Archive for April, 2008
Hosting between Novi sad and Hong Kong
The last activity of AR4 involves a collaboration in ‘hosting’ between the black house of kuda.org, CK13, and the newly established Blue House in Hong Kong. The idea is to set up a network of cultural places around the world that actively push for new public domains: places for hosting social interaction, deviant social thoughts […]
ALMOSTweb design & development
A workshop was held 30 September, 1-2 October 2006 in Rotterdam to further develop ALMOStweb, ALMOSTREAL’s online archive-in-progress. To develop a more clear conceptual structure and to organise information of ALMOSTREAL into an inspiring structural framework.
The function of ALMOSTweb is to both facilitate and open up a complex and experimental project. Yet like ALMOSTREAL, […]
Funding Intimacy
The fifth and final stage of AlmostReal will end with a public event in Stockholm, hosted and co-organised by Konsthall C.
The purpose of the public event is to find out where the land lies in terms of funding for contemporary art within a European context. What are the proportions between public and private funding, […]
Past Future Funding
The first action of stage 4 which took place after the Blue House had already proposed activities in October 2006 but actually happened before the official start of stage 4 in January 2007. In most funding agreements however it is unusual that money is given for an action that took place prior to the offical […]
Hospitality for What is to Come
In response to ALMOSTREAL’s invitation to propose aa project for stage 4 on hospitality, Jeanne put together her proposal and departure points in the text ‘Hospitality for What is to Come‘. This text links the ancient notion of hospitality to the most pressing contemporary global phemomena of migration and movement of people, and the effects […]