Visual Foreign Correspondents #2

18 Dec 2007
14 Jan 2008

In collaboration with The Globalised Crystal Ball we are proud to announce the second issue of Visual Foreign Correspondents. VFC is an independent platform in which 11 distinguished artists from around the world are invited each month to give their personal visual commentary on events and situations from their locally situated perspective. Their works especially created for urban screens and online platforms. This project will give people in the streets of Amsterdam a brief window into other regions, peoples and other kinds of imagination.

he work will be launched during the seminar event of the Globalised Crystal Ball in the conference space. An introduction to the work will be given, making a connection to the seminar and the ideas of the artist.

Independent from the seminar the work will then feature on the urban screen outside the 'Balie' every night for a month, on the The Contemporary Art Screen, at the Zuidas and in 11-Reatuarant Bar Club in Amsterdam.

The screens will be in relationship to a specially designed website and 'Oog'. The VFC website will show the work and contextualize it with political, social and cultural background information. Furthermore it will give information about the project and a possibility for the audience to interact.