Garden Building Competition

Dear Artists and Urban Agriculturalists,

The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit will be exploring a new critical territory in contemporary art: the intersection of farming and art as necessary and related components of culture.

As a part of this 2012 agriculture season the detroit contemporary is presenting a Garden Building Competition. The gardens will be designed and built as permanent installations in the outdoor area of the detroit contemporary where many performances take place. These gardens will also be part of our outdoor classroom for our new urban gardening educational programs.

The components of the competition are as follows:

-Does this garden serve multiple purposes? (for example: it can be used as an alternative performance space as well as a garden) Keep in mind people traffic and how you can make this work with outdoor concerts, plays, etc.

-Are the materials used to build the garden ecological and/or permanent?

The beds will be judged upon the level of creativity, ingenuity, functionality and the above components.

Proposals are due by April 1^st and the winners can begin to build by April 10^th. All garden beds must be complete and planted by May 26^th.

There will be a garden gala and farmer’s exhibition to debut the winners of the competition on May 26^th.

If you are interested, please send proposals that include a description of space needed, plants interested in planting (if any specific), placement in sun or shade, amount of soil needed and any drawings of your proposal. (Please see the aerial map of the CAID attached to this email.)

The detroit contemporary will be providing soil, seeds and plants if necessary. Proposals can include planting bushes, trees, vegetables, and/or flowers, building garden beds, chicken coops, composting containers and any other garden ideas.

Please direct your questions and proposals to kt@detroitcontemporary.com and forward this email to those that may be interested.

Sincerely,
KT Andresky

Director of Agriculture and Exhibitions

detroit contemporary

PAOCALYPSE : APOCALYPSE SHOW

MINIONS during the End of the Apocalypse at the detroit contemporary

February 11th 2012 Closing Exhibition...

Still Life (Your Town Tomorrow) by Michael Williams

Artists Showing from Right to Left:

Andrew Kemp, Minnihaha Foreman, Killmonkeys, and Mary Lou Greene

Artists showing from Left to Right:

Frank Kalinski, Steven Gamburd, and Brian “Weirdartist” Lewandowski

Installation by Dylan Strzynski and Drawings by Daniel Bohman

Artwork from Left to Right:

Diane Irby, Daniel Bohman, Megan Hildebrandt, and Steven Gamburd

Poly Collapse by William R. O'Brian

Sculptures by Tim Péwé, Mary Lou Greene, Daniel Bohman, and MINION

Yes Farmer KT Andresky is curating the detroit contempory, a gallery of the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. Come see the first show POACALYPSE : APOCALYPSE, click to enlarge information below.

POACALYPSE : APOCALYPSE will descend and decrease with loudness into your evening @ detroit contemporary 5141 Rosa Parks Blvd Detroit, MI 48208

The artists showing in the apocalypse show are not just local or national… they’re universal and here to let you know that the Gregorian Calendar’s translation of the Mayan Calendar is 11 months off. Come join the commemoration January 21^st 2012, at 6PM – 11:30PM.

In 2012, the detroit contemporary will act as a place for artists to seek refuge and conduct their own form of arbitrary confinement. Starting with the apocalypse show (as if the apocalypse started here) spectators will arrive expecting to enter into the end of the World then leave feeling like the World just ended… and that is now the beginning.

This new direction of the detroit contemporary will advance the foundation that lies between farm as culture and art as culture. Stay tuned-in to future exhibitions and see how it all happens.

Clearly not all about Detroit, part II.

A series of outsider movies that actually just might….

As an artist in residence for Expodium, the Netherlands, Friso Wiersum has been in Detroit since the end of October. As you can read at the blog www.newstrategiesdmc.blogspot.com he looks in amazement at the attention this town devotes to itself. Not an object producing artist himself he proposes a series of films. Not touching on Detroit directly, the themes in the movies touch upon developments within the city we love. Friso will introduce the movies and themes, and invites you for an evening of food & film, thoughts & talks. Theme sequence: utopia, social welfare, revolt and nostalgia. Free and open to teh public!

Date: 11/29/11
8 pm [doors open 7.30 pm]
Dog tooth [Greece, 2009]. A bizarre fairytale, an utopia turned dystopia. On a family living outside of what others always see as normal. How do you want to see your [forthcoming] kids judging you?

Date: 12/06/11
8 pm [doors open 7.30 pm]
Simon [Netherlands, 2004]. A comedy that deals with themes as euthanasia, homosexuality, friendship, drug use. A semi-critical view on a society in which one is invited to believe one can decide on all aspects of life. What is your life, what is
theirs?

Date: 12/13/11
8 pm [doors open 7.30 pm]
la Haine [France, 1995]. A day in the life of three kids in Paris. It's been a long hot summer already. A movie about inclusion and exclusion, city planning, 'banlieues' and city centres. What city you choose to live in?

Date: 12/20/11
8 pm [doors open 7.30 pm]
Goodbye Lenin [Germany, 2003]. On nostalgia as a survival tool, on rewriting history, and for some laughs on capitalism.

All screenings at the detroit contemporary,
5141 Rosa Parks, Detroit
http://www.detroitcontemporary.com

Expodium, Utrecht
http://expodium.nl/

free entrance

Friso Wiersum Resident Artist From Expodium

Academics
Friso Wiersum graduated at University Utrecht in 2001. During his studies Contemporary History he also took courses in journalism, Russian and philosophy. The studies included an Erasmus programme at the Rheinische Wilhelm Friedrich Universität Bonn, Germany and a Socrates research semester at Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux IV, France. Following his studies he was invited to a historical research in the Bibliothéque National in Paris. From 2001 to 2003 he was an editor of Skript - historical magazine, Amsterdam.

Working career
Friso started his job life at GroenLinks as project assistant International Office. He continued working at Tumult - heading the portfolios ‘Politics’, ‘Architecture & City Planning’. During these years, 2004 – 2010, Friso free lanced in various assignments: from cultural programming the Globalisation festival or producing a series of community events for Partizan Publik to organizing public lectures in the ‘Failed States’ series. From May 2009 onwards Friso is project leader ‘Arts in Conflict’ at the Treaty of Utrecht 2013.

Moderator
Friso Wiersum moderated and hosted debates, presentations and events on cultural policies, international politics, and city planning for amongst others: Balkan Buro, Casco, Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, Expodium, Festival aan de Werf, HKU, Movies that Matter film festival, Netherlands Architecture Institute [Publishers], Prince Claus Funds and Rhizomatic.

Side Facts
Ever since high school Friso was involved in European exchange projects, often focusing on South Eastern Europe. He published some articles. He is a fanatic baseball player. And by the name of dubcovsky he is a dj in Kako Da Ne collective.

Siri Hermansen October 2011 Resident Artist

Siri Hermansen (b. 1969) is a video, photographer and Installation artist, based in Oslo. Recently she has focused her artistic practice on the aftereffects of abrupt social, economical or political changes in society. Chernobyl, the Ai Weiwei village; Caochangdi in Beijing and Pyramiden; a deserted Russian coalmine city in the arctic desert of the Spitsbergen are some of the sites she has explored artistically. Her artistic method resembles a form of shared anthropology where the outcome of the material is unpredictable and is dependent on the interrelations created on location, and the artists personal experience of the place.

She also questions how we deal with the fact that everybody sees and hears from a different perspective, and how this influences the way we comprehend reality. Siri Hermansen has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, The Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Today Artmuseum, Beijing, Moscow Museum of Photography and Tsedeka in Moscow.

Siri Hermansen is curently a research fellow at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo.

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@ THE YES FARM

Camila Botero's most recent work focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment – affected by circumstances imposed on us by this critical moment in time. Her specific interests are high-impact issues such as ecological effects, geopolitics, and territorial affairs. She uses different techniques and materials to explore the multiple perspectives and experiences of what it means to be human in our accelerated, digital age.

Her multidisciplinary work raises questions about the mutability of nature and reality, of genetics and science, and how technology is rapidly and irreversibly changing the world and changing its people.

www.camilabotero.net







Photo by Lev Ilizirov

Chris Meighan (1979) is primarily concerned with the personal relationship which individual people have with society. History is a particularly important element as well as the development of societies from their past dynamic and undeveloped state into the static, superficially free and open society of today. He works with live performance and video.

www.chrismeighan.com

AND

Jonas Ohlsson



Jonas Ohlsson's artwork combines elements from a chaotic collection of cultural, popular and personal references, using drawing, sculpture, installation, text and music (often within the same show) to create symphonies with multi-layered meanings. His background as an Electro musician seeps into his artistic process as, like a DJ, Olhsson uses the instinctual qualities of free-association and a working knowledge of the public to spin his messages and mediums together into visual rhythms that leave the viewer hot and sweaty and begging for more.

"The work develops itself; I can’t plan it. I can have a basic idea of where I want a drawing to go, but it’s like a football game: you can plan all you want, but when the game is on things happens by themselves."

For examples of Jonas' work, click HERE

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