PrimacyofChange#1

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION!

Zebrart is giving a call for registration and participation for Primacy of change#1 to the Zebrart artists. The Primacy of Change#1 project is aimed to gather artists who are concerned by a practice of art which could create a social change. The social change would be a change in their own life but also or indeed in their production. Creating a platform of collaboration with guest artists from abroad and from belgium, the Primacy of Change is proposing a meeting and discussions around this problematic of an art practice which is taking a political form. Do you think art could lead a social change ? following some tools of reflexion given by authors, artists and theoretician, we will set a round table to talk about these issues. This project is initiated by Melika Ngombe Kolongo and Nicky Miller with the support of Zebrart.

The participants has to submit a project or present an idea/questions which they would like to develop during the meeting. New or existing projects are discussed and are accepted. The project or ideas could be Individual or collective.

On the 12th september, 6pm a first meeting is organized to inform the artists from Zebrart.

Nicky Miller is a french artist based in Brussels who is working in the fields of performing arts and visual arts. She studied Law in Paris and then contemporary dance in Europe and Us and after having worked with choreographers. In 2008 she started a training for performing Arts in Antwerpen (Apass research or APT) based on self education. As a visual artist she started her own research on archive and she developed a practice named the witness archive involving different artists ( Foam Lab in antwerpen), she collaborated with visual artists and collective groups : with Thierry Geoffroy for Emergency Room and Biennalist ( Paris , Naples, Venice 20092010). Marta Orlando for I survive, he/she/it survives, we survive, they survive a project based on Yona Friedmans book the architecture of survival. Recently she initiates a SoundLab for artists in Brussels together with Dianne Weller. Her main practice nowadays is a project including videos outside of a book written by the american author Gertrude Stein To Do www.nickymiller.com

Melika Ngombe Kolongo is a Photographer and is doing a Master Degree in Multi Media Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. Currently she is doing an internship at Zebrart vzw. It is part of her research for her Thesis about Art, Politics and Social Change. http://melikangombe.tumblr.com/ contact : Melika Ngombe Kolongo melikangombe@gmail.com ZebrArt vzw With support of the Flemish community, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the Federal Impulse fund for the Migration policy.

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