The prompt to begin the naked run in the Netherlands was given 14:30 via Skype from Russia by a Pussy Riot member. Runners wearing nothing but helmets and sneakers in the Netherlands show support for Russian punk band Pussy Riot. Continue reading
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DEADLINES | National Endowment for the Humanities seeks media projects for grant program
WASHINGTON, D.C.| Through the America’s Media Makers program, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports the creation of interactive digital media and film, television, and radio projects that engage the public in the exploration of humanities concepts. Under the program, NEH offers two kinds of grants. Development grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars … Continue reading
DEADLINES | Applications sought for National Dance Project Touring Awards
BOSTON | An initiative of the New England Foundation for the Arts, the National Dance Project Touring Awards program provides grants of up to $40,000 to dance companies to support national tours of new dance works. The deadline is October 7, 2013. Touring Awards are automatically given to all NDP Production Grant recipients in the … Continue reading
RECOMMENDATION | See film screening of American version of German “Trust” at Goethe Institut-Washington
WASHINGTON, D.C. | Tonight, July 8, a young D.C. troupe will screen a film that documents that making of its new dance/theatre project Trust by the German writer/director Falk Richter. The courageous company force/collision has been in search of a dance vocabulary that suits Richter’s virulently comic attack on consumer capitalism. I saw an early work-in-progress performance … Continue reading
CROSS-BORDER DIPLOMACY | European Union’s parliament supports new resolution for foundation cross-border initiatives
BRUSSELS | Will European foundations ever be able to work across national borders? At this moment this is not possible. But a new resolution for European foundation statute is presently running through the European Parliament that may change that situation. If the resolution passes, European foundations will be able to engage in transnational initiatives from country … Continue reading
REVOLUTION 2.0 | You must remember this: Egypt’s artists drove its Summer of Mass Re-Awakening
Make no mistake: artists led Egypt’s Revolution 2.0, which moved to depose its first freely elected Islamist president. The military’s action to oust Morsi was, in fact, but the final moving piece in Egypt’s complicated political domino. It should be remembered that this Summer of Mass Re-Awakening began as a culture war. It was a fight for free expression. It was a battle for Egypt’s soul. Continue reading
JOURNALS | Feminist art journal tackles Pussy Riot case, Occupy LA, Venice Biennale, post-dictatorship Argentinian women artists
n.paradoxa continues its mission to publish in-depth critical articles on contemporary women artists from around the world drawing on feminist theory in each volume. Continue reading
