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• Christian Boltanski hearts Scotland

  30-07-2016 23:00
  Christian Boltanskis travelling recording studio of heartbeats, Les Archives du Coeur (the heart archive), is taking up residence 12 miles west of Edinburgh. Since 2008, the French artist has captured the sounds of thousands of individuals hearts and stored the recordings on the art island of Teshima in Japan. For two months this summer, visitors to Jupiter Artland will have a chance to add to the growing library.
  Boltanskis perennial themes of mortality and memory run through the other works h
  
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• Boltanski hearts Scotland

  30-07-2016 23:00
  Christian Boltanskis travelling recording studio of heartbeats, Les Archives du Coeur (the heart archive), is taking up residence 12 miles west of Edinburgh. Since 2008, the French artist has captured the sounds of thousands of individuals hearts and stored the recordings on the art island of Teshima in Japan. For two months this summer, visitors to Jupiter Artland will have a chance to add to the growing library.
  Boltanskis perennial themes of mortality and memory run through the other works h
  
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• Refugee art: a way to face up to ugly truths – and possibly change minds

  30-07-2016 03:08
  
  Exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne seek to humanise asylum seekers, so they are not viewed exclusively ‘through the lens of their past suffering’Khadim Ali remembers the day he started to receive death threats. Anonymous callers would ring the young artist in his hometown of Quetta, Pakistan. “You are the infidel Shia,” they said. “You are the infidel artist.”“It was then I decided to leave Pakistan and find a safer place for myself,” says Ali. &l
  
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• The Democratic Principles Of Conductorless Orchestras (And What They Can Teach Us)

  30-07-2016 01:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Firstly, the principle that anyone can influence artistic direction remains paramount. “We must have all our players ready and willing to speak up, to stop the orchestra, to argue for their ideas,” Thulson says. “Even if they’re in what’s traditionally a non-leadership seat. If the presumption is that high voices get to lead, we have to treat that as a fragile presumption . . . We can’t let traditions make us boorish or lazy.”
  
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• Throw-down Challenge: An Author’s Body Of Work

  30-07-2016 00:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Readers and writers do not think of a body of work in the same way. To a reader, a body of work is a static totality by which a writer may be assessed. To a writer, it is something of a taunt.”
  
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• Publicist Position Open, San Francisco Symphony

  30-07-2016 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  This position reports to the Associate Director of Public Relations, and manages publicity campaigns for and provides support to the Communications Division of the San Francisco Symphony.
  Duties and Responsibilities
  Plans, manages, and executes publicity campaigns for the San Francisco Symphony, with a focus on the SF Symphony’s subscription series, educational activities, community and audience-building initiatives, and special events.
  Emphasis will be on soliciting stories that position
  
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