01.20.12

Call for entries


+ Training Ground, an audiovisual festival due July 2012 in Espinho, Portugal, will accept film and video works in the fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, and Portuguese productions categories until March 6, 2012.


+ Backed by the UN, the We Care Film Fest is an annual touring film screening aimed at all types of physical or mental disability. The 9th edition will accept submissions of works lasting one to sixty minutes until March 20, 2012.

+ The curatorial program of the Dorsky Gallery (Long Island, NY, US) is accepting submissions of projects for exhibitions in any artistic language, by curators, artists, art historians and writers.



01.20.12

Caderno 7:
The magazine


Edited by the curator Rodrigo Moura, the seventh edition of Caderno SESC_Videobrasil, A Revista (Edições SESC, 144 pages, bilingual edition), features excerpts from Brazilian art and culture magazines dating from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as work by artists and writers who somehow comment on this publishing format.

The graphic design by artist and designer Marilá Dardot features fragments of magazines that played important roles in carving out a territory for the arts in Brazil, such as GAM, Módulo, and Arte em Revista, interspersed with projects created by Arnaldo Antunes, Rivane Neuenschwander, Fabio Morais, Jorge Macchi, Claudia Andujar, Ana Martins Marques, Cildo Meireles, Eduardo Costa, and Erika Verzutti.

“The idea of establishing relationships between these artists’ oeuvres and the media revisited, and of combining written and visual language to create an exhibition of sorts throughout the pages of the publication, is what motivates the invitations,” explains Rodrigo Moura, the curator of Inhotim Institute.

Caderno 7 is on sale from the SESC online and physical stores.


*Photo: Pulmão, artist project by Jac Leirner for Arte em São Paulo magazine, 1987


Book on Beuys
wins Jabuti Prize


Joseph Beuys – We are the revolution was one of the winners of the 2011 Jabuti Prize. The book won second place in the Arts category. It is the catalogue of the namesake show, which featured posters, multiples and videos by the German artist at SESC Pompeia and the Bahia Museum of Modern Art (MAM-BA) in 2010. The book was produced by Associação Cultural Videobrasil and SESC, organized by the show's curator Antonio d'Avossa, and published by Edições SESC. It is available from the SESC network and the SESC online shop.



01.20.12

Panoramas has
100,000 visitors


The Southern Panoramas show, which is part of the 17th Festival, will end on December 11 at SESC Belenzinho after receiving more than 100,000 visitors. The show is open to all artistic languages and highlights recent production from the South of the world (Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania), featuring works by 101 artists.

“The number of visitors is significant because not only does the Festival feature a generally little-seen artistic production, but also because it is a huge contemporary art show in a part of the city that lacks facilities for visual arts, and the audience profile is different from that of regulars at these types of shows,” says curator general Solange Farkas.

The 17th edition, which marks Videobrasil’s change into the country’s first international contemporary art festival, will proceed with the show Olafur Eliasson – Your body of work until January 29 at SESC Pompeia and Belenzinho units, and until January 8, 2012, at Pinacoteca do Estado.




01.20.12

Your body of work,
the book, hits the stores


The first-ever Brazilian publication on Olafur Eliasson will arrive at SESC stores, its online shop, and São Paulo bookstores on January 23. Produced by Associação Cultural Videobrasil in partnership with SESC, Olafur Eliasson – Your body of work (Edições SESC SP, 488 pages, R$60.00) records and enhances the experience of the artist's show at the Festival.

A bilingual edition with an unusual cost-to-content ratio for the local market, the book features photographical essays exploring the installations shown by Eliasson in Brazil, the Your new bike intervention, in which he had mirror-wheeled bicycles spread throughout São Paulo, and experiments made by the artist during the process of becoming more closely acquainted with the city.

Essays written for the publication by curator Lisette Lagnado and researcher Guilherme Wisnik relate his oeuvre to contemporary Brazilian manifestations in fields such as art and architecture. In an interview to Jochen Volz, the show's curator and book's editor, Eliasson ponders the role of art in the contemporary world. "Art is not necessarily a solution, but rather a methodology for integrating critique and action," he says.