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DESIGN-AND-BUILD ARTIST VILLAGE To: brigitte.mulders@planet.nl, truerex@yahoo.com, abrobabruce@yahoo.co.uk, andytemeng@yahoo.com, naananketsia@yahoo.com, Turksonp@yahoo.com, bawumboy@yahoo.co.uk, jnamuwonge@yahoo.co.uk, sembimike@yahoo.com, beninmusee@yahoo.fr, rita.irwin@ubc.ca, baerbelmueller@nav-s.net, lornacollins1@googlemail.com, robert@robert-wertz-design.com, nhouser@ou.edu, armstrongj@ukzn.ac.za, jayantaart@yahoo.co.in, info@afrika-hamburg.de, raya@theoneminutesjr.org, eric.maeder@gmail.com, ilonasausa@apollo.lv, hilda@hildahiary.com, sukla_artist@rediffmail.com, erosistvan@gmail.com, ayo_adewunmi@yahoo.com, benischauer@artinprocess.com, eitelberger@artinprocess.com, daun_yorke@hotmail.com, geanmoreno@yahoo.com, emeka_okp@yahoo.co.uk, graceojie@yahoo.com, bing@wbdavisart.com, artmanfredi@hotmail.com, ryanprojects@yahoo.com, judibern@yahoo.co.uk, babaleya@yahoo.com, sepake.angiama@network.rca.ac.uk, labisi@gmail.com, bonoffeinyako@hotmail.com, domakinde@yahoo.com, svevan@googlemail.com, pisaross@verizon.net, ray2hs@yahoo.com, Hassan.reem@gmail.com, coyacbamenda@yahoo.com, helmi.vent@moz.ac.at, iinoj210@gmail.com, ilgvzal@gmail.com, allenj.HUM@ufs.ac.za, lefalle@gmail.com, mallcomn@yahoo.com, naopoku-asare.art@knust.edu.gh, mail@zohraopoku.com, tonieokpe@yahoo.com, viradbalazspeter@gmail.com, 1ceramicart@gmail.com, mhgministries@yahoo.com, mommymariross@yahoo.com, artonlinegh@yahoo.co.uk, art-connections@hotmail.com, chrep77@yahoo.com, synergiecov@yahoo.fr, theeaglesberth@yahoo.com, marthelcam@yahoo.co.uk, nitathakore@jaipur.pearlacademy.com, info@nielsstaats.com, successorsuccess@yahoo.com, cre8iveones@aol.com, sehindeademuleya@oauife.edu.ng, o_u_wish_ny@hotmail.com, Amanda.Dunsmore@lit.ie, gabrijel.savic.ra@gmail.com, gordon.uhlman@freenet.de, graceksoyinka@yahoo.co.uk, amara.harkweber@yahoo.com, rev_nana2001@yahoo.com, pupsik_2002@yahoo.com, wolterheidrun@yahoo.com, pryncssk@gmail.com, kasiamolga@keytoalef.com, epa02007@mymail.pomona.edu, ankaitaylor@yahoo.com, cserwaniko@yahoo.com, chibuann006@yahoo.com, lorchardson@yahoo.com, dlemeh@fau.edu, arpawl@yahoo.com, Margareta.Horne-Moonkee@hig.se, mail@helmi-vent.com, naomisauthor@yahoo.com, berlinetta@mail.ru, amacleod@eircom.net, omisis1002@aol.com, alicja.rogalska@gmail.com, bootsyboo@gmail.com, maevieh@hotmail.com, marit_dewhurst@moma.org, olucolourful@gmail.com, wild-art@hotmail.fr, salley@uchicago.edu, tricia@ecoartspace.org, studiomiessen@gmx.net, info@oberliht.org.md, artnow@juno.com, atrr@aol.com, demartinonunzio@libero.it, ju@snafu.de, vedett@zonnet.nl, filipvandingenen@skynet.be, douglasrpark@hotmail.com, refocus67@comcast.net, byanyarts.necessary@yahoo.es, pombavou@yahoo.com, mosche34@hotmail.com, xuhuaiwu@sina.com, walapi@gmail.com, rr@reneeridgway.net, cmic@umich.edu Cc: info@kinobuss.ee, baldi.b@gmail.com, amm@umn.edu, bpluswfilms@gmail.com, janj@dut.ac.za, davidjonesraku@lineone.net, ssvdstic@vub.ac.be, nicola.frangione@alice.it, nayttely.info@gmail.com, info@cogs.co.za, nomadism@conteners.org, carlota_beltrame@hotmail.com, rinna@kaye.ac.il, okeeffe.linda@gmail.com, urgencedelart@9business.fr, orp@lufka.org, ?Lorna Collins? <lpc29@cam.ac.uk>, contact@sildav.org, ibertz@gmail.com, artnomad@wanadoo.fr, corinne@icimeme.org, contact@klang.fr, susapop@publicartlab.com, contact@galerie-tinbox.com, nettime-ann@nettime.org, reyum@camnet.com.kh, temps.reel@gigacircus.net, a.g.hark-weber@lse.ac.uk, b.mayr@lsr-T.gv.at, sylvain@lecaravanserail.com, enquiries@kadn.co.uk, info@irismexico.org, info@videokaravaan.org, Schalk@cogs.co.za, aldona-creatio@wp.pl, charlotteandrew@mac.com, karim.pierre.blanc@orange.fr Message-ID: <123e2b9d0903292238o4236de9flc267017a54783d6b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Dear Colleague, Greetings! Thank you for your interest in the 2009 Kumasi symposium, and I hope you are enabled to make it. Attached to your attention is an announcement about our DESIGN-AND-BUILD ARTIST VILLAGE project. It is the 2010 project, more elaborate than this year's- that is why we want to start as soon as possible. We are looking to put together an International Artistic Committee and the project Manger who knows about fundraising, at this time would be as volunteers. We ask that you please spread this message to those in your circle of contacts who may be (or know someone who may be) interested. Thank you in anticipation of your attention. And see you in Ghana, this or the next year. Barthosa Nkurumeh, AfriCOAE General Secretary (Artist and Educator, ILAC- College of Education, University of Oklahoma) Project Web sites: http://afropoets.tripod.com/eta, http://www.focusonthearts.org Participate! DESIGN-AND-BUILD ARTIST VILLAGE PROJECT: DESIGN-AND-BUILD EARTH ART/ARCHITECTURE CHALLENGE WEB SITE: http://www.focusonthearts.org, http://afropoets.tripod.com/eta Project takes in the theoretical frame of the text, ?Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt? by a known Egyptian architect, Hasan Fathy. Fathy puts forward that an informed person can, in fact, self-build durable, aesthetic and highly functional buildings without using expensive materials (Fathy, 2000). Along these lines, we are developing a model artist village in Ghana for replication in other parts of Africa. For the locals, it will mean a resolution to the age-old problem for artists, painters, sculptors, dancers, musicians and others who require low-cost and expanse of space in which to live and work; and for persons in the arts from around the world, it will be a contact point for artist-in-residence for community-based arts projects. Some 50 and 500-1000 acres have been speculated in rural parts of Ghana, as are in Uganda, Cameroon and Botswana. The project is a design-and-build Earth Art/ Architecture Challenge, in which creative thinkers and technical specialists in the visual arts, architecture and engineering from sub-Sahara Africa and other parts of the world will work together for a period of time to design-and-build dwellings or non-dwelling earthworks out of earth and other materials from the environment, which will be attended by many visitors. The challenge is open to traditional and modern construction methods, and experimental approaches and sustainable solutions such as mud bricks, terracrete, laterized concrete, compressed earth, rammed earth, hydraform and other best practices out there that may work in this region of the world. If interested in participating or facilitating the project or wish to suggest a resource person, please e-mail to africoae@gmail.com. Additional information on the project will be upon request. (Current Event) *CALL FOR ARTISTS* One means of Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art is by bringing together specialists form diverse parts of the world in a trans-national platform for inter-trading of cultural and knowledge capital in evidence-based society. In the Kumasi Curio Kiosks Project, the trade of intellectual capital from the specialist to the generalist requires both the sharing of existing and onward replication of the modules of knowledge that may accrue. Interestingly, the specialist participant will create a Curio Kiosk of 6 x 6ft for a temporary exhibition/stock of works by the specialist, and relevant other national cultural/intellectual capital for trading with the locals. The 6 x 6ft kiosk can be conceived as a mental space or a constructed physical space with any material, constructed on site or pre-fabricated, and as an individual enterprise or a collaborative one. In the Kumasi case, we refer to the cluster of curio kiosks as a Trade Commune; a historical allusion be made subtly but we use the term "curio kiosks" in anticipation that the outward design will invoke curiosity or content will bear special attraction to the locals. The setting for a Trade Commune may be a Kumasi city street, university campus, or a village within the Kumasi metro, as appropriate to the design of the arts participant. The mode of exchange is open in manners of traditional lectures, demonstrations, workshops, dialogical methods, and direct exchanges of material culture; or the post-modernist modalities in the way of performances, slide/new media/film screenings, and a hundred others. A trade may be by barter, cash, gift to the local or what ever is simpler and mutual. The trade is not just an inventory of arts data, cross-cultural process of negotiation and sharing of evidence creation; it is an engagement in a particular kind of commercial enterprise through use of the arts. Relying on collaboration, and free exercise of the arts, we therefore seek to stimulate for intellectual freedom and renewed vision of the arts as economic-cultural capital in the city. Because the process and structure encourages integration/assertion of the participant's institutional knowledge and national cultural capital, the supposition is that the individual or group would attract sponsorship for own costs from home institution or country. The Kumasi Curio Kiosks Project is a project session of "The Kumasi Symposium: Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art". The arts-based social experiment is designed to provide a context that will stimulate the artist, scholar and activist participants to place themselves and their practice into question and possibly resolutions through collaboration and cultural/artistic interchange. The pre-symposium session will run from July 31-August 8 2009 and the symposium from August 11-14 2009. About 30 local artists will be selected to work alongside some invited international colleagues. If interested in participating in the project, send an introductory material on you, and a statement of interest with sketches/description of your proposed 6 x 6 ft Curio Kiosk that should be set up at Kumasi between July 31-August 7 2009 to africoae@gmail.com, -indicate if any local needs will be required (max. one page). Space is limited; all submissions will be reviewed until space is filled. We are also accepting nominations for the Project Co-Curator, Convener, Provocateur and Roundtable Discussants. *FIVE-MINUTE VIDEO DOCUMENTARY* The participant will then develop a Five-Minute Video art piece that will document or frame the process and structure of own/others' (Curio Kiosk) practice in context of the largeness of The Kumasi Symposium. The project needs a producer to guide the artists in creating a multi-media documentary of their practice- one who will enable the artists to shoot and edit the video films. CALL FOR PLENARY SESSIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS/WORKSHOPS, EXHIBITIONS/INTERVENTIONS, AND CONTEXT-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCES THE KUMASI SYMPOSIUM: Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art Department of General Art Studies, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana July 31-August 14, 2009 Our 2009 Kumasi event uses arts-based social practice to bringing together specialists from diverse parts of the world in a trans-national platform for inter-change of cultural and knowledge capital in evidence-based society to strengthen visual arts practice and promote cultural entrepreneurship in Ghana. A call is, thus, made for contributions addressing one or more of the symposium sub-themes: Art Education Practice, Studio Practice, Curatorial/Museum/Community Arts Practice, Art History/Criticism, Arts Administration/Management/Marketing Practice, and Open Session. Specifically, the symposium entails plenary sessions and support activities such as demonstrations/workshops, exhibitions, and site-specific tours of local national resources. Expression of interest and proposals for Plenary Sessions and Exhibitions/Practical Workshops will be reviews until January 17, 2009. Applications for individual presentation and participation will be reviewed until the space is filled. We expect about 200 participants from around the world. The working language of the conference will be English. All abstracts and brief biographies should be submitted to africoae@gmail.com. More at http://afropoets.tripod.com/eta -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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