Published by PNEK May 15, 2008
in Current projects, Excursions, Festivaler, Important, News, PNEK reports, Uncategorized, events, international relations, networking and presentations.
My PNEK trip to Beirut for the FIFVC experimental video festival became somehow different than what anyone had expected. It all started very nicely with a good crowd, a mix between teachers and students at the ALBA art academy in east Beirut, european curators and filmmakers, and local artists and audience. The Norwegian Embassy had sent out a press release about the topic of my lecture, and the english language paper The Daily Star even wrote an extensive preview of the whole event. I had the pleasure of presenting the first couple of programs, which was generally well received, especially the first part where I had the possibility to talk abput the works and the contexts they had originally been made and presented.
Then, after a heated roundtable discussion on the second day of the festival hell broke loose and nervous Beirut inhabitants had to rush home before the rocket-propelled grenades (RPG), machine gun firing and roadblocks of burning tyres would prevent them from getting through the city. My dutch friend and colleague Nat Muller, currently on a one-year residency in Cairo, has written this text about our war adventures in her blog at LabforCulture.org.
IKT Grenland and Porsgrunn Kunstforening are organizing a two-day conference and exhibition about the possible development of a cultural infrastructure for art and new technology in and around the cities of Skien and Porsgrunn.
Atle Barcley, the former director for Atelier Nord and PNEK board who has recently relocated to the region, will present a sketch for these developments which will be presented at the conference on Feb 14 and 15.
Article is a nordic biannual exhibition for unstable and electronic artforms.
i/o/lab together with co-curator Jens Hauser hereby invite you to submit proposals for artistic work and conference talks to be included in Article 2008.
We are interested in Nordic productions from areas including but not limited to:
* art making use of living material or oil material
* works addressing ecology/biology
* work for mobile devices
* concepts for broadcast television or podcasting
* installations for public spaces
* public actions
* social events
We are primarily interested in completed productions but will give equal merit to incomplete/suggested work and proposals in the evaluation of applications.
Article wishes to present work which is either site- or context-specific, work which explores and exploits the potential for artistic expression in everyday surroundings and objects. Please note that Article operates without a gallery space, and presents the selected art projects on public spaces selected in collaboration with the artist.
The artist/group we invite will receive artists fees.
Article will be launched 15.-30.November 2008
Deadline for submissions: Jan 1, 2008.
More info at the Article website or contact i/o/lab by mail at iolab@iolab.no.
Trondheim Matchmaking, Trondheim Oct 19-20
