OCA presents a lecture by Saskia Sassen, titled When the Acute Challenges of Our Epoch Materialise in Cities, as part of Norway's official representation at La Biennale di Venezia. The lecture will take place on Thursday 20 October at 17:30. 'The State of Things' closes on Thursday 17 November with the lecture The Experience of Defeat  by T.J. Clark.

*The lectures are free and open to everyone, and simultaneous translation to Italian is available. They are accessible through live streaming (information will be available on www.oca.no prior to the arrangement) and later archived in OCA’s website.

Menke has argued that the correct understanding of modernity must be done in relation to tragedy. Modernity has not overcome tragedy; rather, it should be seen as tragic in itself. In such a scenario, the focus on the individual and his and her concrete needs does not lead to political quietism but into an engine of political discontent and revolution. Within such philosophical claims, how is it possible to posit the aesthetic experience as one of meaning?

The lecture is held in tandem with the launch of dOCUMENTA (13) notebook series 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts at OCA. Christoph Menke recently published the notebook titled Aesthetics of Equality. The lecture will be followed by a discussion involving Menke, Chus Martínez, dOCUMENTA (13) Head of Department and others. The notebooks will be available for purchase through the Oslo-based Torpedo Bookshop.

OCA provides International Residencies for Norwegian artists, curators and critics in a number of international venues. Click here for details and deadlines.

UPCOMING DEADLINES:
- Platform China, Beijing, China: 1 November 2011
- Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium: 1 November 2011

The International Studio Programme Oslo is available for international artists and curators by invitation for a stay from two weeks up to six months, independently or in connection with research in Norway.

14-30 September
Sven Augustijnen (b.1970 in Mechelen, Belgium, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium; the Hoger Sint-Lukas Instituut in Brussels, and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Netherlands. His films have been included in exhibitions and festivals in Athens, Greece; Basel and Fribourg, Switzerland; San Sebastián, Spain; Siegen, Germany; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Tunis, Tunisia; Tel Aviv, Israel; Tokyo, Japan and Vilnius, Lithuania, among others. In 2007 he participated in the documenta 12 magazines project, in collaboration with A Prior, and in 2011 he was awarded the Evens Prize for Visual Arts.

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.

27-30 September
Roger Buergel (b.1962 in Berlin, Germany, lives and works in Berlin) was recently appointed the artistic director of the Busan Biennale 2012. He served as a guest curator for the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona and was the Artistic Director of documenta 12 in 2007 in Kassel. He has curated a number of international exhibitions and has taught at the Luneburg University (2002–2005, Luneburg, Germany) and the Academy of Fine Arts (2007–2009, Karlsruhe, Germany), contributing significantly to the education of young artists.

18-22 October
Ange Leccia (b.1952) lives and works in Paris, France. A former resident of Villa Medici in Rome and Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, Leccia’s career started in the 1980s with his 'arrangements'. His works are constantly questioning different media, combining them, mixing them, even exhibiting them through a range of themes such as the sea (La Mer) and other atmospheric elements that are fascinating because of their rhythmic character. In 2001, he founded Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo’s creation lab, for which he is still the director.
Tristan Bera (b.1984) has a particular interest in decadent aesthetics and crossover exhibitions and has worked on mainstream exhibitions such as ‘Dada’ (2005/06) at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France;  ‘Richard Wagner: visions d’artistes’ (2005) and ‘Gainsbourg’ 2008 at Cité de la Musique, Paris. Bera is currently curating a one-year project at Zürich Kunsthalle, Zürich, Switzerland, titled ‘Human Valley’. Bera is currently working at Le Pavillon/Palais de Tokyo’s creative lab.

Aiming to establish a platform for video art in Norway, the Oslo Screen Festival launched in 2008. The festival is currently accepting applications for its third edition, which will take place in March 2012. Both established and emerging artists are invited to submit their work. Click here to read the regulations and to find the entry form. Application deadline: 1 November.

Photographers and are invited curators to submit their projects for the The Grand Prix Fotofestiwal in Łódź, Poland. The winner, selected by an international jury, will receive a prize and the Grand Prix Fotofestiwal 2012 title. The winning project will be presented during an individual exhibition at Fotofestiwal in May 2012. Click to view the invitation, tems and conditions and application form. Application deadline: 15 November 2011.

OCA's founding director Ute Meta Bauer has been appointed Dean of the School of Fine Art at The Royal College of Art (RCA), London, UK. Since leaving OCA in 2005, Bauer has served as tenured Professor and Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technilogy (MIT)’s Visual Arts Program. Since 2009 she has been Head of the Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) at MIT, Cambridge, USA. Visit the RCA website for more information.

Alexandra Cruz, who has been the Head of International Relations at OCA since 2009, leaves OCA in September to pursue personal and professional interests related to her field of study, architecture. We are very grateful for her work at OCA in these years and wish her many opportunities ahead. Paul Brewer will be stepping into her position as Acting Head of International Relations. A postgraduate of Bard Center for Curatorial Studies in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Brewer was the director of the exhibitions programme at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, before becoming an independent curator and writer.

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