LOS LADRONES VIEJOS: LAS LEYENDAS DEL ARTEGIO



LOS LADRONES VIEJOS: LAS LEYENDAS DEL ARTEGIO
(OLD THIEVES: LEGENDS OF ARTEGIO)

Dir Everado González, Mexico, 2007, 97 min (Spanish with English subtitles)

Los Ladrones Viejos was one of the audience favourites at the 2008 Melbourne International Latin American Film Festival, and with good reason. This compelling documentary explores the lives and times of Mexico City's 'gentleman thieves', veterans of a golden era where burglars operated according to strict codes of ethics and non-violence, and where their reputation in the underworld grew in direct proportion to the artistry and audacity of their modus operandi.

Tickets: $13, $10 (conc.); Admission 18+
Thursday 29 May, 7.30pm, Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon Street
CarltonOn sale at the Cinema Nova box office: 9347 5331, 9349 5201 or online via www.cinemanova.com.au

Founded in 1999, Melbourne Filmoteca is an independent, non-profit, volunteer-run group which aims to provide a clearing for people with a broad range of interests and backgrounds to learn about and appreciate not only film, video and screen culture from the regions, but also the language, music and cultures of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world. www.melbournefilmoteca.org

Abraaj Capital Art Prize (ENG)

Application Deadline for 1 Million USD Abraaj Capital Art Prize Set for Mid-June

Artists and curators from MENASA region vie to create innovative projects for Art Dubai 2009

On the heels of a highly successful Art Dubai 2008, international art curators are submitting applications to work with artists from the emerging art centers of MENASA (Middle East, North Africa and South Asia) to participate in the first annual Abraaj Capital Art Prize competition. The formal application deadline is 15 June 2008.

The Abraaj Capital art prize – offering the world’s largest art competition endowment worth a total of 1 million USD - is designed to create a viable platform for individual artists who are revered in their local communities but lack international critical and commercial exposure. In the first year, three artists will be selected to work alongside international curators to hone their talent, and will have an opportunity to widen their international reputation and network by unveiling their projects at Art Dubai 2009. Displaying their work at the Middle East’s largest modern and contemporary art fair will raise the curtain on their talent, affording finalists a global platform.

The Abraaj Art Prize includes a selection committee comprised of renowned curators, art fair directors, collectors, publishers and designers. The winning artists will create their projects in time for Art Dubai 2009 in March.

Criteria to participate in the Abraaj Capital Art Prize:
Interested applicants must come from an emerging art center, which is defined as any artistic environment in which an individual artist lacks commercial and critical opportunities to further their career.
Curators may come from any nationality and age bracket, and may submit a proposal for collaboration with an artist from an emerging art center.
Curators must submit a biography, curriculum of past exhibitions and three written articles.
Curators must submit a short essay on the work of the artist they are collaborating with in
the competition.

Applications should be submitted at http://www.artdubai.ae
Applications may only be submitted by curators and must be signed by both participants, and must be received no later than 5:00pm on June 15, 2008.

For press enquiries please contact:
Eileen Wallis/Jumana Bississo at The Portsmouth Group PO Box 71765, Dubai, UAE
E: eileen.wallis@theportsmouthgroup.com
jumana.bississo@theportsmouthgroup.com
T: 009 714-3693575

Arte en Antartida (ESP)

Jornadas: Sur Polar, Arte en Antártida

Dibujo, Pintura, Video, Instalación, Arte Sonoro, Fotografía y Objeto.

5 y 6 DE MARZO 2008
En el marco del Año Polar Internacional marzo 2007/ marzo 2009

Curaduría: Andrea Juan

La muestra interdisciplinaria y la jornada integrada por artistas argentinos y extranjeros que han focalizado su propuesta estética en el Continente Antártico se suman a los eventos que se desarrollan en el marco del Año Polar Internacional 2007-2009. Antártida es un continente virgen que cuenta con la mayor reserva de agua potable del mundo y funciona como laboratorio experimental en todas las disciplinas, incluyendo al arte. El imaginario popular tiene una imagen lejana de las evidencias que existen en Antártida y acercarlas al espectador a través de la mirada y la poética de un grupo de artistas exploradores es la intención de esta muestra. ARTISTAS PARTICIPANTES Philippe Boissonnet y Lorraine Beaulieu (Canadá): Fotografía y objeto; Phil Dadson (Nueva Zelanda) : Video instalación; Karin Beaumont y Lisa Roberts (Australia): Objetos; Mireya Masó y Pamen Pereira (España): Fotografía y Dibujo; Lucy + Jorge Orta (Brit- argentino) y los Argentinos: Marina Curci: Pintura; Jorge Chikiar- Andrea Juan: Instalación visual y sonora; Adriana Groisman , Stefan Oliva (USA): Video; Marcelo Gurruchaga: Fotografías; Alberto Morales: Pintura y grabado. Nina Colosi: Curadora independiente y curadora del PROJECT ROOM en el Chelsea Art Museum, New York. Annick Bureaud: Directora de Leonardo/Olats (Observatorio Leonardo de las Artes y las Tenco-Ciencias) Critica de Arte y Curadora. Es Profesora de la Escuela de Artes de Poitiers, Francia. AUSPICIAN Dirección Nacional del Antártico; Programa Antártico Argentino; Unité de Recherche en Arts Visuels (URAV), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada; Tansmania Explorers, Australia; Australia Council for the Arts; Embajadas de Canadá, Francia, Nueva Zelanda, Australia y Oficina Cultural de la Embajada de España. text taken from: http://www.untref.edu.ar/jornada_sur_polar.htm

Free School workshops at the VCA

15 - 31 May 2008
VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 40 Dodds St, Southbank

New Zealand artist Liz Allan, who will be inverstigating structures for education and learning in a project titled Untitled (Necessary Conditions), is carefully researching the exhibition's situation in a university gallery. Over the course of her residency, Allan will develop a free "school" within the geographical borders of the VCA, which utilises alternative structures and systems to disseminate non-institutionally generated knowledge.

For workshop dates, times and further information please email ela@allan.co.nz
Text taken from http://2008.nextwave.org.au/festival/projects/74-unsheltered-workshops

Dylan Martorell at Craft Victoria

Dylan Martorell Umbel Ballits
22 May - 28 June 2008
Craft Victoria



Dylan Martorell's drawing and sound installation Umbel Ballits is an overlay of responses to the underlying structure of sound and botanic form. His work couples an ecstatic sense of improvisation with a highly disciplined style detail, relying as much upon the use of found objects and chance as it does upon repetition, sine waves and geometry. The exhibition features hand drawn scores which will be the basis for performances and an evolving installation of sound sculptures.

Opening : Thursday 22 May, 2008 6-8pm.

Check www.hiddenarchive.com for live performance updates, recordings and documentation.

Scholarship Opportunity in Mexico

¿Sabes de alguien que le pueda interesar una BECA para estudiar CINE, ARTES en México D.F. y luego en Europa?

Si sabes de alguien que le guste el Cine y las Artes, PÁSALE esta información. Seguro que te lo agradecerá.

La Escuela Europea de Artes ENCANTA con sede en México, ofrece 25 becas para estudiar.
BECAS
PARA ESTUDIAR CINE,
ARTES PLÁSTICAS, FOTOGRAFÍA, DISEÑO, ACTUACIÓN, PRODUCCIÓN.
La Escuela Europea de Artes ENCANTA con sede en México, ofrece 5 becas para estudiar en las siguientes disciplinas:

CINE:
Dirección de cine (1 beca)
Actor de cine y tv (1 beca)
Guionista de cine y tv (1 beca)
Fotografía de cine, tv y documental (1 beca)
Edición de cine (0 becas)
Sonido para audiovisual y música (0 becas)

ARTES:
Artes plásticas (1 beca)
Maquillaje artístico (0 becas)
Diseño gráfico y audiovisual (0 becas)
Periodismo y crítica artística de la imagen (0 becas)
Fotografía digital (0 becas)
Escritura literaria (0 becas)

NEGOCIOS:
Producción de cine, tv y documental (0 becas)
Producción musical (0 becas)
Marketing y publicidad (0 becas)

Esta promoción se ha ampliado a INICIOS DE MAYO y es tan sólo válida para incorporación inmediata (horario de tarde-noche), los interesados deberán enviar nombre, teléfono fijo y móvil y área de interés a la siguiente dirección electrónica o comunicarse al 2789-2790 y solicitar cita personal para selección previa:

encanta.becas@gmail.com

PREGUNTAR POR: JUAN CARLOS MARTÍNEZ

ENCANTA
Escuela Europea de Artes y Tecnología
Chihuahua 216, esq. Monterrey, Col. Roma
Tel. para becas: 2789.2790

Fiona Davies and Patricia Prociv

To be launched Thursday 20 May 2008
1-2pm, at the outdoor pavilion, Parramatta Park

Indigenous Art Awards 2008

CALL FOR ENTRIES:

The Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (VIAA) 2008 support and acknowledge Indigenous Artists in Victoria. The program aims to foster economic and commercial opportunities for Indigenous artists and encourage the production and exhibition of diverse, high quality art. We invite eligible Indigenous artists in Victoria to submit entries.

For more information please visit: www.arts.vic.gov.au

Emma Davies at Pablo Fanque Gallery

Pablo Fanque presents: Brocade by Emma Davies

Exhibition from 3 - 21 June 2008

1 Oxford Street, Paddington, cnr South Dowling Street

Please join us for a drink with the artist from 6 - 8pm on Tuesday 3 June 2008

Emma Davies is a Melbourne based artist who works experimentally with industral polypropylene. She has confidently manipulated and brocaded this modern material in unconventional ways to realise the new works for her first solo exhibition in Sydney. Brocade illustrates the artist's love for woven forms combined with organic shapes and textures inspired by mother nature.

Davies has exhibited around the country with some of her woven vessels featured in Object Galleries' Woven Forms: Contemporary basket making in Australia. Earlier this year her work became part of the Australian Vessels & Objects exhibition held in Amsterdam’s prestigious Galerie Ra and she has completed several commissions here and overseas, most recently in Tokyo.

The artist participated in The South Project in Johannesburg last year where she worked alongside artists from countries across the Southern Hemisphere, and she is working on a project with traditional weavers located in Western Arnhem Land Australia in the Northern Territory.

‘Emma Davies guides us through this virtual age. Her objects re-awaken the ghosts of stoneware and glass. …the appeal of Davies’ objects is their openness. They have an almost Platonic simplicity as though representing metaphysical shapes”, Kevin Murray, Director, Craft Victoria. Davies' Orange Flower vessel is to be exhibited in Sydney's Opera House from May 14, 2008.

Phone: 02 9357 4887 Email: gallery@pablofanque.com.au Gallery Hours: Tuesday & Wednesday 11-6, Thursday 11-7, Friday 11-5 and Saturday 10-5

Ash Keating at Next Wave

Ash Keating’s 2020? is a large-scale, evolving installation that focuses attention on the future importance of environmental sustainability within artistic practice.

Beginning with the interception of numerous truckloads of industrial waste, 2020? is a process-based project involving discarded material being diverted from landfill and dumped en-masse in the Arts House space at the Meat Market. Prior to the project’s launch, a team of waste auditors have assessed, sorted and separated this dumped material into specific waste categories.

Co-ordinator and artist Ash Keating is joined by a team of collaborating artists who will be constantly reconfiguring the salvaged materials to create their own installations, interventions, structures and object-based works. This shifting creation happens within a dramatic backdrop of reused vinyl advertising billboards, manipulated in the tradition of culture jamming.

2020? will be under constant surveillance, with live-feeds and video-footage of the processes of the various artists’ projects and the installation’s earlier incarnations being projected back into the exhibition arena. 2020? concludes with a forum involving artists and environmentalists unpacking the conceptual and practical issues of environmental sustainability that are explored within the project.

Artists: Ash Keating, with Kay Abude, Campbell Drake, Ardi Gunawan, James Guerts, Bianca Hester, Inverted Topology, Susan Jacobs, Rus Kitchin, Bridie Lunney, Lucas Maddock, Pandarosa, Mia Salsjo and Soo-Joo Yoo (text taken from: http://2008.nextwave.org.au/festival/projects/5-2020-)

Call for Visual Arts Submissions

Frieze Writer's Prize 2008

frieze magazine writer's prize is an annual award to discover and promote new art critics. The award will be judged in 2008 by Tate Triennial curator Nicolas Bourriaud, frieze co-editor Jennifer Higgie and Guardian critic Adrian Searle.

Entry details:
Entrants must submit one 700 word review of a recent contemporary art exhibition.
Entries must be submitted in English, but it may be a translation (this must be acknowledged).
Entrants must be over 18 years old.
To qualify, entrants may only previously have had a maximum of three pieces of writing published in any national or regional newspaper or magazine.

The winning entrant will be commissioned to write a review for the October issue of frieze and be awarded 2000 GBP.
Two further awards of 500 GBP will be made for outstanding entries.

Closing date is: 23rd June 2008

Entries should be emailed as a word attachment to writersprize@frieze.com
The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding individual entries.

Fiona Macdonald at Ocular lab

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