A residency by application is available for one visual artist and one writer at the Civitella Ranieri Center in 2011 through our collaboration with The UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme.

The Civitella Ranieri Foundation will provide the two selected UNESCO-Aschberg Laureates with an apartment, work space, and two meals six days per week for a six-week residency. UNESCO will provide round trip air travel to Rome from the country of origin. The Laureates may each choose from one of four sessions in our residency season running from May through October, 2011.

Eligibility:
The UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme is open to professional international visual artists and writers, except for those living within the United States and the United Kingdom. Candidates must be between 25 – 35 years of age. English is the common language at The Center therefore the Laureate must be able to speak English reasonably well.

The application deadline will be November 15th and the Laureates will be contacted in early January, 2011.

Application:
Please click link below for the Civitella Ranieri Foundation/UNESCO-Aschberg application:
http://www.civitella.org/applicantapp/Application_UNESCO.aspx


All applicants will need to upload a 3-page maximum CV/resume/bio, write briefly about your work and describe a possible project you would work on while at Civitella. All applications and submissions should be in English.

Work submissions:
For Writers, upload one Word or PDF document with up to 25 pages of prose, or 10 poems (25 pages maximum). For Visual Artists: upload 8 jpeg images. If you work with video, mail in one DVD with up to 10 minutes of video to our NY office (it should arrive by November 15th).

USFCAM Hours: M-F 10am-5pm, Sat 1-4pm
Closed: September 6, November 11, 24, 25, 26
Admission to the Museum is free; daily permit ($5.00) or pay per space parking required
http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/cam/cam_exhibitions.html

The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present Carlos Garaicoa: La enmienda que hay en mí (Making Amends). Carlos Garaicoa (b. 1967, Havana, Cuba) is known for his study of the contemporary city and its built historical, political, societal and humanistic conditions in a multidisciplinary approach that defies categorization and involves a broad range of materials and techniques. He employs drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, installation, photography, video and architectural models in investigations of history, politics, architecture, urbanism and culture.

Driven by a belief in the artist’s moral obligation towards society, Garaicoa—who lives and works in Havana and in Madrid, Spain—creates new vocabularies in order to discuss social and political issues. Inspired by the circumstances of Cuba, he has adopted his native city as a laboratory and metaphor for human existence. He charges his works with commentary on issues such as architecture’s ability to alter the course of history, the failure of modernism as a catalyst for social change, human rights, and the decay of 20th century utopias.

Works in the exhibition include The Crown Jewels (Las joyas de la corona), 2009, a series of eight cast silver models of international places of military authority, surveillance and repression, representing the National Stadium of Chile, Cuba’s Villa Marista and Linea y A (Ministry of the Interior), the East German Stasi, Guantánamo Naval Base, the Pentagon, the School of the Naval Academy in Buenos Aires, and the KGB in Moscow. Intricate and intimately scaled, they are displayed individually in glass vitrines. Garaicoa has said that the work “…was conceived thinking of its possible impact on two audiences: those living under contradictory political systems—where human rights are obviously repressed—and those in systems that claim to have solved such contradictions, as in the case of Europe.”

In other works, the artist’s idea evolves over series of black and white photographs altered and amended in various ways, always dealing with an aspect of Havana and its built environment, and often contrasting utopian ideology with reality. Untitled (Sentences) [Sin título (frases)], 2009, documents the artist’s perambulations through the formerly bustling downtown commercial center. Responding to the fanciful names emblazoned on now deteriorated or abandoned storefronts, he writes “street haikus” in pins and needles directly on the photographs.

RELATED EVENTS:
AUGUST 27
  Colloquium: USF Marshall Student Center | MSC 2708 Plaza Room: 10am–Noon
  Exhibition Reception | Meet the Artist & Curators: USFCAM 7-9pm  
  Participants include: Carlos Garaicoa, Artist; Corina Matamoros, Co-Curator Exhibition, Curator of Contemporary Cuban Art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; Noel Smith, Co-Curator Exhibition, Curator of Latin American and Caribbean Art, USF and Mark Weston, Assistant Professor of Architecture, USF School of Architecture and Community Design.

$75,000 in prizes awarded to five young poets
The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine are pleased to announce the five recipients of the 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowships: Brooklyn Copeland, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Nate Klug, Dora Malech, and Christopher Shannon. Among the largest awards offered to aspiring poets in the United States, each Lilly Fellowship carries a $15,000 scholarship prize for fellows to use as they wish in continued study and writing of poetry.

The editors of Poetry magazine selected the winning manuscripts from over 1,000 applications. In announcing the winners, Poetry editor Christian Wiman remarked, “The response to this year’s competition was the biggest yet. We are excited to be at the beginning of these talented young poets’ careers, and to give them the support and encouragement they need to take the next step.”

Brooklyn Copeland was born in Indianapolis in 1984, and spent most of her life just north of the city. Copeland has also lived in Florida, England, and Finland, and she currently works as an auditor and a yoga instructor. Limited runs of her chapbooks have appeared with small presses. The most recent, Laked, Fielded, Blanked, is scheduled to appear with Alice Blue Books this winter.

Miriam Bird Greenberg was born in 1980 and grew up in rural Texas. She studied English and studio arts at the University of Pittsburgh, and earned an MFA in Poetry from the Michener Center for Writers. She is a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University.

Nate Klug was born in Minnesota in 1985 and grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He attended Roxbury Latin in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and went on to study English at the University of Chicago. He is currently a Master of Divinity student at Yale Divinity School and is a candidate for ordained ministry in the United Church of Christ. His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in the Christian Century, Literary Imagination, Poetry, Yale Review, and Zoland Poetry Annual.

Dora Malech was born in 1981 and grew up in Maryland. She earned a BA from Yale and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Author of Shore Ordered Ocean (2010) and Say So (forthcoming), her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere. Poet-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s College of California this fall, her awards include the Civitella Ranieri and Glenn Schaeffer Fellowships.

Christopher Shannon was born in 1981 in Beech Grove, Indiana. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, where he received a BA in English and creative writing and minored in music. He earned his MFA from the University of Florida. His poems and reviews have appeared in 32 Poems, Denver Quarterly, and Germanic Review. Shannon is the editor of the text-message poetry journal Cellpoems.

These five emerging voices will be featured in Poetry magazine’s November issue, and on www.poetryfoundation.org.
The Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship program is organized and administered by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, publisher of Poetry magazine.
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About the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship Program
Established in 1989 by Ruth Lilly to encourage the further writing and study of poetry, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship program has dramatically expanded since its inception. Until 1995, university writing programs nationwide each nominated one student poet for a single fellowship; from 1996 until 2007, two fellowships were awarded. In 2008 the competition was opened to all U.S. poets between 21 and 31 years of age, and the number of fellowships increased to five, totaling $75,000.

August 19 - October 2, 2010
212 Third Ave South
Seattle, WA 98104
T: 206-624-0770
F: 206-624-4031
staff@gregkucera.com
http://www.gregkucera.com/yamamoto.htm

Jennifer Allora (CRF 2004) & Guillermo Calzadilla (CRF 2004), Under Discussion,
2004-05, Videostill

Examples to Follow!
Expeditions In Aesthetics & Sustainability on
September 2, 2010
from 6 pm onwards at
Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8 - 11, 13357 Berlin-Wedding

Artists and Inventors ( * present at the opening )
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Néle Azevedo*, Richard Box*, Ines Doujak*, Adib Fricke*, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Till Krause*, Klara Hobza*, Lukas Feireiss* | Luis Berríos-Negrón*| Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, Dionisio González, Tue Greenfort*, Hermann Josef Hack*, Henrik Håkansson*, Ilkka Halso*, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger*, Christoph Keller*, Folke Köbberling* | Martin Kaltwasser*, Christian Kuhtz*, Christin Lahr*, Antal Lakner*, Jae Rhim Lee*, Till Leeser*, Marlen Liebau* | Marc Lingk*, Susanne Lorenz*, Gerd Niemöller*, Dan Peterman*, Nana Petzet*, Clement Price-Thomas*, Dodi Reifenberg*, Gustavo Romano*, Miguel Rothschild*, Otmar Sattel*, Michael Saup*, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Dina Shenhav*, Superflex*, Jakub Szczesny*, The Yes Men, Gudrun F. Widlok*, Xing Danwen Zwischenbericht*

Exhibition: September 3 - October 10, 2010
Opening hours: Tue – Sun 12 pm – 8 pm
Thu 12 pm – 10 pm
Closed on Mondays

Program:
Tuesdays, 6 pm | artist talks
Thursdays, 7 pm | panels
Fridays, 7.30 pm | film program
Further information: www. z-n-e.info

A project by: Foundation Forum der Kulturen zu Fragen der Zeit
The project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation

EXPEDITIONS IN AESTHETICS AND SUSTAINABILITY show artistic practices that contribute to the conservation of the planet and promotes a rethinking about our own consumer behaviour. Sustainability requires an expansion of our awareness of the part we each have to contribute. To this end, the exhibition has abolished the lines between artistic and technological creativity, between practicability and idea. The show is accompanied by workshops with children and young people, panels with representatives from the worlds of art, science, foundations, the economy and NGOs, as well as a film program.

A publication will accompany the exhibition consisting of a catalogue, a reader, a children’s colouring book and instructions for assembly as well asthoughts about founding an Aesthetics and Sustainability Fund.
The book is published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7757-2772-3, www.hatjecantz.de

After Berlin, EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW! will be on view in Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow, Umweltbundesamt Dessau, Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Städtische Galerie Neuburg an der Donau, and then in cooperation with Goethe-Institute in St. Petersburg, Australia, and Athens. Further venues under discussion.

Contact: info@z-n-e.info
Press | Public Relations: Anne Maier annemaier.presse@z-n-e.info

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ZUR NACHAHMUNG EMPFOHLEN!
Expeditionen in Ästhetik & Nachhaltigkeit

Starlight: 150 Poems (UQP, September 2010)
From Andrew Wilkins, in Bookseller + Publisher, Sept. 2010: “The publication of Starlight marks John Tranter’s 50 years as a writer, and follows the highly successful Urban Myths (2006), which won just about every literary award going, including the overall prize in the South Australian Premier’s Award for Literature. Tranter is one of a handful of Australian poets whose books sell well and, following the sad death of Peter Porter earlier this year, he and Les Murray are arguably our most senior and important poets. Starlight gives us all the more reason to celebrate this most energetic and literate of voices.
Reading the 150 poems in this collection is to spend time in the company of a writer steeped (well-versed?) in the work of other poets, and able to assume different narrative voices at will. There are poems inspired by the French poet Baudelaire, American John Ashbery and T S Eliot. Infiltrating his work is a dry, laconic wit and a rich understanding of culture and history. […] A particular pleasure was the lively sequence ‘At the Movies’, which ruminates on films of the past, and Tranter’s updated response to Baudelaire’s celebrated Fleurs du Mal, which is every bit as wicked and visceral as the original.”

Read Selected Poems:
http://johntranter.com/poems/starlight-selection.shtml

Special Event: John Tranter’s Poetic Networks: a symposium & book launch celebrating The Salt Companion to John Tranter and the Sydney launch of Starlight: 150 Poems
Wednesday, 22, September 2010, 5:30 for 6pm;
John Woolley Building A20; Science Road,
The University of Sydney.
Speakers: Kate Lilley, Philip Mead, John Tranter.
Free event, open to all.
Hosted by Australian Literature at the University of Sydney
RSVP: robert.dixon@sydney.edu.au

Save the date
The public unveiling of projects by; Andreas Fogarasi, Minna Henriksson, Joanna Rajkowska (CRF 1998), Mark Wallinger and Clemens von Wedemeyer in five different cities across Turkey will be held between October 20th and 24th, 2010.

www.mycity.eu.com
www.benimkentim.org/e-diary

PROJECTS IN TURKEY

Projects by;
Andreas Fogarasi, "Panorama (the Right of View)" in Istanbul
Minna Henriksson, "The one who loves tells the truth" in Trabzon
Joanna Rajkowska, "Walter Benjamin in Konya" in Konya
Mark Wallinger, "Sinema Amnesia" in Canakkale
Clemens von Wedemeyer, "Sun Cinema" in Mardin

Five artists have been invited to develop unique projects, each for a different city in Turkey. The public unveiling of these five site-specific works in five different cities across Turkey will be held in between October 20th and 24th, 2010.

Opening Programme:
Wednesday 20 October – arrival in Istanbul
Thursday 21 – Friday 22 October, opening tour to project cities
Saturday 23 October, Istanbul opening – end of tour
Sunday 24 October – departure from Istanbul

(The detailed programme of opening activities will be available on the website from Monday 16 August onwards. If you have travel and accommodation inquiries please contact: arts.mycity@bristishcouncil.org)

Austrian artist Andreas Fogarasi's panorama-structure is designed to provide different cultural and socio-political views of the city and will be positioned in very different neighbourhoods in Istanbul. Minna Henriksson from Finland has been co-ordinating comprehensive research with young people from Trabzon to allow for a multi-facetted expression of their viewpoints on how their city is and should be perceived. Joanna Rajkowska from Poland explores the complex relationship between tradition and modernity in the city of Konya by using a text by Walter Benjamin "The Task of the Translator" in translation into Ottoman Turkish as used before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. British artist Mark Wallinger's 'Sinema Amnesia' is a video installation at the narrowest point of the Dardanelles strait, making a poignant reference to both the ancient and modern history of the city while Clemens von Wedemeyer from Germany has developed a sculptural open-air cinema at the border of the old city of Mardin overlooking the Mesopotamian plain. His film about the sun and the city of Mardin will be among the first films to be shown there.

The project aims to bring contemporary art and culture to the heart of the dialogue between Europe and Turkey. At the core of the project, the five European artists listed above have been commissioned to create site-specific works in five Turkish cities which are distinguished by great cultural wealth and diversity and which markedly differ in their history, culture and social patterns. Each artist was assigned one of the five cities after careful deliberation by the international jury and the partner organisations. Since the start of the project in 2009 the artists have been visiting their cities to engage with their communities, getting to know the places and histories which have inspired the works they will be presenting.

Programme and Further Reading
To follow the details of the programme, the schedule for openings in each city and the calendar of events, you can visit the My City e–diary at www.benimkentim.org/e-diary. The e-diary is also a source where you can read specially commissioned articles on public art by authors from Turkey and Europe, together with comments and articles by local correspondents in the cities that are part of the project.

The list of 13 finalists for this year’s Man Booker Prize for fiction was announced on Tuesday, July 27th. The winner, who will receive a prize of about $77,000, will be named on Oct. 12.

Andrew Motion, the chairman of the judges, said in a statement: “Here are 13 exceptional novels — books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors. Wide-ranging in their geography and their concern, they tell powerful stories which make the familiar strange and cover an enormous range of history and feeling.” The Booker is Britain’s best-known literary award, and brings with it prestige and, of course, an increase in book sales.

On the list are “Parrot and Olivier in America,” by Peter Carey (Faber and Faber); “Room,” by Emma Donoghue (Pan MacMillan-Picador); “The Betrayal,” by Helen Dunmore (Penguin-Fig Tree); “In a Strange Room,” by Damon Galgut (CRF 2007) (Grove Atlantic-Atlantic Books); “The Finkler Question,” by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury); “The Long Song,” by Andrea Levy (Headline Publishing Group-Headline Review); “C,” by Tom McCarthy (Random House-Jonathan Cape); “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,” by David Mitchell (Hodder & Stoughton-Sceptre); “February,” by Lisa Moore (Random House-Chatto & Windus); “Skippy Dies,” by Paul Murray (Penguin-Hamish Hamilton); “Trespass,” by Rose Tremain (Random House-Chatto & Windus); “The Slap,” by Christos Tsiolkas (Grove Atlantic-Tuskar Rock); and “The Stars in the Bright Sky,” by Alan Warner (Random House-Jonathan Cape).

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/thisyear/longlist

5X5CASTELLÓ 2010
Premi Internacional d'art
Contemporani Diputació de Castelló
16 July – 26 September 2010

Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló
Prim s/n 12003. Spain
Telephone: + 34 964 72 35 40
Fax: + 34 964 26 07 71
www.eacc.es

Premi Internacional d'Art Contemporani Diputació de Castelló is back again at Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló. This new edition will be a further step in consolidating the reputation of this international contemporary art prize in the wider art world.

5x5Castelló2010 is an exhibition project created by EACC with the goal of forging bonds and dialogue between different generations of artists. EACC is the ideal choice of site as the mandate of this prize fits in to perfection with the rest of the challenging risk-taking projects held at the art centre throughout the year.

The selection process is divided into three consecutive yet interconnected phases conceived to ensure the prize's demanding standards of quality.

The first stage consisted of establishing contact with five artists, plenty worldwide renown, to whom it was entrusted, in a disinterested and free way, the task of proposing a list of other five contemporary artists which, according their criteria, were developing an artistic work of obvious creativity and more than enough creative risk. For the current edition this first group was formed by the following names: Marina Abramovic, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, John Baldessari, Esther Ferrer and Antoni Muntadas.

Once the proposal was accepted by the latter and the different lists were obtained, the second stage of the project started. In this stage, it was established contact with each one of the artists registered in the different lists.

It was explained to all of them both the criteria and intentions of the competition and the name of the artist that considered the merits of their work as essential to take part in the announcement.

The third stage results in the carrying out of an exhibition that entitled: 5x5Castelló2010. Premi Internacional d'art contemporani Diputació de Castelló that will take place in the current edition from 16th July to 26th September and which central venue will be the EACC.

The artists participating in this edition are: Eugènia Balcells, Davide Balliano, Ricardo Basbaum (CRF 2010), Joshua Callaghan, Alejandro Cesarco, Anne-Marie Cornu, Nikhil Chopra, Marcelline Delbecq, Thea Djordjadze, Omer Fast, Terike Haapoja, Terence Koh, Rogelio López Cuenca, David Maljkovic, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Eva and Franco Mattes, Michèle Métail, Hiroharu Mori, Ana Navarrete, Tarja Pitkänen-Walter, Marjetica Potrc (CRF 1998), Grethell Rasúa Fariñas, Analia Saban, Roi Vaara, Nico Vascellari.

In a parallel way, the EACC direction will announce the setting-up of a jury mainly represented by art critics or museum directors that will be in charge of awarding the prize. The decision of the jury will be known on September 24th.

It has to be emphasized the intention of the participants institutions of generating through the award winners works along the consecutive editions, a collection of contemporary art that will be established with the time as a patrimony of unquestionable interest.

1st Ural Industrial Biennial
Shockworkers of the Mobile Image
9 September – 10 October 2010

Opening days:
8-12 September 2010

Ekaterinburg, Russia

Curators: Cosmin Costinas, Ekaterina Degot, David Riff

The National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) and the Sverdlovsk Region Governor's Office are pleased to announce the opening of the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial. The biennial will take place in the Ural Workers Printing Press (the main project) and in four large industrial plants (the special projects) in the city of Ekaterinburg. The Ural Industrial Biennial is a format initiated and developed by the director of the National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg branch, Alisa Prudnikova.

Ekaterinburg, formerly Sverdlovsk, is the capital of the Soviet Union's industrial heartland, the Ural. When the USSR collapsed, the city's many heavy industries fell prey to economic malaise. But today, Ekaterinburg has become one of the hubs of Russia's resource economy, a site of accumulation following an era of shock privatization, a place where people dream with BRICs and awaken to the harsh realities of economic crisis. How should we understand all this new investor architecture, empty as of yet, all these new service industries, all that new imaginary "symbolic capital" produced by "creative professionals" and their underlings? What role does and can contemporary art play in such a place, when it comes to the half-operational spaces of Soviet industry? Can it be more than a shot in the dark, a fastmoving consumer commodity, a medium for gentrification, a plaything of the superrich? Can it be more than a reproduction?

The biennial's title is "Shockworkers of the Mobile Image," and its main venue is the Ural Worker Printing Press, a constructivist building in the center of Ekaterinburg. Built in 1929-1930, this space prompts a dialogue with the most contradictory period of Soviet history, when the party sent shock brigades to build heavy industries in the middle of nowhere. Their superproductive labor was supposedly voluntary, heroic, based on enthusiasm and affect, but overseen by a growing security apparatus. Foreign experts and internationalists participated, reproducing and implanting mobile images of Fordist modernity. Their engagement was genuine, but remained blind to the harsh reality of intensifying exploitation. In many ways, Russia's transition to global post-Fordist capitalism is no less drastic, and today's global artists, filmmakers, and architects are shockworkers, too, and internationalists, no doubt, capable of an affective solidarity much like that of the pre-fascist 1930s. They come to distant cities, working nights to build temporary factories on the sites abandoned by industry, factories that reproduce images, affects, and social relations, factories where free time takes on form and becomes a commodity. In Ekaterinburg, this temporary factory taps into a vast reservoir of amateur creativity, harkening back to an age when it seemed like all the shockwork was over... We want to ask: who is really the worker in this new factory? The artist? The curator? The audience? What happens when these workers leave? And what happens when they return?

Contributions by: Yuri Albert (CRF 2002), Tarsila do Amaral, Pablo Baen Santos, Yael Bartana, Bela Balazs Studio, Guy Ben-Ner, Blue Noses, Christian von Börries, Serguej Bratkov, Alex Buldakov, Cao Fei, Olga Chernysheva, Chto Delat, Evgenia Demina, Jimmie Durham, Harun Farocki, Daniel Faust, M.M. Fontenelle, Joris Ivens, Christian Jankowsky, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Nikita Kadan & Alexander Burlaka, Kolumne Links, Naroa Lizar, Roman Minin, Andrei Monastyrski, Rabih Mroue, Ciprian Muresan, Deimantas Narkevicius, Amshei Nuerenberg, Johannes Paul Raether, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Andreas Siekmann & Alice Creisher & Max Jorge Hinderer, Sean Snyder, Praneet Soi, Hito Steyerl, Mladen Stilinovic, Taller E.P.S. Huayco, Avdey Ter-Oganyan, David Ter-Oganyan, Florin Tudor & Mona Vatamanu, V.M.Volovich, Lin Yilin, Vadim Zakharov, among others.

The biennial's opening will be accompanied by an international symposium dedicated to discussing the industrial past and the post-industrial present.

Biennial venues:
Main venue: Ural Worker Printing Press (House of Print)
Special projects: Verkh Iset' Metallurgical Factory, VIZ-Stal', Ural Heavy Machines Plant, old Uralmash House of Culture, Colored Metals Factory (historical building), Sverdlovsk Worsted Factory

Carlos Garaicoa (CRF 1997): Overlapping
10 June - 5 September 2010
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Dublin 8
Ireland
Tel: +353-1-612 9900
info@imma.ie
Admission is free
www.imma.ie

Overlapping is an exhibition by one of Cuba's leading contemporary artists Carlos Garaicoa, whose work explores the social fabric of our cities through the examination of its architecture. The exhibition brings together new and recent works comprising sculpture, installation, drawing, video and photography, which explore the themes of architecture and urbanism, politics and history, and narrative and human culture. Since the early 1990s Garaicoa has developed his multi-faceted practice as a means to critique modernist utopian architecture and the collapse of 20th-century ideologies using the city as his point of departure. Adopting the city of Havana as his laboratory, his works are charged with provocative commentaries on issues such as architecture's ability to alter the course of history, the failure of modernism as a catalyst for social change and the frustration and decay of 20th-century utopias.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue documenting Garaicoa's work since 2006. Published by Charta it includes essays by Seán Kissane; Okwui Enwezor, curator, writer and critic; and Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Director of the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City. Buy online at www.imma.ie
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"Islands Never Found"
28 June – 28 November 2010
Hellenic Ministry of Culture And Tourism
State Museum of Contemporary Art
Kolokotroni 21, Stavroupoli 56430, Thessaloniki
Τ: +30 2310 589140-1 & 3, F: +30 2310 600123
info@greekstatemuseum.com
www.greekstatemuseum.com

Venues: State Museum of Contemporary Art (Moni Lazariston) and Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (Warehouse Β1, Port), Thessaloniki, Greece

Participating artists : Marina Abramović, Alice Aycock, Marina Bolla, Louise Bourgeois, Yves Bresson, Tony Cragg, Danica Dakić, Latifa Echakhch, Jan Fabre, Hans Peter Feldmann, Gloria Friedmann, Carlos Garaicoa, Gilbert & George, Siobhán Hapaska, Rebecca Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Anselm Kiefer, Kimsooja, Jannis Kounellis, Maria Loizidou, Richard Long, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Maurizio Nannucci, Luigi Ontani, Dennis Oppenheim, Orlan, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lucas Samaras, Barthélémy Toguo, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Costas Tsoclis, Mamoru Tsukada, Günther Uecker, Lois Weinberger, Dimitris Xonoglou.

The exhibition "Islands Never Found" (Isole Mai Trovate / Îles Introuvables) focuses on the artist's journey—the actual, but mostly the inner journey and its itinerary, stopovers, objectives, living conditions, achievements and failures. It is organised by the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Τhessaloniki, Greece), the Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole and the Comune di Genova/ Palazzo Ducale.

The exhibition currently presented in Thessaloniki was on show from March till June 2010 at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa and will finally be presented from December 2010 – April 2011 at the Musée d' Art Moderne in St. Étienne.

The exhibition "Islands Never Found" (Isole Mai Trovate / Îles Introuvables) places centre-stage the artist's personality, which is rich but contradictory, in part deleterious and unreservedly self-destructive and creative, tormented and self-sufficient. Τhe show is a tribute to those artists who along with their obsessive, committed and limitless creativity, and their ruthless radicalism and extravagant intellectual liberty, are able to create novel socio-cultural situations and mindsets. Thus, they show the way of new territories, which like the islands of the immense rolling ocean, simultaneously evoke asylum and imprisonment, home and hell, liberation and dissolution.

Warehouse B1, Port – P.O. Box 107 59, 54110 Thessaloniki
www.cact.gr , info@cact.gr , www.myspace.com/cact_

SMCA & CACT Press Office
Yiota Sotiropoulou
Mobile: 6972336261
Τ: +30 2310589152, F: +30 2310589210
press@greekstatemuseum.com

September Events: 3 – 26 September 2010
Opening Week: 7 – 12 September 2010

Organizer: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Curators: Hongjohn Lin, Tirdad Zolghadr

TB10
TB10 is reconsidering the biennial format through a number of structural proposals. Although we have no curatorial master plan to scream from the rooftops, a potential leitmotif is the question of what is distinctive of biennials today. What are the conditions of production a biennial creates, what can you do with a biennial that you cannot do with anything else. Some working premises are as follows:

• TB08 Revisited: Avoiding the usual tabula rasa, TB10 will build on ideas and projects from previous Taipei Biennials. For example, a number of TB 2008 artists are invited to critically revisit their previous contributions.

• Two More Years: Artists first approached for TB10 were involved in a wider curatorial discussion. This resulted in a transfiguration of TB10 into a two year process, leading to a series of smaller exhibitions 2012. The process will be sustained by an academic framework that is currently being finalized, ideally resulting in sustainable art-pedagogical infrastructure. Our partner is the Taipei Contemporary Art Center, a venue which actually began as a commissioned artwork by Jun Yang for TB 2008.

• The Show: is deliberately restricted to 23 featured artists. Among the 37 artworks, nearly half are new commissions, many more are ambitious adaptations of older work. Much of the work is process-oriented, and a third is collaborative in some manner, with some 50 further artists being included via such collaborations.

• Sputniks: Three critical companions are invited to consistently produce unsparing feedback, also amounting to interventions during TB10. The exercise hopes to upend the polarity of the corrupt intellectual vs innocent autonomy.

• Artist Cinema: The screening program includes 35 films by 31 artists. The artist-designed cinema contraption offers the viewing conditions of a movie theatre.

• Taipei Art Spaces: Eights Taipei venues have articulated various levels of collaboration. These are neither parallel programs nor curated contributions, but unpredictable interfaces adopting different savors and criteria from case to case.

TB08 Revisited
Lara Almarcegui (CRF 2009)
Burak Delier
Irwin
Superflex

Contact
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
181, Zhong Shan N. Road, Sec. 3, Taipei 10461, Taiwan
Tel +886 2 2595 7656 fax +886 2 2585 1886
info@taipeibiennial.org
www.taipeibiennial.org

William Kentridge (CRF 1996), Five Themes
29 June - 5 September 2010
Jeu de Paume
1, Place de la Concorde
75008 Paris
www.jeudepaume.org

"I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain endings.
An art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check and nihilism at bay." (William Kentridge)

South African artist William Kentridge came to attention on the international scene in the 1990s, thanks to a series of short animation films - he prefers to call them "drawings for projection"
- depicting everyday life under apartheid. In the works he has produced since the end of the apartheid regime, which feature in this exhibition, he has broadened his themes, leaving his immediate environment to examine other political conflicts. Contrary to the norm for much political art, Kentridge takes a nuanced approach as he explores the ambiguous, often contradictory dynamic, which entangles perpetrators, witnesses and victims.

"William Kentridge, Five Themes" brings together some forty pieces, many of them made since 2000. It demonstrates the variety of Kentridge's output, which ranges across such media as drawing, film, collage, prints, sculpture and stage sets. His longstanding interest in theatre - he was a cofounder of Johannesburg's Junction Avenue Theatre Company in the 1970s, and since then has collaborated on several occasions with the Handspring Puppet Company - is reflected in the dramatic and even dramaturgical quality of his work. Kentridge is one of the few artists active today capable of connecting the visual arts, cinema and the performing arts. He does not so much alternate between these disciplines as shift fluently around them, going from theatre to drawing and from drawing to film. Naturally, his work echoes the South African experience, but it also draws on a wide variety of European sources, notably in literature, opera, theatre and early cinema, from which he takes the inspiration for the archetypal characters in his narratives. These figures embody and act out a complex universe in which the forces of good and evil are complementary and inseparable.

Tuesday 29 June, 6 pm: Book signing with William Kentridge at Jeu de Paume bookstore Tuesday 29 June, 7 pm: Conversation between William Kentridge and Denis Hirson, writer at the auditorium.

And also.
William Kentridge, Egyptian Sketchbook
at the Louvre museum
July 1-August 30, 2010

Inspired by Egypt, drawings by William Kentridge will be presented in the Department of Graphic Arts, alongside a selection of drawings from the Louvre's collections. Video works, made out of his drawings and conceived especially for the museum, will be projected in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities.
Le Louvre
Aile Denon, 1st floor, Salle 33 / Aile Sully, 1st floor, Salle 26 www.louvre.fr

U3 - 6th Triennial of
Contemporary Art in Slovenia

15 June – 5 September 2010
Opening: Tuesday, 15 June, 8 p.m.

Moderna galerija /
Museum of Modern Art
Tomšiceva 14
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
www.mg-lj.si
Open daily except Mondays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m

This 6th U3 Slovenian art triennial focuses on how artists from across the generations reflect today on reality and the depiction of activities and relationships in the world around them. It foregrounds artistic proposals about history, the environment and the social as much as intimate relations with community, family and friends. It is not centred on the inner life of the artist but on his/her relationship with external people and institutions. To choose for the external is a choice to reflect the current strengths of the Slovenian art scene as well as a recognition of longer artistic tendencies in this country towards over-identification and strategies to seek connections with other fields and subjects outside of the traditions of l'art pour l'art.

Participants
Nika Autor, Jože Barši, Berko, BridA (Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica), Matija Brumen, Vesna Bukovec, Jasmina Cibic, Vuk Cosic, Delavsko-punkerska univerza, Lojze Dolinar, Leon Dolinšek, Domestic Research Society, Vadim Fiškin, Samo Gosaric, Tomislav Gotovac, Dejan Habicht, Irwin, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Marco Juratovec, Jaša, Bogoslav Kalaš, Tine Kos, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Tanja Lažetic, Vladimir Leben, Polonca Lovšin, Anja Medved, Borut Peterlin, Nikolaj Pirnat, Tadej Pogacar and P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, Marko Pogacnik, Uroš Potocnik, Marjetica Potrc (CRF 1998), radioCona (Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman), Sašo Sedlacek, SMALL BUT DANGERS (Mateja Rojc, Simon Hudolin-Salci), Slavko Smolej, Bálint Szombathy, Nika Špan, Miha Štrukelj, Matjaž Wenzel, Dunja Zupancic::Miha Turšic::Dragan Živadinov, Želimir Žilnik.

Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity
Opens 17th June 2010

The Walther Collection
Reichenauerstrasse 21
89233 Neu-Ulm
Germany

www.walthercollection.com

The Walther Collection opens to the public on June 17th, 2010 with "Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity," introducing works from its African collection. Under the curatorial direction of Okwui Enwezor the exhibition comprises a series of four projects filling all nine galleries in the three buildings of the new exhibition space in Burlafingen near Ulm, Southern Germany. The inaugural exhibition will be open every week from Thursday to Sunday by appointment only, please contact: info@walthercollection.com. Admission is free.

"Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity" integrates the work of three generations of African artists and photographers with that of modern and contemporary German photography. This combination of African and German works will serve as a model for the kind of curatorial process that animates the character of the collecting program. In total, the exhibition presents 243 works by 32 artists. To support this curatorial vision, the galleries of the collection have been proportioned to respond to the different scales of photography and video and are distributed around three architectural typologies which house the exhibitions.

Steidl will publish a comprehensive book with full-page reproductions of all works in the exhibition, marking the starting point of the publication program of The Walther Collection. The book will be edited by Okwui Enwezor and will include contributions by himself as well as Virginia Heckert, Kobena Mercer, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Deborah Willis and a conversation between Willis E. Hartshorn, director of the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, and Artur Walther.

Artists in Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity
Sammy Baloji, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bambgoyé, Yto Barrada, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Candice Breitz, Allan deSouza, Theo Eshetu (CRF 2002), Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, David Goldblatt, Kay Hassan, Romuald Hazoumè, Pieter Hugo, Seydou Keïta, Maha Maamoun, Boubacar Touré Mandémory, Salem Mekuria, Santu Mofokeng, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Zanele Muholi, James Muriuki, Ingrid Mwangi, Grace Ndiritu, J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Jo Ractliffe, August Sander, Berni Searle (CRF 2001), Malick Sidibé, Mikhael Subotzky (CRF 2008), Guy Tillim, Hentie van der Merwe, Nontsikelelo (Lolo) Veleko.

Gary Shteyngart (CRF 2009) has been selected by The New Yorker for its "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers worth watching. The list appears in the magazine's double fiction issue, which arrived on newsstands today.

The New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/books/03under.html?ref=arts

Gary Shteyngart also has a new novel, Super Sad True Love Story (Random House, $26), reveiwed by Christopher R. Beha in the June/July issue of Bookforum.

Adaptation: Between Species
June 19- September 12, 2010

The Power Plant
231 Queens Quay West
Toronto ON Canada M5J 2G8
www.thepowerplant.org

Jennifer Allora (CRF 2004) & Guillermo Calzadilla (CRF 2004), Francis Alÿs, Cory Arcangel, John Bock, Olaf Breuning, Marcus Coates, Robyn Cumming, Mark Dion (CRF 1996), FASTWÜRMS, Shaun Gladwell, Lucy Gunning, Nina Katchadourian, Louise Lawler, Hanna Liden, Hew Locke, Sandra Meigs, Rivane Neuenschwander and Cao Guimarães, Jeff Sonhouse, Javier Téllez , Michelle Williams Gamaker.

Curator: Helena Reckitt, Senior Curator of Programs

Civilization notwithstanding, we live with and among nature and animals. Cultural followers such as pigeons, rats, foxes, and – in Canada – bears, live off our refuse, while bacteria reside in our guts. The industrial world eats further into natural habitats, but micro-environments flourish in urban and exurban sites. Responding to the contemporary desire to go "back to nature," The Power Plant's summer group exhibition 'Adaptation: Between Species' explores interspecies encounters. What happens when humans, animals and the natural world meet? What forms of communication, miscommunication, intimacy, and exchange ensue?

While species live in ever closer proximity, many people feel profoundly cut off both from natural environments and from their own animal natures. Our deep longing to connect with non-human life forms is reflected in contemporary phenomena ranging from the boom in pet ownership and the widespread anthropomorphism in popular culture to the upsurge in vacations that promise to transport us to unspoiled lands.

However, despite this deep-seated sense of alienation from nature, the species are in fact closely related. For instance, as Donna Haraway notes in her book When Species Meet, 90 percent of human cells are filled with the genomes of bacteria, fungi, protists, and such, with only 10 percent comprising human genomes. 'Adaptation' explores this commonality between the species and considers the various forms of intelligence and knowledge they share. It also asks what our interactions with other species reveal about our human as well as our animal natures. Highlighting the urge to observe, touch, live with, and mimic other species, the exhibition delves into the intimate and, at times, uncanny fusions that result. Many of the artworks hover between seriousness and absurdity, embracing the potential for fantasy, childish antics and regression at the core of human/non-human relations, and reveling in the transgression of both social acceptability and human identity that interspecies encounters can engender.

Coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity, the exhibition considers how adaptation functions as a form of biological and cultural survival. It also takes a realistic view of human/non-human dynamics, acknowledging the unbalanced and exploitative power relations that too often characterize our society's attitudes toward other life forms.

A publication together with an extensive program of public events accompanies the exhibition. Highlights include a DJ Set and SKRY-POD public tarot reading by Ontario artists FASTWÜRMS, a film screening 'Animal Drag Kingdom' with works by Guy Ben-Ner, Douglas Gordon, Kathy High, Kristin Lucas, and Steve Reinke and Jessie Mott, a children's workshop on animal language, and free gallery tours every weekend at 2pm.

The Power Plant offers free gallery admission all summer thanks to the support of the Hal Jackman Foundation and Media Partner NOW Magazine.

Petah Coyne (CRF 2005) Exhibition:
Everything That Rises Must Converge
MASS MoCa
North Adams, MA
May 29, 2010-Spring 2011
Curated by Denise Markonish
http://www.massmoca.org/

Kerry James Marshall (CRF 1998)
May 8, 2010 – January 3, 2011

Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
BC V6Z 2H7 Vancouver
Canada

www.vanartgallery.bc.ca

The Vancouver Art Gallery is presenting the first Canadian solo exhibition of paintings by prominent American artist Kerry James Marshall. Drawing on his upbringing during the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama and later in the politically charged atmosphere of South Central Los Angeles, Marshall is celebrated for his insightful work focused on the African-American experience. Co-curated by Vancouver Art Gallery director Kathleen Bartels and artist Jeff Wall, the exhibition, Kerry James Marshall, presents 19 exemplary works created since the early 1990s.

Atelier Van Lieshout (Joep Van Lieshout CRF 2007)
Infernopolis
29.05.10– 26.09.2010

A former Submarine Wharf in the port of Rotterdam has been transformed into the largest exhibition space in the Netherlands. Atelier Van Lieshout is inaugurating this space with the spectacular exhibition Infernopolis. In the 5000m space Atelier Van Lieshout has created a terrifying setting in which medical instruments, vacuum pumps, silos, skulls, skeletons, and giant sperm cells and bodily organs are the main protagonists. Two enormous installations, 'The Technocrat' and 'Cradle to Cradle', are installed amid a forest of existing and new sculptures. A unique partnership between the Port of Rotterdam and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
www.submarinewharf.com

The exhibition is a major part of the official programme of Holland Art Cities 2009-2010.

Investigations of a Dog
Works from the FACE (Foundation of Arts for a Contemporary Europe) Collections
15 May – 5 September 2010

Opening: 15 May 2010, 7 pm

Art Centre
Alameda das Fisgas, 79
2645-117 Alcoitão
Cascais, PORTUGAL
info@ellipsefoundation.com
http://www.ellipsefoundation.com

The exhibition features over 40 major works, including work from Mark Dion (CRF 1996) & William Kentridge (CRF 1996)

Exhibition | 8.May.2010 - 11.September.2011
Opening Friday 07.May, 7pm Double Rotation
Weserburg Museum in Bremen, Germany

The following artists will be presented: Carl Andre, Hermine Anthoine, Jake Berthot, Louis Cane, Alan Charlton, Rolf Deimling, Ulrich Erben, Johannes Esper, Gotthard Graubner, Peter Joseph, Ellsworth Kelly, Harald Klingelhöller, Kitty Kraus, Richard Long, John McCracken, Gerhard Merz, Michael Pfisterer, Larry Poons, Mark Prince, James Reineking, Ulrich Rückriem, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ben Schonzeit, Richard Serra, Robert Therrien, Renate Wolff (CRF 2005), Jerry Zeniuk.

Carlos Garaicoa Studio (CRF 1997) has the pleasure to invite you to the presentation of the SHOW «Lands in Abeyance » at Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia at 6:30 pm.
May 7th to August 8th
Calle carrera 64 B N 51-64
Unidad residencial Carlos E. Restrepo,
Medellín, Colombia
www.mammedellin.org
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Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin, Ireland
June 9-September 5
Curated by Sean Kissane

TRUST
Media City Seoul 2010
7 September – 17 November 2010

Opening reception: 6 September, 5 pm
Press preview: 4 – 5 September,
12 - 6 pm

Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
30 Misulgwan-gil (37 Seosomun-dong)
Jung-gu, Seoul 110-813, Korea

http://www.mediacityseoul.org

Media City Seoul announces the sixth edition of the biennial under the title Trust. To connect with the rest of the world, we invest a certain amount of trust in various relations. Trust is by default an ambiguous notion, it is one grounded in good faith as much as in doubt. As individuals we not only have these relations to our fellow citizens, but also increasingly with modes of connection. With proliferating forms of media, information comes to us in many guises, and the message is more and more opaque; marketing poses as friendship, solitude as community, populism as democracy.

Instead of simply stepping up to the speed of technology, the curatorial team of Media City Seoul 2010 proceeds from a desire to pause, reflect, and critique the transitions and transformations of our social contexts. The exhibition is propositional by nature. Trust interprets media broadly—as a tool for engagement within a shifting terrain where political, national or religious identities are being re-charted; where means of distribution creates real and imagined communities; and where private interpersonal space share the same platform as global political issues of the day. As forms of media become more accessible and varied, we enter an era that seemingly allows more room for self-expression and individuality. Yet, what is at stake when media channels are more concentrated and powerful? How do these networks create new spaces of alienation and control? How do we reconcile the desire for changing social models, with a desire for new communities?

The exhibition works against the rhetoric of technology as progress and promise, offering instead a recalibration of its definition. Many of the artists in the exhibition are not known as media artists, but use various forms of media (printed material, urban detritus, photographic and video technology, documentary and fictional forms) to counter the generalizing of experience by dominant narratives. Trust investigates notions of community, representation and perception in a world that is continuously being retold and reconfigured. In this light, how are stories, histories and myths construed? How is collective experience represented through multiplicity and difference? The exhibition emphasizes artistic practices that play with documentary conventions, fictional forms, espousing for imagination, subjectivity and localities as underpinnings of contemporary experience. Sometimes revealing the underlying constructs of mediated stories, and at other times obscuring them. Trust does not aim to meticulously dissect the matters at hand, or present a scientific or intellectual study of our current mediascape. Instead, Trust offers a broad interpretation of media and invests in a humanistic and individual response to contemporary experience.

About Media City Seoul:
Inaugurated in 2000 with a specific aim to enforce the image of the city of Seoul as a capital of technological development, the exhibition has been one of few international biennials with a focus on 'media art'. As the possibilities of media continue to redefine and alter everyday life, it is an opportune moment to re-examine our basic notion of media, in order to intelligently and thoughtfully head forth into a new era. The curatorial team has modified the title from media_city seoul to Media City Seoul, a modest but important gesture that emphasizes individualness of these entities and attempts to move beyond catch words and compound terms to the co-existence of separate but equal parts. In doing so, Media City Seoul 2010 is proud to take the biennial one step further and think about media beyond its formal definitions.

Participating artists:
Tarek ATOUI, Yael BARTANA, Blast Theory, Mark BRADFORD, Abraham Cruzvillegas (CRF 2007), Manon DE BOER, Willem DE ROOIJ, Jimmie DURHAM, Shilpa GUPTA, IZUMI Taro, Adrià JULIÀ, Sung Hwan KIM, KOIZUMI Meiro, Miki KRATSMAN, Minouk LIM, Sarah MORRIS, Deimantas NARKEVICIUS, Catherine OPIE, PARK Chan-Kyong, Walid RAAD, Judy RADUL, Jewyo RHII, Tino SEHGAL, Allan SEKULA, Nasrin TABATABAI & Babak AFRASSIABI, Erik VAN LIESHOUT, Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL, Xijing Men (CHEN Shaoxiong, Gimhongsok, Tsuyoshi OZAWA), Yangachi among others. Final list of artists will be announced in June.

Venues: Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA Gyeonghuigung and public sites in Seoul.

Press contact:
International Press: Nathalie Hartjes nh.mediacity@gmail.com
Korean Press: Enna Bae ennabae@gmail.com
Seoul Museum of Art
30 Misulgwan-gil (37 Seosomun-dong), Jung-gu, Seoul 110-813, Korea
Tel. 82 2 2124 8942 Fax.82 2 2124 8980

Derek Bermel (CRF 2005) has been commissioned to write a new ensemble work, Canzonas Americanas, for Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, to be premiered at the celebrated Green Umbrella concerts in Disney Hall on 4 May.

Bermel is Composer-in-Residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for 2010-2013. The LACO launched the three-year residency with the West Coast premiere of his homage to Bartok, A Shout, A Whisper, and A Trace, originally premiered by the American Composers Orchestra in May 2009.

Selected forthcoming performances:

Canzonas Americanas (world premiere)
May 4, 2010
Walt Disney Hall
Los Angeles, CA

Nature Calls
May 23, 2010
Copland House at Merestead
Mount Kisco, NY

A Shout, A Whisper, and A Trace
September 11, 2010
Albany, NY