Laura Horelli You Go Where You Are Sent, 2003 Videostills Courtesy Galerie Barbara Weiss
Laura Horelli's photo, text and video installations focus on communicative forms of relations in public, media and psychological spaces. The artist often links documentary material with her own pictures and information. Laura Horelli studied in Helsinki as well as at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt. Recent exhibitions include 6th Gwangju Biennale (2006), South Korea, Periferic 7, Iasi, Romania (2006), In 2052 Malmö Will No Longer Be Swedish, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (2005), Laura Horelli, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria (2004) and Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, Spain (2004).
Mike Bouchet Sex has Nothing, 2005 Diet cola on paper 100 x 70 cm Courtesy Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt Photo: Wolfgang Woessner/BAWAG FOUNDATION
Bouchet's performative, sculptural artistic projects often physically traverse the globe. These deadpan works - serious art, which hinges on not-so-serious issues or impossible situations - demonstrate his illogical and even absurd approach to the world itself. As he says, they constitute "an attempt at something".
Pooja Sood is the chairperson and coordinator of KHOJ International Artists' Association, an autonomous, artist-led registered society aimed at promoting intercultural understanding through exchange. Sood has coordinated the KHOJ International Artists' Workshop in Delhi from 1998-2001, facilitated the workshop in Bangalore 2002-2003 and is currently developing a international residency programme at KHOJ. As coordinator of KHOJ, she has developed core competencies in fundraising, strategic planning and capacity building. Sood is also the regional coordinator of the international artists' network, facilitated by the Triangle Arts Trust, UK. She works with artists' communities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal, facilitating exchange through workshops and residencies in the region. Over the past 4 years, she has actively facilitated the development of the South Asian Network by building capacity and facilitating fundraising, communication and networking strategies. She is working towards the inclusion of South East Asian artists groups. Sood is also the Director of the corporate sponsored Apeejay Media Gallery, the first new media gallery in India since 2002. She has curated/programmed several large Indian and international video art exhibitions over the past 3 years. As independent curator, she co-curated the exhibitionHave we met? with curators from Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand for the Japan Foundation. She was invited to curate a video art exhibition for the Musee D'Ethnographie in Geneva and is a guest curator for the Freewaves Media Festival in Los Angeles, USA. The exhibition From Goddess to Pinup: Icons of Femininity in Indian Calendar Art, which she co-curated with anthropologist Dr Patricia Uberoi, has toured Fukuoka, Amsterdam, Vienna, Vancouver, and New York. She was the Indian commissioned researcher for the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in 2002-2003 and curator in residence at the museum from Dec 1999-Jan 2000. She has participated in various forums on Indian contemporary art, art management and South Asian art in India and abroad. Amongst others, she has made presentations at the Asia Pacific Triennale in Brisbane; at the Winternachten Festival in The Hague and at the ArtSouthAsia seminar in Manchester, UK. She has written on art for the magazine Art India and is the editor of several catalogues including the first publication of Indian video art, Video Art in India, 2003.
