Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
generous gestures - den frie contemporary art copenhagen
Generous Gestures
- a festival focusing on the intercultural art scene in Denmark.
As something new, you can experience no less than 2 festivals in Den Frie Centre of
Contemporary Art in 2011. The first in line, Generous Gestures, is an exhibition event which
hides under its title a pressing need to discuss the lack of focus on issues such as
interculturalism, xenophobia and Danishness. During the 10-day exhibition, a series of public art
events will be taking place such as performances, talks, study groups, lectures, filmscreenings
and an artist kitchen.
The exhibition has been produced by 25 artists with different national and cultural backgrounds
who all have in common that they are artists living in Denmark and that they in the past year
have participated in the Danish Arts Agency’s Intercultural Mentor Program, which aims to
discuss the issue of interculturalism and the underrepresentation of intercultural artistic
practices in Denmark. Their works contribute, both politically and aesthetically, to the
discussion on contemporary art today, an area in which the players reflect the Danish society's
transition from a homogeneous to a multicultural society.
Generous Gestures is facilitated by Tijana Miskovic and Jane Jin Kaisen, who feel that their
efforts and interest in interculturalism in Denmark must be seen in conjunction with a broader
artistic, social and cultural understanding of what the National is, who society's "other" is and
what - at a given point in time - is considered a cultural, historical and aesthetic part of the
cultural heritage and how we understand the evolution of culture and society in general.
Participating artists:
Amir Zainorin, Andreas Olesen, Anne Bennike, Charlotte Haslund-Christensen, David Ramirez,
Giuditta R, Juan Hein, Kristine Agergaard, Maher Khatib, Mahmoud Alibadi, Maj Hasager, Marcelo
Lerer, Mette Kit Jensen, Michelle Eistrup, Nikolaj Kilsmark, Nynne Haugaard, Parul Modha, Rick
Towle, Samaira Ali, Søren Dahlgaard, Thierry Geoffroy and Thomas Bjørkå.
Further information and background for the exhibition events website Initial State of Limbo:
http://initialstateoflimbo.wikispaces.com/ or contact Tijana Miskovic +45 6062366
Monday, January 17, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
begehungen arts festival
Sunday, July 25, 2010
mind my hat.
Mind my hat is a short bio and a self portrait. Being on the move and staying in many different places, I get the chance to experience to live with different people and learn different values and cultures. this life journey and experiences has somehow shape and made me the way I am today .
‘We must be the change we wish to see in the world.’ – Gandhi
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
stamp over
PRESS RELEASE
Public Art Performance by Amir Zainorin og Aida Redza.
Title: Stamp Over
Performance No. 1.
Where: : Rysegade 53
Infront of the Immigration Office
When: Thursday, 1 July 2010, 11.00 am – 12.00 pm
Performance No. 2
Where: Foran Oslo Plads 1, 2100
Infront Den frie Udstillingsbygning
When: Friday, 2 July 2010, 17.00 – 18.00
Contact: Amir Zainorin
Tel. No : 2940 9896
Email: amirszainorin@gmail.com
Stamp over
Stamp over is a performance art that deal with emotions in relations to the thing that we go thru in our daily life. These emotions such as love, anger, fear, joy, happiness are common to each and every one of us when confronted or faced in a given situation.
In this performance multimedia artist Amir Zainorin and dance performer Aida Redza, both born in Malaysia but now based in Denmark, would like to address the issue migration and the challenges that one has to face in order to adapt oneself in a new culture, social structure and values.
In our world the immigration laws has been tightened after the 9 11 event and the Muhammad cartoon crisis. Traveling and migrating from one country to another has never been more difficult. This is ironic given that the world is becoming smaller due to globalization and new communication technology that man has invented over the last few decades.
We have somehow been conditioned for individual differences and like to put people in a category, ‘they’ and ‘us’. We have fear within ourselves and to the things that we are not used to. Only if we all could see the essence in our basic human needs, that we are more or less indeed the same....then there will be no ‘other’, but it is all one.
STEMPLING ( danish translation)
Stempling er en kunstnerisk performance der handler om følelser i forhold til de ting vi går i gennem i vores hverdags liv. Følelser som kærlighed, vrede, angst og glæde er naturlige for os når vi konfronteres med særlige situationer.
I denne performance (anskuer)mutimediekunstner Amir Zainorin og danser og koreograf, Aida Redza, som begge er født i Malaysia spørgsmål om migration og udfordringerne man møder når man skal tilpasse sig i en ny kultur, social struktur og nye værdier.
I vores verden er immigrationslove blevet strammere efter 11. september og Muhammad krisen. Rejse og migration er blevet sværere. Dette er ironisk, da verden er blevet mindre som følge af globalisering og udviklingen inden for kommunikationsteknologi.
Vi er blevet opdraget med fokus på individualitet og vænnet os til at sætte folk i kategorier, ’dem’ og ’os’. Kun hvis vi kan se essensen i vores menneskelige behov, at vi er næsten ens, så vil der ikke være nogen ’anden’, men blot En.
CV- Amir Zainorin
Amir Zainorin was born and grew up in Malaysia and now based in Copenhagen. He is a multi media artist and works with painting, video, installation, performance and photography. His works has a social and political commentary tone and he is inspired from the media and his surroundings. He explores the theme such as globalization in relation to popular cultures and consumer society. He has had solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in Kuala Lumpur, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Budapest and New York.
For more info, please visit:
www.amirzainorin.dk
CV Aida Redza
Aida Redza is a Malaysian performer and choreographer living in Denmark. In her home ground Aida is known for advocating her artistic work towards social cause and community projects with focus on integration and inclusion. Her solo works are a visible example of tight bound tradition and deconstruction intertwining new dance and physical theater to create dynamic live performance. Described as one of the most intense and controversial performer in Malaysia, she explores the relationship between dream, rebellious play and resistance, and revolution of sorts from the perspective of a Muslim woman.
For more info please visit:
http://aidaredza.blogspot.com/
Thursday, April 29, 2010
NEW LIFE CANCUN
NEW LIFE CANCÚN
Artists working with interventions, activism and other participatory practices are invited to apply for participation in NEW LIFE CANCUN.This experimental hospitality initiative intends to promote and facilitate participation during the UN Climate Change summit (COP 16) in Cancún, Mexico at the end of 2010 (Nov. 29th – Dec. 10th).
In continuation of Wooloo's NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN festival - in which we secured housing for more than 3.000 activists during the Copenhagen summit - NEW LIFE CANCUN is aiming to connect visiting activists and NGO employees with local families in the area of Cancún.
An area infamous for its vulnerability to climate disasters (mainly hurricanes), as well as for the high-CO2 emissions associated with its tourism sector.
Utilizing this meeting of hosts and guests in Cancun as our exhibition platform, artists and activists are invited to explore its social architecture and suggest work proposals of an awareness, educational and/or practical-action nature designed around the topic: “NEW WAYS OF LIVING TOGETHER”.
The deadline for work proposals is AUGUST 1st, 2010.
Please direct all research questions to contact@wooloo.org
Proposals must include a detailed budget. As fundraising efforts are still ongoing, we do not yet know the size of our final production budget. However, it wont be large - so please be aware that your project must be able to be realized in a low-budget manner!
NEW LIFE CANCUN is a collaboration between Wooloo.org and the Mexican climate change collective Carbonding
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