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Video Graffiti, Artivism & Feminism in North Africa - Egypt
Women in Egypt are turning to graffiti as they demand more rights and freedoms and try to change the traditional perception of women there. (March 16)
AfroCubism documentary
This short film provides an exclusive look at the making of the most eagerly anticipated release in world music. This collaboration of the finest musicians from Cuba and Mali features Eliades Ochoa, Bassekou Kouyate, Djelimady Tounkara, and Toumani Diabate, and sees the realisation of the project that inadvertently became the Buena Vista Social Club.
For more information go to
www.afrocubism.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/AfroCubism/130219880341027
http://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/#AfroCubism
Buy the music at amazon http://tinyurl.com/7bmbtnt
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New documentary, bridges between Art Islam & Europe
Art, Islam & Europe - ENG from SHAAMAN.COM on Vimeo.
A short documentary to explore the perception of Islam as a civilisation and culture through contemporary art and artists influenced by eastern culture in Europe.
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Through its Belief in dialogue project, the British Council is developing initiatives to tackle current issues around cultural diversity, challenging misunderstandings and misconceptions of different communities.
Acknowledging the complex identities which form our pluralistic societies, Belief in Dialogue is exploring how to develop engagement for better global citizenship, help widening participation and building trust.
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director and footages : khéridine mabrouk
editor and color grading : maxime mathis
post production: shaaman.com
special thanks : benjamin laurent
additional images/
art videos by damir niksic
the film graffix from the Soux by pete stern
art and islam usa tour by musa syeed
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION :
Around the film/
http://www.artislameurope.com
Around Belief in dialogue project/
www.britishcouncil.org/new/society/belief-in-dialogue/
Meditteranean song - Ahwak - Zaki Nassif
Another video shot on a sunny sunday afternoon in Beirut with Heba el mansoury and her lovely husband Majed .
It is shot as usual with a digital still camera , i hope u ll excuse the quality .
the song is by Zaki Nassif , i have re arranged it . I am producing some tracks for Heba , i really love her voice , there will be more to come ...
Books about contemporary art in Africa
Angaza Afrika – African Art Now
Angaza Afrika, translated from the Swahili to mean ‘Shed light on Africa’ or ‘Look around Africa’, is comprehensive in its range. Each work will be a stunning visual and physical manifestation of the artists’ energy and spirit, such as beautiful work of South African artist Karel Nel, who sets vast leaves from the Coco palms in atmospheric, elemental architectural spaces.
Other featured artists include Romuald Hazoumé, whose immense installation Dream (2007), consisting of a boat made from petrol canisters, placed in front of a panoramic photograph won the documenta 12 prize; El Anatsui, who with his magnificent cloths made from thousands of glimmering bottle tops was one of the highlights of the 52nd Venice Biennale and who will transform Channel 4’s 50ft logo, situated in front of their London Headquarters, with an installation in June 2008; Owusu-Ankomah, whose drawings were chosen by Giorgio Armani for his Emporio Armani (PRODUCT) RED capsule collection and Abdoulaye Konaté who has been shortlisted for the Artes Mundi 2008 Prize.
Angaza Afrika, translated from the Swahili to mean ‘Shed light on Africa’ or ‘Look around Africa’, is comprehensive in its range. Each work will be a stunning visual and physical manifestation of the artists’ energy and spirit, such as beautiful work of South African artist Karel Nel, who sets vast leaves from the Coco palms in atmospheric, elemental architectural spaces.
Other featured artists include Romuald Hazoumé, whose immense installation Dream (2007), consisting of a boat made from petrol canisters, placed in front of a panoramic photograph won the documenta 12 prize; El Anatsui, who with his magnificent cloths made from thousands of glimmering bottle tops was one of the highlights of the 52nd Venice Biennale and who will transform Channel 4’s 50ft logo, situated in front of their London Headquarters, with an installation in June 2008; Owusu-Ankomah, whose drawings were chosen by Giorgio Armani for his Emporio Armani (PRODUCT) RED capsule collection and Abdoulaye Konaté who has been shortlisted for the Artes Mundi 2008 Prize.
Art and Pictogram - European Values XXI Century
A new works about XXI century values of European area. With deportation centers as Lamperdusa, Lesvos or Malta we need to think about Human Rights facts in European socities. Because Forteress Europe still rising walls, perscute imigrant & refugees we need to open our mind in a XXI Century globalisation construction.
SUPPORT A LOGO FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
In search of a globally recognized Logo for Human Rights, Human Right Watch create a contest for design a sign for Human Rights.
You can join here : http://humanrightslogo.net/
You can join here : http://humanrightslogo.net/
NORTH AFRICA IN SAATCHI GALLERY
Compilation of artworks about Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria the slide show it's here :
http://www.saatchionline.com/slideshow/collection/owner/93455/collection/10231
http://www.saatchionline.com/slideshow/collection/owner/93455/collection/10231
STATISTIC - IT BEGAN IN AFRICA
Very good, very well-researched illustration by Kai Krause illustrating just how mammoth Africa is. It's about 11.7 million square miles, which is really big—big enough to fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and much of Europe within its borders.
What is immappacy ? Krause explains:
In addition to the well known social issues of illiteracy and innumeracy, there also should be such a concept as "immappacy," meaning insufficient geographical knowledge.
A survey of random American schoolkids let them guess the population and land area of their country. Not entirely unexpected, but still rather unsettling, the majority chose "1-2 billion" and "largest in the world," respectively.
Even with Asian and European college students, geographical estimates were often off by factors of 2-3. This is partly due to the highly distored nature of the predominantly used mapping projections (such as Mercator).
A particularly extreme example is the worldwide misjudgment of the true size of Africa. This single image tries to embody the massive scale, which is larger than the USA, China, India, Japan, and all of Europe ... combined!
The designer with this eye-opening demonstration of Africa’s capacity to swallow up the much smaller land masses of countries we normally think of as quite large.
What is immappacy ? Krause explains:
In addition to the well known social issues of illiteracy and innumeracy, there also should be such a concept as "immappacy," meaning insufficient geographical knowledge.
A survey of random American schoolkids let them guess the population and land area of their country. Not entirely unexpected, but still rather unsettling, the majority chose "1-2 billion" and "largest in the world," respectively.
Even with Asian and European college students, geographical estimates were often off by factors of 2-3. This is partly due to the highly distored nature of the predominantly used mapping projections (such as Mercator).
A particularly extreme example is the worldwide misjudgment of the true size of Africa. This single image tries to embody the massive scale, which is larger than the USA, China, India, Japan, and all of Europe ... combined!
The designer with this eye-opening demonstration of Africa’s capacity to swallow up the much smaller land masses of countries we normally think of as quite large.
PHOTOGRAPHY - VERONICA AZARYAN - 2ND PART
A review of Veronica Azaryan photography. She done a great quality process of Tunisian Architecture. She done it with a minimal sintesis. I apreciate her work cause it's really hard to process an African country in that way so abstract. It give new ways for design and process African Landscapes outside figurative & representative photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY - VERONICA AZARYAN - 1ST PART
A review of Veronica Azaryan photography. She done a great quality process of Tunisian Architecture. She done it with a minimal sintesis. I apreciate her work cause it's really hard to process an African country in that way so abstract. It give new ways for design and process African Landscapes outside figurative & representative photography.
MIGRANTAS | A VISUAL LANGUAGE OF MIGRATION
Working with public urban spaces as its platform, migrantas aims to make visible the thoughts and feelings of those who Working with public urban spaces as its platform, migrantas aims to make visible the thoughts and feelings of those who have left their own country and now live in a new one. Mobility, migration and transculturality are not the exception in our world, but are instead becoming the rule. Nevertheless, migrant women and their experiences remain often invisible to the majority of our society. Migrantas works with issues of migration, identity and intercultural dialogue. Their work incorporates tools from the visual arts, graphic design and social sciences. Members of the collective (Marula Di Como, Florencia Young, Alejandra López, Irma Leinauer), mostly women who have themselves immigrated to Germany, develop the projects with other migrant women in a horizontal dialogue.
Migrantas meets with migrant women in their own collective spaces, organizations, community centers, cultural groups and organizes workshops to reflect together on issues of migration. Workshops are about visual expression of one’s own story. Women from very different national, cultural and social backgrounds, also with different residency statuses, exchange their experiences and express these in simple drawings.From drawing to pictogram and after a careful analysis of all the drawings from different workshops, migrantas calls key elements and common themes from the drawings and translates these central motifs visually and artistically into pictograms, a visual language and a language accessible to everyone.
Pictograms reflect implicity and strength of expression, they are the visual language of migrantas. Their simple, universally understandable images stir emotions: people from different backgrounds recognize themselves in the representations, while others gain new insights or modify their own perspectives. The results are better recognition and visibility.All migrantas projects end with an exhibition. The participants now see their drawings presented in public and experience public recognition of their voices and social participation. Visitors to the exhibition receive an opportunity to become better acquainted with the experiences of migrant women. Urban actions: Being a part of the city landscape One of migrantas’ major goals is to make the pictograms visible in public urban spaces.
They appear as posters where there is normally advertising, as projected digital animations on public screens, as flyers or postcards or shopping bags. Migrant womens’ perspectives and lived realities are taken out of the individual private space and made visible in the public space, thus creating an encounter which triggers reactions and self-reflection in the passerby.
http://www.migrantas.org
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