Archive for March, 2008
Granting cultural asylum
The collaboration between artist Papa Sakho and place for new social imaginigs and deviant cultural thoguths, the Blue House, started in the 2006.
Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices
The fourth edition of ‘Home Works’ in Beirut has been announced and will take place between 12 - 20 April 2008 in different locations around Beirut. As before, the forum will be an interdisciplinary event featuring a mix of local and international participants presenting lectures, panels, exhibitions, film and video screenings, and publications. The programme […]
Funding Intimacy
Curator Maria Lind, artist Simon Goldin met with the ECF management staff, Gottfried Wagner (Director ECF), Odile Chenal (Deputy director ECF), Isabelle Schwarz (Head of ECF Advocay), Taja Vovk Cepic (Head of ECF Support for Cultural Cooperation) took place at the ECF in Amsterdam on 3 March.
The main reason for the meeting was for […]
Goldin + Senneby
Goldin + Senneby (G+S) is the framework for collaboration between artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby. Based in Stockholm, their practice focuses on the immaterialisation of contemporary society, the emergence of a network economy and the virtualisation of labor. Through actions, theoretical pursuits and wider collaborations they investigate these areas of interest, while continually questioning […]
Konsthall C
Konsthall C is a contemporary arts platform in Stockholm, Sweden.
Konsthall C is the proposed location for a public event that is taking place in the framework of the fifth and final stage of Almost Real. Konsthall C curator, Anna Livion Ingvarsson will co-curate the public event together with curator Maria Lind. This event on […]
Art, not as a Laboratory but as an Experimental Public Sphere
One of the first discussions about the new project Almost Real in the framework of the new ECF arts programme was between Igor Dobricic and external advisor Charles Esche in 2004. In this extract, Charles Esche responds to the term ‘laboratory’ and vies instead for a reconsideration of experimentation and creating experiemental public spheres […]