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Smart Project Space Amsterdam invitation to the L3 Show by Berlin Based Danish Artist Tommy Støckel
Invitation to Galerie 23 by A.J. Guzman / Siri Driessen & Raul Balai
The State of L3 flyers by artist/graphic designer Claudia Doms are ready and out of the bakery to roll the streets of Amsterdam.
The State of L3 announces participation in the OFF program of the Dak’Art Biennal of Contemporary African Art 2010 in Dakar, Senegal. Since 1992, Dak’Art is a platform for contemporary art with cultural roots in Africa.
The transatlantic multimedia installation of the collective will be presented in May 2010 in the Dakar Biennale “Dakart”.
In collaboration with Ousseynou Wade, Secretaire General de la Dakar Biennale Art Contemporain.
State of L3 Presents The Day We Surrender to Air.
After the huge success of the Amsterdam International Documentary Festival IDFA, A.J. Guzman’s “Surrender trilogy” was shown at the legendary Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, Greece and at The 8th International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris in March 2010
The 8ème Festival International Signes de Nuit in Paris, France is presenting over thirteen days universal oriented selections of recent films and audiovisual works mainly independent filmmakers and artists. The aim of the festival selection has not changed: showing strange films touching human living condition and situations in the actual societies, with a preference of particular cultural spaces. There are two types of globalisation: the “one culture” option intrudes by the economical fittest and the other one of joyful affirmation of incomparableness, multiculturalism, differences and cultural complexities, marked by permanent approaches and dissociations. Signes de Nuit is working with these struggles for another way to be.
10th Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival
The TDF is a leading European Documentary Festival. Its main thematic sections are: Recordings of Memory, Portraits-Human Journeys, Stories to Tell, Habitat, Planet in Peril, Music, Views of the World, Greek Panorama. Through its tributes and retrospectives, the TDF focuses on filmmakers with unique cinematic voices, internationally renowned for their contribution to the documentary genre.
The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam IDFA
“The Day We Surrender to the Air Episode one” Premiere at the IDFA Paradocs in November 2009, The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, IDFA Paradocs is a program where the ‘periphery’ of the documentary genre takes centre stage. It showcases what is going on beyond the frame of traditional documentary filmmaking, on the borders between film and art, truth and fiction and narrative and design.
The State of L3 is calling for submissions!
State of L3 is a community site where users can contribute content to the L3 archive. The community is open to everyone, regardless of religion, nationality, age and gender. All submissions uploaded to the site are considered submissions for the purpose of being published. We’ll contact you before publishing anything, but keep in mind any information (or lack of information) included in the submissions or on your profile could make it into the archive.
General Guidelines:
- Don’t plagiarize
Pretty simple concept here: if you didn’t create the content, don’t take credit for it.
- Be Tasteful
At L3 we’re all for creative experimentation, but it’s up to you, as a part of this creative community, to help maintain standards for quality and thoughtfulness.
Things & ideas that we are interested in:
* The aesthetics of the everyday (food, clothing, sounds, music, signs, words, holidays, letters, family albums, postcards) that become signs which we can read to track the experiences and transformations of migration, exile, relocation, and the transmission of memories, pain, stories and contestation down generations.
* The aesthetics of the transformation of ideas and intellectual traditions when they migrate with peoples forced to change location.
* The aesthetics of difference, of otherness that can either be held at a distance as foreign, alien, invasive, or embraced as transformative, necessary, invigorating and productive.
