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Articles

Rob Antle. Soul Revival. Progress Media.  http://www.progressmedia.ca/article/2009/11/soul-revival. Accessed 28 November 2011.

Architonic. Fogo Island Artists Studios (The Long Studio).  http://www.architonic.com/aisht/fogo-island-artists-studios-the-long-studio-saunders-architecture/5100998. Accessed 29 November 2011.

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. Building Economic Strength, Fogo Island-style. http://www.acoa-apeca.gc.ca/eng/Pages/FogoIsland.aspx?ProgramID. Accessed 29 November 2011.

Canada Newswire. Fogo Island Arts Corporation Receives Donation from Scotiabank. http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/900779/fogo-island-arts-corporation-receives-donation-from-scotiabank. Accessed January 1, 2012.

CBC Radio. WAM June 18-19 Fogo Island Arts Corporation. http://www.cbc.ca/wam/episodes/2011/06/19/wam-june-18-19-fogo-island-arts-corporation/. Accessed 28 November 2011.

Mason Journal. Interview with architect Todd Saunders: Fogo Island Arts Corporation studios. http://www.mason-studio.com/journal/2011/11/interview-with-architect-todd-saunders-fogo-island-arts-corporation-studios/. Accessed 28 November 2011.

Tim McKeough. How Multimillionaire Zita Cobb Plans to Turn a Tiny Canadian Island Into an Arts Mecca. Fast Company.  http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/151/rock-star.html. Accessed 28 November 2011.

NAC English Theatre. The Ark: Ibsen on Fogo Island. http://www2.nac-cna.ca/en/englishtheatre/development. Accessed 29 November 2011.

The Pilot. The Ark.  http://www.lportepilot.ca/Entertainment/2011-09-22/article-2755493/The-Ark/1. Accessed 28 November 2011.

Intimidades de Shakespeare Y Victor Hugo

re∙mode live stream

Live stream at http://twitcasting.tv/fogoartscorp/show/

Fogo Island Arts Corporation is a contemporary arts experiment on Fogo Island and Change Islands.  The Arts Corp takes a leading role in regenerating the islands by delivering an integrated strategy incorporating the arts, geo tourism and social enterprise.  The Arts Corp sees arts and creativity as powerful means of stimulating and enhancing a resilient social ecosystem, while working as an integral partner of other approaches.  All of the Arts Corporation’s programs interact at every level and progress in close dialogue with each other and a diversity of partners and collaborators.  Each focuses on themes inspired by Fogo Island’s and Change Islands’ unique place and people while reaching out beyond the islands to mainland Canada and internationally.  The Arts Corporation seeks out, initiates, develops and directs a spectrum of collaborative, interdependent processes which draw together, engage and create benefits for the widest range of parties on an equal footing – from visiting to local artists, local people to ‘strangers’, island-based to foreign entrepreneurs, local fishermen to environmentalists; making use of Arts Corp’s assets, including its studios, project spaces, diversity of media and staff.  Arts Corp activities have two intertwined strands – an international Residency Program and a Production Program, both of which engage with locally inspired as well as trans-national processes.

Opening of 3 New Studios

The Residency Program celebrates the opening of three studios on June 23rd

The Fogo Island Arts Corporation opens three new studios; the Squish Studio in Tilting, The Bridge Studio in Deep Bay and Tower Studio in Shoal Bay, in conjunction with the Production Program’s Re⋅mode Conference, June 23-25th.

re∙mode control – rethinking the idea of remote

This coming summer the Arts Corporation is organizing a two-day international colloquium to take place on Fogo Island on June 24th  and 25th.  The colloquium will focus on the idea of the ‘remote’, primarily as it relates to the creation, presentation and reception of contemporary art in non-urban contexts.

In the evening of June 23^rd at 7 pm the opening of three new studios will take place.  The event is open for all. 

The colloquium will traverse the islands with formal and informal discussions happening at all time, also including presentations by artists, fishermen, curators, hunters, critics, laypersons, writers, researchers and thinkers from the province and other parts of Canada, North America, Europe and Asia. These participants will address a wide range of issues related to contemporary art and the creative industries.  The colloquium will greatly encourage participation and engagement from the audience, local residents and ‘strangers’ alike.

Calendar and registration information:

remode control – press release ii 

remode control – calendar iii 

remode control – registration

ArchDaily’s Building of the Year Award

ArchDaily’s Building of the Year Award is now on it’s final selection process.  The Long Studio on Fogo Island by Saunders Architecture is one of the five finalists for the Cultural category.  Until February 13, the community will vote, and on February 15 the winners for each category will be announced.

Link to the Awards: 

http://www.archdaily.com/building-of-the-year/2010/

Link to vote for our project: 

http://www.archdaily.com/boty/95325

Residency Program 2011 – 2012

The first of six studios opened this summer, four more are scheduled to open next spring and the sixth one in the fall of 2011.

Artists, curators and filmmakers invited to take part in our Residency Program 2010 – 2012:

Short-term research residencies to be followed by a longer residency period:

Siddhartha Das – designer/photographer (India)

Oliver Lutz  – artist (US)

Andreas Siqueland – artist (Norway)

Silke Otto-Knapp – artist (Germany/UK)

Zin Taylor – artist (Canada/Belgium)

Kevin Schmidt – artist (Canada)                 

Selma Makela – artist  (UK/Ireland)                     

Janice Kerbel – artist (Canada/UK)                          

Geoffrey Farmer – artist (Canada)                          

Keren Cytter – artist (Israel/UK)                                  

Willem de Rooij – artist (Netherlands)

Results from an Open call for applications for 2011:

Robin Simpson – curator (Canada)

Johan Lundh – curator (Sweden)

Aileen Burns – curator (Canada)

Patrick Staff – artist (Britain)

Hannah Rickards – artist (Britain)

David Kelley – artist/film-maker (US)

Rory Middleton – artist/film-maker (Scotland)

Yulene Olaizola – film-maker (Mexico)

We would like to sincerely thank all of you who sent in applications, places are limited and many worthy projects can therefore not be accepted to the program at this time.  Please stay tuned for other possibilities coming up in the near future.

First visiting artist awarded a residency

Siddhartha Das

First visiting artist awarded a residency by the Fogo Island Arts Corporation

Siddhartha Das began his career as a designer, but his work has since progressed into projects that use a variety of media and blur the lines between the fields of art, design, architecture and crafts.  He describes himself as “a designer who works on projects that impact on societies at large – urban and rural – in India and elsewhere.”

Das was awarded his undergraduate degree in History at University of Delhi before going on to earn a diploma in Exhibition and Museum Design from Domus Academy in Milan, and a degree in Exhibition Design from the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad.

He has designed concepts for museum and other exhibition spaces for clients around the world, including The Red Cross Museum in Geneva, the Museum for Children in Delhi, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In addition, he has worked as a graphic designer on projects ranging from posters for the Aga Khan Foundation and the UN to art books and educational publications.

In 2008, Das won the British Council’s Young Design Entrepreneur Award for his work in creating an enterprise linking traditional craft communities to urban markets. He worked with young stone carvers on developing new business models and sustainable techniques with an eye to ensuring the survival of their ancient craft. The project, he said, “started me down the path to becoming an entrepreneur myself, which is a totally different set of skills. I have since gone on to work with craftspeople from other traditions – wood and lacquer, metal, paper and woven textiles – a total of five crafts. And now I am starting to work with bamboo.”

His entrepreneurial flare is in evidence in a line of branded craft-based products the designer has developed and that are currently available in high-end European museum shops.

Among Das’s many honours are his selection as one of only 36 international participants in the 2009 Interdesign Monterrey workshop in Mexico and a 2009-2010 fellowship from the Japan Foundation in Tokyo for his photography project on the relevance of museums and art / cultural centres as urban cultural spaces.

One of the keys to his work is a high degree of collaboration. ““The most exciting thing about any collaboration is that we all bring our own sensibilities and skill sets to the partnership, which can actually make dealing with problems easier: two people who have a consensual approach are able to come up with solutions better together than either person individually.”

For more information, please visit <www.siddharthadas.com>.