SPACE – Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe

Pilot Project for Artist Mobility

December 2008 – November 2011

Ten national cultural institutions with an international policy and practice created a new platform, dedicated to Support the Performing Arts Circulation in Europe: SPACE.

The members of SPACE share a position in between politics and the artistic field in their own countries, work as centres of information, promote the (performing) arts on a national and international level and are experienced in supporting and running European cultural projects.

They share the belief that one of the cornerstones of a European Cultural Policy is to facilitate the circulation of (performing) arts across Europe, and also realize there are still a lot of imbalances in this transnational arts sphere, between countries, regions, artists, disciplines and cultural operators.

The SPACE project’s objective is to give priority to the mobility of arts productions and to combine cultural mobility with cultural diversity, European citizenship and investing in emerging generations. Still a young initiative, SPACE will enlarge the network while implementing the different activities of the multi-layered project.

For the last training program in three year project, WRITERS ON THE MOVE, addressed to professional writers on performing arts (journalists, trainings, theoreticians), deadline extended to apply from November 7th to November 14th.

Aims of the training are to question the idea of mobility by investigating the way to look at foreign artworks, to rethink the position of Art Critic today in order to find new ways of thinking and writing about Art for a new public – as a way of »answering through practice«, to improve knowledge about international work in the performing arts and its questions in terms of aesthetics, new forms and genres.

Information and application forms  at www.spaceproject.eu

Call for Artists: Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities

extended deadline: November 10, 2010

International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films

to include in the next 2010 Exhibitions:

Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities at PÖFF’s 11th Student & Short Film Festival Sleepwalkers in Tallinn, Estonia (November 20-24, 2010).

Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities at the 5th edition International Streaming Festival in The Hague, The Netherlands (December 01-05, 2010).

Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities at Torun Short Film Festival in

Torun, Poland (December 10-12, 2010). The selections will be based on two main concepts. With the first

section, Liquid Cities, we will present videos about contemporary cities, future cities and possible connections between videoarchitecture and videoart experimentations. The second section, Temporary Identities, will show videoart works based on the concept of contemporary identities, new technologies and body borders.

The number of works with you can participate is unlimited. All works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The duration may be any, with a preference given to a max lenght of 15 minutes. If you are interested, send your video submissions (Name/Surname, City/Country, Film title, Running time, Brief film synopsis) with a CV/biography, videography and an introduction about the piece to:

Luca Curci Architects

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33

70122 – Bari, Italy

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects. Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.

www.lucacurci.com/artexpo