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		<title>Christian Jankowski and Guga Ferraz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (SAPS) announces the opening of two new exhibitions: Crying for the March of Humanity by German artist Christian Jankowski, and Cidade Dormitório (Dormitory City) by Guga Ferraz. The latter marks the culmination of the collaboration between the SAPS and the Brazilian institution A Gentil Carioca, entitled A Wall with Kindness.

With the work of Christian Jankowski, Crying for the March of Humanity presents an innovative and complex analysis of the relationship between art and politics, a discourse that the SAPS has been dedicated to for the last three years.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/christian-jankowski-and-guga-ferraz/</link>
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		<title>Occupy Nigeria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 1 January 2012, the Federal Government of Nigeria eliminated government subsidies intended to keep petrol prices at an affordable rate—especially for many of the country's disadvantaged citizens, who regarded such subsidies as their only benefit from the country's oil wealth. The subsequent 116% overnight increase in the price of petrol prompted the Nigerian Labour and Trade Unions and other civil organisations, on 9 January 2012, to initiate a nationwide strike. The week started off with small pockets of unrest and moderate demonstrations that gradually gave way to full-fledged civil resistance throughout the nation.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/occupy-nigeria/</link>
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		<title>Barcelona International Center of Photography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Centre Internacional de Fotografia Barcelona (CIFB) constitutes a failed experiment in the institutionalisation of photographic culture during the Spanish Transition. This exhibition is a contribution to an archaeology of contemporary photographic culture in Spain.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/barcelona-international-center-of-photography/</link>
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		<title>Boris Mikhailov&#8217;s Salt Lake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From January 20 to March 11, 2012, La Criée will be presenting the French premiere of the Salt Lake series by Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov. Dating from 1986, this series of 50 photographs takes us back to Soviet-era Ukraine, on the edge of ruin, to a place where life's simple pleasures were played out against the backdrop of a lake assailed by industrial pollution on every side.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/boris-mikhailovs-salt-lake/</link>
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		<title>Mengele&#8217;s Skull: The Rise of Forensic Aesthetics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The exhibition "Mengele's Skull" is structured around a specially commissioned book of the same title co-authored by Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman. Artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl has been commissioned to respond to the proposition laid out in this book. Next to major new works by Hito Steyerl, this exhibition presents documentary and source materials.

The publication Mengele's Skull discusses the forensic identification of the remains of infamous Nazi-doctor Joseph Mengele after his exhumation in 1985.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/mengeles-skull-the-rise-of-forensic-aesthetics/</link>
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		<title>Absalon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
During the busy annual 'Rotterdam Art Weekend', which includes the 'Art Rotterdam' and 'Object Rotterdam' fairs, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will open its major spring exhibition of Absalon. A collection of mainly large, white objects, models and films made by an artist who created a great impression before he died at a young age in 1993. 

Absalon (1964–1993) is known for the living cells constructed entirely from wood and painted in neutral white which he made for six world cities: Tokyo, New York, Tel Aviv, Paris, Zurich and Frankfurt.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/absalon-2/</link>
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		<title>Exhibitions, activities and forums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Madrid brings together contemporary art professionals from around the world for the 1st Meeting of European and Latin American Museums, directed by Agustín Pérez-Rubio – Director of MUSAC, León - and Marcelo Mattos Araujo—Executive Director of Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo—with guests including Chris Dercon, Director of the Tate Modern, London; Manuel Borja-Villel, Director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Hans-Michael Herzog, Director and Curator of the Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zurich; Alfred Pacquement, Director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne/Centre de Création Industrielle, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Graciela de la Torre, Director of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo MUAC, Mexico.  The Collecting Forum will also attract other professionals, such as Han Nefkens, Mera and Don Rubell, Joop van Caldenborgh, Farhad Farjam and Eugenio López; and the Professional Meetings will bring together key figures invited by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director of the Palais de Tokyo: James Lingwood, Co-director of Artangel, London; Bartomeu Marí, Director of the Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (MACBA); Lynne Cooke, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Museo Reina Sofía; Inti Guerrero, Atistic Director of TEOR/éTica, San José (Costa Rica), and RMS La Asociación, together with Tania Pardo, an independent curator.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/exhibitions-activities-and-forums/</link>
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		<title>European Education Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While preparing for the construction of their new location in the harbour of Dunkirk, the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais has made a commitment to create a direct relationship with their public. To do this they are exploring new and innovative methods to establish a dialogue with visitors.
 With these objectives in mind, the FRAC set up an international team of experts, to exchange their experiences on a regular basis. The international platform, composing of S.M.A.K. (Gent/Belgium), Turner Contemporary (Margate/United Kingdom) and Firstsite Gallery (Colchester/United Kingdom), has reflected on the question of how to engage with audiences in order to establish this new kind of relationship.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/european-education-workshop/</link>
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		<title>2012 Prize: Wide White Space</title>
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ART COLOGNE Prize 2012: Wide White Space 

The Antwerp gallery Wide White Space is the winner of the 2012 ART COLOGNE Prize. The Prize is sponsored by the Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler (BVDG) and Koelnmesse. It is awarded annually in recognition of outstanding services in the promotion and encouragement of modern art.

The 10,000-euro Prize will be presented to Anny De Decker on 19 April 2012 in Cologne's Historisches Rathaus.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/2012-prize-wide-white-space/</link>
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		<title>Announcing artists for TRACK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Curators: Philippe Van Cauteren and Mirjam Varadinis
Organised by: S.M.A.K., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent
Supported by: City of Ghent, Flemish Community, National Lottery and Port of Ghent

 

TRACK is a temporary exhibition in the public and semi-public space of the city of Ghent. Philippe Van Cauteren and Mirjam Varadinis invited 35 artists to make an in-depth exploration of six typical neighbourhoods in Ghent and to come up with artistic proposals that interact with the different communities in various ways.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/announcing-artists-for-track/</link>
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