CALL FOR PROJECT NOMINATIONS ELIA NEU/NOW FESTIVAL 2015

The European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) is pleased to announce the 7th ELIA NEU/NOW Festival 2015 and is inviting proposals for projects.
Nominations of projects can be submitted via the NEU/NOW Nomination Tool at www.elia-artschools.org/neunow.
The deadline for nominations is 15 March 2015.
The ELIA NEU/NOW Festival is an innovative international platform and showcase for talented graduating students and recent graduates (within one year of graduation) – of Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities across Europe and beyond – to present themselves to a wide international audience.
From the nominated projects, a maximum of 150 projects across all categories will be presented online at www.neunow.com, which is widely accessible to arts professionals and the public.

A selection of projects will be presented in the ELIA NEU/NOW LIVE Festival 2015 that will take place 09-13 September 2015 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The ELIA NEU/NOW online Festival is open to arts students in their final year of study and recent graduates (within one year of graduation) of Higher Arts Education Institutions across Europe and beyond, which are ELIA members, ELIA associate members or ELIA non-European members.

The call for entry to this competition is also open to members of the following partner networks:
+ AEC-European Association of Conservatories
+ CILECT-International Association of Film and Television Schools
+ Cumulus

For more information, please visit the NEU/NOW Activity Pageon the ELIA Website

Want to know more about NEU/NOW?
Watch the trailer of the 2013 LIVE edition in Amsterdam:

Semiosalong launches its fifth season. The seminar series takes place both in Tartu, where the general theme is to make natural sciences meet humanities, and in Tallinn, where we are searching for the common ground of Semiotics and Anthropology through the theme of participant observation.
In Tallinn, Semiosalong is a part of the bachelor curriculum of Anthropology in Estonian Institute of Humanities, which is referred to in the name of the cycle: course code HIA6107.
The seminars take place in a new location – wine lounge Paar Veini (Sauna 1). In the opening seminar, EHI Anthropology professor Carlo Cubero screens the film “Mangrove Music” (60 mins).
This documentary follows music groups from the island of Culebra, one of the Virgin Islands in the northeastern Caribbean. This documentary was produced within a larger project that examined the processes and relationships that constitute a unique Caribbean island identities. The screening will be accompanied by a talk that reflects on the the different methodological issues of using audiovisual media as an intrinsic part of anthropological research.
Carlo Cubero is a full-time Associate Professor of Social & Cultural Anthropology at Tallinn University where he lectures and coordinates the post-graduate program.
Cubero holds a PhD in Social Anthropology using Visual Media from the University of Manchester, where he specialized in the contemporary Caribbean and Visual Anthropology. Some of the core themes of his research are island identities, transnationalism, tourism development, Atlantic studies, Caribbean music and the application of the audiovisual medium in
social science research.
The event is free admission.
See you in Semiosalong!

This Wednesday, 4.02.15 we are going to meet renown fashion designer and researcher REET AUS, who is internationally acclaimed expert of ecological design.

For several years already, the upcycling designer Reet Aus and her team have been involved in a innovative research project together with Beximco, the largest vertically integrated fabric and garment producer in Bangladesh. The unity between the two companies aims for upcycling to be implemented into the regular production processes of Beximco in order to save resources, grow efficiency and significantly reduce environmental impacts. Upcycling could potentially reduce at least 65% of waste created by the giant production of 56 million garments a year.
Reet Aus team in cooperation with Beximco are leaders in designing, mass-producing and selling 100% upcycled, unique and high-fashion garments, enabling to save on average 70% of water and create 88% less CO2 emission compared to non upcycled mass-production.

Maria Ader opens her exhibition „In The Echo Zone“ at Draakoni gallery on February 3. The exhibition remains open till February 21st.

The interdisciplinary art group LAIK invites you to the opening of their first retrospective exhibition in Haapsalu Linnagalerii [City Gallery]! For the audience from Tallinn we offer bus transportation.

Aim of the exhibition is to show our work process so far. In addition to video as well as sound and room installations we conduct in the course of the exhibition time also improvisational sound and performance art workshops.

At the opening 07.02.2015 at 15:00 a concert-workshop takes place conducted by Gerhard Lock and Juhan Vihterpal.

BUS-INFO:

For audience from Tallinn a 23-seated bus (EstBus OÜ) is organized, starting 07.02.2015 at 13.30 in Georg Ots street next to Estonia Theatre building. Transportation back to Tallinn starts approximately 17:30.

To register to the bus we kindly ask you to write an email to Kaspar: aus.kaspar@gmail.com. Please add your name and your telephone number.

ABOUT LAIK:

LAIK as a group started in November 2012 and its members are active in several different art practices. The collaboration of the artists was triggered by trying out different dialogue forms, aiming to support comprehending conscious and subconscious memory chain-processes both in the group and for the audience in a manner that the processes themselves become the outcome. If consciousnesses meet they just not only share knowledge. They change it, reshape, re-narrate – create new memory chains, being recorded (documented) in the socially constructed collective body, which has ben called by LAIK “Objekt MU [Object MY]”.

“Valgustung [Light appetence]” represents the next phase of the above described process, where several different spiritual as well as vision, tactile and auditory perception related concepts like awakening, opening, emancipation, setting free, appetence towards light are mirrored.

Group members: Anu Vask, Gerhard Lock, Jekaterina Kultajeva, Juhan Vihterpal, Kaspar Aus, Kristino Rav

We are thankful to the following supporters of the exhibition: Eesti Kultuurkapital [Estonian Cultural Endowment], EKA Uusmeedia õppetool [Estonian Arts Academy New Media Department] , OÜ Aare autod [Aare Cars], Loomeheli [Creativesound] OÜ, LaborArtory. Special thanks goes to the curator Agur Kruusing from Haapsalu Linnagalerii [City Gallery] and Hans-Gunter Lock (Loomeheli & EKA) for technical support.

The audience bus transportation is offered by EstBus OÜ.

LAIK homepage:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/LAIK/495481393884046

See you there!

Lots of stuff going on in Tartu, the second largest town in Estonia. Visit the Tartu Art Museum for the exciting contemporary art shows and events! It’s worth your visit!

January 30-February 28 at Vaal gallery

The Square of Dolls
Jass Kaselaan (Estonia), winner of the Köler Prize 2014
Solo exhibition
14 February – 22 March 2015
The Arsenāls Exhibition Hall / Creative Studio
The Latvian National Museum of Art
2nd floor, 1 Torņa Street, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia
Opening of the exhibition on 13 February 2015 at 17.00.
The solo exhibition The Square of Dolls by Estonian sculptor and 2014 Köler Prize winner, Jass Kaselaan, will be held in the Creative Studio of the Arsenāls Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (1 Torņa Street, 2nd floor). The exhibition will be open from 14 February until 22 March 2015.
Jass Kaselaan (b.1981) can be described as the flagship of a very strong and distinct generation of sculptors including about five artists that graduated from Tartu Art College in the second half of the 00s and continued their MA studies at Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. Their work is characterised by a narrative approach to themes that range from death, science fiction and paranoia to fairy tales, homophobia and the cold war.
It is rather characteristic for the entire new generation of Estonian sculptors that they don’t participate in group shows, but like to fill the whole space themselves. This has led critics to describe them as monumentalists who lack the ambition to create monuments. There is no other that this claim could be more true of than Kaselaan. Whatever size the gallery, it will be too small for him.
Kaselaan’s acclaimed work The Square of Dolls is a good example of monumentality squeezed into the gallery, as it consists of 16 huge doll heads cast in concrete accompanied by the series of photographs. The parallels with monumental art are triggered not only by the material and object to space ratio, but also by the fact that monuments are erected to tell and, more to the point, remind us of a story. In this case a story of dolls found next to a rubbish bin in the middle of a Soviet residential area, that itself is one of the last functioning monuments of an era.
The Köler Prize was established in 2011 and named after the 19th century Estonian painter Johann Köler (1826–1899). It was created to popularise Estonian contemporary art and to support powerful local artists and artist groups. Every year, five authors are nominated for their work over the last three years while invited international jury selects the winner. In 2014 an exhibition by the nominees was on show at the Contemporary Art Museum Estonia (Eesti Kaasaegse Kunsti Muuseum).
Both, the Köler Prize and the Purvitis Prize present the best artists currently active. So the decision, to present the fourth Köler Prize winner next to the nominees for the fourth Purvitis Prize, is no coincidence. Jass Kaselaan’s Square of Dolls provides an insight into the work of the talented artist indirectly showing the similarities and differences between the visual art prizes of two Baltic countries.
The exhibition is the result of collaboration between the Latvian National Museum of Art and the Tartu Artists’ Union. The project is supported financially by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Estonia and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Text by Indrek Grigor
EXHIBITION CURATOR:
Indrek Grigor, Gallery manager of the Tartu Artists’ Union, Tartu, Estonia
EXHIBITION CO-ORDINATOR:
Šelda Puķīte, Head of the Creative Studio of the Arsenāls Exhibition Hall,
Latvian National Museum of Art
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The Creative Studio of the Arsenāls Exhibition Hall of the LNMA (1 Torņa Street, Riga, Latvia)
OPENING HOURS:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays 12.00–18.00, ticket office 12.00–17.45
Thursdays 12.00–20.00, ticket office 12.00–19.45
Saturdays, Sundays 12.00–17.00, ticket office 12.00–16.45
Closed on Mondays
The museum is closed on all public holidays: 1 January, Good Friday, Easter, Midsummer Eve and Day (23–24 June), Christmas (25–26 December), 31 December.
ADMISSION:
Adults: EUR 1,42
Schoolchildren, students, senior citizens: EUR 0,71
PRESS IMAGES (please request if need in a larger resolution)
1-3. Jass Kaselaan. The Square of Dolls. 2014. Installation.
Property of the artist. Publicity photo
4-6. Jass Kaselaan. The Square of Dolls. 2014. Digital print.
Property of the artist. Publicity photo
7. Estonian artist Jass Kaselaan. 2014. Photo: Scanpix
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Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
Opening on June 6, 2015
Work submission by February 15, 2015
Organized by Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media, Politecnico di Milano, Sapienza University of Rome.
CALL FOR EXHIBITS
Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media will be pleased to receive proposals from students, graduated students, researchers, PhDs for the exhibition DESIGN to FEED the WORLD, which will be opening as the final event of Cumulus Milan 2015.
Key Topics
1. History of humankind. History of food.
2. Abundance of food. A paradox of contemporary time.
3. The future of food
4. Sustainable food=equitable world
5. Taste is knowledge
Dates
June 6 – June 30, 2015
Location
The exhibition will be hosted at Fabbrica del Vapore (Milano), opening on the closing day of the Cumulus Conference, June 6, 2015.
Exhibition Format
The exhibition will be displayed through three formats:
a. Mockup, scale model and prototype (maximum size 50x50x50cm)
b. Video (maximum 2 min, .mp4 or.avi)
c. Poster (see the OverallCaptionDFW.pdf)
Publication
All selected Products/Projects will be published in a special issue of the Scientific Journal DIID – Disegno Industriale Industrial Design (www.disegnoindustriale.net).
The full Call for Exhibits as well as application documents available at
www.cumulusmilan2015.org
Contact information to the conference host POLIMI: cumulusmi2015@easychair.org