Mauritania

anyMeta 4.13.28 - Atom module 0.3.2 2010-09-10T21:51:52+02:00 http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/feed/atom/9181/en Mauritania http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/10485 2010-09-10T05:20:16+02:00 Zeitz Foundation Creating a better tomorrow through culture, community, conservation and commerce

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. 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.

<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><a title="Click to get a larger image - Jochen Zeitz - Creative Africa Network" href="/page/15421/en">Jochen Zeitz</a> -Zeitz Foundation Founder 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. <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><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> -Zeitz Foundation Ambassadors for Culture “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.” Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia <a href="http://www.zeitzfoundation.org/">Zeitz Foundation</a> Amabassadors for Culture <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><a title="Click to get a larger image - Mark Coetzee - Creative Africa Network" href="/page/10869/en">Mark Coetzee</a> -Zeitz Foundation Cultural Specialist “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. 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. 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.” Mark Coetzee <a href="http://www.zeitzfoundation.org/">Zeitz Foundation</a> Cultural Specialist - Zeitz Foundation Zeitz Foundation PERSON 1 http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/2155 2010-09-10T05:20:11+02:00 Mark Coetzee Program Director, PUMAVision and Chief Curator, puma.creative

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. 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.

Selected Recent Exhibition Catalogs and Books Coetzee, Mark. Against All Odds: Keith Haring in the Rubell Family Collection. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Art Museum; Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2008. Coetzee, Mark. Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2007. Coetzee, Mark. John Stezaker: Works from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2007. Coetzee, Mark. ed., Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2007. Coetzee, Mark. Eberhard Havekost 1996-2006: Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2006. 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. Coetzee, Mark. Rubell Family Collection: NOT AFRAID. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2004. Coetzee, Mark. America Dream, Collecting Richard Prince for 27 Years. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2004. 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. Coetzee, Mark. Where Art Is Happening, ArtCenter/South Florida. Miami Beach: ArtCenter/South Florida, 2003. - 120.958 31.38 Mark Coetzee Mark Coetzee d d PERSON 1 http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/22122 2010-09-10T00:52:35+02:00 Anabela Kim Assistant Programmer of Screendance for 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival

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. 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. Selected works will be screened at Newport Beach, CA. FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE SEND ME A MESSAGE OR AN EMAIL, AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO HELP YOU OUT! Filmmakers interested in submitting work exploring other genres and themes are also more than welcome to contact me.

- 8 Anabela Kim PERSON 1 http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/2436 2010-09-06T13:08:44+02:00 Steven Music

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.

Celeste Prize 2010 2nd edition in New York 40,000 euro prizes are voted by artists! Entries Deadline online - September 30 More info : <a href="http://www.celesteprize.com/prize/">http://www.celesteprize.com/prize/</a> 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. More details about this unique process/terms: <a href="http://www.celesteprize.com/terms_2010/">http://www.celesteprize.com/terms_2010/</a> Jurors: Julia Draganovic (Germany) and Mark Gisbourne (UK). Selectors: 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). Selectors for Live Media Prize: 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). 2010 Celeste Prize categories: • Painting 8,000 € • Photography & Digital Graphics 8,000 € • Video & Animation 8,000 € • Installation & Sculpture 8,000 € • Live Media audiovisual & Performance 8,000 € 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. Join Celeste Network, fastest growing network for artists and arts professionals worldwide already more than 35,000 members have signed up – its free ! Celeste Prize was founded by Steven Music, is organized by an Italian non-profit called Associazione Culturale L’Albero Celeste, Via Sangallo 23, 53036 Poggibonsi (Siena), Italy. Tel: +39 0577 939425 info@celesteprize.com www.celesteprize.com - Steven Music Music Steven Music PERSON 1 http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/12626 2010-09-02T14:17:33+02:00 aza mansongi artiste plasticienne contemporainne 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 le 3kokoricos Mon travail actuelle traite des notions d'identité et est à mis chemin entre l'abstraction et le figuratif... Jusqu'ici je ne cesse d' enrichir mes connaissances à travers ateliers, résidences, expositions, festivals et séminaires . échanger discuter et découvrir m'apportent toujours le supplément dont j'ai besoin pour nourrir mes créations... - aza mansongi aza mansongi aza PERSON 1 http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/19987 2010-08-29T21:32:30+02:00 yoel keen to know more

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.

- yoel PERSON 1 http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/19572 2010-08-28T23:55:45+02:00 Kristine Tsala Carnet de creation

Camerounaise d'origine l'artiste Kristine Tsala vie et travail au Cameroun 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.

- Kristine Tsala PERSON 1 http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/21412 2010-08-23T08:44:06+02:00 Kati Kivinen Curator

Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA in Helsinki, Finland, currently prepares a major international exhibition ARS 11, which undermines the narrow conception of contemporary African reality as nothing but a continuum of ancient traditions and their modern reiteration. It deconstructs myths and ideas associated with African culture and African contemporary art, and it also brings good news from today's Africa. The exhibition will be compiled by a team that includes curators Arja Miller, Pirkko Siitari and Jari-Pekka Vanhala. The programme of events in the Kiasma Theatre will be drawn up by producer Riitta Aarniokoski. ARS 11 is the eighth show in the ARS series, and marks the 50th anniversary of this Finnish exhibition institution.

- Kati Kivinen PERSON 1 http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/19754 2010-08-21T08:54:41+02:00 HOUSE OF AFRICAN ART (HAA!) The House of African Art (HAA!) provides a permanent space to introduce Japan to the energy, spirituality and beauty of Africa through art. Visitors will share new perspectives on the world brought by voices from Africa.

The purpose of the House of African Art (HAA!) is to allow the Japanese public to discover the DYNAMISM of a continent that has preserved its deeply rooted TRADITIONS while giving birth to innumerable creative GENIUSES: photographers, painters, musicians, dancers, film-makers...

To re-introduce Africa to Japan, through the beauty, energy and spirituality of African arts, both traditional and contemporary, House of African Art (HAA!) works in the 3 following ways: 1) Creating a UNIQUE and PERMANENT SPACE, which will become the first African artistic and cultural center in Asia, for voices from Africa to tell their stories in their own words. 2) Organizing EVENTS and ARTISTS RESIDENCIES in Asia and in Africa to foster the collaboration of creative people from both continents. 3) Gathering information related to African arts and culture, and promoting events happening in Japan and abroad to the Japanese public, through a COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE (coming soon...). - 2 HOUSE OF AFRICAN ART (HAA!) PERSON 1 http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/id/20994 2010-08-05T10:54:19+02:00 Pan African Space Station The Pan African Space Station is an unprecedented, innovative and radical all round free form sound cocktail.

Read about the 2010 event here: <a href="http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/page/20999/en">http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/page/20999/en</a> Designed to provoke new forms of creative expression and social mobilisation, as well as utilise the advancement of modern technology to facilitate access to and showcase the African avant-garde. PASS includes an annual 30-day music intervention, which takes place online through a freeform radio station and in unexpected venues across greater Cape Town. These 30 days are highlighted by a four day music festival, which includes artists from across the African continent and its Diaspora in multiple locations across Cape Town each day.

PASS not only brings music lovers together, but also seeks to acknowledge and profile new and existing independent music venues across the Cape Town. The music happenings are specifically arranged to occur at staggered time and space intervals to help affirm and disrupt, both, the music and geography of the City. However, these disparate venues across Cape Town are brought closer together through a temporary transport network of buses that serve the festival’s routes, facilitating greater mobility in our notoriously rigid cultural environment. The curators were quoted saying “PASS embraces the lineages that shape music making on and from this continent, but we also try to challenge the stereotypes associated with music from Africa. This project isn’t about connecting with one’s roots, it’s more about exploring African cosmopolitanism in this 21st century through music.” Now in its’ third year PASS is presented by the Africa Centre in partnership with the Heliocentrics curatorial team - Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga. This duo, are renown and respected for their eclectic experience working with, and transforming sound, space, situation and image. For more information about the 2010 programme, access to the radio station or access to footage and/or the archive of “PASS Casts” including radio mixes, talks and performances by acts at last year’s events,visit: - 4 Pan African Space Station PERSON 1