Archive for December, 2007
Collaboration
Collaborations are ways of working together around like-minded concerns that can be structured and motivated on many different levels.
The motivation for collaboration could be purely for reasons of practical advantage such as sharing technical resources. Collaboration could also be shaped by a shared desire for creating a more influential impact in society and getting together […]
How to host difference and allow for unplanned otherness?
After her third Wednesday of taking the role of arts programme officer at the ECF, artist Jeanne van Heeswijk reflects in her email to Igor upon some of the challenges involved in ALMOSTREAL’s attempt to brace the relation between artists and funder.
In many of her projects, Jeanne finds ways to involve funding bodies more into […]
Video Works: from Beirut to Ljubljana
A selection of videos by emerging Lebanese artists made for the project ‘Video Works’ were screened on Sunday 6 May 2007 in Ljubljana at Stara Elektrarna — a former power station now used by Bunker productions as a venue for performances and cultural events.
The video screening was held the day before 2 important gatherings: […]
Jamming
Throughout ‘It Will Be What We Make It’, participants constructed moments of improvised jam sessions between one another and audiences coming to the space.
Constructing TV Gallery
The 4 stage 1 organisations — WHW, kuda.org, PRELOM and SCCA/pro.ba — made an exhibition that makes visible on the geneology of the “TV Gallery” programme broadcast on the Yugoslav TV network from 1984 - 1991. “TV Gallery” became an unparalleled example of interdisciplinary, socially engaged artistic and curatorial practice on public television.
As […]
Schluss the Warrior
Schluss the Warrior
by Ziad Saad
This is the story of Shluss the Warrior who asked to be dematerialised. He ended up in heaven, transformed into an image. [Video, 4 minutes]
Schluss the Warrior was made as part of the Video Works project, and presented during VidéoAvril in Beirut, April 2007
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My Mind is Burning
‘My Mind is Burning’ was the act of granting cultural asylum to artist Cheikh papa Sakho, and initiated the fourth stage of Almost Real on Hospitality.
Papa Sakho, a migrant from Senegal, survived the fire in the Schiphol detention centre in October 2005. After this ordeal, Papa Sakho was moved to a migrant detention centre in […]