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 Fourth Quarter Application Review, with a deadline of 1 November 2009. Applicants are able to apply at www.stikk.no.

Recipients from the Third Quarter Application Review for International Support grants are listed here.

Click here for 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 presents 'The Grammar of Forms', a series public events, workshops and presentations that will take place throughout autumn 2009 at OCA's premises at Nedre gate 7, with the aim to look 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 will investigate different experiences of and approaches to writing and language specifically in relation to art. These events will have a pedagogical remit, and be accompanied by a series of projects including presentation of artworks such as the original manuscripts of Sol LeWitt's 'Sentences on Conceptual Art' and libraries of publications, made available to the public for consultation and reading.

For full programme, please click here.

Wednesday, 28 October/ 19:00
Speaker: Ina Blom
Subject: 'On Lynda Benglis's Mumble (An Instance of Videosociality)'
What are the critical terms through which we approach the question of 'sociality' in art? In 1972 Lynda Benglis and Robert Morris started an artistic dialogue through a collaborative project that, using video as a medium, seemed to turn, self-reflexively, around their evolving relationship. The two resulting works, Benglis's Mumble (1972) and Morris's Exchange (1973) seem to suggest that this relationship is the unique result of the productive framework of televisual technologies, and open up fundamental questions about the social art practices of the 1960s and 70s.

28 October to 19 December
Project: 'Lynda Benglis's Mumble (1972) and Robert Morris's Exchange (1973)'
In 1972 Lynda Benglis and Robert Morris agreed to exchange videos in order to develop a dialogue between each other's work. The resulting artworks, key examples of early video, will be on show at OCA's public space.

Wednesday, 4 November / 11:00–16:00
Organiser: Will Bradley
Participating speakers: Lotte Sandberg, Trude Scheldrup Iversen and Parallel Action
Workshop: 'The mind of this death is unrelentingly awake': A Workshop on Art, Criticism and the Institution of Critique (Part 1)'
What is art criticism for? How does it function? How should it change? This workshop steered will investigate art criticism, its aesthetics, its ideologies and its institutional role to focus on questions such as: How does critique take form? How does a text operate? What is the relationship between writer and text, text and reader? How does a text reach an audience? How is the discourse around art constructed? What forces affect it? If the critique of the institution of art is also, itself, part of the institution, how can meaningful change take place? The workshop will include talks by Lotte Sandberg, art critic, Aftenposten, Trude Scheldrup Iversen, Research Fellow at the University of Oslo and The Parallel Action, an artists' group based in Oslo, as well a visual project presenting works by BANK, David Hall, Simon Linke, Terje Nicolaisen and Lina Viste Grønli. For more information click here.

Wednesday, 11 November / 11:00–16:00
Organiser: Anne Hilde Neset
Workshop: 'Audio Interpretation: Writing on Sound'
For whom are we writing? Who and what are we serving? Musicians, other critics, oneself, potential advertisers, the general reader, the specialist reader, an academic institution? What is our agenda when writing? How does art writing differ from writing about sound and music? These questions are approached through an introduction to different categories of sound writing. The particular discussions will evolve around a series of introductions – to pop cultural music criticism with examples cited through the work of Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, Alex Ross, Paul Morley, among others; to sound art/critical analysis through examples by Christoph Cox, Douglas Kahn, David Toop, Jacques Attali, among others; and to selected artists' texts as cited through examples by John Cage, Edgard Vareèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ornette Coleman, Dan Graham, Luigi Russolo among others. The workshop will also approach how music is described in fiction, in reviews, and in theory. For more information click here.

Wednesday, 2 and 9 December/ 11:00–16:00
Organiser: Stuart Bailey
Workshop: 'On Library, Archive and 'Service' (Part 1 and Part 2)'
How do we guarantee preservation and access to published material? How do we construct libraries? What are the different modes of experience that a library can offer? Stuart Bailey, member of collaborative group and event space Dexter Sinister, will lead two public workshops on the nature of the library and its function as an archive, a social space and a pedagogical tool, taking at a starting point 'The Serving Library', a project currently being developed by Dexter Sinister. The idea of 'The Serving Library', a place where both books and alcohol are available, functions as a roundabout way to reflect on the way in which printed and unprinted material can be articulated and preserved within a public place that is both educational and recreational. Participation is open to the public with prior registration. For more information please click here.

For full programme, please click here.

Tuesday, 17 November / 16:00
Public Lecture on Culture Funding Initiatives
Gitta Luiten, Director, Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
As part of its initiative to explore models of cultural funding initiated by international foundations, OCA hosts this first lecture in a forthcoming series on cultural funding on Tuesday 17 November with Gitta Luiten, the director of the Mondriaan Foundation. The Mondriaan Foundation supports and stimulates projects relating to visual arts, design and museums, both in the Netherlands and internationally. Financial support is provided to cultural organisations, companies and government authorities. The annual budget is €18 million.

Gitta Luiten is director of the Mondriaan Foundation, the Foundation that supports projects and organisations in visual arts, design, heritage and new media in over 50 countries. Before that, she worked as political advisor to Minister of Culture Van der Ploeg and at the Council for Culture, the advisory body of the Dutch government on cultural policy. Her first job was at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. She also was on the Visitationcommittee for the national Public Broadcasting Organisation, is on the Board of the Association of Cultural Employers and of the Netherlands-China Art Foundation. Luiten graduated in Mediastudies at the University of Amsterdam.

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.

Platform China Residency - Application deadline: 1. November 2009

In collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Beijing, China, OCA offers two studio residencies for an artist or curator at the Platform China Beijing Residency Programme, for two months each, in spring (April/May) and autumn (September/October) 2010. Applicants must be Norwegian citizens, or live and work in Norway. The residency Platform China Residency Programme is covered by 03–funding*.

Click here for information on the residency at Platform China Residency and the application process, or please contact Alexandra Cruz at OCA at alexandra.cruz@oca.no.

November/December 2009: Ferocitas Lions
Artist group based in Oslo, Norway

Ferocitas Lions is an artist duo consisting of Filippa Barkman (b. 1982 in Stockolm, Sweden) and Johannes Høie (b. 1980 in Porsgrund,Norway). The duo works with drawing, installation, graphic and editorial formats such as publications and artist books. During their stay in Berlin, the artists will be organising and producing a new publication, focused on artists working in the figurative and narrative field of contemporary drawing, across the borders and generations.

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.

March/April 2010: Marianne Zamecznik
Curator, b. 1972 in Tromdheim, Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway

Marianne Zamecznik is a curator based in Oslo, Norway. She studied at the curating programme at Konstfack in Stockholm from 2000 to 2002. In 2002 she co-founded Simon Says together with Stina Högkvist, with the aim of realising various art-projects, events, exhibitions and publications. Zamecznik simultaneously held a position as a curator and producer at Filmform, the Swedish video art distribution archive, from 2002 to 2004. Since February 2007, Zamecznik has been the program director of 0047 in Oslo where she has presented projects and solo exhibitions with, most recently, Hans Thorsen, Marte Johnslien, Saskia Holmkvist and Josefine Lyche. Her curated projects include 'The space between us – Introducing the work of Stanislaw Zamecznik', (0047), 'Vodou' (0047 and Gallery 54, Gothenburg), 'Soft Spot' (0047), 'MUTE' (Bastard, Oslo and Tromsø Kunstforening), 'Untrue Stories', (Media Art Farm CCCD, Tibilisi) and 'Bokaktig' (Fotogalleriet). She has worked as an art critic in Kunstkritikk.no, Konsten.se and Billedkunst, and has been an editor for a number of publications and catalogues.

In January 2009 The Office for Contemporary Art Norway and CoLab Art & Architecture initiate a long-term collaboration that establishes a residency programme in Southern India. The residency aims to intensify the exchange of knowledge between the Norwegian and the Indian artistic communities, and to provide the opportunity for a deeper contact with the local reality both in terms of the cultural and art contexts. Artist Unni Gjertsen will be participating in a research programme in Bangalore and Calcutta in November 2009, by invitation of Curators Suman Gopinath and Grant Watson.

Unni Gjertsen
Artist b. 1966 Sjøvegan Norway, lives and works in Oslo, Norway

Unni Gjertsen is a visual artist working with subjects relating to history and memory. She studied at Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts and University of Oslo. Most recent solo exhibitions took place at Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, Gdansk, Poland (2007) and Konsthall C Stockholm, Sweden (2005). Recent group shows include 'The Last Marquise', Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, Belgium, 'Headlines & Footnotes' Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Norway and Rauma Biennale, Finland (all 2008), 'If I can't dance I don't want to be Part of Your Revolution', MuHKA, Antwerp (2007), and 'Konstfeminism', Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden (2006).

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.

Stuart Bailey
Graphic designer and Editor
b. 1973 in York, UK, lives and works in New York, NY

Stuart Bailey is a graphic designer and co-editor of Dot Dot Dot, a fanzine/journal concerned with art, design, music, language, literature and architecture, with David Reinfurt (earlier with Peter Bilak). His work circumscribes various aspects of graphic design, writing and editing, most consistently in the form of publications made in close collaboration with artists. Since 2002 he has worked with Will Holder under the compound name Will Stuart on a broader range of projects, including theatre and performance. Since 2006 he has worked together with David Reinfurt as Dexter Sinister, also the name of their basement space on New York City's Lower East Side that operates as a workshop and occasional bookstore.

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

Click here for information on the International Visitor Programme.

Please notice that, unfortunately David Elliot, Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney, was obliged to cancel his visit to Norway due to schedule conflicts.

Mette Tronvoll to exhibit within
'The Beauty of Distance – Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age'
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 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.

Åsa Sonjasdotter to exhibit within
'Handlung. On Producing Possibilities'
Bucharest Biennale 4
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*

Pushwagner and Kristina Kvalvik to exhibit within
'What a Wonderful World'
2009 Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art
Gothenburg, Sweden
5 September–15 November 2009

Norwegian artists Pushwagner and Kristina Kvalvik are currently exhibiting within 'What a Wonderful World', this year's edition of the Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. According to curators Celia Prado and Johan Pousette 'What a Wonderful World' 'aims to present a generous, poetic and sensual portrayal of human diversity and the human capacity for wonders as well as failures through the gaze and works of contemporary artists'. At Gothenburg City Library, one of the biennial's venues, Pushwagner exhibits Soft City, a pictorial novel drafted between 1969 and 1975, which narrates a day in the live of a family living a mechanical life in a dehumanised city. Within the biennial, Kvalvik exhibits a new video work commissioned by the curators and titled Notes From a Stranger, in which the artist works with moving images from a narrative point of view. The 2009 Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art is in view until 15 November 2009 in various venues throughout Gothenburg, Sweden presenting works by Fiona Tan, Amar Kanwar,Candice Breitz, Tim Etchells and Susan Hiller.

! Last Month on View !

53rd International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia

From 7 June to 22 November 2009
Venice, Italy

Anawana Haloba participates in
'Fare Mondi // Making Worlds…',
The main exhibition of the
53rd International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia

Anawana Haloba is currently exhibiting the large-scale spatial installation The Greater G8 (GG8) AD MARKET withing 'Fare Mondi // Making Worlds…', the main exhibition of the 2009 edition of the Biennale di Venezia, Italy. The artwork follows the logic and desires of a political dreamscape in which Haloba rewrites the rules of economic financial exchange by offering Third World fair-trade goods imbued with a sense of futility. Curated by Daniel Birnbaum, the biennial articulates different themes woven into one, expressing 'a wish to emphasise the process of creation' and presents works by over 90 artists, including Thomas Bayrle, Öyvind Fahlström, Sheela Gowda, Joan Jonas and Wolfgang Tillmans.

The Nordic and Danish Pavilions
'The Collectors', curated by Elmgreen & Dragset

On the occasion of the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Nordic and Danish Pavilions collaborate with a project curated by artists' duo Elmgreen & Dragset. Titled 'The Collectors', the project approaches the topic of collecting, and the psychology behind the practice of expressing oneself through physical objects. For 'The Collectors' more than, twenty artists and designers have contributed to creating a different kind of exhibition format, one that will appear closer to a film set than a conventional art display. Exhibiting artists are Thora Dolven Balke, Massimo Bartolini, Hernan Bas, Guillaume Bijl, Maurizio Cattelan, Elmgreen & Dragset, Pepe Espaliú Tom of Finland, Simon Fujiwara, Han & Him, Laura Horelli, Martin Jacobson, William E. Jones, Terence Koh, Jani Leinonen, Klara Lidén, Jonathan Monk, Nico Muhly, Norway Says (Torbjørn Anderssen, Andreas Engesvik and Espen Voll), Henrik Olesen, Nina Saunders, Vibeke Slyngstad, Sturtevant and Wolfgang Tillmans.

For press enquiries related to the project, and for interviews with the artists, please contact the following:
For Norwegian press: Marthe Tveitan at marthe.tveitan@oca.no
For international press: Brian Phillips/Black Frame at bphillips@framenoir.com.

Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland is currently exhibiting 'Matias Faldbakken Extreme Siesta', a solo exhibition of Norwegian artist Matias Faldbakken. From 19 September to 22 November 2009, the artist exhibits a series of new works that mirrors a 'non-productive production' and that engages in a DIY-aesthetics. 'Matias Faldbakken Extreme Siesta' is curated by Giovanni Carmine, Director Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen and a guest at OCA's International Visitor Programme (IVP) in January 2008.

From 25 November 2009 to 24 January 2010, Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, will present a survey of Faldbakken's works from the last five years. Curated by Helen Legg, Ikon curator, the exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue produced in collaboration with The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway which presents documentation of works since 2003 and includes newly commissioned texts from theorist Peter Osborne, critic Jennifer Allen and curators Øysten Ustvedt and Dr. Andreas Kroksnes.

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.

Torbjørn Rødland has been invited by Naoko Sumi, Curator, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan to hold a solo exhibition at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition, taking place from 13 March to 9 May 2010, will present Rødland's video work 132 BPM as part of the museum's video programme titled 'A Window to the World'. According to the artist, 132 BPM combines the notion of machines making dance music and the experience of breathing in a living forest.

Atopia (Annebeth G. Hansen, Michel Pavlou, Inger Lise Hansen, Farhad Kalantary and Linn Lervik) has been invited to present their work within 'Reihe Experimentalfilm', an initiative of D21 Kunstraum in Leipzig, Germany. The programme presents a selection of filmmakers that work in the field of experimental film, video art, avant-garde film, etc. The Participation of Atopia will consist of a presentation by its members and their works at D21, on November 5 and a three-evenings programme at Kinobar Prager Frühling cinema.

Fredrik Værslev and Anne Britt Værlslev will hold a solo exhibition at Economy, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, title 'Swap Paintings # 4 – Fredrik Værslev vs. Anne Britt Værslev'. Curated by Shane Munro and Dana Munro, Directors, Economy, the exhibition will present works from the series 5 Rooftops 4 Frankfurt, as is part of Swap Paintings, an ongoing project in which Fredrik Værslev swaps paintings with colleagues back and forth between each other. 5 Rooftops 4 Frankfurt has as its point of the departure the skyscrapers of Frankfurt and will consist of four paintings on canvas and one wall-painting on the exhibition space's exterior. 'Swap Paintings # 4' takes place from 26 November to 20 December 2009.

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 instalation of the same titlethat explores the feeling of being trapped and excluded from life.

At invitation of Cate Rimmer, Curator Charles H. Scott Gallery, in Vancouver, Canada,Håvard Pedersen will hold a solo presentation of the new video-work When Push Comes To Shove in Vancouver from February to March 2010. The work consists of a video loop which draws parallels between art and bodybuilding, while also being influenced by Fredric Jameson's theories about postmodernism. When Push Comes To Shove will be exhibited in a new pavilion/project room for contemporary art, which is under construction in the Downtown Vancouver.

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 from 1 December 2009 to 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 will exhibit 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.

Curator Hanne Mugaas has invited Lina Viste Grønli, Nils Bech and Bendik Giske to cooperate for 'Look Back'. The project, consisting of two performances, is part ofPerforma 09, a biennial of new visual art performance. At Art Since the Summer of 69 in Brooklyn, New York, NY, Bech will present a performance related to Viste Grønli's sculptures, which will be on view in the gallery for three weeks after the event. The second performance will take place in a theater provided by Performa 09 and present a collaboration between Nils Bech and Bendik Giske, with a stage designed by Bech and Viste Grønli. Performa 09 will take place from 1 to 22 November and will present works by, among others, Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz and Mike Kelle.

As part of his residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, NY, Lars Laumann participats in ISCP Open Studios, a four-day exhibition featuring works by 36 artists, artist groups and curators currently in residence at ISCP. Twice a year, ISCP Open Studios offer the public and art professionals access to their resident's work. Lars Laumann will present the video-work You Can't Pretend to Be Somebody Else, You Already Are, a collaboration with artist and photographer Benjamin A. Huseby first shown at Momentum, the Nordic Biennial in Moss, Norway in August 2009.

Until 14 March 2010 the artist duo Bull.Miletic (Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic) partake in the exhibition 'TV Towers – 8,559 Meters of Politics and Architecture' at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The exhibition, curated by Friedrich von Borries, Matthias Böttger and Florian Heilmeye,presents a collection of objects from everyday culture documenting the variety of individual ways (state) architecture is adopted. Within 'TV Towers' Bull.Miletic exhibit the ongoing video project Haven Can Wait, which explores the idea of panoramic spectatorship through the phenomenon of revolving restaurants.

Marianne Heier and Matias Faldbakken to exhibit within 'A Normal Exhibition', taking place at Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Denmark from 14 November 2009 to 24 January 2010. The exhibition aims to unfold the concept of 'normal' by looking into in all its complexity, absurdity, irony, actuality, etc. Within 'A Normal Exhibition', Matias Faldbakken will exhibit the video work One of Us and Marianne Heier will present a video documentation of the an action that took place in Paris, titled Jamais Toujours. Other participating artists are Thomas Kvam, Adel Abidin and Catti Brandelius.

Anna Daniell has been invited by Emma Tryti, artist and Chief Curator, Myymala2 in Helsinki, Finland to exhbit within 'Luckily She Had a Sense of Humor', taking place at Myymala2 from 28 October to 8 November. The exhibition presents works by six artists who share the same sense of playfulness while using fragments from media, Internet and popular culture within their works. Within 'Luckily She Had a Sense of Humor' Anna Daniell will exhibit the installation The Great Betray, which explores the theme of scientific misconduct. Other participating artists are Jamila Drott, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Anna Rokka, Emma Tryti and Marthe Berger Walthinsen.

Ignas Krunglevicius to participate within the 26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival in Kassel, Germany. During the festival approximately 230 documentary films and experimental films will be screened. Within 'Monitoring' – the exhibition component of the festival – Krunglevicius will exhibit the video-installation Interrogation. The installation draws from narratives of 'power play', 'mind control mechanisms and violent relationships', 'power distribution between genders' and 'mass media manipulation'. Curated by Gerhard Wissner and Kati Michalk, Directors, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, the event will take place from 10 to 15 November 2009 in various venues in Kassel.

From 31 October to 7 November Pernille Leggat participates within the project 'Made Up and Let Down', curated by artistMalin Ståhl and part of the Sequence festival, Reykjavik, Iceland. The project – an exhibition at Lost Horse Gallery, a seminar at the Nordic House and a publication – explores the possibilities of predictable encounters and expected outcomes in the meeting between art and viewer. Within 'Made Up and Let Down', the artist will exhibit the new video-work Day for Night, which will be shot in the gallery space and will explore the fundament of film as a recording of light. Other participating artists are Line Ellegaard, Sofia Dahlgren and Anita Wernström.

Until 6 November, Thomas Kvam participates within the 2009 edition of NOTCH festival, taking place in various venues in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. Curated by Yang Lei, Chief Curator, 'NOTCH09' explores issues around 'id-entity', investigating such concepts as 'Creative clusters', 'Social Innovation' and 'Neo Urbanism'. Within the festival Kvam will present the video-work HAL and The Horse, that, according to the artist 'is a staging of the western dichotomy between nature and culture, between the anthropomorphised animal and, through HAL's red video lens, the anthropomorphised artificial intelligence.' Other artists exhibiting within 'NOTCH09' are Thorbjorn Ankerstjerne, Kim Holtermand and Matti Kallioinen. The exhibition is supported by 03–funding*

Gardar Eide Einarsson is currently exhibiting within 'Chasing Naapoleon' at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France.The exhibition, curated by Palais de Tokyo's director, Marc-Olivier Wahler, brings together eighteen artists whose works read as instruction manuals on how to withdraw into seclusion and take refuge in the limits of the visible.

Jumana Manna and Ayman Alazraq have invited Arild Tveito, Richard Alexanderson, Aida Dukic, artist group EL PARCHE (Herman Mbamba, Olga Robayo and Marius Wang) and Iselin Linstad Hauge to partake within 'The Ramallah Show', a exhibition and short residency project taking place at Al Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah, Palestinian State from 21 December 2009 to 5 January 2010. 'The Ramallah Show' aims on questioning the notion of travel as a mean of artistic investigation, having as a starting point the contrast between the global transit for Norwegian and Palestinian artists. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Anne-Britt Rage to participate within a residency at Greatmore Studios in Cape Town, South Africa. During her stay in Cape Town, Anne-Britt Rage will develop the project Chris Hani – Revolution for Sale, a video documentary investigating the assassination of Chris Hani. Rage will also implement a community outreach project and stage forums to the public in Greatmore's Gallery space. From September 2009 to January 2010. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

The Hors Pistes film festival offers presents unique and audacious videos and films that move away from traditional genres to blend fiction with documentary, contemporary art or experimental formats. The non-competitive festival will be held from 19 to 28 February 2010, at the Centre Pompidou. Any international 25-65 minutes length work completed after January 2008 is eligible for entry and may be screened in theatre in either 16 or 35 mm film format or in Beta or mini DV video. For more information visit www.centrepompidou.fr/horspistes2010.

The Jean-Claude Reynal Foundation, under the auspices of the Foundation of France, in collaboration with the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux, offers an annual grant of €10 000 to enable a young artist, who works directly on paper, to travel to a country of his/her choice for a period of 6 months maximum. Candidates must be between 20 and 30 years of age and have had an artistic practice on paper for at least two years.To apply, please visit http://www.rosab.net/bourse-reynal/.

Research Fellowships are intended for artists, scholars and curators, interested in working on historic and contemporary sculpture using the Institute's library, archive of sculptors' papers and the collection of Leeds Art Gallery. Up to four fellows will be selected to spend a month in Leeds to develop their own research. Researchers will be granted access to the resources and an on-going dialogue with the Institute staff.

Senior Fellowshipsare intended to give established scholars (working on any aspect of sculpture) time and space to develop a research project free from their usual work commitments. Up to two senior fellowships, for periods of between three to six weeks will be offered. Fellows are asked to present a talk or seminar. Both fellowships provide accommodation, travel expenses and a per diem. The Institute offers the possibility of presenting finished research in published form, as a seminar, or as a small exhibition. For more information on the Henry Moore Institute research fellowships please visit: www.henry-moore.ac.uk.

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen calls for entries. Works of all genres and formats may be submitted. They must not exceed a length of 35min (45min in the German Competition) and have been produced no earlier than 1 January 2008 (1 January 2009 in the German Competition). Please note that the festival screening for an international production must be a German festival premiere. The festival will take place from 29 April to 4 May 2010. For more information and entry forms can be found here.

School of Visual Arts, in New York, NY is accepting applications for the MFA Social Documentary Film. The programme provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals of non-fiction filmmaking, as well as an immersion into the critical and analytical processes necessary to conceptualize and develop significant, socially relevant film projects. For more information please visit http://www.mfasocdoc.sva.edu.

*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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