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Rope-a-dope "

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29th January 2010 7-9pm 00 Nevins Street between Union an d Sackett Streets in the Gowanus Canal area of Brooklyn http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/information/visit.php “Rope-a-dope” is a knockout performance that revisits the events around the infamous “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing match, which paired the charismatic Muhammad Ali and the reigning world champion George Foreman and took place in Kinshasa, Zaire on October 30, 1974. Expect issues of politics, identity, religion, and economics to be thrashed out in what promises to be grueling and intense performances by Brooklyn-based artists A. K. Burns and Kenya (Robinson). Rope-a-dope, a fighting strategy adopted by Ali to defeat Foreman, is based on the idea of enduring your adversary’s repeated blows until they exhaust themselves, before you finally rise up to triumph over them. Following this historical encounter of thirty-five years ago and the events surrounding it, the term and strategy have been deployed in the public sphere to r

ICI (Independent Curators International)

ICI (Independent Curators International) launches training intensive for aspiring curators Program Dates: June 6 - 15, 2010 Application Deadline: March 12, 2010 http://www.ici-exhibitions.org Building on its history as a hub for curatorial ideas, ICI is supporting a new generation of curators to develop exhibition proposals. The Curatorial Intensive is a short-term, low-cost program taking place this June in New York for emerging curators across North America. From an open competition, 6-10 individuals will be selected to come to New York and work with some of today's leading curators and artists. Through a rigorous schedule of workshops, discussions and critiques, as well as site visits to local institutions and artist's studios, each participant will be led through the process of developing an idea for an exhibition into a full exhibition proposal. The program will employ ICI's extensive professional network of advisors and teachers, including Dan Cameron (Founding Direc

VIDEO ART WORKSHOP CALL FOR APPLICANTS

The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is please to present its third Video Art Workshop. The four day workshop will be led by two artists working in the area of Video, Petra Szilagyi (United States) and Jude Anogwih (Nigeria). The workshop aims to: • Provide artists with a good grasp of the concepts of Video Art within contemporary artistic practice • Provide the technical ability to incorporate and create works of Video Art. • To create project based on experimentation of the video image on the classic forms of art like painting, sculpture, music and theatre. • To introduce new elements like performance. Installation, photography and sound projects. Workshop content includes: • Screening of artists videos from around the world • Talks and presentations by the workshop artists • Introduction to different video art approaches • Development of participants own ideas, storyboard, visual concept etc • Implementation of ideas and editing of individual works • Screening of Video Art works t

Happy New Year

Lots of catching up to do>>> Looking forward to 2010!!

Come Chop 'Small Chops' in VI... Your All Invited

Culled from: http://www.creativafrica.blogspot.com/ The evening of Tuesday 5th January 2010 is the date and Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria is the setting for the Launch evening of C.R.E.A.T.I.V's biggest venture yet; Small Chops. Yes small chops will be served ! and on the menu will be; Plantain Chips, Pepper Soup, Chin Chin & Killishi and Boli & Groundnut. The Menu will be an ecclectic collection of poems and short stories based on the theme of traditions which will question and challenge the idea of traditional behaviour whilst also celebrating it. The Creative minds of Victoria Island, Lagos and all surrounding areas will be out in force on the first Tuesday of the new year to witness a fun filled evening which will include readings, auctions and previews and possible guest appearances. Small Chops : An Anthology to give the full title, is a book of quality which includes published and acclaimed writers such as Dr Niyi Osundare, Inua Ellams & Chiedu Ifeozo. A book o