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Artists and nature lovers are invited to activate environmental art projects around the city and its metropolitan areas as individuals or in collaboration with other artists/ nature lovers/ interested parties.<br />
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<br />Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-74821030356062900372014-07-02T08:06:00.000-07:002014-07-02T08:12:58.748-07:00Strijdom van der Merwe Kyknet onderhoud<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="330" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/qmyapchT_OE" width="500"></iframe>Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-70594475076982603772014-06-26T06:57:00.001-07:002014-06-26T07:08:17.378-07:00Monthly Cape Land Art session - JUNE:Tokai<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
For the past three months, artists have been meeting once a month in a different location close to Cape Town. For the June gathering 10 artists met in Tokai Forest to create temporary site-specific pieces. </div>
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Janet Botes, Janet Ranson, Cheryl Traub Adler, Andrew van der Merwe, Andrée Bonthuys, Robert Bolus, Chris Lochner, Nina Faasen and Klara-Marie Den Heijer</div>
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Chris Lochner used large, elongated pieces of bark (which he mostly had to create through breaking the bark into these tall figures), stuck into the bark - part of the work submerged in the stream.</div>
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One of the works that Andrée Bonthuys created, using flowers and thorns, on a tree stump.</div>
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Janet Ranson explains her process and thinking behind her quirky dominoes - bringing a playful element into the roadbuilding activities next to the plantations, and using manmade and natural materials together effectively.</div>
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Circle in a fence, created from fern leaves by Janet Ranson.</div>
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Wattle branches were used to create these arches, by Nina Faasen and Klara-Marie Den Heijer</div>
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Andrew van Merwe, known for his beach calligraphy, wrote 'cliché's' onto an abandoned concrete pillar with mud, using his forefinger as brush or pen. Here he shows and explains to his fellow artists how he had to adapt the direction of the strokes that form his letters to suit this new 'medium'.</div>
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<br />Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-2152749044540100992014-05-22T05:22:00.000-07:002014-05-22T05:22:00.514-07:00Janet Ranson, Witsands, Western Cape<span style="text-align: center;">Hokusai's Wave by Janet Ranson, on Witsands Beach during the second land art gathering organized for 18 May 2014, by Site_Specific artists in the Western Cape.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">More about Janet's work: </span><a href="http://janetranson.withtank.com/">janetranson.withtank.com</a><br />
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Facebook page for the land art gatherings: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/capelandart">www.facebook.com/capelandart</a></div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the s</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">outhern coastline of South Africa, a diverse landscape of natural beauty awaits. Join a guided ecological and creative experience over three days. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: dimgrey;">In conjunction with the <strong><a href="http://www.hermanusfynarts.co.za/index.php?id=453" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Hermanus Fynarts Festival</a></strong></span></span><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;">Artist, Simon Max Bannister along with Galeo Saintz have envisioned an exciting methodology of walking and creating. Traversing different biomes, participant are introduced and coached in the practice of land art. This sensitive and fascinating way of engaging with nature brings insight into the ecological processes at work and inspires new ways of seeing. Participants are picked up in the mornings and taken to different beautiful areas around Hermanus. The walking is easy and achievable for all ages.</span></div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;">Spend a day bare feet in the warm water learning about the delicate ecology of the Estuary. Interpret a bird's life by nest making while reflecting on the ever shifting waters of this dynamic biome. The beach beckons and beholds the treasures of the ocean, learn to read the cryptic signs of currents and collaborate in their story telling. Creating ephemeral sculpture with site specific materials we sensitively co create with the environment. This is a very easy walk of not more than 5 km, tea and lunch provided, 8h30 to 17h00.</span></div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">14 June: Milkwood coastal forest (inside Piet se Bos Park). </strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;">In the dappled light of this meandering coastal forest, we will tangibly experience how the branches have created this cathedral and then go on to co-create with them. Learn about the techniques of making ephemeral eco-conscious land art while creating works of your own. This free flowing yet structured guided experience will enhance your ways of seeing nature and appreciating it. We will then creatively photograph our creations to make stunning images. This is a very easy walk of not more than 5 km, tea and lunch provided, 8h30 to 17h00.</span></div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">15 June: Along the Rocky Coastline from Piet se Bos to the Harbour.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: dimgrey;">The rocky coastline offers the dramatic scenery of Hermanus' cliffs to accompany the making of land art. Walking the meandering pathway as it twists and turn through the landscape we will discover coves and outcrops that become the canvas of our ephemeral art works. By picking up the story of the coastline's treasures we draw from our natural instinct to create with stones, driftwood and shells. This is a very easy walk of not more than7 km, tea and lunch provided, 8h30 to 17h00. All creations will be beautifully photographed and available for download.</span></div>
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Sand calligraphy by Andrew van der Merwe, on Witsands Beach during the second land art gathering organized for 18 May 2014, by Site_Specific artists in the Western Cape.</div>
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<br />Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-20843546875629590142014-05-10T03:18:00.000-07:002014-05-10T03:18:06.600-07:00We are part of nature<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"We are part of nature, but too often we forget, assuming our superiority, aiming to control and manipulate nature for our own ends. Working in the natural environment with the materials that are provided there brings our attention to the potential and versatility of what is right in front of us. It raises awareness, makes you look at the world differently and consider how we treat the environments which we inhabit. New landscapes bring new perspectives, cultural differences, but essentially we are one living organism which should be awarded more respect."</blockquote>
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Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-19362602106972613862014-05-05T07:33:00.000-07:002014-05-06T05:57:52.492-07:00Join the Conversation! Add your questions online before 12 May 2014<b>Anni Snyman</b> (<i>co-ordinator of Site_Specific</i>) has just arrived back from South Korea after a three week Nature Art tour as part of the <b>Global Nomadic Art Project (GNAP)</b> which culminated in an exhibition on the 1st of May 2014, Geumgang Nature Art Centre.<br />
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Twenty nine artists, critics, and supporting staff travelled around the southern parts of Korea, working in the field using natural materials and their bodies as they went. The trip was a pilot project for similar ventures in Asia 2015, Africa & Middle East 2016, Europe 2017, and America 2018. Invited members included Ko Seung-hyun; Ri Eung-woo; Jeon Won-gil; Lee Jae-eun; Ko Soon-ho; Kim Yong-min; Cho Kyu-hyun; Ko Hyun-hie; Jung Jang-Jig; Kwon O-yeol; Park Bong-gi; Kim Soon-im; Choi Yong-sun; Chung Hye-ryung; Hur Kang; Kim Sung-ho; Kim Young-ho; Yoon Jin-sup (South Korea) and Zhang Kai Qin (China); Somu Desai (India); Anni Snyman (South Africa); Mahmud Maktabi (Iran); Rumen Dimitrov (Bulgaria); Lynn Bennett-Mackenzie (UK,Scotland); Alpar Peter (Hungary); Saulius Valius (Lithuania); Diana Radaviciute (Lithuania); Delphine Saurat(France); and Reka Varallyay (Hungary).<br />
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Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-56758004540047438862014-04-28T02:25:00.000-07:002014-04-28T02:25:00.127-07:00Cape Land Art gathering: Witsands Beach<h2>
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ANNI SNYMAN working with Andrea Cristoforetti, Katty Vandenberghe and helpful Johannesburg Botanical Garden staff who decided to bring all the yellow leaves they could find. Anni built up an image of a robin with leaves found in the area, home-made flour & sugar glue. This leaf painting is in honour of a robin living at this site, and also has the ability to attract insects. The painstaking process of collecting and sorting leaves in the area, and arranging them into feathered patterns becomes part of a meditative practice in honour of the animal depicted. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Anni Snyman is one of the directors and founding partners of Site_Specific. She works in various media ranging from traditional prints, photography, digitally manipulated images and animations, to three dimensional installations and sculptures. She actively seeks collaborations with other artists, and has organised several 'Kunstellasies' – juxtapositions of different creative disciplines in public spaces.</span></div>
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For most of us mud houses are something of the past. We are used to modern houses, tall apartment blocks and skyscrapers. Our homes are made of the best materials. We know there are small zinc sheet homes for the poor. Just as there are zinc homes, there are also plenty of places in Africa where mud houses are still used. Nka Foundation makes us aware of this situation and is reaching out a helping hand in a creative and innovative manner. It is currently accepting ideas and proposals from designers, architects and builders to improve these mud houses and entries can come for anywhere around the world.<br />
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Nka is an <i>Igbo </i>and <i>Akan </i>word, and together they refer to art being an ancient tradition, one of the most ancient activities to be taken on by humans. It is a well chosen name, since Nka Foundation is focused on capital development through the use of different art forms, such as visual arts, architecture and performing arts. They hope to broaden people’s scope through their Mud House Design Competition.<br />
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The competition is open for entries until the 31st of August. The selection of the winning designs will be chosen between 15 September and 30 September by a panel of judges.<br />
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<li>Another goal involves making people’s lives easier through this change. At the moment many people can’t afford a home of their own and often end up living in cramped spaces. By scraping the idea that a mud house makes for a bad home that will erode over time, these people can afford having their own humble space.</li>
<li>This is an opportunity for the local labourers to learn from people all over the world. They will be able to build these homes for their own people, giving them work, experience and even confidence.</li>
<li>In time the Mud House Design Competition will allow the people of Ghana (and elsewhere too, as the house that gets chosen becomes Open Source) to grow and live more comfortably. It also allows for better and more buildings. This alone should be a good enough reason to send in an entry or two! Another good reason is, of course, for the possible honour of winning, or at least a chance to build your portfolio.</li>
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MOIRA MCMURRAY, assisted by Daniel and David, had to come to grips with the realities of land art as her large leaves wilted in the heat of the sun. The challenge in working with natural materials is that they change form from one hour to the next. Understanding this medium comes with trial and error, and therein lies the challenge of creating a successful land art work.<br />
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Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-59965504207565015152014-04-16T06:16:00.001-07:002014-04-16T06:16:20.612-07:00Land Art gatherings in Western Cape starting upInspired by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/761380223873297/" target="_blank">Site_Specific JOZI</a> monthly meetings around Cape Town is being initiated by artists in the Western Cape to help connect us to one another and to the Land. The first of these meetings were held on Monday, 14 April 2014 in Radlof Park, Somerset-West.<br />
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Accentuating the lines in rocks with water, and a water totem with green and yellow leaves from the river, by Janet Botes
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Spiral-like pattern or line of yellow autumn leaves, by Adri BezuidenhoutJanet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-72067516337494390992014-04-15T01:03:00.000-07:002014-04-15T01:03:00.343-07:00Site_Specific JOZI: Gordon Froud, Colleen Winter, Kylie Serebro<img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hGwcB9Tyseo/U0OoyoX2gDI/AAAAAAAAJXQ/QZnstELA2OY/s1600/1606951_600269476728265_1707455387_n.jpg" height="366" width="500" />
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GORDON FROUD working with Colleen Winter and Kylie Serebro created this rhino out of natural materials supplied by the garden. The rhino is a repeated form previously executed in Froud's popular coat-hanger style. The Rhino is life-size and looks as if it's happily grazing it's way through the garden. Rhino's are facing an alarming escalation in poaching, which has already wiped out the Western Black Rhino. Rhino's numbers are dwindling dangerously low, and if the situation isn't taken in hand, will disappear altogether.<br />
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<br />Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-8791476628640506782014-04-07T03:49:00.000-07:002014-04-16T05:26:53.256-07:00Cape Town/Helderberg Land Artist MeetupDear Artists,<br />
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Please join us next Monday (14 April 2014) in Radlof Park, Somerset-West, at the Gordon Road entrance, <a href="https://www.google.co.za/maps/place/Radloff+Park/@-34.081281,18.8718944,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2" target="_blank">map</a>.<br />
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<b>Share a day of discussion, inspiration and installation</b>. We will begin at 9.30am, with a quiet, ‘Open Hearts, Empty Hands’ approach, as described by <a href="http://yatooi.com/jeonwongil" target="_blank">Wongil Jeon</a>. This means walking into Nature and responding to whatever is there, in the environment. Whatever we build will be respectful, organic and temporary: we may even dismantle it at the end of the day. (Some of us do bring tools in our otherwise empty hands: e.g. cameras!)<br />
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Janet Botes - art@janetbotes.co.za, +2772 331 5057Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-23919176455984531232014-03-26T05:34:00.000-07:002014-03-26T05:34:26.117-07:00Cycles: Crows by Colleen WinterColleen Winter created these melting ice crows at the Site_Specific land art installation at Aardklop last year in the North West University Botanical Garden.<br />
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Land Art is a non-destructive and environmentally conscientious practice, and the work is rarely permanent – sometimes only lasting for a few seconds – long enough to observe and snap a photograph to capture the moment created.<br />
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The organisers of the inaugural Cape Town Eco Film Festival, which will take place at the Labia Theatre on Orange Street in Cape Town from Thursday the 27th of March to Monday the 31st of March, have just announced the exciting festival programme on their website: <a href="http://www.capetownecofilmfestival.com/">www.capetownecofilmfestival.com</a>. Also read more on the <a href="http://greenyourart.blogspot.com/2014/02/2014-cape-town-eco-film-festival.html" target="_blank">Green Your Art blog</a>.</div>
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<i>Creating an organic pattern with "Wrack" seaweed washed ashore on Gordon's Bay beach, Western Cape, South Africa.</i><br />
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<br />Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-89929814026011483082014-02-13T02:57:00.000-08:002014-02-20T01:42:23.714-08:00Walking with Art<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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On the warm waters of Kosi Bay along the wild northeast coastline of South Africa, a diverse landscape of natural beauty awaits. Join a guided ecological and creative experience over three days:
Explore the coastal dunes, dense forests, and lakes
Sleep under the stars
Create individual and collective artworks with personal guidance
Discover deserted beaches
Learn about the ecology of Kosi Bay
Get some quiet solitude
Enjoy the little things
Conservationist Galeo Saintz and land artist Simon Max Bannister, have created an outdoor adventure that brings people closer to the experience of creating land art by walking, learning and having fun. Bringing awareness to your individual way of seeing and responding to the environment lets you discover nature in a whole new way. The guided experience affords deep immersion into ecology and the unfolding patterns of nature..
Kosi Bay offers wildlife, dense coastal forest, coastal dunes, sandy beaches, estuarine lakes and a host of wildlife as it is part of the Isimangaliso Wetland Park.
Using only our hands as tools and what we sensitively gather from the ground, we practice a very pure form of land art that nurtures creativity and lateral thinking. It leaves a delicate trace of our human understanding in the wilderness, where it can decay, grow, move and transform.
Explore Kosi Bay with google maps: <a href="https://www.google.co.za/maps/preview/@-26.9666536,32.8177541,2848m/data=!3m1!1e3">https://www.google.co.za/maps/preview/@-26.9666536,32.8177541,2848m/data=!3m1!1e3</a>
Details:
11, 12, 13, 14 April 2014
Permits included
All catering included
Campsites on the Lake are already booked
Simply provide your transport, tent and bedding
Only 5 spaces available
All inclusive: R4500
Contact: simontothemax@gmail.com</span></span><br />
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Simon Max Bannisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09946549634858056293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-21903539484179834982014-02-12T23:53:00.004-08:002014-02-12T23:54:16.176-08:00Recent land art by Simon Max Bannister<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Land Art works by Simon Max Bannister, created during a week of art making in the Blyde River and Tzaneen areas of South Africa.<br />
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Read more about Simon's work and process on his blog <a href="http://simontothemax.blogspot.com/2014/02/exploring-land-art.html" target="_blank">simontothemax.blogspot.com</a>. <br />
View his portfolio at <a href="http://www.behance.net/simonmaxbannister">www.behance.net/simonmaxbannister</a><br />
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<b><i>"Exploring land art for me is about simply stepping into the wilderness and finding inspiration with nature."</i></b> - Simon Max Bannister</blockquote>
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<i>A unique call/residency for 8 artists to work with an unusual material: freshly shorn wool. this six-day symposium, far from "civilization", offers a one-off opportunity for a truly rural experience, which permits investigation, documentation and inspiration, in close contact with nature, in the heart of Spain's countryside.</i></h4>
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<b>Organised by</b><br />
Iraida Cano (Artist + Arreciado owner) Beatriz Blanch (Artist + Culture Manager)<br />
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<b>Venue</b> <br />
El Arreciado (sheep rearing farm) – lies between the provinces of Toledo, Cáceres, Badajoz and Ciudad Real, Spain<br />
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<b>Date </b>6 to 11 May<br />
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<b>Material </b>WOOL - An exclusive opportunity to work with freshly sheared wool from 220+ sheep – including one black sheep.<br />
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<b>Objectives</b>This working symposium offers a “thinking outside the box” opportunity. To get away from one’s usual creative thought patterns, routine and place. To be free to investigate with a new medium, use different building techniques, to document, think, write, sketch etc. It is geared towards a shared creative time with other art professionals, where exchanging thought about art-work is possible. It provides 6 days solely for art practice, in close contact with a beautiful natural environment.<br />
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<b>What / how</b> <br />
Witness the shearing process and then use the wool for your creative practice. Wool is available for 3 days to make ephemeral works, which will be dismantled after the symposium, when the wool will be taken for spinning. Artists have an opportunity to use it in this “in-between” phase – the no-man’s land of sheep’s wool – while it sits and waits its final outcome!!<br />
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<b>Call open to</b>: <br />
Sculptors, project artists, poets, curators, photographers, writers, film/video makers… 8 artists will be selected.<br />
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<b>TO APPLY </b><br />
Please send the following to iraida.cano@gmail.com & beatrizblanch@telefonica.net<br />
Artists name, email, city of residency, nationality<br />
Project description – no more than 200 words<br />
A short artist statement – no more than 100 words<br />
An image of the proposed project– sketch, photo, short video<br />
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<b>Deadline</b> <br />
Friday 7 March. Selected artists will receive jury’s decision by Friday 14 March<br />
<b>Jury: </b>Mauro Cano, Architect, Soledad Gabriel y Galán Art Historian, Gonzalo Sainz Agricultural Maneger, Alberto Ribera Event Manager, Beatriz Blanch Artist + Culture Manager and Iraida Cano Artist.<br />
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<li><b>Costs</b>:<br />Accommodation is free<br />Selected artists must cover travel and food. 25€per day, per person to cover all meals, drinks and snacks (total 125€ per person) for duration of the symposium ( 6 to 10 May, 11 free)<br />Travel costs to and from Madrid, Spain<br />Travel costs to and from el Arreciado Farm. A meeting point is programmed in Madrid, for those who don’t make their own way to the farm - at 09:30 on the 6 th May. Participants making their own way should arrive at 12:00 on the 6 th May Living conditions – at the family house at the farm: </li>
<li>Generator powered electricity is only available in the evenings - and will only be switched on for a couple of hours a day to recharge phones etc. Candles are provided. Internet connection is possible with own portable router or phone. </li>
<li>2 people per room. You will have to share a room with a colleague </li>
<li>Recommendations<br />Warm comfortable clothing <br />Sturdy walking shoes <br />EU health card (available in all EU countries, free of charge) <br />Documenting instruments. As the work is ephemeral, we recommend you document your process – cameras, video, sketches, recordings… </li>
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To see images of the first edition of “Wool Symposium”, organised by sculpture network and Iraida Cano in 2012, please go to:<br />
www.sculpture-network.org/en/home/program/working-symposium/wool-working-symposium.html<br />
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For further information please contact: <br />
Iraida Cano iraida.cano@gmail.com <br />
Tel: +34 617 006 003 <br />
Or Beatriz Blanch beatrizblanch@telefonica.net <br />
Tel: +34 669 521 750Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-12374155191730512222014-01-27T04:48:00.000-08:002014-01-27T04:51:05.529-08:00Earthbound Moon calls for artist proposals<h2>
Art Without Limits : Farther Regions</h2>
Artists can get discouraged and their art-making interrupted by practicalities like deadlines, proper studio space, available resources, technology and the biggest heartbreak of all; not enough money. What if an artist was presented with the possibility to create a work of art without these limitations? What if that artist had financial backing, equipment, materials, manpower and experienced technicians ready to take direction and create their vision? What if that artist’s work wasn’t limited by the fact that they live on the planet, Earth, in the year 2014 and are subjected to physical laws?<br />
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<b>Art Without Limits: Farther Regions</b> explores what is possible for artists when they are released from practical, economical and physical constraints. What can be accomplished without limitations of natural laws, moral codes or current technologies? Art Without Limits will give artists resources to execute their dream-projects. Artists often create work that is determined by the walls around them. Art making is often a problem that needs to be solved. We would like to solve that problem. You can create art anywhere in the Universe! Show us your gallery inside of a volcano, your sculpture on top of the Great Pyramids,float your work on top of the largest storm in the solar system or Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Unbound by the physical realities of the here and now, the sky is not your limit! <br />
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<b>Earthbound Moon seeks proposals from around the nation for fantastically imaginative and absurdly inventive site oriented artworks. You have artistic immunity, you have every resource you need. Indulge us!</b><br />
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<b>The requirements of the Artist proposal are outlined simply as:</b><br />
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<li>CV</li>
<li>Description of the artwork that can be as long or as short as the artist wishes.</li>
<li>Rendering of the theoretical artwork.</li>
<li>Return envelope with return postage</li>
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No entry fee.<br />
<b>Deadline </b>March 24, 2014<br />
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<b>Please send Proposals to: </b><br />
Art Without Limits ℅ Carson Murdach<br />
1627 Marion St. NW #2<br />
Washington, DC 20001 <br />
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Questions? Contact <a href="mailto:carson@earthboundmoon.com">carson@earthboundmoon.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.earthboundmoon.com/">http://www.earthboundmoon.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ART/SOA/nav/landmark/currentprograms.php">http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ART/SOA/nav/landmark/currentprograms.php</a><br />
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<i>Works will not be returned without stamped return envelope</i><br />
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(call for proposals <a href="http://www.artslant.com/ny/articles/show/37937">source</a>. Cross-posted on <a href="http://www.greenyourart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">GreenYourArt</a>)</div>
Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207721436712949135.post-61438279862895356402014-01-09T01:31:00.000-08:002014-01-09T01:31:08.014-08:00Migration, Strijdom van der Merwe<span>Aerial view of the work 'Migration'. Standing stones migrating
through the landscape. Segera. Kenya. Collection of the Zeitz
Foundation. Artist: Strijdom van der Merwe.</span><br />
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Janet Boteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959385860069850577noreply@blogger.com0Samburu, Kenya1.5900668536691172 36.784973144531251.3361093536691171 36.462249644531248 1.8440243536691172 37.107696644531252