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- Water& Works Lucy&Jorge Orta, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL). The British artist Lucy Orta lives and works in Paris and teaches at academies in London and Eindhoven. Her field is the interface between fashion and social engagement. She focuses on themes such as shelters for the homeless, offering solutions as a designer and artist, and she often works together with students from the art academy or social activism groups. The current project is designed for the public domain and is about the purification of water and the provision of clean drinking water.

- 'Orchard' Propolon, Regina Gallery, Moscow. The Russian artist POROLON was inspired by Marina Tsvetaeva’s poem «Orchard» to the creation of new project which put you in the euphoria of light and color. The gallery halls will be decorated with the sponge sculpture, stone and glass installation. In artist’s mind the image of «Orchard» is the highest award for endless patience and hard work.

- 'Tanguntsa' Valery Grancher, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. "THE SHIWIARS PROJECT" an artist goes in a village of Indians of the deep jungle of High-Amazonia to establish a direct and creative bond with the Palais de Tokyo. The Shiwiars Indians live on the western slope of the Andes cordillera, in High-Amazonia, in one of the zones of the planet the most isolated and in which is largest. It is however with them that the French artist Valery Grancher chose to establish a direct and creative bond and to divide it within the framework of its project for the Palais de Tokyo.

- 'Subtitled Public' Rafael Lorenzo-Hemmer, Madrid. SUBTITLED PUBLIC consists of an empty exhibition space where visitors are tracked with a computerized infrared surveillance system. As people enter the installation, texts are projected onto their bodies: these “subtitles” consist of thousands of verbs conjugated in third person and they follow each individual everywhere they go. The only way to get rid of a subtitle is to touch someone else: the words then are exchanged between them.

- About the new video art. 'Lazyboy:Facts of Life' by Ingen Frygt (DK) You can't keep it simple when the subject is the multifarious facts of human life. This Ingen Frygt musicvideo for Lazyboy's spoken word track consists of 30 different scenarioes, 2- and 3D-animation as well as live actors on blue screen. The pictures follow the lyrics closely, but not acurately. The text contains one joke, one myth, and one lie, and on the visual side you will find Ingen Frygt themselves in a cameo role.

- 'Europe2020' by Myriam Thyes (D) The flag of the European Union transforms itself into all the flags of its member countries, from west to east, and further more into the flags of future and possible members. While the EU expands eastwards, the wolves return to the west. But who knows what the EU will look like in the year 2020?

'19' by Paulo Fernandez & Sebastian Parada (Chile) 19 is one of the 20 videos of the Santiago- city urban caos project. Santiago-city urban caos is a multimedia video proyect on line from Chile. 20 short experimental videos that use the city , the people, and the conecction between this elements like primal matery to conform a net-art product, that talk about make an estetic view about the concept "city", mixing documental and video experimental language. Watch the program