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Volume 2 Issue2 a publication dedicated to contemporary art Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten &Akademie Schloss Solitude&FutureAcademy& FinnishAcademyof FineArts &Gothenburg University & TheSchooloftheArt InstituteofChicago & MikaHannula & JamesElkins & ClémentineDeliss &BruceLaBruce & muchmore... Contributors Sotirios Bahtsetzis is an art historian, include Artists’ Statements and the Asma Kazmi is a performance art critic and independent curator, based Nature of Artistic Inquiry (Open Letter, artist and a sculptor. Her most recent in Athens. He has curated the Open Plan 2007); The Small Cities Book: On the work includes a performance/textual 2007, the first international curatorial Cultural Future of Small Cities (New Star, comparison called Translation of a project of the Athens art fair, Art Athina 2005), Proximities: Artists’ Statements Conversation with My Mother, 2007 and Boot Print 2007, Greece and the exhibition An and Their Works (Kamloops Art Gallery, a three-channel video installation called Outing (2006) the first major exhibition 2005), Relocating the Homeless Mind: In Common, 2007. Asma Kazmi received A biannual publication dedicated on contemporary young Greek art. Since Memory, Landscape, the Small City and a BFA from Massachusetts College of to contemporary art 2002 he has been teaching art history Rural Community (Comox Valley Art Art and an MFA from The School of the and visual culture in the Sir John Cass Gallery, 2004), The Homeless Mind: An Art Institute of Chicago. In May 2007 December 2008 Department of Art, Media and Design Exploration Through Memory Mapping Asma Kazmi received the At the Edge: VOL 2 / ISSUE 2 at the London Metropolita n University, (Bookworks Press, 2003), PhotoGraphic Innovative Art in Chicago Award, given UK, the Architecture Department Encounters: The Edges and Edginess by the Univesity of Illinois in Chicago. Georgia Kotretsos of Patras University, Greece and the of Reading Prose Pictures and Visual Kazmi has performed and exhibited in Athens, Greece Architecture Department of University Fictions (U of Alberta Press, 2000), and Boston, New york, Chicago, and Puerto Founder / Editor-in-chief of Thessalia, Greece. His PhD thesis in Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacies Rico. She has been a part of the Boston history of modern and contemporary (Inkshed Publications, U of Manitoba, Underground Film Festival, Balagan Timothy Ridlen art (at the Technical University of Berlin) 1996). With Rachel Nash, he organized Film and Video Series, Women in Film & Chicago, IL, United States researches the history of installation and directed an international workshop Video/New England and the MassArt Film Senior Editor art. His research interests include on Artistic Inquiry and the Role of the Artist Society. She has taught at the Dorchester post-cinematic representation and in Academe (SSHRC Workshop, 2005), Community Center for the Visual Arts Juan William Chávez space, gender theories and critique held in conjunction with two exhibitions, in Boston and The School of the Art St. Louis, MO, United States of curatorial practice. He is a member Proximities and The Courthouse Project; Institute of Chicago. Asma Kazmi was Creative Advisor of IKT (International Association of his critical/creative work has led more born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. Curators of Contemporary Art) and recently to his own role as a contributing Elizabeth Wolfson artist to Witness Marks: Exploring the St. Louis, MO, United States AICA (International Association of Art is a practicing Exotic Close to Home (2006) at the Art Virginia MacKenny Editorial Assistant Critics). artist and Senior Lecturer in Painting Gallery of Greater Victoria. at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at Juozas Cernius Andries Botha lives and works in the University of Cape Town. She has Elpida Karaba is a curator, writer New York, NY, United States Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It received a number of awards including Proof-reading is from this place of familiarity that he and researcher. She studied at the the Volkskas Atelier Award (1991) and finds it possible to be creative. Graduating University of Athens, Department of the Ampersand Fellowship in New York Philosophy. She received her Master Bryan Reckamp from the University of Natal in the (2004). She is an independent critic and San Franscisco, CA 1970¹s, he won several awards including degree at the City University, London curator. In 2006 she co-curated with Gabi in Arts Theory and Criticism. She has United States the Volkskas Atelier Merit Award in Ngcobo Second to None an exhibition Layout/Design 1987, the Cape Town Triennial Merit followed the post-graduate seminars of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Award (1988) and the Standard Bank Creative Curating in Goldsmiths College, 1956 Women’s March on Pretoria to London. At the moment she is a PhD Special thanks for their input and ideas for Young Artist Award (1990) and the protest the pass laws, for Iziko South Boot Print Volume 2 / Issue 2 go to: National Vita Art Award (1992). He candidate at the University of Patras, African National Gallery. A previous Department of Architecture. Since has exhibited widely internationally and KZN editor for www.artthrob.co.za, Sotirios Bahtsetzis most recently was commissioned for 1999 she works in education teaching she also supports contemporary visual History of Contemporary Art and Art Athens, Greece the Beaufort Triennale in 2006, also arts discourse in South Africa by writing Curator exhibiting in Brittany and in the Canary Theory. Between 2005 and 2007 she for Art South Africa and was an invited has worked as a researcher for the Islands during 2008. Lecturing at the writer for Sophie Perryer’s 10 Years 100 Beate Engl Durban University of Technology since European Program Pythagoras II for Artists – Art in a Democratic South Africa A.S.F.A (Athens School of Fine Arts). Munich, Germany 1982, he has consistently championed (2004). In 2006 she presented papers Artist the visual arts in the community with the She has published the books: Feedback, at conferences in Mumbai and Paris on ideas that inform, construct and concern founding and chairing of the Community aspects of South African contemporary Dana Turkovic Arts Workshop (1984-6), His continued the production of exhibitions and events art production. In 2007 she was a national (co-editor Nayia Yiakoumaki), Mute, St. Louis, MO, United States commitment to this process is now selector for Spier Contemporary. Curator evident in his NGO Create Africa South 2008, Exercising Idiorrythmy, on the occasion of Vangelis Vlahos and Zafos Trust (since 2002) and the Amazwi is a visual artist Xagoraris’ participation in the 27th Sao Adelheid Mers Abesifazane Trust (registered in 2008). living in Chicago. Born in Düsseldorf, Paoulo Biennial, (co-editors The Reading Publisher Germany, she graduated with an MFA Group), Futura, 2007, 9+1 un-realized Boots Contemporary Art Space, Inc. is an arist and from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She Danyel M. Ferrari projects. Issues of curating, Futura, Copyright © 2008 writer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. moved to Chicago with a stipend from 2005. Other scientific publications Boots Contemporary Art Space, Inc. She completed her BFA in Sculpture and the German Academic Exchange Service include: E. Karaba, P. Kosmadaki, Sotiris All rights reserved BA in Visual and Critical Studies at The to attended the University of Chicago, Bahtsetzis, “The work of women artists School of the Art Institute of Chicago. has exhibited and lectured widely, (1980-2004) in the greek art field”, For submissions and ad opportunities She is currently at work on a film curated and co-organized exhibitions, International Symposium, Women and contact Georgia Kotretsos at: project with a group of historical war re- and received grants from the DAAD, Museums. Reality and Representation, [email protected] enactors in Los Angeles and will begin the British Council, the NEA , the IAC, University of Thessaloniki and the her graduate studies in Visual Culture at the SAIC and the City of Chicago. She Macedonian Museum, 2008. E. Karaba, NYU’s Stienhardt School under Nicholas is an Associate Professor in the Arts P. Kosmadaki, K. Stafylakis, “Dealing with Boots Contemporary Art Space Mirzoeff. Administration and Policy program of the gender in the artistic practice of greek 2307 Cherokee St. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, women artists. From the 20th to the 21st St Louis, MO 63118 where she also teaches in the Art Laura Fried currently serves as the century”. Conference of Art Historians, United States History and Criticism, Visual and Critical Assistant Curator at Contemporary University of Thessaloniki. “Public Art Studies, and Sculpture Departments. Art Museum St. Louis. As a co-curator of relational type, the curator in search Juan William Chávez She serves on the editorial board of of the The Front Room and Main of theory”, International Symposium on St. Louis, MO, United States WhiteWalls and on the curatorial board Galleries exhibitions, Laura Fried is Contemporary Art and Public Space. AICA Director for ThreeWals Solo. also responsible for overseeing a HELLAS, Goethe Institute, Athens, number of ongoing programs at the 2005. Selected exhibitions and projects: Bryan Reckamp Contemporary, including Great Rivers Feedback project, on going since 2003 Machi Pesmatzoglou is an architect, Saint Louis, MO / San Franscisco, CA, Biennial, Flat Files, and the Emerson (co-curated with Nayia Yiakoumaki), running TinT contemporary