‘Beirut Art Center’s exhibition America is an attempt to question the United States of America a possible model of civilization. What does “America” mean in our collective unconscious?

Certainly, America is a superpower and occupies a predominant position in the world. Its actions and its policies consistently demand that others position themselves in relation to them, whether in agreement, opposition or somewhere in between, stirring as much feelings of fascination and respect as exasperation and resentment.

As this is especially true in our region, where America’s policies and strategies have often been divisive and destabilizing, we believe it is relevant to take a closer look at the physical and mental territory named America through an exhibition and a series of events.’

http://www.beirutartcenter.org/exhibitions.php?exhibid=71&statusid=1#about

‘The Museum of Non Participation raises questions about resistance and the choice and consequence of action vs inaction. The strictures of conflict, class and monetary divisions within a globalised world provoke engagement with the problems of participating or not participating in such a system, whether in Karachi, London or elsewhere; The Museum of Non Participation examines how our lives in one space have implications on the other.’

http://www.artangel.org.uk/projects/2008/the_museum_of_non_participation

Berlin, Jan-March 2009

http://www.embeddedart.de/index.cfm?ln=uk

Artivism: a week of anti-war creativity.
Art, workshops, music and poetry.
Brighton. 24th February-1st March 2009.

www.smashedo.org.uk

Tuesday 24th February:
At the Friends meeting House, Ship Street.  18:00  Anti-war art exhibition and nibbles,  19:00 Poetry, acoustic musicians and the amazing sounds of ‘Just Sing’ political peace choir.

Wednesday 25th-Friday 28th February.
At the Cowley Club, 12 London Road. 12:00- 16:00 Art exhibition and Cafe. Images from the Smash EDO campaign and the world events that inspired the resistance to Brighton’s local bomb makers. Including:
* Guy Smallman, international photojournalist. On-the-ground photography from Israel’s invasion of Lebanon 2006.
* The classic line drawings of John Catt, Veteran anti-war activist.
* Photography by Medyan Dairieh, Al-Jazeera journalist.

Saturday 28th February.
At the Cowley Club, 12 London Road 13:00 Film showing of ‘On the Verge’, the Schnews feature length film of the Smash EDO campaign. The film the police tried to ban!
At the Westhill Community Centre, Compton Avenue (near 7 Dials)
13:00-14:30 Clandestine Rebel Clown army training
15:00-16:30 Radical cheerleading: make pom-poms, write cheers and practice your moves.
16:30-19:30 Carnival creations and mask-making.

Sunday 1st March
At the Albert Pub, Trafalgar Street. 20:00 till late Benefit finale with an array of bands. Please see website for band listings.

3-13 December 2008 info

at the Wellcome Collection link

22 November 2008-15 February 2009

From the site: ‘Entitled Memory of Fire: the War of Images and Images of War, Brighton Photo Biennial 2008 will explore photographic images of war, their making, use and circulation, and their currency in contemporary society.’

http://www.bpb.org.uk/

Robert Capa at Work
Gerda Taro
On the Subject of War

Barbican Art Gallery reflects on conflict and its visual representation.

17 October 2008-25 January 2009 link

from the web page:

Zones of Conflict: Rethinking Contemporary Art During Global Crisis will consider how recent geopolitical crises have impacted visual culture and artistic practice. Comprising four research workshops, the series will assemble an international grouping of interdisciplinary participants—including artists, architects, curators, art historians and cultural theorists—in order to consider pressing questions concerning the intersections between contemporary art and war, statelessness, uneven geographies, and transnational communities. Organized by TJ Demos of UCL’s History of Art Department, the four events will be held in London at four partner institutions: the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), Tate Modern, Tate Britain, and UCL’s History of Art Department (in cooperation with its recently inaugurated Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art). The series is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and will run between October 2008 and February 2009.

microsite.. they say.. ‘Art and design were not peripheral symptoms of politics during the Cold War: they played a central role in representing and sometimes challenging the dominant political and social ideas of the age.’

youtube channel

25 September 2008-11 January 2009