TransCultural Exchange's Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts Scholarships!

Hey everyone! Wake up! Mirabee here to tell you about the most amazing international arts conference in the world. It's every two years and some of you heard me speak about funding for artists at the last one. This time around, I'll be talking about first books: how to get published from finding an agent to marketing your book once it is out there. I'll be on a panel with Jedediah Berry, author of the novel The Manual of Detection and editor at Small Beer Press, and poet Marisa Crawford, author of The Haunted House from Switchback Books. I'll also be doing a reading from my new book at the Boston Public Library with amazing author Reif Larson and Jayne Anne Phillips (all that info to come, closer to the event).

In the meantime, there are scholarships available for the conference but the deadline for those are coming up soon. See the announcement below for the TransCultural Exchange's Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts.

Cheers!

Mirabee

p.s. coming later today or in the next day or so: new opportunities for printmakers, media artists, writers and more!

(ALL) TransCultural Exchange's Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: Are you looking to tap into the International Art Market? Would you like to find ways to show overseas? Are you a writer interested in finding out what it takes to publish your first book? Are you a musician or composer who is looking for an amazing residency overseas? Have you always wanted to live overseas for a year and do research for a creative project but just didn't know how to fund your trip? Meet key international Curators, critics, editors, published writers and program directors at TransCultural Exchange's Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts, Boston Omni Parker House Hotel April 7-10 2011.

TransCultural Exchange’s Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: The Interconnected World is internationally known as the only forum of its kind for networking, showcasing, supporting and promoting people in the arts. More than 70 representatives from around the world will be on hand to present their programs and provide networking opportunities and one-on-one portfolio reviews for artists to interact with their international peers. There will also be opportunities for film screenings for emerging filmmakers, readings of new work from writers, literary events at Boston Public Library, and artist slide shows.

More than one third of the attendees to the 2007 and 2009 Conferences noted tangible outcomes (such as invitations to residencies and exhibitions and/or successful grant applications) as a direct result of their attending the conference.

Registration for all four days, April 7 - April 10, 2011: Early Registration is $275, due midnight EST, December 15, 2010. Registration is $345 after December 15, 2010; and $425 after April 1. Student discount registration is $115, due midnight EST, December 15, 2010; $205 after December 15, 2010 and $295 after April 1. Register here: http://www.transculturalexchange.org/conference_2011/registration

Yes, there are scholorships available. Applications for scholarships are due November 15, 2010!

Reverse

At the BWA City Gallery in Bydgoszcz (which has the most poignant introduction of any art gallery I've seen so far: "WHAT"), the Polygonum exhibition which opens on October 14th to showcase the Polish region's visual talents has some tasty discoveries.

"Movemental" by Tomasz Dobiszewski does look a little like a furniture catalogue. And yet there is something wrong with this catalogue. It does not clarify, it does not simplify, but multiplies, undoes the tight order of things. It lets the picture breathe, opens it up, as if it was obvious: the reverse is necessary, the negative, the outline - everything our gaze seems to take for granted. Dobiszewski adds nothing, he just cuts out and moves,allowing the rhythms to become juicier through the absurd joy of things fitting like in a reverse puzzle. Do things become undone, this way, or are they put more clearly into their necessity? After all, this is the space for the space this is.


Another tasty moment requires distance.
Evidently, it's not about the painting. But the painting seems an important introduction (and the floor, and the floor). This creature, to the right (unfortunately I didn't write down the name or author), stands as its own double. It should not be approached (really, definitely, in cases like this I understand why beauty needs distance). As any mirage, it is only what it seems, a reflection, a game of angles, a line and a line and a line. It rings a bell, and another, and I wonder, is there a way of keeping it there, of not getting closer, of remaining within the illusion that there is something beyond, just a little more plenty.

A Study Interlude in Memory of McQueen

I'm supposed to be writing a gigantic paper right now, but in the spirit of procrastination I stumbled upon this photo done in coordination with Alexander McQueen for Vogue's 50th Anniversary.

Hope this injects some inspiration into your week!

(Click on for a larger view, it's breathtaking.)

He was always one to remind us that fashion truly is art.

-B