30/11/2010

Feminist Art Seminars at ICA, London with n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal



26 January 2011, 2-4pm

What is feminist aesthetics?
Is there a feminine or a feminist aesthetic in women’s art and what does this mean? Feminist aesthetics became the “catch-all” phrase for discussing what was different – and specifically feminist – in women’s art production and whether this was to do with content, with media, with political intent or with the context in which women artists’ work was shown. So, what is feminist aesthetics?

23 February 2011, 2-4pm
Feminist art and the blockbuster exhibition
Since 2007, there have been many major feminist shows around the world, this seminar will review some recent feminist exhibitions – from Elles@Centres Pompidou (Paris, 2009-2010); Rebelle: kunst en feminisme 1969-2009 (Arnhem, 2009); Gender Check (MUMOK, 2009) and ask if these open up new directions for thinking about feminism as an international, rather than a national or local phenomenon? How would our definitions of feminism change if we started to pay attention to the substantial histories of feminist art in Russia, in Sweden, across Eastern Europe, in Taiwan, in Thailand, in Canada, in Mexico or in Australia?

30 March 2011, 2-4pm
Manifestos of feminist art
Feminist artists and writers have published a large number of manifestos in the last forty years: on subjects as diverse: women’s art (Valie Export); maintenance art (Mierle Ukeles); carnal art (Orlan) and cyber-feminism (OBN and VNS Matrix). This seminar is an opportunity to read, discuss and compare different manifestos on women’s art. Sample texts and a reading list will be provided.

All events are free.
To book, email: talks@ica.org.uk
Venue: Cinema 2, ICA
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
tel: +44 (0)20 7930 3647 www.ica.org.uk

26/11/2010

windferreira

Wall, Paper, Wood.

Tools for Exposure

Exhibition Opening Tuesday 30.11.2010, 7 pm
Galeria Quadrum, Rua Alberto Oliveira, 52, Lisbon.

Our new work is part of the exhibition Lisboa como metáfora, curated by Antonia Gaeta, including works by Miguel Faro, Nikolai Nekh, Pedro Barateiro, and windferreira.

São elas que seguram os edifícios e mantêm as fachadas em pé. São elas que garantem a segurança nos locais de escavações e impedem que as esculturas se deteriorem e quebrem. Elas são indispensáveis para todo e qualquer esforço de construção e reconstrução e no entanto, assim que a sua missão termina, acabam por ser ignoradas, senão mesmo postas de parte: referimo-nos a todas as estruturas de apoio em madeira, às vigas de aço e cintas de carga que suportam os muros e as fachadas. Foi precisamente às suas características e contradições que windferreira dedicaram um novo trabalho que será apresentado no âmbito da exposição Lisboa como metáfora. As artistas empreenderam excursões por todo o vasto campo da arqueologia e da arquitectura, a fim de testar os limites das estruturas que suportam os nossos tesouros artísticos.

They keep buildings, façades and sculptures from falling apart. They make sure that excavation and construction sites are safe, and still they are ignored or even left aside as soon as their mission is completed: all those wooden scaffoldings, steel poles and belt straps that support walls and façades. Windferreira’s new work is dedicated to those support structures, their material qualities and their contradictory use. Wall, Paper, Wood explores the vast field of archeology and architecture to test the limits of support that structures are able to provide for our cultural heritage.

http://windferreira.blogspot.com/

Supported by Divisão Ateliers e Galerias da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Goethe-Institut Portugal.

24/11/2010

Women in Iraq


From Born in Jail (2009) by Julie Adnan


women in iraq, follow the link here
to the post of the blog Trip to Iraq by Beth Shiner and Jason Waite

DALILA VAZ


Inauguração / Opening - 27 NOV 2010

Extéril - 22h / 10pm
Sábado / Saturday

"(...) Corda, Espelho, Porta." - DALILA VAZ

Vídeo Instalação / Video Installation
Duração: 1´35 min.
Ano: 2010

Bio: Nasceu em 1980, Lisboa. Trabalha e vive na cidade do Porto.
Licenciada em Artes Plásticas pela ESAD, Caldas da Rainha, 2005.
Frequenta o 2º ano de Mestrado de Desenho e Técnicas de Impressão, FBAUP.

Intervenção para o espaço Extéril. Projecção de sequência de imagens de acções
em ilha quase devoluta no Bonfim, Porto.

23/11/2010

If I Can't Dance


If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution proudly presents its second publication in the field of performative art practices entitled Conversation Pieces. Drawing from the exhibitions and performances presented by If I Can't Dance during Edition II – Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice (2006-2008), twelve critical thinkers confront twelve artists from the perspective of historical and present-day feminism in art. Accordingly, twelve collaborative essays reflect on the state and importance of feminism for the practice of art and show how artists today reactivate the past via visual and conceptual 'homage' and explore current ideas of political mobilization and engagement. "Conversation Pieces" is a fruitful starting point to discuss topics of subjectivity, social roles and the politics of performance.

The interview essays in the publication are by Dieter Roelstraete & Alexandra Bachzetsis, Vanessa Desclaux & Will Holder, Lisette Smits & Karl Holmqvist, Peio Aguirre & Jutta Koether, Diana McCarty & The Otolith Group, Emily Pethick & Maria Pask, Pádraic Moore & Sarah Pierce, Paul O'Neill & Falke Pisano, Patricia Grzonka & Stefanie Seibold, Jan Verwoert & Frances Stark, Binna Choi & Haegue Yang, and Frédérique Bergholtz & Katarina Zdjelar.

Conversation Pieces. Produced by If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam, and de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam. Published by Revolver, Berlin. Editor: Frédérique Bergholtz. Editorial co-ordination by Tanja Baudoin & Flora Lysen. Text editing by Janice McNab. Design by Maureen Mooren.
ISBN 978-90-814471-1-9.

Order information
Conversation Pieces will be available on January 2011. Orders will be sent from Vice Versa Vertrieb Berlin via: www.revolver-publishing.com..

Recent and upcoming publications by If I Can't Dance
Joachim Koester (two-part publication)
To navigate, in a genuine way, in the unknown necessitates an attitude of daring, but not one of recklessness (movements generated from the magical passes of Carlos Castaneda) and
I myself am only a receiving apparatus
With contributions by Veit Görner, Joachim Koester, Marco Pasi, Magali Arriola, Kristin Schrader, Martin Germann, Yann Chateigné Tytelman, Linda Norden and Frédérique Bergholtz.
Produced by If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam and kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
Text editing by Anders Kreuger
Design by Maureen Mooren
Release date January 2011

Olivier Foulon
The Soliloquy of the Broom
Published by Gevaert Éditions, Brussels, 2010
Produced by If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam
Text editing by Philippe Hunt
Design by Ella Klaschka
ISBN 978-3-86560-622-8

Frederique Bergholtz, Iberia Perez (Ed.)
(Mis)reading Masquerades
Published by Revolver, Berlin, 2010
Produced by If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam
Text editing by Janice McNab
Design by Joris Kritis and Julie Peeters
ISBN 978-3-86895-071-7

Acknowledgements
Conversation Pieces is part of If I Can't Dance Edition II – Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice, involving the partners de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, M HKA, Antwerp, and Huis a/d Werf, Utrecht. Edition II was supported by the British Council, the BNG culture fund, the Mondriaan Foundation, the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture and the Prince Bernhard Culture fund.

If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution
If I Can't Dance engages in long-term inquiries with artists, based on an interest in the evolution and typology of performance. The name is based on a quote attributed to the anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman (1869 –1940) reflecting If I Can't Dance's aim to articulate the field in art practice where the critical and celebratory meet. If I Can't Dance produces new works with artists along a collaborative systematics with international partners. The headquarters of If I Can't Dance are located in Amsterdam.

16/11/2010

Miguel Bonneville

Miguel Bonneville >Blog

Miguel Bonneville #7 - The X Show

Museu Colecção Berardo / Centro Cultural de Belém
Praça do Império, Belém
20 e 21 de Novembro às 18h00


exposição individual

Finissage | A Collection of Self-Portraits
Espaço BÁ
Rua do Barão, 10
17 Novembro | 19h00

exposição colectiva

Persona
Teatro Turim
Estrada de Benfica, nº 723 A
19 Novembro - 12 Dezembro
inauguração 19 Nov. às 20h

15/11/2010

Workshop: re/organization of re/emerging movements




Updating Revolutionary Systems/Confronting Perpetratory Systems III: Friday, 19th of
November 2010

11am
Workshop: re/organization of re/emerging movements
Carla Cruz (Artist, Founder of AMIW), AMIW (All My Independent Women, Portugal), Ulrike
Krippner (Landscape Architect), Iris Meder (Architecture Theorist) and
Rudolfine Lackner (VBKÖ): In this virtual/real workshop we will confront
historical and current feminist practices as well as the literary working
practice of AMIW. We will engage in the following questions: Which struggles
have turned women artists into political subjects? Why can their early protests
be called movements? Which world politics are responsible for making many of
them unknown? Which oppressive powers do new feminist formations face today
when compared to bell hooks’ book Feminist Theory from Margin to Center (1984)?

German/English


2pm
Fathomizing Memory
Vinko Nino Jaeger (Student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Media Educator): Project
presentation, workshop and sound exhibition with the focus "Survey –
Remembering/Memory. Membranes/Invisibles." "Fathomizing Memory"
is an interactive and multimedia project on the commemoration of victims,
survivors and resistance fighters against the Nazi Regime. It aims to subvert
the authority of the factual through renewed critical questioning. It is
organized by Elisabeth Samhaber from Radio ORANGE 94.0 and Vinko Nino Jaeger.
Project collaborators: Dokumentationsarchiv Österreichischen Widerstands (DÖW),
the Verein Gedenkdienst, trafo-k, the Historian and City Guide Petra Unger,
Painter and Architect Wolf Werdigier and the Austrian Association of Women
Artists (VBKÖ).

German


6pm
The Reconstruction of the Lueger Memorial into a Testimonial against Anti-Semitism
and Racism
The presentation and discussion of the contributions, particularly in regard to feminism, will
take place in the workshop by the Work Group for the Reconstruction of the
Lueger Memorial into a Testimonial against Anti-Semitism and Racism and the
participants of the open call.

German


On the occasion of the centennial anniversary, a program for the year will be
presented, which is composed of theoretical activities and a growing annual
exhibition. Currently, works by 100 Poster Club, Amanda Amaan/Rudolfine Lackner,
Elke Auer/Esther Straganz, Linda Bilda, Veronika Dirnhofer, Lina Dokuzovic,
Drogerie, Nino Jaeger and Sands Murray-Wassink are on display. All of the
activities refer to the historical origin of the VBKÖ in the androcentric
totalities of institutions and to current links of resistance predominantly
imprinted by feminism.

Curator: Rudolfine Lackner

Freitag/Friday, 19. Nov. 2010: 11:00, 14:00, 18:00

Further exhibition opening hours/guided tours by arrangement only
Sonstige Ausstellungsöffnungszeiten/Führungen nur nach Vereinbarung

10/11/2010

“A FREIRA PORTUGUESA”

A Seiva Trupe está de volta aos palcos com a apresentação da peça “A FREIRA PORTUGUESA”, de Maricla Boggio.

O drama inspira-se nas cinco “cartas portuguesas”, de Mariana Alcoforado, freira do convento de Beja, enamorada de um oficial francês que veio a Portugal para combater contra os espanhóis e que, depois, regressa a Paris, esquecido da paixão que nela despertara. Mariana vive nestas cartas um universo de dedicação, de ternuras, de saudades, incrédula pela abandono a que fora votada, até acabar por distinguir entre o amor como sentimento absoluto e o sujeito a quem o dedicou. Desfloresce a paixão irracional e toma consciência da triste realidade.

Um numeroso elenco onde estão presentes várias componentes artísticas, como canto, música original, etc., tendo a direcção e encenação a assinatura de Cláudio Hochman.

HORÁRIOS:
De Terça a sábado às 21h45
Domingos “matinées” às 16h00

TEATRO DO CAMPO ALEGRE
Reservas: 226063000

09/11/2010

Carla Filipe



Vila Franca de Xira
Museu do Neo-Realismo
“The Return of the Real – 13”
Carla Filipe, intitulada ‘’O Povo reunido, jamais será - representações gráficas’’ 2009- 10,
13 de Novembro 2010 a 6 Março 2011
16h00.

02/11/2010

Convocatória de artes plásticas

V CONVOCATORIA MULIER, MULIERIS 2010

mulier, mulieres info

8 de noviembre al 11 de diciembre de 2010

La celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujer supone para el MUA una ocasión singular para dar visibilidad al compromiso de los creadores contemporáneos con cuestiones relativas a la condición femenina. A partir de los valores que alientan la celebración de esta jornada –libertad, participación y transformación social–, el museo universitario se convierte en la plataforma para interpretar, reflexionar, cuestionar y transformar la realidad que afecta a las mujeres.

Esta V Convocatoria Mulier, mulieris consolida su vocación de pluralidad; está abierta a creadores de ambos sexos que aborden la temática femenina, a la utilización de cualquier medio expresivo que implique una creación artística (pintura, fotografía, vídeo, escultura, instalación, conjunción de varios medios, etc.), así como al tratamiento del tema desde una perspectiva global o personal.

Carla Filipe


Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is delighted to invite you to celebrate the launch of “an ilustrated guide to the british railway to my study” (evocation of a new language that transgresses the rules of translation), by Carla Filipe, on Tuesday 16 November from 6pm. Please find your invitation attached.

“an ilustrated guide to the british railway to my study” is the culmination of Carla Filipe’s Gulbenkian residency at ACME Studios, London, from October 2009 to September 2010. The publication includes critical texts by Ulrich Loock and Miguel von Hafe Pérez.

"....the book is Carla Filipe’s work, which, being informed by its reference to pre-existing writing and drawing, should not share the same location with texts referring to her own. Writing and drawing are merged in a number of pages that reproduce rubbings Filipe made of memorial plates encountered in train stations in Britain. Here her drawing is limited to the action of a hand that presses a pencil on a sheet of paper and moves it across to trace rows of writing in embossed letters, the names and professions of trainmen fallen in the wars. Mechanically applied, drawing is used as a recording procedure for writing, while at the same time the writing on the plates that had stayed in place for years on end is imbued with the strokes of the living body performing at a specific time and location." Ulrich Loock