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EMERGENCY BIENNALE in Chechnya/ World Tour
>stop 10: San Francisco CA

> Location: PLAySPACE gallery, California College of the Arts, CCA
>
from January 26th to February 9th. Opening reception: Friday January 25th, 6-9pm
>
sponsored by The Global Commons Foundation on the occasion of the 2008 World Social Forum


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(San Francisco, January 16, 2008) On the occasion of the 2008 World Social Forum (WSF), The Global Commons Foundation announces two public events in San Francisco:

The Emergency Biennale in Chechnya/ World Tour/ Stop 10: San Francisco
PLAySPACE gallery, California College of the Arts, CCA
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Opening reception: Friday, January 25th, 6–9 pm
from January 26th to February 9th: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, from noon to 3pm
Talk with Evelyne Jouanno, curator of Emergency Biennale and the artists: Friday February 8th, 6pm

and

The World Social Forum: Past Achievements, Present Dilemmas, and Future Hopes
A community forum with Immanuel Wallerstein and Bay Area activists
Saturday, January 26, New College of California, 9 am – 1 pm
777 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

>The Emergency Biennale in Chechnya was conceived and organized in 2005 by independent Paris and San Francisco-based curator Evelyne Jouanno as an echo to the 1st Moscow Biennial and as a reaction to the destruction of a people and culture. Drawing attention to the plight of Chechnya and more broadly to human and social emergencies in the context of "ambivalent globalization" while also questioning the phenomenon and proliferation of international Biennials, the Emergency Biennale in Chechnya opened on February 23rd, 2005 in different clandestine locations in the city of Grozny, and simultaneously in Paris, at the Palais de Tokyo. More than sixty international artists, established and emerging, provided one artwork and its duplicate - created to fit into suitcases – which have been shipped to Chechnya and to different cities in the world for mirror exhibitions.  After Paris, the touring part of the exhibit moved on to Brussels, Bolzano, Milan, Riga, Tallinn, Vancouver, Puebla, Istanbul, and now to San Francisco.  In each location new artists are invited, conferences organized, and additional suitcases readied to be sent to Chechnya, where the artworks will join their twins and the collection will become the foundation for a museum.

Emergency Biennale of Chechnya/ World Tour/ Stop 10: San Francisco was made possible by the support of The Global Commons Foundation, CCA Playspace gallery and Wattis Institute, haudenschildGarage and Walter & McBean Galleries of San Francisco Art Institute . This will be the first presentation of the exhibit in the United States.

Artists: Adel Abdessemed, A Constructed World, Dennis Adams, Hüseyin Alptekin, Maria-Thereza Alves, Francis Alÿs, Aija Apse, Maja Bajevic, Ruth Barabash, Rebecca Belmore, Lindsay Benedict, Dalida Maria Benfield, Aija Bley, Sylvie Blocher, Blue Noses, Mark Boswell & Anton Kozlov, Marc Boucherot, Véronique Boudier, Hernain Bravo, Kristians Brekte, Mathieu Briand, Hank Bull, Santiago Caicedo, Cao Fei, Banu Cenneto?lu, Raimond Chaves, Chen Shaoxiong, Paolo Chiasera, Magali Claude, José Luis Cortés S., Sergio De La Torre, Jimmie Durham, Al Fadhil, Seamus Farrell, Daniel Faust, Carlos Franklin, Fu Jie, Adriana García Galán, Ghazel, Roya Ghiasy, Kaspars Goba, Babak Golkar, M?rti?? Grauds, Yves Grenet, Gu Dexin, Andris Grinbergs, Daniel Guzmán, Jens Haaning, Han Myung-Ok, Antonia Hirsch, IN[  ]EX, Alfredo Jaar, Uldis Jancis, Edgars Jurj?ns, El?na Kalni?a, Rose Khor, Kolkoz, Koo Jeong-A, Roman Korovin, Linards Kulless & Una Meiberga, Neeme Külm, Gabriel Kuri, Surasi Kusolwong, Tony Labat, Marco Laimre, Sally Lee, Raimonds L?c?tis, HH Lim, Armin Linke, Ken Lum, Juan Pablo Macias, Marko Mäetamm, Ives Maes, Gilda Mantilla, Metapong, Julio César Morales, Maurizio Nannucci, Oda Projesi, Ahmet Ö?üt, Jüri Ojaver, Lucy Orta, Damián Ortega, Gionata Gesi Ozmo, Adrian Paci, Alexandre Périgot, Emmanuelle Rapin, David Renaud, Thorbjorn Reuter Christiansen, Römer & Römer, Julian Rosefeldt, Gatis Rozenfelds, Mo Salemy, Jayce Salloum, Kri?s Salmanis, Juan Esteban Sandoval, Santomatteo, Sarkis, Zineb Sedira, Shen Yuan, Nedko Solakov, Allan de Souza, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Bert Theis, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Steven Tong, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Enzo Umbaca, Urban Subjects, Anton Vidokle, Cesare Viel, Luca Vitone, Wang Du, Florence Wang, Hans Winkler, Jenifer Wofford, Sislej Xhafa, Yan Lei, Yang Fudong, Yang Jie Chang, Zheng Guogu, Zhu Jia, Aiva Zurina. / With the special participation of Alighiero Boetti (Francis Alÿs project)

Artists invited on the occasion of the 10 th stop in San Francisco: Lindsay Benedict, Dalida Maria Benfield, Sergio De La Torre, Rose Khor, Tony Labat, Julio César Morales, Allan de Souza, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Jenifer Wofford.

>The World Social Forum: Past Achievements, Present Dilemmas, and Future Hopes is a community forum on the WSF, global coalition movements, and local activisms. The event will begin with a keynote address by leading world-systems and anti-systemic movements scholar Immanuel Wallerstein on the World Social Forum in historical perspective, and will be followed by a dozen respondents from the Bay Area representing a range of social justice movements who can speak strongly to the question of local and transnational challenges and possibilities for organizing global coalition networks. Respondents include Walter Turner, Global Exchange; tammy ko Robinson, San Francisco Art Institute; Annie Fukushima, Women for Peace and Genuine Security; Andrej Grubacic, Z Magazine and Global Balkans; Ramón Grosfoguel, UC-Berkeley; Iain Boal, Retort Collective; Evelyne Jouanno, Emergency Biennale in Chechnya ; Marina Sitrin, New College of California. Following the respondents the conversation will open up to the whole room.  In addition to being a discussion on the role of the WSF and alter-globalization movements, this gathering will serve as a first encounter among individuals interested in forming a Bay Area Social Forum. 

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The World Social Forum (WSF) is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, to formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action. Since the first world encounter in 2001, it has taken the form of a permanent world process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies.  World Social Forums have taken place at the end of January at different
 sites throughout the world each year for the past seven years, always coinciding with the World Economic Forum in Davos, against which it stands as a protest and an alternative. In 2008, the World Social Forum will not be holding centralized meetings as in past editions. Instead, millions of people all over the world will march, speak, celebrate, and dialogue in a week of mobilization and a Global Day of Action on January 26th that will testify that the other possible world is already underway and being built all over the globe.

More information: www.wsf2008.net  /  www.forumsocialmundial.org.br

The Global Commons Foundation (GCF) is a non-profit organization that creates platforms for dialogue and action on urgent contemporary social, cultural, environmental, and geo-political issues, particularly relating to and from the perspectives of the Global South.  Its administrative base is in San Francisco but its membership and activities are transnational.

More information: www.globalcommonsfoundation.org           

PLAySPACE, the Paulette Long and Shepard Pollack Art Community Experiment of the California College of the Arts, CCA, is a student-run, experimental exhibition space. It aims to foster an environment that generates dialogue, artistic growth, and artistic opportunities for members of the CCA community, surrounding communities, and beyond.

More information: www.cca.edu/academics/graduate/gradgallery.php

 







 

 

Homage to Hüseyin Alptekin
(1957-2007)

Huseyin Alptekin, one of the most respected Turkish artists who represented his country at the 2007 Venice Biennale, left on Monday evening, December 31. He has joined Emergency Biennale on the occasion of Istanbul Biennial's stop.

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STATE OF EMERGENCY:
The Place and Function of Contemporary Art in Society

A Lecture by Evelyne Jouanno
Thursday, April 26, 2007  4 p.m.  691 Barrows Hall
University of California-Berkeley

 
In the cultural debates of the last decades, if the challenge of multiculturalism offered new alternative models of social organization, more open to the real coexistence and exchange of cultures and human values, how do we turn these concepts/discourses into reality?  How do we attract public attention and stimulate a more ample debate on controversial social and political topics, easily ignored and forgotten realities, countries that do not have visibility for historic reasons and peoples who have been deprived of territories and identities?  What kind of new strategies must be developed to carry out this responsibility beyond the existing institutions and market places and their political/financial constraints?
 
Evelyne Jouanno, an independent art critic and curator from Paris, has written extensively on contemporary art and geopolitics and organized numerous transnational art exhibitions and events.  She will discuss her project, the Emergency Biennale, a suitcase art project and transnational traveling exhibition organized in Chechnya (www.emergency-biennale.org), and multiculturalism in the context of ambivalent globalisation.
 
Organized by the Visuality and Alterity Working Group.  Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Center for Race and Gender, UC-Berkeley.


Prayer for (Passive?) Resistance
1st Athens Biennial 2007 Conference
17th & 18th February 2007, Athens


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Old Parliament - National Historical Museum
13, Stadiou Street, Athens
Simultaneous translation
Entrance to the Conference is free of charge


The 1st Athens Biennial 2007 Conference is titled Prayer for (Passive?) Resistance. It will be held on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th February2007 in Athens. The Conference will investigate the premise suggested by the concept of the 1st Athens Biennial 2007 exhibition, Destroy Athens. It will take place in the main chamber of the Old Parliament, now the National Historical Museum, in central Athens. It is open to the public.


The Conference will include presentations by Catherine David independent curator, and co-curator of the 1st Contemporary Art Biennale of Thessaloniki; Per Hasselberg, artist and Director of Konsthall C, Stockholm; Evelyne Jouanno, independent curator and art critic; Maria Theodorou, architect; Viktor Misiano, independent curator, art critic, and curator of the parallel program of the invited country (Russia) in art athina 2007; Neil Mulholland, Acting Director of the Centre for Visual & Cultural Studies, Edinburgh College of Art; Panayis Panayiotopoulos, lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Kostis Stafylakis, artist, doctoral candidate at Panteion University, Athens; Yiannis Stavrakakis, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex, and tutor at the Department of Political Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Jeremy Valentine, Senior Lecturer at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh. In addition, the curators of 1st Athens Biennial 2007 Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka- Yio and Augustine Zenakos will present an introduction to the conference and the exhibition.

The moderators of the Conference are Katerina Koskina, art historian and Artistic Director of the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation; and Yiorgos Tzirtzilakis, architect and Assistant Professor in the Architecture Department of the University of Thessaly.

 
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Laboratory stop in Puebla, Mexico


      


23 de noviembre de 2006 - 28 de enero de 2007
Ciudad de Puebla, México


As a part of his exhibition Regenerations /Platforms and utopian spaces curated for Plataforma in Puebla, Mexico, Juan Pablo Macias invites Evelyne Jouanno , director & curator of Emergency Biennale in Chechnya , to take part of a laboratory with the artists, collective projects and the special guest contributor: John Holloway .
This laboratory will generate the production of new works that will join Emergency Biennale on the next stop of the world tour exhibition, while a new suitcase filled with the twin artworks will be ready to be sent to Chechnya.

>> Conference & laboratory discussion: Tonight, November 22, 7.00 pm
Regenerations / Platforms and utopian spaces
San Pedro Museo de Arte in Puebla, Mexico

With John Holloway , Irish lawyer, Marxist economist and philosopher  whose work is closely associated with the Zapatista movement in Mexico, his home since 1991.
His 2002 book, Change the World Without Taking Power , has been the subject of much controversy in Marxist circles, and contends that the possibility of revolution resides not in the seizure of state apparatuses, but in day-to-day acts of abject refusal of capitalist society. He is considered by supporters and critics to be broadly Autonomist in outlook, and his work is often compared and contrasted with that of figures such as Antonio Negri. (wikipedia source)
Evelyne Jouanno , independent curator and founder of Emergency Biennale in Chechnya. Based in Paris for 15 years, she just moved to San Francisco, California.

Artists & collective projects of Regenerations/ Platforms and utopian spaces :
Hernaín Bravo, Diana Córdoba, José Luis Cortés S., Claudia Cuevas, Yéssica Enríquez, LAALvaca, Pablo Loreto, Leonardo Marz, Diego Medina, Metapong, Armando Miguélez, Isaac Muñoz, Perla Montelongo, Gustavo Ramírez, Douglas Rodrigo Rada, seisxseis .

Juan Pablo Macias
is an artist and curator born in Puebla, 1974. He's living and working between Mexico and Milano, Italy.

>>
 www.plataforma06.com  /  www.regeneracion-1.org (under construction)







Hommage a Anna Politkovskaia
Les amis d’Anna Politkovskaia vous invitent à lui rendre hommage .



Rendez-vous Biennale de l’Urgence en Tchétchénie / Conférence
samedi 20 mai , 15h30 au Grand Palais à Paris, exposition “La Force de l’Art”
sur une invitation de Campement Urbain, dans leur espace de débats “Je & Nous”

Point sur les différents développements du projet lancé le 23 février 2005 à Paris et Grozny, au moyen de valises et grâce à la générosité de près d'une centaine d'artistes du monde entier.

Considérant l'urgence toujours actuelle de la situation en Tchétchénie, et par ailleurs, l'objet même de cette invitation à la parole (proposée par Campement Urbain afin de répondre à la polémique suscitée par l'exposition La Force de l'Art en son sein même et dans un espace de débats permettant "l'infiltration du territoire de l’art avec des pratiques politiques, sociales et culturelles ordinairement absentes du champ de l’art"), cette présentation donnera lieu à une table ronde mêlant divers témoignages et engagements, avec pour pistes de réflexions : la liberté individuelle d'expression comme droit humain fondamental, l'art face aux stratégies propagandistes et à leurs consensus, l'art hors des sphères d'influence fonctionnaristes et bureaucratiques, ou encore l'art comme force, comme pouvoir, voire comme arme...

Organisée par Evelyne Jouanno, directrice et commissaire de la Biennale de l'Urgence en Tchétchénie.

Invités:
- Les artistes français mobilisés pour la Biennale de l'Urgence en Tchétchénie (sous réserve de confirmation) : Adel Abdessemed, Maja Bajevic, Ruth Barabash, Sylvie Blocher, Marc Boucherot, Véronique Boudier, Mathieu Briand, Santiago Caicedo, Magali Claude, Seamus Farrell, Carlos Franklin, Adriana Garcia Galand, Ghazel, Yves Grenet, Han Myung-Ok, Kolkoz, Koo Jeong-A, Anton Koslov, Lucy Orta, Emmanuelle Rapin, Sarkis, Shen Yuan, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Wang Du, Florence Wang, Yang Jie Chang.

- Milana, Rosa et Svetlana, étudiantes Tchétchènes venues à Paris pour trois ans (à travers Etudes Sans Frontières)

- Représentant(s) de la FIDH - Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme, marraine de la Biennale de l'Urgence en Tchétchénie (sous réserve de confirmation).

© Campement Urbain infiltre la Force de l’Art au Grand Palais
Tous les samedis de 13h à 18h30 :
Nouvelles urbanités, cultures et Périphéries


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L’intitulé de l’invitation du commissaire d’exposition Hou Hanru “Pour un avenir incertain”, qui prend acte de la crispation française actuelle, notamment dans le champ de la culture (dont l’exposition La Force de l’Art et les remous qu’elle suscite sont une des manifestations), nous a décidés à établir un espace de débat au Grand Palais : “Nouvelles Urbanités, Cultures et Périphéries”. Cette problématique accompagne la présentation du projet Je & Nous dans le  quartier des Beaudottes à Sevran.

Si l’invitation de Hou Hanru décentre l’exposition en l’ouvrant à des expérimentations en France, à l’étranger ou encore à des collectifs d’artistes travaillant en périphérie, nous avons décidé de répondre à son invitation par une double stratégie d’infiltration et de déplacement. L’infiltration du territoire de l’art avec des pratiques politiques, sociales, culturelles ordinairement absentes du champ de l’art et le déplacement de ces questions dans le lieu symbolique du Grand Palais.

Malgré l’aveuglement ou le mépris, c’est dans les périphéries que s’expérimente la généralisation de l’urbain de demain ; certains nouveaux phénomènes y sont observés et  théorisés. La question des centralités n’a plus forcément de pertinence si ce n’est celle de nous inviter à penser ce continuel déplacement des points de vue, des espaces ; où le centre et la marge peuvent sans cesse être redéfinis dans ce mouvement, qu’il soit géographique ou pas.

Campement Urbain s’est donc saisi de l’invitation au Grand Palais, gageant que le champ de l’art reste un lieu d’expérimentations, de croisement des pratiques et de débats.

Cette situation de l’art est définitivement critique.

Par ailleurs, il était impossible de participer à un tel événement sans se positionner par rapport à l’actualité récente, et de rester à l’écart des processus de précarisation, de paupérisation, et de relégation qui affectent des parts de plus en plus importantes du monde environnant.

Nous avons donc lancé un appel, autour de problématiques liées à :

La survie. Les représentations. Le travail artistique et sa diffusion. L’enseignement et la constitution d’un public. L’élitisme et le populisme. L’inconscient du politique. L’incertain...

Cet appel a été fait le 15 avril 2006, via nos mails, devenus ainsi le premier espace de débat.

Notre parti pris pour l’infiltration a été réactualisé par la polémique produite par le retrait de Gérard Fromanger. Comme lui, certains ont pris le parti du retrait, d’autres, au contraire, ont vu dans ce contexte politique, la nécessité d’un engagement clair et effectif. Voilà pourquoi les interventions auront trait, non seulement aux cultures et périphéries, mais aussi à la question de la parole :

pourquoi, où et comment faut-il la prendre?

Faut-il encore prendre la parole ?

Congratulation to our friends from ESF - Etudes Sans Frontieres !

"Etudes sans Frontieres is happy to announce that a new group of seven students has arrived in Paris from Grozny on Saturday, September 24th, 2005. The goal of ESF is to help students around the world who find themselves deprived of the possibiliy of finishing their studies because of political crisis, conflicts, wars, or repressions. Esf was created by young Frenchstudents in March 2003.

In September 2003, ESF made it possible for 9 students from Grozny to come study in France. It is therefore the second round of students. Among them, two have already left for Lille, where they must study at Sciences Po. The five others just moved in to the Cite Internationale de Paris.

None of this would be possible without the generous support of patrons of ESF, journalists, politicians, and all the good will that has mounted around the idea that education is the best ally of democracy.

ESF: All the members of the organization wish that the new arrivals find success in their studies. We hope that it enables them to develop projects that help Chechnya get out of this catastrophic situation in which it finds itself today. We are devoted to doing whatever it takes to help them fulfill their ambitions and dreams.

We will keep you informed of their progress and we hope to see you at a welcoming party as soon as the new students have the time to adjust to their new life.

We hope to hear from you soon, and thank you for all you do to help with the organization success."

Etudes sans Frontieres
www.etudessansfrontieres.org
84, rue Vergniaud, 75013 PARIS

contact:
etudessansfrontieres@hotmail.com
contact@etudessansfrontieres.org
Aurelia: (+33) 6 61 57 59 71
Laure: (+33) 6 63 59 00 70

 

New Comers from Italy

The artists invited by Letizia Ragaglia, curator of the Museion, are:

Goldiechiari
Cesare Viel
Hans Winkler

 

Friday 6 May 2005, MiART, Milano, from 3:00 pm

Jota Castro and Evelyne Jouanno are invited to speak about the Emergency Biennale in Chechnya

The meeting From East to West, from North to South - A glance at the Biennales of the future - An overview of young creativity will be presented by Marina Mojana and coordinated by Michele Robecchi and will include critics and curators of "emerging Biennales" scheduled to take place in 2005 or 2006. The aim is to provide a progress report on preparations for these complex events, and to analyze any changes that may have materialized between the original intentions of the organizers and the final execution.

Guests include: Nicolas Bourriaud (Lyon Biennale), Massimiliano Gioni (Berlin Biennale), Gezim Qendro (Tirana Biennale), Tirdad Zolghadr (Sharjah Biennale), Helena Kontova (Prague Biennale), Tiziana Casapietra & Roberto Costantino (Ceramics Biennale), Evelyne Jouanno & Jota Castro (Emergency Biennale), I Bade Mandem (Bali Biennale).

more information : http://www.miart.it/ita/comunicati_dettaglio.asp?id=21

 

VENDREDI 25 MARS, 18h, RENCONTRE au PALAIS DE TOKYO

> 18h : COMPTE RENDU DE L'EVOLUTION DE LA BIENNALE DE L'URGENCE EN TCHETCHENIE / PRESENTATION DES IMAGES INEDITES DES PREMIERES EXPOSITIONS REALISEES A GROZNY LES 22 ET 23 FEVRIER.

AVEC JOTA CASTRO ET EVELYNE JOUANNO (DIRECTEURS DU PROJET), ET BLEUENN ISAMBART (MEDECINS DU MONDE) QUI A ASSISTE A LA MISE EN PLACE DES EXPOSITIONS A GROZNY.

> 18H45 : PROJECTION DU FILM DOCUMENTAIRE DE MANON LOIZEAU, "GROZNY, CHRONIQUE D'UNE DISPARITION", 2004.

> 19H30 : DISCUSSION AVEC ANDRE GLUCKSMANN (PHILOSOPHE), MANON LOIZEAU (REALISATRICE A L'AGENCE CAPA) ET MILANA, ETUDIANTE A L'ECOLE DE JOURNALISME DE SCIENCES-PO, REFUGIEE.

> 21H00 : VENTE DE DELICIEUX REPAS CAUCASIENS A LA CAFETARIA DU PALAIS DE TOKYO, ORGANISEE PAR ISSITA ARSLANOV ET LE CENTRE CULTUREL FRANCO-TECHETCHENE DE PARIS.

Nous soutenons / Nous participons
DIMANCHE 20 MARS 2005 DE MIDI A MINUIT
POUR LA LIBERTE CULTURELLE DE MOSCOU A GROZNY
Evènement organisé par Etudes Sans Frontières
GALERIE W - 44, RUE LEPIC â€" 75 018 PARIS - M° ABBESSES
ENTREE LIBRE (Dernières entrées à 22h)
EN CONTINU

Exposition de photographies Stanley Greene (agence VU), Françoise Spiekermeyer, Mylène Sauloy

Projections de documentaires :« Le courage de Tamara » de Françoise Spiekermeyer« Grozny, chronique dâ€(TM)une disparition » de Manon Loizeau« Danse avec les ruines » de Mylène Sauloy« Le loup et l'amazone » de Mylène Sauloy

MANIFESTATIONS

14h - 16h Projection du film « La maison de fous » dâ€(TM)Andrei Konchalovsky

16h - 17h Concert de Jean-Marc Zelwer (accordéoniste) et lectures de poèmes par André Markowicz (traducteur) et Muslim Edilov (poète tchétchène)

17h Table ronde - La culture russe face au pouvoir

Avec Galia Ackerman (journaliste et traductrice), Marie Mendras (chercheur au CERI), Ira Valdron (artiste russe), deux écrivains participant au salon du livre (sous réserve)...

19h - 19h30 Conférence de presse autour de lâ€(TM)appel « Pour la liberté culturelle de Moscou à Grozny »

20hTable ronde - Le rôle de la culture et lâ€(TM)expression artistique en Tchétchénie

Avec Jota Castro (artiste) et Evelyne Jouanno (commissaire dâ€(TM)exposition), Mylène Sauloy (réalisatrice), Silvia Serrano (spécialiste du Caucase) et deux écrivains tchétchènes, en présence de Stanley Greene (photographe)

21h00 Cocktail / BuffetConcert : Dimitri (violoniste russe), Hussein (chanteur tchétchène), et musique tsigane…

Contact : contact@etudessansfrontieres.org - www.etudessansfrontieres.org

 

MOBILISATION

MORT DU PRESIDENT TCHETCHENE ASLAN MASKHADOV. Appel du Comite Tchétchénie à une semaine de mobilisation.

CF. www.comite-tchetchenie.org

Le Comité Tchétchénie exprime sa profonde consternation et son indignation à lâ€(TM)annonce de la mort dâ€(TM)Aslan Maskhadov, seul président de Tchétchénie démocratiquement élu sous lâ€(TM)égide de la communauté internationale en 1997.

Le Comité Tchétchénie de Paris appelle à une semaine de mobilisation

DIMANCHE 13 MARS de 12 h A 13h00 - parvis BEAUBOURG Rassemblement silencieux en mémoire dâ€(TM)Aslan Maskhadov, Rassemblements organisés simultanément dans dâ€(TM)autres villes en France en Europe.

LUNDI 14 MARS à partir de 18h, Vigie Citoyenne

Devant lâ€(TM)Ambassade de Russie

VENDREDI 18 MARS à partir de 17h - parvis BEAUBOURG

INTERPELLATION de Lâ€(TM)EUROPE, MOBILISATION pour la PAIX en TCHETCHENIE

A lâ€(TM)occasion de la venue de V. Poutine à Paris, où il doit rencontrer MM.Chirac, Schroeder et Zapatero.

Le silence complice face au pouvoir russe doit enfin cesser et les dirigeants européens sâ€(TM)engager enfin en faveur dâ€(TM)une logique de paix en Tchétchénie.

Rassemblement puis défilé (départ de la manifestation à 18h30).

Comité Tchétchénie : 06 14 02 74 52

paris@comite-tchetchenie.org et www.comite-tchetchenie.org

 

When Emergency Biennale becomes Emotional Biennale...

As we told you, a first show with the first artworks arrived in Chechnya has been made in Grozny, in 2 public venues, for all the daytime on february 22 . The message arrived during the launching conference of the EBinCh in Paris, Palais de Tokyo. We are waiting for the images but one told us that people who attended it were very touched and happy...

Another incredible and emotional surprise on February 23 was the arrival of Francis Alys contribution in the morning : a little tapestry by Alighiero e Boetti .

Francis Alys authentification certificate that accompagnes the tapestry (one from the series produced in Afghanistan) relates that he just swapped with a Mexican collector a drawing of him for this work since he found recently in a book that Alighiero Boetti's ancestor, Giovanni Battista Boetti, had led in the XVIII century the Chechnian resistance against Catherine de Russie. He ends up the certificate with these words :"I thought that Alighiero Boetti might have been pleased to see a work of him return to the land his ancestor fought 3 centuries ago."The work is of course for Chechnya only. It is composed in 4 elements : Alighiero Boetti's tapestry, the original of the certificate (written with a typewriter) and the 2 copies of the documents confirming the information that Francis Alÿs found, in a book of Alighiero e Boetti and in a book on Giovanni Battista Boetti, his ancestor. Francis kept the secret of his contribution (and even participation...) until I received the pack. In the letter sent to the artists during the mobilisation, we precised that we were not waiting for a return of the artworkds sent to Chechnya because of the situation, and in this way, they could contribute to the reconstruction of a patrimony which has been completely devasted at the first moment of the first war in 1994...

Evelyne

(sorry, little pbs to put the images, they will come very soon...)

PREMIERES NOUVELLES DE GROZNY

February 22, 2005 : first show in Grozny, Place of Friendship of People, and in a public venue based in the Revolution Avenue. The information arrived few hours later, just in the middle of the conference launching the biennale in Paris, Palais de Tokyo.

 

 

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Adel Abdessemed
A Constructed World
Dennis Adams
Al Fadhil
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin
Maria-Thereza Alves
Francis Alÿs
Aija Apse
Maja Bajevic
Ruth Barabash
Delphine Bedel
Rebecca Belmore
Lindsay Benedict
Dalida María Benfield
Aija Bley
Sylvie Blocher
Blue Noses
Mark Boswell &
Anton Kozlov
Marc Boucherot
Véronique Boudier
Hernain Bravo
Mathieu Briand
Kristians Brekte
Hank Bull
Santiago Caicedo
Cao Fei
Jota Castro
Banu Cennetoglu
Raimond Chaves
Chen Shaoxiong
Paolo Chiasera
Magali Claude
José Luis Cortés S.
Hubert Czerepok
Sergio De La Torre
Allan De Souza
Marta Deskur
Jimmie Durham
Seamus Farrell
Daniel Faust
Fu Jie
Carlos Franklin
Adriana García Galán
Ghazel
Roya Ghiasy
Kaspars Goba
Babak Golkar
Martins Grauds
Yves Grenet
Andris Grinbergs
Gu Dexin
Daniel Guzmán
Jens Haaning
Han Myung-Ok
Antonia Hirsch
IN EX
Alfredo Jaar
Uldis Jancis
Edgars Jurjāns
Elīna Kalniņa
Rose Khor
KOLKOZ
Koo Jeong-A
Roman Korovin
Katarzyna Kozyra
Neeme Külm
Gabriel Kuri
Surasi Kusolwong
Tony Labat

Zbigniew Libera
(with Darek Foks, writer)

HH Lim
Ken Lum
Juan Pablo Macias
Ives Maes
Gilda Mantilla
Marko Mäetamm
Marco Laimre
Sally Lee
Raimonds Licitis
Una Meiberga &
Linards Kulless
Metapong
Maurizio Nannucci
Oda Projesi
Ahmet Ögüt
Jüri Ojaver
Lucy Orta
Damián Ortega
Gionata Gesi Ozmo
Adrian Paci
Alexandre Périgot
Joanna Rajkowska
Emmanuelle Rapin
David Renaud
Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen
Römer + Römer
Julian Rosefeldt
Gatis Rozenfelds
Mo Salemy
Jayce Salloum
Krišs Salmanis
Juan Esteban Sandoval
Santomatteo
Sarkis
Zineb Sedira
Shen Yuan
Nedko Solakov
Pascale Marthine Tayou
Bert Theis
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Steven Tong
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Enzo Umbaca
Urban Subjects
Anton Vidokle
Cesare Viel
Luca Vitone
Wang Du
Jenifer K Wofford
Florence Wang
Hans Winkler
Sislej Xhafa
Yan Lei
Yang Fudong
Yang Jie Chang
Zheng Guogu
Zhu Jia
Aiva Zurina
 
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