Analysing while Waiting (For Time To Pass)

4/5/2007 at 10:20 PM

Treibsand [Volume 01], contemporary video art from Teheran
04/26/07, 20:00

Curator Susann Wintsch presents the DVD Treibsand with contemporary video art from Teheran.
TREIBSAND [VOLUME 01] «Analysing while Waiting (For Time To Pass)» sheds light on contemporary and emerging art in Tehran, concentrating predominantly on an analytical stance in times of waiting. Waiting for the future may be expressed as yearning or depression, or it may appear as a long, protracted period in which past and present are analysed in depth from a personal and post-colonialist viewpoint. The concept has been drawn up in close collaboration with Parastou Forouhar (Frankfurt am Main/Tehran).

Artists
Iman Afsarian, Nazgol Ansarinia, Mehraneh Atashi, Mahmoud Bakhshi-Moakhar, Shahrzad Darafsheh, Samira Eskandarfar, Farhad Fozouni, Nina Ghaffari, Amirali Ghasemi, Barbad Golshiri, Arash Hanaei, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Elahe Heidari, Behnam Kamrani, Simin Keramati, Khosro Khosravi/Farid Jafari, Mehran Mohajer, Ahmad Morshedlou, Neda Razavipour /Shahab Fotouhi, Hamed Sahihi, Rozita Sharaf Jahan, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Sadegh Tirafkan

Statements
Iman Afsarian, artist and editor; Haleh Anvari, artist and journalist; Khosrow Hassanzadeh, artist; Sohrab Mahdavi, editor of TehranAvenue.com; Ruyin Pakbaz, art and art history professor; Alireza Sami Azar, curator; Soghra Zare Anaghezi, artist

Links:
Treibsand DVD Magazine http://www.treibsand.ch

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Next Code

4/1/2007 at 3:20 PM

„Next Code “, a project of several years, gets branched out now to Liechtenstein as „next code: in between“ by artist Martin Krusche and curator Mirjana Peitler-Selakov. It comes to this meeting on invitation by the initiative „schichtwechsel“. The „next code “-crew of this station looks in its statement through Europe from the north (Denmark) over the center (Austria) to the south (Serbia), looks to Turkey and Iran.

Activities in analogue space, teleworking, the extension in Internet, from there the renewed back connection into „real life“determined the work, which develops from current processes. The media-based procedure is to be added to the category „art under net conditions“.

The first contentwise impulse for our action in Triesen occurred 2006 in Istanbul in the context of „exociti“. After the murder of Hrant Dink we kept the sentence fragment from a mail of artist Deniz G�l „… talk, talk, talk, untill we knew each other …“.

Now: Discourses, images, narrations, films and lectures are transferred in such a way in Triesen in May 07 into „face to face-meeting “. The events in Liechtenstein are brought back to Austria later, where they constitute a resuming station of „next code“ in december 2007.

+) Amirali Ghasemi (Iran)
+) Deniz G�l (Turkeyi)
+) Christian Hillesoe (Denmark)
+) Martin Hofbauer (Austria)
+) Martin Krusche (Austria)
+) Mirjana Peitler-Selakov (Serbia / Austria)

+) Presse-Fotos: [http://www.van.at/next/code/presse/foto.htm]

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Join me on flickr

4/1/2007 at 7:49 AM

Hi there everybody!
I've just updated my flickr!
Check it out and add me as your contact if you care
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amiralionly
Thanks and regards

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Never been to houston

3/20/2007 at 4:52 AM

Never Been to Houston
http://picasaweb.google.com/NBTHouston/NeverBeenToHouston
March 9-April 14
Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
Curated by Aurora Picture Show and Jon Rubin
Imagine a city that you've only seen in reproductions or perhaps have merely heard about. A place, like many others, that exists only through rumors, stories, novels, the nightly news, magazines, movies, and the Internet. Using these secondhand clues as firsthand research material, invited worldwide contributors-who have Never Been to Houston- will photographically document (without leaving home) what they imagine Houston to look like. Contributors will upload their photos daily to an on-line Flickr site, which will be projected as a slideshow in Houston's Lawndale gallery. Anything that anyone might take a photograph of is fair game. Just as long as it feels like Houston.

For the contributors to this exhibition, the task is to search through their daily life for clues to a foreign place, for the possibility that somewhere else exists right under their nose and that, like some clunky form of astral projection, you can travel to other lands without leaving home. For viewers in Houston, it's a chance to witness an unusual mirroring of their globally projected image. In addition to the traditions of storytelling and travel guides, new information technologies are expanding the possibility of knowing a place to which you've never traveled. Three-dimensional electronic maps, 360 degree images, hosts of amateur and commercial websites and podcasts about a given city, its economy, demographics, culture and subculture have opened the way for a new vernacular of representation.

In the end, Never Been to Houston is an experimental, virtual travelogue to the city that the New York Times opines "refuses to assume a simply identity."
Amirali Ghasemi from parkingallery is also one of the invited contributers.

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My photoblog

3/19/2007 at 6:10 PM

Hi there Friends! This is my 1st post here...
& here is a link to my photo+graphic blog http://pix.amiralionly.com

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