The Future Generation Art Prize

The Future Generation Art Prize established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation is a worldwide contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and provide long-term support to a future generation of artists.

Artists around the world, without restriction of gender, nationality, race or artistic medium may enter the competition through online application.

20 shortlisted artists will be selected to show their work in an exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre (Kiev). These artists will be judged by an international Jury who will award one main prize and up to five special prizes.

The first prize will receive $100,000.

MENTOR ARTISTS:

Andreas Gursky,
Damien Hirst,
Jeff Koons,
Takashi Murakami

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The Eccentric City Announces The £1 Arts Commission

What can you do with a £1?

Here at The Eccentric City - The world's first dedicated eccentric newspaper - we are proudly offering a monthly rolling programme called the £1 Arts Commission (this is not a joke - we are serious about this!). Yes, we want to encourage the delights of eccentric behaviour, believing that huge amounts of money doesn’t always encourage the powerful force of eccentricity to manifest its full effect! The Eccentric City will give one £1 commission per month to the person or group with an idea it wishes to help make happen!

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i-cabin bookshop // call for artist's publications

i-cabin bookshop sells text publications published by i-cabin, artist's publications and second hand art books.

i-cabin are currently looking for artist's publications for retail through the shop. Artists who are interested in selling their publications through i-cabin should send one copy to the gallery along with their contact details.

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The Stones of Menace Call for Entries

The austere architecture of Brutalism is often vilified as producing social neglect rather than the vibrant community life envisioned by its architects. Art, on the contrary, is mostly seen as a potent tool to create social cohesion.

In this show we would like to explore polemical perspectives on architecture and art and open up a debate on the role of culture as a source of conflict and criticism.

We are looking for work that reflects on the relationship between art/architecture and its social/physical context or deals with issues of creative expressions of violence and social discontent. Work can include video, performance, 2D and 3D work, presentations/lectures.

Submission:
Please send a DVD/CD with 5 images and/or 1-3 videos, a CV and a brief description of the proposed work to:

Scare in the Community
13 Dunmow Road
E15 1TZ London, UK

Deadline for the submission is 30.01.2010. The event will take place in East London in May 2010.

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PULSE 10: Live/ Interdisciplinary Artists Proposals

A spring-board for fresh new artistic approaches, as well as a home for risk-taking and cutting edge performance from more established artists, PULSE Festival provides a platform for the development and presentation of work by regional, British and international artists of vision; nurturing artistic ambition and excellence across a range of art forms. Town Hall Galleries will be curating a Live Art strand for the festival (it it’s most expanded sense) looking for interdisciplinary projects, events and interventions that range from durational, site specific installation to live performance.

For the 3rd year Ipswich’s Town Hall Galleries are collaborating with PULSE producers The New Wolsey Theartre to curate a series of presentations and events by Live Art practitioners to run throughout the festival programme. Proposals are invited from interdisciplinary artists working across platforms, contexts and spaces to actively engage audiences through experimental process, intervention and action.

Work will be considered for a range of sites and spaces across Ipswich – formal, informal, unconventional, private and civic through a responsive approach that provides opportunity to build a challenging project with interesting and surprising outcomes.

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JEAN-PIERRE COUPÉ // Wifi

“Can't I be left alone?”
“I'm sorry, but if you don't want to be bothered then switch off your mobile phone”
“I will feel cut off if I switch it off”
“Stop complaining then!”
“Ok. Anyway it's nice to hear form you, what's up?”
“Nothing really, I get free top up for my mobile when I call telephone numbers ending with 8.”

"This project aims at exploring how the new technologies influence and change - by making everybody reachable anytime anywhere - the relations between people.
The phones on the crosses were ringing at each call, and their blue lights were transforming the area in a very strange “cemetery”. I had given the phone numbers to some friends who couldn’t travel to Cuneo but were given a chance to partecipate to the event this way."

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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.

Looking east

Rodchenko & Popova, Defining Constructivism at the Tate Modern Shah 'Abbas, The remaking of Iran and Babylon, Mith and Reality at the British Museum, About Byzantium 330–1453 at the Royal Academy of Arts and Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East at the Saatchi Gallery.

Five exhibitions on now in London offer an insight into Asian cultures.

Probably it is just a coincidence, but it is still a good opportunity to better understand or discover cultures apparently so far from us.

I wonder how people would have been positive about engaging a war against a country if they only had known a bit more about it.

This makes me think of Abidin Travels, installation made by Iraqi artist Adel Abidin for the Venice Biennale 2007, and about how much of the great cultural history of Iraq remains now.

David Thorne: Overdue account

I would say this is about the value of things...with a touch of wit. But there is something more, his disarmingly innocent behavior has a disturbing effect in the everyday way of living. We are used to certain codes of behaving and disrupting them is one of the ways to make us aware of some given attitudes we have when we deal with other people.

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ART SWAP @ August art gallery, London

August art Gallery is organising an experiment on the value of art, and all (artists and non-) are invited to participate. The experiment is a part of the London EAST Festival, a collaboration of key cultural institutions including the Whitechapel Gallery.

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article In the Independent newspaper