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	<title>ALMOSTweb</title>
	<link>http://www.almostreal.org</link>
	<description>ALMOSTWeb is a living web depository for ALMOSTREAL - an experimental project about artistic collaboration and exchange as an advanced form of intercultural practice. ALMOSTREAL is initiated and supported by the European Cultural Foundation.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Scripting a speech on the relations between the policy makers, farmers and artists</title>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/11/06/scripting-a-speech-about-the-tensions-between-the-policy-makers-farmers-and-artists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wietske Maas</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Dynamic</dc:subject><dc:subject>common agricultural policy</dc:subject><dc:subject>funding</dc:subject><dc:subject>heritage</dc:subject><dc:subject>open landscape</dc:subject><dc:subject>policy making</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the conclusionary event of AR5, Artist duo Goldin + Senneby are producing a keynote lecture that  agricultural funding policies as an allegory for cultural funding. Looking in particular at the relationship between bureaucratic policy developments, the practice of farming and the production of landscape.
The most substantial funding system within the European Union is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging Mountains of butter, lakes of wine</title>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/11/04/blogging-mountains-of-butter-lakes-of-wine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wietske Maas</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:subject>blog</dc:subject><dc:subject>contemporary arts</dc:subject><dc:subject>cultural funding policies</dc:subject><dc:subject>europe</dc:subject><dc:subject>stockholm</dc:subject><dc:subject>symposium</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have set up a group blog on Lab for Culture for commenting and conversing further on the insights raised during the symposium Mountains of butter, lakes of wine. The symposium gathers speakers from artists, museum directors, writers to curators to present their views and discuss the realities (and almost realities) of the changing funding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting ground: An artist&#8217;s unrequested inquiry into European agricultural policies</title>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/10/06/shifting-ground-an-artists-unrequested-inquiry-into-european-agricultural-policies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/10/06/shifting-ground-an-artists-unrequested-inquiry-into-european-agricultural-policies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wietske Maas</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Activity</dc:subject><dc:subject>common agricultural policy</dc:subject><dc:subject>cultural funding policies</dc:subject><dc:subject>speech</dc:subject><dc:subject>stockholm</dc:subject><dc:subject>subsidies</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[Constituting almost half of the EU&#8217;s budget, agricultural subsidies have long been (in)famous for their production of excess: mountains of butter and lakes of wine. Today the grounds are shifting. A new agricultural paradigm is taking form in which subsidies have been decoupled from production. Farmers no longer receive support to (over) produce, but to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Register for symposium Mountains of Butter, Lakes of Wine</title>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/09/06/register-for-symposium-mountains-of-butter-lakes-of-wine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/09/06/register-for-symposium-mountains-of-butter-lakes-of-wine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:subject>artistic production</dc:subject><dc:subject>contemporary arts</dc:subject><dc:subject>cultural administration</dc:subject><dc:subject>curating</dc:subject><dc:subject>europe</dc:subject><dc:subject>policies</dc:subject><dc:subject>private funding</dc:subject><dc:subject>public funding</dc:subject><dc:subject>stockholm</dc:subject><dc:subject>symposium</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[The symposium Mountains of Butter, Lakes of Wine looks into the effects of changing funding conditions for contemporary art.
Conditions for funding of contemporary art have changed rapidly, but we are rarely aware of exactly how. Lack of knowledge and misconceptions about these issues abound, making constructive discussions difficult. The purpose of this symposium is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the Blue</title>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/07/01/out-of-the-blue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wietske Maas</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:subject>experimental community</dc:subject><dc:subject>history</dc:subject><dc:subject>hospitality</dc:subject><dc:subject>ijburg</dc:subject><dc:subject>migration</dc:subject><dc:subject>motel</dc:subject><dc:subject>urbanism</dc:subject><dc:subject>workshop</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[An international symposium on Instant Urbanism, Hospitality and Accelerated History
3-9 August 2009
Out of The Blue is an international symposium organized by The Blue House (Het Blauwe Huis) focusing on three different strands to further unpack and understand experimental communities: Instant Urbanism, Hospitality and Accelerated History.
Out of The Blue is a discursive forum where a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From travelogue to speech</title>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/06/03/713/</link>
		<comments>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/06/03/713/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wietske Maas</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Dynamic</dc:subject><dc:subject>common agricultural policy</dc:subject><dc:subject>policy making</dc:subject><dc:subject>proposal</dc:subject><dc:subject>speech</dc:subject><dc:subject>stockholm</dc:subject><dc:subject>swedish eu presidency</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[The production of AR 5 was substantially postponed so that the activities could take place in Stockholm during the Swedish EU presidency in late 2009. As such, artists Goldin + Senneby were able to develop their proposal further and to reconsider the formal output. In dialogue with Maria Lind, the artists adapted the form of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting out on a journey to uncover the European Cultural Foundation’s funding policies and ending up in a dunghill…</title>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/05/24/setting-out-on-a-journey-to-uncover-the-european-cultural-foundation%e2%80%99s-funding-policies-and-ending-up-in-a-dunghill%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/05/24/setting-out-on-a-journey-to-uncover-the-european-cultural-foundation%e2%80%99s-funding-policies-and-ending-up-in-a-dunghill%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 19:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wietske Maas</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Dynamic</dc:subject><dc:subject>common agricultural policy</dc:subject><dc:subject>cultural funding policies</dc:subject><dc:subject>european politics</dc:subject><dc:subject>fiction</dc:subject><dc:subject>intimacy</dc:subject><dc:subject>mobility</dc:subject><dc:subject>performance</dc:subject><dc:subject>publication</dc:subject><dc:subject>stockholm</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artist duo Goldin + Senneby are researching and setting out on an artistic expedition to uncover the European Cultural Foundation’s funding policies and, more widely, the cultural fundingscapes of Europe. Their proposed work consists of an allegorical investigation into the current climate and dynamics of European cultural funding. The performative journey is both a literal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When No Body’s Around (The Cables between us)</title>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/05/13/when-no-body%e2%80%99s-around-the-cables-between-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/05/13/when-no-body%e2%80%99s-around-the-cables-between-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wietske Maas</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Product</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sound installation and musical piece for 8 electric guitars with no performers by Charbel Haber
2007-2008. 
A support system in the absence of the living. A mechanical robot in it&#8217;s most primitive form. A device with the sole purpose of maintaining a hoax: the illusion that this city is inhabited. Everyone left. Cooks, crooks, lovers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Octophonic diary</title>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/05/13/octophonic-diary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/05/13/octophonic-diary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wietske Maas</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Product</dc:subject>
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8-channel sound installation by Cynthia Zaven
26 min. 2007-2008. 
We used to play music in shelters. Get vinyls from abroad whenever we got the chance. If found in local stores, M. would break those same records so we&#8217;d exclusively own them&#8230; This was 1985. If the whole country was going to hell, our music was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sea Is A Stereo</title>
		<link>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/05/13/the-sea-is-a-stereo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.almostreal.org/2009/05/13/the-sea-is-a-stereo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wietske Maas</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Product</dc:subject><dc:subject>beirut</dc:subject><dc:subject>storytelling</dc:subject>
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Photographic and video Installation by Mounira Al Solh
2007-ongoing
The Sea Is A Stereo is an ongoing series of reflections on a group of men who swim everyday at the beach in Beirut no matter the circumstances: rain, wind, war. Even as we read this, these men may be swimming or preparing themselves to do so. The [...]]]></description>
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