Diyarbakir

^ Renderings of the work in installation

I am finally working on the edits for my Diyarbakir project from my British Council/Anadolu Kültür residency in SE Turkey the summer - more soon.

DAAR: common assembly at M HKA, Antwerp

I have just finished a re-edit of the 2011 DAAR collective film common assembly for the group show Meeting Points at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, in Belgium:

http://www.muhka.be/en/toont/event/3182/MEETING-POINTS

Meeting Points is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts festival focusing on the contextualised presentation of art from the Arab World. The 7th edition of Meeting Points is a series of successive exhibitions, taking place from September 2013 to June 2014 in several cities of Europe, Asia and the Arab world: Zagreb, Antwerp, Hong Kong, Moscow, Beirut, Cairo and Vienna.The current sequence of exhibitions takes a step out of the Arab world in terms of the cities where they take place, the list of participating artists and the general stance to refrain from national or regional representation. This gesture is to do with the timing of Meeting Points 7. It has been organised during the often ambiguous aftermath of the popular rebellions that reverberated across the Arab world in 2011, during a period that also saw various social movements across the world sparking public discussion about the existing social and economic order.

The artists are: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Marwa Arsanios, Kianoush Ayari, Filipa César, Céline Condorelli, Alice Creischer, DAAR, Paul De Vree, Simone Fattal, Robert Filliou, Simohammed Fettaka, Karpo Aćimović Godina, Sharon Hayes, Adelita Husni-Bey, Sanja Iveković, Iman Issa,Maryam Jafri, Rajkamal Kahlon, Anton Kannemeyer, Kayfa ta & Haytham El-Wardany, Runo Lagomarsino, Maha Maamoun, Jumana Manna, Azzeddine Meddour, Tom Nicholson, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Artavazd Peleshian, Marta Popivoda, Kerim Ragimov, C K Rajan, Alexander Rodchenko, Edgar Morin & Jean Rouch, Luc Tuymans, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor

The title Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks is a quote from the revolutionary philosopher Franz Fanon’s book Wretched of the Earth (1961). His book illuminates the reality of colonial power and violence in a historical and political persepctive and has not lost its relevance half a century later.

Calibrating degrees of identity and difference between the past and the present, Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks adjusts to the specific geographies and histories in which it will be realised. It juxtaposes recent works by contemporary artists and filmmakers with historical positions. At M HKA both these aspects of the exhibition are illuminated by a selection of works from the museum’s collection. Presenting artworks within an exhibition format imagined as a possible forum for critical pedagogy, Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks believes in the explanatory power of images across cultures and times, and understands the realm of images as a social location capable of mobilising ideas.

Meeting Points is a multidisciplinary contemporary art event organized by the Young Arab Theatre Fund (YATF) in collaboration with regional and international partners. The event usually takes place in several cities of the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. The cities previously involved are Amman, Athens, Beirut, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Damascus, Ramallah, Tangiers and Tunis.

Meeting Points is neither purely an art or performance event, nor an academic or theoretical forum. Each edition is an invitation to artists, other cultural producers and thinkers across all fields of culture to reflect on and present visions and works engaging with a social and political context.

For each edition a curator is appointed to create the conceptual framework of the event. The 5th edition was curated by Frie Leysen and the 6th edition by Okwui Enwezor, under the title Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic. The event is organised in collaboration with a local partner in each city, where the curators also work closely with independent spaces, artists and a network of organisations. The 7th edition will be curated by WHW. What, How & for Whom/WHW is a curatorial collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb and Berlin. Its members are curators Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić andSabina Sabolović and, in addition, designer and publicist Dejan Kršić. WHW organises a range of production, exhibition and publishing projects and directs Gallery Nova in Zagreb.

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Untitled Stills from common assembly, produced by DAAR, edited by Cressida Kocienski, 2013:

Unorganized North Algoma

Notes from Diyarbakir

I'm currently in residence in Diyarbakir, SE Turkey, with Anadolu Kültür and the British Council in Turkey. More information and blog on link below:

http://www.britishcouncil.org/turkey-arts-projects-artist-residency-in-diyarbakir.htm

http://notesfromdiyarbakir.blogspot.com/

Exhibition: FUTURE RUINS: Obsolescence & Inoperativity

FUTURE RUINS: Obsolescence & Inoperativity from May 23-25, 2013 at the Bergen Arkitektskole (BAS) in Bergen, Norway.

Curated by Alison Hugill and Dan Dorocic

*Cough* and *Sniff* FM - April 6th + 7th 2013

http://www.th3rdspace.net/cough.html

http://resonancefm.com/archives/14385

Radio conversations conceived and curated by Lucy Pawlak. An audio file of my live work Planetaria will be broadcast.

The Institute of Immaterialism // Lucy Pawlayk

Lucy Pawlak and The Institute of Immaterialism present: Arriving Without Leaving (Guaranteed Happy Ending)

Researching critical distance in augmented reality, a live videoconference event co-hosted by Fogo Island Arts and Art Metropole, Toronto.

Wednesday March 27, 2013
6:30pm - 9.00pm Toronto // 8.00pm - 10.00pm Fogo

Art Metropole, 1490 Dundas Street West

Fogo Island Arts, The Film House, Highway 334 - Suite 100

Augmented reality has a special kind of darkness, for (as with consciousness itself), how can we see it if we see right through it?

Arriving Without Leaving explores strategies for collectively breaking down and reconstructing the architectures of transmission, the production of space and the scripting of experience. Working with the apparatus, this event combines audiovisual technologies with the concept of transception (transmission and reception) to create a Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt / distancing effect - "Being" at one remove) from the immersive technologies themselves. An arrangement of reflexive critical discussion will swing between immersion and estrangement to produce a "Third Space" beyond the screen.

sight.specific

Artists: 
BASIL ALZERI , GOLBOO AMANI , CRESSIDA KOCIENSKI , MARYAM TAGHAVI , RICKY VARGHESE

Curators: 
FRANCISCO-FERNANDO GRANADOS

ARTISTS
Basil AlZeri
Golboo Amani
Cressida Kocienski
Maryam Taghavi

.sight.specific. proposes performance art as the staging of sight as site: observation as contour, terrain, and architecture for modes of aesthetic embodiment. The project consists of four commissioned live works in search for situated perspectives on the possibilities of performance as a contextual spatial practice. The works situate artists and audience by trading knowledge on the streets, tracing trans-planetary sight-lines, creating home and hospitality in real time through cyberspace, and staging variations on absurdity. The shapes of these relationships brings into focus questions of knowledge and memory, contact and distance, longing and belonging.

Co-presented by Xpace Cultural Centre

SCHEDULE

Every Friday and Saturday in March, 2-6pm

Performance: The School of Bartered Knowledge by Golboo Amani

Friday March 8, 8pm

Performance: Planetaria by Cressida Kocienski

Friday March 15, 8pm

Performance (and dinner): T.M.K.L Presents: beit Suad by Basil AlZeri

Co-presented by FUSE Magazine and Israeli Apartheid Week Toronto

[[FUSE Magazine 36-2: Palestine-Palestine, featuring a project by Basil AlZeri, will be available for purchase.]]

Saturday and Sunday March 16-17, 1pm (FREE)

Workshop (and lunch): T.M.K.L Presents: beit Suad by Basil AlZeri

Friday March 22, 8pm

Performance: Variations on Absurdity by Maryam Taghavi

Thursday March 28, 7-11pm (FREE)

Opening: .sight.specific exhibition of residue/ephemera

Closing: Xpace exhibitions

Saturday March 30, 2pm (FREE)

Panel Discussion: Viewing .sight.specific.

With: Basil AlZeri, Golboo Amani, Cressida Kocienski, Maryam Taghavi

Moderated by Johanna Householder with Francisco-Fernando Granados

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FORTHCOMING: FILM WORK

All The Things That Burned Were Made Of Wood

I am very grateful the Toronto Arts Council for funding my forthcoming film work in Unorganized North Algoma district.

Produced with O[S]R Toronto.

II Lightbox 01: WORDS TO THAT AFFECT

Left Behind in the Golden Age? Stuffed inside a bee larva pavilion, sterile piles of language culled from the hive mind are going to help us harness your subvocalisation and bombard you with therapeutic radiation.
Long Winter Program || 11.01.2013 The Great Hall || 1087 Queen St. West || Toronto
The Institute of Immaterialism is an experimental publishing project co-edited by Cressida Kocienski and Erik Martinson

Planetaria