Archive for February, 2008
STEIM
STEIM is an Amsterdam-based centre for research & development of instruments & tools for performers in the electronic performance arts. STEIM is also a laboratory, workshop, international meeting-place, production office, live electro-acoustic music theatre and studio and hotel for nomadic artists.
Takuro Mizuta Lippit artistic advisor at STEIM studios will co-host Bytes & Pieces a […]
Drafting ALMOST REAL
After 6 months of consultations with o.a. Charles Esche (director of Van Abbemuseum) and Barbara Van Lindt (programmer of KunstenFestivalDesArtes) the following text Art as Dialogue was drafted by Igor Dobricic in autumn 2004, as a first proposal concerning the new support project to be developed by the ECF from 2005 and onwards. The support […]
Different Art
Different Art is a one-page reflection written by ECF arts programme officer Igor Dobricic. Although somewhat abstract in nature different-art-1.pdf is based on the hands-on experience which Igor Dobricic has encountered during his work for the European Cultural Foundation as coordinator of the ALMOSTREAL project.
“Art is an active exercise of difference. If it is telling […]
Intercultural Competence?
The term intercultural competence, prevalent in European cultural policy discourse in the mid ’00s is part of a vocabulary used also by the ECF. The initial call for artists to respond with proposals to Almost Real was centred around a practicable understanding of interculutral competence and how art can play a pivotal role in enabling […]
Obtaining Visas
Getting hold of visas is oftimes a tiresome and frustrating process of navigation through the loops of bureaucracy. The ECF worked with Ljubljana-based cultural organisation Bunker to organise two large meetings that were to happen simulatneously in Ljubljana. The meetings — the fifth getgether and the Balkan-Mediterranean Reflection Group — involved many invitees from across […]
Combined Balkan and Mediterranean Reflection group in Ljubljana
In July 2006, the ECF launched the Mediterranean Reflection Group. This series of 6 meetings (Amsterdam, Algiers, Lljubljana, Amman and Alexandria) involved artists and thinkers and representatives of cultural organisations from geographies that share the Mediterranean expanse: Southern Europe, Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa. At base, the Mediterranean Reflection meetings set out […]
210 meters
210 meters
by Ahmad Ghosieu.
Height of the man: 187 cm His average velocity when walking: 1.4m per second Distance walked: 210 m Δt = 150 seconds The time needed for the man, 187 cm tall, to cross from one side of the street to the other is 150 seconds.
[Video, 10 minutes, Arabic with English […]