anyMeta 4.13.28 - Atom module 0.3.22010-09-10T21:47:29+02:00http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/feed/atom/9152/enCameroonhttp://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/104852010-09-10T05:20:16+02:00Zeitz FoundationCreating a better tomorrow through culture, community, conservation and commerce<p>The <a href="http://www.zeitzfoundation.org/">Zeitz Foundation</a> supports creative activities that strengthen intercultural relationships and understanding, and raise awareness of cultural diversity, and inspire others to act in kind. These activities encompass art—in all forms of expression—and sport.</p>
<p>Throughout history, cultures from around the world have used art to make sense of the world. Art—in all of its expressions—interprets, gives meaning, breathes experience, creates bridges, inspires dialogues and, ultimately, can profoundly change the way we see things. It is because of the transformative nature of art and the value of artists in culture that the <a href="http://www.zeitzfoundation.org/">Zeitz Foundation</a> is dedicated to preserving and enhancing artistic traditions and inspiring creativity. The Foundation’s initiatives promote new creative avenues, raise awareness, and contribute to positive change in the ecosphere.</p><p><span class="inline-image-wrapper"><a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/page/15421/en">
<img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/gsbt/image/908/15421-400-267.jpg" height="267" width="400" alt="" title="Jochen Zeitz"/>
</a><span class="inline-caption"><span class="caption-title"><a title="Click to get a larger image - Jochen Zeitz - Creative Africa Network" href="/page/15421/en">Jochen Zeitz</a></span><span class="caption-sep"> -</span><span class="caption-body">Zeitz Foundation Founder</span></span></span></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.zeitzfoundation.org/">Zeitz Foundation for Intercultural Ecosphere Safety (I.E.S.)</a> is inspired by a vision of the Ecosphere—our planet and all of its life-sustaining regions—maintained in the healthiest possible state, and is committed to promoting an inclusive, holistic paradigm of conservation that enhances livelihoods and fosters intercultural dialogue. Decisions made and actions taken by the Foundation are guided by the principles of being Fair, Honest, Positive and Creative. The <a href="http://www.zeitzfoundation.org/">Zeitz Foundation</a> is a registered non-profit organization in Germany with representation in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Kenya.</p>
<p><span class="inline-image-wrapper"><a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/page/10868/en">
<img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/gsbt/image/374/10868-400-360.jpg" height="360" width="400" alt="" title="Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia"/>
</a><span class="inline-caption"><span class="caption-title"><a title="Click to get a larger image - Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia - Creative Africa Network" href="/page/10868/en">Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia</a></span><span class="caption-sep"> -</span><span class="caption-body">Zeitz Foundation Ambassadors for Culture</span></span></span></p>
<p>“Our musical creativity allows us to cross borders, expand horizons and build connections. There is a new opportunity to do so within the <a href="http://www.zeitzfoundation.org/">Zeitz Foundation</a>, and we are thrilled to embark on <a href="http://thelongrun.com/">The Long Run</a> as a sensible, honest and positive approach to life.”</p>
<p>Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia<br/>
<a href="http://www.zeitzfoundation.org/">Zeitz Foundation</a> Amabassadors for Culture</p>
<p><span class="inline-image-wrapper"><a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/page/10869/en">
<img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/gsbt/image/291/10869-300-400.jpg" height="400" width="300" alt="" title="Mark Coetzee"/>
</a><span class="inline-caption"><span class="caption-title"><a title="Click to get a larger image - Mark Coetzee - Creative Africa Network" href="/page/10869/en">Mark Coetzee</a></span><span class="caption-sep"> -</span><span class="caption-body">Zeitz Foundation Cultural Specialist</span></span></span></p>
<p>“Art has the capacity to help us understand our place in the world: our cultural past reflects how we have impacted the world that surrounds us, and the present challenges us to consider how we wish to impact the future through the traditions, cultural activities and customs we surround ourselves with now.</p>
<p>Art does not allow us to simply accept the status quo but demands that we be aware of our actions, aesthetic traditions and ethical practices. It also asks us to think carefully on such complex issues as what it means to be both human and responsibly human.</p>
<p>I am honored to be associated with the <a href="http://www.zeitzfoundation.org/">Zeitz Foundation</a>. Their dedication to promoting a holistic approach to understanding our world through art is exemplary. Their long-term goal—of finding creative ways to nurture more positive relationships in the world—is nothing short of inspiring. I join with them in striving to achieve these goals.”</p>
<p>Mark Coetzee<br/>
<a href="http://www.zeitzfoundation.org/">Zeitz Foundation</a> Cultural Specialist</p>-Zeitz FoundationZeitz FoundationPERSON1http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/21552010-09-10T05:20:11+02:00Mark CoetzeeProgram Director, PUMAVision and Chief Curator, puma.creative<p>Mark Coetzee is Program Director of PUMAVision and Chief Curator of puma.creative. He is originally from Cape Town, South Africa. Before joining PUMA, he was the director of both the Contemporary Arts Foundation and the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) from 2000 to 2009. He is was adjunct curator at the Palm Springs Art Museum from 2008 to 2009. Committed to education, he served as an adjunct faculty member at the New World School of the Arts, was co-director of the New World School of the Arts Honors Program, and from 2001 to 2009 the director of the Curatorial Training Program. He is a recognized artist in his own right as well an art historian and writer. Coetzee has published extensively on art, writing for journals including the Mail & Guardian, Revue Noire and the Sunday Independent, and publishing over 30 monograph catalogs on various artists. His latest publications include monographs on Hernan Bas, Keith Haring, Eberhard Havekost, and John Stezaker. </p>
<p>He has received various grants and awards for his work from foundations such as the Arts & Business Council of Miami of Americans for the Arts, Business & Arts South Africa (BASA), Harry Crossley Foundation, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, Maggie Laubscher Foundation, Miami Design Preservation League, Ruth Prowse Foundation, Irma Stern Foundation, Montague White Trust, National Arts Council of South Africa and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Coetzee studied at the University of Stellenbosch, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Paris-Sorbonne.</p><p><strong>Selected Recent Exhibition Catalogs and Books</strong></p>
<p>Coetzee, Mark. Against All Odds: Keith Haring in the Rubell Family Collection. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Art Museum; Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2008.</p>
<p>Coetzee, Mark. Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2007.</p>
<p>Coetzee, Mark. John Stezaker: Works from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2007.</p>
<p>Coetzee, Mark. ed., Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2007.</p>
<p>Coetzee, Mark. Eberhard Havekost 1996-2006: Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2006.</p>
<p>Coetzee, Mark, and Laura Steward Heon. Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection; North Adams: MASS MoCA, 1st ed. 2005, 2nd ed. 2007.</p>
<p>Coetzee, Mark. Rubell Family Collection: NOT AFRAID. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2004.</p>
<p>Coetzee, Mark. America Dream, Collecting Richard Prince for 27 Years. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2004.</p>
<p>Coetzee, Mark, and Luisa Lagos. Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 1st ed. 2004, 2nd ed. 2006, 3rd ed. 2006. </p>
<p>Coetzee, Mark. Where Art Is Happening, ArtCenter/South Florida. Miami Beach: ArtCenter/South Florida, 2003.</p>-120.95831.38Mark CoetzeeMarkCoetzeeddPERSON1http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/221222010-09-10T00:52:35+02:00Anabela KimAssistant Programmer of Screendance for 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival<p>I am interested in communicating with a network of filmmakers, digital media and dance artists, exploring the potentials of dance and the body in motion through the medium of film and video, from every corner of the globe.<br/>
I am hoping to offer an opportunity for these artists to have their works showcased in one of Southern California's biggest and most respected film festivals.<br/>
Selected works will be screened at Newport Beach, CA.<br/>
FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE SEND ME A MESSAGE OR AN EMAIL, AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO HELP YOU OUT!<br/>
Filmmakers interested in submitting work exploring other genres and themes are also more than welcome to contact me.</p>-8Anabela KimPERSON1http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/213292010-09-08T19:26:57+02:00Karen E. MilbourneCurator<p>Curator of African Art at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian with particular interest in the contemporary, and Lozi arts and pageantry. Have lived in or visited Zambia, Nigeria, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, South Africa, Angola and Senegal.</p>-Karen E. MilbournePERSON1http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/4512010-09-07T06:47:38+02:00Christine EyeneArt critic, independent curator and consultant<p>Christine Eyene is an art critic, independent curator and consultant. She is curator of <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/21125">'Uprooting the Gaze: foreign places familiar patterns'</a> an exhibition developed as part of Brighton Photo Fringe (2 October – 14 November 2010). In June 2010 she co-curated <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/19199">FOCUS10 – Contemporary Art Africa</a> presented during Art Basel, Switzerland and is currently working on various exhibition projects internationally.</p>
<p>Previously she worked as a consultant for <a href="http://www.puma.com">PUMA</a> from 2008 to 2010. In this role, she developed <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com">Creative Africa Network</a> and initiated the partnership between puma.creative and the <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/7090">8th Bamako Encounters</a> (2009).</p>
<p>From 2006 to 2009 she was publishing director of <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/932"><em>Africultures</em></a>, journal to which she has been contributing since 2002.<br/>
In 2004-05 she developed a series of exhibitions as part of <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/979">Africa 05</a>. She notably organised the London touring of <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/885">'Design Made in Africa'</a> (Brunei Gallery, Oct-Nov 2005) in collaboration with <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/915">Culturesfrance</a> and curated the Starbucks Africa 05 multidisciplinary festival in London, Birmingham and Manchester. Among the artists featured were Beyonder (Ghana/UK), <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/515">Raphael Chikukwa</a> (Zimbabwe), Roi Kwabena (1956 Trinidad – 2008 England), Emmanuel Jegede (Nigeria/UK) and <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/5164">Houria Niati</a> (Algeria/UK). The festival brought together visuals arts, video projections, music, talks, poetry and spoken word.</p>
<p>From 2002 to 2003, she worked with South African artist, curator and editor <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/935">Mario Pissarra</a> on the Contemporary Africa Database developed by the Africa Centre, London. </p>
<p>Prior to moving to the UK, she was selected for the Programme Young Cultural Professionals of AFAA (renamed Culturesfrance in 2006) to train with curator Nadine Descendre at the French Institute of Rabat, Morocco from Sept 2000 to March 2001. She worked on the exhibitions of artists Christian Boltanski, Alain Fleischer, Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat and designer Pierre Paulin.</p>
<p>As a consultant, she sits in a number of panels notably the <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/7322">Fondation Blachère</a> Prize awarded at the Dak’Art Biennale in <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/18416">2010</a> and <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/10174">2008</a>, and the Bamako Encounters in 2009 and 2007. In 2006, she was member of the selection committee of the exhibition <a href="http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/events/godfried-donkor-financial-times-">'Financial Times' by Godfried Donkor</a>, presented at Hackney Museum (London) in 2007, on the occasion of the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The year before, she acted as a consultant for Hackney Museum's exhibition 'Africa in Focus', a selection from 'Africa Remix' then showcased at the Hayward Gallery (2005).</p>
<p>As an art critic she has contributed articles to <em>Africultures</em>, <em>Art South Africa</em>, <em>Third Text</em>, and written essays in books and exhibition catalogues.</p>
<p>Christine Eyene holds a D.E.A (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) in History of Contemporary Art from Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne (1999), supervisor: Philippe Dagen. She is currently a research student at Birkbeck College, University of London with Pr. Annie E. Coombes. </p>
<p><strong> Click <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/11263">here</a> for a selected list of publications.</strong></p>
<p><strong>For further information on Christine Eyene's projects visit <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/12581">eye.on.art: art lab / art news</a>.</strong></p>-120.95831.38Christine EyeneChristineEyeneddPERSON1http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/24362010-09-06T13:08:44+02:00Steven Music<p>As creator and organiser of Celeste Prize, an international contemporary arts prize in which artists vote the 40,000 € prize money I hope many of you will use Celeste Network (35,000 signed-up members) to develop new working environments and art projects that enrich our lives and challenge us further.</p><p>Celeste Prize 2010 <br/>
2nd edition in New York<br/>
40,000 euro prizes are voted by artists!</p>
<p>Entries Deadline online - September 30</p>
<p>More info : <a href="http://www.celesteprize.com/prize/">http://www.celesteprize.com/prize/</a></p>
<p>28 international art critics and curators will decide in a unique, totally open process, the 50 finalist artists for this year’s 40,000 € Celeste Prize 2010 in New York. The prize is the highest international award in contemporary arts with this kind of selection process. Each member of the jury declares online months before the exhibition final in December his or her nominees: the finalist artists are chosen from those with the highest number of preferences. In a second stage, the finalist artists themselves will vote the prize money during the exhibition final.</p>
<p>More details about this unique process/terms: <a href="http://www.celesteprize.com/terms_2010/">http://www.celesteprize.com/terms_2010/</a> </p>
<p>Jurors: <br/>
Julia Draganovic (Germany) and Mark Gisbourne (UK).<br/>
Selectors:<br/>
Paz Aburto Guevara (Germany, Chile), Giuliana Altea (Italy), Heather Anderson (Canada), Jadwiga Charzynska (Poland), Cecilia Freschini (China, Italy), Fernando Galan (Spain), Adrienne Goehler (Germany), Gilberto González (Spain), Vardit Gross (Israel), Kati Kivinen (Finland), Tasja Langenbach (Germany), Renato Miracco (USA, Italy), Julian Navarro (USA, Colombia), Patricia Pulles (The Netherlands), Asher Remy-Toledo (USA), Manon Slome (USA, UK), Yuliya Sorokina (Kazakhstan), Fangling Tseng (Taiwan), Jason Waite (UK, USA).</p>
<p>Selectors for Live Media Prize:<br/>
Digicult, Marco Mancuso (Italy), Eyebeam, Amanda Mc Donald Crowley (USA, Australia), Forward Motion Theater, Eric Dunlap (USA), Isadora and artistic co-director of Troika Ranch, Mark Coniglio (USA), Mapping Festival, Justine Beaujouan (Switzerland), Neural, Alessandro Ludovico (Italy), Claudio Sinatti (Italy).</p>
<p>2010 Celeste Prize categories: <br/>
• Painting 8,000 €<br/>
• Photography & Digital Graphics 8,000 €<br/>
• Video & Animation 8,000 €<br/>
• Installation & Sculpture 8,000 €<br/>
• Live Media audiovisual & Performance 8,000 €</p>
<p>The prize is open to any person practicing art, whether full or part-time professionals, students and self-taught artists from anywhere in the world. There are no limits for age, sex, experience or qualifications. The prize encourages participation by artists at every level.</p>
<p>Join Celeste Network, fastest growing network for artists and arts professionals worldwide already more than 35,000 members have signed up – its free ! </p>
<p>Celeste Prize <br/>
was founded by Steven Music, <br/>
is organized by an Italian non-profit called<br/>
Associazione Culturale L’Albero Celeste,<br/>
Via Sangallo 23, 53036 Poggibonsi (Siena), <br/>
Italy.<br/>
Tel: +39 0577 939425<br/>
info@celesteprize.com <br/>
www.celesteprize.com</p>-Steven MusicMusicStevenMusicPERSON1http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/126262010-09-02T14:17:33+02:00aza mansongiartiste plasticienne contemporainne<p>Congolaise d'origine et diplômée de l'académie des beaux arts de Kinshasa, je vis et travaille actuellement à Douala au Cameroun et je fais partie du collectif d'artistes contemporain <em> le 3kokoricos </em><br/>
Mon travail actuelle traite des notions d'identité et est à mis chemin entre l'abstraction et le figuratif...<br/>
Jusqu'ici je ne cesse d' enrichir mes connaissances à travers ateliers, résidences, expositions, festivals et séminaires .<br/>
échanger discuter et découvrir m'apportent toujours le supplément dont j'ai besoin pour nourrir mes créations...</p>-aza mansongiazamansongiazaPERSON1http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/199872010-08-29T21:32:30+02:00yoelkeen to know more<p>Interested in developing new infrastructure for artists and producers in Africa. I am involved in finding ways to promote music from Africa internationally through film and advertising placement and via digital distribution.</p>-yoelPERSON1http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/195722010-08-28T23:55:45+02:00Kristine TsalaCarnet de creation<p>Camerounaise d'origine l'artiste Kristine Tsala vie et travail au Cameroun<br/>
Elle a une palette au fond de couleurs silhouettées sur laquelle se dessinent en relief les personnages sveltes, élégants à l’allure athlétiques aux détails mystiques où masqués, appareils de communications cohabitent en expectative.Une vision de dédoublement intérieur, un conflit entre le visible et l’invisible, le temps difficile d’intégration sociale avec la dualité modernisme tradition.</p>-Kristine TsalaPERSON1http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/216722010-08-27T21:42:20+02:00Margrethe TroensegaardLooking to widen my cultural scope<p>I hold a bachelor in art history from 2009 and have since then been working in various art institutions with focus on contemporary art. My field of interest is a theoretical approach to the state of art in the current state of "global transcendence" as well as a questioning of exhibition rhetorics when it comes to presenting - or staging - the art foreign cultures. I currently wish to increase my knowledge of artistic endeavors and exhibition customs outside Euro-American borders.</p>-Margrethe TroensegaardPERSON1