Akiyoshidai International Art Village Residencies, Japan

CALL FOR ARTISTS / AIAV Residence Program
Deadline 31st July, 2010

Akiyoshidai International Art Village has supported cultural and philosophical exchange among international artists through the artists in residence program since its inauguration in 1998. The aim of the Residence Support Program is to support young artists' experimental artistic activities, crossing the borders of art disciplines and nationalities. The artists will be carefully selected by the Selection Committee of the Residence Program of Akiyoshidai International Art Village. We strongly hope that selected artists will actively communicate with local people in Yamaguchi, participate in different projects, including workshops, lectures, school visits and exhibitions.

Akiyoshidai International Art Village Residence Program:
trans_2010-2011 http://aiav.jp/programs/2010/trans_apply/

Residency period
11 January - 21 March, 2011 [70days] Number of artists accepted 2 artists of any nationality living outside Japan 1 artist living in Japan or living abroad with Japanese nationality (Please see the guideline for details.) Support - Travel expenses - Accommodation at AIAV - Studio - Production expenses = 230,000 yen (individual) / 280,000 yen (group) - Per diem = 2,800 yen × day - Insurance (Please see the guideline for details.)

How to apply Please download the guideline and application from the AIAV website:
http://aiav.jp/programs/2010/trans_apply/

Please read the guideline carefully and fill in the application. Applications should be addressed to Akiyoshidai International Art Village Residence Program: trans_2010-2011 50 Akiyoshi, Shuho-cho, Mine-shi, Yamaguchi 754-0511 JAPAN

*We will not accept applications via e-mail, telephone or fax. Deadline Applications must be received by 31 July, 2010.

Results will be announced in the beginning of October 2010 If you had any questions, contact us any time.

Email: trans2010@aiav.jp // TEL: +81 837 63 0020 FAX: +81 837 63 0021

VOLKAN ERGEN: △△from△△birth△△to△△monster△△

Jens Ingvarsson photography

Jens Ingvarsson photography

quail eggs

House of Donald K.

Max Sudues "Fear of Falling" @ Galerie Christian Lethert

image:Max Sudhues // Fear of Falling // installation view, 2010 // Galerie Christian Lethert

MAX SUDUES // FEAR OF FALLING // June 5, 2010 until July 17, 2010 // Galerie Christian Lethert // Cologne

In a second solo exhibition called Fear of Falling, Galerie Christian Lethert will be showing both recent and the very newest works by Max Sudhues, an artist who lives in Berlin. The title is a playful, and playfully ironic, reference to the neurotic fear we have of falling again after we have already fallen once.

Using Loops of "found" video tape recordings of everyday occurrences, which he then alienates minimally using digital means, Sudhues examines the formal characteristics of everyday situations and transforms random events (defective pipes spewing water at a construction site, a platform anchored in Hamburg Harbor) into small stories of human wear and tear, of attraction and repulsion.

In installations and projection works consisting of objects lit up to enhance their shadows, the artist comes up with allegorical, sometimes stirring worlds of pictures which, though man is absent from them, nevertheless indicate his actions and his standards in a field of tension spanning emotion, technology and nature.

In his works, Max Sudhues examines the simplest of things with respect to their surface, form and structure - and, what is more, checks them for new correlations of content by bringing them together with the techniques of light projection long thought to be outmoded (such as overhead and slide projections): Netting left over from oranges and lemons, but also rubber mats and halves of plastic eggs suddenly want to tell their own spatial stories in new combinations. In this way, and in contrast to the modest, minimal means of what seems to be nothing, neglected things, and things that have been discarded, projections of meaningful(l) pictures and symbols made of light, material and their shadows now grow, always staged in reference to the surrounding space.

"To the viewer, who surrenders himself to the interplay between and light and shadows in this space-dominating work, a spark of poetry comes across, although the means of this interplay - the overhead projector, digital projector, and everyday object - are strikingly present and just as visible as the projections themselves. As integral components of all of Sudhues's works, production and perception, construction and deconstruction, illusion and disillusion enter into an exciting interrelationship.

With its multiple levels of meaning and visual surprises, Max Sudhues's collaged course of projections has been conceived as an APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE, as Yoko Ono once sang of it in 1973, as one of the artist's most recent works is called. "
(Sara Stehr)

www.christianlethert.com

VOX VI - OPEN CALL FOR EXHIBITION OF EMERGING ARTISTS

Vox Populi is happy to announce an open call for VOX VI - their sixth annual juried exhibition of emerging artists, which will take place July 9 - August 1, 2010.

The deadline for submissions is June 18, 2010.

To apply, visit www.voxpopuli.slideroom.com.

This year's jurors are artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton.

William Powhida received an MFA from Hunter College in 2002 and currently lives and works as an artist and critic in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Powhida is known for tackling controversial subject matter addressing the nature of the contemporary art industry. His writings have been included in The Brooklyn Rail, Artnet.com, Circa and Permission magazines, and he has had solo exhibitions most recently at Charles James Gallery, Schroeder Romero Gallery, and Platform Gallery.

Jennifer Dalton received an MFA from Pratt Institute in 1997 and currently lives and works as an artist in Brooklyn. She uses her work to cast a critical eye on the art world's fashions and expectations, creating two ongoing bodies of work examining the role of art auctions and the influence of the press. Her most recent solo exhibitions were at Winkleman Gallery, Smack Mellon Gallery, and Plus Ultra Gallery, and her work has been written about in the New Yorker, New York Times, Modern Painters, ArtNews, and Art in America, among others.

Applicants may submit up to five works in any media. Application fee is $35.

Full prospectus:

http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/voxvi.pdf