#briclab

[hilite-head]

Platteforum & the show that never was

[ryanmuir]

Photos from Martha Redbone & Aaron Whitby: Daughter of the Hills (working title) at the BRIC Labs. © Ryan Muir

[smackmellon]

BRIClab Residency

BRIClab is a commissioning and residency development program for New York City-based artists to explore and expand the possibilities of their work in music, dance, theater, and multidisciplinary performance. Free and open exploration and intentional commitment to process—with the support of the staff and resources that BRIC offers—are at the heart of the BRIClab program. Artists receive stipends and an intensive residency in BRIC's Artist Studio with development time, opportunities for artistic mentoring, and work-in-process performances.

Applications are now open for the 2019-2020 Season. Deadline to apply is February 7, 2019. See below for requirements and information about the application process. Details subject to change.

Artists receive:

Exclusive use of the BRIC House Artist Studio for 10-12 days (10am – 10pm)

Artist stipend of $1750

Additional $200 for Creative Advisor honorarium

Technical support from BRIC’s production staff

Two work-in-progress showings, determined by BRIC (usually Thursday & Friday evening in the 2nd week of the residency), followed by artist/audience dialogues

Photographic and video documentation of showings

INFORMATION SESSIONS

Information sessions are not required, but are an opportunity to speak directly with program staff and to see the Artist Studio space.

Upcoming information session dates are included below:

MON, JAN 7, 3–4:30PM

MON, JAN 14, 6:30–8PM

THU, JAN 17, 10:30AM–12PM

Please RSVP to these sessions HERE. All information sessions will be held at BRIC House, 647 Fulton St., Downtown Brooklyn.

SELECTION CRITERIA

BRIClab is for Brooklyn or New York City based artists who:

Are developing new work that is relevant to diverse Brooklyn audiences

Are exploring their interests and questions with thoughtful processes and can articulate a context for their work

Are excited by the opportunity to share their work with the public and who embrace dialogue with audiences as a meaningful part of their process

Can articulate (for multi-disciplinary work) an understanding or purposeful examination of how the various disciplines will interact and serve the whole

Across the season of BRIClab residencies we look for diversity and/or resonance in:  

racial and cultural perspective

discipline (dance, theater, music, multi-discipline)

method/practice (collaboratively developed, solo work, heavily researched, more or less embodied, etc.)

place in career (emerging, mid-career, and established)

Projects will be chosen through an internal curatorial review.

Past BRIClab artists include:  Built for Collapse, Stephanie Fleischmann & Saskia Lane, James Harrison Monaco & Jerome Ellis, Liza Jessie Peterson, Kyoung Park, Emily Chadick Weiss, Mario Correa, Phillip Howze, a canary torsi, Same As Sister, Amy Evans, Cori Olinghouse, Okwui Okpokwasili, Dean Moss, Anna Moench, Tectonic Theater Project, Nora York, Jacinta Vlach, Roy Nathanson & The Jazz Passengers, David Neumann/advanced beginner group, Yara Travieso, The Debate Society, Samita Sinha, Stew.

Recent projects developed with BRIClab support have gone on to presentations at venues including: BAM, NYTW, The Invisible Dog, Abrons Art Center, The Kitchen, REDCAT (LA), Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Theater Alliance, FABNYC, New York Live Arts, PS122.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply for a BRIClab residency, please fill out and submit the Application Form online at SlideRoom at www.bric.slideroom.com.

Applications require a project description, artist bio(s), and work samples

Applicants will be required to cover online application fees. A completed submission including work samples is $5.

For more information, visit: https://www.bricartsmedia.org/artist-opportunities/residencies/briclab-residency

[davidandrako]

Rob Reddy & Oliver Lake INTERRUPTION! (work-in-progress) - BRIClab - 04/12/17 - Brooklyn

Photos by David Andrako for BRIC

[skowhegan]

Zachary Fabri (A '13), Danny Greenberg (A '18), Macon Reed (A '16) BRIClab: Video Art Public Screening 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 May 12 at 7:00-9:00 pm EST

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Stabbing of leading Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro could reshape race

The stabbing of a leading Brazilian presidential candidate jolted an already wildly unpredictable campaign to lead Latin America's largest nation, with doctors saying Friday that Jair Bolsonaro will be hospitalized for at least a week.

Supporters of the far-right congressman who wants to crack down on crime said the attack would only boost his chances in next month's election, but it was unclear when he would be able to return to campaigning in person.

A knife-wielding man whose motive was unknown stabbed Bolsonaro during a rally Thursday in Juiz de Fora, a city about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of Rio de Janeiro, as he was being carried on the shoulders of a supporter.

Bolsonaro, 63, suffered intestinal damage and serious internal bleeding, according to Dr. Luiz Henrique Borsato, one of the surgeons who operated on the candidate. He was in serious but stable condition and would remain in intensive care for seven to 10 days, Borsato said.

The attack is likely to have a major impact on the remaining four weeks of the campaign, from how candidates interact with supporters to their message.

For Bolsonaro, there will be questions about his physical ability to campaign — a key factor in a country slightly larger than the continental United States — as well as whether the attack will give him a boost among voters.

"He probably won't go back to the streets during this campaign, so he can't do it, but we can," his son, Flavio, said in a video posted on Facebook. "More than ever I count with each one of you."

Bolsonaro's vice presidential running mate, retired Gen. Hamilton Mourao, told reporters that the candidate will "come out of this process stronger than he went in."

After more than four years of revelations of widespread political corruption, anger is running high.

Despite being a congressman since 1991, Bolsonaro has harnessed much of the anger and presented himself as a maverick who will clean up a corrupt system. He also promises to confront a surge in crime, in part by giving police a freer hand to shoot and kill while on duty. He has promised to fill his government with current and former military leaders.

It was not the first incident of political violence this year. In March, while da Silva was campaigning in southern Brazil before his imprisonment, gunshots hit buses in his caravan, although no one was hurt. That same month, Marielle Franco, a councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro, was shot to death along with her driver.

"The campaign will become much more emotional than it already was," said Marcos Troyjo, co-director of the BRICLab at Columbia University. "Ideas will take a back seat."

Continue reading.

[tommykha]

2021 BRIClab Contemporary Art Residency

Rejection Letter.

[healingtheblackbody]

Spell Artist: Maria Bauman-Morales

Maria Bauman-Morales (she, hers) is a Bessie-Award-winning, Brooklyn, NY-based, multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer from Jacksonville, FL. Bauman-Morales is also a sought-after facilitator and public speaker on the topics of social justice practices within performing arts, embodied and arts-based leadership development, and racial equity in the arts. She creates bold and honest artworks for her company MBDance (www.mbdance.net), based on physical and emotional power, insistence on equity, and fascination with intimacy. Bauman brings the same tenets to organizing to undo racism in the arts and beyond with ACRE (Artists Co-creating Real Equity), the grassroots organizing body she co-founded with Sarita Covington and Nathan Trice. In particular, Bauman’s site-responsive dance work centers the non-linear and linear stories and bodies of queer people of color in multiple ritual settings. She draws on her long study of English literature, capoeira, improvisation, dancing in living rooms and nightclubs, as well as concert dance classes to embody interconnectedness, joy, and tenacity. Currently, she is an Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Fellow and a BRIClab resident artist. She has also been Community Action Artist in Residence at Gibney Dance, Artist in Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and DiP Artist Resident under the direction of Eva Yaa Asantewaa.

Bauman-Morales’s art has been celebrated both formally and informally. She won a 2017 Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance with Skeleton Architecture. She is currently one of five national Fellows with the Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Initiative, as well as being a 2019-20 Gibney Dance in Process resident artist.  She and her company were awarded a 2020 Dance Advance grant from Dance/NYC and a 2020 Brooklyn Arts Foundation creation grant. She was an Artist in Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange from 2017 to 2019 and was also 2017 Community Action in Residence at Gibney Dance. Bauman-Morales is also a mentor with Queer l Art. Some of the best recognition she has gotten is from teenagers in New Haven’s Black and Brown Queer Camp who, upon seeing her dance exclaimed “Ooooooooo! She baaaad!“

In New York, Bauman-Morales’s work has been showcased at  Harlem Stage, SummerStage NYC, Danspace at St. Mark's, BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, Dixon Place, the Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts,  WOW Café Theater, and more. Bauman-Morales and MBDance have also shared artworks across the U.S., in South Africa, and in Singapore.

Before founding MBDance, she was Associate Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women  (UBW) and danced with that company for many years. During her tenure with UBW, Bauman-Morales was also Director of Education and Community Engagement at the helm of the BOLD (Builders, Organizers, and Leaders through Dance) initiative. She continues to be an annual faculty member for the UBW Summer Leadership Institute, and she is part of the Summer Leadership Institute Advisory and Planning Council.

As a cultural organizer, Bauman-Morales has partnered with various kinds of groups to lift up important social issues and calls for justice via art. She and the other two co-founders of ACRE (Artists Co-creating Real Equity), a grassroots community organizing group dedicated to ensuring racial equity within the performing arts, were recently honored with  the 2018 BAX Arts and Artists in Progress Award for “the work you do to undo racism in our daily lives while lifting up the work and lives of your membership.” Bauman-Morales has facilitated community engagement workshops for El Puente, Chorus America, Ramapo College, Rider University, and has helped create cultural campaigns with various locals of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). She has been a keynote speaker and core facilitator for the 2018 Day of Learning on Equity & Inclusion, Camille A. Brown’s 2016 Black Girl Spectrum Convening, several Cultural Organizing for Community Change symposiums, and for NOCD-NY’s From the Neighborhood Up Roundtable. She is a Core Trainer with The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond working closely with them on Understanding and Undoing Racism workshops for arts communities, and is a WOW Café Theatre collective member (theater space by and for women and transgender artists). Bauman-Morales is a founding member of the Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts Working Group (NOCD-NY).



Learn more at www.desire.mbdance.net.

[thebraintrustnyc]

Applications are now being accepted for the 2020-2021 BRIClab Performance Residency Season, which runs from September 2020 through April 2021. NYC BRIC artists receive a stipend of $1,750, mentoring and exclusive use of the BRIC House Artist Studio.

https://www.bricartsmedia.org/artist-opportunities/residencies/briclab-performance-residency

[ryanmuir]

BRIClab is BRIC Arts Media’s commissioning and residency program for local artists working in music, dance, theater, and multidisciplinary performance.

“Each team receives a two-week residency in the Artist Studio at BRIC House, where they work on their piece and explore the creative process. At the end of the two-week period, each residency culminates with two work-in-progress showings in our Artist Studio space.”

( from https://www.bricartsmedia.org/blog/meet-our-fall-2018-briclab-artists ) 

Photo © Ryan Muir

[investmart007]

SAO PAULO | Stabbing of candidate shakes Brazil's presidential race

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SAO PAULO | Stabbing of candidate shakes Brazil's presidential race

SAO PAULO — The stabbing of a leading Brazilian presidential candidate jolted an already wildly unpredictable campaign to lead Latin America’s largest nation, with doctors saying Friday that Jair Bolsonaro will be hospitalized for at least a week.

Supporters of the far-right congressman who wants to crack down on crime said the attack would only boost his chances in next month’s election, but it was unclear when he would be able to return to campaigning in person.

A knife-wielding man whose motive was unknown stabbed Bolsonaro during a rally Thursday in Juiz de Fora, a city about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of Rio de Janeiro, as he was being carried on the shoulders of a supporter.

Bolsonaro, 63, suffered intestinal damage and serious internal bleeding, said Dr. Luiz Henrique Borsato, one of the surgeons who operated on the candidate. He was in serious but stable condition and would remain in intensive care for seven to 10 days, Borsato said.

The candidate was transferred Friday to a premier hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. Supporters outside the hospital carried a giant inflatable doll of Bolsonaro dressed in a formal suit with a sash that said “President.”

“No matter what you think about him, he did not deserve this,” said Mauro Rodrigues, owner of a construction business who went to the hospital to support Bolsonaro. “It will definitely increase his chances of winning the election because people will be more sympathetic toward him.”

The attack is likely to have a major impact on the remaining four weeks of the campaign, from how candidates interact with supporters to their message.

For Bolsonaro, there will be questions about his physical ability to campaign — a key factor in a country slightly larger than the continental United States — as well as whether the attack will give him a boost among voters.

“He probably won’t go back to the streets during this campaign, so he can’t do it, but we can,” his son, Flavio, said in a video posted on Facebook. “More than ever I count with each one of you.”

Bolsonaro’s vice presidential running mate, retired Gen. Hamilton Mourao, told reporters that the candidate will “come out of this process stronger than he went in.”

The sentiment was echoed by Flavio Bolsonaro, who tweeted: “Jair Bolsonaro is stronger than ever and ready to be elected President of Brazil in the 1st ROUND!”

About a dozen candidates are competing in the Oct. 7 voting. If no one wins an outright majority, a second round will be held Oct. 28. In a video posted on the Facebook page of a senator who visited him in the hospital, Bolsonaro thanked his doctors in a weak and scratchy voice and said: “I never did harm to anyone.”

He described a painful wound, saying he had worried about an attack on the campaign trail.

“I was preparing for this sort of thing. You run risks,” he said.

The leader in the polls is former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but he is serving a 12-year sentence for corruption and has been barred from running. Bolsonaro is currently second, and while he has enthusiastic followers, his disapproval rating is higher than any other major candidate.

Friday was Independence Day in Brazil, and Bolsonaro had planned to attend a military parade in Rio de Janeiro.

The former army captain openly praises Brazil’s 1964-85 dictatorship and has long argued the country is in chaos and needs a strong hand. That message has resonated with Brazilians, but his often derogatory comments about women, blacks and gays have also repulsed many.

The attack “will turn into a dispute between the left and right,” said Mauricio Santoro, a political science professor at Rio de Janeiro’s state university. “It’s time that all presidential candidates make a declaration together to stop the aggressiveness.”

Videos on social media show Bolsonaro on the shoulders of a supporter, looking out at the crowd and giving a thumbs-up with his left hand. He suddenly flinches and then goes out of view. Other videos show supporters carrying him to a car and hitting a man who was apparently the attacker.

The suspect, identified by authorities as 40-year-old Adelio Bispo de Oliveira, was arrested within seconds.

The internet news portal G1 posted cellphone video, apparently obtained from police, of de Oliveira being questioned. Sitting on the floor with his hands cuffed behind him, a voice can be heard asking him who had sent him to attack Bolsonaro.

“I didn’t say anybody sent me,” said de Oliveira. “He who sent me was God on high.”

Luis Boudens, president of the National Federation of Federal Police, told The Associated Press that agents believed “they were not dealing with a mentally stable person.”

Eraldo Fabio Rodrigues de Oliveira, who is married to a niece of the suspect, told the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo that he appeared to be “disturbed” and would often lock himself in a shed when he visited his family.

“I can’t say he was crazy, but, from the way he acted, he wasn’t normal, no,” the relative was quoted as saying.

Lt. Col. Marco Rodrigues of the Minas Gerais state police told reporters that de Oliveira, who was once affiliated with a leftist party, said he acted because he disagreed with Bolsonaro. G1 quoted a lawyer for de Oliveira, Pedro Augusto Lima Possa, as saying his client did not mean to kill the politician, only wound him.

Federal police said another suspect was detained in connection with the attack and questioned. That suspect was released overnight but remains under investigation.

Minister of Public Security Raul Jungmann said the number of federal police providing security to candidates would be increased because of the attack, adding that Bolsonaro had been warned against launching himself into crowds as he did Thursday, according to the government-run news agency Agencia Brasil. Currently, 80 federal police protect five presidential candidates who requested security, and 21 were assigned to Bolsonaro, according to Jungmann.

Brazilians surged onto social media to argue over whether the attack supports Bolsonaro’s assertions that the country is off the rails or if his heated rhetoric contributed to inciting the attack.

Flavio Bolsonaro, a state legislator who is running for a seat in the federal Senate, rejected the idea that his father incited the attack, saying the candidate was engaged in a campaign of ideas. He said the mainstream media bear some responsibility, accusing them of portraying his father as a “monster.”

“They made Bolsonaro a martyr,” said Jonatan Valente, a student who joined a small vigil in Sao Paulo for the wounded candidate. “I think the left shot itself in the foot because with this attack they will end up electing Bolsonaro.”

After more than four years of revelations of widespread political corruption, anger is running high.

Despite being a congressman since 1991, Bolsonaro has harnessed much of the anger and presented himself as a maverick who will clean up a corrupt system. He also promises to confront a surge in crime, in part by giving police a freer hand to shoot and kill while on duty. He has promised to fill his government with current and former military leaders.

It was not the first incident of political violence this year. In March, while da Silva was campaigning in southern Brazil before his imprisonment, gunshots hit buses in his caravan, although no one was hurt. That same month, Marielle Franco, a councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro, was shot to death along with her driver.

“The campaign will become much more emotional than it already was,” said Marcos Troyjo, co-director of the BRICLab at Columbia University. “Ideas will take a back seat.”

By SARAH DiLORENZO and PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press

[felicebelle]

Other Women (a work-in-progress) by Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy directed by Monica L. Williams

Date:  Feb 23 & 24, 7:30PM

Location: BRIC House Artist Studio 647 Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY

Tickets on sale Jan. 12 $8 in advance / $10 at the door

[noticiaspace]

Crusoé: A mentalidade estatista como obstáculo à inovação

Marcos Troyjo, diretor do BricLab da Universidade Columbia, mostra na Crusoé que destinar recursos governamentais à pesquisa não é determinante para...

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[ebizupdate]

ICC Brasil launchs Intelligent Tech & Trade Initiative at WTO Public Forum

ITTI' brings together technology and business leaders, negotiators and scholars in debating how blockchain and AI can positively impact global trade

GENEVA, Sept. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Trade Organization Public Forum 2017 will host the launch of a project aimed at making new technologies work towards the expansion of global trade. Called 'ITTI - Intelligent Tech & Trade Initiative', this new multimedia project will examine how cutting-edge technologies can bring about new functional and conceptual approaches, allowing for international trade transactions and negotiations to advance.  ITTI's ultimate objective is to stir the debate involving the technology community, trade negotiators, business leaders and scholars on how to better pursue a constructive trade agenda. Mindful of both national and multilateral specificities, ITTI aims at countering deglobalization forces now operating in international trade. The project will be launched at the session "Building an Intelligent Tech & Trade Initiative - ITTI: Augmented Intelligence & the Future of Global Trade". It will be held on September 27, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, at WTO Headquarters in Geneva. The session at the WTO is one of the first steps of a venture that gathers representatives from institutions and companies as different as ICC (International Chamber of Commerce), IBM, Gearbulk, UNCTAD and Columbia University in assessing how global trade can be positively impacted by the expanded use of blockchain and cognitive technology platforms. ITTI was founded by business leader Daniel Feffer, President of ICC-Brasil and is managed by ICC under the direction of Marcos Troyjo, Co-Director of BRICLab at Columbia University | SIPA, where he teaches international affairs. "Creating ITTI is an essential move that can drive trade beyond existing roadblocks, Feffer says. "I'm certain blockchain and AI will boost trade growth. These technologies can help both SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) and Emerging Markets seize a bigger piece of the global trade pie", he adds. "Deintermediation, trust and agile market access are made possible by these new technologies.  My vision is that very instrumental tools, such as bringing the Letter of Credit to a 21st Century blockchain-intensive marketplace, or modeling negotiation scenarios through AI, will enhance both transactions and trade agreements. But we've got to make sure they are inclusive of companies big and small, countries rich or emerging, so all can benefit from their extraordinary potential", Feffer points out.  For Professor Troyjo, ITTI will show how negotiators can be better geared up to face trade challenges if aided by AI tools. "New technologies out there can help delegations gather and structure information as well as predict different negotiation outcomes. This is a major move forward in leveling the playing field when it comes to trade talks", argues Troyjo. For IBM, ITTI is a great opportunity to help to transform the way international negotiations work for decades. "The potential of technological adoption is enormous and with this organization we´ll have agility, transparency, security and less bureaucracy at all stages of the process. Countries, citizens, small, medium and large companies win", says Fabio Rua, IBM Latin America Government and Regulatory Affairs Director. Some of ITTI´s core activities will include the publication of research papers, establishing an internet-based platform, organizing conferences and the production of TV and YouTube documentaries and interviews series on the future of technology and trade. ITTI's session during the WTO Public Forum 2017 will feature as speakers Ambassador John Danilovich (Secretary-General of ICC), Ambassador Álvaro Cedeño, (Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the WTO), Ambassador Rufus Yerxa (President of the National Foreign Trade Council), Stewart Jeacocke (Leader of IBM's Global Government Centre of Competence), Marion Jansen (Chief-Economist of the International Trade Center), Jan Hoffmann (Director for Trade Facilitation of UNCTAD), Theresa Carpenter (Executive Director of the Center for Trade and Economic Integration, The Graduate Institute, Geneva), Daniel Feffer (President of ICC-Brasil) and Professor Marcos Troyjo (Co-Director of BRICLab, SIPA, Columbia University). "Building an Intelligent Tech & Trade Initiative: Augmented Intelligence & the Future of Global Trade" September 27, 2017. 11:30 am - 1:00 pm. WTO Headquarters in Geneva, Room B. FURTHER INFORMATION: Gabriella Dorlhiac (Senior Policy Advisor, ICC Brasil):gabriella.dorlhiac@iccbrasil.org     Julia Quintella (Project Consultant, ICC Brasil): julia.quintella@itti-global.org ITTI's website: www.itti-global.org   Telephone: + 55 11 3040-8832

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[fulvius]

O diretor de vendas da Horizons Telecom, Ricardo Montanher, participou no final de junho do Seminário LIDE Paraná, no Castelo do Batel, em Curitiba/PR. O evento reuniu um público de cerca de 150 pessoas entre CEO’s, presidentes e VIP’s de empresas do Estado. O tema do debate foi “Onde erramos?”, com o professor Marcos Troyjo, cofundador e diretor da BRICLab da Universidade de Columbia (NY). A apresentação se deu em torno da realidade do Brasil assumindo a sua pior posição no ranking de crescime

via: http://eexponews.com/executivo-da-horizons-telecom-participa-de-evento-do-lide-parana-que-aconteceu-em-curitibapr_5730008870420480

[smackmellon]

BRIC Announces Artists Selected for Summer Residency Program

Leslie G. Schultz, President of BRIC, said, "Supporting the work of Brooklyn artists is core to BRIC's mission. We commission work by Brooklyn filmmakers, nurture new performing arts work through our BRIClab program, and provide vitally needed workspace for visual artists to explore and expand the possibilities of their work. Thanks to this generous donation of space from Alloy, we are able for the first time to offer visual artist residencies year-round, greatly increasing our impact."

(via BRIC Announces Artists Selected for Summer Residency Program)

Our friends at BRIC :)