Interactive Video Weekend Workshops

Interactive Video Weekend Workshops

Venue : The Bag Factory Artist's Studios, 10 Mahlatini Street, Fordsburg, Johannesburg

Dates : 10th August @ 17:30 for 18:00 (Open Introductory lecture)

11th and 12th August 9:00 till 16:00 ( 1hour lunch break at 13:00)

18thth and 19th August 9:00 till 16:00 (1 hour lunch break at 13:00)

Cost : R1000 all inclusive

Workshop:

Interactive Video combines the use of video cameras and computers in order to track bodies, motion, proximity, light and color for use in interactive installation, multimedia performance, and VJing. The workshop will cover a basic intro to all of the above, as well as real-time video mixing, scrubbing and effects, and the use of sound to generate and/or interfere with video.

All students will leave with copies of the software worked on in this workshop.

Bookings and more information:

Bronwyn Lace bronwyn@bagfactoryart.org.za 011 834 9181

International Artists' Workshops

International Artists' Workshop, Lahore, Fall 2007

VASL Lahore will be holding its two week International Artists' Workshop end this year. Applications are open to artists and dates of the workshop will be coming up on the VASL website as soon as they are confirmed. Please check: www.vaslart.org.

Download application form and send it together with your CV and a maximum of 10 images to vaslahore@yahoo.com

Deadline: August 28th 2007

International Artists' Workshop, Karachi, Feb 2008

Two week International Artists' workshop scheduled for Feb 2008. Applications from Pakistani and International artists are welcome now. Download Application and send with your 12 recent work images and CV to vaslinternational.workshop@gmail.com

Deadline: October 15 2007

Johannesburg Art Gallery - Digital Africa Panel Discussion

Africa Beyond call for applications - African artists' residencies in London

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - THREE-MONTH RESIDENCIES IN LONDON

Africa Beyond aims to keep African culture in a central position within the modern UK landscape, through its website and other media, lively public events, and now through a series of residencies in London beginning in April 2008.

Gasworks International Residency Programme will play host to three visiting artists from Africa who will be supported in developing a project with InIVA, Photographers' Gallery, or the Southbank Centre.

Established contemporary visual artists from Africa, who have not spent extensive time working in Europe, are invited to apply for this programme. Each of the three residencies will have a specific aim and focus:

At the Southbank Centre, the residency will focus on the display of new and existing work, showcase his/her practice on a major public platform. The residency with the Photographers' Gallery will focus on an artist's contribution to the community and the role of education in artistic practice. At InIVA, the artist will have the opportunity to develop and contribute within a leading space for research and discussion of contemporary art. All artists will be provided with a studio and support at Gasworks.

Applications must state which residency/institution the artist would like to become involved in.

Please click here to read further

GasWorks/TrAIN Call for Applications

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) at the University of the Arts London is teaming up with Gasworks International Residency Programme to offer a fully funded three month residency and research placement for a non UK-based artist.

The residency comprises:
- accommodation and living expenses in London
- a private studio at Gasworks
- access to University of the Arts London library and research facilities
- contribution to research culture and seminars at TrAIN
- an Open Studio and artist's talk at Gasworks
- administrative, academic and curatorial support from both institutions.

Offering both practical and academic research facilities, this residency focuses on professional development, artistic exchange and the development of artistic research and process. The support, networks and creative environments that Gasworks and TrAIN can offer will provide the artist with the means to research and experiment with new work, taking an important step in an international context.

This residency is open to mid-career artists not based in the UK, who are three years out of a BA or equivalent. The selected artist will be in a strong position to make an enthusiastic, discursive and speculative contribution to both the academic and studio environments.

The residency is scheduled to take place from October 2007.

Deadline for application - 30 July 2007
Announcement - 10 August 2007

Further details about the residency, eligibility, and application procedure can be found here.

National Arts Council Call for Funding Proposals

The National Arts Council of South Africa invites

applications for funding to the arts in following areas:

Arts project funding in Music, Literature, dance, Theatre, Craft and Visual Art
• Arts projects by individual South African artists that begin in 2008. Note that projects led by an individual
may include other people in the project as well;
• Arts projects by registered South African arts organisations that begin in 2008.

Arts bursary funding for the 2008 academic year
• Arts bursaries for individual South African citizens for post-graduate study in South Africa ;
• Arts bursaries for individual South African citizens for study abroad;
• block bursaries for educational institutions registered
in South Africa .

How to apply
Complete a hard copy of the NAC’s new ‘general application form for funding to the arts’.

The form is available in all 11 official languages and contains detailed guidelines and submission details. Submit the form together with supporting documentation
to the NAC before the closing date.

How to get the application form
Request the form via email: info@nac.org.za
Via the internet: a PDF version is available at www.nac.org.za
Request the form via telephone: (011) 838 1383
Forms will also be available at the NAC offices in Newtown and at various sites in your province

Closing date: 17 August 2007
Forms received after the closing date will not be considered

Johan Thom: The Theory of Flight

THE BAG FACTORY

Invites you to

The Theory of Flight,
a solo exhibition by Johan Thom

Opening: Wednesday 18 July 2007 at 17h30

Dates: 18 July – 8 August 2007

Venue: The Bag Factory (Fordsburg Artists Studios),
10 Mahlatini Street,
Fordsburg, Johannesburg

Contact: +27 11 834 9181
info@bagfactoryart.org.za

High resolution images available on request.

Related links:
http://www.youtube.com/thomjohan
http://www.art.co.za/johanthom
http://kaganof.com/kagablog/category/contributors/johan-thom/

Extended Deadline: 2nd international ‘art in the forest’ workshop in Nairobi Kenya 2007

The Deadline has been extended for applications to the 2nd international ‘art in the forest’ workshop in Nairobi Kenya 2007. Applications must reach Michael Soi at smichael@kuonatrust.org by 27th July 2007. For more details see previous post:2nd international ‘art in the forest’ workshop in Nairobi Kenya 2007

Jill Trappler: Studio Conversations

Jill Trappler, committee member at The Bag’s sister organisation in Cape Town Greatmore Studios, will be opening her exhibition, Studio conversations, this Sunday at Orange Street Studio. The studio exhibition will comprise of a variety of works that Trappler has made over the past 30 years.

Opening on Sunday the 8th of July 2007 at 5 pm.
Daily (except Sunday) from 9th to the 20 July from 11 to 3 pm.

Orange street Studio, Gardens Presbyterian Church, corner Orange and Upper Orange street, Gardens. (Opposite the Engen garage)

www.jilltrappler.co.za

For an appointment call 0825588115
trappler@telkomsa.net

Africa Remix Artists Visit The Bag

On the 24^th of June Africa Remix, the exhibition curated by Simon Njami, opened at Johannesburg Art Gallery. The show features 137 art works by 85 artists from over 25 countries on the African continent and it’s diaspora. The show was first exhibited in 2004 at the Museum Kunst Palast, in Dusseldorf in Germany, and was considered to be the largest exhibition of contemporary African art ever seen in Europe. The exhibition then toured to the Hayward Gallery in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

The Johannesburg opening is the first time this exhibition has been shown on African soil.

As part of the opening week’s celebrations a number of the exhibiting artists who were in town and staff from the Johannesburg Art Gallery joined the Bag Factory artists for drinks, dinner and a small exhibition of recent works by the Bag Factory artists.

The Exhibition is on at the JAG until the 30^th September and a number of talks and linked events will take place during this time for more information on these please visit the Africa Remix Johannesburg site: http://www.africaremixjoburg.com/

About Art: Business in Art Workshop.

From the 18th to the 22nd of June, Jill Waterman (arts management lecturer at Wits University) ran a business orientated workshop for a pre-selected group of emerging artists at The Bag Factory as a part of the About Art programme.

The artists, from Soweto, Orange Farm and Hillbrow, were taught basic internet and email skills, how to write a biography, create a business card, write a funding proposal and draw up a budget.

After an intense week of workshopping, the group attended a Mapp Seta dance production at Museum Africa (featuring the aboriginal group Descendents) as a case study of a production produced during a learnership programme to which some of the students may wish to apply.