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 system for applications for the International Support Programme. This system should be used for the 2010 Fourth Quarter and final application deadline for 2010: deadline 1 November.

The following application deadlines for 2011 will be 1 May, 1 September and 1 November. Please notice that these application deadlines are slightly earlier than those in place in the past.

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

For questions regarding applications for International Support, please contact Anne Charlotte Hauen. For international institutional applications and biennials, please address your questions to Paul Brewer.

The International Support Grants provided for the third quarter – September 2010 are available here.

A selection of slides from the lectures of Steven Izenour from the archive of Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates with works by Allan D'Arcangelo, Claes Oldenburg, Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Jeff Wall
— curated by Marta Kuzma

Exhibition dates: 15 September – 15 December 2010
Public Hours: Wed, Fri and Sat / 12-16:00 / Thu / 12-18:00

'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING' exhibits, for the first time, the original glass lantern slides used by Steven Izenour for his academic lectures together with works by Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson and Jeff Wall, who challenged traditional notions of space in order to explore new interpretations of landscape within the fields of aesthetics, art and architecture, without succumbing to any one category. The exhibition departs from and extends beyond a seminal project developed by the architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, who in their book Learning from Las Vegas (1972), drew from existing critiques of urban space at the time to explore the role that signs played in providing order to the landscape. Other artists, such as Claes Oldenburg and Allan D'Arcangelo, cited as inspiration by the three architects, contested the sign system altogether, which increasingly reflected an attempt on the part of capital to claim nature, landscape, and public space as commodities. Curated by OCA's Director Marta Kuzma, 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING' integrates artists' work, archival materials and publications that revise interpretations of landscape, building and monument and reflect upon how artists and architects attempted to dislocate traditional interpretations of these concepts in an effort to generate a critical dialogue around the effects of power as it inscribed in public information systems generated by the city and by the hierarchies, standardisations and space-time relationships effected by corporate development. 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING' is on view until 15 December at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway's Public space.

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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 International Artist in Residency Programme at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium; Capacete, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

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

In collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Beijing, China, OCA offers two studio residencies, for an artist or a curator at Platform China Beijing Residency Programme. The first one takes place from 1 April until 31 May 2011, and the second from 1 September until 31 October 2011. Applicants must be Norwegian citizens, or live and work in Norway. The residency is supported by 03–funding*.

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OCA offers four residencies for curators, critics and artists in Berlin in Autumn 2011 and Spring 2012. From September 2011 until end of April 2012 for 2 months each. Applicants must be Norwegian citizens, or live and work in Norway. Curators and critics are especially encouraged to apply and their applications will be given priority.

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Kristina Kvalvik
Artist, b.1980 in Skodje, Norway, lives and works in Copehagen, Denmark 
Kristina Kvalvik studied film and fine art in Norway, Sweden and Canada, and completed her MFA from Malmø Art Academy, Sweden in 2008. Dealing with matters that relates to 'surveillance, the inexplicable, and the threatening', in her video installations Kvalvik 'examines the limitations of sight and our ability to interpret what we see'. Kvalvik has exhibited her work in important venues including Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Gøteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gøteborg, Sweden; LOOP Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain; Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland; GalleriBOX, Akureyri, Iceland; Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria; Galeria Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria; Parkingallery, Tehran, Iran; Høstutstillingen Kuntnernes Hus, Oslo.

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

For more information on the International Studio Programme Oslo click here.

T.J. Clark
Art historian and author, b.1943 in Bristol, UK, lives and works in London, UK

T.J. Clark has been a Professor of Art History at UC Berkeley in California. His writings on art history throughout the 1970s and 80s single-handedly redefined the history of modernism internationally. His books include The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-51and Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (both 1973); The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (1985); Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999); Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War(co-written with Iain Boal, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts under the name Retort, 2005) andThe Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006). In a world increasingly invaded by regimes of high-speed visualisation, Clark has described his art history as 'more and more directed to keeping alive — and trying to describe more fully — past paradigms of complexity and depth in visual communication'.

Verdensteatret to participate within
the 8th Shanghai Biennale
Curatorial team: Gao Shiming, Fan Di'An, Li Lei and Hua Yi
Shanghai Art Museum in Shanghai, People's Republic of China
24 October 2010–28 February 2011
Opening Reception: 23 October 2010

Verdensteateret has been invited to participate in 'The 8th Shanghai Biennale 2010', Shanghai, Peoples' Republic of China, curated by Gao Shiming, with Fan Di'An, Li Lei and Hua Yi. The biennial presents the concept of 'rehearsal' — a discourse on the art exhibition as a phenomenon: 'The exhibition not only reformulates — represents — everyday life, but also provides a vessel for its own representative polity. In the meantime, the exhibition is also the autonomous region of art, within which artists are also legislators', according to the curatorial statement. Within the biennial, Verdensteatret participates with the work And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing, a hybrid work consisting of a performance, a concert and installation with a multitude of kinetic sculptures-machines, sound, animation, puppetry, music, lights and shadowplay. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

For press information please contact Gu Jianjun.

Lene Berg and Anders Eiebakke
to exhibit within Manifesta 8
Curators: ACAF, CPS and transit.org
Murcia, Spain
9 October 2010–9 January 2011

Lene Berg and Anders Eiebakke participate in the European Biennal of Contemporary Art Manifesta 8. For its eight edition, Manifesta proposes a concept of collective curating, presenting projects by three groups of curators – Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (Egypt), Chamber of Public Secrets (Scandinavian countries, Italy, the UK and Lebanon) and tranzit.org (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia). Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum has invited Lene Berg to exhibit in their project, which focuses on 'cultivating a deeper awareness of art in relation to all aspects of contemporary life and culture'. Within the exhibition, Berg will present her new work, Shaving the Baroness (After Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp), based on a film shot in the 1920, of which only two frames remain, attached to a letter written by Man Ray. The curatorial group Chamber of Public Secrets, working with issues such as migration, mobility and representation has invited Anders Eiebakke to take part in the exhibition. Eiebakke's project consists of three parts: a TV and two radio programme, and an installation built around two drones used to cross the Moroccan-Spanish border. Other participating artists include The Otolith Group, Willie Doherty, Tanja Widmann and Nikolaus Schletterer among others. The exhibition is on view until 9 January 2011.

For press enquiries related to the project, please contact Manifesta 8 Press Office.

Lars Laumann to exhibit within
'International 10: Touched'
6th Liverpool Biennial
Curator: Lewis Biggs
Director, Liverpool Biennial
Liverpool, UK
18 September–28 November 2010

As part of the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, curated by its Director Lewis Biggs, Lars Laumann has been invited to participate within 'Touched, International 10'. For 'Touched', Open Eye Gallery and the New Museum in New York have co-commissioned Lars Laumann to create a new work titled Helen Keller (and the great purging bonfire of books and unpublished manuscripts illuminating the dark) — a video essay in two parts, using a range of techniques and approaches to discuss 'filmic and literary adaptation, multiple narratives, censorship and the burning of books'. Alongside Helen Keller, Laumann will also be exhibiting two existing video works – Duett, from 2010 and Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana, from 2006. Other participating artists include Allan Kapow, Alfredo Jaar, Otto Muehl, NS Harsha and Raymond Pettibon. The exhibition is on view until 28 November 2010.

Anne Hilde Neset will moderate a roundtable panel discussion devoted to the work of the pioneering sound artist Maryanne Amacher as a tribute to Amacher's influence on contemporary musicians and composers, to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Art, Culture and Technology. Other participants in the panel discussion include composers and artists Florian Hecker, Kevin Drumm and Jessica Rylan Piper. Organised by Ute Meta Bauer, director of the Program in Art, Culture and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the event will take place from 21 to24 October 2010.

From 23 October to 10 November 2010, Ane Graff holds a solo exhibition at Platform China Contemporary Art Institute's project space, Beijing, China, as part of her two month-long residency. The exhibition titled 'Patches of Standing Water', curated by Sun Ning, Director of Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, exhibits new sculptural work developed by Graff during her stay in Beijing. 'Patches of Standing Water' is part of Graff's ongoing investigation into 'the nature of matter', by 'mimicking nature in a basic syntactic level and examining the randomness of movement within mass'.

Artist collective Tegneklubben (Paul Dring, Terje Nicolaisen, Ulf Carlsson, Martin Skauen and Bjørn Bjarre) will participate in the exhibition 'D12', taking place from 4 to 11 November 2010 at the Grimmuseum in Berlin, Germany. 'D12' is series of six solo exhibitions. Following the concept of the original D12 group — a rap collective of Detroit, MI, USA, formed in 1996, whose initiator, Proof, asked the six members of the group to each create an alter ego — the curator and artist Despina Stokou invited six art professionals from the Berlin cultural scene to each present a project as themselves and one as their alter ego. The invited artists include a gallery director, a collector, an art critic, a curator, an artist and an artist group.

From 7 November 2010 to 27 March 2011, artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset will hold a solo exhibition at ZKM – Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany. For the exhibition, curated by Andreas F. Beitin, Director of ZKM, titled 'Celebrity – The One and the Many' the artists have produced two installation pieces that through the various ideas informing the exhibition will be presented in the two atriums of the ZKM – Museum of Contemporary Art. The pieces, which have been created especially for the museum's unique architectural features, investigate various aspects of the socio-cultural milieu, including 'a staging of a series of different, yet interwoven narratives which, by using randomly positioned stage lights, are aimed at directing attention towards numerous social, political, and artistic aspects'. 'Celebrity – The One and the Many' is the first large-scale museum solo-exhibition by Elmgreen & Dragset in Germany. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication which will include a comprehensive documentation of the presented artworks.

Ståle Stenslie will hold a solo exhibition titled 'The Psychoplastic Project' at Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 11 to 26 November 2010. Curated by Jurij Krpan, the exhibition explores 'how we can virtually sculpt and manipulate our personality' through 'a combination of advanced sound and haptic stimulus' that affect our perception, 'moulding, shaping and sculpting it'.

Marius Watz and Eno Henze presents the exhibition 'abstrakt Abstrakt: The Systemized World', at NODE10 Forum for Digital Arts, in association with the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 15 to 20 November 2010. The curators, reflecting upon abstract systems produced by devices and media, stated that 'the extensive and powerful autonomy of such systems becomes obvious only in the moments of their dysfunction, like during the interruption of air traffic due to a scientific simulation of a vulcano cloud, or by the drop of the stock market due to automated computer trade. Under a regime of rationality scientists and engineers become performing agents of this development, and bring ever new abstraction system'. Participating artists include Ralf Baecker, Ben Fry, Leander Herzog, Robert Hodgin, Thilo Kraft,Brandon Morse, Louise Naunton Morgan and John Powers, among others.

Kunsthalle Winterthur in Winterthur, Switzerland presents a solo exhibition by Lars Laumann. Curated by Oliver Kielmayer, Curator of Kunsthalle Winterthur, and on view until 21 November 2010, the exhibition aims to provide the first comprehensive selection of Lars Laumann's work in Switzerland. Laumann's video-works are built through 'conspiratorial stories found on television, in cinema or on the internet. A variety of people, networks, situations and places serve as a kind of raw material that is re-constructed and re-contextualised into surprising new stories. The use of quotations and the sampling of various real and fictitious 'facts' result in artworks that offer more than just contemplation, inciting for an individual research'.

Matias Faldbakken holds a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany, on view until 14 November 2010. Curated by Rein Wolfs, the institution's Artistic Director, and titled 'That Death of Which One Does Not Die', the exhibition presents newly commissioned works by the artist from the series Garbage Bag Drawings. Comprised of abstract renderings of abbreviations and acronyms on large garbage bags, the works are installed throughout the main wing of the institution to present 'a counterpoint to prevailing concepts of the exhibition space'. The exhibition also presents an installation work created in collaboration with Anders Nordby.

Olav Christopher Jenssen has been invited to hold a solo exhibition, titled 'Olav Christopher Jenssen – Paintings and Sculptures', at the Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden. The museum reopened in a former industrial building in the city centre of Västerås on 5 September 2010. The first artist invited for a solo exhibition at the museum, Jenssen will present new paintings and sculptures produced within the last two years. Curated by Eva Borgegård, 'Olav Christopher Jenssen – Paintings and Sculptures' will be on view from 27 November 2010 to 30 January 2011.

Gardar Eide Einarsson will hold a solo exhibition titled 'Power Has a Fragrance' at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden from 16 February to 11 June 2011. The exhibition, curated by Sara Arrhenius, Director, Bonniers Konsthall, is a collaborative project by the Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo and the Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm and will be presented at each institution throughout 2010–11, with newly commissioned work by the artist for the Stockholm venue. The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with essays by the exhibition curator and contributions by Nicolas Bourriaud, Ina Blom and John Kelsey, as well as by the Icelandic surrealist poet Sjón.

From 26 March to 13 June 2011, Fredrik Raddum presents a solo exhibition at the Aarhus Kunstmuseum (ARoS) in Denmark, curated by Marie Nipper, curator, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum. The exhibition, located inside and outside the museum space, and titled 'GET LOST...', will present a selection of Raddum's work produced over the last decade, including sculptures, installations and neon works. An artist book documenting processes, sketches and presentations of the artworks will accompany the exhibition.

Ingrid Lønningdal, Cato Løland and the artist collective Institute for Colour(Ingrid Lønningdal, Steffen Håndlykken, Silje R. Hogstad, Elisabeth Schei) have been invited to participate within the exhibition 'Zwischenraum: Space Between' at the Kunstverein Hamburg, from 16 October to 28 November 2010. Annette Hans, Curator, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Director, Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen and Jamie Kenyon, Associate Curator, SWG3, Glasgow, Scotland, will present 'Zwischenraum: Space Between', a collaborative project between Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hordaland Art Center, SMART Project Space, and SWG3, Glasgow, that places 'production and process in the foreground', as opposed to 'traditional exhibitions, and their mediation'. The 'Zwischenraum: Space Between' programme has been constituted by a residency, an exhibition and a public program, sets out to 'reflect on production, its means and its necessities', and aims to investigate 'the processual, dialogical and social situations, in the evolution of a process that renders the production of the artworks tangible'. Other artists in the exhibition include Oliver Bulas, Nick Evans, Julia Horstmann, Alon Levin and Ciara Phillips.

Lars Laumann and Hanne Mugaas have been invited by Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome and New Museum Adjunct Curator, to participate within the exhibition 'Free' at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, NY, USA. From 20 October 2010 to 23 January 2011 'Free' presents a reflection 'on artistic strategies that have emerged in a radically democratised cultural terrain redefined by the impact of the web'. Within 'Free', Laumann will present his latest work, Helen Keller (and the great purging bonfire of books and unpublished manuscripts illuminating the dark) (2010), co-commissioned by the Liverpool Biennial and the New Museum. Helen Keller will be a follow-up to his previous work Kari & Knut, (2009) in which the artist appropriated video from the Iranian film adaptation of the J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey. Within 'Free' Hanne Mugaas will exhibit Secondary Market, an assemblage of items sourced from an online auction site. Referring art history the items acquired from auction online become a type of 'art debris', according to Mugaas. Secondary Market is an ongoing project in which Mugaas works on 'how a small exhibition — within another exhibition — can be bought and sold, not only through gallery backrooms, but even on an online auction site'. The exhibition will present works by Lisa Oppenheim,Lizzie Fitch, Seth Price, Clunie Reid and Amanda Ross-Ho, among others.

Karen Skog Orkester has been invited by the curator Sophie Mörner, founder of Capricious Space and Magazine to participate in the exhibition 'The Sympathizer!' at Capricious Space in Brooklyn, New York, USA, from 15 to 21 October 2010. The Karen Skog Orkester will perform within an installation of photographs and sculptural works produced by the artistSantiago Mostyn during a spring 2010 residency at Flaggfabrikken in Bergen.

Elisabeth Vollert and Jairo Valenzuela presents 'La Otra', in Bogotá, Colombia, from 21 to 27 October 2010, an independent platform 'promoting trends and creations emerging in a Latino American context'. The interdisciplinary event will involve visual arts, architecture, design and fashion design. Within 'La Otra' Marius Wang, artist and curator at ElParche, will present an exhibition of Norwegian video art, with works by Eline Mugaas, Martin Skauen, Jumana Manna and Leander Djønne. Anders Smebye has been invited by Elisabeth Vollert and Jairo Valenzuela, co-directors of 'La Otra', to produce a new work on the façade of the Hotel Intercontinental, the main venue of 'La Otra'. Smebye will also participate in 'La Otra' seminar series organised by Pablo Leon de la Barra.

Kjetil Skøien and Rita Marhaug will participate in the Scandinavian – North American Performance Art Festival, Live Actionin New York, NY, USA, from 3 to 7 November 2010. The festival presents a variety of performance artists including Marilyn Arsem, Mari Novotny-Jones and Tony Schwensen. Curator Jonas Stampe observes that the invited artists 'are completely working with their intuition in the process of live creation, they don't use choreography, but exist in their own action'. Within the exhibition Kjetil Skøien will present Still life, based on objects and videos in which 'the body, the timing, slow motion and quick changes in rhythm make the performance close to a composition of music'. Rita Marhaug will present a performance which is part of the series Norwegian Liquid, reflecting upon 'money and value systems' through the use of 'the everyday body language, and standards of physical normality as a source of inspiration'.

Kaja Leijon will participate in the exhibition 'Monitoring' at the Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und videofest, Kassel, Germany from 9 to 14 November 2010. For 'Monitoring', Gerhard Wissner, curator of the exhibition and director of the Kasseler Dokumentarfilm-und videofest, stated that he aims through the chosen artworks to 'transfer the medium of film from the cinema to the context of an exhibition by presenting contemporary media installations'. Within the exhibition Leijon will present her video-work Resonances (2009), which, according to the artist, 'deals with the relation between perception and imagination from a young woman's point of view'.

Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman's will present a performative installation, No One Knows How To Reach That Immortal Place (2009), within the exhibition 'Gathering Gathering' at Your-Space within the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from 4 November to 4 December 2010. Curated by Clare Butcher, the exhibition 'brings together four projects that aim to explore what structures, events and issues are able to bring people together'. No One Knows How To Reach That Immortal Place is a performative installation that previously has been exhibited at the Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2009).

Nils Bech and Bendik Giske have been invited to perform during the The NY Art Book Fair, New York, NY, USA, taking place at MoMA PS1 from 5 to 7 November 2010, with an opening reception on Friday, 4 November. Printed Matter, Inc. — historical artists' publishing house in New York — and The NY Art Book Fair will present international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, museums, galleries, and artists from twenty-four countries, exhibiting what has to be considered as 'the very best of contemporary art publishing'. The NY Art Book Fair will include a series of conferences on contemporary artists' books and an exhibition on 'zines from the '90s, available for reading and photocopying'. Different project rooms organised by several publishers will show historical intersections of photography and book art, a screening program featuring new and historical video works, a free-distribution center for critical texts, and alternative economic system for design services.

Toril Johannessen will participate in the exhibition 'Smooth Structures' at the SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 6 November to 19 December 2010. Within 'Smooth Structures' Johannessen will present Expansion in Finance and Physics (2009), a work that addresses 'the subject of scientific modeling and how scientific theories are visualised and interpreted by way of analogies'. 'Smooth Structures' is developed in collaboration with Enough Room for Space (ERforS), an artist-run organisation based in Rotterdam, starting from 'a new theory on dark matter and dark energy developed by NASA scientist Martin Lo', who is personally involved in the project and also gave a public lecture and a workshop to the participating artists.

Joar Nango and Åsa Sonjasdotter have been invited by Kim Einarsson, Director Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden, to participate in the exhibition 'Home Sweet Home', on view from 1 October 2010 to 30 March 2011 at Konsthall C. 'Home Sweet Home' is a research-based project directed towards a group exhibition. The project 'investigates the tension between individuals' desire to shape their lives and the overall concepts and structures that govern planning and housing policy', and emphasises 'the ideological shifts around dwelling, based on economic and political changes over the last thirty years, as reflected in the use of words such as investment and security'.

Matias Faldbakken and Gardar Eide Einarsson have been invited to participate in the exhibition 'To the Arts, Citizens!' at Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal. 'To the Arts, Citizens!', organised by João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen, collector, will open on 19 November 2010 and will stay on view until 13 March 2011. The exhibition 'To the Arts, Citizens!' explores 'the intersections between art and politics, through concepts such as activism, citizenship, archive, emigration, exile, ideology, iconoclasm, crisis. Bringing together works produced by artists born after 1961 — the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, an object that materializes an ideological division which have marked the 20th century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the 21st century — it is possible to face an extended political history that dates back to the Paris Commune, in 1871'. Other exhibiting artists are Carlos Motta, Claire Fontaine, Sam Durant and Hito Steyerl.

Curator Win Van den Abbeele has invited Marte Johnslien to participate in 'Lonely at the Top: Modern Dialectic'. The exhibition, on view until 14 November, 'looks back at an oeuvre that united architecture, commitment, politics and reflection as an art form' in the work of Renaat Braem — it is in fact a celebration of the centenary of his birth — one of Belgium's best-known architects. 'Modern Dialectic' brings Braem's modernist formal idiom 'face to face with work by contemporary artists to create a view on the modernist movement's social utopia'. For the exhibition, Johnslien presents a new series of small-scale sculptures titled Monument to the Right Angle, produced from parameters derived from Braem's work and his connection to Le Corbusier. 'Modern Dialect' is on view at the top floors of the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA) and at CO Nova, both in Antwerp. Other participating artists are Corey McCorkle, Tim Etchells and Suzanne Krieman.

Until 7 November the exhibition 'EATLACMA' continues at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, CA, in which Åsa Sonjasdotter exhibits. The projects shown within 'EATLACMA' explore food as a common ground that reflects the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships. The exhibiton includes artist's gardens planted and harvested on the museum grounds, public events and an exhibition. In 'EATLACMA', Sonjasdotter exhibits Potatofield, a Solution. Inspired by Agnes Denes's Wheatfield, the project presents an average-looking potato field developed in collaboration with the farmers' collective The Communities of The Potato Park in Cuzco, Peru. 'EATLACMA' is curated byFallen Fruit and Michele Urton, Curator at LACMA, and includes works by Lauren Bon, Materials and Applications, Fallen Fruit and The National Bitter Melon Council.

Artists duo Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén participate in 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010' at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, on view until 9 January 2011. 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010', curated by Fredrik Liew with Gertrud Sandqvistand Lisa Rosendahl, aims at contributing to the ongoing debate on Swedish contemporary art. Following its first edition in 2006, 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010' provides 'a forum for discussion of recent developments in studios, offices, workshops, art institutions and different places where artists are active today'. Within 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010' Ingrid Book andCarina Hedén will present the work Bexell's Stones, a Monument out of Sight, depicting the story of Alfred Bexell, who ordered hundreds of proverbs and names to be chiseled into rocks and boulders in the forests within his property in Sweden. The inscriptions are spread over a large area — sometimes difficult or impossible to find — offering a wisdom in many areas of life, and revealing a radical view of history where rebel leaders, women writers, American Indians, journalists, scientists, local farmers and protagonists from the French Revolution are figuring side by side'.

Alejandra Pérez, Jorge Crowe and Christiano Rosa have been invited to take part in the Piksel10 festival, organised byGisle Frøysland, Director, Piksel Produksjoner to participate within the festival Piksel Produksjoner in Bergen, Norway. Pérez will present her work Cartografia Sonora Antarctica, which uses sound recordings and footage from an expedition to Antarctica in December 2009. Crow will present the piece A/V (2010), an audiovisual performance with found, hacked and handmade hardware. Rosa will present Faça-Você-Mesmo + Hágalo Usted Mismo + DIY (2010), an audiovisual performance that uses unique electronic instruments built by a combination of assorted materials found in electronic debris. Piksel Produksjoner Festival will run from 18 to 21 November 2010. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Travelling Fields, a film by Inger Lise Hansen, will be screened in the 54th BFI London Filmfestival within the programme 'Sublime Passages', curated by Mark Webber, at National Film Theatre on 22–23 October 2010. Shot in Northern Russia,Travelling Fields is the third film in Inger Lise Hansen's inverted perspective trilogy, following Proximity (2006) and Parallax (2009). 'The films focus on a particular phenomenon occurring through a change of perspective and animated camera movements, as a way of redefining a place and its geography'. Travelling fieldsoffers a 'more complex viewing of the Kola Peninsula as it moves between different topographies and locations capturing one frame per time along a track path'.

Knut Åsdam participates in a programme of screenings in association with the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid festival at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. The programme has been organised by Nathalie Hénon and Jena-François Rettig, directors, Rencontres Internationales and will take place from 25 November to 4 December 2010. In addition, a number of arts professionals, including Gavin Jantjes, Helga-Marie Nordby and Per Platou are invited to lecture and participate in the discussions taking place during the festival.

From 27 November 2010 to 30 January 2011, Serina Erfjord has been invited to participate at 'Electrohype 2010', Ystad Art Museum, Ystad, Sweden. Within the exhibition, curated by Anna Kindvall and Lars Gustav Midbøe, co-directors of Electrohype, Erfjord will present Normal. Blue (2010). As stated by the curators, Erfjord's works are 'unique in the way she implements them into the existing building structure and at the same time draws the viewer's attention in an almost magnetic way'. Other participating artists include Vicky Isley and Paul Smith, Sion Jeong, Nikki Koole and Diane Landry.

Unni Gjertsen will participate in 'The Eternal Tour 2010', a festival that reflects 'on the question of cosmopolitanism in the context of the 21st century by experimenting with tourism in order to learn and re-evaluate current interpretations and conceptions of the world'. In 2010, the festival takes place in Jerusalem and Ramallah. Gjertsen, invited by Donatella Bernardi, founder of The Eternal Tour Association, will present 'The Armenia Project', a collaborative research project born out of a journey to Armenia in 2009 and consisting of video installations and text. The exhibition dates run from 4 to 10 December 2010. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Pontus Kyander, director, SKMU, has invited Joselina Cruz to present a video and film screening programme at SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand, Norway. Cruz, a Manila-based curator, will present the 'Roving Eye: A Survey of South East Asian Film and Video Art' programme, and a public lecture in relation to the projects included in the exhibition programme. The screening programme, 'assumes the position of the 'roving eye' as it scours the landscape of concerns that currently occupy artists from the region'. 'Roving Eye: A Survey of South East Asian Film and Video Art' will be on view from15 January to 12 March 2011. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Artists Jørund Aase Falkenberg, Maja Nilsen, Tommy Johansson, Randi Nygård have been invited to participate within the group exhibition 'Project 0' at Norræna Husid, Reykjavik, Iceland, curated by Þuríður Helga Kristjánsdóttir, project manager, Norræna Husid. In 'Project 0', works in a variety of media explore themes such as 'degradation and development, tradition and change, and the possibility for alternative structuring of society and new perspectives inside the mental and material framework that defines a culture'. The exhibition will be on view from 4 June to 26 June 2011.

Pirkko Siitari, director, KIASMA, Arja Miller, chief curator, KIASMA and Jari-Pekka Vanhala, curator, ARS 11, have invited Samba Fall to participate in ARS 11 at the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA in Helsinki, Finland. ARS is an event within the contemporary art field taking place in the Nordic countries since 1961. ARS 11 attempt to 'shatter the narrow perception of African contemporary visual art as mere modern reiterations of ancient traditions'. The exhibition will open from 15 April to27 November 2011. Other artists participating in the exhibition include Georges Adeagbo, Sammy Baloji and Ursula Biemann, among others.

On the occasion of the German region of Ruhr being the European Capital of Culture 2010, the Norwegian Goethe-Institutoffers a one-week visit to Ruhr for exhibition organisers, curators or leaders of art and cultural institutions, to take place from 1 to 7 May 2011. The weeklong trip will include visits to art institutions and cultural venues of the region and meetings with regional curators and exhibition organisers with an aim to expand networks and exchange ideas. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the Goethe-Institut. Application deadline: 15 January 2011. For questions or applications, please contact the Goethe-Institut.

Tara Ishizuka Hassel joins OCA as 'Information and Web manager' as of 1 January 2011. Hassel, a Norwegian and Japanese national, has been living in Tokyo for six years, where she is currently head of the International PR section, as well as a production coordinator for international performances at Japan's largest festival of contemporary performing arts, the Festival/Tokyo (F/T). She also has experience in organising concerts and masterclasses with internationally renowned contemporary music ensembles, and promoting international cultural exchange in organisation with the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture. She holds a Master of Arts from the University of Oslo.

Antonio Cataldo joins OCA as 'Publications and Archive Manager' as 1 January 2011. Cataldo has studied at the University of Naples and at Iuav University of Venice, where he completed his MA studies in Visual Arts under the supervision of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. For the past two years Cataldo has been an Assistant Lecturer at Iuav University of Venice. He has worked as an editor within Fondazione March, an Italian foundation for contemporary art based in Padua, Italy, for their publication series. Recently Cataldo has been working within the Graphic Design and Advertising Office of Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia in Venice.

*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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