The Power of Culture

The bi-annual member meeting of the worldwide network of artist-in-residence centres, Res Artis, will be held in August of 2004. The theme is the role of the South or ‘the periphery’ in the global art world.

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The Indonesian filmmaker Lulu Ratna is in the Netherlands for the exhibition Indonesia under Construction, which will run from 29 June to 22 August 2004 in Witte de With, Rotterdam. She will be describing the state of affairs in the Indonesian film world and her film promotion company Boemboe.

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How do the new media influence contemporary Moroccan art? And how can this art play a part in social change in this society? These questions were the starting point for the Media Art Workshop, held from 12 to 24 April 2004 in the Institut Français in Agadir, Morocco.

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In May 2004 the sixth biennial for contemporary African art, 'Dak'Art', will commence in Dakar, Senegal. This event has become an important stage for African art.

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With the exhibition 'Cabin Baggage', artists protested against the reappearance of discrimination after the attacks of September 11 th , 2001 during the World Social Forum in India in January.

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