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Opportunities: Open call for proposals for EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial 2016

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EVA International 2014 Edition AGITATIONISM, curated by Bassam El Baroni, exhibition venue detail, Photo: Deirdre Power

OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS
EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial 2016

Still (the) Barbarians
Curated by Koyo Kouoh
16 April–10 July 2016

Deadline: 12.00pm IST* 15 June 2015

www.opencall.eva.ie

EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce that the 37th edition in 2016 will be curated by Koyo Kouoh, independent curator and founding artistic director of RAW Material Company, a centre for art, knowledge and society in Dakar, Senegal.

EVA 2016 will be titled Still (the) Barbarians and will investigate the post-colonial condition of Ireland as a point of departure from where artistic reflections, critical redefinitions and political transformations are articulated. The biennial programme will address artistic, architectural, literary and critical positions that interpret colonial effects on the psyche, landscape and imagination, and that continue to shape our present condition. Artists’ projects will be selected through an open call for proposals. Proposals are invited from individual artists or groups in response to the curatorial project Still (the) Barbarians and in the context of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.
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Review: BNLMTL 2014 – An Archeology of the Future

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Anton Vidokle and Pelin Tan, still from Episode 2, 2014 from 2084: A Science Fiction Show, 2012–2014. Three channel video installation. Each episode: 22 mins, total duration: 66 mins. Courtesy of the artists , produced by La Biennale de Montréal for BNL MTL 2014

BNLMTL 2014
L’avenir (looking forward)
22 October 2014 – 4 January 2015
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
and other venues

Text by Miwa Kojima

After undergoing major transformations which involved merging with the Quebec Triennial, partnering with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) and recruiting Sylvie Fortin (former editor-in-chief of Atlanta-based art magazine Art Papers) as artistic director, the Biennale de Montreal (BNLMTL) opened its eighth edition between 22 October 2014 and 04 January 2015, under the title “L’avenir (looking forward)”. Fortin teamed up with MACM in-house curators Lesley Johnston and Mark Lancot in addition to guest curators Gregory Burke and Peggy Gale to invite over 50 individual artists and collectives from 22 different countries. Among this wider range of demography, some have critiqued the Biennale’s lack of diversity since a majority of these artists are now based in Canada, USA and Europe. Yet the numerous individual projects do confront local, national and global perspectives, to relate to current issues such as the global economy, climate change, technology, along with a myriad of other approaches to envisage the possible futures yet to come, in and out of western perspectives. M-KOS offers one last opportunity to review this Biennale for ourselves, now in its final days of exhibition.
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Slide Show: Aichi Triennale 2013 [More Photos Added!]

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Kenji Yanobe, The Wedding of the Sun (Ultra Sun Child), 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Nobutada Omote

Kenji Yanobe, Sun Child no.2, 2011. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Katsuhiro Miyamoto, Fukushima Daiichi Sakae Nuclear Plant, 2013. Cad drawing. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013

Katsuhiro Miyamoto, Fukushima Daiichi Sakae Nuclear Plant, 2013. installation in situ. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Tetsuo Ito

Mika Taanila, The Most Electrified Town in Finland, 2004–2012. 3 Channel video installation. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Tetsuo Ito

Fumiaki Aono, Repair/Substitute/Combine/Penetration/Juxtaposition (Restored Car Picked Up in Higashi-Matsushima) 2013. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Aernout Mik, Cardboard Walls, 2013. Installation View. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Tetsuo Ito

Han Feng, Floating City 2011–2013, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Min-jeong Seo, Sum in a Point of Time III, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Min-jeong Seo, Sum in a Point of Time III, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Song Dong, Wisdom of the Poor: Borrow Right Garden, 2013 Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Thomas Hirschhorn, Ruheraum mit Tränen (Quiet Room with Tears), 1996. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Cornelia Parker, Perpetual Canon, 2004. Installation view Collection of Contemporary Art Fundación “la Caixa” Photo: Tetsuo Ito. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo:

Cornelia Parker, Perpetual Canon, 2004. Installation view Collection of Contemporary Art Fundación “la Caixa”. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Goro Hirata, Mind Space: Garden in the Air, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Tetsuo Ito

Goro Hirata, Mind Space: Garden in the Air, 2013. Inside detail. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Tetsuo Ito

Junya Ishigami, Little Gardens, 2007. Mixed Media. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Junya Ishigami, Little Gardens, 2007. Detail. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Peter Welz & William Forsythe, whenever on on on nohow on | airdrawing, 2004. 5 channel video installation. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Phillipe Ramette, Contemplation irrationalle, 2003. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013

Mitch Epstein, Installation View. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo:Tetsuo Ito.

Mitch Epstein, BP Carson Refinery, California, 2007. Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York and Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln.

Nikki Luna, Flying with Briken Wings, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Tetsuo ito

Nikki Luna, Flying with Briken Wings, 2013. Detail. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Tetsuo ito

Yoshio Isaka, Miho Ohtsubo, Shinjiro Okamoto, Reiko Kobori, Yoko Shimizu, Mio Shirai, Akira Matsumoto, Keisuke Yamaguchi, Shuye Wang, Pythagoras3 "Earth Attack" 2013. Courtesy the artists and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Tetsuo Ito

Yoshio Isaka, Miho Ohtsubo, Shinjiro Okamoto, Reiko Kobori, Yoko Shimizu, Mio Shirai, Akira Matsumoto, Keisuke Yamaguchi, Shuye Wang, Pythagoras3 "Earth Attack" 2013. Courtesy the artists and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Tetsuo Ito

Rias Ark Museum of Art, Documentation of East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, 11 March 2013. Installation view. Courtesy Rias Ark Museum of Art and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Tetsuo Ito

Miwa Yanagi, Attendant Performance, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Terunobu Fujimori, Flying Mud Boad, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013

Alfredo Jaar, We Shall Bring Forth New Life /Umashimenkana (For Sadako Kurihara and the children of Ishinomaki), 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Sakae Fukuoka

Alfredo Jaar, We Shall Bring Forth New Life /Umashimenkana (For Sadako Kurihara and the children of Ishinomaki), 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Sakae Fukuoka

Jun Aoki & Hiroshi Sugito [SPIDERs], The Red and Blue Line. 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artists and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Boonsri Tangtrongsin, The Plant (from Superbarbara Saving the World), 2012–2013. Drawn animation film. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Kohei Nawa, Foam, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Kosuke Ikeda, Cyclequake, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Angelica Mesiti, Citizens Band, 2012. 4 channel vie installation. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Yoshihiro Kikuyama

Angelica Mesiti, Citizens Band, 2012. 4 channel vie installation. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Yoshihiro Kikuyama

Noe Aoki, Furisosogu mono/Nayabashi (Something floating down/Nayabashi), installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Kristina Norman, After-War, 2009. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Yoshihiro Kikuyama

Mari Katayama, Eyes, 2012. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Hisashi Takeda, Double Fiction, 2012. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Nira Pereg, Sabbath 2008, 2008. Video installation. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Yoshihiro Kikuyama

Richard Wilson, Lane 61, 2013. installation in situ. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Richard Wilson, Lane 61, 2013. installation in situ. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Yoshihiro Kikuyama

Guerra de la Paz, Secret Garden, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Bashir Makhoul, Enter Ghost, Exit Ghost. 2012. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Bashir Makhoul, Enter Ghost, Exit Ghost. 2012. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Lieko Shiga, Rasen Kaigan (Spiral Coast), 2012–2013. Instalation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Yoshihiro Kikuyama

Studio Velocity (Kentaro Kurihara & Miho Iwatsuki), Wind Space, 2013. Installation in situ. Courtesy the artists and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Noe Aoki, Furisosogu mono (Something Falling Down)/Former Azami Hair Salon, 2013. Installation in situ. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Noe Aoki, Furisosogu mono (Something Falling Down)/Former Azami Hair Salon, 2013. Installation in situ. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

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Nadegata Instant Party, Studio Tube, 2013. Installation in situ. Courtesy the artists and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Nadegata Instant Party, Studio Tube, 2013. Installation in situ (inside). Courtesy the artists and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Open United Studio, Choja-Machi Blue Print, 2013. Installation in situ. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Å kart, Installation view. 2013. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Kacey Wong, Drift City, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo : Tamotsu Kido

Kacey Wong, Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Belongs to Birds & Fish, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo : Tamotsu Kido

Yoko Ono, Joy of Life, 2013. Nagoya TV Tower. Noe Aoki, Furisosogu mono (Something Falling Down)/Former Azami Hair Salon, 2013. Installation in situ. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013.

Aichi Triennale 2013 "Awakening: Where Are We Standing? – Earth, Memory and Resurrection"

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Review: Aichi Triennale 2013 “Awakening: Where Are We Standing? – Earth, Memory and Resurrection”

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Alfredo Jaar, Bringing Forth New Life / Umashimenkana (For Sadako Kurihara and the children of Ishinomaki), 2013. Black boards, video projection. Courtesy the artist and Aichi Triennale 2013. Photo: Fukuoka Sakae

Text by Miwa Kojima

The second edition of Aichi Triennale opened to the public on 10 August in the cities of Nagoya and Okazaki in Aichi prefecture, under the theme “Awakening: Where Are We Standing? – Earth, Memory and Resurrection”. 76 artists from over 25 countries are featured in various locations, spread across five different sites – Sakae; Shirakawa Park; Choja-Machi; Nayabashi (Nagoya) and Okazaki. As the title suggests, this event offers a range of reflections on the socio-political repercussions and the environmental impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011. While artists in the triennale ponder on the catastrophic aftermath, Japan still faces a numbers of urgent issues – many Tsunami ravaged areas are still barely re-constructed; Tens of thousands of evacuees from the area around the Fukushima nuclear plant are still unable to go home; tons of highly contaminated radioactive water are still flowing into the Pacific from Fukushima nuclear plant, and the list goes on.
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Extending human vision: Interview with Paul Wombell, guest curator for Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 13

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Raphaël Dallaporta, CHESME SHAFA. Balkh Province, Afghanistan. From the Achaemenid period (6th–4th century BC) to the Ghorid period (12th–13th century AD), 2011, from the series Ruins (2011). Detail. Chromogenic print on Dibond, 120x150cm. Courtesy of the artist.
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Paul Wombell is an independent UK based writer and curator of photography. Previously directing two of the UK’s top photography institutions as well as curating many photo festivals in Europe, Wombell was invited as guest curator for the 13th edition of Le Mois de la Photo à  Montreal, the city’s international photography biennale. In this short interview during the opening event, Wombell talked to M-KOS about his motivations to theme this year’s program under “Drone: The Automated Image” so to suggest the camera is imposing its own agency in relation with humans and thus to further question the meaning of being human in the technology age.

MKOS: How did you start the process of curating Le Mois de la Photo?

Paul Wombell [PW]: This started 26 months ago, a long time ago, I put the proposal in to the biennale and I was quite surprised that they accepted it. The premise was the idea of humans using technology to see or to extend human vision. The key concept was the idea of the drone, which was the idea of using a form of technology to see in the distance, partly with all the military issues with the American government and the idea of surveillance. But I took that as a kind of metaphor to look beyond just the drone. Continue reading “Extending human vision: Interview with Paul Wombell, guest curator for Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 13”

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DRONE: The Automated Image – Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 13

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Trevor Paglen, Reaper Drone: Indian Springs, NV; Distance – 2 miles, 2010. Courtesy of the artist; Metro Pictures, New York; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; and Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne

DRONE: The Automated Image
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 13
5 September – 5 October 2013
25 exhibitions in 14 sites across Montréal

Guest curator: Paul Wombell

International photography biennale “Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal” opens its 13th edition on 5 September through to 5 October, to present 25 local, national and international artists on 14 different sites across the city, under the theme of “DRONE: The Automated Image”.

This year’s guest curator Paul Wombell developed this theme by focusing on the materiality of the camera and its changing relationships with human operators, to trace the evolving shapes and characteristics of the camera over the past 40 years which is nowadays adapting more to the advent of drone and other machine behaviours. The artists herein explore human co-authorships with advancing imaging technology, how to creatively deal with intelligent cameras and their transformation into systems that may one day literally capture the imagination. Continue reading “DRONE: The Automated Image – Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 13”

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Opportunities: Open Call for Proposals – eva International 2014, Limerick, Ireland

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“Launch” (2012) by Dublin based art collective Basic Space, a part of the eva international 2012 project “Graceland”. Courtesy the artists and eva International.

eva International
Biennial of Visual Art
12 April – 6 July 2014
Limerick City, Ireland

Curator: Bassam El Baroni

Deadline: Monday 2 September 2013, 5pm

eva International, Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art, is pleased to launch the international open call for proposals for the 2014 edition, curated by Bassam El Baroni. Applications are invited from individual artists or groups in any medium and can be for the presentation of existing works or production of new projects. The online application process is now open and closes at 5pm on Monday 2 September 2013.
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Newslinks – Venice Digest and Other Links

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Raphaëlle de Groot’s performance during the preview week for the Venice Biennale. Courtesy Galerie de l’UQAM. Photo: Gwenaël Bélanger

Venice Digest

■ Tino Sehgal won the Golden Lion prize for best artist, in Massimiliano Gioni’s “The Encyclopaedic Palace” exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale. Seghal’s acceptance speech at the ceremony can be heard here. [BiennaleChannel]

■ The Golden Lion for best National pavilion was awarded to Angola, who presented in Venice for the first time with a commission by two architects (Paula Nascimento and Stefano Rabolli Panserato) to curate “Beyond Entropy”. The concept of the exhibition started off with the paradoxical nature of the Biennale’s theme, The Encyclopaedic Palace, claiming that: “No building could ever contain all the knowledge of the world”. Nascimento and Panserato’s interview can be seen here. [BiennaleChannel]
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Biennales and Triennales 2013 [Updated!]

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Ernesto Neto, While Culture Moves Us Apart, Nature Brings Us Together, 2013. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 11. Courtesy Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo & Tanya Bonakdar Gallery NY

M-KOS is continuing, as always each year, to add more dates to its calendar of biennials and triennials, even while a quarter of 2013 has already passed. Many are coming just in time for the summer, including June’s Venice Biennale, back with the youngest curator ever for this event, Massimiliano Gioni is hinting at the program of exhibition in titling the 55th edition ‘The Encyclopedic Palace’. Pittsburgh’s 56th Carnegie International is just barely older than Venice, having first inaugurated in 1896, and is due to kick off in October under the curation of Daniel Baumann, Dan Byers and Tina Kukielski. The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial has closed its four month long exhibitions earlier this month but more projects are expected in the region, from the likes of the 5th Auckland Triennial with curator Hou Hanru, the 2nd Aichi Triennale in Japan and more. The highly anticipated Performa 13 will ensure the delivery of live art this coming autumn along with Vancouver’s ¡Live! in September, in a slightly more modest scale. New biennale entries for 2013 include the Online Biennale directed by Jan Hoet, which will open on 26 April. For this, the Online Biennale invited 30 curators from different parts of the world, including über-personalities like Nancy Spector at Guggenheim, Hans Ulrich Obrist at Serpentine and more. Continue reading “Biennales and Triennales 2013 [Updated!]”

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Opportunities: Call for Guest Curator Proposals for the 14th edition of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal in 2015

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Claire Savoie, Aujourd’hui (dates-vidéos), 2006–2011. Installation view, at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2011. Courtesy the artist, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal

Call for Guest Curator Proposals

Deadline for preliminary proposal: Thursday 28 February 2013

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal is seeking the guest curator and theme for the 14th edition of its international biennale of contemporary photography that will take place in September 2015. The organization is soliciting brief, preliminary proposals (one page) from which a short list of candidates will be asked to submit more detailed dossiers.
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