FIT TIP
our good friend Miami-based artist Steven Gagnon who is driving his BORDER CRUISER, a mobile video installation in a former police car, during the week of ArtBasel Miami Beach.
The video sculpture is the fourth project in an ever expanding body of work and marks the first that maintains the full functionality of the automobile while the videos are playing. The artwork's intent is to heighten public awareness of the dangers and hardships that immigrants face who enter the country illegally to find work.
The mobile sculpture was shown earlier this year in Houston for Fotofest, the city's international photo and video biennial. It was also well received at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and garnered much press.
During ArtBasel Miami Beach the BORDER CRUISER will patrol the streets all around Miami Beach and Miami´s Wynwood District from sunset to midnight.
www.stevengagnon.com
13.11.08
Dear friends of the FIT,
this years program is over.
we like to thank everybody who helped us to make our work possible !
proposal for 2009 are welcome.
'Art Swap Europe'
Artist-run initiatives and project spaces initiated by artists play an important role alongside the established art market. A large number of such artist initiatives and networks are already cooperating with one another in various ways throughout Europe.
On 11 and 12 October 2008, Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) will host an open forum for presentations of concepts and spaces, for discussions and face-to-face meetings. About 80 project and exhibition spaces will be presented at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin-Tiergarten, am Hanseatenweg) in an exhibition by means of display boards, photographs, catalogues, leaflets and other information material. We are also expecting the presence of many initiators for conversations and a series of lectures.
The programme together with information is available at www.artswap-europe.eu
Artist-run initiatives and project spaces initiated by artists play an important role alongside the established art market. A large number of such artist initiatives and networks are already cooperating with one another in various ways throughout Europe.
On 11 and 12 October 2008, Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) will host an open forum for presentations of concepts and spaces, for discussions and face-to-face meetings. About 80 project and exhibition spaces will be presented at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin-Tiergarten, am Hanseatenweg) in an exhibition by means of display boards, photographs, catalogues, leaflets and other information material. We are also expecting the presence of many initiators for conversations and a series of lectures.
The programme together with information is available at www.artswap-europe.eu
STICKERAWARD 2008
Friday, the 3rd october we are celebreting a day of the International Sticker
and create an Intervention Memorial: we will wrap the FIT Gallery in Berlin –
Freie Internationale Tankstelle (Schwedter Str. 262, Prenzlauer Berg) in a spectacular mass performance with stickers. And YOU are the mass performing! Our annual Sticker Awards Exhibition will consist this year of two parts in order to allow us a little more dynamic graphical discussion: one is curated and shows selected works and the winners of this year – and the other part will take place on the surface of the gallery and is open to all street artists during the exhibition.
Hence: Let´s stick together! Drop by, bring your sticky artworks and glue with us – starting from the 29th september the FIT will change into a free and temporary gallery! And for the vernissage there will also be the awardshow with the presentation of the winner of the Sticker Awards 2008! Besides: a lecture and debate with Street-Art-Collector and curator Rik Reinking, Videoart, Music, Party, Drinks – and above all stickers, stickers and more stickers! Stick by and see you soon, your Sticker Awards-Collective , www.stickma.de, www.rebelart.net
The Winner Thomas Judisch and his work "Gratisprobe"
Freie Internationale Tankstelle (Schwedter Str. 262, Prenzlauer Berg) in a spectacular mass performance with stickers. And YOU are the mass performing! Our annual Sticker Awards Exhibition will consist this year of two parts in order to allow us a little more dynamic graphical discussion: one is curated and shows selected works and the winners of this year – and the other part will take place on the surface of the gallery and is open to all street artists during the exhibition.
Hence: Let´s stick together! Drop by, bring your sticky artworks and glue with us – starting from the 29th september the FIT will change into a free and temporary gallery! And for the vernissage there will also be the awardshow with the presentation of the winner of the Sticker Awards 2008! Besides: a lecture and debate with Street-Art-Collector and curator Rik Reinking, Videoart, Music, Party, Drinks – and above all stickers, stickers and more stickers! Stick by and see you soon, your Sticker Awards-Collective , www.stickma.de, www.rebelart.net
The Winner Thomas Judisch and his work "Gratisprobe"