[spectre] (fwd) East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe
East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe IRWIN (eds.) ISBN 1-846380-22-7 (cloth) ISBN 1-846380-05-7 (paper) 7.9 x 9.75, 500 pp., 192 colour illus. East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe surveys the extraordinary artistic landscape of the eastern half of the European continent. It is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct some of the hidden histories of contemporary art and offers compelling discoveries for readers based both outside and within these geographic limits. The Slovenian artists group IRWIN, who initiated the concept of East Art Map, has invited artists, curators, theorists and critics to record a wide range of innovations and radical actions that have taken place in the region since 1945. Despite its substantial contribution to a new art history, this book also remains an artists project, with a subjective and quixotic appeal in addition to its informative contents. In recent decades, Eastern Europe has undergone rapid changes in its political and economic dogmas and it is now among the most significant areas for the production of contemporary culture. East Art Map tells the regions compelling histories in different ways, based on a selection of key artworks and artists. For the first time over such a broad terrain, the less celebrated sector of Europe talks to us on its own terms about its past and its future. Not only does East Art Map serve as a guidebook through the visual culture of totalitarian and post-totalitarian societies, it is the largest contemporary art documentation project ever undertaken by the East on the East. Where history is not given, the editors write, it has to be constructed. This book is that construction. The IRWIN group consists of five artists: Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek and Borut Vogelnik. The group was founded in 1983 in Ljubljana and was also co-founder of Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK). Alongside other activities, IRWIN have been engaged in a series of projects which have actively and concretely intervened in social and historical contexts in the decade that redefined the status of art in Eastern Europe (Kapital, NSK Embassy Moscow, Transnacionala, East Art Map). The first three of these projects resulted in books edited by Eda Cufer, who started to collaborate with IRWIN at the beginning of the 1990s. IRWIN is also involved in the creation of three art collections in Eastern Europe. Afterall Books are distributed by The MIT Press, and can be ordered via the website: http://mitpress.mit.edu/afterall For further information on Afterall please see: http://www.afterall.org/ For further information on East Art Map please see: http://www.eastartmap.orghttp://www.eastartmap.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] RESISTANCES: THE FIRST MUSICAL AVANT-GARDES IN PERU
--- English (Spanish version follows) CENTRO FUNDACIÓN TELEFÓNICA AND ATA PRESENTS THE EXHIBITION ³RESISTENCIAS: PRIMERAS VANGUARDIAS MUSICALES EN EL PERÚ² (RESISTANCES: THE FIRST MUSICAL AVANT-GARDES IN PERÚ) * ³Resistencias² rescues and highlights the works from a generation of internationally-renowned Peruvian avant-garde musicians. * Science, art and new technologies all considered from a historical perspective will come together in this, the second exhibition organized by sound art festival VIBRA: Audio Lima Experimental. * The exhibition will be complemented by a series of activities in which two generations of musicians, each one from a different avant-garde, will join together in concerts and seminars. During the sixties, music experienced an age of splendor all over the world, due to the emergence of great geniuses who have become a part of the cultural heritage in the West and part of the East. People from almost every corner of the world were singing to, dancing to and thinking to the rhythm of the big names in music. Thanks to the emergence of new concepts and new technologies, those years were a time for research and experimentation. And Lima¹s musical scene was not the exception. The sixties saw the birth of a gifted generation of Peruvian musicians, who experimented with the new languages developed after the end of the Second World War. Serialism, aleatory techniques, electronic devices, electro acoustic music and an interdisciplinary approach were key to the works of this Peruvian avant-garde. César Bolaños, Édgar Valcárcel, Olga Pozzi-Escot, Leopoldo La Rosa, Enrique Pinilla, Celso Garrido-Lecca, Alejandro Núñez Allauca, Walter Casas, among others, revolutionized Peruvian experimental music history, and left a mark that spread beyond the boundaries of their country. Centro Fundación Telefónica and Alta Tecnología Andina association present Resistencias: primeras vanguardias musicales en el Perú (Resistances: the first musical avant-gardes in Peru), the second exhibition organized by sound art festival VIBRA: Audio Lima Experimental. Resistencias intends to uncover and re-discover the significance of this generation of Peruvian experimental scholarly composers, whose works had a national and international impact, and who had an intensely active career during the sixties, yet today are unknown to the general public. Public assisting to Sala Paréntesis of Centro Fundación Telefónica will be part of an experience in which they will be able to see, listen and come closer to these musicians¹ worlds through sound documents, such as recordings from reel-to-reel tapes that have been digitalized for the first time; and documents, such as photographs, show programs, press clippings, and scores. Furthermore, there is a video recording of interviews made to the composers, which will allow the public to be acquainted with the context in which this generation developed, a context marked by a complete reinvention of scholar music in Latin America. Complementary activities As a complement to Resistencias, Centro Fundación Telefónica presents a seminar about musical avant-gardes in Latin America, and a concert of Peruvian compositions and performances. Seminar: ³Latinoamérica y la vanguardia musical² (Latin America and the musical avant-garde) Presented by Centro Fundación Telefónica, this seminar will be held on October 12th, 17th, 18th, 24th, 26th and 31st. It will allow the public to be acquainted with how Latin America experienced the first samples of electronic music and the avant-garde, starting from the fifties. The research done by Luis Alvarado about musical avant-gardes in Peru and Latin America is the starting point for this seminar in which will take part some renowned composers and theorists from Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Peru, such as: Édgar Valcárcel (Peru), Leopoldo La Rosa (Peru), José Javier Castro (Peru), Luis Alvarado (Peru), Daniel Varela (Argentina), Francisco Kröpfl (Argentina), Federico Schumacher (Chile), and Mesías Maiguashca (Ecuador). Place: Centro Fundación Telefónica Address: 1155 Arequipa Ave., Lima Entrance: free of charge (limited seating capacity), after registration at http://www.centro.fundaciontelefonica.org.pe. Tributo (Homage) Adaptation of Intihuatana for string quartet (1967), composed by Celso Garrido-Lecca, performed by electric guitar players Valentín Yoshimoto, Tete Leguía, Paulo Novoa and Renzo Gianella, and conducted by young musician Juan Carlos Rivera. Also, José Javier Castro will perform an adaptation of Interpolaciones (Interpolations) for electric guitar and sound recording tape (1966), composed by César Bolaños. Place: Centro Fundación Telefónica Date: Friday, October 27th Time: 19.00 Entrance: free of charge (limited seating capacity) The festival takes place at Centro Fundación Telefónica, open Monday to Saturday from 12.00 to 21.00 (Wednesdays closed), and Sundays from 12.00 to 19.00. Access to all activities
[spectre] PI PERFORMANCE INTERMEDIA FESTIVAL Szczecin/Poland
PI PERFORMANCE INTERMEDIA FESTIVAL will take place on 20 - 22 October 2006 in SZCZECIN-SWINOUJSCIE / POLAND . PERFORMANCE VIDEO ART - PI FIVE MEDIA ART EXHIBITION selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem - how for Peace VIDEO INSTALLATION . ORGANIZER : place of art OFFICYNA Szczcecin . CO-ORGANIZERS: National Museum in Szczecin Agricola de Cologne, independent curator and director of Media/Art/Cologne and CologneOFF- Cologne /D. City Swinoujscie . CURATORS: Agricola de Cologne (D) Antoni Karwowski (PL) Andrzej Pawelczyk (PL) more details and listed participants on http://www.newmediaserver.org/off/pi_festival2006.html __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] In response to the call : boycotts Emergences festival
In response to the call for boycott brought against the fourth edition of the Emergences festival. Emergences last edition has ended up on Sunday evening with a very positive assessment, especially the audience increased once again this year. Our last weeks timetable did not enabled us to answer earlier to the call for boycott to the festival which was launched by some people who judged our program being male chauvinist ; this is only lately that we got informed of this and only via undirect means. Just like the persons who launched the debate on the mailing list of art sensitif /// www.artsens.org //, we think that this is important to discuss about the place of women in contemporary art, and we are really open and motivated for any talk about it, but we also refuse any extreme point of view which would like that one set up a program according to the sex or the origin of the artits. We choose to show up projects instead of artists and we choose these projects because we like them, because they fit in a set of themes, because we believe that they are interesting and definitly not because its creator is a man or a woman Lastly, we strongly reject the method which has been used because it looks only like a final sentence whitout appeal nor opportunity to talk and debats. The team of the Emergences festival www.festival-emergences.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ En réponse à lappel au boycott de la quatrième édition du festival Emergences. La dernière édition dEmergences sest achevée dimanche soir sur un bilan très positif, notamment au niveau de la fréquentation qui a été très importante cette année encore. Lemploi du temps de nos dernières semaines ne nous ont pas permis de répondre plus tôt à lappel au boycott du festival lancé par quelques personnes qui jugeaient notre programmation machiste, appel dont nous avons été informés tardivement et par des voies indirectes. Tout comme les personnes qui ont lancé la discussion sur la liste art sensitif /// www.artsens.org //, nous pensons quil est important de débattre de la place des femmes dans lart contemporain, et nous sommes tout à fait ouverts et motivés pour en parler, mais nous refusons pour autant les positions extrêmes qui voudraient que lon monte une programmation en fonction du sexe ou de l'origine des artistes. Nous choisissons de programmer des projets, non des artistes et nous choisissons ces projets parce quils nous plaisent, parce quils rentrent dans une thématique, parce quils nous semblent intéressants pas parce que son concepteur est un homme ou une femme Enfin, nous réprouvons particulièrement la méthode qui a été utilisée qui correspond à une véritable condamnation sans appel qui noffre aucune place au dialogue et au débat. L'équipe du festival Emergences www.festival-emergences.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Reminder: ARCHITECTURE AND SITUATED TECHNOLOGIES
The Center for Virtual Architecture at the University at Buffalo, the Institute for Distributed Creativity, and The Architectural League of New York present: ARCHITECTURE AND SITUATED TECHNOLOGIES October 19-21, 2006 @ The Urban Center Eyebeam New York City http://www.situatedtechnologies.net A 3-day symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology and sociology to explore new sites of practice, research vectors, and working methods for the confluence of Architecture and Situated Technologies. Organized by Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, and Mark Shepard Participants: Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Richard Coyne, Michael Fox, Anne Galloway, Charlie Gere, Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko, Sheila Kennedy, Eric Paulos, Karmen Franinovic, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Kazys Varnelis NOTE: Space is limited. Reservations/advance ticket purchase required. Contact: Jessica Blaustein - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 212.753.1722x13 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
