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Human Rights Arts and Film Festival

'Human Rights in Art', Curated by Romy Sedman

Featuring Zehra Ahmed, Clifford Charles, Claudio del Fierro, Juan Ford, Alex Gibson, Matthew Hunt, Mark Hilton, Rafaat Ishak, Ash Keating, Deborah Kelly & Tina Fiveash, Andrew McQualter, Leonardo Ortega, Scott Redford, Christian Thompson, Culture Kitchen Collective, Gembel Collective, Taring Padi Collective, stART Community Artists & Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission Community Art Project.

27 November - 15 December 2007

Bus

117 Lt Lonsdale Street

Melbourne 3000

Wed-Sat 12-5

http://www.bus117.com/

CAPACETE Residency Announcement

Please read below for information regarding the CAPACETE residency program:

Applications for 2 residencies of each 2 month at CAPACETE (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil) are open.
You can apply if you are an artist, critic curator, architect and DJ.

1 residency for a brazilian

1 residency for a latin-american

Your application should follow the given context
We depart from the assumption that Brazil has ignored it military dictatorship past (1964/1985), it's most obscure period.
Thus there is the need to redefine priorities and identities in an increasingly multiracial space, taking at the same time into account the virulent conflicts that permeate contemporary interactions that cannot be understood as a mere "clash of social classes" but rather as complex sites of conviviality (Gilroy), contact zones (Pratt), in which the unevenness of former dependencies are prolonged and contested.
the resident inlcudes: transport two ways, all housing expenses, 1000 USD per-diem

Applications:
Please fill in the application form and together with your project proposal send it as a PDF file to residencia@capacete.net <mailto:residencia@capacete.net>
If you think it is necessary to send us a CD/DVD with photos or films - use the following address
CAPACETE entretenimentos
Assunto / Residência
Rua do Russel 300/601
Rio de Janeiro 22210 010

Applications are open until the 31 of december 2007
The selection will be done until 31 of january and annouced on our website: www.capacete.net <http://www.capacete.net/>
This residency is coordinated by CAPACETE - with support by Triangle Arts Trust of London, in association with lugar a dudas in Colombia, KISOKO in Bolivia and EL BASILSICO in Argentina _________________________________
Residentes CAPACETE setembro à janeiro 2007/2008 / CAPACETE residents as of September through 2007/2008
Residentes atuais / now in residence:
01/08 - 30/11/2007 - Victor Costales (Ecuador/Belarussia)
01/08 - 30/11/2007 - Julia Rometti (França)
01/09 - 30/11/2007 - Jonas Ohlson (Holand)
01/05 - 30/11/2007 - Margit Leisner (Paraná/Brasil)
01/05 - 30/12/2007 - Rubens Pileggi (Paraná/Brasil)
01/10 - 30/11/2007 - Daniela Abershan (Alemanha/Israel)

Próximos / next residence
01/11 - 31/01/2008 - Adriana Pinedo (Colombia)
01/12 - 31/01/2008 - Gilda Mantilla (Peru)
01/12 - 31/01/2008 - Raimond Chaves (Colombia)
01/11 - 31/12/2007 - Frank Neuman (Alemanha)

For further information regarding CAPACETE http://www.capacete.net/ingles/capacete.asp

Claudia del Fierro: The Sweet Promise @ Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago

Comments by the artist, Claudia del Fierro:

The Sweet Promise is a video installation that began by approaching people in Melbourne from various migrant backgrounds. The project developed through a series of conversations with a dozen local migrants who collaborated by sharing personal views about loss, longing and their sense of identity. The Sweet Promise has made it possible for me to engage with the local community from a privileged place: that of ‘the other’.

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As an artist from Latin America, my intention was to develop a collaborative work in Melbourne as a way of approaching some of the issues surrounding recent migration. The Sweet Promise mirrors my own past experiences as a migrant and premises strategies for an art practice that considers ‘cross border’ concerns.

My initial wish to attempt to place my practice in a ‘situation of risk’ has led me to experience displacement through the experiences of others, who have in turn shared their insight, helping to reformulate my work in unsuspected ways.

The installation at Project Space Gallery in Melbourne reflects the process of the work. Documentation in the form of text and video are exhibited together with collaborations in the form of music, sound, drawing or poetry, from people who were interviewed for this project.

The Sweet Promise. 2007. Installation. 2 video projections, 1 animation, sound, objects. Project Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. July 2007.
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile. November-Decemeber 2007.

Claudia del Fierro was the South Project/RMIT Artist-in-Residence for 2007, and The Sweet Promise was developed during her residency in Melbourne during June-July this year.