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Video from the conference is now online http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=UrbanAge
Just click on the link to the Tate website below:
http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/webcasts/helio_oiticica/default.jsp
This symposium has been organised in anticipation of the forthcoming exhibition Helio Oiticica: The Body of Colour. It will explore the findings of new research into Oiticica’s artistic practice and the issues raised by this major exhibition.The sessions will also examine Oiticica’s life and his legacy, in particular with regards to his participatory practice which continues to influence contemporary art.
Supported by Ministério da Cultura do Brasil and University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA)
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I came across this exhibition in the ever necessary www.artupdate.com. Details from press release below:
HÉLIO OITICICA & NEVILLE D’ALMEIDA
Cosmococa Programa in Progress – Quasi-Cinema CC1 Trashiscapes
Until 7th July
Alison Jacques Gallery is delighted to present Cosmococa Programa in Progress – Quasi-Cinema CC1 Trashiscapes, a participatory installation of slides, sound and objects by the key Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980), in collaboration with the filmmaker Neville D’Almeida (1941–). A series of photographs from CC1 Trashiscapes will also be exhibited alongside the installation in the second space of the gallery. This exhibition is timed to coincide with a retrospective of Oiticica’s earlier work (until 1970), Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Colour, opening at Tate Modern on June 6.
Other English speakers include: Mario Garcia, Louis Rosetto, John Groves, Jim Bell, Neville Brody & Kalle Lash.
