Subject: International Festival: On The Town @ Mama 19.00, Wednesday 30 January 2008

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Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia

Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia
November 16, 2007 - February 17, 2008

This survey of video works by contemporary artists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan explores recent developments in the artistic production of Central Asia, a region currently underrepresented in the international art scene. Video became the leading medium for Central Asian artists in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the power that dominated the area politically and culturally in the twentieth century. Under the Russian influence, two artistic traditions were introduced: classical European academic conventions and avant-garde experimentation. When added to the local artistic sensibility, they created a unique visual language in which figurative imagery thrived, complemented by the existing oral tradition. The Return of the Image does not imply that Central Asian artists are returning to the image, as they have never really left it. Instead, it suggests that these artists are intent on restoring trust in the image as an artistic tool with communicative potential.

Viktor Misiano ‘ Guest Curator, editor of Moscow Art Magazine
Lauren Bergman ‘ Project Assistant

Posted by Defne | Sunday, January 20th, 2008 | 0 comments

Prospect.1 New Orleans

For anybody who hasn’t had the chance to take a look, the website for Prospect.1 New Orleans is up and running.

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White House Redux - Call for Ideas

White House Redux
On occasion of the election of the 44th President of the United States of America Storefront for Art and Architecture, in association with Control Group, challenges you to design a new residence for the world’s most powerful individual. The best ideas, selected by some of the world’s most distinguished designers and critics, will be featured in a month-long exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture in July 2008 and published in Surface magazine.

Posted by Defne | Sunday, January 20th, 2008 | 0 comments

Inpex DIY Video Festival

Inpex DIY Video Festival kicks in on Tuesday (15 January) with a major party at Clarion Hotel in Stockholm. For a month the entire world will be activated through a Youtube friendly - digital platform happy - video based festival frame that set dichotomies such as professional or amateur, creator or critic, choreographer or film maker, good or fucking awesome out of sync. This is youtube frenzy in up to seventeen dimensions. Check it out on www.inpex.se - or at youtube/inpexness - or just join in, make it happen, do the groove. This is dance, performance, choreography, video, sound, critique, writing, reading, thinking and making love in one bubbling remix. And its here for you!

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A Tribute to Allan Kaprow

A Tribute to Allan Kaprow

February 7 at 6:30 p.m.
The Celeste Bartos Theater, 4 West 54th Street

This program is dedicated to the artist Allan Kaprow (1927-2006), whose events and narratives engaged the environment, the public, and the fabric of everyday life. Through resentations and discussion, artists and scholars reflect on Kaprow’s legacy. Letty Eisenhauer, Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College, and former student of Kaprow, discusses her contributions to Kaprow’s Happenings, and Andr?? Lepecki,
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Performance Studies, New York University, addresses his experience of remaking Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Acts. Robert Whitman, artist and former student of Kaprow, reflects on his participation in this moment of artistic revolution. Judith Rodenbeck, Noble Chair in Modern Art & Culture, Sarah Lawrence College, and Editor-in-Chief, Art Journal, moderates a discussion. Afterward, audience members have the opportunity to view material from The Museum of Modern Art Library’s
Special Collections.

Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk, the film desk, or online at www.moma.org/thinkmodern.

LIBRARY, ARCHIVES, and EDUCATION COLLABORATIONS
The Museum of Modern Art
4 West 54th Street (between Fifth and Sixth avenues)
New York, NY 10019=

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Last shows of White Box ‘New Composers Series’!

Miya Masaoka
Thursday, January 10, 2008, 7pm
For Birds, Planes and Cello

Ed Tomney
Saturday, January 12, 2008, 7pm
Sinfonia 60

FREE!

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Sally Silvers in the Vision Collaboration Festival

Vision Collaboration Festival
Saturday, January 12, 2008
7:30 pm
Yessified
Sally Silvers dance / Bruce Andrews language, Miya Masaoka koto, / Jim Staley trombone
Place: Symphony Space’s Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater
2537 Broadway at 95th St
Cost: $20 in advance $25 at the door $15 students, and seniors
Info: http://www.visionfestival.org/ Tel. 212.696.6681

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