Take one step outside your comfort zone

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"This is what PATRIOTISM really looks like. Ms. Rainey is heroic. Those who take money to go to other lands to murder innocents so that corporations make trillions are NOT heroes. They are murderers, whoring murderers. Now they are back from their murderous years over there, to do the same to American citizens. They practiced on Pat Tillman. The opposite of patriotism is Corporate Greed that steals from citizens and destroys all freedoms, and murders anybody who is a TRUE PATRIOT. "

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REIMAGINED & REVITALIZED: Dieter Zimmermann

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Dieter Zimmermann

For those among us who worry about today's CHUCKaway society perhaps its worth taking a look at Dieter Zimmermann's work. He calls himself a simple "furniture maker", even though his work exhibited in museums and the artworld's galleries. Zimmerman is a graduate in industrial design but his work comes with a history, histories even, exposing wear and tear, age and weathered surfaces to the world. Zimmermann's skill is to do with putting the spotlight on the aesthetics found in his materials past.

Most of his works is unique. The pieces shown on his website are part of a collection that has been changing regularly for the past 20 year

KIWI FESTIVAL: All the promise of an inclusive exemplar

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24 Extraordinary days. 300 arts events. Wellington, New Zealand.

Explore breath-taking theatre, dance, music, TelstraClear Festival Club acts, family, literature and visual arts events.

MUSEUM of INCOMPREHENSIBLE eMAILS : Exhibit #1

MUSEUM of 11 STOLEN SKULLvisions

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The UNCLEphone and other things

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A Roving Biennial

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"The Contemporary at the Service of the Past" Friday December 9, 2011 & Saturday December 10, 2011 


Towards Manifesta 9 (Summer 2012 in Genk, Province of Limburg, Belgium):

Since 2002, the Manifesta Foundation, initiator and co-organiser of the Manifesta Biennial, has produced a series of encounters between specialists from various fields and the members of the Manifesta Network, to discuss the evolving practices of Manifesta and the broader art field, and its relevance in the current political, social and artistic climate. Manifesta Coffee Break 2011 is organised by the Manifesta Foundation in Amsterdam in collaboration with Manifesta 9 in Genk, Limburg, Belgium.

On December 9 and 10, artists, curators, theoreticians and members of the public will gather at the Casino Modern in Genk, as part of this Manifesta initiative, to discuss the statement and title of the Coffee Break: "The Contemporary at the Service of the Past". The intent is then to apply their findings to the preparatory process of the forthcoming ninth edition of Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Manifesta 9 Curatorial Team:
Cuauhtémoc Medina, Mexico City
Katerina Gregos, Brussels
Dawn Ades, London

Invited speakers are:
Johan de Boose – Doctor in Slavic Studies, author
Phil Collins – Berlin-based British artist
Ekaterina Degot – independent art historian, art critic, and curator from Kiev
Jeremy Deller – UK-based artist
Eva Gronbach – German fashion designer, based in Cologne
Ibro Hasanovic – Rouen (FR) based Bosnian artist
Vincent Meessen – Brussels-based artist
Victor Misiano – curator of Manifesta 1, Chairman of the Manifesta Foundation, Moscow based
Yan Tomaszewski – Paris-based Polish artist

Manifesta 9 will take place from June 2 to September 30, 2012 at the restored Waterschei mine complex in Genk, curated by the Mexican curator Cuauhtémoc Medina and his associate curators Brussels-based Katerina Gregos, and London-based Dawn Ades.

ONCE ALMOST EPHEMERAL: Now culturally embedded

Albeit conceived in a different cultural reality where the audience reach was prescribed and defined by the technologies of the time. Now however this is a poignant exemplar of a different paradigm that some institutions are failing to embrace while CITIZENcurators are actively engaged ... click here to discover more

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