Call for Films

The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2008
The Literaturwerkstatt Berlin and interfilm Berlin are once again calling for entries for the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, a biannual competition recognising the best in poetry filmmaking, now in its eighth year!

Short films based on poems can be submitted. A programme commission will decide which entries will be shown in the programme or the competition of the fourth ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, taking place in Berlin from 9 to 12 October 2008, an international jury deciding the winners. Prizes worth a total of €10,000 will be awarded. The deadline for entries is 16 June 2008 (full entry conditions).

The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival has established itself as an inter-national forum for short films that deal with the content, aesthetics or form of poems. It gives filmmakers from around the world the opportunity to exchange ideas and develop new contacts.

The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is a cooperation project between the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin and interfilm berlin and is kindly supported by the Capital Cultural Fund and the Goethe-Institut. It takes place as part of the poesiefestival berlin.

London Biennale Participation

London Biennale 2008
If you would like to participate in the London Biennale, you need to send a photo of yourself holding an arrow in front of Picadilly Circus as soon as possible: srvinderbawa@yahoo.com who will forward it to the London Biennale webmaster.

Next, you need to send three hard copies (photos) of your "Eros-Arrow" for LONDON BIENNALE 2008 by ordinary mail to my address below. Please don't forget to put your name and the words LONDON BIENNALE 2008 on your Eros-Arrow. Please feel free to forward this message to all your artists-friends. All artists are welcome to join LONDON BIENNALE 2008 which will be in Paris from May 1st to May 11, 2008, and in England from May 12 to August 2008.

Information received from:
David Medalla
Director of the LONDON BIENNALE,
11 Naseby,
Hanworth,
Bracknell,
Berkshire RG12 7HD,
ENGLAND

Denmark Residency Program

DIVA – Artist-in-residence Program in Denmark 2009
Application deadline: August 15 2008

To promote creative exchange between Danish and foreign artists and art institutions, The Danish Arts Council has established an artist-in-residence program in Denmark. The program makes it possible to invite artists from abroad to stay and work in Denmark for extended periods. Please send proposals to:
The Danish Arts Council’s International Committee for International Visual Arts.

The Danish Arts Agency, The Visual Arts Centre HC. Andersens Boulevard 2 DK-1553 Copenhagen V

Further information on DIVA can be found on the website http://www.danishvisualarts.info or please contact Merete Jankowski, email:
merjan@danish-arts.dk or phone: +4533744527

CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE IN CONJUNCTION WITH "THE FURIOUS GAZE"
In January 2008, the Montehermoso Kulturunea Cultural Centre is initiating a new project exploring the triad "art, culture, society".

The project was launched on January 25 with the opening of La Mirada Iracunda / The Furious Gaze, a group exhibition that proposes considering feminism as a source of knowledge that is vital for understanding the world in which we live. On view through May 4, 2008.

In conjunction with the exhibition is a conference, focusing on discrimination against women in all fields of endeavor in order to better understand the field of Art. (February 21st-24th)

Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea
Fray Zacarías Martínez, 2 - 01001 Vitoria-Gasteiz SPAIN
Tel. +(34) 945 161 830
www.montehermoso.net

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AUSTRIAN RESIDENCY PROGRAM

RONDO STUDIO PROGRAM
Where: Graz, Austria
When: Sept - Dec 2008
Deadline: March 28th, 2008

With the support of Dr. Kurt Flecker, Vice-Governor responsible for the Styrian Provincial Government’s Cultural Section, Kultur Service Steiermark GmbH is offering twelve artists studios on the RONDO premises in Graz/Styria for Styrian, Austrian and international artists and art theorists. Within the framework of the studio program, visits to the artists’ studios by gallery owners, curators and media representatives as well as shows in the studio gallery will be provided.

Four of the studios have living quarters attached to them and will be available from September to December 2008. Styrian, Austrian and international artists and/or art theorists up to 35 years old are invited to apply for a studio.

Applications should include a CV, examples of work (in A4 format) and a vision of what you hope to achieve during your use of the studio in Graz. Your “project plan” can also include an exhibition to be mounted in the gallery hall.

Applications should be submitted not later than 28th March 2008 to
Kultur Service Steiermark GmbH
Burggasse 4
8010 Graz, Austria

Any questions should be directed to Kultur Service Steiermark GmbH, Mag. Christiane Kada (+43 (0) 316 877 2427, christiane.kada@kulturservice.steiermark.at).

CONFERENCE

NEW GEOGRAPHIES IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART

The Harvard University Committee on African Studies announces a two-day conference to be held on Friday, February 29 and Saturday, March 1, 2008. Drawing on the fields of contemporary art and Africanist art scholarship, this interdisciplinary convergence will address issues of translocality, transgression, and notions of place both within the continent and vis-à-vis Africa and the rest of the world. The conference understands the trope of geographies in its relationship to Africa as both a physical place, and as a discursive space of memory and affiliation. Friday’s program includes four panels, each composed of two thirty-minute presentations on current research about these themes. Papers will be presented for discussion by Maria Magdelana Campos-Pons, Zoe Whitely, Allan deSouza, Lisa Binder, Dominique Malaquais, Elizabeth Harney, Gary van Wyk, and Steven Nelson. Saturday’s program begins with a two-hour round table discussion with artists and scholars, including Ute Meta Bauer, Bili Bidjocka, Hudita Mustafa, Chika Okeke-Agulu, and Paul Stopforth. Okwui Enwezor will close the conference with a keynote address.

The conference is open to the public. There is no registration fee, but pre-registration by February 25, 2008 is encouraged.

Co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard.

To register and for further conference details, see: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~afrart/