Nick Costas, Proximity correspondent, sends us this news:
“Acclaimed British artist Michael Landy has transformed the South London Gallery into a 600m³ container for the disposal of works of art. Artists and collectors are invited to bring works to the SLG to create ’a monument to creative failure’.
Works can be brought to the SLG to be [...]

We are on a field trip to The Netherlands to present Proximity magazine and art works featured in its pages!
Our friends at Trendbeheer are hosting our  exhibition at the Rotterdam art space Singer Sweat Shop and it will take place Friday, March 12. Our agenda is pretty full. We are meeting up with old and [...]

This February has been really busy for us here at Public Media Institute and Proximity magazineland. This weekend marks an end to our recent programming madness . We hope the following events will provide motivation for you to battle this Chicago winter and give you a chance to check out some exciting new shit.
On Thursday [...]

A few weeks ago we were given the opportunity to work with the Chicago Loop Alliance, a chamber of commerce-like organization that serves the downtown loop area merchants. They started their Pop-Up Art Loop gallery project and gave us the old Ritz Camera store to engage with a project.
We are opening a new joint project [...]

VERSION FESTIVAL 10:
Infrastructures and Territories
April 22, May 2, 2010
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: March 1, 2010.
Version is an annual springtime convergence that brings together hundreds of artists, musicians, and educators from around the world to present some of the most challenging ideas and progressive art initiatives of our day.
This is the Ninth edition.
Submit your proposal online:
http://www.lumpen.com/V10/theme.html
Please spread [...]

There are only a few weeks left before our deadline. Please contribute to the next issue. Read about the theme here.

We are going to miss all of our new friends from the Tupajumi Foundation. Their exhibition at the Co-Prosperity Sphere was a great example of how  awesome a group show can be.
You can check out documentation of the C-PS show here and here. We look forward to working with them in the future. And you [...]

Please help us create our next and most ambitious installment of the magazine.
Proximity isue 007 is themed “A Catalog of Strategies.” The issue will feature a lengthy directory of participatory, collectivist and interventionist projects and initiatives. We are seeking short entries, essays, and texts about alternative, counter, or oppositional practices and projects, created by individuals, [...]

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Club Nutz is a website/tv show and a comedy/music label that’s an actual club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. We will be recreating the Club Nutz experience for four days this fall in the main tent at Frieze Art Fair in London.
Club Nutz : a 4 x 4 meter miniature night club featuring a [...]

From March 5 – April 9, 2009, the Chicago Public Library challenges you to showcase your creativity by designing a poster that’s inspired by the library and uses the URL chipublib.org.
The Chicago Public Library will then select 30 Finalists to move on to a Judging Night Event on April 23, 2009, held at the Harold [...]

We think they will still accept submissions!
Call for Submissions
For King Ludd’s Midway Arcade
Version Fest 09′
Curated by Material Exchange
Calling all gamers, artists, engineers, tinkerers, hackers, manipulators…
The Midway Plaissance in Hyde Park was the home of the World’s Fair of 1893, an international celebration of the landing of Columbus in North America 401 years earlier. It involved [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR MONU – magazine on urbanism #11 – CLEAN URBANISM
Download the new Call for Submission – Poster for Clean Urbanism and post it in your faculty!
When it comes to Clean Urbanism – i.e. an [...]

Stephanie Burke, a gallery crawl guide for Chicago, has explained all of tonights openings very nicely for you on her blog.
The Co-Prosperity Sphere is not going to be crazy tonight. However it will be showing some of Dave the Lightbulb Man’s colllection of recent works.  Dave may conduct some interview sessions for his tv show. [...]

An art parade, temporary housing structures, video sweat lodges, an artist run art fair and expo, a reincarnation of the depression era Public Works of Art Project, a social networked free public school, boring theoretical nonsense, the revamping of a local community center, mapping projects, an open source design agency for social movements, and korean [...]

Art Shanty at Iron Studios (2006)
Proximity Magazine invites you to participate in (Con)Temporary Art Chicago. This 80-96 page book, to be released along with the next issue of Proximity Magazine, will showcase the best cultural offerings in Chicago during the art fair season – late April to early May 2009.
Our goal is to showcase Chicago [...]

An art parade, temporary housing structures, independent contemporary art space networking, one day only exhibition formats, video sweat lodges, an artist run art fair, a reincarnation of the depression era Public Works of Art Project, a social networked free public school, impressive performances, boring theoretical nonsense, the revamping of a local community center, mapping [...]

Proposals for selection for ZOOart 2009 are now welcome. ZOOart is a public art event, open to young artists. Now in it’s eighth year it is organised by the Art.ur association with the support of the Cuneo City Council.
For details please visit www.zooart.it
Miss Michela Giuggia
tel./fax 0171 689960
cell. +39 339 690899
Email
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Notice:
Attention Chicago:
A highly organized, internationally recognized, massively marketed, thoroughly branded, and extremely expensive series of sporting events is coming to your town. This is not it.
From Saturday January 24 to February 14 2009, InCUBATE and person-in-residence Anne Elizabeth Moore will host a series of games called the Unlympics. They will consist of real [...]

Public Media Institute, the non-profit that puts out Proximity and co-produces Version festival
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January 16, 2009
More information TBA. Contact the Co-Prosperity Sphere if you are young, Polish and an artist.