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HENRIK VIBSKOV IN LUNGA ARTS FESTIVAL, ICELAND

In the Lunga Arts Festival last summer we met up with fashion designer Henrik Vibskov. He was working with one of the student groups there, named the fashion group. It was fun to follow their progress during the week, develop concept and then adjust to availability of materials and location. The group created a strong […]

September 17, 2010   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION  Comments Closed

LUNGA ARTS FESTIVAL IN ICELAND

LUNGA is an arts festival/workshop for young people run by young people. This is run in the East of Iceland, in a narrow fjord with a small village named Seyðisfjörður. In July 2010 this took place for the 10th time. The young people allowed me to participate with a short lecture/dialogue about identity. This I […]

July 30, 2010   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION  Comments Closed

Campus Waiting to become Arts Academy

  We are going through the finishing touches for the new school ISAC. Tomorrow morning is the opening ceremony. The applicants for studentship have got their notices and the invitations for the formal opening have gone out from the Ministry. These images show how it looks like just before opening. Not much different from other […]

September 2, 2009   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

Study Program and Space Planning

  The entrance to the campus of the ISArC Academy. We sat on Saturday doing the final touches of the program for the first pilot semester in the new academy. Things are falling into place, while we also have very many odds and ends to complete. We discussed teaching programs, media lab, library, how to […]

August 31, 2009   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

Application Procedure for ISAC

  Now the evaluation work of the applications for student places in the new Arts Academy is almost over. There was a meeting yesterday in the Ministry of Education and Culture here in Maputo to discuss the outcome of the interviews and a collection of marks for the examinations that the applicants took. We had […]

August 27, 2009   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

New Arts Academy in Mozambique

Since we blog about our activities people follow what we are up to. I always see the blog as a two sided thing: a) Reporting to others what one is up to; especially for us who do not live close to the largest cluster of friends and co-workers, and so that others can maybe learn […]

August 18, 2009   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

ISAC – THE INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ARTES CULTURA

  The whole campus seen from Avenida das Industrias Will be launched next month. The first higher education arts and design academy in the country, as I have said often before. Things have been slow and hickuppy and, yes it could be an African thing, but I had the same experience all through the Nineties […]

August 9, 2009   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

MISS LANDMINE

I am not sure what to say! This is working against the stereo-typical beauty ideal and the pictures are beautiful. But I have to admit how bored I am with the concept of beauty contests iterating the cliche that every woman´s dream is to be beautiful. Take a look! Miss Landmine Tweet This Post

November 20, 2007   Posted in: AFRICA, FASHION, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed