a.pt (advanced
performance training) is a 12-month post-master performance research
program, 
developed out of the individual projects of the
participants, and based on the principles of 
self-organization and
collaboration.
next DEADLINE CALL FOR PROJECTS (for start in May 2012): 20th of January 2012

read the a.pass brochure for more info on selection procedure

also: check THE PUBLIC WORKSHOPS

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i OWN 6 Hour Remix

THE ART OF SHARING, THE SHARING OF ART -- Sven G -- Thu 26 Jan 2012 -- 0 reactions

documentary performance
January 26 2012

6 hours
14.00 - 20.00

The Proposal:
Share as much as we can for 6 hours straight!

i OWN 6 Hour Remix is an extension and amalgamation of Sven G's i OWN project and Davies' Instability in Stability archive and follows after last month's i OWN 24 Hour Remix and this month's i OWN 12 Hour Remix in the fashion of a countdown sequence. More remixes - for the duration of 3 hours and 90 minutes - are to be expected in the coming month of February. Sven G will attempt to catalogue every item he owns inside Studio 54, Davies will attempt to trace the itinerancy of the items in her archive. Feel free to chip in using the integrated chat windows! The 6 hour performance will be followed by Sven's presentation from 20.00 until 22.00 on the Sister Projects Livestream channel.

Sister Projects

THE ART OF SHARING, THE SHARING OF ART -- Sven G -- Thu 26 Jan 2012 -- 0 reactions

20.00 - 22.00
every last Thursday of the month
http://www.livestream.com/sisterprojects

The Sister Project artists are a group of six transnational, interdisciplinary practitioners creating artwork within a variety of mediums; from painting to performance, archiving to choreography, social engaged practice to online broadcasting. On the last Thursday of each month you are invited to join these artists as they meet for a sharing of their current projects. We welcome you to participate in the live, constructively critical discussion of the concepts and questions embedded in their practices. For further information on the artists and links to their individual websites please visit:
http://instability-in-stability.co.uk/participation/sister-projects/

November 24 2011 - Cara Davies with Me, Myself & My Archive

December 29 2011 - Elizabeth McGuire Cleary with The Threw Out Blog

January 26 2012 - Sven Goyvaerts with The Personal Archive of Sven G

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REASONS TO BECOME A HUNGER ARTIST

HUNGER ARTIST -- elke van campenhout -- Wed 25 Jan 2012 -- 0 reactions
Check out the second reason to become a Hunger Artist:
Redefine Relational Aesthetics, Radically: here

elke

call to join the hunger artists

HUNGER ARTIST -- elke van campenhout -- Tue 17 Jan 2012 -- 0 reactions

THE HUNGER ARTIST invites you to join us in an international movement of hunger artists. The practice of Various Artist Marcella.B can be picked up by anyone interested. In the upcoming weeks and months the hunger artist will inform you about the FIVE BEST REASONS to become a hunger artist, about suggested practices to become a serious hunger artists, and about the ethics and politics that conduct the practice. THE HUNGER ARTIST is a practice that overrules the distinction between esthetic politics, spiritual growth, ethical correctness and playful confusion. If you want to join the group just come to http://www.facebook.com/groups/311770432197784/, and if you start up your own HUNGER ARTIST PRACTICE, please keep us informed on these pages.

elke

'Micro Histories' Thematics BC

Lilia Mestre -- Mon 16 Jan 2012 -- 0 reactions
Micro Histories/opening week is part of the Thematics: a 2 month research project set up by Lilia Mestre / Les Bains with invited artists Eleanora Sovrani (it/be), Einat Tuchman (is/be), Annu Pennanen (fi) and Stephane Querrec (fr) and Agency/ Kobe Matthys (be). Micro HIstories researches the processes of documentation and presentation of the ‘Micro Histories’ collected 4 different Brussels areas: Vilvoorde, St Joost, Brussels Center (EEC quarter) and Forest. This Thematics aim to investigate, challenge and discuss cultural phenomena and their construction through field research. For this we invited different artists with different strategies and methods from film documentary, to art history or performance, to be able to compare different sources and approaches. Apart from their individual research we would like to set up a system for collaborative data exchange to over all relate the multiple "Micro Histories".
During the opening week the participants of the Thematics and the participants of a.pass meet to lay out the themes that are driving this research: what is the sense of history? what kind of methodologies to we use to register ‘what has happened’? How do we create our own histories, or make history appear where it is not considered likely to be found? What is field research and how do we set up a valid research environment on location? This workshop is the introduction to the His/Herstory workshop, during which these strategies are put to the test in individual research field trajectories.

i OWN 12 Hour Remix

THE ART OF SHARING, THE SHARING OF ART -- Sven G -- Wed 11 Jan 2012 -- 0 reactions

documentary performance
January 12 2012

12 hours (or rather 13 hours)
08.00 (Antwerp, GMT+1) - 20.00 (Bristol, GMT)

The Proposal:
Share as much as we can for 12 hours straight!

i OWN 12 Hour Remix is an extension and amalgamation of Sven G's i OWN project and Davies' Instability in Stability archive and follows after last month's i OWN 24 Hour Remix in the fashion of a countdown sequence. More remixes - for the duration of 6 hours, 3 hours and 90 minutes - are to be expected in the coming months. Sven G will attempt to catalogue every item he owns inside Studio 54, Davies will attempt to trace the itinerancy of the items in her archive. Feel free to chip in using the integrated chat windows!

January 2 2012

Cultivating A Spot -- Sven G -- Mon 2 Jan 2012 -- 0 reactions

10:10 - 13:40

made coffee for Michele / cleaned storage shelves / took towels to wash / took empty glass bottles / took wrap film

art must be fun, art must be sexy - unseen avangarda in antwerp

on my way -- iuliana varodi -- Thu 1 Dec 2011 -- 0 reactions

Art as we know it is finished

"The contemporary art world can cope with melancholy as style, but taste revolts at the reality of sad, severe, serious life (...). The problem is, you can't parlay it. You can't fantasise on it. The authenticity of these artists annoys us because it tells us there are realities that rule us, The world, since the 1980s, has stopped believing in such a thing as reality. Money was unleashed from facts of any kind. Art became its delusive mirror. Art is fun, it's a laugh, it's entertainment, it's spectacular, it's cool ... art now aspires to be all the things fashion is. And so it cannot accomodate the awkwardness of a Kossoff: cannot be a bone in anyone's throat".

i OWN 24 Hour Remix

THE ART OF SHARING, THE SHARING OF ART -- Sven G -- Wed 30 Nov 2011 -- 0 reactions

documentary performance
December 1 2011

24 hours (or rather 25 hours)
00.00 (Antwerp, GMT+1) - 24.00 (Bristol, GMT)

The Proposal:
Share as much as we can for the whole day!

i OWN 24 Hour Remix is an extension and amalgamation of Sven G's i OWN project and Davies' Instability in Stability archive, in response to Kevin MacDonald and Ridley Scott's Life in a Day. Sven G will attempt to catalogue every item he owns inside Studio 54, Davies will attempt to trace the itinerancy of the items in her archive. Feel free to chip in using the integrated chat windows!

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