OCA provides financial support on a quarterly basis for international projects involving Norwegian artists and/or cultural producers. Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists, international artists living and working in Norway and non-profit organisations. Priority is given to exhibitions taking place in key international art institutions and project spaces. Support is also extended to solo and group exhibitions organised by international curators, as well as to Norwegian art professionals organising exhibitions and projects abroad.

OCA has implemented an online application system for applications for the International Support Programme. This system should be used for the 2010 First Quarter Application Review, with a deadline of 15 February 2010. 

Click here for more information on International Support and the application process.

For any questions regarding the application, please contact Anne Charlotte Hauen at anne.charlotte.hauen@oca.no. For international institutional applications, please address your questions to Alexandra Cruz, at alexandra.cruz@oca.no.

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is responsible for the Norwegian participation in the Platform China Residency, Beijing, People's Republic of China; the International Studio Program Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; the Residency Berlin Mitte, Berlin, Germany; the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, NY, USA; the Platform Garanti Istanbul Residency Program, Istanbul, Turkey  the International Artist in Residency Programme at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium; Capacete, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil; and at 18 Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

OCA accepts applications for these programmes. Click here for more information.

International Residencies – Upcoming deadlines on 15 February 2010:

In 2010-11, OCA offers two studio grants – one for a Norwegian artist and one for a Norwegian curator at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City. The artist residency has the duration of nine months, from 1 September 2010 until 31 May 2011. The Curatorial residency has the duration of three months, from 1 September until 30 November 2010. Citizens of Norway are eligible for these residency grants alone.

In 2010 OCA offers a residency programme for an artist at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre. The duration of the programme is nine months, from 1 April until 31 December 2010. Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists and international artists residing in Norway.

In 2010-11, OCA offers a twelve-month residency programme for an artist at the International Studio Program Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, from 1 December 2010 to 15 November 2011. Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists and international artists residing in Norway.

In 2010 OCA offers a residency programme for an artist, an independent curator, a cultural producer or an independent art critic at Capacete, a forum and interdisciplinary project operating in Brazil since 1997. The duration of the programme is four months, from 1 September 2010 to 25 December 2010, between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, including two-month stays in each city. Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists and international artists residing in Norway. This residency is supported with 03–funding*.

In 2010 OCA offers a three-month residency programme at Platform Garanti Istanbul, for an art critic, an artist working as writer, a curator or an artist, from 1 September until 30 November 2010. Applications are accepted from Norwegian citizens and international citizens residing in Norway. This residency is supported with 03–funding*.

Upcoming Resident

January/February 2010: Stian Eide Kluge
Artist, b. 1977 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo

Stian Eide Kluge is a graduate from the National Academy of Art and Design, Oslo and School of Visual Arts, Department for Film in New York. His work has recently been exhibited at Galleri Erik Steen, 0047, Galleri Trafo and Galerei Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam. He works mainly with film, sculpture, text and drawing.

In 2009, OCA initiated a long-term collaboration with Colab Art & Architecture through the establishment of a residency programme in Southern India, which aims to intensify the exchange of knowledge between the Norwegian and the Indian artistic communities, and to provide the opportunity for a more thorough understanding of the context for developing projects in a more constructive way without being constricted by political codexes of bilateral relations. This programme is made possible by invitation from OCA based on the selection made by curators Suman Gopinath (Colab Art & Architecture) and Grant Watson (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen). This residency is supported with 03–funding*.

In January 2010, the Norwegian artist Camilla Løw, Oslo based art critic and writer Will Bradley, and Norwegian art critic, editor and curator Trude Schjelderup Iversen take part in the residency programme to run parallel to the jointly organized seminar 'Questions & Dialogue –A Radical Manifesto', a seminar around the Practice of K. P. Krishnakumar and the Kerala Radical Group by OCA, CoLab, and the School of Art and Aesthetics in New Delhi, which took place 16 January.

Camilla Løw (b. 1976, Oslo, lives and works in Oslo), graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2001. Her recent solo shows include 'M' (2009), AHO, Oslo, 'New Ruins' (2008), Bergen Kunsthall No.5, 'Embraced Open Reassembled' (2008), Sutton Lane, London and 'Straight Letters' (2008), Dundee Contemporary Arts / Piers Arts Centre, Orkney. Recent group shows include 'The Thing' (2009), MuKHA, Antwerp, 'Constructivismes' (2009), Almine Rech, Brussels, 'Almost Always is Nearly Enough' (2009), Standard (Oslo), 'Idealismussstudio' (2008), Grazer Kunstverein, 'Standard Sizes' (2008), Andrew Kreps Gallery, 'Language of Vision' (2007), Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and 'Dump: Postmodern Sculpture in the Dissolved Field' (2007), The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo.

Will Bradley is an art critic and curator based in Oslo. His publications include the books Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader (editor, Tate Publishing and Afterall Books, 2007), Self-Organisation/Counter-economic Strategies (co-editor, Sternberg Press, 2007) and the essays 'The New New Monuments' (Metropolis M, 2008) and 'Dreaming of Dreaming' (for the 'Dream Politics' edition of UKS Forum, 2009). He has curated many exhibitions, including 'Forms of Resistance' (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2007, with Charles Esche and Phillip van den Bossche) and 'Radical Software, on the underground influences on Open Source culture' (Wattis Institute, San Francisco, 2006).

Trude Schjelderup Iversen is an art critic, editor and curator based in New York and Oslo. She has been the Director of UKS (Young Artists Society) 2001-05, where she curated several exhibitions. She has contributed to Frame, Le Monde Diplomatique, Kontour, Morgenbladet, Billedkunst and Kunstkritikk.no in addition to various catalogues and books such asLights On (2008) Astrup Fearnley Museet and The New Administrations of Aesthetics (co-editor, Torpedo Press, 2007). Schjelderup Iversen has been a Curator in Residence at Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2008-09, lecturing on Contemporary Art Theory. She is currently pursuing a PhD on art as critique, entitled The Aesthetic Argument, at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo.

In 2010 OCA continues the collaboration with the Mondriaan Foundation and the Prince Claus Fund, by supporting the participation of Norwegian curators in a research residency in the form of an orientation programme, with the aim to intensify the exchange of knowledge by providing information about the contemporary arts scene in visited countries, foster the interaction between professionals from the visited cities and the group of invited participants and to create a multi-disciplinary network for future collaborations between all parties involved.

For its cooperation in 2010, OCA supports the participation of Caroline Ugelstad, Chief Curator and Head of the Art Department at Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, and Helga-Marie Nordby, Director of the Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing in Tromsø. The curatorial research trip will entail professional visit by institutions and independent initiatives. This programme is supported with 03–funding*.

Caroline Ugelstad is educated in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and philosophy from University of Oslo. She works as a chief curator and head of the art department at Henie Onstad Art Centre, one of Norway's major museums with a focus on modernism, contemporary art and experimental music. She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions, including 'Going to Market' (2009-10), 'Jean Tinguely: The Future as We Wemember It' (2009), 'Reality Effects: When Reality Is Put to Work' (2008) (with Tone Hansen), 'Headlines & Footnotes' (2008), 'Meret Oppenheim: Retrospektiv' (2007) and 'From 60 to 7 – the Politics of the Private' (with Frank Lubbers) (2007). Ugelstad has written extensively on contemporary art for journals and newspapers and has been editor of amongst others, the publicationHøvikodden Live: Henie Onstad Art Centre as Cross Cultural Arena 1968-2007 (2007). She has also tutored and lectured in theory and art history at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and was director at Oslo Art Society, Oslo, Norway, from 2004 to 2005.

Helga-Marie Nordby (b. 1977) is Director of the Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing in Tromsø, Norway. Nordby has an MA in Curating from Goldsmiths College and in Art History from University of Oslo. From 2005-09 she was Director of UKS (Young Artists Society) in Oslo. Nordby has curated a number of exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Together with AK Dolven and Maaretta Jaukkuri she is curating Lofoten International Art Festival 2010 (LIAF).

For more information on International Residencies including the terms and the application process, please visit http://www.oca.no/grants/residencies/ or contact Alexandra Cruz at alexandra.cruz@oca.no.

In winter/spring 2010, OCA continues with the project 'Columns, Grottos, Niches: The Grammar of Forms – On Art Criticism, Writing, Publishing and Distribution', a series public events, workshops and presentations that looks at language, writing, criticism and publishing in relation to contemporary art, exploring its diverse modes of operation and possibilities within historical and contemporary practices. In these public events, writers, artists, critics, publishers and theorists investigate different experiences of and approaches to writing and language, specifically in relation to art. These events have a pedagogical remit, and are accompanied by a series of projects including presentations of artworks and libraries of publications, made available to the public for consultation and reading.

Events

Project: 'Queer Zines, Queer Strategies' – Organized by Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY
On view at OCA's Public Space, Nedre gate 7, Oslo

'QUEER ZINES' presents a survey of serial, independent publications with a queer sensibility, spanning from the early 1970s to today, from Straight to Hell, Boyd McDonald's ground-breaking, filthy, oft-times political, sex zine of the 1970s, to BUTT Magazine, the Dutch mainstream super-zine still circulating today. Among these seminal publications, the project includes an explosion of punk zines, perhaps best epitomized by the mythic JDs – zines that crossed the traditional boundaries of race, class, gender; cheaply produced and largely distributed by mail. Their formal dynamism, mixed media and radical politics find a striking analogue in contemporaneous queer theory.

Friday, 29 January 2010 / 11–16:00
Workshop: 'Queer Zines, Queer Strategies'
Organiser: AA Bronson

AA Bronson, a member of the artists' collective General Idea (1969-94), co-founder of Art Metropole in Toronto and executive director of New York City's Printed Matter and the New York Art Book Fair, will lead a discussion about self-publishing and the fanzine, considering the history of General Idea, FILE magazine, the phenomenon of queer zines, and today's technologies of YouTube and on-demand publishing. This event is free and open to the public. However, it requires registration in advance. To register or for more information on how to obtain preparatory readings, please contact Anne Charlotte Hauen at anne.charlotte@oca.no.

Workshop and Project Opening Organized by Mikkel Astrup:

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

'On Literarity':
A workshop on Samuel Beckett's Writings
From 11:00 to 16:00

Mikkel Astrup, a Research Fellow at the University of Oslo in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, organises a workshop on the prose of Samuel Beckett: In an increasingly plastic life, challenged by sophisticated intellectual control, biochemistry and genetics alike, what are the criteria for a literary subgenre that can do justice to this situation? This workshop will explore this by revisiting the plastic qualities of Samuel Beckett's prose. For More information please click here. This event is free and open to the public. However, it requires registration in advance. To register or for more information on how to obtain preparatory readings, please contact Anne Charlotte Hauen at anne.charlotte@oca.no.

Project: 'Bruce Nauman: Run from Fear, Fun from Rear, (1972)'
Opening: 18:00

As a part of the project 'Columns, Grottos, Niches: The Grammar of Forms – On Art Criticism, Writing, Publishing and Distribution', Astrup's workshop 'On Literarity' is accompanied by a presentation of Bruce Nauman's work Run from Fear, Fun from Rear, 1972. Bruce Nauman conducted several readings of Samuel Beckett's work, perhaps most notoriously the Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk) of 1968, paying homage to the awkward walks of Watt (1945) and Molloy (1951). A comparative reading of the work of the two authors will illuminate how close Beckett came to treat words and meaning as plastic material, broadening the scope for possible definitions of what literarity might be.

OCA's International Studio Programme Oslo (ISP) is available for international artists and curators by invitation, independently or in connection with research in Norway.

Click here for information on the International Studio Programme Oslo.

AA Bronson
b. 1946 in Vancouver, Canada, lives and works in New York, NY, USA

AA Bronson lived and worked as a member of the artists' group General Idea from 1969 through 1994. They presented over 100 solo exhibitions world-wide in their 25 years together, and exhibited in the Paris (1977), Venice (1982), Sydney (1983), and São Paulo (1998) Biennales, as well as Documenta (1983). Together they published the influential FILE Magazine (1972-1989), and invented and founded Art Metropole (1974), an early center for artists' editions and publications in Toronto. In the last seven years of their time together they worked solely on the subject of AIDS. Since the deaths of his partners in 1994, AA Bronson has worked and exhibited as a solo artist, curator, educator, animateur, and gay icon. Solo exhibitions include those presented at the Secession, Vienna (2000); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2001); the MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge (2002); and the Power Plant, Toronto (2003). His most recent exhibition, 'AA Bronson's School for Young Shamans' (2008), at John Connelly Presents, New York, NY, was applauded for its inclusion of a younger generation. He is represented in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the National Gallery of Canada. He has won numerous awards, and was most recently named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Author and editor of numerous texts and books, including his autobiographyNegative Thoughts (2001), and Queer Zines (2008), he lives and works as an artist and healer in Manhattan, where he is also the Director of Printed Matter, Inc., and the Artistic Director of the Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary. He was appointed Senior Critic at the School of Art, Yale University, in 2006, and given honorary doctorates by NSCAD University in 2007 and Concordia University in 2009. See more at aabronson.com.

Koyo Kouoh
exhibition maker and cultural manager
b. in Cameroon, lives and works in Dakar, Senegal

Koyo Kouoh is an exhibition maker and cultural manager. She is the founder and artistic director of RAW MATERIAL COMPANY, a mobile site for art practice and critical exchange. She was the Coordinator of Cultural Programs at the Gorée Institute from 1998-2002. She collaborated with the Dakar Biennale of Art from 2000-2004 and co-curated the Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine in Bamako in 2001 and 2003. Specializing in photography and public interventions, she has curated exhibitions in Brazil, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and the United States and written on contemporary African art. She also served as advisor to the artistic director for documenta 12 and curated Philip Aguirre's project 'Gaal Gui' for the Beaufort Triennale 03. Her latest exhibition 'HYPOCRISY: THE SITE SPECIFICITY OF MORALITY' co-curated with Stina Hoegkvist was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo. She is currently working on 'MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME' an exhibition and public program in collaboration with Charlotte Bagger-Brandt for Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. The project will reflect on the notion of hospitality in contemporary art in the context of international migrations.

17th Biennale of Sydney

Mette Tronvoll and Gardar Eide Einarsson
to exhibit within
'The Beauty of Distance – Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age'
17th Biennale of Sydney
Curator: David Elliott, Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
12 May–1 August 2010

Curator David Elliott, Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia has invited Mette Tronvoll andGardar Eide Einarsson to exhibit within the 17th Biennale of Sydney taking place in various venues throughout Sydney, Australia from 12 May to 1 August 2010. The 2010 edition of the biennial will celebrate the beauty of distance while exploring the affirmative power of art in the face of threats. Within the biennial, Mette Tronvoll will exhibit photographs from the series Mongolia, which portraits Mongolian nomads and their houses and RENA 006, a series of portraits and landscapes from the military camp Rena Leir in Østerdalen, Norway. Eide Einarsson will produce a new light/text work to be installed on the roof of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

Åsa Sonjasdotter to exhibit within
'Handlung. On Producing Possibilities'
Bucharest Biennale 4
Curatoer: Felix Vogel
Bucharest, Romania
20 May–25 July 2010

Åsa Sonjasdotter has been invited by curator to exhibit within Felix Vogel Bucharest Biennale 4 titled 'Handlung' and taking place from 20 May to 25 July 2010. The 2010 edition of the biennial will explores the German word 'Handlung', which according to the curator is 'located between action, activity, agency and participation, but at the same time it could also mean story or even narration'. Within the biennial, Åsa Sonjasdotter will exhibit the long-term project Potato Perspective, in which the artist uses the potato to investigates issues of migration, colonialism, economy, diversity and knowledge. The exhibition is supported by 03–funding*

In May 2010 Anne Katrine Dolven holds a solo exhibition Platform China in Beijing, People's Republic of China. The exhibition, titled 'Ahead' will present three works, which according to the curator, David Thorp, Associate Curator, Platform China demonstrate seminal aspects of Dolven's practice. The works are the video-installation Between the Morning and the Handbag, the film-loop Amazon and the video-installation Ahead. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

From 6 to 28 February 2010, Galleri 21 in Malmö, Sweden presents 'Fine Art Union Club', a solo exhibition by the artist duo Fine Art Union (Annette Stav Johanssen and Synnøve G. Wetten). Curated by the artists and Göran Green, the exhibition is based in performance and action – through exhibits videos, sound productions, sculptures, installations and a live on 6 February, 16:00.

Per-Oskar Leu and Fredrik Værslev present the project 'Ideal Setting' at Galleri Ping-Pong in Malmö, Sweden from 6 to 27 February 2010. 'Ideal Settings' is an ongoing project initiated by Værslev in which he invites colleagues to re-contextualize an existing work, by placing it in an 'ideal setting' of their own choosing. The piece is then photographed in it's new location, and presented as a collaborative work between Værslev and the invited artist. For the exhibition in Malmö, Per-Oskar Leu has chosen the painting If You Can Remember It, You Weren't Really There. 'Ideal Setting' is curated by Gert-Olle Göransson, manager Galleri Ping Pong.

Øystein Aasan has been invited by curator Mathilde Villeneuve to hold a solo exhibition at La Vitrine in Paris, France from November 2009 to January 2010. Curated by Mathilde Villeneuve, Programming, La Vitrinethe and entitled 'Devics Canyon', the exhibition will p resent three distinct works, that have in common a content of masculine/feminine dichotomy, passive/active requirements for the viewer and high-lighting of the differences between work/producer/viewer.

Lars Laumann has been invited by Ruba Katrib, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA to exhibit within 'The Reach of Realism' at Museum Of Contemporary Art in North Miami till 14 February 2010. According to the curator, 'the exhibition explores the contradictions inherent in the increasing distrust of images and the impulse to capture a sense of accuracy in contemporary art'. Within 'The Reach of Realism' Laumann exhibits Shut up Child, This Ain't Bingo, which tells the true story of the relationship between Norwegian artist Kjersti Andvig and her collaborative partner Carlton Turner, a Texan death row inmate. Other exhibiting artists are Phil Collins, Wolfgang Tillmans and Sara VanDerBeek.

Until 7 March, Victor Boullet exhibits within 'Niet Normaal – Difference on Display', taking place at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and curated by Ine Geversm, Artistic Director, 'Niet Normaal'. The project, organized by Foundation Niet Normaal, consists of performances, discussions, film screenings, lectures and an exhibition looking into the concept of normality in contemporary society. Within 'Niet Normaal', Boullet will exhibit 'Kate', a series of photographs documenting the physical transformation of a young Jewish girl. Among the exhibited artists are Yael Bartana, Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Damien Hirst and Bruce Nauman.

Kjell Bjørgeengen has been invited by Tilman Artistic Director and Petra Bungert, Executive Director CCNOA in Brussels, Belgium to exhibit within 'Composite visions_CCNOA', a touring group exhibition organized by CCNOA. 'Composite visions_CCNOA', which takes place at CAN Centre d'art Neuchatel in Neuchatel, Switzerland, from 13 February to 21 Marchlooks into the discourse surrounding the historical, formal and contemporary explorations within the concept of 'reductive'. For 'Composite Visions' Kjell Bjørgeengen will produce a new video-work in which he looks into the idea of 'reductive' by self-imposing certain restrictions on the production process. Among other exhibiting artists are Juan Pancorbo, Ethan Hayes-Chute and Yuka Oyama & Becky Yee.

Ingvild Hovland Kaldal, Ane Lan and Lotte Konow Lund have been invited by Alice Goudsmit to partake in 'Derridas Katze ... que donc je suis (à suivre)', an exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany that dwells of the relation between humans and other animals. Within 'Derridas Katze', Ane Lan will exhibit the video-installation Les Animaux and the performance-work Migrating Birds. Lotte Konow Lund will exhibit the video-work Underdog besides new drawings and Ingvild Hovland Kaldal will exhibit Flags for the Atlantic Sea, a new work consisting of fifty small pieces of newspaper nailed to wooden frames in the shape of butterflies. The pieces of newspaper are from the 1920s and were found in the collection of hummingbirds in the Natural History Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden. 'Derridas Katze', which takes place from 29 January toMarch 2010 will also exhibit works by Alex Herzog, Britta Lumer and Lucy Powell.

Hege Loenne has been invited by Michal Jachula to partake in 'Derangement', an exhibition developed as part of the curator's thesis project in the graduate programme at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA. Taking place between 07 February and 07 March, 'Derangement' displays works that introduce various rearranged realities, shaped by visual language. For the exhibition Hege Loenne will produce a commissioned site-specific video-installation that uses a scaled model of the gallery at Bard College to produce a confused situation and a feeling of unbalance. Other exhibiting artists are Jacek Malinowskition, Dan Miller, Anna Ostoya and Saul Fletcher.

From 12 February to 12 March 2010, Sandra Norrbin will hold a solo exhibition titled 'And Life Stood at the Side' at Supernova Artspace, Riga, Latvia. Curated by Zane Onckule, Director, Supernova Artspace, 'And Life Stood at the Side' will present an installation of the same title that explores the feeling of being trapped and excluded from life.

Curator Oliver Baurhenn has invited the collective Apparatjik to participate within the 11th edition of Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts organized by Club Transmediale (CTM) and taking place from 28 January to 7 February in Berlin. Inspired by the Bauhaus movement, the 'Bauhaus Bühne', and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's work 'Light-Space-Modulator' from 1930 in particular, this first ever performance of Apparatjik will take place inside a specially constructed cube with translucent surfaces and lit from the inside. Apparatjik will be performing on 1 February 2010.

From 07 February to 06 March curator Daniella van Dijk-Wennberg participates in 'On Independence – The ambivalence of Promise', a thirty-day workshop conceived by the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos, Nigeria. Conceived by Bisi Silva, Artistic Director, CCA Lagos, the workshop is one of the annual in-depth events organised by the CCA focusing on lens-based media and other experimental artistic practices with the aim of encouraging and supporting artists interested in exploring different possibilities within the medium. In 2010 the workshop looks into Fine Art Photography. Other participating artists areAura Seikkula, Giovanni Carmini, Miriam Backstrom and Rosangela Renno. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Lise Bjørne Linnert has been invited by Randy Jayne Rosenberg, Executive Director, Art Works for Change in Oakland, California, to exhibit within 'Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art', taking place at CECUT, EL CUBO in Tijuana, Mexico, from 8 January to 4 April 2010. The exhibition presents the works of 33 international artists dealing with violence against women. Within 'Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art', Lise Bjørne Linnert will present the ongoing projectsDesconocida Unknown Ukjent, in which the she invites persons from around the world to embroider two nametags; one label bears the name of a murdered young woman in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the other label the word 'Unknown' in the participant's own language. Linnert has also being invited to present the performance Presence and to organize an embroidery workshop. Other exhibiting artists are Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, Patricia Evans, Icelandic Love Corp and Yoko Ono. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

'Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes – Reflections on Indian Modernism (Part 1)', an exhibition organised and initiated by OCA, guest curated by Suman Gopinath and Grant Watson in spring 2009 with funds from O3–funding*, is touring internationally. Having been shown at the Milton Keynes Gallery in the UK and at Lunds Konsthall in Sweden, the exhibition opens on 07 February at its third venue since opening at OCA in March 2009 at Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland. It will include an expanded version of the original exhibition with works from the artist's estate and other international collections. 'Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes' was the first solo exhibition of Nasreen Mohamedi's work in Europe, in an effort to trace the modernist history in India and also to present the work of one of the most influential artists of her generation. The original exhibition included rarely exhibited paintings, drawings and photographs, produced from the 1960s through to the late 1980s. 'Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes' is on display at Kunsthalle Basel until 04 April.

Camac and Fondation Ténot offer each year a residency bursary to one visual artist, one writer and one musician or composer. The two-montgh residency at Camac Centre d'art in marnay sur seine, France offers return ticket, board and lodging, private bedroom with bathroom, individual studio, residents should provide his/her own visas and health insurance. For more information please visit www.camac.org.

Continuing it's annual Unsolicited Proposal Programme, apexart will accept 600-word, idea-based proposals for evaluation by an international panel of apexart associates (curators, artists, writers, philosophers). Submissions are reviewed independently, anonymously and without visual support material—they are evaluated solely on the strength of the idea. The two proposals with the highest ratings will be presented at apexart in the 2010-11 season (September 2010 to July 2011). For more information and to apply, please visit: www.apexart.org.

From 1 February to 1 March, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna will be accepting applications for PhD in Practice Programme. The new PhD in Practice program is intended to give participants an opportunity to realize their individual research projects in a cooperative environment with a decidedly transdisciplinary and international bent. The study program is designed for a duration of four years (240 ECTS credits). During this time the participants will develop and implement their projects analytically and experimentally in coordination with the academic and artistic team of co-participants and faculty. Requirements for admission to the PhD in Practice programme are: a degree (Magister, MA or diploma) from a recognized University and the submission of a portfolio and a written project proposal. Further information and application forms can be found at www.akbild.ac.at.

*03–funding: The purpose of the 03–funds, as allocated by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to OCA, is to further develop cooperation and professional networking between OCA and the constituency of artists, independent cultural producers and organisations that are located in designated countries or associated with 03–countries. This includes but is not limited to professional research visits by cultural producers, artists and curators, short-term residencies for cultural producers and artists, and the development of seminars, conferences, art projects, workshops, etc. that focus on the further development of professional exchange and networking between and among countries, project development and pilot projects on an international scale.

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