AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Posted on Art4Development, originally from The Times - The Australian
Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/european-cost-cutters-target-c...

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ARMIN Rohde is breathless. Not from his fencing lesson -- preparation for a stage performance of Cyrano de Bergerac -- but out of anger.

"What is happening to our cultural landscape?" fumes the 55-year-old, one of Germany's best-known character actors.

"Europe was different . . . exactly because we had theatres in every town, the best art collections, a sense of history and performance. And now what? We're shutting it all down to save the equivalent of a kid's pocket money!"

Thanks to Issi Freeth-Hale for sending this on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9OCS08rabE

Just in from e-artnow:

ART–y-CHOK-e brings you the latest news in the European art scene

http://artycok.tv

30 Mar | DRAWING AS THINKING | Bratislava
29 Mar | WHO SHAPES WHAT | London
28 Mar | NAMING | Video Art
27 Mar | THE SILENT FILM FESTIVAL | Cracow

Since 2005 Artyčok.TV (ART–y-CHOK-e or artichoke) has been reporting from the art scene in Central Europe: Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Moldavia and also from the United Kingdom.

Cool story from Art Daily.

LONDON.- The EyeWriter (http://www.eyewriter.org/) has Friday 12 March 2010, been chosen as the winner of the first FutureEverything Award, a £10,000 prize set up by FutureEverything to celebrate the creative imagination that will shape our future.

The EyeWriter is a pair of low-cost eye-tracking glasses that allow artists and graffiti writers with paralysis to draw using only their eyes. Inspired by Tony Quan, a graffiti writer, social activist and publisher who was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (AML) in 2003, The EyeWriter is the result of a collaboration with five other artists and a production company. It is an ongoing project to empower people suffering from degenerative neuromuscular diseases with creative technologies.

THIS IS SO COOL!

Listen to the sounds of London.

I don't mean just music. Street sounds, all kinds of documentation.

Real everyday life stuff.

http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/

Nice article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wallace-shawn/life-as-an-artist_b_279558.html

Several years ago I stopped into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood to visit a friend who had unexpectedly landed there for an emergency procedure. Cedars had a well-known program of installing actual art in patients' rooms, rather than bland designer graphics or cheap reproductions. My friend was a well-respected museum curator and critic, so I was especially puzzled to encounter an ordinary scarf unceremoniously taped to the wall opposite her bed.

"What's that?" I asked.

"My scarf," she moaned. "Underneath is the ugliest watercolor I've ever seen. It's making me sick."

From a bike's perspective, riding around the Leideseplein area.

Looks interesting:

subvision. kunst. festival. off.

Festival for International Contemporary Art

August 26 - September 6, 2009

subvision. kunst. festival. off.
Strandkai, HafenCity
Hamburg, Germany
info@subvision-hamburg.de

http://www.subvision-hamburg.de

Opening: August 26, 2009, 7 pm

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106645373

This is a great ongoing series on National Public Radio right now about how artists make a living. They've interviewed artists of all kinds - poets, dancers, writers, musicians, performers, and more. I'm really enjoying it.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106645373