tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68261543425043893552024-03-05T00:23:19.389-08:00Minneapolis and ToursSean Smudahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09687351521575335562noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826154342504389355.post-4925314399353716532012-06-29T15:02:00.002-07:002012-06-29T15:02:32.874-07:00Diego Movilla –ArtisteDiego is another interesting artist from Tours, working in many mediums: <a href="http://diegomovilla.net/index.php?page=actus&hl=en_US">http://diegomovilla.net/index.php?page=actus&hl=en_US</a>. Like many French artists, once they have been invited to do a residency the French government will offer a little assistance to make it possible. He has expressed interest in doing a month in Minneapolis, depending on accommodations and studio space. Perhaps you have a spare room?<br />
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<br />Sean Smudahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09687351521575335562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826154342504389355.post-82930445999991306762012-06-29T10:20:00.001-07:002012-06-29T10:20:39.433-07:00Radio Béton/Concrete RadioThis is an interview I did on Radio Béton in 2011, wherein we compare and contrast it with KFAI and talk about Little House on the Prairie and Hüsker Dü. Enjoy! Béton sparked the magazine Les Inrockuptibles which is basically like a French version of Rolling Stone, politics and culture abound within it. KFAI programmers, will you please make a show for Tours, showcasing Mpls locals? I'll translate!<br />
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The future of artist exchanges between Mpls/Tours it's more than all here! Joris is my gallerist, here is his gallery, the art market, his hair dresser, my friend in Brussels, serendipity and bureaucracy...enjoy your surplus while you still can!Sean Smudahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09687351521575335562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826154342504389355.post-11856463235081113772012-06-25T11:56:00.000-07:002012-06-27T06:28:55.917-07:00Article in La Nouvelle République:http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/Toute-zone/Loisirs/Expos-musees/n/Contenus/Articles/2012/06/24/Sean-Smuda-l-oeil-de-Minneapolis<br />
<a href="http://www.tvtours.fr/video.php?id=6037,Sujet,JT" target="_blank">On French TV with Bon Iver in the background. Maybe I should call myself Bon Été?</a><br />
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<br />Sean Smudahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09687351521575335562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826154342504389355.post-2634279822905458122012-06-25T08:41:00.000-07:002012-06-25T08:41:31.174-07:00L'artiste Yveline Bouquard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I met Yveline when she came to my talk last year at the École Supérieur
des Beaux Arts de Tours/The Tours Superior School of Fine Arts. She
immediately welcomed me to stay with her and Jean-Louis, her husband,
who teaches Computer Science at the University. They have a wonderfully
busy, active and open life, also welcoming transcontinental cyclists to
their roost in a converted metal workshop near the train station.
Minneapolis/Tours Sister Cities are working to find a studio and lodging
for Yveline in Minneapolis for a few month in the summer of 2013. She
would like to do some still-lifes of our native tornadoes.Sean Smudahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09687351521575335562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826154342504389355.post-46715344140631128272012-06-24T15:36:00.001-07:002012-06-24T15:36:44.168-07:00Pneu à Tours/Pneu in Tours<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the band Pneu whom I hype too much (including on the radio station the Current on July 15th). My girlfriend says that Don Caballero is better, but I say listen to Pneu's harnessing of noise/math/quadrille ferocity and know that no other French band comes close. Because it's not just about playing with force, composure and pleasure, it's also about rising out of one's environment and channeling what is good about it: in this case the Middle-Ages influence of Tours. btw I am sincere about what I say about the Marseillaise at the end of the clip and hope that it won't impact my visa.Sean Smudahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09687351521575335562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826154342504389355.post-92036547390286913392012-05-28T14:04:00.001-07:002012-05-28T14:04:16.319-07:00Musics/Musiques<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Garage Rock, Folk, Jazz, and Experimental Music.<br />
The Tours/Mpls scenes of the moment with our local bands like the Sex Rays and the Goondas and Tours's band The Finkielkrauts (named after their philosophy professor) are digging roots to the 50's and it sounds great and RAW. By contrast the Heliotrope Festival has come every Spring for the last 9 years and nods to standard song structure only to stretch and bend these roots, with 30 bands in three days this year. And not to ignore Jazz and Folk, Tours's equivalent of the Cedar Cultural Center is Le Petit Faucheux which does for jazz what the former does for world music.There are always too many more to go into and the below list awaits your contributions.<br />
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<a href="http://thegoondas.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://thegoondas.bandcamp.com/ </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.myspace.com/cheveu">http://www.myspace.com/cheveu</a><br />
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Pamela and Frank Gaard need no introduction if you saw their show at the Walker Art Center recently or perhaps picked up a copy of the Art Police somewhere, sometime in Paris. I am hoping to pair them with one Rémy Chabréyrou in Tours a young icono-clusterer of pant depicting America more rigorously than most Americans. Their similarities of place and culture may make one question what is the there there or anywhere for that mater.<br />
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A locally based international dance company run by Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, their inspiration starts at the development of the cell and extends to that of the world. Highly traveled, they received a commission from the Lyon Ballet in 2010 and have brought two French dancers over to rehearse for an upcoming show at the Walker Art Center in October of 2012. They are planning to perform in Tours in 2013. <br />
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As Cultural Liaison I am forever thinking of collaborative shows between artists from the two cites. Recently I was asked to be one of four curators of a group show at the Hopkins Art Center called "The Critics' show, Artists Seeing Artists" which took place from April 19- May20, 2012. Many of the artists included are in mind for a Mpls/Tours exchange. To this end and to stimulate interest of artists and organizers in Tours as well, I interviewed show organizer Jim Clark. Enjoy!<br />
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To understand the city one must also understand its suburbs. Tours is in a way a long continuous chain of them from beautiful Saint Cyr to industrial Saint Pierre de Corps. Minneapolis's first 'burb Hopkins is a time tunnel to the 1950's when buildings were two stories maximum and cars cruised main street to show off their American splendor. The video will speak for itself. The artists and news links will take you deeper:<br />
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NB Il y a une fonction de traduction automatique qui traduira toute la texte en Français!<br />
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In 2011, I was appointed Cultural Liaison by the <a href="http://mplstours.org/" target="_blank">Mpls/Tours Sister Cities</a> organization for the task of identifying and encouraging artistic exchanges. My blogs about this, for Metro Magazine, may be read: <a href="http://metromag.com/blog/arts/sean-smuda-blogs-france" target="_blank">here</a>. While there, I was offered a show by Tours' <a href="https://www.facebook.com/people/Ozart-Galerie/100001635306654" target="_blank">OZ'Art Gallery</a>, which I am going back for in June 2012.<br />
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My background as a francophone started as an exchange student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium. After various academic endeavors around the states I settled back in Minneapolis in the 80's where I experienced a true synaesthesia of Art, Music, Film and Dance, etc. I was hooked into remaining. I regularly exhibit my <a href="http://www.seansmuda.com/" target="_blank">art</a>, run the <a href="http://mnartists.org/work.do?action=list&rid=268436" target="_blank">Shoebox Gallery</a>, have served as panelist on the Minneapolis Institute of Art's<a href="http://www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_id=66" target="_blank"> Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program</a>, and have been the Minnesota State Fair <a href="http://mnartists.org/article.do?rid=297369" target="_blank">Photography judge</a>. <br />
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On these screens will be published interviews from both cities in order to tempt you to go further by visiting the sites of their artists, dancers, musicians... and perhaps fomenting your own exchange.<br />
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-Sean Smuda, Cultural Liaison for Mpls/Tours Sister Cities<br />
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