Will be giving a lecture Nov 5 at UC Santa Barbara on my work with locative narrative. Will post more info soon. This is exciting and I am honored as it will be the first speech I have ever prepared and given on the writing and form alone and not on larger locative media. The core writer in me is thrilled as I knew back in 2002 that I may have come into something really exciting in terms of "narrative archaeology" and reading of places, but also a way to tell stories and present creative non fiction using physical places and physical interactions.
Also happy to report:
I am thrilled and honored to be both an invited artist and keynote speaker.....
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IN TRANSITION RUSSIA 2008
International Exhibition
October 16 – December 22, 2008
Ekaterinburg, Moscow
The exhibition presents the variety of artistic interpretations of “transition” as social, political, philosophical and cultural phenomenon. In the epoch of ubiquitous movement, advanced communication and media technology the questions of national, cultural, and religious identity are particularly urgent. What is challenged is the very possibility of one’s authentic being. “In Transition” suggests a feeling of being suspended in a world which is constantly transforming itself. As a both spatial and temporal phenomenon it implies a potential transit – a dream of the spaces of freedom beyond multilayered hierarchies – socio-political, cultural, psychological.
The project continues international exhibition and lecture program ‘In Transition Cyprus’ organized by NeMe in October 2006 in Limassol (for details see www.neme-imca.org). Being an ongoing mission the project will be updating and expanding both geographically and in content. Thus, new perspectives on “transition” will be collected and presented in Berlin and Los Angeles in 2009 and 2010 consequently.
IN TRANSITION RUSSIA 2008 will present the work by more than 125 artists from 40 different countries including such established artists as Sheila Pinkel, Helene Black, Peter Lyssiotis, Shaun Wilson, Rob Chiu and Chris Hewitt, Jeremy Hight, Sylvia de Swaan and others.
Russian part will be represented by some the most renowned Russian artists such as “Escape” program, “Provmyza” group, “What is to Be Done?”, Marina Chernikova, Yevgeny Fiks, Anton Litvin, Diana Machulina, Vladimir Nasedkin, Tatiana Badanina, Oleg Blyablyas, as well as by young artists.
International interdisciplinary conference “In Transition: Cultural Identities in the Age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux” will be held in parallel with the exhibition (16-18 November, 2008, Ekaterinburg).
Exhibition Schedule:
October 16 – November 16 - Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (Ekaterinburg, Vainera, 11)
November 28 – December 22 – National Center for Contemporary Arts (Moscow, Zoologicheskaya, 13)
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As a parallel event to the exhibition, the international conference “IN TRANSITION: Cultural Identities in the Age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux” has been organised by the Ural State University named after A. M. Gorky, the Ekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art and NeMe (Cyprus)
Dates: October 16-18, 2008
Venue: Conference Hall, Ural State University named after A. M. Gorky
Entrance is free to all sessions
Conference participants:
Chair: Professor Sergei Kropotov, Director, Academy of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Michael Haerdter (DE): “On modernism and its continuous impact on the world in flux”
Dr Galina Zvereva (RU): “Discourse of positive national identity in contemporary Russia”
Dr. Yiannis Papadakis (CY): “The Politics of Place, Space and Displacement in Divided Cyprus”
Dr Sergey Kropotov (RU): “Can the displaced speak?”
George Alexander (AU): “Remaking Cosmopolitanism”
Dr Victor Voronkov (RU): “A unique case of hybridization – homo soveticus”
Peter Lyssiotis (CY/AU): “I Make Books”
Dr Lanfranco Aceti (IT/UK): “War Shaped Identities: Destruction as Cultural Inheritance.”
Dmitry Bulatov (RU): “Techno-biological Hybridization and Contemporary Art”
Dr Christos Barboutis (GR/CY): “The displacement of the meaning of the ‘local’ in Russian media: Back to the future.”
Jeremy Hight (US): “Reconsidering Maps and Time: Immersive Event, Time and Global Interface”
Srećko Horvat (HR): “From dystopia to reality: the decline of public space as a political issue”
Oleg Reut RU: “Sovereignty: all ban”
Alan Gignoux (US/ UK): “Homeland Lost”
Parallel Sessions
Panel 1
Beloysov Sergey (RU): “Identity of the Russian State – peculiarity of transformation” Rodion Brekhach (Ru): “Social Cultural issues of migration: case studies from Perm region”
Elena Golovneva (RU): “Political myth as a an instrument of transmission of the ethnic identity concept.”
Ekaterina Taratuta (RU): “The City of War and Evacuation: the Siberian Beginning”
Valentina Kardapoltseva (RU): “«Judge complex» as a feeling of guilt in the personal identification model.”
Bulat Muratov (RU): “Traditional culture and economy of China, Japan and South Korea as a method of effective development of the national concept of Russia.”
Alexandra Torochov (RU): “Crosscultural practices of social inclusion.”
Elena Trubina (RU): “Non-Governmental Discourses on Migration and Mobility in Russia’s New Media.”
Natalia Schubina (Ru): “Educational strategies of tolerance developing in diaological space of polyethnic societies.”
Leo Granberg and Osva Annu (FI): “Russian Transition in the Eyes of Yakutian Cattle.”
Panel 2
Elina Viljanen (FI) :“O Narodnoi Muzyke – Transcultural Identity of Soviet Musical Aesthetics”
Payman Khajavi (IR): “Culture and nationality in global civil society”
Natalia Agaphonova (RU): “Representation of ethnic and ethno-social uniqueness of Tatar and Bashkir communities of South Prikamie in contemporary social reality.”
Alexandra Kleshina (RU): “Multiculturalism as a system”
Igor Krasavin (RU): “Disconnected society and culture of private identifications.”
D. Lebedev and G. Lebedeva (RU): “Slipping identity”
Lyudmila Popkova (RU): “Politics of Multiculturalism and gender citizenship: feminist perspective.”
Olga Frolova (Ru): “Longing for identity preservation: bodily practices.”
Svetlana Chashina (RU): “Alternative Culture and alternative art practice: towards mechanism of development.”
Margarita Gudova (RU): “Chronotopos” of glamour magazines: Displacement of the Soviet existential patterns of behaviour.”
Lassila Jussi (FI): “Between the Discourses of Collective Didactics and Individual Stimulation: Appropriations from the semiotic repertoire of the Pro-Kremlin Youth Organizations.”
Marat Ismagilov and Danil Gretchko (RU): “The school space in the context of globalisation and unification.”
Panel 3
Ksenia Golovko (RU): “Jacques Ranciere’s Aesthetic Unconscious as a concept of Modern Art”
Anastasia Kirikova (RU): “Symbols of Consumption in Contemporary Culture.”
Ksenia Fedorova (RU): “Interactive Media Art and the Ethics of “Sharism”
Galina Orlova (RU): “Between Décor and Phantasm: Designing Europeness in the Public Space of a Southern Russian City”
Sofia Rassadina (RU): “Transformation of Pleasure Practices as a Symptom of Adaptive Identity.”
Natalia Sokolova (RU): “In Search of Identity: ‘Global’ and ‘Local’ in Russian Fan-Video”
Victor Radchenko (UA): “Social Networks and ‘Old’ Technologies“Oksana Zaporozhets (RU) and Ekaterina Lavrinez (LT): “Dramaturgy of Fear in Urban Transitive Spaces”
Artist Talks:
Sheila Pinkel (US): Hmong in Transition”
Lee Wells (US): “Supermodern – nothing is what it seems”
Adonis Florides (CY): “Constructing Heterotopias in Film”
Annetta Kapon (US): “Venus de Milo and other Feminist issues.”
Vesna Crnivec (SL): “Bakers from Baku”
Susan Barnet (UK): “Displaced Studios project”
Dana Sederowsky (SE): “Special Announcements”
Kirill Preobrazhenskiy (RU): “Cheremushki Apartment Gallery”
Sylvia de Swaan (US): “Return”
Fyodor Telkov (RU): “Longing for the Truth”
Diana Machulina (RU): “Artwork Migrations”
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