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II Seminário Economia da Dança: formalidade é tema polêmico

A questão da informalidade do fazer artístico foi uma das polêmicas do II Seminário Economia da Dança. Os debates sobre esse e outros assuntos seguem a partir de agora no blog. Saiba como participar.

Obra de Hélio Oiticica inspira trabalho

Inspirado no trabalho Núcleos, de Hélio Oiticica, o espetáculo Nucleares será apresentado de quinta-feira a domingo (12 a 15/11) no Teatro de Dança, em São Paulo. A peça é encenada pela Cia. Mariana Muniz de Teatro e Dança.

Depois da minitemporada no…

Conheça os selecionados para o Rumos Dança na área de Videodança

O Instituto Itaú Cultural divulgou os selecionados na área de Videodança para o programa Rumos 2009/2010. Foram escolhidos cinco projetos dentre os 14 que haviam sido pré-selecionados em agosto (clique aqui para saber mais). Esse grupo foi escolhido após master class com…

Clowns e xadrez em trabalho na Sala Crisantempo

A J. Garcia Dança Contemporânea apresenta Um conto idiota de quinta-feira a sábado (12, 13 e 14/11) na Sala Crisantempo, em São Paulo. O espetáculo foi contemplado com o 6º edital do Programa de Fomento à Dança da Cidade de São…

Reunião discutirá políticas para a dança em São Paulo

Quinta-feira (12/11), profissionais e artistas da dança de São Paulo estão convocados para reunião que será realizada a partir das 16h, na Funarte/SP (Alameda Nothmann 1.058, Campos Elísios. Telefone: 11 3662-5177).

Na ocasião serão discutidos os seguintes temas: avaliação da Conferência Municipal…

The New Silk Road project

European Diploma in Cultural Project Management 2010/11 (deadline: 15 Jan)

Links for 2009-11-11 [del.icio.us]

• bjartlab：V2people + Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | We need money not art
• Urban Screens
  Since the first Urban Screens event in 2005 in Amsterdam, related international conferences have taken place in Manchester in 2007 and Melbourne in 2008. The INC and the MediaLAB are proud to present a day-long program dedicated to current Urban Screens research and practice, in Trouw Amsterdam on 4 December 2009. The event will include a seminar with lectures by Urban Screens researchers and professionals, followed by the launch of the Urban Screens Reader, which is produced by the INC and the University of Melbourne.

Links for 2009-11-10 [del.icio.us]

• How Waterstone's killed bookselling | Books | The Guardian
  "The emphasis given to the few is staggering," says Mark Le Fanu, general secretary of the Society of Authors. "It's our mid-list authors, who may not write the most commercial books but who often write the best, who are suffering. The big corporate publishers dominate the shelves and squeeze out smaller publishers."
• Notes on an art crisis | Art and design | The Guardian
  This recession will bring a sea change in the way we look at, write about, and make art. Adrian Searle reveals what he's looking forward to
• Middle class shoplifters help themselves - Telegraph
  Middle class shoplifters are stealing luxury items like iPods, cosmetics and even fresh meat in an attempt to maintain their lifestyles in the face of the recession, according to a survey.
• Revolution on paper: Mexican Prints 1910 - 1960 at the British Museum, review - Telegraph
  An exhibition of prints at the British Museum reflects the social and political upheavals that gripped Mexico over the past century. Rating: * * * *
• ordenador de frutas
  Cómo es transformada nuestra idea de Naturaleza a partir de los procesos graduales de manipulación tecnológica? Cómo es alterada nuestra idea de Máquina cuando ésta comienza a emplear para su funcionamiento un sustrato orgánico? Dónde trazamos los límites entre lo natural y lo artificial? Tienen estos límites algún sentido?
• Gabura: a terrifying vision of a world devastated by climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk
  In Gabura global warming is a bleak reality as villagers face rising sea levels, failed crops and devastating cyclones
• Rhizome | Support Rhizome
  Rhizome’s 2009 Community Campaign is now underway! The goal is to raise $35,000 by January 8th 2010, with 100% of all donations going towards their programs and new initiatives for artists this year. Now is the time to support Rhizome by making a contribution to help them achieve this essential annual goal.
• Lalibre.be - Art/chitecture entre utopie et réalité
  A Bordeaux, dans le cadre de la biennale Evento, les Entrepôts Lainés proposent une véritable contre-culture architecturale.
• Sanaa Architect Named Director of Venice Architecture Biennial - ARTINFO.com
  Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima has been named director of the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. She is the first woman to hold the position
• Apostrophist corrects punctuation on street signs - Telegraph
  Stefan Gatward, a 62-year-old accountant, has been called a vandal and graffiti artist after he corrected the punctuation on his street signs.

ArtReview Close Encounters: Frieze Projects 2009

Artists Stephanie Syjuco, Kim Coleman, Per-Oskar Leu and Ryan Gander speak with ArtReview about their projects for Frieze Art Fair. Interviews by Oliver Basciano and J.J. Charlesworth.

ArtReview Close Encounters: Martin Creed

Oliver Basciano meets Martin Creed during rehearsals for his Ballet (Work No. 1020), at Sadler's Wells, London, 16–18 October

ArtReview Close Encounters: LMCC LentSpace

ArtReview's Tyler Coburn tours the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's temporary park/art installation, LentSpace, and interviews curator Adam Kleinman and artist Olivier Babin

ArtReview Close Encounters: Athanasios Argianas

Oliver Basciano speaks with artist Athanasios Argianas on the occasion of his exhibition Until Full Stops Look Like Stars, From Where You Stand, at Max Wigram Gallery, London, through 31 October.

ArtReview Close Encounters: The Jarman Award

ArtReview's Laura Allsop attends the Jarman Award ceremony, held at London's Whitechapel Gallery on 22 September, and interviews artist Lindsay Seers, who won for her film installations Extramission 6 and It Has to Be This Way (both 2009)

invitation to Culture|Futures from 7 to 9 December in Copenhagen

Culture|Futures is an international collaboration of organisations and individuals who are concerned with shaping and delivering a proactive cultural agenda to support the necessary transition towards an Ecological Age.

Engendering Change: Strategies to Combat Gender Stereotypes and Promote Equal Opportunities for Performers in Europe

The new project led by EuroFIA will build on the foundations laid by the first one and will seek to identify clear strategic actions to engender change across the EU.

Call for applications / Nomad Dance Academy / Education programme 2010

Nomad Dance Academy invites emerging creators from the field of contemporary dance and related professions, from around the world, to the nomadic dance-research-exchange-creative process.

Recreating the Berlin wall with 33.000 people

British performance-artist und curator Martin Butler wants to rebuild the Berlin Wall – not out of steel, concrete and barbed wire, but with people.

16è Rencontres du réseau Banlieues d'Europe

Banlieues d’Europe poursuit son travail de repérage de projets artistiques et de réflexion sur les alternatives culturelles, sociales, économiques… A l'heure de la crise économique, il est urgent de mettre en perspective des projets alternatifs dans les quartiers des villes, à l'aide de regards croisés d'artistes, d'habitants, de chercheurs, d'élus, d'urbanistes, d'économistes de différents horizons, repérés en France, en Belgique, en Allemagne, en Roumanie, en Grande-Bretagne, en Italie …