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OCA is currently accepting applications for the Third Quarter Application Review for International Support. Forms are due on 1 September 2011. Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists, international artists residing in Norway and non-profit entities. Support is also extended to solo exhibitions and group exhibitions initiated by international curators as well as to Norwegian art professionals organising exhibitions and projects abroad. More |
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OCA provides International Residencies for Norwegian artists,
curators and critics in a number of international venues. Click
here for details and deadlines.
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Mai Hofstad Gunnes, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre 2011 resident, still from An Everywhere of Silver, 2009. Courtesy of the artist. |
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OCA contributes with 'The
State of Things' as the Norwegian representation at La Biennale
di Venezia, inaugurated in June 2011 with lectures by Jacques
Rancière, Leo Bersani, Vandana Shiva, Jan Egeland, Fawaz Gergez and
Eyal Weizman. The speakers continue in September as follows:
Thursday, 8 September / 18:00
*The lectures are free and open to everyone. They are also available through live streaming (information will be available on www.oca.no soon) and later archived in OCA’s website. |
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'The Art of Living'
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The Nasreen Mohamedi Exhibition 'Notes - Reflection on Indian Modernism (Part 1)' initiated by OCA in 2009, closed at the Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium on Sunday 14 August. After the opening at OCA on 6 March 2009, the exhibition has been presented in a number of venues in the period 2009-2011, including Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK; Lunds Kunsthall, Lund, Sweden; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal and The Academy of Visual Art Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. The exhibition, curated by Suman Gopinath and Grant Watson, brought together for the first time Mohamedi's rarely seen drawings, paintings and photographs with unique archival material from her studio. |
Installation view from the exhibition at OCA in 2009. Photo: OCA / Vegard Kleven |
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Below is a selection of three events by Norwegian artists abroad, taken from the projects that have received International Support from OCA. Complete chronological lists of all the projects can be found in OCA's website. In addition, an up-to-date list of ongoing projects receiving International Support is available on the recipients page. |
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Elmgreen & Dragset to participate within
'Rewriting Worlds'
Elmgreen & Dragset have been invited by the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art to restage their project Celebrity — The One & The Many (2010) originally produced for an exhibition at ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany. Titled Rewriting Worlds, the exhibition explores the notion that 'art, as a sphere of human activities, gives individual artists the chance to convert their ideas into reality and "re-write" the world by means of their works'.
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Elmgreen & Dragset, Celebrity – The One & The
Many, 2010, site-specific installation.
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Rein Wolfs, curator and artistic director of Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, has invited Gardar Eide Einarsson to present the solo exhibition 'Power Has a Fragrance', which will be on view until 11 September 2011. According to the curator, 'Gardar Eide Einarsson creates a scenario that illustrates social conflicts between individuals and the societies in which they live and that focuses on authority and alienation'. The exhibition is a collaborative project between the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; the Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, has been presented at these institutions throughout 2010 and 2011. For the exhibition in Kassel, Gardar Eide Einarsson has produced a new billboard installation specially created for this venue. |
Gardar Eide Einarsson, 'Power Has a Fragrance', Installation view Kunsthalle Fridericianum, 2011. Photograph: Nils Klinger |
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA, has invited Sissel Tolaas to participate in the group exhibition 'Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects' on view through 7 November 2011. The artist will contribute with her work Berlin, City Smell Research (2004). Tolaas has done extensive research on the local smell identity of four different areas of Berlin. She states that 'the four individual areas were carefully analysed for characteristics in aspect of a local smell identity for each site'. Other participating artists include Mayo Nissen, Electronic Ink, Evan Roth, Emily Read and Chen Hsu. Curator: Paola Anton Elli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
Sissel Tolaas, Without border BERLIN (detail), 2004-11. Courtesy of the artist |
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Capacete, OCA partner and interdisciplinary project space located in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, is calling for applications to the position of director for the Research Residency Program. The candidate should have prior experiences in residency programmes or in the production of projects that take long terms participation of professionals. Application deadline: 31 September 2011. Fore more information, visit the Capacete website, or contact diretoria@capacete.net |
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The programme is designed for students in art or cinema, young
exhibition curators or art critics who wish to extend their
training with a year of experimentation around the interplay of
issues between document and contemporary art. The year will
conclude with an event: a cycle of projections, exhibition,
publication, seminar, conference and meetings whose form will be
decided on by each group. Candidates must hold a diploma,
equivalent to High School graduation certificates and at least five
years of study in higher education from a national or international
institution. Application deadline: 10 September
2011.
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The Japan Media Arts Festival is organised by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, with the aim of promoting the creation and development of media arts (comic, animation, game and media art). The call is for entries in four divisions, Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga, and is open to applications from anywhere in the world. The Agency will award a Grand Prize and a number of other awards at the festival, and the winning works will also be exhibited. Application deadline: 22 September 2011. For more information, read the press release or visit the Japan Media Arts Festival website. |
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Artists are invited to submit proposals for research projects for the coming year in the Fine Art department of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands. The Academie is an institute for research and production in the fields of fine art, design and theory. The Fine Art department offers a space for experimentation, production, reflection and debate. Deadline for submissions is 1 October 2011. For details, visit the Jan van Eyck Acedemie website, and click 'applications'. |
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