Archive for May, 2007
WHW
What, How & for Whom’ (WHW) is a non-profit organisation for visual culture and a curators’ collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb, Croatia. Since May 2003, WHW has been directing the programme of Gallery Nova: a non-profit, city-owned gallery in inner city Zagreb. All of WHW’s projects have been conceived as a platform […]
Alkantara
Alkantara is an international performance platform based in Lisbon.Dedicated to the production and presentation of trans-disciplinary, trans-cultural performance, alkantara focuses on developing programmes and new formats for intensive working exchange between artists from different cultures and disciplinary backgrounds.
Alkantara is one of the main initiating partners in AR3
Blue House
The Blue House (Het Blauwe Huis) is a platform for culture and research within a newly developed residential community in the north-eastern periphery of Amsterdam.
The striking cobalt blue house is situated in Ijburg, an artificially built island — constructed from scratch, designed to provide 18,000 dwellings for 45,000 residents. The whole residential island however […]
Kuda.org
New Media Center_kuda.org is an independent cultural collective bringing together artists, theorists, media activists, researchers and youth. Center_kuda.org focuses on new media culture, technologies, new cultural relations and contemporary artistic practice. In this way, kuda.org is devoted to the exploration of new cultural collaborations, networked technologies, artistic practice and social issues. New Media Center_kuda.org creates […]
Youth Center CK13
Youth Center CK13 is a black house in the middle of Novi sad. The function of CK13 is an independent educational and media gathering space dedicated to the development of social engagement and political activism of young people. All activities are developed through a high level of self-organisation and self-sustainability. CK13 has been set-up by […]
AR4
Stage 4 started to take shape in October 2006 when ALMOSTREAL invited artist Jeanne van Heeswijk to make a proposal that would examine the theme of hospitality in the context of the Blue House. For the fourth stage, the Blue House and ALMOSTREAL will co-instigate a stream of artistic exchanges and new cultural imaginings that […]
AR2
The second stage of AlmostReal started to materialise in April 2006 with a series of workshops ‘Video Works’ for the production of new video works by 11 young Lebanon-based artists. The Video Works workshops were held in the premises of Ashkal Alwan, coordinated by filmmaker and video artist Ghassan Salhab. But in summer 2006, when […]