VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
This year marks the 30th anniversary of this biennial festival of contemporary art, which is dedicated to artistic production from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia and Oceania. The only Brazilian international festival for contemporary art, to mark three decades of what it describes as ‘experimentation and risk’, VideoBrasil presents the exhibition, 30 Years.
Until 2 February, 2014, site.videobrasil.org.br
Playground live art festival, Leuven, Belgium
Established in 2007, the seventh edition of this annual festival provides a meeting for the performing and visual arts, with a special focus on art projects that can be seen both as installations and live performances. Taking place at STUK and M Museum, artists featured include Ryan Trecartin, Michael Portnoy, Grace Schwindt, Carly Wijs & Marijke Van Warmerdam, and William Forsythe.
9–11 November, www.playgroundfestival.be
Queens Museum inaugural celebrations, New York, USA
To mark the opening of the newly expanded museum, Queens Museum is hosting a month-long series of events and an inaugural season of shows including Pedro Reyes, Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, the Queens International 2013 Biennial and Contemporary Cuban Art. In addition, the inaugural group of artists in the Queens Museum Studio Residency Program will welcome the public into their studios on Sunday 10 November, as part of the Target Wide Open Weekend (9-11 November).
9 November onwards, www.queensmuseum.org
The Paris Photo Platform, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Part of the annual Paris Photo fair, which this year features 136 galleries, the Platform programme is four days of live events including a series of 12 conversations and discussions with artists, curators and critics. The discussions are organised around three themes relating to art and photography today: Photography challenged by the world; Encyclopedic fantasy; Photography, painting, limits? Participants include Sophie Calle, Martin Parr and Jean-Jacques Lebel, as well as young emerging artists and the London collective Rubedo, who will be presenting a new work.
14–17 November 2013, www.parisphoto.com
EARN conference, Gothenburg, Sweden
Marking the end of the 2013 Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art, this European Art Research Network (EARN) conference explores the themes of the biennial, embodied in its title, Play! Recapturing the Radical Imagination. Speakers including Liverpool Biennial Director Sally Tallant will look at the idea of a radical imagination and what being encouraged to ‘play’ can actually mean for adults in the 21st century.
14-16 November, www.artresearch.eu
