2018
Students and professionals are invited to participate in the workshop "The Baltic Sea: A Liquid Memorial"The residency is part of a new collaboration between MASS Alexandria and the VAA Nida Art Colony, made possible by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Founding Director of MASS Alexandria Wael Shawky.Michael Rakowitz’s sculpture is part of an enormously ambitious, painstaking, ongoing project titled "The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist". Last February, Kader Attia and Jean-Jacques Lebel presented “L’Un et l’Autre [One and the Other]” at Palais de Tokyo. Jean-Jacques Lebel (b. 1936, France) is an artist, curator, writer, activist, event organiser, and was the author of the first European happening; Kader Attia (b. 1970, France) grew up between Paris and Algeria, and his interdisciplinary approach to research explores issues such as traditions, colonialism and collective memory. A roundtable discussion with Isabel Capeloa Gil and Filipa Oliveira on Conviviality and the Institutional, a publication based on a conference of the same name held as part of a European cooperation project coordinated by the Universidade Católica and co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme 4Cs – From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture. Visual Essay about Aimée Zito Lema exhibition in Lisbon.
Published in "Contemporânea" in March 2018.Open call for contributions - PARSE encourages experimental forms of research publication including artistic research and practice led research.Banu Cennetoğlu and The List - Liverpool Biennial 2018 - Beautiful world, where are you? In 1970, Judy Baca created with the collaboration of local gang members the mural entitled Mi Abuelita, one of the first community murals in L.A. This project introduced an innovative approach in the creation of inclusive and non-conflictual public art. Migration, a documentary theatre piece performed in the Macao Arts Festival in May 2018, produced by the non-profit theatre company Macau Experimental Theatre, puts this agency onto the bodies of a group of Indonesian workers in Macao. The third Biennial Conference Cultural Literacy & Cosmopolitan Conviviality will be held at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon) in May 2019.Emily Davis on Noor Abuarafeh's residency in London.Solo, Dance and Anarchy - The Apron Stage: A dance video essay, depicting nine “dancers”, coming on “stage”, to perform a “dance”.Artist Amira Hanafi reflects on the process of assembling and translating a work of multivocal storytelling of the 2011 Egyptian uprising and its aftermath.