Associação Cultural Videobrasil

For the second straight year, the ICCo – Institute for Contemporary Culture and SP-Arte are awarding artist residency scholarships to two Brazil-based artists participating in the fair. This year, Alexandre Brandão and Bruno Cançado have been selected from among 90 applicants for the selection process.

Bruno Cançado will undergo a period of immersion in the studios of the Cerveira Biennial Foundation, in Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal. Alexandre Brandão, one of the artists shortlisted for the 18th Contemporary Art Festival Videobrasil, which remained open until late January this year at Sesc Pompeia,  will spend two months working at the RU –Residency Unlimited, in New York. The RU and ICco are partners of the Videobrasil Residency Network, and co-sponsor the 18th Festival ICco Residency Prize, which is also taking the artist Virgínia de Medeiros to NY’s Residency Unlimited in the second half this year.

In 2013, Marcia Xavier and Rodrigo Braga were awarded the ICCo Art Scholarship; next Saturday, April 5, at 4:30 pm, they will feature in a panel open to the public at the SP-Arte auditorium. Themed Artist Residency and the Expansion of Space and Time in the Creative Process, the meeting will be mediated by ICCo artistic director Daniel Rangel, and will also feature RU programming director Boshko Boscovic and Solange Farkas, the curator and director-general of Associação Cultural Videobrasil. 

Videobrasil and Edições Sesc SP PUBLICATIONS IN SP-Arte

From April 03 to 06, 2014, in partnership with Edições Sesc SP, Videobrasil will present publications on contemporary art and culture at SP-Arte, sharing space with publications by two other art institutions from the state of São Paulo: the São Paulo State Art Gallery (Pinacoteca) and the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo – MAC/USP.

Visitors at the stand will be able to purchase copies of the nine editions of Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil (an annual printed collection of experimental curating proposals); the BOOKS that build upon the contents of jointly held shows by Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo (such as Joseph Beuys – We Are the Revolution; Your Body of Work: Olafur Eliasson; and Isaac Julien: Geopoetics), the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil CATALOGUES; the FILMS FROM THE VAC – VIDEOBRASIL AUTHORS COLLECTION SERIES; and the first volume from the VB ESSAYS collection, “Expanded Literature – archive and quotation in the work of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,” by Ana Pato. All publications are also available from Sesc São Paulo’s e-shop (http://www.sescsp.org.br/loja).

These publications constitute an important contribution to critical reflection, expanding on contents from Videobrasil’s programming, and fostering multidisciplinary debate on different aspects of current art and culture from myriad perspectives and approaches. 

PANEL: “ARTIST RESIDENCY AND THE EXPANSION OF SPACE AND TIME IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS”

Ft. Marcia Xavier, Rodrigo Braga,  Boshko Boskovic, Solange Farkas & Daniel Rangel (mediator)

April 05, 2014, at 4>30 pm

SP-Arte Auditorium, ground floor of the Biennial Pavilion