arte#ocupaSM - International Art Event

Situated in the heritage site Vila Belga (Belgian Village) in Santa Maria, Brazil, the old building that hosted the Rio Grande do Sul Railway's Administration, will once again breathe life thanks to arte#ocupaSM.

Between 29th May and 2nd June 2012, the event will occupy the building with exhibitions, performances and interventions by near 40 artists from Brazil and abroad. Several meetings will be led by curators, researchers and architects.
Parallel eventswill include live transmission of arte#ocupaSM in Colombia, Spain and city of São Paulo, as well as workshops during the morning period in the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria.

The event will focus on how art can be created and presented having in consideration the venue where is hosted (whether inside or outside) and the dynamic that will exist in an exhibition where several artists will present their works in conjunction or at different time intervals.

Schedule:

Tuesday (29/05) through Thursday (31/05), from 13:00 to 22:00
Non-stop from Friday ( 01/06) 13:00 through Saturday ( 02/06) 12:00pm

arte#ocupaSM is organized by Grupo Momentos-específicos in collaboration with individual, collective and institutional support.

In disuse since 1997, Vila Belga was projected by the Belgian engineer Gustave Vouthier and built from 1901 through 1903, with the purpose of serving as residence for the workers of the Belgian "Compagnie Auxiliare des Chamins de Fer au Brésil", who came to build the railways.

The Affordable Art Fair Brussels 2011

The third edition of the AAF (Affordable Art Fair) Brussels will take place at the Tour & Taxis in Brussels, between the 25th and the 28th of February (preview on the 24th by invitation only).

Around 100 contemporary galleries from Belgium and other countries will be present in an art fair that will offer to its visitors a programme of activities that will include an "ARTY-LICIOUS EVENING" with Yves Mattagne and Eric Boschman, the performances of Jef Aérosol and Belgium ALVARI.

Visitors are also invited to participate in free workshop of print making, hosted by the 'Centre de la Gravure de la Louvière'.

During the AAF Brussels 2011, part of the collection of Alain-Dominique Gallizia will be exhibited in a street-art section.

Founded in 1999 by Will Ramsay, the Affordable Art Fair has in its main objective to make contemporary art accessible to everyone, and to show you don’t need to be an art expert or a millionaire to enjoy and buy art.

To know more about the AAF and its next editions, visit the main page.

Participate in "Bodies in Urban Spaces" Choreographed Performance by Will Dorner in Margate, UK

Those of you who have seen and experienced public performances, such as flashmobs, and would like to participate, now have the chance of being selected.

Turner Company is looking for extremely agile people such as dancers, gymnasts and performers, to participate in the "Bodies in Urban Spaces" choreographed promenade performance, part of the YOU ARE HERE event that will include remarkable manifestations of artistic creativity.

Willi Dorner’s moving trail of performers will lead the audience around Margate, UK, on April 16-17, creating a chain of physical interventions within the town’s architectural edifices by placing the bodies in selected spots, influencing passers by and residents movements and motivating them to reflect their urban surrounding.

If you would like to audition to take part in this performance, please contact Sepake Angiama to find out more details on +44 (0) 1843 233000 or send an e-mail to sangiama@turnercontemporary.org by the 25th of February, 2011.

Bodies in Urban Spaces are temporary interventions without leaving any traces behind, but imprints in the eye-witnesses' memory.

The following video is a trailer of the Dance Umbrella Performance that took place in Southbank, London, in 2009.