07.06.12

Call for entries


+ Aiming to promote original narratives by authors from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Oceania and the Middle East, the Global Film Initiative is offering fifteen to twenty prizes of US$10,000 each to filmmakers. Proposals will be accepted until July 16.

+ The Ibermúsicas program is a multilateral cooperation project targeting Latin America. Up until July 27, proposals in seven different categories will be accepted, including residencies in composition, support to festivals, and music programming circulation networks.
+ Founded in 1959 by a group of researchers in anthropology, sociology, and ethnology, the Italian Festival dei Popoli focuses on the documentary genre aiming to promote sociocultural research in all regions of the world. Characterized by the range of its geographical representation, the festival receives proposals until July 30.

+ Creative Encounters, held by the ANA – Arts Network Asia independent association, promotes partnerships between Asia and Europe. The project provides funding to programs focused on cultural dialogue between the continents. The deadline for project submission is July 31 and preselection will continue until August 31.

+ Up until August 20, Slovenia’s K.A.I.R, Kosice Artist in Residence, will select artists of all languages and nationalities. It is a good opportunity for research and exchange in a region which has been changing rapidly ever since the change in economic model.

+ Focusing on the creative process and on improvisation rather than on the end result, the program Research into the Unknown, promoted by the Workshop Foundation, in Budapest, Hungary, is selecting dance and performance artists for residencies lasting approximately two months. Deadline is August 22.


07.06.12

Southern Panoramas to open calls in July

From July 16 to October 15, 2012, the Southern Panoramas Open Calls will select artists from Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, and South Asia. Works in all languages and formats are eligible. The show, due in October 2013, will offer awards in the form of residency scholarships at international partner institutions. Entries are fully online: go to the Videobrasil site starting on July 16.

The International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2013, becoming established as a leading Brazilian initiative for global art dissemination. The reason for that is it has always assumed a pioneering position—as the first-ever festival dedicated to video art in a then-incipient context, and later on by focusing on production from countries in the geopolitical South of the world. Southern Panoramas, the Festival's core segment, celebrates art from the region and charts out its trends.


Videobrasil consolidates relations in Colombia

From July 22 to 26, the director and curator of Videobrasil Solange Farkas will be in Colombia for meetings and lectures in the Fundación Gilverto Alzate Avendaño (Bogotá) and Lugar a Dudas (Cali). The meetings aim to publicize the Videobrasil projects, highlighting Southern Panoramas open call, which will select artists of various nationalities (read new above). The trip will be an occasion to deepen relationships that expand the ever-growing Videobrasil Residency Network. The foundation in Bogotá (which promotes public meeting with Solange on July 23) is part of the city cultural structure and the Lugar a Dudas (with Farkas' lecture on the 26th) is an independent initiative to foster artistic experimentation..


07.06.12

Videobrasil in Context announces winners

Claudio Bueno from Brazil and Mahmoud Khaled (photo) from Egypt were the artists selected by the selection board for the Videobrasil in Context Prize. The works of Bueno's, a native of São Paulo who is currently pursuing a master's degree from the University of São Paulo, involve performance and installation, using connectivity and remote interference in his research into digital poetics. Khaled's multidisciplinary production moves through video, photography, text, and installation to address contemporary sociopolitical trajectories.

Promoted through a partnership between London's Delfina Foundation and São Paulo's Casa Tomada, the Videobrasil in Context Prize brings an innovative focus into Videobrasil Collection: over the course of three month-long residencies in São Paulo and London, the two artists will develop works the creative processes and results of which will be respectively presented in London and São Paulo, and which will be incorporated into the collection and an online publication.
07.06.12

Isaac Julien:
Geopoetics

Four multiple-screen installations created in the last decade comprise the core segment of Isaac Julien: Geopoéticas, the British artist's first solo show in Brazil (at SESC Pompeia, Sept 4 through Dec 16). Curated by Solange Farkas, the show will feature screenings of highlights of Julien's filmography on SESCTV.

The show spans two decades of production. "The selection accounts for the nuances in Isaac Julien's work. His formal transgressions, for instance, are as important as the issues of gender, politics, or social belonging which his work addresses," says the curator. The artist explains the show's title: "We live in a world in which there is a desire to question the waves of globalization. I am very much interested in looking at different places in the political or cultural geography, in exploring them," says Julien.

Nominated for the 2001 Turner Prize, Isaac Julien is a leading name in worldwide audiovisual media. His first solo show in Brazil will feature a schedule of meetings and an extensive educational program. Follow Videobrasil on Facebook and Twitter and stay informed.