6, 2009)
Will Cotton, visual arts
Brenda Hillman, poetry
Alvin Lucier, music/composition

Residency #135
JUNE 29 - JULY 19 (application deadline: March 6, 2009)
PROJECT RESIDENCY
Mark Applebaum, music/composition/performance
Carole Kim, live video performance/installation
Heather Woodbury, playwriting/performance

Residency #136
OCTOBER 12 - NOVEMBER 1 (application deadline: May 22, 2009)
Rineke Dijkstra, visual arts
Antonya Nelson, fiction
Elliott Sharp, music/composition

Since 1982, Atlantic Center’s residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting studio, sculpture studio, music studio, dance studio, black box theater, writers’ studio, and digital computer lab. Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select a group of associates - talented, emerging and midcareer artists - through an application process administered by ACA. During the residency, artists participate in informal sessions with their group, collaborate on projects, and work independently on their own projects. The relaxed atmosphere and unstructured program provide considerable time for artistic regeneration and creation. Atlantic
Center for the Arts provides housing (private room/bath with work desk), weekday meals (provided by ACA chef) and 24 hour access to shared studio space. Financial Aid is available to qualified applicants.

For more information on how to apply, please telephone (386) 427-6975 or (800) 393-6975 (domestic US only) or visit http://www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org or email us at program@atlanticcenterforthearts.org

• All applications must be postmarked by the application deadline date.

• Atlantic Center for the Arts is pleased to announce, through the generous support of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, all painters and sculptors accepted into the 2009 Master Artists-in-Residence Program who demonstrate need will be recommended to receive full financial aid to attend the residency program. Artists from other disciplines may apply to ACA’s Financial Aid program.

Oliver Ressler - The Fittest Survive

I MYSELF AM WAR!, 3 September – 2 October 2008

Opening
2 September, 19-00 – 21.30

Project curator: Gulsen Bal

Participant artist:

Oliver Ressler
Erinç Seymen
Moira Zoitl

Panel/Talk:

12 September, 19.00 - 20.30

Luisa Ziaja and Rosa Reitsamer with Gulsen Bal
at Depot

I MYSELF AM WAR! is a project aiming to reflect the present geopolitics as well as cultural shifts that are as profound and evident in today’s factual daily life within its multitude. In order to emphasize the intersections of cultural practices and the possibilities to link the representational politics in the way this space orientates a search for present and future production, I MYSELF AM WAR! puts cultural engagements to the fore in mapping out ’subject-positions’ which set its cultural syntheses rooted in differential structures. This requires exploring alternative discursive space(s) towards accepting the difficult relationship between the present complex relational powers and monolithic interpretations of the present cultural conflictual zones beyond the failures of multicultural ideologies.

I MYSELF AM WAR! therefore attempts to introduce different layers to manifest a progressive approach to a critical engagement in a closely associated context concerning with facing the rupturing sense of a fundamentalistic outlook.

sponsored by
BM:UKK
Stadt Wien – Kulturabteilung MA 7

in kind support
Depot

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Open Space
Zentrum für Kunstprojekte
Lassingleithnerplatz 2
Schwedenplatz
Wien 1020
Austria

(+43) 699 115 286 32

for more info: office@openspace-zkp.org or mturba@openspace-zkp.org

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Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte aims to create the most vital facilities art concerned with contributing a model strategy for cross-border and interregional projects on the basis of improving new approach.

SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE

SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE
Rethinking the “infinite potentialities”.
In Homage to Luigi Nono

Exhibition, Concerts,
Interventions, Academy
September 12 - October 31, 2008

Curator - Designer Team: Charlotte
Pöchhacker and Alexander Kada

Opening: September 11, 2008
Tuesday to Sunday from 12 to 7pm

http://www.artimage.at/

XI International Architecture
Exhibition Venice Biennial
11. Mostra Internazionale di
Architettura. La Biennale di Venezia.

LOCATION: SCUOLA DEI MERCANTI,
Campo Madonna dell’Orto, Canareggio 3933, VE

SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE. Rethinking the Infinite Potentialities. In Homage to Luigi Nono has been selected by Aaron Betsky, director of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia. In response to the Biennial´s overall theme of “Out There. Architecture beyond Building”, Charlotte Pöchhacker and Alexander Kada propose with SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE a project that sets out “to awaken the ear, the eyes, human thinking, intelligence to hear different sounds, other ideas, without always wanting to rediscover one´s own mechanisms” (L.Nono)

In reference to the aesthetic approach, according to which perception is regarded as the proto-political aspect of human life, and the change in the form of perception, the shattering of traditional patterns of perception as the essential political process in artistic and architectural creation, SENSE OF ARCHITECT URE in Venice focuses specifically on the perception of different spaces (the space of sound, film, discourse, performance, architecture) and on the associated experimental dispositifs.

Exhibition as spatial viewing device
The SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE exhibition unfolds Heinz Emigholz’s two-dimensional image worlds, the film studies of architectonic structures and objects in an expansive, spatial arrangement as a visual atlas in three-dimensional space. The exhibition display is conceived as an”instrument of spatial perception” and forms the interface between the two-dimensional images and the three-dimensional space.
Multiple projections are presented in a specific architectural display by designer Alexander Kada. In a subtle interplay of the projection bodies and their transparent surfaces, there evolves a myriad of perspectives, through-views and visual references in the real exhibition space and between the projected and reflected image spaces. The visitor becomes part of the spatial construction, only his movement through the exhibition dispositif reveals the complex references of the composition(s) of the exhibition space and the image space.

SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE is an experimental lab that takes a multidisciplinary approach to exploring the various aspects of architecture (cultural, philosophical, ethical, aesthetic). The architecture of SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE is open in conception and manifests itself in different formats depending on the particular context (exhibition / concerts / design laboratories / think-tanks / performance and interventions).

In its various manifestations SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE focuses on the viewer’s / user’s willingness to become open by experiencing unfamiliar and unexpected contexts. With regard to this endeavour, SENSE OF ARCHITECT URE is indebted to Luigi Nono’s key concern ” To awaken the ear, the eyes, human thinking, intelligence”. SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE sets out to provoke in this spirit, to provoke in the sense of touching sense and senses.

An Artists book “SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE” will be lauched on September 12th in the presence of artist and filmmaker Heinz Emigholz.

Curator
Since 1993 Charlotte Pöchhacker is artistic director of ARTIMAGE CONTEMPORARY informe.

Exhibition Design
Alexander Kada is the Principal of Kadadesign (Graz/Wien) with Offices in Graz since 1995 and Vienna since 2003 and international operation in Denmark and Italy.

Filmdirection and Photography
Heinz Emigholz looks back on numerous exhibitions, retrospectives, lectures and publications worldwide as a Filmmaker, visual artist, author and publisher.

Contact press & communication:
ARTIMAGE CONTEMPORARY informe
Herrengasse 9, 8010 Graz, Austria
tel: 0043 664 2663358
email: artimage@artimage.at

The project is funded by the Cultural Department of the Styrian Government.

Malmö Konsthall

Johanna Billing
Magic & Loss, Photo from the making of Magic & Loss, 2005.

Three new exhibitions by Johanna Billing,
Sergej Jensen and Josef Strau, and
an outdoor project by Isa Genzken.

Presspreview 3 September 11 a.m.
Opening 3 September 6 - 9 p.m.

Malmö Konsthall
S:t Johannesgatan 7
Box 17 127
SE-200 10 Malmö
Sweden

http://www.konsthall.malmo.se

Johanna Billing
This Is How We Walk on the Moon
4.9-16.11 2008
Johanna Billing uses video to portray group interactions, individual identity and social structures, capturing situations of societal change. Her multilayered interpretations of places and circumstances oscillate between documentary and fiction, merging an interest in the real and the improvised with a precise and minimal cinematic language. Always staged, the looped video installations dwell on routines, rehearsals and rituals, presenting us with people in concentrated situations, where changes are taking place, are about to take place or could take place. Billing’s films often involve music, which in her hands becomes a medium of exchange, memory and reconstruction.

Billing will present film works, photographs and a documentation archive produced between 2001 and 2008.

Johanna Billing (b. 1973 Jönköping, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm.

Isa Genzken
Hair grows how it wants to
4.9 - 2.11 2008
Isa Genzken’s diverse oeuvre includes sculpture, relief, collage, film and photography. Genzken has often used assemblages as a point of departure and fearlessly integrated ready-mades such as wheelchairs, walkers, jukeboxes, armchairs and umbrellas into her sculptures. By combining all sorts of materials and doing intense juxtapositions Genzken has created powerful and playful sculptural work throughout the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s.

‘Hair grows how it wants to’ (2008) is a new version of a work previously shown at Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin, and at the German Pavilion, Venice Biennale. In ‘Hair grows how it wants to’ (2008) Genzken uses the roof of Malmö Konsthall as a base for the sculpture as well as she plays with the “face” of Klas Anshelm’s classical building.

Isa Genzken (b. 1948 Bad Oldesloe, Germany) lives and works in Berlin.

Sergej Jensen
4.9 - 2.11 2008
Sergej Jensen’s minimal paintings draw on a wide range of materials and formal references. Jensen uses the material and its possible sews, bleaches, stretches or stains to create lyrical, abstract compositions.
Fabrics like linen, silk, wool or flags and old moneybags are used and
treated almost as recycled ready-mades. The canvases have many tactile gestures, and flecks of wool or frayed edges become part of the artist’s palette for his paintings.

The exhibition is produced in collaboration with Bergen Kunsthall and includes more than 40 works produced between 2001 and 2008.

Sergej Jensen (b. 1973 Maglegård, Denmark) lives and works in Berlin.

Josef Strau
A DISSIDENCE COINCIDENCE BUT WHCTLJS
4.9-2.11 2008
Josef Strau works as an artist and writer, but has also experimented with the social roles of curator, musician and gallerist. Strau uses his writing and stories as part of his sculptural and conceptual work. The texts are often rapidly written and unpredictable, often shown as posters, on the floor or incorporated onto found modified lamps and objects, so the installations create ‘narrative spaces’.

At Malmö Konsthall, Strau will present A DISSIDENCE COINCIDENCE BUT WHCTLJS, an installation consisting of texts, lamps and other objects within a labyrinthial construction of the large scale letters WHCTLJS. The letters in the title WHCTLJS are part of a riddle. It can be read as a private and existential riddle, that may be solved whilst walking-reading through Strau’s installation.

Josef Strau (b. 1957 Vienna, Austria) lives and works in Berlin.

For further information contact +46 40 34 12 94, +46 708 34 12 94 or lena.leeb@malmo.se or check http://www.konsthall.malmo.se

Nada Prlja, project Give ‘em Hell, 100 T-shirts, fabric paint (detail)

Should I Stay or Should I Go

Solo exhibition by Nada Prlja
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
04.09.2008- 29.09.2008

Prlja’s project Should I Stay or Should I Go is a brutal illustration of the socio-political processes that belong to the current reality of less self-sufficient, financially dependent countries. By raising issues related to fair trade in this post-industrial society, the project strives to communicate with and to alert the public about the workers’ reality of today, with the intention of raising the general awareness and of making a direct change in contemporary society, by blurring the division between financially stronger and weaker societies.

For the opening evening performance, an industrial production line will be relocated to the main space of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia, where employees from MakJeans (one of numerous ’sewing factories’ in the Macedonian textile industry) and the artist Nada Prlja herself, will produce a large number of T-shirts, while simulating the current conditions of such textile industries in Macedonia.

The exhibition’s title, Should I Stay or Should I Go represents the dilemma embedded within the workers’ reality: little hope of progress in the local industry, in which many human rights legislations are being disregarded (long working hours, low salaries, low safety conditions, etc) and the workers’ desperate resolution to emigrate elsewhere - in many cases illegally - in the search for better conditions and a better future.

To represent the reality of emigrants, Prlja exhibits four videos filmed in London, in which the artist empathizes with the emigrants’ situation and the difficulties, complications and disappointments that can occur while trying to adopt something unknown and otherwise foreign to themselves.

Nada Prlja was born in Sarajevo, moving to Skopje, Macedonia, in 1981. Since 1999 she has been living and working in London. She graduated from the National School of Fine Art (A Levels) and from the Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje, Macedonia and consequently received an MPhil (Master of Philosophy) research degree from the Royal College of Arts, in London, UK.

Nada Prlja is an artist whose work deals with the complex political and social situations within the contemporary world. Her work has been shown internationally and reviewed in Flash Art, Artreview, Time Out, Art News, Third Text, etc.

In this occasion we would like to thank: The Ministry of Culture of Macedonia,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia, MakJeans and Aleksandar Magjaroski.

For further info contact the curator Zoran Petrovski at zoran@msuskopje.org.mk, or the artist nada@seriouisinterests.co.uk

Museum of Contemporary Art
Samoilova bb
1000 Skopje
Macedonia
tel. ++389 (2) 311 7734
msuskopje.org.mk