[spectre] aMAZElab projects (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[PRESS - aMAZElab]

The cultural agency aMAZElab promoted the following international 
projects:

PORT AMPs (Istanbul + Athens Biennials, September ’07 )
by Zafos Xagoraris

The Greek artist created temporary soundscapes at  Istanbul and Athens 
Biennials.
  The project is part of Port City Safari, an international network of 
cultural exchange, an exhibition and a series of publications and 
platforms, in reference to trajectories of trade, mobility and 
contemporary slavery between port cities, through the exchange of 
artists’ projects.
  Istanbul: 8th September.
  Athens: 10th September.

PORT CITY (Bristol, September/November ‘07)
On mobility and exchange

The  exhibition at Arnolfini Bristol was  accompanied by ‘off-site’ 
projects from Going Public series and a programme of live art and film.
  Related events include artists’ residencies, artist-led walks and an 
online writing project.
  The artists included: Maria Thereza Alves, Yto Barrada, Ursula 
Biemann, Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, Mary Evans, Meschac Gaba, Raimi 
Gbadamosi, Going Public/ Atlante Mediterraneo, Charles Heller, Kathleen 
Herbert, irational, Melanie Jackson, Isaac Julien, Helena Maleno/ 
Womens Link International, La Pocha Nostra, Eric van Lieshout, Cildo 
Meireles, Naeem Mohaimen, William Pope Kate Rich, Zineb Sedira, Duncan 
Speakman, Hala Elkoussy, Osservatorio Tecnologico.
  From 15th September to 11th  November.

COMMUNITIES & TERRITORIES (Beirut, November/December ’07)
On Public Sphere & Public Library

The cultural agency aMAZElab (Milano), in collaboration with Heinrich 
Boll Foundation, Middle East Office (Beirut), propose the international 
seminar and workshop “Community and Territory”. Dedicated to the 
current cultural, social and geo-political aspects of the city, the 
project means to investigate contemporary Beirut life, a city highly 
representative of the complexity of the Lebanese mosaic.
  From 16th November to 15th December.

ISOLA TALKS & WALKS (Milan, December ‘07)
Experiencing the city: walks, meetings, exchanges

A serie of meetings dedicated to the reading of the city:  
Experimental Confines / Productive Networks / Sound Islands / Creative 
Networks

For this occasion aMAZElab presented a special artist’s project, a 
light installation created for the event by the artist Simone Berti.
  The work is a transparent sculpture which symbolises a galaxy 
suspended in the sky above the Isola neighbourhood.
  The public will thus find themselves faced with a work poised between 
the absurd and the everyday, between the real and the imaginary.
  From 16th December to 16th January

NEXT:

BILL OWENS. Suburbia Revisited (Bristol, February/March ‘08)

Photographer Bill Owens is highly influential for an entire generation 
of American photographers in the lineage of social documentary.
  He gained acclaim for his series of black & white photographs entitled 
“Suburbia”, documenting the birth of newly-built suburban 
neighbourhoods in California during the early 70s. The exhibition, set 
up at Arnolfini in Bristol,  collects the master works (1967 – 2007) of 
40 years of the photographer’s activity. The exhibition will be 
accompanied by the first monography (Damiani Editore), curated by 
Claudia Zanfi.
  From 2nd February 2008 to 30th March 2008

We would like to take this opportunity to send our best wishes for a 
Merry Xmas.

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