Art Metropole

05 Apr. 2019

Launch - Jahresring #65 / Fogo Island Arts

Time

7-8pm

Art Metropole (158 Sterling Rd., in the MOCA)
April 5, 2019
7:00-8:00pm
Nicolaus Schafhausen in conversation with Kitty Scott at 7:30

Fogo Island Arts (FIA) is pleased to announce the 2019 publication of the 65th Jahresring: What do we know? What do we have? What do we miss? What do we love?

Place-based projects around the world are drawing increasing attention to the pillars of art, design, and economics as important players in the development and re-development of the so-called periphery. This publication poses the question: how plausible and effective are these ventures?

This year’s Jahresring is locally specific: Fogo Island, an island of approximately 2,500 inhabitants located off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A centuries-old cod fishing settlement, the community’s livelihood was nearly decimated in the mid-twentieth century due to industrial overfishing. The island is now experiencing profound social, economic, and cultural transformation, due in part to a recent series of art, social business, and asset-based community development initiatives. Now, Fogo Island stands as an example of the potential (but also the contradictions) of contemporary alliances between art, design, and social entrepreneurship.

What do we know? What do we have? What do we miss? What do we love? includes critical texts by Fabrizio Gallanti, Bruce Mau, Alexandra McIntosh, Chantal Pontbriand, Nicolaus Schafhausen and Monika Szewczyk; conversations between Zita Cobb and Liam Gillick; Brigitte Oetker, Helke Bayrle and Thomas Bayrle; Silke Otto-Knapp and Janice Kerbel; Willem de Rooij and Kitty Scott; Todd Saunders and Roger Bundschuh; and is lavishly illustrated with an array of color photography, installation views and images of artist’s works.

Please join us to extend the ideas of this book into conversation. 

Fogo Island Arts (FIA) is a residency-based contemporary art venue for artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, curators, designers, and thinkers from around the world. Since 2008, FIA has brought some of the most exciting emerging and renowned artists of today to Fogo Island, Newfoundland, wto take part in residencies and to present solo exhibitions at the Fogo Island Gallery. FIA also presents programs in cities across Canada and abroad, including the Fogo Island Dialogues interdisciplinary conversation series, as part of its international outreach. FIA is an initiative of Shorefast, a registered Canadian charity with the mission to build economic and cultural resilience on Fogo Island.

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