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News
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1.
Residency artists’ exhibition
2. athi-patra @ the Bag
Factory
3.
About Art: NAC workshop, 23 November
4.Digital Landscape
lecture 14 December
5.
Outreach workshop: Democracy Begins in
Conversation
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Opportunities
6.
Everard Read Art Award 2007: Call For
Entries
7.
11th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum
Short Film and Video Festival
8.
Commonwealth Photographic
Awards
9.
Call for applications: The Cartier Award
2007
10.
Call for applications: the Rijksakademie
11.
Call for applications: Visiting Arts' Artist-to-Artist
scheme
12.
NANOART 2006 Competition
13. Digital Media and
Photo/Printmaking Lab
managers/lecturers;
University of North Carolina
14.
National Arts Council Funding
Applications
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December
Newsletter
So the end of the year is here, the silly season, and
the number of shopping days till Christmas have instilled the
usual atmosphere of panic amongst consumers rampaging
aimlessly yet determinedly though the shopping malls and
Christmas markets. This is the time of year when the
best weapon for negotiating the crowds is the baby carriage or
elderly relative in a wheelchair.
Christmas
carols by Boney-M and George Michael whining about Last
Christmas are the theme tunes of now, and their debased
frivolity is only topped by the over enthusiastic tones of
Band Aid – a plaster to heal the wounds of war, genocide and
starvation in Africa.
Still,
I do like Christmas.
And
whilst everyone is running around trying to find the perfect
gift, it seems everyone else is trying to cash in.
A
few weeks ago there was an emerging artists’ Christmas market
in Braamfontein which I didn’t manage to attend, but I started
thinking about the salability of art, particularly when it
comes to buying it as a gift for someone else.
Informed
art buying as an investment can make good financial sense, and
a gift of an artwork by the artist himself has the personal
touch that makes a gift sincere. But what about the mass
production that is often associated with Christmas? And
how does this mass production affect the originality and
therefore value of the artwork unless one is Andy Warhol and
this is an aspect to the work’s original
intention?
Why
is it that some objects have value as ‘designer’ even if they
are mass produced yet sell for exorbitant prices?
Whilst others depreciate in value the more of them there
are?
Where
is this line between syndication and selling out? Is it
the same thing?
I
remember reading that Bill Watterson (author/illustrator
Calvin and Hobbs) absolutely
refused to merchandise his creation and allow Calvin and
Hobbs to be made into stuffed
toys or T-shirt prints because he felt it would devalue his
work. But it is still possible to buy such things
(probably made in a sweat shop by someone who has never read
the comic strip but has strange dreams of riding in a little
red wagon and a cardboard box that is secretly a time
machine.)
‘Actually,
I wasn't against all merchandising when I started the strip,
but each product I considered seemed to violate the spirit of
the strip, contradict its message, and take me away from the
work I loved’
Fans
From Around the World Interview Bill
Watterson.
Andrews McMeel (2005)
Has
Watterson lost out on the profits of the co-modification of
his idea or has he kept his work pure by refusing to make
replicas of his creation in every form or media that might not
have sold?
It
is a difficult question which, I think, the artist or the
purchaser has to answer for himself.
As
artist: ‘Am I selling myself out? Does my work have
integrity?’ These are sometimes questions of
luxury. It’s more like: ‘How hungry am I
today?’
For
the purchaser it should be: ‘How much is this worth to me?‘
rather than, ‘How much can I flog this for
later?’
This
is why I love print work: prints can be part of an
edition. I think I’ll make my next work an edition of
ten.
Then,
in January, when I’ve got lots of bills I’ll make a ‘second
edition’ this time out of 100.
Don’t
worry; they’ll be like everything else
post-Christmas…
Half
price.
Rat
Western
Newsletter
Editor
rat@bagfactoryart.org.za
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News
Bytes
1.
Residency artists’
exhibition
Our
current set of residency artists opened their residency
exhibition on the 6th December. The exhibition features
the work of Claire Wolf Krantz (U.S.A); Nirveda Alleck
(Mauritius)
and Anna Ruth (Finland).
Wolf Krantz’s works with mixed media paintings - layering
images from various places printed on transparency, over
original acrylic paintings and finally painting on top of the
prints. Alleck, who works in a variety of media,
presented a series of paintings, photomontage prints and a
video work. Ruth’s drawings make use of maps and
different drawing techniques to investigate and ‘research a
knot of questions related to myth, stability, identity,
territory and boundary.’
Exhibition
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2.
athi-patra @ the Bag
Factory
The
Bag Factory would like to welcome artist, photographer and
fashion designer Athi-Patra who has recently joined us and
will be renting Tracey Rose’s studio whilst she is away at
Goldsmiths collage, University of London.
Visit
http://iqons.com/iqons.php?fct=portrait&i=680
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3.
About Art: NAC workshop,
23 November
It
has been a busy few weeks for the About Arts programme (the
Bag Factory’s arts education programme) and with the
deadline for applications for funding from the National Arts
Council on the 31st of January 2007 the Bag Factory hosted a
workshop on funding proposal writing. The workshop was
given by Jill Waterman, arts management lecturer at Wits
University.
The
lecture will be followed up next year with another
fund-raising writing workshop this time in association with
Business Arts South Africa.
More
details on the upcoming workshop to
follow.
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4.Digital
Landscape lecture 14 December
On
Thursday, December 14th,Pippa Stalker and Hanli
Becker will be delivering a lecture on digital landscape as it
applies to
Webcomics
and Videogames. The lecture, which forms part of the
About Art programme, will be focussing on the ways in which
the digital environment alters and effects representations of
landscape.
The
lecture starts at 17h00 for 17h30 and runs until 19:30.
There will be a cash bar.
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5.
Outreach workshop: Democracy Begins in
Conversation
This
year the Bag Factory celebrated the anniversary of the signing
of South
Africa’s first democratic
constitution, 10th December 1994, with an outreach workshop
entitled Democracy Begins in Conversation. The workshop,
which involved teenagers (16-18yrs), forms part of an ongoing
project, the Living Together Project founded by social
therapist Betsi Pendry. The group of about 50 youths was
brought together from Soweto, Orange Farm and
Duduza to learn about the constitution, their rights and
responsibilities.
The
group was then encouraged to demonstrate their learning
through creative expression – performance, poetry, photography
and collage. They were also taken by Alex Dodd on a walk
about of Bag Factory artist Sam Nhlengethwa’s exhibition ‘Townships Re-visited'
at the Goodman Gallery.
As
a final celebration and wrapping up of this workshop, the
participants were invited two bring two friends and take a
tour of Constitutional Hill and its courts as well as view
some of the performances and spoken word poetry choreographed
by the workshop participants.
The
group was then brought to the Bag Factory for lunch and a
viewing of the photography produced in association with the
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Opportunities
6.
Everard Read Art Award 2007: Call For
Entries
Applications
are now open to Postgraduates of The Wits School of Arts
(WSOA) in The Division of Visual Arts for the Everard Read Art
Award, 2007. Applicants must either be currently
registered for an MA or have completed one within the last 10
years.
THE
AWARD COMPRISES:
A
Fully Sponsored Exhibition
Printed
invitations
A
Catalogue
An
Opening Function
A
R30000 Cash Award
The
competition is aimed at those who have an established and
thoroughly thought through conceptualisation for
exhibition. This might well include unfinished works in
concept form, but a professional intellectual framework for
the intended show must be clearly
demonstrated.
Please
submit a typed document, clearly illustrated with images
(either photographic or digital) illustrating your
concept.
PROPOSAL
SUBMITTION DATE: 19th January 2007
Submit
your proposals to the Wits School of Arts Front Office,
addressed to Dr. F. Freschi and marked clearly ‘Everard Read
Art Award 2007’
SELECTION
PANEL:
Julia
Charlton
Natasha
Christopher
Dr.
Federico
Freschi
Carmen
Jerard
Gerhard
Marx
Prof.
Jane Taylor
Jo
Ractliffe
Prof.
Colin
Richards
Walter
Oltman
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7.
11th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film
and Video Festival
A
brief history of the festival, guidelines for entry, a
complete list of the works that have been screened at past
festivals and a few success stories can be found online at the
following address: http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/filmfest
Deadline
for Entering Work: Friday, February 2, 2007
Entry
and attendance are free. The festival is scheduled to takes
place on Saturday April 14, 2007
Arizona
State University Art
Museum
10th
Street and Mill Avenue
Tempe, Arizona 85287-2911
Tel:
480 965 2787
Fax: 480 965 5254
Email:
asuartmuseum@asu.edu
www.asuartmuseum.asu.edu
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8.
Commonwealth Photographic Awards
'Achievement'
is the theme for the 2006/7 Commonwealth Photographic
Awards.
Entries
are now being invited for the 2006/7 Commonwealth Photographic
Awards organised
by the Commonwealth Press Union (CPU). This is an open
competition for all Commonwealth residents. The photographs
will be judged on the interpretation of the theme as well as
technical quality.
The
Awards offer a view of how people in the Commonwealth, with
its mixture of races, creeds, cultures and ways of life, see
themselves and others.
In
addition, there are two new categories:
The
Canberra Times/CPU Young Photographer Award will be offered to
a young person (aged 21 - 25 on January 17, 2007) from a
developing country. The prize is a three-week photographic
residency at the newspaper's offices in Canberra,
Australia.
'Three
Pictures - One Story' invites entrants to create a storyboard.
The purpose is to tell a story of achievement in three
pictures. The prize for this Award is 250 pounds
sterling.
The
overall winner of the Commonwealth Photographic Awards will
receive 1000 pounds sterling, and further prizes will be
awarded to the regional winners.
The
CPU is an association whose membership includes over 1 500
newspapers and news agencies. It aims to monitor and oppose
any measures or proposals likely to affect the freedom of the
press; to improve facilities for reporting and transmitting
news; and promote the training of all involved in the
Commonwealth's press. The final deadline is Wednesday January
17, 2007. To see rules, criteria and the full details on the
Awards, plus winning photographs from previous years, visit www.cpu.org.uk
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9. Call for applications: The
Cartier Award 2007
The
Cartier Award for emerging artists living outside the
UK is a major
initiative by Frieze Projects, the curatorial programme of
Frieze Art Fair, sponsored by Cartier. Gasworks is proud to be
working with Frieze Projects for next year's Award and will
host the residency of the selected artist.
Artists are
invited to propose a new work to be realised
at Frieze Art Fair 2007 which will be produced under the
auspices of Frieze Projects.
The
Cartier Award includes:
- A 3 month residency at Gasworks
from mid September to mid December 2007 including
accommodation, per diems and travel expenses
- Project
production costs of up to £10,000
- An artist's fee of
£1,000
The
Cartier Award is open to non UK-based artists within 5 years
of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree.
Submissions from all international artists who meet these
criteria welcomed.
Deadline: 5 Jan
2007
More
information: http://www.frieze.com
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10. Call for applications: the
Rijksakademie
The
Rijksakadmie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam
invites approximately twenty-five artists per year to its
residency programme. Fifty studios and extensive facilities
are available for resident artists who can work for one or two
years on research, projects and production. Resident artists
pursue all major contemporary visual art disciplines and all
basic costs are supported. Previous Gasworks residency artists
who have gone on to take part in the programme are Sharmila Samant, Tsui Kuang-Yu, and Inti Hernandez.
Artists considered best positioned to benefit from the
programme are those with three to five years of professional
experience, following an art study programme.
Deadline: 1 Feb
2007
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11.
Call
for applications: Visiting Arts' Artist-to-Artist
scheme
Last
year Visiting Arts launched its artist-to-artist scheme which
allows UK-based artists to apply to invite an international
artist for a reciprocal two-week exchange. Gasworker Joy
Gregory invited South African artist Bronwen Findlay, and Mark Gubb's
invitation to Polish artist Janek Simon has resulted in a
provisional invitation to Gasworks' Residency Programme. The
purpose of the scheme is to bring together artists who are
aware of each others’ practice and to support new dialogues
across international borders.
The
selected overseas artist will spend a week with the UK artist, visit
their studio, meet contacts, network and discuss ideas. The
emphasis is on the development and research process rather
than production and there is no prescribed outcome to the
scheme.
Deadline: 18 Dec
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12. NANOART 2006
Competition
Open to All
Artists
This
is the first ever online NanoArt worldwide competition open to
all artist 18 years and older. The purpose of this competition
is to promote NanoArt as one of the new art disciplines of the
21st Century. NanoArt is a new art form where
micro/nanosculptures created by artists/scientists through
chemical/physical processes and/or natural
micro/nanostructures are visualized with powerful research
tools like Scanning Electron Microscopes. The monochromatic
electron microscope images are processed further to create a
piece of art that can be showcased for a large audience to
educate the public with creative images that are appealing and
acceptable. To read more about NanoArt and Nanotechnology
please visit www.nanoart21.org
Submission
deadline is December 31, 2006.
The
artworks entered this competition will be displayed online for
voting starting January 1, 2007 through March 31, 2007.
Judging is via the Internet and decided by our site visitors.
The sponsor reserves the final decision. Winners will be
notified and published online around April 15,
2007.
One
entry is allowed per artist. The Entry Form and the image file
for web presentation should be sent by email to
nanoart2006@nanoart21.org <mailto:criorf@verizon.net>
. The web image file must be .jpg or .gif with the longer
dimension of maximum 600 pixels at a resolution of 72 dpi. A
Working Image of approximate 3000 x 2300 pixels at a
resolution of 72 dpi will be provided by sponsor.
This
will be the original image (the scanning electron microscope
image above) that should be converted by artist in a piece of
art. This image will be used by artists for this competition
only and is a working vehicle for the artists to exercise
their talent and creativity. Copyright for this image remains
with the nanoart21.org. Copyright of entered artworks remains
with the artist who agrees to grant permission to
nanoart21.org to use the submitted material in exhibits on the
nanoart21.org web site and other media for marketing and
printing.
For
complete competition details and to download the Entry Form
and Working Image please visit: http://www.nanoart21.org/nanoart_2006.htm.
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13.
Digital Media and
Photo/Printmaking Lab managers/lecturers; University
of North
Carolina
Lecturer/Lab Manager – Digital
Media
University
of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, 3-year
renewable, 12 month position fixed term faculty member at the
rank of Lecturer.
Salary:
$40,000.
Candidates
should be practicing artists (MFA required) who utilize
digital technologies. Expertise can encompass web-based,
video, 2-D and/or 3-D digital forms. Some knowledge of all
these areas is desirable. Teach 3 undergraduate classes
per year in digital media plus a fall graduate
workshop.
Lab
manager duties include: Maintain hardware and software in the
department Digital Media Lab
(DML).
Supervise
DML staff (Graduate assistants and work-study students).
Facilitate lab usage for other classes. Work with UNC
technology groups to enhance DML and coordinate lab function
with other UNC labs. Advise faculty in other media areas
(painting, printmaking, photography, mixed media and
sculpture) to integrate digital approaches across the
curriculum.
Application
should include:
1)
Letter outlining qualifications,
2)
CV,
3)
Examples of work (20 slides, CD or link to website), and
4)
names and contact information for 4 references.
Submit
application materials electronically to uncartjobs@unc.edu.
Please make sure that your subject line reads "Digital Search"
For
items not deliverable electronically (slides, CD) send to:
Digital Search, CB# 3405 Hanes Art Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill,
NC 27599-3405. For
further information, contact Juan Logan at juanlogan@gmail.com.
All materials must be received by January 10, 2007. CAA
interviews, prior appointment only. Committed to
excellence through diversity, women and minorities are
encouraged to apply. AA/EOE
Lecturer/Labs
Manager (Printmaking and
Photography)
The
Art Department at UNC-Chapel
Hill seeks a responsible, motivated, mechanically adept,
self-starting individual for a 3-year renewable, 12-month
position fixed term faculty member at the rank of
Lecturer.
Salary
$40,000.
The
position has teaching responsibilities in Printmaking (3
courses per year) and lab management responsibilities in the
department's Printmaking and Photo Labs. Duties include
supervising other lab personnel (Graduate assistants and
work-study students), managing area budgets,
maintaining/improving equipment and facilities and
coordinating priorities with area faculty. Applicants must be
practicing artists (MFA required) whose work demonstrates the
capacity to teach in Printmaking. Candidates must have
technical experience in
photography.
Application
should include:
1)
Letter outlining qualifications,
2)
CV,
3)
Examples of work (20 slides, CD or link to website), and
4)
Names and contact information for 4 references.
Submit
application materials electronically to uncartjobs@unc.edu.
Please
make sure that your subject line reads "Print-Photo Search"
For items not deliverable electronically (slides, CD) send to:
Print-Photo
Search,
CB#
3405
Hanes
Art Center,
UNC-Chapel
Hill,
Chapel
Hill,
NC
27599-3405.
For
further information, contact Juan Logan at juanlogan@gmail.com.
All materials must be received by January 10, 2007.
CAA interviews, prior appointment only. Committed to
excellence through diversity, women and minorities are
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14.
National Arts Council Funding
Applications
The
deadline for the submission of funding applications for the NAC is
the 31 January 2007. Should you wish to apply, you can
download the application form from their website
http://www.nac.org.za
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15.
Kuona
Trust International Women’s Workshop - call
for applications
We
believe in giving women the opportunity to work together without the
pressing demands of their everyday life. We are looking for a group
of up to 20 women artists (12 Kenyan; 8 international) to share this
exciting experience. To come together for 2 weeks to make art; share
their experiences; to learn from each other as contemporaries in a
secluded environment. To return home with renewed determination and
to inspire other women artists in their country.
Kuona
Trust
invites applications from interested women artists of any media to
reach us by the 10th January 2007.
The
workshop is scheduled for end-February 2007 and will run for two
weeks.
Kuona
Trust
will provide limited art materials, food, accommodation and local
transport during the workshop. Please indicate whether you can pay
your airfare. Priority will be given to those who can pay their own
way.
Applicants
must submit the following.
* 6 digital images of their recent
works
* a letter of
intent
* your
c.v.
Please note that the
application deadline is 10th of January. Send your
application to smichael@kuonatrust.org.
Michael
w Soi
kuona trust
tel +254 2 550980, 557305
fax
+254 2 557288
www.kuonatrust.org
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