tania bruguera | Events 2012 overview

Art and Social Practice. Master of Fine Arts from 09.01.2012 - 27.01.2012/ 2:00 - 3:50 p.m. Portland State university. Department of Art. Oregon, United States Adjunct Professor Organized by Jen de los Reyes ART 581 Topics Seminar more...

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Meetings for January

. 9.01.2012

. 13.01.2012

. 18.01.2012

. 27.01.2012

Each year the Open Engagement conference will be organized around a variety of themes related to the interests of the students in the art and social practice MFA program. As a group the students select three outstanding individuals in the field to invite to the conference as featured participants. The three selected individuals will also join the adjunct faculty at Portland State University for that year leading classes and workshops centered on their own practice.

Tania Bruguera as an Adjunct Professor of Art in the winter term of January 9 to March 18, will lead aims to acquaint MFA Social Practice candidates with a broad range of approaches to art and social practice. This course is to be developed directly out of the artist practices and expertise and can manifest in a variety of ways not limited to assignments, writing, assigned readings, reflection and dialogue.

PSU’s Art and Social Practice MFA is composed of a unique combination of individual research, group work, and experiential learning. The program’s blend of critical and professional practice, collaborative social engagement, and transdisciplinary exploration produces an immersive educational environment. Based in Portland, Oregon, the program operates out of Field Work, a downtown storefront classroom and event space. The program’s Flexible Residency model allows for travel and even the ability for students to reside outside of Portland during their course of study. A weekly student organized visiting artist lecture series promotes the understanding of a wide range of approaches and methodologies. An annual conference on socially engaged art practice brings together an international group of artists, curators, scholars and members of the public.

The 90 credit, three-year course operates with a democratic approach that encourages students to shape the direction of their own education, and continually redefine and develop the program as a whole. Students connect their art practice to research in the field through electives and community partnerships, promoting cross disciplinarity. Student work and research is presented annually at the Open Engagement conference leading toward final graduate projects, which are presented in the third and final year of the program.

The program produces an annual intervention event at the Portland Art Museum called Shine a Light, and has exhibited work and created projects for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Bétonsalon in Paris, apexart in New York, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn among other venues and locations.

The program accepts approximately six students annually. The deadline for applying is February 1^st. Interested persons are encouraged to make arrangements to visit the program.

Art and Social Practice. Master of Fine Arts from 03.02.2012 - 24.02.2012/ 2:00 - 3:50 p.m. Portland State university. Department of Art. Oregon, United States Adjunct Professor Organized by Jen de los Reyes ART 581 Topics Seminar more...

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Meetings for February

. 3.02.2012

. 10.02.2012

. 17.02.2012

. 24.02.2012

Each year the Open Engagement conference will be organized around a variety of themes related to the interests of the students in the art and social practice MFA program. As a group the students select three outstanding individuals in the field to invite to the conference as featured participants. The three selected individuals will also join the adjunct faculty at Portland State University for that year leading classes and workshops centered on their own practice.

Tania Bruguera as an Adjunct Professor of Art in the winter term of January 9 to March 18, will lead aims to acquaint MFA Social Practice candidates with a broad range of approaches to art and social practice. This course is to be developed directly out of the artist practices and expertise and can manifest in a variety of ways not limited to assignments, writing, assigned readings, reflection and dialogue.

PSU’s Art and Social Practice MFA is composed of a unique combination of individual research, group work, and experiential learning. The program’s blend of critical and professional practice, collaborative social engagement, and transdisciplinary exploration produces an immersive educational environment. Based in Portland, Oregon, the program operates out of Field Work, a downtown storefront classroom and event space. The program’s Flexible Residency model allows for travel and even the ability for students to reside outside of Portland during their course of study. A weekly student organized visiting artist lecture series promotes the understanding of a wide range of approaches and methodologies. An annual conference on socially engaged art practice brings together an international group of artists, curators, scholars and members of the public.

The 90 credit, three-year course operates with a democratic approach that encourages students to shape the direction of their own education, and continually redefine and develop the program as a whole. Students connect their art practice to research in the field through electives and community partnerships, promoting cross disciplinarity. Student work and research is presented annually at the Open Engagement conference leading toward final graduate projects, which are presented in the third and final year of the program.

The program produces an annual intervention event at the Portland Art Museum called Shine a Light, and has exhibited work and created projects for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Bétonsalon in Paris, apexart in New York, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn among other venues and locations.

The program accepts approximately six students annually. The deadline for applying is February 1^st. Interested persons are encouraged to make arrangements to visit the program.

Immigrant Movement International 24.02.2012/ 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 m. West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2. Los Angeles Convention Center CAA 2012 Annual Conference Organized by Sandra Skurvida and Jovana Stokic more...

Live Forever: Performance Art in the Changing Museum Culture

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Chairs:

. Sandra Skurvida, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York

. Jovana Stokic, independent scholar

Participants:

. Kathy Battista, Sotheby's Institute of Art

. Tania Bruguera, Immigrant Movement International

. Abou Farman, Purchase College, State University of New York

. Pablo Helguera, Museum of Modern Art, New York

The College Art Association (CAA) will head to the Golden State to celebrate the conclusion of its Centennial year at the 100th Annual Conference, taking place February 22–25, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. As the preeminent international forum for the visual arts, the CAA conference brings together over 5,000 artists, art historians, students, educators, critics, curators, collectors, librarians, gallerists, and other professionals in the visual arts.

Speakers and panelists will present their recent artistic projects and art-historical research, while others will talk about relevant issues in pedagogy, technology, publishing, and the academic workforce. Historical and contemporary art in Los Angeles will be another important focus.

Censored: Tania Bruguera's Radical Political Artistic Practice 24.02.2012/ 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 m. Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2. Los Angeles Convention Center CAA 2012 Annual Conference Organized by Beth Rosenblum more...

Breaking Laws in the Name of Art: New Perspectives on Contemporary Latin American Art

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Chair:

. Estrellita B. Brodsky, Independent scholar and curator

Participants:

. Idurre Alonso, Museum of Latin American Art

. Tania Bruguera, Immigrant Movement International

. Claudia Calirman, John Jay College, City University of New York

. Jennifer King, Princeton University

. Beth Rosenblum, University of California, Los Angeles

The College Art Association (CAA) will head to the Golden State to celebrate the conclusion of its Centennial year at the 100th Annual Conference, taking place February 22–25, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. As the preeminent international forum for the visual arts, the CAA conference brings together over 5,000 artists, art historians, students, educators, critics, curators, collectors, librarians, gallerists, and other professionals in the visual arts.

Speakers and panelists will present their recent artistic projects and art-historical research, while others will talk about relevant issues in pedagogy, technology, publishing, and the academic workforce. Historical and contemporary art in Los Angeles will be another important focus.

Art and Social Practice. Master of Fine Arts from 02.03.2012 - 23.03.2012/ 2:00 - 3:50 p.m. Portland State university. Department of Art. Oregon, United States Adjunct Professor Organized by Jen de los Reyes ART 581 Topics Seminar more...

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Meetings for March

. 2.03.2012

. 9.03.2012

. 16.03.2012

. 23.03.2012

Each year the Open Engagement conference will be organized around a variety of themes related to the interests of the students in the art and social practice MFA program. As a group the students select three outstanding individuals in the field to invite to the conference as featured participants. The three selected individuals will also join the adjunct faculty at Portland State University for that year leading classes and workshops centered on their own practice.

Tania Bruguera as an Adjunct Professor of Art in the winter term of January 9 to March 18, will lead aims to acquaint MFA Social Practice candidates with a broad range of approaches to art and social practice. This course is to be developed directly out of the artist practices and expertise and can manifest in a variety of ways not limited to assignments, writing, assigned readings, reflection and dialogue.

PSU’s Art and Social Practice MFA is composed of a unique combination of individual research, group work, and experiential learning. The program’s blend of critical and professional practice, collaborative social engagement, and transdisciplinary exploration produces an immersive educational environment. Based in Portland, Oregon, the program operates out of Field Work, a downtown storefront classroom and event space. The program’s Flexible Residency model allows for travel and even the ability for students to reside outside of Portland during their course of study. A weekly student organized visiting artist lecture series promotes the understanding of a wide range of approaches and methodologies. An annual conference on socially engaged art practice brings together an international group of artists, curators, scholars and members of the public.

The 90 credit, three-year course operates with a democratic approach that encourages students to shape the direction of their own education, and continually redefine and develop the program as a whole. Students connect their art practice to research in the field through electives and community partnerships, promoting cross disciplinarity. Student work and research is presented annually at the Open Engagement conference leading toward final graduate projects, which are presented in the third and final year of the program.

The program produces an annual intervention event at the Portland Art Museum called Shine a Light, and has exhibited work and created projects for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Bétonsalon in Paris, apexart in New York, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn among other venues and locations.

The program accepts approximately six students annually. The deadline for applying is February 1^st. Interested persons are encouraged to make arrangements to visit the program.

IM International 13.03.2012/ 4:00 p.m. Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM), sede San Lorenzo Tezonco. México. Seminar Organized by Miguel Cárdenas Orozco (SPEF) more...

This seminar is based on provoking a space for a university level academic exchange that tries to forment a theoretical debate and to generate alternative proposals such as philosophical, cultural, artistic and social, in view of the present-day problems of our boarders and contemporary migratory phenomena.

Goldsmith University of London visit IM International 16.03.2011/ from 10:a.m. - 1:00 p.m. IM International Master Classes for undergraduate Fine Art students Organized by Goldsmith University more...

University of London's Master Classes

The Master Classes Programme is a special series of group sessions led by invited artists who have an established international career of continuing contemporary relevance and are considered experts in their field.

Untitled (Labour). Contemporary Art and Immaterial Production 17.03.2011/ 10:00 m. Tate Britain Clore Auditorium. London, England Symposium (Skype) Organized by Tate Britain: Jo Bradshaw and Nora Razian more...

This half-day symposium invites audience members to engage with international artists and academics to investigate current conditions of artistic production in relation to new forms of labour in the emerging global economy. Presenting various perspectives on immaterial labour and its relationship to contemporary art, speakers will address questions around the impact of immaterial production on new aesthetic forms and uses of art, how artists both embody and contest the precarious working conditions of immaterial labour, and art’s potential to serve as immanent critique of capitalism.

Speakers:

Claire Bishop

Tania Bruguera

Pascal Gielen

Stefano Harney

Stewart Martin

Hito Steyerl

Carey Young

Introductions:

Nora Razian and Lauren Rotenberg

Chairs:

TJ Demos and Lauren Rotenberg

Schedule:
14.00- Welcome and introduction

14.10- Pascal Gielen

14.25- Stefano Harney

14.40- Hito Steyerl

14.55- Discussion (Panel and Q&A) Chaired by TJ Demos

15.45 - Break

16.00 - Tania Bruguera

16:15 - 10 min question period for Tania

16.25- Claire Bishop

16.40 - Carey Young

16.55- Stewart Martin

17.10 - Discussion (Panel and Q&A) Chaired by Lauren Rotenberg

17.50 - Closing Remarks (TJ Demos)

The Immigrant Manifesto and the Struggle for Social Justice 17.03.2011 /12:00 m. Department of Sociology. Room W402. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, United States Left Forum 2012 Organized by Pace University more...

The Immigrant Manifesto and the Struggle for Social Justice

Immigration is at the forefront of the increasingly abusive control practices of the US government at diverse levels. The panel will examine what diverse organizations and initiatives are doing to a) contribute to a different type of analysis about immigration, and b) actively contest the abuses deployed by government agencies in the name of the law.

Chair:

Saskia Sassen

Speakers:

Ujju Aggarwal

Tania Bruguera

Donna Nevel

Core Program Symposium 24.03.2012 - 25.03.2012 / Glassell School of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Visiting Faculty and Symposium Organized by Mary Leclère more...

On the Public Function of Art

In 1987 the Dia Foundation sponsored a series of weekly discussions on contemporary art practice and discourse. Organized to establish “an ongoing commitment to intellectual discourse for and with a predominantly visual-art oriented audience,” as the director wrote in his introduction to the published proceedings, the first topic to be addressed was “The Cultural Public Sphere.” The critique of modernism that began with minimal art—which involved, among other things, the work’s engagement with the real space in which it was located—signaled a shift in the way artists viewed not just the object but the subject of art (both maker and viewer). As this critique intensified in a wide range of postwar practices, the replacement of modernism’s universal subject with the culturally constructed subject of postmodernism brought the issue of art’s consumption into sharper focus. The participants in the first Dia discussion, which was titled “The Birth and Death of the Viewer: On the Public Function of Art,” would not have failed to register the allusion to Roland Barthes’s seminal essay or its implications for spectatorship: the birth of the postmodern viewer occurred with the death of the modernist viewer and the concomitant shift in art’s address.

The purpose of this symposium is to address “social art practices”—by which we mean practices that deal with social issues, are intended to critique or subvert the social order, or blur the distinction between social and cultural work—and the historical context within which they function. One task will be to pose art’s critical capacity as a question, since taking it for granted assumes a clear understanding of what a critically engaged art practice means today. What keeps art separate, for the moment, is the name “art” and a connection to the art world, but what gets done in the name of art is slowly losing its connection to the spaces we have traditionally associated with that name and to past art practices. How, then, does art function? What value does it have? What site does it occupy? Has art become the instantiation of interdisciplinarity? If it is intended to have an impact outside the art world, what is at stake aesthetically and ethically? Some critics suggest that art’s autonomy can be harnessed for political or social ends, which means that it’s not artists or artworks that are being instrumentalized so much as the autonomous sphere in which they operate. Does the name art now serve to secure an autonomous sphere rather than the reverse? If it trades on cultural capital, are we left with cultural capital but no culture? And, finally, do we still need the term (contemporary) art and, if so, for what purpose?

Active Audiences: On the Representation and Theory of Spectatorship, Activism, and Public Culture 31.03.2012 /5:00 p.m. Screening Room. Yerba Buena Art Center (YBCA) Panel Discussion (Skype) Organized by Betti-Sue Hertz more...

Active Audiences: On the Representation and Theory of Spectatorship, Activism, and Public Culture

An engaging panel discussion featuring four speakers representing different perspectives on current artistic trends around audiences, spectators, and fans. Academics Henry Jenkins (University of Southern California) and Andrew Weiner (California College of the Arts), with artists Andrea Bowers and Tania Bruguera (via skype), examine issues of spectatorship in contemporary practice in an attempt to understand the individual’s behavior within environments of collective participation.

From an artistic, art historical, and scholarly approach to the performative, mass media, and the internet, the speakers will expand on the politics of artistic interpretation and how those relate to an individual’s social, cultural, and political identity. What is the difference between social citizen and participant viewer when redefining notions of the public beyond spectators, fans, and activists?

Art and Social Practice. Master of Fine Arts from 06.04.2012 - 20.04.2012/ 2:00 - 3:50 p.m. Portland State University. Department of Art. Oregon, United States Open Engagement conference Organized by Jen de los Reyes ART 581 Topics Seminar more...

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Meetings for April

. 6.04.2012

. 13.04.2012

. 20.04.2012

Each year the Open Engagement conference will be organized around a variety of themes related to the interests of the students in the art and social practice MFA program. As a group the students select three outstanding individuals in the field to invite to the conference as featured participants. The three selected individuals will also join the adjunct faculty at Portland State University for that year leading classes and workshops centered on their own practice.

Tania Bruguera as an Adjunct Professor of Art in the winter term of January 9 to March 18, will lead aims to acquaint MFA Social Practice candidates with a broad range of approaches to art and social practice. This course is to be developed directly out of the artist practices and expertise and can manifest in a variety of ways not limited to assignments, writing, assigned readings, reflection and dialogue.

PSU’s Art and Social Practice MFA is composed of a unique combination of individual research, group work, and experiential learning. The program’s blend of critical and professional practice, collaborative social engagement, and transdisciplinary exploration produces an immersive educational environment. Based in Portland, Oregon, the program operates out of Field Work, a downtown storefront classroom and event space. The program’s Flexible Residency model allows for travel and even the ability for students to reside outside of Portland during their course of study. A weekly student organized visiting artist lecture series promotes the understanding of a wide range of approaches and methodologies. An annual conference on socially engaged art practice brings together an international group of artists, curators, scholars and members of the public.

The 90 credit, three-year course operates with a democratic approach that encourages students to shape the direction of their own education, and continually redefine and develop the program as a whole. Students connect their art practice to research in the field through electives and community partnerships, promoting cross disciplinarity. Student work and research is presented annually at the Open Engagement conference leading toward final graduate projects, which are presented in the third and final year of the program.

The program produces an annual intervention event at the Portland Art Museum called Shine a Light, and has exhibited work and created projects for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Bétonsalon in Paris, apexart in New York, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn among other venues and locations.

The program accepts approximately six students annually. The deadline for applying is February 1^st. Interested persons are encouraged to make arrangements to visit the program.

Censorship and Freedom of Speech 15.04.2012 / Round Table organized by Swedish IAA and Swedish AICA more...

This event is part of World Art Day which is celebrated in many countries all over the world. The day will include speeches and statements by the Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth as other prominent people in the cultural field, artists and art critics.

Moderator:

. Svenska Dagbladet

Cátedra Arte de Conducta ("Behaviour Art School") 16.04.2012/ 6:30 p.m. Projektrummet Iaspis, Maria skolgata 83, Stockholm Lecture organized by Ulrika Sten more...

The lecture is part of a series of talks at Iaspis by international artist led initiatives setting up frameworks for engagement exceeding individual practice. The emphasis of the series will be on self-organized structures emanating from specific needs and circumstances rather than reproducing conventional formats.

A collaboration with Svenska Konstkritikersamfundet (Swedish AICA).

For more information please contact Iaspis project coordinator Ulrika Sten at e-mail:us@iaspis.se or phone no. +46 (0)8 506 550 00.

Cartografías Corporales 26.04.2012 /from 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. TEOR/eTICA. San José, Costa Rica Panel Discussion Organized by Tamara Díaz, Inti Guerrero, Santiago Olmo more...

Temas Centrales 2

TEOR/éTica, backed by the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC), is organizing the seminar Temas Centrales 2, which will take place in San José, Costa Rica on April 25th, 26th and 27th 2012. Parallel to the programming of lectures and talks, there will be other events, such as exhibitions in TEOR/éTica and at the MADC. (More information about this will be available in March).

With the participation of national, regional and international presenters, Temas Centrales 2 will analyze the region’s current situation from a thematic perspective, touching on specific aspects of the artistic and discursive production of Central America and the Caribbean. The seminar will focus on the complex panorama of the first decade of the 21st century, questioning the concept of region through the following: a dialogue between spaces and institutional models that have become catalysts in their pertaining contexts; conversations amongst artists, curators, critics and cultural agitators that contend a more open situation and a certain level of internationalization; a platform for theorizing about the most prominent artistic practices in the region, such as performance; and a revision of the biennial model, fostered by a discussion between curators of certain “tropical biennials” that have modified the paradigm.

In addition to these proposed themes, there is also an open call for entries entitled Temas centrales: modos de uso. This discussion aims to inquire about those artistic and critical practices that have not had enough articulation or visibility, in such manner that the event itself may serve as a tool for shaping or imagining new “central themes.” With the present call for entries, which does not anticipate any contents beforehand, Temas centrales: modos de uso is conceived as a mechanism for critical intervention that could influence investigative, documental and archival policies in Central America.

IKT Congress: Immigrant Movement International from 27.04.2012 - 1.05.2012 / Tel Aviv, Israel Seminar Organized by International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art more...

World power, economic models and the role of the citizen have all been in a state of flux in recent years, an era that can be seen as representing post-globalisation. Previously, the globalisation of all aspects of contemporary life benefitted political leaders and multi-national corporations and posed huge threats to personal privacy and choice. The creation of new political structures has been threatened by tribalism and regional tensions, whilst many national and regional economies are heading for financial meltdown.

However, increasingly, there is an ever more visible politics of resistance. Through the development of viral communications systems such as social networking sites questions such as the fight for democracy, and indeed the nature of democracy itself, are brought under the spotlight. We are witnessing large scale protest, whether it is through pro-democracy movements, the ‘Arab Spring' or worldwide anti-capitalism protests.

There have been enormous changes in artistic practice alongside these developments. The increasing digitisation of the means of production of art and its distribution has enormous potential for finding new audiences for artistic engagement. The concept of ‘narrowcasting' worldwide as opposed to broadcasting regionally also has enormous potential.

This symposium will explore some of the opportunities created by these exciting developments.

Tania Bruguera is an artist who lives and works in Cuba and the USA

Eyal Danon is a curator and Director of the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon.

Jonathan Harris is Professor of Art History and Director of the Centre for Global Futures in Art Design and Media at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

Ute Meta Bauer is a Curator and Founding Director of the Programme in Art, Culture and Technology at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning.

7th Berlin Biennale from 27.04.2012 - 1.07.2012 / Auguststraße 69 D-10117. Berlin, Germany Performance Organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Curated by Artur Żmijewski with the Associate Curators Joanna Warsza and the Voina Group from Russia more...

The berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst e.v. was founded on March 26, 1996 by Klaus Biesenbach, founding director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and a group of collectors and patrons of the arts such as Eberhard Mayntz. Eberhard Mayntz has since then been chairman of the association’s board.

The idea of establishing a biennale in Germany was inspired by the Venice Biennale in 1995. Following the demise of aperto - the forum for young contemporary art founded in 1981 - there was much discussion about the need to heighten the profile of contemporary art in Berlin, a fact which undoubtedly accelerated the project’s progress.

The aim of the association is to organise a representative, international exhibition of contemporary art in berlin every two years and to attract attention to less established younger artists. The exhibition’s original and most important institutional partner is the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, which regularly provides the Berlin Biennale with the use its exhibition spaces.

Klaus Biesenbach took the artistic helm of the 1st Berlin Biennale in cooperation with Nancy Spector and Hans Ulrich Obrist. For the 2nd Berlin Biennale in 2001, the baton was passed to Saskia Bos, who is in turn followed by Ute Meta Bauer for the 2004 exhibition. The 4th Berlin Biennale in 2006 was curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick. Adam Szymczyk was chosen for the 5th Berlin Biennale in 2008 who then appointed Elena Filipovic as co-curator. The 6th Berlin Biennale, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg, will take place in 2010.

The Berlin Biennale has established itself as an 'open space' that experiments, identifies and critically examines the latest trends in the art world. The innovative character of this “art lab,” which tries and tests the greenest shoots in the art world is to be expanded, with the particular aim of giving young artists the opportunity to introduce themselves to broad sections of the public.

Although the exhibition has an essentially public character, it also has an inner forum in which event organisers, artists, curators, selected critics, cooperation partners, sponsors and promotors committed to the advancement of this association work at shaping the exhibition and its seismographic interpretation of current cultural and social developments.

La Goutte d'Or, terre d'accueil en Europe-Promenade transnationale 09.05.2012/ 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Barbès - Rochechouart. Paris, France Performance more...

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Transeuropa Festival

Transeuropa Festival is a unique transnational festival of culture, arts and politics, taking place in 14 cities all over Europe. It is a collaborative open and public space for the emergence of an alternative Europe.

Transeuropa Festival promotes political and cultural exchange across Europe and collective action for alternative visions on the economic crisis, migrations and democratic participation.

Walk with storytellers through the European multicultural city, featuring contributions by the artist Tania Bruguera!

Registrations by mail: paris@euroalter.com

Featured Artist - Open Engagement from 18.05.2012 - 20.05.2012 / Department of Art. Portland State University Conference Organized by Jen de los Reyes more...

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Open Engagement is a free annual conference on socially engaged art. Directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Art and Social Practice students.

This year’s conference features keynote presenters Tania Bruguera, Shannon Jackson, and Paul Ramirez Jonas. The work by these artists and scholars touch on subjects including politics, economies, education, and representation.

Each year the conference themes are directly related to the current research and inquiry of the students in the Art and Social Practice program at Portland State University. Students and faculty work together to select the featured presenters, who then also become faculty in the Art and Social Practice MFA program. Open Engagement fosters both local, national and international dialogue and partnerships around socially engaged art making.

PRESENTATIONS

. Friday May 18

/POLITICS

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Roberto Tejada and Tania Bruguera

Shattuck Hall Annex

. Sunday May 20

/KEYNOTE SPEAKER

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Tania Bruguera

Shattuck Hall Annex

/FINAL PANEL DISCUSSION

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Paul Ramirez Jonaz, Tania Bruguera

Moderated by Jen Delos Reyes with representatives from each theme

YU, 800 SE 10th Ave.

Untitled (Kassel, 2002) 5.06.2012 - 17.08.2012 / National Museum of Contemporary Art. Seoul, Korea Performance Curated by Stephanie Rosenthal more...

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MOVE’s third tour venue

Move - Art and Dance since the 1960's

Move is the first major exhibition on the interaction between art and movement from the 1960s to the present. The main focus of the exhibition will be on visual artists, dancers and choreographers who create installations that direct the movements of exhibition-goers, turning the viewer into an active participant - even into a dancer.

Earlier exhibitions have primarily explored the relationship between art and dance from the point of view of representation, collaboration and the moving image. Move builds on such shows, but takes a new approach. The exhibition investigates the extent to which the beholder - invited, or tempted, to perform certain movements by the layout and contents of installations - can be choreographed. Thus the look of the exhibition will be dominated by sculptural works and stages filled with activity.

This exhibition sets out to show that choreography may be equally implied by sculptural works and installations. The proposition here is that for an exhibition context, unfamiliar movements - inspired by often familiar-looking objects - unsettle ingrained thought processes and, in doing so, free up the mind. A different slant on one's own environment may lead to a new awareness, maybe even a new sense of responsibility towards oneself and the world at large.

The ambition is to create a show, which is as participatory and challenging as Allan Kaprow's Happenings - one that follows Kaprow's thinking in blurring the boundaries between art and everyday life. By making the visitor aware of the fact that they can be ‘choreographed' by art installations, the show aims to change the way people think about the relation between art and dance.
Move itself will act as a type of choreography, and will consist of three major sections: installations and performances in the exhibition spaces; a contextual archive in the gallery; a series of performances in different venues in London and Germany.

Installations and Performances

This section will focus on participatory artworks and performance pieces from the 1960s to the present day that are directly activated or experienced by the visitor. Visual artists and choreographers from all over the world will also be invited to develop new pieces that deal with matters of choreography and/or to create a choreography that has no set time frame. Furthermore there will be reconstructions or exhibition copies of seminal works from the last fifty years. The idea is to work in each venue in collaboration with local dance schools to activate works of art and
Realize Happenings - both as performers and as researchers, exploring their own body movements and physical responses. At the same time they shall act as mediators and interpreters to discuss and interact with the public. (In London we are collaborating with Laban Contemporary Dance school)
Contextual Archive / Time Machine

The participatory exhibition will be backed up by a contextual and interactive archive that will re-present the history of the longstanding affinity between art and dance over the last half century. Conceived as a ‘time machine' it will replace the notion of a traditional time line with a series of specially designed islands, rooms and open spaces. The archive will be designed under the premise to ensure this section also activates within the visitor a new bodily awareness - in terms of the ways visitors might explore a subject, view a video or look at an artwork. The archive will be co-curated by André Lepecki, Professor of Performance Studies at NYU.

Performances outside the Gallery

Alongside the exhibition, work will be ideally presented not only in theatres or performance venues, but also throughout the city. In London, performances will take place in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, various public spaces inside the Royal Festival Hall and even unexpected locations across the site.

Possible new commissions include works by Alain Buffard, Pablo Bronstein, Boris Charmatz and Xavier le Roy and possible reconstructions will include Allan Kaprow's ground-breaking 18 Happenings in 6 parts. This part will be co-curated by Nicky Molloy, Head of Dance, Southbank Centre, London.
Southbank Centre is pleased to have been awarded a major grant from Kulturstiftung Des Bundes in support of this exhibition.

Artists: Pablo Bronstein, Tania Bruguera, Lygia Clark, Trisha Donnelly, William Forsythe, Simone Forti, Dan Graham, Christian Jankowski, Isaac Julien, Mike Kelley, Xavier Le Roy, La Ribot, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, João Penalva, Tino Sehgal, Franz Erhard Walther, and Franz West.

Artway of Thinking from 18.06.2012 - 23.06.2012 / The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Workshop Organized and Curated by Mary Jane Jacob more...

Wide Open School from 4.07.2012 - 7.07.2012 / Hayward Gallery. Southbank Centre Workshop Organized by Eimear Martin and Curated by Richard Parry more...

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This summer, for one month only, the Hayward Gallery is transforming itself into Wide Open School. An experiment in public learning, Wide Open School offers a programme of 'classes' devised and fuelled by the imaginations of leading artists from over 50 different countries.

Intended as a school for people who love active learning but don't necessarily like being taught, Wide Open School is place where people of all ages and from all walks of life can explore, alongside artists, an unpredictable assortment of subjects.

At the heart of Wide Open School is an energetic atmosphere in which all participants are encouraged to exchange ideas in order to experience different ways of thinking, questioning and solving problems.

Classes are held in the Hayward Gallery, in which artists are developing workshops, group projects, seminars, lectures and/or performances about subjects in which they are passionately interested. That may extend to topics far beyond the methods and scope of conventional education...

Political Timing Specific from 16.07.2012 - 04.08.2012 / Alte Saline Hallein Workshop Organized by Salzburg International Summer Academy more...

Every summer, more than 300 students of all ages come from all over the world to Salzburg to concentrate on artistic practice for 2-3 weeks.

Founded by Oskar Kokoschka in 1953, the Academy is distinguished by the high reputation of the teaching artists and its openness towards all art-lovers, irrespective of nationality, age, gender or cultural background.

Tania Bruguera, participant in documenta 11 and in numerous biennials worldwide, introduces a working method in which the artwork correlates with and comments on current political conditions.

Grant applications will be accepted exclusively online. Closing date: 15 April 2012.
Detailed information here.

Closing date for applications for courses is 15 May 2012. If numbers allow, later applications may be considered.

INTERNATIONALE SOMMERAKADEMIE FUER BILDENDE KUNST
Franziskanergasse 5 a, Postfach 18, 5010 Salzburg, Austria
Tel. +43 (0)662 842113, Fax +43 (0)662 849638
e-mail: office@summeracademy.at
www.summeracademy.at
Summer Academy blog:
www.summeracademy.at/blog

Immigrant Movement International 27.07.2012 / Salzburg International. Summer Academy of Fine Arts. Panel Discussion Organized by Hildegund Amanshauser more...

Studio

In it's event programme, the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts (16 July-25 August 2012) is devoted to the theme of the studio; artists, art historians, art theorists and curators are being invited to give lectures and to take part in discussions on the subject.

The studio is the place of artistic production, a highly charged, mystical place where art is created from diverse materials, using specific techniques. Here the artist invents him/herself. Here the production methods and their historical development become visible. All kinds of places can be studios - a particular architectural space, the classic sculpture or painting studio. Often, after the death of an artist - as for example with Constantin Brâncuși in Paris, Gustinus Ambrosi in the Augarten in Vienna or Edward Krasinski in Warsaw - his studio is preserved or reconstructed at great effort and expense, and opened to the public in order to give an insight into this magical place where the works originated.The studio can also, however, be a factory - as with Richard Serra, who contracted steel plants in the Ruhr district for the manufacture of his sculptures, or Hans Kupelwieser, who produced large-scale sculptures in the VOEST Alpine foundry in Linz. A computer memory, an office, the street, the town, the exhibition, a café - all these and more can serve as an artist's studio.Since the 1960s, the classic concept of the atelier has been increasingly called in question. In 1971, Daniel Buren proclaimed the abolition of the studio, and John Baldessari's Post Studio class in CalArts started at around the same time. Site-specificity, art in public space, installation, appropriation, performance, interventions and the like are all developments of the past forty years, signifying a redefinition of artistic work, and consequently of the function of the atelier as a workshop for physical production, at least in its 19th-century form.

1. History of the studio/post-studio

The first section is devoted to the history of the studio from the 17th century to the present day, from Rembrandt's studio, through Daniel Buren's abolition of the studio, to the art factory where works are produced for artists worldwide.

Svetlana Alpers, Woutter Davids, Katharina Grosse

2. The city is our studio

Since the 1990s there has been a striking decrease of public space in towns and cities. This is due to increasing privatisation, supervision and commercialisation. Here, then, we have to ask: who does urban public space belong to? What initiatives are taken by artists, what are the tasks of activists, is there a right to civil movement, what new production sites are towns and cities making available to artists...?

Christoph Schäfer, Tanja Boukal, Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran, Niels Boeing

3. Co-operatives, collaborations, political interventions

The question of site, function and structure of the studios entails the question of artistic production. What persons, in what functions or roles, are involved in the creation of a work? What form does the work take?

Work in collectives, interdisciplinary work, dissolution of roles, participation, artistic work as collective knowledge production...

WHW, Tania Bruguera, Kerstin Brätsch, Jörg Franzbecker

4. The global/local studio

This section will examine the condition and the significance of places where art is produced, and the historical development of these places over recent decades. Regional differences will be discussed, as will changes due to globalisation.

Bisi Silva, CCA Lagos, Bojana Pejic, Oafur Eliasson, Jens Hoffmann

5. Diverse spaces

Since the Modern movement, artists have increasingly taken over new spaces for the creation of art - media, landscape, museums, public space. These become the artists' atelier/post-atelier; works are conceived as site-specific, their content relating directly to their location.

Christian Jankowski, Andrea Fraser, Miwon Kwon, Philip Ursprung

Copenhagen Art Festival from 26.08.2012 - 27.08.2012 / Copenhagen, Denmark Speech Organized and Curated by Christian Skovbjerg Jensen more...

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Copenhagen Art Festival is one of the major presentations of international contemporary art in the region and it will take place in 2012 for the second time. The festival will open 24. August 2012 with an event-packed programme until 2. September. Hereafter the newly opened exhibitions will continue throughout the autumn.

The festival presents a multifaceted exhibition programme with art works by Danish and international artists. The festival will take place in the streets and squares of the inner city of Copenhagen and at the major contemporary art centres: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art and Gl. Strand Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.

The festival is organised by the five art centres and together they have developed the concept for the festival. A number of other cultural institutions dedicated to architecture, film and music are also contributing to the festival with interdisciplinary projects. In total the festival will give an outstanding opportunity for the audiences to experience what is happening on the contemporary art scene right now.

more...: 1.12.2011

/ All day long

- Preliminar Meeting with PPM Members

8.12.2011

/ All day long

- Meeting with Partido del Pueblo Migrante (PPM)
11.01.2012 - 18.01.2012 /Mexico D.F. -Appointments with experts in the field of migration in Mexico -Visit Migrant's Hostels -Visit to probably PPM Headquarters -Develop a work plan with SAPS's team -Migrant People Party meetings -Final review of the text more...:   11.01.2012

/ 4:00 p.m.

- Interview with Lic. José Luis Loera

AI-ACNUR Casa Espacio Refugiados. Amnesty International

. More info at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/contact/663

  12.01.2012

/ 10:30 a.m.

- Interview with Prof. Roxana Rodríguez and Dr. Amárela Varela

Centro de Estudios Fronterizos. National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

. More info at: http://estudiosfronterizos.wordpress.com/

/ 1:00 p.m.

- Meeting with Dr. José Woldenberg Karakowsky

Political Science Faculty. National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

. More info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Woldenberg

/ 4:00 p.m.

- Meeting with SAPS's Team

. More info at: http://www.saps-latallera.org/saps/?page_id=84&lang=en

/ 6:00 p.m.

- Meeting with Partido del Pueblo Migrante (PPM)

  13.01.2012

/ 10:00 a.m.

- Appointment at Migrant's Shelters

Organized by Marta Sánchez Soler (Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano)

/ 11:00 a.m.

- Meeting at Casa Luis Barragán

. More info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_de_Luis_Barragán

/ 1:00 p.m.

- Meeting at SAPS for the final text review

/ 2:30 p.m.

- Meeting with the documentary maker and expert on the Southern Frontier; Isabel Vicente

Organized by Marta Sánchez Soler (Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano)

  14.01.2012

/ 10:00 a.m.

- Appointment at La Lechería Shelter

Organized by Marta Sánchez Soler (Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano)

/ 11:00 AM

- Interview with Cristian Pineda

Centro Cultural Bacaanda and Migrantes Frontera Sur

. More info at:

http://www.bacaandaac.blogspot.com/ and http://www.migrantesfronterasur.blogspot.com/

/ 12:00 m

- Interview with Lic. Marta Fernanda Sánchez Soler and José Pepe Jacques y Medina

Activists

/ 5:30 p.m.

- Amnesty International Workshop at Cultural Center of Tlatelolco

. More info at: http://nuevanacion.org/la-cartelera/751-el-centro-cultural-universitario-tlatelolco-ofrece-talleres-de-amnistia-internacional.html

15.01.2012

/ 10:00 a.m.

- Visit Regional Cultural Center of Nezahualcoyotl

Organized by Eberto Ruiz Morquecho

. More info at: http://www.neza.gob.mx/

/ 12:00 p.m.

- Visit Faro de Oriente

. More info at: http://www.farodeoriente.cultura.df.gob.mx/

16.01.2012

/ 10:30 a.m.

- Appointment at Migrant House "San Juan Diego"; La Lechería Shelter

- Interview with Priest Arturo Montoya

Organized by Marta Sánchez Soler (Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano)

/ 2:30 p.m.

- Meeting at BORDER Cultural Center

Organized by Eugenio Echevarría

. More info at: http://border.com.mx/?page_id=4

/ 4:00 p.m.

- Meeting with SAPS's Team

. More info at: http://www.saps-latallera.org/saps/?page_id=84&lang=en

/ 6:30 p.m.

- Meeting with Partido del Pueblo Migrante (PPM)

17.01.2012

/ 9:00 a.m.

- Interview with Prof. Juan Carlos Narváez Gutiérrez

Centro de Estudios Fronterizos of National Migration Institute (INM)

. More info at: http://www.inm.gob.mx/index.php/page/pagina_principal/en.html

/ 10:30 a.m.

- Meeting at Faro de Oriente Cultural Center

. More info at: http://www.farodeoriente.cultura.df.gob.mx/



/ 11:00 a.m.

- Interview with Karla Meza Soto and Geovanna Prado Prone

Sin Frontera's Development Projects

. More info at: http://sinfronteras.org.mx/index.php/en/

/ 1:00 p.m.

- Visit Casa Talavera. Mexico D.F.

/ 3:00 PM

- Interview Nun Leticia Gutiérrez from Pastoral de la Movilidad Humana

. More info at: http://www.movilidadhumana.org/

/ 5:00 p.m.

- Interview with Lic. Hugo Vadillo Zurita

Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies



/ 6:30 p.m.

- Meeting with Partido del Pueblo Migrante (PPM)

18.01.2012

/ 6:30 p.m.

- Meeting with Partido del Pueblo Migrante (PPM)
20.03.2012 - 27.03.2012 /Mexico D.F. more...:   20.03.2012

/ 10:30 a.m.

- Meeting with designer and webmaster to work on PPM's website

Organized by PPM and Federico Martínez

/ 1:00 p.m.

- Meeting with Taiyana Pimentel, Director of Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros

Organized by PPM and SAPS

/ 3:00 p.m.

- Meeting withTaiyana Pimentel, Nadia Garcia, David Gutiérrez, María Elena Ortiz y Carmen Flores

Casa Talavera

/ 6:30 p.m.

- Meeting with Partido del Pueblo Migrante (PPM)

  21.03.2012

/ 10:30 a.m.

- Meeting with Ariadna Ramonetti

Organized by PPM

  22.03.2012

/ 10:30 a.m.

- Meeting with Maria Elena Ortiz

Organized by SAPS

  23.03.2012

/ 10:00 a.m.

- Meeting with Artemio Narro

Organized by SAPS

/ 10:30 a.m.

- Visit Museo del Objeto del Objeto (MODO)

Organized by SAPS

. More info at: http://elmodo.mx/en/visit

/ 2:00 p.m.

- Meeting with SAPS for PPM's Actions

Organized by PPM

  24.03.2012

/ 10:00 a.m.

- Meeting with Arturo Moreno and María Elena Ortiz about Campaign's Director

Organized by SAPS

/ 12:00 m.

- Meeting at Centro Histórico

- Purchase telephonic line to PPM

Organized by PPM

/ 2:00 p.m.

- Meeting with David Gutiérrez and Arturo Moreno.

Organized by PPM

  26.03.2012

/ 10:30 a.m.

- Meeting with Maria Elena Ortiz

Organized by SAPS

/ 12:00 m.

- Purchase of PPM's materials for the evening reunion.

Organized by PPM

/ 4:00 p.m.

- Meeting with SAPS's team and Arturo Moreno

Organized by PPM

/ 6:30 p.m.

- Meeting with PPM's team

Organized by PPM
17.04.2012 - 28.04.2012 /Mexico D.F. more...:    17.04.2012

/ 09:00 a.m.

- Work all the interviews with Faro de Oriente and Centro Regional de Cultura at Nezahualcóyotl

Organized by PPM

  18.04.2012

/ 09:00 a.m.

- Work on the project El rincón de Malinalco

Organized by PPM and Ellen Calmus

. More info at: http://www.elrincon.org/english/aboutus.html

/ from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

- Legislative forum on human rights and migration

Senate

PPM's contact:

o   Pbo. Alejandro Solalinde. Shelter Hermanos en el Camino.

http://www.hermanosenelcamino.org/english.html

o   Sister Leticia Gutiérrez. Pastoral de la Movilidad Humana.

http://www.movilidadhumana.org/

o   Amira Gómez Tueme. Tamaulipas's Senator.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amira_Gómez_Tueme

o   José Luis M. García Zalvidea. Quintana Roo's Senator.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Luis_Garc%C3%ADa_Zalvidea

o   Bishop Raúl Vera. Diocese of Saltillo Coahuila.

http://www.diocesisdesaltillo.org.mx/

o   Efraín Jiménez. Zecatecan Federation of Southern California.

http://www.zoominfo.com/#!search/profile/person?personId=176644958&targetid=profile

19.04.2012

/ from 10:00 a.m. to 12 m.

- Legislative forum on human rights and migration

Senate

PPM's contact:

o   Lic. José Arturo Esquivel Soto. D.F.'s Human Rights commission.

o   Gerardo Reyes Guízar. Pre-candidate for PAN's delegate.

http://www.formulatlalpan.mx/

/ 12:00 m.

- Meeting with Faro de Oriente.

Organized by PPM

/ 03:00 p.m.

- Meeting with Garage Advertising.

Organized by Quique Cárdenas and  Alicia Viteri.

/ 05:00 p.m.

- Meeting at Casa Talavera.

Organized by PPM

  20.04.2012

/ 09:30 a.m.

- Meeting with SAPS's team at Sala Arte Público Siqueiros.

Organized by PPM

/ 12:00 m.

- Interview with Carlos Navarro.

Radio UNAM

/ 04:00 p.m.

- Meeting with PPM's team.

/ 05:00 p.m.

- Interview with Moisés Castillo de Animal

Animal Político Magazine

  20.04.2012

/ 11:00 a.m.

- Planning Actions with:

o  Melina Alzogaray. Proyecto Memoria Migrante.

http://www.wix.com/memoriamigrante1/memoriamigrante-22-marzo

Casa Talavera

23.04.2012

/ 9:00 a.m.

- Meeting with PPM's team.

- Installation of "Casa de Campaña"

Casa Talavera

/ 11:00 a.m.

- Interview with Sonia Ávila

Excélsior Newspaper

/ 7:00 p.m.

- Meeting with PPM's team

Casa Talavera

/ 8:00 p.m.

- Call Management's for Casa de Campaña

Casa Talavera

24.04.2012

/ 11:00 a.m.

- Interview with Agustín Peña.

Ibero 90.9, Radio Universitaria

/ 12:00 m.

- Meeting with Lic. Adriana Salcedo Zárraga. PRAMI

Organized by PPM

/ 04:00 p.m.

- Tania Bruguera's Conference.

UACM. Centro de Estudios Fronterizos

/ 07:00 p.m.

- Meeting with PPM's team

Casa Talavera

/ 9:00 p.m.

- Call Management's for Casa de Campaña

Casa Talavera

25.04.2012

/ 11:00 a.m.

- Operativity of Casa de Campaña

Casa Talavera

/ 05:00 p.m.

- Meeting with PPM's team

Casa Talavera
. May 26 - June 1 . June 24 - July 4

IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL (IM International)

During 2012 Tania Bruguera will focus on her long-term project: Immigrant Movement International. The project will be located in Queens, New York, United States.

PARTIDO DEL PUEBLO MIGRANTE (PPM)

From January to July, Immigrant Movement International will open its Mexican Headquarters, the Partido del Pueblo Migrante (PPM), in Mexico City. The project functions as a political party for migrants that intervenes in the Mexican presidential election of 2012.

All public events, regardless of their format, will be closely linked to these projects.

University of London's Master Classes

• DECEMBER 2011

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