OCA relocates its offices and international studios to Nedre gate 7 in Grünerløkka in summer 2008. Reflecting upon the Board's acknowledgment of OCA's expanded programme, visitation and overall operations, a decision was made in 2007 to seek out a new location in order to provide greater accessibility and visibility for OCA as a public institution. The new location, Nedre gate 7, is a brick building designed by the architects Ove Ekman and Einar Smith, which was erected between 1896 and 1899. Situated on the river for purposes of drawing power, the building served as a natural site for the establishment of industry in Oslo. The surrounding expansion of mills gave rise to it being referred to as Ny York, in respect to New York City, which was facing industrial development at the same time.

OCA relocates to Nedre gate 7 in 2008 as a multidisciplinary institution with an expanded public platform, offices, and meeting areas for the International Visitor Programme (IVP). The space, renovated throughout winter 2008 under the direction of the Oslo-based architectural firm Space Group, will provide greater public accessibility to OCA and will foster a further synthesis between its discursive programme and a changing programme of public projects.

OCA provides financial support on a quarterly basis for international projects including Norwegian artists and/or cultural producers. This includes extending support to group or single artist exhibitions initiated by international institutions and international curators. International artists who have permanent residence in Norway may also apply for support. The objective is to foster innovative artistic production, expression and the creative process by encouraging and supporting projects that support, exhibit and interpret a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practices. The funding for International Support is provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

03–Funding is a support program initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for enhancing collaboration in the contemporary art field with professional artists in countries in the South. This programme is also administered by OCA.

Recipients from the November grants review for International Support is announced.
The recipients are listed here.

Next application deadline is 15 February 2008.
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For any questions regarding the process, please contact Velaug Bollingmo at vb@oca.no.

In 2008/2009 Office for Contemporary Art Norway offers two different studio grants for a Norwegian artist and a Norwegian curator at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City. The recipients will be selected by the Jury of Office for Contemporary Art Norway. ISCP offers artists and curators an opportunity to work independently. Two collective exhibitions are held every year, at the beginning of May and at the beginning of December. The studios are open to the public on certain days. ISCP receives regular visits from curators and gallery-owners, wishing to make contact with the artists/curators.

Financial Terms: 

OCA pays a grant for the artist and the curator. In addition OCA supports the cost of the apartment for the artist. The artist will receive a grant of NOK 150 000,- from OCA. The artist must meet all other travel and living expenses. Duration for the artist residency is 12 months. The curator will receive a grant of NOK 70 000,- from OCA. The curator must meet all other travel and living expenses including the rent for accommodation. Duration of the curatorial residency is 3 months. The American Scandinavian Foundation covers the costs for the studios and the fee for the participations in the ISCP. Only Norwegian citizens are eligible for these grants. 

Current Resident 2007–2008

The artist and filmmaker Lene Berg (b. 1965, Oslo) was granted the one year artist residency programme at ISCP New York which commenced 1 September 2007. Several of Berg's projects have their point of departure in documentary material without that necessarily being a priority in the result. One of her themes is fictional thinking in relation to and confrontation with the physical world. In 2006, she presented the publication Gentlemen and Arseholes and the video The Man in the Background, two parts of a project about art and propoganda during the Cold War. More recently that work has been shown at Midway Contemporary in Mineapolis, at [OCA, NYC], and at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Next application deadline is 15 February 2008. Click here for information on the application process. For any questions regarding the process, please contact Velaug Bollingmo at vb@oca.no.

Next application deadline is 15 February 2008.
Click here for information on the application process.
For any questions regarding the process, please contact Velaug Bollingmo atvb@oca.no.

In 2008/2009 Office for Contemporary Art Norway offers a studio grant for a Norwegian artist at the International Studio Program Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. The artist will be selected by the host institution, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, in collaboration with Office for Contemporary Art Norway Jury 2008. The studio is granted 12 months to a Norwegian artist: 01 December 2008–30 November 2009. The artist will receive a grant of NOK 137 500,- from Office for Contemporary Art Norway. The artist must meet all other travel and living expenses. The artist will be offered an exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

Next application deadline is 15 February 2008.
Click here for information on the application process.
For any questions regarding the process, please contact Velaug Bollingmo at vb@oca.no.

Current Resident 2007–2008

Oslo based artist Martin Skauen (b. 1975) has been granted the one year artist residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien commencing as of 1 December, 2007. Skauen, who recently participated in the major group exhibition Whenever It Starts It Is the Right Time at the Kunstverein in Frankfurt, curated by Chus Martinez, bases his practice in drawing, video, and music. Interested in the depiction of humanity and the notion of redemption, Skauen often stages situations through the use of metaphor and the interpretation of inner and outer worlds, reflecting on cultures in despair that evolve into fanaticism. Skauen was also the former curator of the artspace Subcomandante.

In 2007, OCA offers successive residencies for Norwegian curators, critics, and artists in Berlin Mitte. The residency provides a fully equipped apartment located at Kunstwerke Institute for Contemporary Art in Mitte. OCA also provides a travel grant up to NOK 4 000,- in addition to the residency.

Current resident November–December 2007

Dag Nordbrendens work explores photography often in relation to different visual genres. At the moment he is working on a book project. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo in 2001. His most recent exhibitions includes Tous Photographes! at Museé de L'Elysée, Lausanne, Likegyldighet og engasjement at Galleri Trafo, Asker, Norway, Vise Versa at Christiandsand kunstforening and Moderne norsk kunstfotografi at Stenersen museet, Oslo, Norway. 

Upcoming residents 2008

Marthe Thorshaug (b. 1977) lives and works in Hamar, Norway. She graduated from the Art Academy in Oslo in 2003. Her first solo exhibition in Norway was Comancheria at Fotogalleriet in Oslo spring 2007. She is currently working on the manuscript for a film project entitled The Legend of Ygg, a Norse Thriller.

Hanne Mugaas (b. 1980) is an independent curator based in New York, where she is currently assisting Associate Curator Barbara London in the Media Department at the Museum of Modern Art. At the MoMA, she recently organized the screeningThe Artist and the Computer and co-organized the event SummerJam: Paper Rad, Cory Arcangel and Slow Jams Band. Mugaas' exhibitions and screenings have taken place in Berlin, Paris, London, New York and Tokyo. Recent projects include the screening Extended Animation: Digital Effects, Corporate Logos and Style, at Gallery F15 in Moss, Norway; the event Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet) at [OCA NYC]; the exhibition Paris was Yesterday, at La Vitrine in Paris; and The Copy and Paste Show, for rhizome at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She holds an MA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Ane Hjort Guttu (b. 1971) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She is interested in the inherent ideology of images, non-figurative form as representation of political issues and the fine line between art and everyday objects. Her projects investigate and question representation strategies and power structures through analytical essays, image collections, formalist sculptures or staged photography. During her residency in Berlin, Guttu will develop her project which will be shown at the Bergen Kunsthall, Norway in 2008.

Next application deadline is 15 May 2008.
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For any questions regarding the process, please contact Velaug Bollingmo at vb@oca.no.

In collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Beijing, China, OCA offers a studio residency for an artist or curator at the Platform China Beijing Residency Programme, for two months either in spring (April/May) or fall (September/October) each year. The artist/curator must be a Norwegian citizen, or live and work in Norway. Travel costs and housing are offered in addition to the grant. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway covers up to NOK 10 000,- for travel expenses in addition to a monthly stipend of NOK 8 000,- for living expenses. The residency programme is covered by 03–funding. This is a support program funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for enhancing collaboration in the contemporary art field with professional artists in countries in the South.

Upcoming resident April–May 2008

Stian Ådlandsvik (b. 1981) is an Oslo-based artist working with sculptures and photography. Ådlandsvik's projects often map up unusual connections in social, political and economical administration and he relates this to questions conserning national identity. Working with estrangement and reorganization of objects, he is blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction. In his latest project he collaborated on making a subjective analysis of the development of Kuala Lumpur, focusing on the generic replacements of the city's identity, history and culture. He holds a degree from HfBK in Hamburg and the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and graduated in 2006. Ådlandsvik, working in an investigative way to map out various layers of economic systems to research how it is they shape their surroundings and society. Ådlandsvik's research on the actual topic will be of central importance during his residency period in Beijing when he will study, more closely, one of the fastest economies of the world.

Upcoming resident September-October 2008

Torbjørn Rødland was born in 1970 in Stavanger, Norway. Since the mid-90s his photographs — and, for a few years now, also experimental video works — have been exhibited widely. Equally appropriating images of symbolic status and scenes of seemingly no importance, Rødland gathers his material from amateur photography and popular visual culture. Always adding or subtracting meaning, these images appear both recognisable and eerie. Reality is constantly negotiated and slipping into fantasy and myth. Rødland's next solo show — Go to the VIP Room — opens 26 January at Air de Paris, Paris. Rødland develops further research applicable for his upcoming book-project — investigating the issues of censorship implied by the Chinese government against body painting.

Next application deadline is 15 November 2008. Click here for information on the application process. For any questions regarding the process, please contact Velaug Bollingmo at vb@oca.no.

The International Studio Programme Oslo is available for international artists and curators by invitation for a stay from two weeks up to six months, independently or in connection with research in Norway. The programme comprises four studios located in the city centre of Oslo.

Pierre Bismuth
Born 1963, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Pierre Bismuth tackles the challenges of contemporary art by addressing the representation and the reception of a work of art; by playing on the modalities and power of language and image; and by reappropriating art history and modern cultural references, from fashion to cinema. In doing so, he incorporates all artistic mediums available, from origami and collage to screenwriting and art installations. Bismuth has exhibited his works extensively throughout Europe, and North America. He earned an Academy Award in 2005 for co-authoring the screenplay Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. One of Bismuth's works was screened in a film programme curated by the Norwegian curator Hanne Mugaas entitled Extended Animation: Digital Effects, Corporate Logos and Style this fall. During his residency in Norway Bismuth provided lectures at Bergen Art Academy, Tromsø Art Academy and Open Forum in Oslo.

Dessislava Dimova
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Dimova focuses on the possibility of the social existence and recognition of the artist, without offering any art production as such. Dessislava Dimova is a PhD fellow at the Institute of Art Studies in Sofia with a thesis on Bulgarian art after 1989. She has published numerous essays on contemporary art and culture, including The Cultural Learnings of Ivan Moudov, the catalogue of the Bulgarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, 2007; Supernaturalism in Postcommunist Bulgaria, The Weird but True Book, 2005. She is currently curating The Spam Show, an email project that risks to be never seen, discarded by spam filters.

Polly Staple
Polly Staple is an independent curator and writer based in London. She is Editor at Large of frieze magazine and was formerly Director of Frieze Projects, the curatorial programme realized annually at Frieze Art Fair, London. She was previously Curator at Cubitt Gallery, London and co-Editor of Untitled magazine. Over the past ten years she has contributed to numerous publications and been a regular visiting tutor at a number of London art colleges. She is currently a board member of Studio Voltaire, Voltaire and The Elephant Trust and was a member of the Arts Council Collection Acquisitions & Advisory Committee. Staple recently co-curated a major British Council produced, touring survey show of contemporary film and video from the UK which opened at MADRE, Naples in May 2007. She is currently developing a long-term research project 'Switzerland: art, commerce and the desiring subject', to be realized as a group essay-show and publication in 2008/09.

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway runs an International Visitor Program to support international curators and cultural producers in their research in Norway for upcoming exhibitions and projects.

Giovanni Carmine
Curator and art critic
Born 1975, in Bellinzona, Switzerland
Carmine worked at the Kunstraum Walcheturm in Zürich and has organised exhibitions for various institutions such as 999(1999) and Updating Landscapes (2003) for the Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, the exhibition Body Proxy about Norma Jeane (Helmhaus Zürich, Swiss Institute New York, and Kunstverein Freiburg, 2004/5), and the painting trilogy Fois Gras(Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris, 2007). He has also initiated a number of independent projects like Unloaded (2002) in formerSwiss-army bunkers and the mobile platform zimmerfrei. He has contributed to various magazines (Kunst-Bulletin, Frieze,Parkett), written for catalogues and edited publications (PSYOP Post 9/11 Leaflets with the artist Christoph Büchel, 2005). Since March 2007 he is the director of the Kunst Halle St. Gallen. He lives and works in Zürich and St. Gallen.

Whitney Biennial 2008
Open: 6 March–1 June 2008

The curatorial team of Shamim Momim, Associate Curator at the Whitney, and Henriette Huldisch, Assistant Curator at the Whitney, have selected Gardar Eide Einarsson among 80 other artists to participate in the 2008 Whitney Biennial scheduled to open to the public in NYC 6 March 2008. The exhibition which runs through 1 June is noted as the Whitney's "signature exhibition as well as the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States today." Other artists included within next year's Biennial include Rita Ackermann, Carol Bove, Coco Fusco, Gang Gang Dance, Rachael Harrison, Ellen Harvey, Mary Heilmann, Karen Kliminick, Louise Lawler, Spike Lee, Lucky Dragons, Corey McCorkle, Rodney McMillan, Seth Price, Frances Starck, Mungo Thomson, James Welling, among others. Tickets for the 2008 Biennial go on sale in February 2008 and are available on www.whitney.org.

16 Biennale of Sydney
18 June–7 September 2008

The 2008 Biennale of Sydney as curated by its Artistic Director,Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev entitled Revolutions — Forms that Turnwill include a presentation of approximately 80 artists from 1913 to today. According to Christov-Bakargiev, the "exhibition will navigate in different ways artists have revolutionized contemporary art. It will explore rotating, turning upside down, shifting points of view, revolving, mirroring and reversing as formal devices, as well as charting their broader aesthetic, psychological, psychoanalytic and indirectly radical and political perspectives." Among those artists selected — aiPotu, Lene Berg, Annie Anawana Haloba Hobol, and Pushwagner, in addition to important historical works from the collection of Erling Neby in Oslo — among them works by Jesus Rafael Soto and Victor Vasarely. Although included in the previous Sydney biennale, the artistic director has also invited artists Vibeke Tandberg and Matias Faldbakken to create special projects in conjunction with the formal exhibition. The 2008 Biennale of Sydney will be held from 18 June–7 September 2008, and has been supported with a grant from OCA's International Support Programme. A portion of this grant is provided by 03–funding. For further developing information, please refer to www.biennaleofsydney.com.au, or contact info@oca.no.

Straight Letters marks the first solo exhibition by the Norwegian artist Camilla Løwwhich is scheduled to open at Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland in February 2008. The exhibition, curated by the DCA's Deputy Director Judith Winter will be accompanied by a publication with texts by Michael Archer and Sarah Lowndes.

Centre D'Art Contemporain Geneve will hold the first solo exhibition of work byGardar Eide Einarsson in Switzerland as scheduled from 24 January through 16 March, 2008. The exhibition, co-produced with the Frankfurter Kunstverein, is curated by Katya García-Antón. García-Antón writes: "The theatrical vocation of the artist's practice reveals correspondence, art historically speaking, to modernity's crisis with the social". A full catalogue co-produced by the Kunstverein Frankfurt with contributions by Chus Martinez and Ina Blom among others and published by Revolver will be released in December 2007.

P.S.1/MoMA will host a solo project by Børre Sæthre scheduled to open in NYC in September 2008. The exhibition curated by Lia Gangitano, Curatorial Advisor to P.S.1/MoMA, will include the artist's various installations created specifically for his recent show under the titleFor Someone Who Nearly Died but Survived at the Bergen Kunsthall, Norway that evoke hybrid spaces reflecting upon the artist's own fantasies, confessions rendered in morphed interiors.

Karl Ingar Røys participates in a solo project entitled Would-be Immigrants Must Watch Kiss Video at the Het Wilde Weten in Rotterdam in Holland. The exhibition curated by Kim Bouvy will open on 17 January and run through 15 April, 2008. The artist invited by Kim Bouvy from Het Wilde Weten to discuss the the initiative of the Dutch Immigrant Authorities to use video-tests in order to implement common cultural reference points for people who wish to settle in Holland. This project is a continuation of Røys' earlier work entitled Erna's Video whereby the artist refers to the documentary format to focus in on how media is politically used by Norwegian politicians with the purpose to dissuade asylum seekers from entering into the country.

Marthe Thorshaug has been invited by the Comanche Nation and the film department of the Cameron University to screen the recently produced film, Comancheria, (2007) at the Comanche National Museum in Lawton, Oklahoma. The screenings will take place 19 January through 3 February, 2008. The film is a fiction film starring Comanche Indians in Oklahoma and combines documentary with fictional elements drawn from the film genre of Westerns and Roadmovies.

Stefan Schröder participates in Über Tage_07, which is a site specific project, reflecting urban landscape development and site specific interventions after several decades of coalmining activities in the former East-German region of Sachsen. The project opened 1 September, and will expand into the summer of 2008. The project is curated by Susanne Altmann.

Kjersti Sundland participates in the exhibition, Rendering Video, at TICA, Center for contemporary Art in Albania from 31 January through 16 February. The exhibition, curatored by Alessandra Pioselli, Lecturer at the History of Contemporary Art at the Arts Academy in Bergamo, presents the work by Sundland entitled Hollow Void.

Kjersti Andvig has been invited to present her year long project entitled Knitting and Death Penalty at the non-profit Triangle Marseille at La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille. Curated by Dorothee Dupuis, Andvig's project, which opens in March 2008, tracks the correspondence both written and visual between the artist and a convicted prisoner on Death Row in Texas.

Anne Senstad participates in a site specific project entitled The Light House through 8 March, 2008. The project has been commissioned by KK Projects, an initiative based in the st. Roch neighborhood of New Orleans in four previously abandoned structures: a former bakery and three 1800s houses. The properties sit in a one block area with each structure housing a site-specific installation for a three month exhibition period.

Jana Winderen participates with a sound project for Building Transmission scheduled to open within the context of Extra Cityin Antwerp, Belgium as of 6 January, 2008. The project will be a collaboration with other artists — Carl Michael van Hausswolff, Per Magnus Lindborg, Finnbogi Petusson, Mike Harding, Maia Urstad, Brandon LaBelle, and Nico Dockx. For her part in the project, Winderen will bring recordings done in Ilulissat in Greenland, at Vatnajokull in Iceland and at Briksdalsbreen and Folgefonna in Norway.

Randi Nygård will participate in European Exhibition of Young Artists at La Centrale Electrique en Brussels, European Center of Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium, 22 February–18 May 2008. The exhibition is organized by the International Association of Art Critics and it will feature newly educated young artist from all of Europe. Simon Harvey, Associate Professor in Critical Theory at the Art Academy in Trondheim, Norway, Ph.D. from and former teacher at Goldsmith, London, UK, will write the catalogue text.

An exhibition of work by the artists Fred Ivar Utsi and Kristin Tårnesvik will be shown within a project at the independent artist collective Galleria Huuto. The project opens on 4 February in Helsinki.

Bergen based curator Mona Bentzen has been invited by the Elizabeth Foundation, NYC, to curate a complication of video works by Norwegian artists at the EFA Gallery in NYC in the last week of March 2008.

Unni Gjertsen participates in the final episode of the second edition of If I Can't Dance I Don't Want to Be Part of Your Revolution focusing on "Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice" within a large scale exhibition at theMuHKA — (Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp). The exhibition assembles works by artists who were expressive about feminist issues during the '60s and '70s, such as Sanja Ivekovic, Lili Dujourie, Jef Geys; artists who built up a critical body of work during the '80s, such as Jutta Koether; the generation born around 1968 including Hito Steyerl, Cathy Wilkes, Karl Holmqvist, and a younger generation including Frances Stark. The exhibition is curated by Frédérique Bergholtz and runs through 6 January, 2008.

Independent curator Hanne Mugaas has been invited by Art in General in New York to curate its 10 Year Anniversary Video Marathon in January 2008. From pioneers to recent practitioners, the project will showcase work by artists who have to some degree taken up video self-consciously, interested in exploring its possibilities and its limits. Through an exhibition, screenings and lectures, the project seeks to suggests that video is an idea rather than a technology, as an umbrella term for a particular set of practices, it promises democracy while at the same time threatening to reduce images to information. Participating programmers and lecturers include, among others, Ed Halter, a frequent contributor to the Village Voice and a curator of film and media, whom from 1995 to 2005 programmed and oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival; andThomas Beard, a writer and curator of film and video, who has organized screenings and exhibitions at venues such as the New York Underground Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, and the Museum of Modern Art.

Gardar Eide Einarsson participates in the exhibition Come, come, come into my world curated by Andrew Renton that runs from November 16, 2007 through 31 August, 2008 at the Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection in Cascais in Portugal. Other participating artists are: Aleksandra Mir, Anri Sala, Dash Snow, Douglas Gordon, Erwin Wurm, Francis Alÿs, Franz West, Gabriel Orozco, Glenn Ligon, Haim Steinbach, Hamish Fulton, Jack Pierson, João Onofre, João Pedro Vale, John Bock, John Stezaker, Joseph Kosuth, Jimmie Durham, Mike Kelley, Miroslaw Balka, Muntean & Rosenblum, Olafur Eliasson, Raymond Pettibon, Rodney Graham, and Thomas Schütte.

Adriana Alves at Fuzuê Arte e Cultura in Rio de Janeiro: José Loyola has invited Adriana Alves to exhibit in the new art center Fuzuê in Rio de Janeiro. In addition to Alves' two floor-exhibition there will be a Norwegian contemporary video art programme and a seminar. The exhibiton will run from January 2008. Adriana Alves will exhibit two installations and three sculptures. Her project is entitled Tragedy of the Common Man. The exhibition is supported by 03–funding.

Sissel Tolaas and Verdensteatret have been invited to exhibit within Synthetic Times — Media Art China 2008 at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. The exhibition curated by the NY based media curator, Zhang Ga, is organized around 4 distinctive yet interrelated themes that testify to the incessant and obsessive pursuit of an ideal world through artistic intervention into media and communications technologies as well as bio-cultural spheres. The four themes are: "Beyond Body", "Emotive Digital", "Blur: The Recombinant Reality", and "Here, There and Everywhere". The exhibition will include approximately fifty media works and is scheduled from 5 June through 5 July, as one of the more important cultural events leading up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. The project is supported by 03–funding.

Karolin Tampere and Stefan Mitterer together with Camila Marambio, Head of the Residency Programme at La Peluqueria, curate Life is All About Taking Things In and Putting Things Out at Tudor Salon in Santiago de Chile from 10 through 26 January. The exhibition will take form as presentations, discussions, live sound performances, and installations. Continuing and expanding its ideas by changing the format of the event from date to date, the aim of the project is to enter into dialogue and collaboration with local artists, musicians, and cultural producers. Other participants include Chilean artist Diego Fernandez who runs a mobile artist initiative since 1999.

Norwegian curator Hans Askheim together with Claire Davies, Tom Keogh and Miranda Pope, graduates of the 2007 MA Creative Curating from Goldsmiths University of London, are developing a curatorial research project entitled Overland: London to Beijing. The curators will travel for six week in 2008, by train from London to Beijing, transporting a commissioned artwork. Along the route, the work of art will be exhibited at local venues. Through the physical transportation of the artworkOverland: London to Beijing, the curators strives to challenge the practical, geographic, historical and political connotations and value of the artwork. The project is supported by 03–funding.

Vibeke Jensen participates in Art and Life 266, a project organized by the Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art and installed around Peoples Square in Shanghai in January 2008. The project entitled Night_Watch consists of a video loop that is cast over the public space employing instruments of surveillance and calling into question who is protecting and who is threatening.

Marius Notvik participates in the programme One Year Project #2 of The Land in Chiang Mai in Thailand in Winter 2008. Notvik's participation evolves around cultural codes and taboos concerning the meal, specifically focusing in on the Judean Kosher cuisine and the codes against hybridization. The Land Foundation is a platform of and for social engagement and alternative education founded in 2001 by Kamim Lerchaiprasert and Rirkrit Tiravanija. One year Project #2 is conceived to support a "new generation of cultural activists interested in its principles by providing an alternative education, within a creative working atmosphere with the task of learning more about natural farming and self-sustainable living."

Annie Anawana Haloba Hobøl was accepted for a second term for her residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Hobøl was selected by an independent international selection committee together with 26 fellow artists out of approximately 1100 applications submitted internationally. Hobø will begin her second work period in January 2008 further in her video and theoretical studies. Advisors to the Rijksakademie include Charles Esche, Hou Hanru, Joan Jonas, Aernout Mik, Gerardo Mosquera, Matt Mullican, Philippe Pirotte, Marijke van Warmerdam among others.

Yasmil Raymond, Curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis invitedTone Hansen to contribute an essay for the catalogue accompanying a group exhibition entitled Brave New Worlds, co-curated by Raymond (IVP visitor in March 2007) and Doryun Chong. Addressing contemporary international art beyond glib expressions of globalism, Brave New Worldsassesses the current state of political consciousness and its multivalent artistic manifestations in an era characterized by the unraveling of a unified world order. Guided by the questions "How do we know?", "How do we experience?" and "How do we dream about the world?", 24 artists from Southeastern Europe to South America, from the Middle East to East Asia and from North Africa to North America propose their own answers in paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and videos. The catalogue includes several brief "correspondent" essays, inspired by newspaper reports and penned by an international cast of young art historians, critics and curators, including Max Andrews and Mariana Canepa Luna (Spain),Cecilia Brunson (Chile), Hu Fang (China), Tone Hansen (Norway),Mihnea Mircan (Romania) and José Roca (Colombia). Recent texts by philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy and award-winning foreign correspondent Janine di Giovanni provide additional perspectives on global affairs of the past decade. In addition, Brave New Worlds features an artist insert by Lia Perjovschi of Romania, entitled "Subjective Art History from Modernism to Today," and entries on each individual artist.

OCA's Verksted series is presently being exhibited within Section 7 Books, the castillo/corrales' bookshop. It is an attempt to establish in Paris a new infrastructure that plays an active role in the ecology of small-press publishing, introducing a selection of books and journals to our audience in an intimate environment conducive to reading and conversation. The projects included in S7B are the results of invested endeavours, one- or two- person enterprises most of the time, artists, writers or editors who believe that the experience of looking at and thinking about art is always inextricably tied to reading, discussing, and circulating printed material. Distinctive, particular, local, these projects initiate conversations with their readers and keep those conversations going by consistently producing great writing and intelligent design. They are books that often find an audience one person at a time, passed from hand to hand — not meant to be consumed as information, but to be read. S7B is run by Benjamin Thorel.

The Spring 2008 issue of Afterall 17 is launched in late January. The issue of the upcoming journal opens with an essay by OCA Director Marta Kuzma, discussing the diverse effects of the sexual liberation movement within the cultural and political context during the late 1960s and '70s, and continues with the analysis of several artistic positions that either refer directly to the political ideals of that time or illuminate a particular aspect of that moment — for example, in terms of sexual mores and their representation, politics and its relationship to activism or history and the way it determines the present. Artist profiles within the upcoming issue include also that of Bjarne Melgaard with essays by Ina Blom and Bart De Baere. Afterall is co-published by Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London and California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles, in association with MuHKA, Antwerp. For more information, please visit: www.afterall.org.

De Appel in Amsterdam presented last week the publication F.R. David, "The Stuff and Nonsense Issue": F.R. David focuses on the status of language in contemporary art practice. Writing as imaginative thinking, as nutrient, information, support and interpretation, as outside memory, as pure description and as commentary reflecting on today's artistic production. Writing as essential substance for a number of artists. Text that runs parallel to the image or facilitates it. The key-note essay of the "The Stuff and Nonsense Issue" was written on request by the Norwegian artist Matias Faldbakken (1973) who, in addition to his visual oeuvre, has also built up a reputation as fiction writer.

The Purple Gallery and Press, a non profit enterprise based in Rome, will make a presentation of the artist book and an exhibition of drawings by Bjørn Hegardt within 1:1 Projects in Rome. Purple Gallery and Press is an initiative run by two young curators — Scintilla Robina and Norberto Dalmata who have worked with various formats of publication presentation including the book: a drop of water on the k-way. Hegardt refers to drawing as a communication media featured in publications as Vitamin D (Phaidon Press) and Fukt Magazine.

Taru Elfing (Finland) will together with LIAFS director and artistic leader leader Rickard Borgstrøm curate LIAF 2008, the contemporary art festival which will open in Svolvær 14 June. Elfing is an art historian and curator based in London with Europe as her area of work. She shares LIAF director Rickard Borgstrøm?s interest in eksperimental and critic exhibition models, where the art discuss both local and global topics. In London Taru Elfing teaches at Goldsmith College. As a scientist she concentrates on how the public meet art in general, with focus on video installations.

1 April 2008 is the deadline for applications for the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City which consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Curatorial Program and Critical Studies Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture. Each year twelve students are selected to participate in the Studio Program, four in the Curatorial Program and six in the Critical Studies Program. The ten students participating in the Curatorial and Critical Studies Programs each year are designated as Helena Rubinstein Fellows in recognition of the substantial support provided by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation. The program begins in early September and concludes at the end of the following May.

www.whitney.org.

The Rijksakademie Research Residency in Amsterdam is an international research and production place for talented, professional artists from all over the world. The Rijksakademie is more than a residency. It has extensive technical facilities, a library, artists' documentation and art collections. In addition the Rijksakademie offers material basic facilities such as a studio, a work budget, mediation with accommodation and grants. Artists can apply for a residency from January to December 2009 by using the online application form. The deadline for application is 1 February 2008.

More information: www.rijksakademie.nl.

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has changed entry requirements for the competitions of its 54^th edition, which will take place from 1 to 6 May 2008. The festival is now calling for entries. There are two separate entry deadlines for international and German productions: international submissions must have reached Oberhausen by 1 February 2008, German productions by 15 February 2008.

More information: www.kurzfilmtage.de.

PATTERNS is a transnational programme in Central and South Eastern Europe (CSEE) that aims to research and understand recent cultural history. PATTERNS initiates, commissions and supports contemporary culture projects in a variety of formats and media. It aims to document, analyze and investigate different aspects of and practices related to the transformation of daily life and culture in CSEE, while accounting for the pluralities that describe the region. The programme focuses on the visual arts and culture that deal with cultural phenomena before 1989 until today, including aspects of popular, marginal and counter culture. It seeks to promote understanding and knowledge of a differently lived past, which can facilitate a shared present and future. In doing so, it takes on the role of a "contemporary witness". The call for submission addresses projects in CSEE that share PATTERNS' areas of interest. ERSTE Foundation supports research, publications, as well as artistic and cultural projects and initiatives. The Foundation is particularly interested in projects which are just about to start and develop cross-border issues from local contexts, strengthening local structures and initiatives. The call is open to projects in the framework of non-profit organisations in Central and South Eastern Europe. Since PATTERNS is an international programme, projects from other countries are also invited to apply if the topics they tackle are connected to the region or operate in at least one country of the region. Deadline for submission of project proposals is Friday, 11 January 2008.

Detailed information: www.erstestiftung.org.

Helsinki International Curatorial Programme currently offers curatorial residencies in Helsinki for international visual arts curators. The programme is collaboration between HIAP — Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme and FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange. Applications should be received by 1 May 2008.

For further information, please see www.frame-fund.fi and www.hiap.fi.

Fleur van Muiswinkel (b.1981, Netherlands) joins OCA as Programme Coordinator for the International StudioProgramme. Trained as an art historian, van Muiswinkel was previously an intern at OCA in Winter/Spring 2006. Since that time, Fleur has been employed at de Appel in Amsterdam as as office manager. She also worked as coordinator of the lecture series The Old Brand New that will be realized throughout 2008. Previous to that, she assisted for several years with the program at Stichting W139. Her M.A. was focused on the work of Norwegian artist Marit Følstad. In 2005, she curated a group exhibition entitled Volume, realized in various locations throughout Amsterdam.

Suzana Martins joins OCA as an intern in residence in 2008. Born in Rio de Janeiro (b.1980), Martins graduated from the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Brazil in 2007 in Cultural Production (Project Management in Fine Arts). Prior to joining OCA, Martins was employed in several art institutions and projects both in Brazil and in Europe. More recently, she held an internship at Projekt 0047 in Oslo.

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