POSt-PRODUCTION

For all the poor students and/ or  those who, for whatever reason,  can't get hold of a copy of Nicolas Bourriaud's POST-PRODUCTION: Have a look at this. A pdf of the entire book is available online. Also have a look at the pdf search engine for more online literature resources.

Diogene Urban Bivouac

Really interesting opportunity for artists interested in working within the urban environment. If you win this residency, you will really work from the inside of the city. For more info and for the application visit the website.

Susy Oliveira

It is tough not to stare at Susy Oliveira’s clunky, 1980s-video-gamish polygon sculptures. Of course, sculpture is created for gawking, so clearly Oliveira has reached at least one of her goals with these large-scale pieces made of color photographic prints (c-prints) on archival card and wrapped onto foam core. In her description of her 2008 solo show at Toronto’s Peak gallery, Oliveira wrote about examining “our preoccupation with replacing nature with fabricated versions of itself.” Fittingly, she adds that these sculptures express an “opposition between the round aspects of sculpture and the flat aspects of photography, much like bringing a virtual model into a real space.” Oliveira is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (2000) and the University of Waterloo (2006).

(source: The Cool Hunter Newsletter: 09/03/2009)

her website

Let's go and see 'nothing'

Vides(Voids), A retrospective
@ Centre Pompidou, Paris

"Vides" (Voids) is a retrospective of empty exhibitions since that of Yves Klein in 1958. In almost a dozen rooms of the National Museum of Modern Art, it assembles in a totally original manner exhibitions that showed absolutely nothing, leaving empty the space for which they were designed.

For more information about the exhibition read this article published in the Independent.