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New Life Copenhagen 2099 |
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Jan 30, 2009 |
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Due to an overwhelming number of submissions, we have decided to extend the NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN 2099 application deadline until August 31st 2009.
Applicants who have already submitted proposals, will still be contacted as promised during the old deadline.
Thank you all for your interest!
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Dec 04, 2008 |
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The Wooloo.org REBRANDING ACTS project has now traveled from Prague to
New York, where the opening of "Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding"
was announced by the New York Times and attended by hundreds of people.
10 Wooloo artists are presenting work in the exhibition that also
includes works by artists and collectives, such as Liam Gillick and The
Yes Men.
Exhibition Dates:
October 16, 2008 - February 1, 2009
The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, New York City
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Eat The Wall |
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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Rebranding Acts videos selected |
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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Starting on September 25th, ten selected videos by WOOLOO.ORG applicants will be screened daily as official part of TINA B. - The Prague Contemporary Art Festival taking place in Prague, Czech Republic from 25th of September to 15 October, 2008.
In New York, these video are furthermore included in the exhibition Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding taking place at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons/ the New School from October 15th, 2008 to January 30th, 2009.
To see the selected videos please go to : http://www.wooloo.org/rebranding/ |
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New Life Berlin Festival in review. |
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Sep 05, 2008 |
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NEW LIFE BERLIN FESTIVAL IN GERMAN RADIO |
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Jun 20, 2008 |
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Open Dialogues |
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Jun 13, 2008 |
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OIO Live |
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Jun 13, 2008 |
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Caban Unnos & Eminent Domain |
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Jun 12, 2008 |
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Caban Unnos |
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Jun 11, 2008 |
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Follow New Life Berlin |
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Jun 05, 2008 |
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Open Dialogues: New Life Berlin is a collaborative writing project that is taking place as part of the New Life Berlin festival.
Please go to www.wooloo.org/opendialoguesblog to follow the New Life Berlin Festival and the latest blog posts. |
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NEW LIFE BERLIN FESTIVAL IS STARTED |
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Jun 04, 2008 |
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Featuring work by more than 100 artists from the WOOLOO.ORG community, NEW LIFE BERLIN is taking place all over the city from June 1st to 15th. NEW LIFE BERLIN is an entirely artist-run festival and we have taken up the challenge of connecting the transnational resources of WOOLOO.ORG with the physical geography of Berlin to directly address the mechanisms of globalization.
NEW LIFE BERLIN PARTICIPANTS
30days, Abby Donovan, AIDS 3-D, Alexandria Clark, Alexis Zorbas, Ali&Cia (Alicia Rios Ivars, Barbara Ortiz & Simon Cohen), Amanda Gutierrez, Amenity Space, Anga'aefonu Bain-Vete, Ann Rapstoff, Anne Kathrin Greiner, Art & Economics Group (Tanja Ostojic, David Rych & Dmytri Kleiner), Art Haegenbarth, ArtSourceLab, Atya Grokhovsky, Barbara Rosenthal, Base North, Becky Yee, Brian Peterson, Carali McCall, Carrie Villines, Cassio Vasconcelos, Catherine Hyland, Charlotte Morgan, Cheree Mack, Christa Holka, Christian Glass, Christina Irrgang, Christopher Anthony Harden, Cia de Foto, Claire Louise Staunton, Clare Carswell, Claudia Jaguaribe, Coletivo 01, Diane Arbus, Diane Busuttil, Eleanor Hadley Kershaw, Elena Sorokina, Emily Pütter, Eve Hurford, Evi Lemberger, Fatima Miranda, Fedele Spadafora, Felipe Russo, Fiona, Franck Leibovici, GOLDRU$H, Gordon Sasaki, Going Nowhere, Greg Stevenson, HACK.fem.EAST (Tatiana Bazzichelli & Gaia Novati), Heiko Schmid, Iatä Cannabrava, Illugi Eysteinsson, JJ Liu, Joanna Loveday Jo-Anne Velin, Joaquim Gromicho, Jordi Burch, Katerina Valdivia Bruch, Kathryn Fischer, Kristin Mueller, Laboratorio Berlin (Concha Argueso, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian & Chus Lopez Vidal), Lars Vilhelmsen, Leo Königsberg, Linda Kuncicka, Lucia Baruelli, Lucilla Kossowska, Luis Yrache, Marco Ponce, Maria Kjartansdottir, Mariana Viegas, Marie Christine Katz, Marie-Laure de Beausacq, Marisa Olson, Mary Kate Connolly, Mary Paterson, Martin Ullate, Martin Kaltwasser, Mattia Reiniger, Matthew MacKisack, Meagan Crook-King, Megan Smith, Michiru Nakayama, Mona Ruijs, Myles Tweedie, Naghmeh Sharifi, Nathalie DeBeaujeux, Nathan Peter, Nick Tobier, Nicolas Silberfarben, No Fixed Abode (Horatio Eastwood & Terry Slater), OIO (Erika Matsunami & Antonis Anissegos), Patrick Grüneberg, Patrik Johansson, Paulo Batalha, Penna Prearo, Princess Aura, Queen Elizabeth, Rachel Lois Clapham, Regan McNeil, Robin McAulay, Rocco Rorandelli, Paz Tornero, Saatchi Online TV, Sabine Aichhorn, Sarah Stevens, Sasha Rudensky, Scott Kiernan, Scott Townsend, Sergio Zevallos,, Shelton Walker, Sheffield University School of Architecture Students, Stefanie Schairer, Suzanne Caines, S4C, Taeko Nasu, The Marionette Club, Travis Bickle, Tuca Vieira, Valerie Palmer, Virginie Lamarche, Why Waste?, Yiftach Belsky, Zachary Johnston, and many more...
ABOUT NEW LIFE BERLIN
NEW LIFE BERLIN is a contemporary art festival organized by WOOLOO.ORG and dedicated to new modes of moving and existing.
The festival will take place in Berlin, Germany between 1-15 of June 2008. Artists and writers are invited to participate in the festival program.
Please click on link below to learn more about the festival program and how to participate.
www.wooloo.org/festival
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Participatory project in review |
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Jun 03, 2008 |
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NEW LIFE BERLIN FESTIVAL OPENS ON SATURDAY |
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May 29, 2008 |
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We are happy to invite you to the opening of the very first WOOLOO.ORG festival this Saturday, May 31st 2008 in Berlin.
Featuring a site-specific installation by Nathan Peter from the WOOLOO.ORG community, this opening night will mark the beginning of two exciting weeks in Berlin. Taking place all around the city, NEW LIFE BERLIN will from June 1st to 15th take up the challenge of connecting the transnational resources of WOOLOO.ORG with the physical geography of Berlin to directly address the mechanisms of globalization.
We hope to see you to the start of it all on Saturday!
Time: 6 PM
Address: Choriner Strasse 85, Berlin-Mitte.
U-bahn: Rosenthaler Platz (U8)
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New Participatory Projects |
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Apr 23, 2008 |
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URBAN SPACE 2008 |
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Apr 15, 2008 |
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Enter the 2008 URBAN SPACE project.
URBAN SPACE 2008 is now open for submissions in the medium of photography! The deadline is May 1st, 2008.
Selected artists will, among other venues, be exhibiting at the contemporary arts festival New Life Berlin taking place in Berlin between may 15th and June 15th, 2008.
To submit an application go to :
www.wooloo.org/urbanspace
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URBAN SPACE Opening |
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Feb 28, 2008 |
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Please Join us for the Opening of URBAN SPACE this Thursday February 29th at CSV- Cultural Center New York
6:30 PM, 107 Suffolk Street, RM 312, New York, NY 10002 MAIN - 8 PM local time.
To enjoy the selected works of 2007 or sumbit works for Urban Space 2008, please go to :
http://www.wooloo.org/urbanspace
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PARTICIPATE IN NYLON RIOTS |
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Jan 24, 2008 |
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PARTICIPATE IN NYLON RIOTS
WOOLOO.ORG is pleased to present NYLON RIOTS - the first participatory exhibition created and developed by a member of the WOOLOO.ORG community and presented in NEW LIFE SHOP in Berlin.
Since December 2007, NYLON RIOTS, by Caroline Mak and Kevin Chan has transformed NEW LIFE SHOP into a clothing factory that requires the participation of both a global network of people and physical participants in the gallery space.
Come by NEW LIFE SHOP and participate yourself! T-shirt making (and drinks) will begin on Thursday, January 24th at 7 pm.
NEW LIFE SHOP
Choriner Strasse 85 -10119 Berlin-Mitte
U-Bahn/Subway: Rosenthaler Platz (U8) |
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GET FEEDBACK ON YOUR WORK |
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Jan 23, 2008 |
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GET FEEDBACK ON YOUR WORK
Are you in Berlin and would you like to receive feedback on your new work? Come by for a free individual or group 20-minute session with Transart Institute's international faculty, theorists, artists and curators.
(New Life) Trajectories is a joint-project of Wooloo and the Transart Institute international MFA program. Taking place in both Berlin and New York, the project presents two weekends of open feedback, exhibitions, and artist talks.
BERLIN OPENING + ARTIST TALKS: Saturday, January 26th, 5 pm - 9 pm
FEEDBACK SESSIONS: Sunday, January 27th, 3 pm - 7 pm
(For a feedback session, please RSVP to contact@wooloo.org) |
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Wooloo Productions talking at The New School in NYC |
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Nov 27, 2007 |
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Please join us in NYC for the public workshop: "Strategies of Occupation: Grabbing Land and The Political Agency of The Artist"
Thursday, November 29, 2-6 pm
Location:
The New School, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Wooloo.org users:
Please RSVP to contact@wooloo.org with full name to get on Guest List.
Admission without Guest List: $8 (free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni).
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Pablo Leon de la Barra selects People Soup collective |
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Nov 09, 2007 |
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About Pablo Leon de la Barra :
Pablo Leon de la Barra is an artist and curator. Born in Mexico City,he has lived and worked in London for the past 9 years. Running the London based gallery Blow de la Barra since 2005, he hosts a variety of artists such as Federico Herrero, Marcelo Krasilcic, Los Super Elegantes, Stephan Brueggemann and Matthieu Laurette.
Pablo León de la Barra takes the fusion of "life/art" into new levels. He has made of "exile" more than a political condition - the possibility of blurring national borders and questioning standard ideas of identity.
About People Soup collective:
People Soup is an artist collective from Chicago, Illinois. All of our current artwork and projects can be seen on our blog at peoplesoupcollective.blogspot.com including comics, performances, potlucks, dance parties, music, installation, painting, sculpture and videos.
About the selected exhibition "SOUPerior Posterior":
"SOUPerior Posterior was basically a free soup giveaway and performance. Before the trip we created some casts of Pro wrestlers butts and used the molds to make about 50 ceramic "ass bowls" to serve soup out of. We wore Mexican wrestling masks and served up some delicious home made soup out of Pro wrestlers asses. We toured different locations to host our soup exchange."
To see exhibition please go to : www.wooloo.org/peoplesoup
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WOOLOO ART EVENTS IN NEW YORK |
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Oct 29, 2007 |
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This year has been both the most exciting and productive in WOOLOO.ORG's five years as an online community connecting artists and curators. With so many artists participating in so many Wooloo.org projects this fall, we are thrilled to invite you to join us for the below events in New York!
LIFE EXCHANGE OPENING
On the night of Halloween, we invite you for a
life (ex)changing experience in Chelsea...
TIME:
Oct. 31st, 6-9 PM
PLACE:
449 West 24th Street, Apt. #1
New York, NY 10011
INFO:
www.wooloo.org/lifeexchange
AsylumNYC SCREENING
After more than a year's work, we look forward to presenting and discussing the very first screening of "A Documentary of AsylumNYC". The video documentary follows Wooloo's much discussed 2006 project AsylumNYC, in which 10 non-U.S. artists were detained in the art institution White Box competing for an artists visa.
TIME:
Nov. 6th, 7 PM
PLACE:
White Box
525 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
INFO:
www.wooloo.org/asylumnyc
LAND GRAB OPENING
The apexart exhibition LAND GRAB brings together artworks and actions concerned with contemporary land ownership. Curators Sarah Lookofsky and Lillian Fellmann have selected 16 Wooloo.org artists for participation in the exhibition.
TIME:
Nov. 7th, 6-8 PM
PLACE:
apexart
291 Church Street
New York, NY 10013
INFO:
www.wooloo.org/landgrabonline
IN PURSUIT: ART ON DATING OPENING
Wooloo's Avant-Garde Dating project has matched a multitude of artists from more than 30 countries. Out of these, three selected couples were earlier this year invited to Berlin to meet, work and live together for the first time in the Wooloo gallery New Life Shop. The results of these meetings will now be exhibited at the ISE Gallery in Soho as part of the exhibition In Pursuit: Art on Dating. Curated by Emma Brasó and Dan Leers.
TIME:
Nov. 30th, 6-8 PM
PLACE:
ISE Gallery
555 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
INFO:
www.wooloo.org/avantgardedating |
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Last selections to Land Grab Online |
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Oct 12, 2007 |
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Final selections for participation in Land Grab Online have been made by curators Lillian Fellmann and Sarah Lookofsky.
To see all selected artists, please go to:http://www.wooloo.org/project.php?id=12
Land Grab Online will be presented as part of the Land Grab exhibition at APEXART in New York City from November 7th to December 22nd, 2007.
We hope to see you at the exhibition opening on Wednesday, November 7th 2007 at APEXART.
APEXART
291 Church Street (between Walker and White), New York, NY 10013 USA
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Outlines of a Homeland |
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Oct 10, 2007 |
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Sneak preview of “Outlines of a Homelandâ€. By David Rych
October 15th at 8pm at New Life Shop in Berlin.
Konturen einer Heimat / Esboços de uma patria / Outlines of a homeland
(Danesch/ Rych)
72 min, 2007
"There is only one Tyrol..."
Outlines of a Homeland was shot in September 2005 in Brazil. The main location of the film is a Tyrolean colony, the “Dorf Tirolâ€, which remained as a consequence of the transatlantic migration stream going back to the year 1857.
In 1917, Brazil first declared war against Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire - In the second, following world war Brazil faced European fascism with an own army, whilst suppressing numerous immigrants of German descend and their language in Brazil. Due to the subsequent isolation, the Tyrolean colony had outlasted 150 years since its establishment in an hermetically isolated form in the highlands of the Federal State Espirito Santo - remote from politically relevant transformations in old Europe and Austria in particular - unaware of the end of monarchy, the period of national socialism and the establishment of the second republic. In the mid 60's, the Colônia Tyrol gained renewed attention due to the research of Austrian anthropologist Karl Ilg. His principal interest however was the preservation of German culture and language in those "lost" enclaves. From that time the influence of Austrian nationalistic and nostalgic projections towards the Colônia Tyrol continued into the present times.
New Life Shop
Choriner Strasse 85
10119 Berlin
U-Bahn Rosenthaler Platz (U8) |
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125 artists from wooloo.org selected to new exhibition |
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Oct 05, 2007 |
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Works of 125 artists from Wooloo.org forms the photo presentation URBAN SPACE.
URBAN SPACE has been selected to participate in the 5th edition of FOTO ARTE Brasilia in Brazil.
ECCO - Contemporary Cultural Space
Opening: October 16, 2007
Running time: October 17 - December 12, 2007
Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 9am - 7pm
www.eccobrasilia.com.br
www.fotoartebrasilia.com.br |
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Another four artists have been selected to participate in Land Grab Online |
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Oct 02, 2007 |
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Another four artists have been selected to participate in Land Grab Online, APEXART, New York City.
To enter your work please go to :http://www.wooloo.org/project.php?id=12
Land Grab Online will be presented as part of the Land Grab exhibition at APEXART in New York City from November 7th to December 22nd, 2007.
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Wooloo Productions invites you to the 2nd Avant-Garde Date |
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Sep 26, 2007 |
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THURSDAY, SEP. 27th, 6 – 11 PM
Avant-Garde Dating examines stereotypes of partnering in the increasingly common landscape of online matchmaking.
Via Wooloo.org, artists from more than 30 countries have applied to be matched in new couples. Three of these couples have now been invited to meet each other for the first time and live for one week in a gallery space.
Please join us for the arrival of Tanya Ury & Laurel Jay Carpenter on their first night in Berlin.
NEW LIFE SHOP
Choriner Strasse 85
10119 Berlin-Mitte
U-Bahn: Rosenthaler Platz (U8)
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First Avant-Garde Date is over |
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Sep 25, 2007 |
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Monogamous relationships are based in an agreement, a kind of contract that declares the body of the partner as a territorial ownership. That way the physical partner becomes something similar as a national territory. There are clear rules about who, and under which conditions, is allowed to enter this territory.
Sergio Zevallos and Fellis Stella investigated these similarities: On the one side, the ideologies that rules the behavior inside of a relationship and between the partners and other people outside the relational territory. On the other side, the idea of nationality as a natural, physical space that you are allowed to trespass, use, live in it, or not. The project was about the artificial aspects of both, the national and the partner identity. please go to www.wooloo.org/avantgardedating to see more documentation of their experience in New Life Shop. |
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Brazilian curators select two artists on wooloo.org |
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Sep 04, 2007 |
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Curator Ilana Bessler and the artists collective Bijari from Brazil highlights the work of artists Carmen Lizardo and Iswanto Hartono.
To view the work of the artists please go to :
www.wooloo.org/carmen
www.wooloo.org/iswantohartono
International curators view all exhibitions uploaded on Wooloo.org and the most outstanding work is subsequently nominated for the Wooloo Selections and announced in our newsletter.
To upload your own work for consideration, please sign up here
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Curators of Land Grab Online have so far picked 4 artists |
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Aug 27, 2007 |
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The ongoing selection process to Land Grab Online has started. First four has been selected.
Deadline for entering your work is October first and application is open to all Wooloo users.
Land Grab Online will be presented as part of the Land Grab exhibition at APEXART in New York City from November 7th to December 22nd, 2007.
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Further URBAN SPACE exhibitions |
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Aug 02, 2007 |
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The opening night of URBAN SPACE in Berlin and Rio went very well with more
than 400 visitors in the two locations.
URBAN SPACE has so far been selected for further participation in the 7th Festival of documentary photography FOTOPUB in Slovenia
(http://www.fotopub.com/english/eng.htm), as well as in the 5th edition of FOTO ARTE Brasilia (http://www.fotoartebrasilia.com.br/indexbpi.html ) in
Brazil.
While FOTO ARTE Brasilia will take place between October and December of
this year, FOTOPUB is opening already on the 6th of August and running to
the 11th.
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NEW SELECTION |
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Jul 24, 2007 |
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Ruth Le Gear selected by curator Maria Gadegaard, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark.
To view the art work go to: http://www.wooloo.org/ruthlegear/s3Synopsis.php
To be considered by our team of curators, please create an account and upload your own work. |
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WOOLOO project URBAN SPACE featured ON O GLOBO ONLINE |
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Jun 21, 2007 |
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WOOLOO project URBAN SPACE featured on O GLOBO ONLINE
To read the article go to:
http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/mat/2007/06/15/296287770.asp
For more information and to submit an application (deadline Juli first) go to :
http://www.wooloo.org/project.php?id=11 |
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NEW SELECTION |
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Jun 15, 2007 |
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Minou Norouzi selected by curator Sarah Lookofsky. Sarah Lookofsky is a Danish critic and curator. She presently holds the position of Program Coordinator at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York. Lookofsky has obtained an M.A. in Art History (2005) and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Art History, Theory and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego.
About Minou Norouzi :
Austrian/Iranian filmmaker, Minou Norouzi lives and works in London. She received her BA in 1995 from University of the Arts London (formerly London Institute) majoring in cinematography & documentary production.
Whilst giving the impression of layered fiction her work is routed in documentary practice.
Her thematic preoccupation lies in the psychological landscapes of incubated desire, displacement, authoritarianism & surrender, misplaced feminitnity, often framed within the mundane.
Her video works have been shown at The Battersea Arts Centre London, Institute of Contemporary Art London, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Everson Museum of Art NY, NT Centre for Contemporary Art Australia, Telic Gallery Los Angeles and The Tank NYC as well as at film festivals internationally.
She has worked in documentary productions for Channel 4, ITV, BBC2, and continues to work as a lecturer.
to view her work go to : http://www.wooloo.org/mnorouzi/s3Synopsis.php
To be considered by our team of curators please click sign up on front and upload your work.
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OPEN FORUM: Berlin, Wednesday June 13th - 8 PM |
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Jun 11, 2007 |
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OPEN FORUM: Berlin, Wednesday June 13th - 8 PM
Under the title "Strategies of Exhibition, Movement, and Representation", New Life Shop will launch its first Open Forum in collaboration with Amy Sadao from Visual AIDS in New York.
The Forum will give an overview of recent curatorial and collaborative arts projects in New York and will discuss practical opportunities for emerging and unrepresented artists wanting to exhibit their work in this location.
Time:
Wednesday, June 13th at 8 PM.
Address:
New Life Shop
Choriner Strasse 85
10119 Berlin-Mitte
U-Bahn Rosenthaler Platz (U8)
For additional information, please email us at contact@wooloo.org or call +49 (0)306 676 3097. |
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Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery in New York to exhibit Avantgarde Dating |
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May 25, 2007 |
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Avantgarde Dating has been included in an exhibition to be held at the ISE Foundation Gallery, Soho, New York.
Wooloo Productions will in collaboration with the participating artists produce a DVD of 20 minutes with documentation of the performance in New Life Shop, Berlin. The NYC exhibition is to open on the 16th of November, 2007.
Located in the heart of Soho, Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery is a not for profit art organization.
The gallery space in the basement floor of 555 Broadway, have been leading the NY art scene for more than 20 years. As they started by introducing up and coming Japanese artists, their programs evolved to Asian Art series(since '00) and now the program for emerging curators (P.E.C.) has become an acclaimed program which has been showing exhibits of promising curators.
To sumbit proposal for Avantgarde Dating please go to : http://www.wooloo.org/project.php?id=1
Deadline is July 20th.
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Oi Futuro |
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May 23, 2007 |
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Just announced, the venue for this July´s URBAN SPACE projections project will be the social cultural institute, Oi Futuro, in Rio de Janerio.
Wooloo project URBAN SPACE is part of the biannual Brazilian photography festival FotoRio, taking place in Rio de Janeiro in July 2007. The project invites photographic submissions from artists working with issues regarding the urban environment, such as anonymity, community, displacement, informal architectures and gentrification.
URBAN SPACE will select 20 wooloo artists for official participation in FotoRio. During the festival, the selected works will be projected at the prominent art and technology institute Oi Futuro in Rio de Janerio. Simultaneously with the projection in Brazil, the same selected works will be displayed on the walls of Berlin gallery New Life Shop.
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NEW SELECTION |
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May 18, 2007 |
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All artists on Wooloo are now being viewed by curators.
This month the exhibition Freeze Frames by Catriona Shaw was selected by curator Christian Skovbjerg Jensen Curator from the Danish art organisation publik. http://www.publik.dk/uk.htm
About the exhibition:
A series of drawings were shown to a small community in Finland. We discussed stories, dreams and experiences they associated with the images. From these discussions, screenplays and storyboards were drawn up and a series of short films produced. One of the films produced is featured on : http://www.wooloo.org/catrionashaw/ |
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NEW SELECTION |
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May 09, 2007 |
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Director of MuseumMAN, Adam Nankervis, selects Josefina Posch's exhibition "EIKASIA & The Pride of Progress" uploaded at wooloo.org.
Nankervis says: " There is a lyricism in her work which has resonance. The most beautiful of the images is from the series of China-the shadow puppet theatre which blends the traditional form of cultural story telling. A playful but poignant critique where the message/or the underbelly plays, like the theatre itself, is an underlying sublimation of what or of what not we are informed. In this case, the image informs with out falling into illustration. It has a seductive clout."
MuseumMAN is an open cabinet of curiosities tracing a history of two cities through an eclectic mix of art and artifact. With its roots in New York City, it has manifested its unique form of a lived in museum from Berlin to Liverpool.
MuseumMAN was represented at The Los Angeles Biennial 2001; LIFE/LIVE Musee D"Art Moderne de la Ville Paris-Centro Culturelle de Belem Portugal curated by Hans Ulrich Orbrist 1996; The Johannesburg Bienniale 1997 curated by Okwai Enwazor and Gerardo Mesquera; Boijmans von Boiningham curated by Peter Fillingham; and exhibited at the Liverpool Biennial 2004.
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Wooloo.org reaches all time high |
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May 01, 2007 |
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To offer artists better access to our many opportunities, Wooloo launched a new website front page in March 2007. Our goal was to create a more dynamic front display that improved interaction with participatory projects and other features on the site.
We are happy to announce that this improvement has so far resulted in the highest amount of interaction since our initial launch in 2002. Over 350 new artists joined wooloo in April 2007 and more than 250 exhibitions was uploaded.
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NEW SELECTION |
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May 01, 2007 |
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All artists on Wooloo are now being viewed by curators.
This month "North Epirus, an abandoned land" by Georgios Makkas was selected by curator Tumelo Mosaka from the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
About the exhibition:
This set of pictures taken in North Epirus, in the Southern Albania deals with the issue of migration in the aftermath of 45 years of oppression. The area of Epirus is located in the south west of the Balkan Peninsula, is divided between Greece and Albania and it’s mainly populated by Greeks. After the opening of the borders, about two thirds of the population of the area migrated to Greece. They left Albania because the economical and political instability, the collapse of infrastructures and the suppression of human rights. Nowadays villages that once had around 2000 population hardly have 100. The place is become deserted. |
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WOOLOO project Avant-Garde Dating featured in Flash Art |
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Apr 13, 2007 |
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Avant-Garde Dating
By Flash Art Online
A novel approach to collaboration and artist’s residencies, Avant-Garde Dating is a service, so to speak, designed to match artists with other artists from around the world in a residency/dating program. From a worldwide pool of applicants, three selected couples will spend a week together in a gallery in Berlin ‘collaborating.’ Curated by Tanja Ostojic, Raul Zamudio and Karen D. Peters in collaboration with Wooloo Productions in Berlin, the application deadline for this project is July 15th, 2007.
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Gallery opens in Berlin |
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Apr 01, 2007 |
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New Life Shop is a project-orientated gallery run by Wooloo Productions in Berlin.
New Life Shop is committed to the representation of interdisciplinary exhibition structures and the exploration of new modes of artistic collaboration.
New Life Shop is located at Choriner Strasse 85, 10119 Berlin and is open to the public from 12 pm – 6 pm, Tues - Sat.
For private views, please call: +49 (0)306 676 3097
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WOOLOO presents a new front site |
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Mar 14, 2007 |
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WOOLOO presents a new front site, made in collaboration with the award-winning design agency Codeluxe. We have aimed at creating a more dynamic front display that allows you to better interact with participatory projects and other relevant features.
In addition to the new design improvements, we have also upgraded the functionality of the site. Artists using Wooloo can now create exhibitions with both videos and still images, write and publish personal blogs, chose different templates to customize their exhibitions and participate in curated projects.
We are happy to announce that our growing network of international curators from now on will be browsing personal artist web sites to short-list the best works exhibited during the year.
We are confident that this enhanced exposure will lead to even more professional opportunities for artists using Wooloo.
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Performance creates international debate |
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Oct 30, 2006 |
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The Defending denmark project is an investigation of the nation state in a time of globalization. Taking its outset in the case of contemporary Denmark, this project utilizes performative means to explore the on-going crisis experienced by Western welfare states.
In March 2005, a member of Wooloo Productions joined the youth wing of the ultra-right nationalist Danish People's Party (DPP). The DPP is Denmark's third-largest party and is very influential in contemporary Danish politics. However, as all other parties in the Danish Parliament, the DPP is officially against racism.
With this outset - and using their official party member status - Wooloo Productions suggested to help the DPP denounce all forms of racism and hate speech internally. Unfortunately, the DPP refused all attempts at dialogue.
As a result, Wooloo Productions founded an anti-racist campaign by the name of Defending denmark and published video material - recorded at DPP's official youth party gathering in August the same year. The videos documented the youth wing of the extreme-right party drawing the Prophet Mohammad as a beer-drinking camel and a drunken terrorist attacking Copenhagen.
Only few hours after Danish media outlets had published the material, TV channels and newspapers in the rest of the world followed with reports of the case.
Before long, media outlets all over Denmark were portraying the Muslim community in both Denmark and abroad as being on the verge of violent protests. Images of burning Danish flags were re-used from the previous crisis, while the fact was that there were no burning flags this time.
Yielding to the growing media pressure, the Danish Prime minister condemned the behavior of the DPP - a party he closely collaborates with. Simultaneously, the political youth organizations of all major Danish parties stopped all cooperation with the DPP youth.
See: www.defendingdenmark.com for further details.
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WOOLOO in ART IN AMERICA |
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Jun 01, 2006 |
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ARTISTS COMPETE FOR U.S. ASYLUM
By Leigh Anne Miller
Late last year, the Berlin-based collective Wooloo Productions was honored with a Future of the Present award--given to artists or groups that "fully exploit the properties of the Internet as an art medium"--from New York's Franklin Furnace. They won $4,000 for asylumHOME.net, an on-line forum for people seeking asylum in the European Union. The award also came with an invitation to design an exhibition in New York based on their Web site.
Sixten Kai Nielsen and Martin Rosengaard, two young Danes who, along with a rotating group of others, run Wooloo, adapted asylumHOME. net into a round-the-clock project called AsylumNYC, a live exhibition installed in Chelsea's White Box gallery Apr. 24-29. Some 230 foreign-born artists from 43 countries applied to enter a competition with a high-stakes prize: the services of Daniel Aharoni, an immigration lawyer who will help the winner apply for a three-year artist visa, a service worth $5,000-10,000.
Wooloo chose 10 finalists; however, only eight were present in the gallery. Nigerian-born Isoje Chou (who lives in Canada) chose not to enter the U.S., and Antonio O'Connell Perez Rubio from Mexico was unable to receive a tourist visa in time. Both sent work, via post and e-mail, and remained eligible.
Each artist was presented with a litany of restrictive rules that were enforced by their "guards" (Nielsen and Rosengaard, dressed in colorful, Sergeant Pepper-style suits). The perimeter of the gallery was sectioned off into 10 "cells," and artists were not permitted to leave their small rectangle of space.
Wooloo provided only paper, pens, a foam sleeping pad and three meals a day. The artists were not allowed to bring in any of their own supplies or electronics, and were completely reliant on gallery visitors to supplement their meager artistic rations.
A slew of fascinating works emerged from the voluntary quarantine. Unlike her competitors, Brazilian photographer liana Bessler strictly adhered to the rules and used only her Wooloo-issued pen and notebook. On each sheet of lined paper, Bessler drew a generic facial diagram and relied on audience participation to complete the portrait. Next to each feature, the contributing portraitist checked off the box that best defined his or her style or ethnic "look." Your nose could be Jewish, pointy, round, pierced or Greek, and skin could be black, white, Latino, Asian, Indian or tanned (one inventive visitor wrote in "human").
At the last minute, Martin C. Liu Associates, an immigration law firm, volunteered its services so that Nielsen and Rosengaard were able to pick two winners: one for political reasons and one for artistic merit. Somewhat predictably, Rubio was awarded the political prize. His cell was littered with printouts of e-mails between himself and Nielsen as they frantically discussed how Rubio might make it to New York by the start of the project.
The artistic prizewinner was Dusanka Komnenic, an abstract painter from Serbia and Montenegro and the creator of the most well-developed project. Komnenic's installation investigated the function of borders by making them obsolete. She covered herself and her cell with alternating strips of black and white tape. Komnenic boldly extended the prisonlike pattern out of her cell, across the floor and up a ramp so that she was able to move around the gallery--and almost out the door--without technically breaking the rules, as she remained within her newly defined borders.
It's unclear how smoothly the visa application process will proceed. It also seems that Wooloo could have chosen artists who don't already live in the U.S. (four of the participants, including Komnenic, currently have work or student visas that will soon expire). If all goes according to plan, two artists will soon get a chance to try their hand at conquering the U.S. art world.
COPYRIGHT 2006 Brant Publications, Inc.
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WOOLOO project on BBC World |
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May 02, 2006 |
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BBC WORLD Reports on Participatory Project AsylumNYC.
By Alex Gallafent
AsylumNYC involves ten international artists who are held in mock detention for several days inside a New York City art gallery. One of the participants will be selected to receive the legal aid necessary to obtain an artist visa in the United States.
Link to radio program: http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/1583 |
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Gotham Gazette.com on AsylumNYC |
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May 01, 2006 |
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AMERICAN IDYLL (FOR FOREIGN ARTISTS)?
By Jonathan Mandell
It all seemed a little creepy -- a cross between "American Idol" and one of those sadistic social science experiments from the 1960s -- when, on the first night, the foreign artist-contestants arrived in the Chelsea gallery, handed over their passports to the stern-looking young man in a uniform, and sat on their assigned mattresses in a row along a barren wall. They had become detainees.
"Before I got here, I was really nervous," Maria Sanjines, an artist from Colombia, South America, told me. "And now I see why."
"I didn't know this would be so extreme," said Dusanka Komnenic, an abstract painter from Serbia and Montenegro.
The two women were among the ten foreign artists from four continents who had been selected to participate in AsylumNYC, a week-long art competition and exhibition held last month at the White Box gallery.
Only two things were clear at the outset. First, the winner of the competition would get the free services of an immigration lawyer, who would help them apply for a particular type of visa for "extraordinary ability in the field of arts" that, if granted, would enable them to stay in the United States for three years.
Second, little else was clear -- not how the 10 finalists were chosen out of the 235 artists from 43 countries who applied; not how the winner would be chosen; not why the finalists were being asked to eat and sleep for five days and nights in the gallery under a set of draconian and arbitrary rules. They were not allowed to leave their assigned space without permission, could not talk to each other, could only speak to visitors and only in English, and were required to create a work of art using only materials that they could wrangle from visitors to the gallery. They were given a prison-drab green t-shirt to wear.
“We're creating an impossible situation, and we're making an impossible choice," said Martin Rosengaard, the man wearing the uniform (which, with pink piping and epaulettes, looked like an outfit that Michael Jackson might wear.) He is a member of the Berlin-based art collective, Wooloo Productions, that came up with AsylumNYC, the latest of their art projects.
â€The first day I was depressed,†Valeria Cordero, an artist from Venezuela, said on the third day. “I understand what they’re doing now. They’re replicating the conditions that immigrants face. This is not really about art, it’s about immigration.â€
Taylor and Kat and Ace and Mandisa and Bucky knew what it took to become an American Idol. But for Dusanka and Maria and Marlina and Nao and other foreign artists, the rules for becoming an American -- or even just performing in America -- can be excruciating.
BARRIERS FOR WOULD-BE ARTIST IMMIGRANTS
Artists who wish to come to the United States face many of the same barriers that confront any immigrants, along with some additional obstacles.
"It's always been completely different to get immigration services for artists than anybody else," says Leon Wildes, a practicing immigration lawyer in New York for 45 years who is best known for having successful represented John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the government's efforts to deport them. "The law has always been based on having an applicant for immigration be sponsored by an employer, who guarantees a salary and so forth. But most artists are self-employed; nobody wants to hire a fine artist or a composer. The government has never amended the law to accommodate artists."
Nao Matsumoto, a furniture maker from Japan who now lives in Brooklyn (and one of the ten AsylumNYC finalists), certainly does not feel accommodated. “I don’t understand why we need a sponsor to apply for any visa. I have seen enough examples of employers completely manipulating immigrant workers using the green card or the work visa as leverage to make them work in bad conditions.†Nevertheless, artists and craftsmen must seek out a sponsor, and so, he says, “it is not what we as individuals want to do in this country, but what the sponsor wants to do using us.â€
While Matsumoto expresses some sympathy with the foreigners who are in the United States illegally, he also is frustrated that so much attention has been on them lately, while those in the country legally can also face difficulties; his own legal visa is running out in a few weeks. “I am a professional craftsman and I have had all my higher education, undergrad and graduate, in the U.S. I have been living in this country for 12 years abiding by all the rules as a legal immigrant, paying taxes every single year. At this point, my feelings are, why not let me stay?â€
Shahzia Sikander is one of the lucky artists from abroad. Born in Pakistan, where she attended the National College of Arts, Sikander came to the United States to study at the Rhode Island School of Design. On one of her first visits to New York City, she recalls, she went to the Drawing Center, and told them “I have my work with me. Can I show you?†They said they had only ten minutes to look at it. But that, as it turns out, was all it took: “They accepted me into a show.â€
Her modern take on traditional miniature painting soon was exhibited at museums such as the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art. Now living in New York City, Sikander has an EB-1 visa, a category that accepts her as an artist of exceptional ability and allows her to stay in the United States as long as she wants. But even she does not sound please at the way things are set up. â€It took eight years,†she says. “I couldn't leave the country. It was kind of an imprisonment.â€
DIFFICULT TO VISIT
Not all foreign artists would like to live here. Some merely want to visit – musicians, dancers and artists to perform, visual artists to accompany exhibitions of their work. That has become increasingly difficult as well.
â€There are only 10,000 O-1 temporary visas for solo performers granted in the entire United States each year,†says immigration attorney Daniel Aharoni.
And in the past five years, it has been more inconvenient to get hold of those visas. "Since 9/11, the government must eyeball every applicant," Aharoni says. In those countries where there are no American embassies or consulates, the applicant must make a trip to the closest one, which can be quite far away.
This is an inconvenience felt not just by the artists, but by their (would-be) American audiences.
The cellist Yo-Yo Ma told Congress last month the story of two Iranian musicians who have performed in the United States some 10 times over the past decade, yet were forced to fly from Iran to Dubai three times in order to obtain a visa from the American embassy there in order to perform for an 11th time in the United States. “The process cost $5,000 and lasted three months,†Ma said. Other musicians, “Zola, one of the prodigies of the long-song tradition in Mongolia, and Wu Tong, the virtuosic Chinese Sheng player and singer,†were shut out completely.
"It is on behalf of these culture guides that I am here today to urge you to simplify the visa process," the cellist testified in front of members of the House Government Reform Committee, so that there will no longer be such "extraordinarily high" barriers to have foreign artists visit the United States.
The visa application process for artists is so complex that a number of non-profit agencies have put together a Web site, Artists From Abroad, as a guide to the "principal nonimmigrant work-related visa categories used by the performing arts world." (Among the questions it tries to answer – what tangible proofs one needs to persuade the authorities that one is an artist of extraordinary ability.)
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AsylumNYC is over! |
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May 01, 2006 |
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Participatory project AsylumNYC is over - along with a very intense and interesting week.
The level of viewer interaction was extraordinary, with more than 2.000 visitors coming by White Box in Chelsea to experience the project and artists works for themselves. Additionally, the extensive media coverage from New York Times, CNN, BBC and numerous other media outlets has meant that an estimated 90.000.000 (!) individuals were informed about the project globally.
At the project closing, Dusanka Komnenic from Serbia and Montenegro was awarded the free legal services of immigration lawyer Daniel Aharoni, Attorney at Law. If all goes well, she will have her 3-year artists visa to the United States of America before long.
Komnenic was selected from the 10 artists invited to participate in AsylumNYC on the ground that her artistic project managed to break the most mental and visual borders - without actually breaking any of the project rules.
As a pleasant surprise on the last day, immigration lawyer Martin C. Liu decided to support AsylumNYC with pro-bono legal services for yet another artist. Mexican participant Antonio O’Connell Perez Rubio was selected to receive this service.
O’Connell was not able to physically attend the project in White Box, as he was denied entrance to the United States of America by the official authorities. Nonetheless, he managed to participate from afar, involving visitors in New York City and elsewhere via phone and internet, while by his absence clearly illustrating the situation of many contemporary immigrants.
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AsylumNYC in TIME OUT NEW YORK |
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Apr 27, 2006 |
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ALIEN NATION
By Howard Halle
The Desperate world of refugees meets Survivor in Chelsea.
What would you get if Survivor’s Jeff Probst ran a refugee camp in a Chelseagallery and called it art? Something like AsylumNYC, the performance exhibition continuing this week at White Box on West 26th Street.
The project is the brainchild of Wooloo Productions, a Berlin collective that has been forcusing on the refugee problem in Europe for the past several years. “Our work is in the borderland between art and social activism,†says Wooloo´s Martin Rosengaard. “Here, we’re working with a privileged group-artists. But we want to exchange the identity of the artist for that of the immigrant.â€
To that end, ten artists from many countries have been confined to the gallery. They each have their own spot, which they can’t leave for meals or bathroom breaks without asking the project’s “administrators†(which include Rosengaard). The artists have not been allowed to bring materials, and yet they’re expected to make art, mainly by interacting with visitors (getting them to bring paint, say). The “best†artist at the end of the week will get a chance to apply for a visa to remain in the U.S.
Rosengaard, who’s Danish, admits to parallel with Survivor, including rule changes introduced to stir up a sense of uncertainty. “We’re trying to create an impossible situation,†he allows, “but it’s no difference from one refugees face.â€-
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AsylumNYC opens in New York |
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Apr 24, 2006 |
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WOOLOO presents all non-US artists with the opportunity to exhibit and live in New York City with the participatory project AsylumNYC.
In collaboration with White Box in New York, Wooloo offers a creative asylum for artists working in all mediums. AsylumNYC will provide selected artists with both an exhibition at a recognized New York institution and the legal aid necessary to obtain an artists visa in the United States.
The application period opened on February 7th, 2006 and ended on April 1st, 2006. A total of 235 artists from 43 different countries applied.
10 artists have now been selected for participation in the project. From Monday, April 24th until Saturday April 29th, these 10 individuals will be kept in detention in White Box while producing their work. They will not be permitted to leave the gallery at any time.
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WOOLOO in NEW YORK TIMES |
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Apr 23, 2006 |
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NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE: FIRST PRIZE - A CHANCE TO STAY
By Gergana Koleva
Partisans in the roiling national debate over immigrant rights have waged their fight in Congress and on the streets of American cities. A more out-of-the-way front will open this week when an art collective takes over a Chelsea gallery for a week with a guest-worker program of its own: a show that doubles as a contest pitting foreign-born artists against one another in their quest for permanent residency here.
More than 200 artists from 43 countries applied to take part in the experiment, "AsylumNYC" at the White Box Gallery, and the collective, Wooloo Productions, narrowed the field to 10. Upon arriving at the gallery on Monday, the "contestants" will have to give up all of their own materials. In exchange, each will be issued pen, paper, a mattress and space on the floor. For the rest of the week, that's where they'll live, getting three meals a day and creating artwork to be judged by two Wooloo members on Saturday. Where they get other materials from is their problem, but they can't leave.
The prize is the services of Daniel Aharoni, an immigration lawyer who has promised to help the winner secure an O-1 artist visa good for three years. (His fees will be covered by Franklin Furnace, an avant-garde group in Downtown Brooklyn and a sponsor of the show.) Wooloo will also organize a New York solo show for the winner.
That much is clear. What the contestants are being asked to create is hazier. Indeed, Wooloo's aim all along has been to mimic the uncertainty of the immigrant experience. According to Martin Rosengaard, director of the collective, that means applicants who persistently ask the right questions — pressing the show's organizers for details about the contest or hitting up gallery visitors for extra supplies — have an advantage.
"Yikes! What am I gonna do, just sit there?" Naohisa Matsumoto, 33, said when a reporter told him of the rules. Mr. Matsumoto, a Japanese furniture designer who lives in Brooklyn, applied to "AsylumNYC" because his work visa expires next year. But the contest's limits present a problem: "I'm an object-maker and I need specific materials, specific tools."
Dusanka Komnenic, 29, a painter from Serbia and Montenegro, was surprised but unfazed: "It will be interesting to see what interaction is created between us in the box and 'them' in the outside world," said Ms. Komnenic, who teaches at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design under the provisions of a student visa that will expire in July. "It's sort of a gladiators' arena in a sophisticated setting."
To Lanfranco Aceti, a mixed-media artist from Cassino, Italy, that sounded too much like exploitation, an aspect of the immigrant experience he could do without: two days after learning Wooloo had accepted his application, he decided not to take part.
LINK TO article: http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/arts/design/23koleva.html |
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