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VASLNewsletter Online Issue no. 013, August - October 2008
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Welcome once more to Vasl online!
Naiza H Khan
Send us your suggestions/queries at vasl_art@yahoo.com
Call for Applications: International Artists' Residency, Schloss Bleckede, Germany
Call for Artists: Liquid Cities and Identities Brooklyn, New York
VIDEOFORMES 2009: video competition, XXIVth New Media & Video Art International Festival, France
Thupelo Cape Town – FOUND OBJECT WORKSHOP
“Controlled Accidents”, International Video Performance Festival, Mexico
III Video Festival Cairo, EgyptInternational Prize for Performance - IV Edition, Trento, Italy
South Asian Project - Six Degrees Of Separation Exhibition and OddSpaces Project
VASL Lahore - International Artist's Workshop, Call for Applications
'Diasporics' starting October 2008
ARTshare with Faisal Anwer
Vasl ARTtext
Artists in the Network and beyond
Seema Nusrat at Gasworks London
Huma Mulji: India and China
Bani Abidi: Neteherlands, Canada and UK
Naiza H Khan: London and Shanghai
Rashid Rana: PHILLIPS, London
Hamra Abbas: Pakistan, China, Canada and UK
Raania Durrani: International Woodfire Festival 2008, Japan
Adeela Suleman: Palo Alto and Solo at Lahore
Shaziae Gorjie: Woodfire Workshop and Assistantship, US Arkansas
Mohammed Zeeshan: Weimar, Germany
Green Cardamom
Aicon - Canvas - NY and Palo Alto : Tradition, Technique, Technology - I & II
Art resources and useful links
27th Sao Paulo Biennial: Photo Tour
Call for Applications: International Artists' Residency, Schloss Bleckede, Germany
Since 1979, the Kuenstlerstaette Schloss Bleckede has been supporting young artists who explore innovative positions in the field of contemporary art, addressing aesthetic, cultural or political issues.Applicants will be selected by October 2008 for a residential scholarship for three to six months in order to develop their work. The scholarship includes a monthly grant of Euro 1,400. The historic, restored castle of Bleckede has been transformed into studios, providing extensive work space and living area. The nature reserve is near Lueneburg and Berlin , which have a thriving cultural life.
Applications should be sent to: Landkreis Lüneburg FD Schule und Kultur Am Graalwall 4 21335 Lüneburg
Germany Phone: +49-4131-26-1360The call for applications is open to all artists of all nationalities.
Application: http://www.kuenstlerstaette-bleckede.de Info: info@halle-fuer-kunst.de
Call for Artists: Liquid Cities and Identities Brooklyn, New York
This Video Art and Architecture event at the Micro Museum in Brooklyn will comprise screenings of videos or short films selected by International ArtExpo, a nonprofit organization that works with international galleries, publishers, museums, and writers, supporting artists through exhibitions, gallery representation, reviews, press releases and publicity, as well as various curatorial projects.
Participation is open to professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.
All video works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), with a preference given to a maximum of 15 minutes. Interested participants should send submissions (Name/Surname, City/Country, Film title, Running time, Brief film synopsis) with a CV/biography, videography and an introduction about the piece to:
Dates: September 27 & November 22, 2008 in Micro Museum
Application deadline: August 30 for Liquid Identities and October 15 for Liquid Cities Address: arch. Luca Curci, via Casamassima, 75, 70010 - Capurso (Bari) – Italy. Info: http://www.lucacurci.com/artexpo.. E-mail: artexpo@lucacurci.com
VIDEOFORMES 2009: video competition, XXIVth New Media & Video Art International Festival, France
Application deadline: October 3, 2008
Dates: November 13- 15, 2008 VIDEOFORMES organizes a new media and video art festival where artists can present their multimedia installations, videos, and performances. For regulations & submissions, consult:Website: http://www.videoformes.com/ Works are to be sent with a submission form to: VideoFormes, B.P. 80411 – 63011, Clermont-Ferrand, Cedex 1, France
Thupelo Cape Town – FOUND OBJECT WORKSHOP
Workshop Dates: 26 September to 11 October 2008, DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Monday, 25 August 2008
We invite established visual artists to apply to work in this dynamic, stimulating two week workshop at Greatmore Studios. Applications in all medium will be accepted. Artists should bring to the workshop their own found objects, tools, paints, scrap paper, cameras etc. Applicants need to commit to working all day, everyday. There is no budget for accommodation or transport. The two week workshop will close with an open day exhibition on Saturday 11th October. Please see our website to view previous workshops. Website: www.greatmoreart.org, To apply send your application to: E-mail: artmore@mweb.co.za
“Controlled Accidents”, International Video Performance Festival, Mexico
Call for submissions for the Internet. Festival in Mexico. Deadline: 20 August 2008.
Website: http://exteresaperformance.blogspot.com/2008/04/english.html
III Video Festival Cairo, Egypthttp://medrar.org/thirdfestival.html
International Prize for Performance - IV Edition
The Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento, in collaboration with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara of Trento and with the support of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio of Trento and Rovereto announce the fourth edition of the International Prize for Performance.The prize is open to young artists, or groups of artists, of all nationalities who were born from January 1st, 1973.
Website http://www.workartonline.net/eventi/articolo.asp?ID=7299&IDp=7299&IDm=10&oo=2&loop=1
South Asian Project - Six Degrees Of Separation Exhibition and OddSpaces Project
The South Asian Project is a show that will commemorate ten years of Triangle Art activities within the region. The shows will open simultaneously at their respective venues all across South Asia – Khoj, Britto, Theertha and Vasl. Faisal Anwer’s project will connect all these 4 art spaces for 5 days and run alongside the art show. The artists participating are a selection of artists who have traveled participated in the workshops and residencies in the network. For the South Asian show the artists will show a recent and an old work done by them in their residency/workshop they attended. A catalogue of the whole South Asian Project will be published later. Dates - 4th- 20th September 2008, Venue: VM Art Gallery - Karachi
VASL Lahore - International Artists' Project in Lahore , Call for ApplicationsCall for Applications from art students across Pakistan. This Vasl Lahore project will be around the lines of public intervention and collaborations between the artists and the students would be encouraged. Residency Dates: November 6th to 22nd Application deadline: October 1st 2008. Email your CV and Intent to mailto:vaslahore@tyahoo.com
'Diasporics' starting September 2008
Five week International Artists' Residency will begin on the 15th of September till 26th of October Karachi. The residency will culminate into an open day. The artists are Jeanette Ghaussi (Berlin), Monali Mehr (Berlin) and Mohammad Riaz (Toronto). More on the website soon.
ARTshare with Faisal Anwer
Faisal Anwer on his recent visit to Karachi for the Odd Spaces Project shared his various new media projects with students and art audiences in Karachi at Fomma. The ARTshare was a conversation with Faisal Anwer and Naiza Khan along with his projects on view at the event. This interview will be up shortly up on our critical text section of the website. Naiza H Khan in conversation with Faisal Anwer.
Vasl ARTtext:
A paper read by Quddus Mirza at a recent art writers talk in Karachi.
Artists in the Network and beyond
Seema Nusrat at Gasworks London at Charles Wallace - Rangoonwala Residency UK
This residency is assisted by Green Cardamom, Vasl and Gasworks
Seema is a sculptor from the Indus valley School of Art and Architecture and part of the Vasl working group in Karachi. She joined the Gasworks Residence mid August 2008.She also participated in the VASL Taaza Tareen II Residency Karachi 2007.
http://www.gasworks.org.uk/residencies/detail.php?id=381
Huma Mulji: India and China
Guangzhou Triennale , Guangdong Museum , China Dates: September 5th
Six Degrees of Separation: Chaos, Congruence & Collaboration, Curated by Pooja Sood, Khoj International Artists Residency at Anant Art Gallery, Delhi, India Website: http://www.humamulji.com/index.htm
Bani Abidi: Netherlands, Canada, Korea and India
Usable Pasts, Concerted Forgettings,
Curated by Hilde de Brujin, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
http://www.smartprojectspace.net/
P0L1T1C, Curated by Kika Thorne, Vivo Media Arts
Center, Vancouver, Canada.
7th Gwangju Biennale 2008, Curated by Okwui Enwezor, Gwangju,South
Korea
http://www.gwangju-biennale.org/2008gb/eng/index.asp
5th Seoul International Media Art
Biennale, Curated by Park Llho, Seoul, South Korea
http://www.mediacityseoul.or.kr/En/index.html
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2008, Zone C, Curated by
Haema Sivanesan, Toronto, Canada
http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/
Six Degrees of Separation:
Chaos, Congruence & Collaboration, Curated by Pooja Sood, Khoj
International Artists Residency at Anant Art Gallery, Delhi,
India
Naiza H Khan: London and Shanghai
Solo show at -Rossi & Rossi
Dates:24th September - 25th October 2008
16 Clifford Street, London W1S 3RG, Telephone 020 7734 6487
fax 020 7734 8051, Email: info@rossirossi.com, Website: http://www.rossirossi.com/ssi.com
and SH Contemporary 08, Shanghai
Rashid Rana: PHILLIPS, London
Part of “The Audience and the Eavesdropper - New Art from India and Pakistan” - LONDON-
Date: 24 November 2008 Website: http://www.phillipsdepury.com/exhibitions.aspx
Rashid Rana once again leads the table of the Art Tactic survey of Indian Contemporary Art Market
Website: http://www.arttactic.com
Rashid Rana to become the first Pakistani artist to cross the half a million mark. In the recent time, at least three works of Rashid Rana were sold for over 5,00,000 USD, including the highest price of 6,23,000 USD ever paid for a work of art produced by a Pakistani artist.
Hamra Abbas: Pakistan, China, Canada and UK
New works by Hamra Abbas, NCA Gallery, Rawalpindi Campus
Date: 22nd August
2008
Farewell to
Post-Colonialism, 3rd Guangzhou Triennial
Guangdong Museum of Art Date: 6th September 2008
http://www.gztriennial.org/zhanlan/threeyear/4/24/
Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche Toronto Date: 4th October
2008
http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/home.shtml
One person show @ Green Cardamom,
London
Date:15th October Website http://www.hamrabbas.com/, http://www.greencardamom.net/
Raania Durrani: International Woodfire Festival 2008, Japan
Goshogawara International Woodfire Festival 2008
Kanyama Pottery,
Goshogawara, Aomori, Japan
Date: July 1st to 31st 2008
http://www.makigama.org/
Shaziae Gorjie: Woodfire Workshop and Assistantship, US Arkansas
In the US for 6 month artists assistantship with Joseph Bruhin after 2 week Anagama Woodfire Workshop in US from Septmeber through October 2008.www.shaziehgorji.blogspot.com
Mohammed Zeeshan – Weimar, Germany
Group show participating in a Group show "UNSTERN. SINISTRE. DISASTRO." opening on 23 august 2008 weimar germany http://www.kunstfest-weimar.de/index.php?p=68
ART PROJECT art project on a KIOSK ''invitations'' series at KoCA(kiosk of contemporary art) in Weimar: opening on 20th september 2008 Weimar, Germany http://www.koca-weimar.de/ http://www.koca-weimar.de/page1/page1.html
Exhibitions
August – October 2008
Green Cardamom runs a public projects programme, collaborating with public museums and galleries to realise visual arts projects, publications and exhibitions. It also runs a London-based gallery programme representing artists from Pakistan, South and Central Asia and the Middle East. Green Cardamom works on a not for profit basis and is supported by the Rangoonwala Foundation.
Green Cardamom, 5a Porchester Place, London W2 2BS. T: +44 207 402 7125
Drawn from Life: Drawing Space
July 23 – September 27
The second in a series of three exhibitions, exploring process, inhabitation of space, and use of form in the drawing practice of more than 20 artists from Asia, Europe and the US. Artists in Drawing Space include Hamra Abbas, Nazgol Ansarinia, Muhannad Cader, Iftikhar Dadi & Elizabeth Dadi, Noa Lidor, Jess MacNeil, Sojwal Samant, Seher Shah, Mohammad Ali Talpur and Zarina.
This exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue. http://www.greencardamom.net/exhibitions/exhibitions_page.php?id=26
Solo exhibition of works by Hamra Abbas
October 9 – End November. Green Cardamom are delighted to present an exhibition of works by Hamra Abbas. A catalogue of works by Hamra Abbas will accompany the exhibiton, and will include a number of newly commissioned texts.
ARTISTS
Hamra Abbas has been invited to create new work for the Third Guangzhou Triennial in China, September – November 2008. Hamra has also been invited to create work for Nuit Blanche in Toronto. This exhibition runs for one full night only, on October 4 – 5.
Bani Abidi has been invited to show her work Security Barriers at the Gwangju Biennial in South Korea, from September 5 to November 9, 2008.
Ali Kazim had a successful solo exhibition at Gallery Espace, New Delhi and from October of this year will be reading for his MFA at the Slade School of Art in London.
Noa Lidor was invited by Tate Modern to develop a commission for their Members Room. This opened on June 10, 2008 and will continue till October, 2008.
Mohammad Ali Talpur will be exhibiting new works in a solo exhibition with Art & Public, Geneva. The exhibition opens on September 18.
PROJECTS AND TALKS:Sophie Ernst will show her work Home at the Royal Geographical Society as part of Green Cardamom’s on-going Lines of Control project. The screening of Sophie’s work will coincide with the RGS exhibition on the Punjab. Sophie will also use this opportunity to develop her Home project further by interviewing local community groups.
Hammad Nasar was a panellist for Cultural Question Time at London’s Tate Britain, which examined ideas of cultural diplomacy as a new form of 'soft' imperialism and the role artists and intellectuals would play in socio-political change in the Middle East region. He was also invited to deliver a lecture on Contemporary Pakistani Art at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) to students on the Contemporary Asian Art Course.Green Cardamom: Anita Dawood, Leyla Fakhr, Hammad Nasar, Nada Raza, Vipul Sangoi and Louise Sunderland.
Aicon-Canvas - NY and Palo Alto
Tradition, Technique, Technology - II Contemporary artists from Pakistan - Ayaz Jokhio, Farida Batool and Adeela Suleman Dates: July 18 - August 23, 2008 Aicon gallery - Palo Alto http://www.aicongallery.com/exhibitions/2008-07-18_tradition-technique-technology-ii/
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Galleries
CANVAS Gallery, Karachi Canvas99@cyber.net.pk
August 12th 4 Person Miniature Show – Murad khan Mumtaz, Hadia Moiz, Farheen Maqsood, Saima Munawar
26th Ahsan Jamal - (Miniature Show)
September 9th Raania Azam Khan Durrani (Ceramics)
18th Altamash Kamal (Photography)
October 7th Jabbar Gul (Drawings)
14th Nosheen Saeed (Prints and Sculptures)
23rd Risham Syed
(Mixed Media)
VM Art Gallery, Karachi mailto:vmartgal@super.net.pk
September 4th
6 Degrees of Separation
- Vasl Project Film &
Artwork
October
21st Khalil Chisti -
Sculpture (Full month)
· ROHTAS Gallery, Lahore rohtasgallery@gmail.com
August 27th Farida Batool
October 10th Musarrat Mirza
23rd Ayaz Jokhio
· EJAZ GALLERIES, Lahore, ejazartgallery@hotmail.com
· ROHTAS GALLERY, Islamabad, rohtasgallery@yahoo.com
· NAIRANG, Lahore, www.nairangartgalleries.com
· GULMOHAR Karachi, shaheen.siddiqui@gmail.com
· KHAS GALLERY, Islamabad, zishan@comsats.net.pk
· GOETHE INSTITUTE, http://www.goethe.de/su/kar/enindex.htm
· ALLIANCE FRANCAISE, www.afkarachi.org
· BRITISH COUNCIL PAKISTAN, http://www.britishcouncil.org/pakistan.htm
Art resources and useful links
27th Sao
Paulo Biennial: Photo Tour on Universes in Universe
40 photo pages with
works by 35 participants, as well as views of the exhibition halls. Summary of
information, artists list, etc.
http://universes-in-universe.de/car/sao-paulo/eng/2006/index.htm
VASLNewsletter Online
edited by Naiza
Khan and Auj Khan
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