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7 August 2020 In Art, Culture, Dance, Filmmaking, Italy, Movement Research, Music, Photography, The Artist, Visual By MA

COME BACK BEAUTIFUL by MA @ 33Jazz Records / The Orchard (August 2020)

The single “Come Back Beautiful” by MA will be digitally released by 33Jazz Records and distributed by The Orchard on September 1, 2020. The cover has been finalised and approved and we are now working on a short film which will accompany the release. The single was recorded in New York back in 2010 at Lofish Studios with Reed Taylor (engineer), Pablo Masis (trumpet), Paolo Dionisi Vici (saxophone), David Sanella (violin) and mastered by Walter Fischbacher. Although the song was written and recorded in 2010, it resonates today as we strive to create, calibrate and co-ordinate the role that each of us have to play in designing the new normal as human beings and as artists.

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31 July 2020 In Art, Culture, Dance, Filmmaking, Movement, Music, The Artist, Travel, Visual By MA

SPA 2020 @ St. Louis Black Repertory Company (USA) (August 1,2020)

Earlier this summer, I learned about the Summer Performing Arts Program (SPA 2020) at the St. Louis Black Repertory Company and decided to make a donation which would cover two places for a week’s attendance at the summer camp. Back in 2009, while I was a Visiting Professor Saint Louis University Law School, I attended a performance of “Tell Me Something Good” by the Company at the Grandel Theater which was near to where I was staying on campus. I enjoyed the performance so much that I contacted the Artistic Director, Ron Himes who invited me to perform a couple of songs from my first album, “We’re Inside Out” (RPR/Women’s Voice Productions-2007) as part of a Company Artist Showcase at the Grandel Theater. I have never forgotten how everyone at the Company made me feel so welcome during my stay in St Louis that I have always tried to stay in touch with their performances, activities and projects. So make a donation. Or donate your time or money to a local arts organisation that organises similar arts education programs. We need the arts. We need educational initiatives that provide access and opportunities for young Black artists to evolve, flourish and thrive in ways that are sustainable. I believe in the arts. I believe in education. And I support the St. Louis Black Repertory Company in all of their initiatives and projects in making this happen.

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5 June 2020 In Art, Culture, Italy, Photography, Scholarship, Visual By MA

JAMES KAYE MEMORIAL PRIZE @ EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, FIESOLE (IT) (JUNE, 2020)

As a former post-doctoral research fellow of the European University Institute (EUI) and as a jury member, it gives me great pleasure to announce that this year’s James Kaye Memorial Prize for the Best Thesis in History and Visuality goes to: Catherine Gibson, “Nations on the Drawing Board. Ethnographic Map-Making in the Russian Empire’s Baltic Provinces, 1840-1920” and Déborah S. Dubald, “Capital Nature. A history of French municipal museums of natural history, 1795-1870”. The prize is awarded every two years for the best EUI thesis that combines the study of historical and visual sources in memory of James Kaye, a former student at the EUI and a dear friend of mine who sadly passed away in 2011.

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11 April 2020 In Art, Culture, Dance, Italy, Movement, Music, The Artist By MA

DJ RESILIENZA COLLETTIVA @ MILAN (IT) (APRIL, 2020)

During PHASE 1 of the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, together with a group of neighbours in Milan, I decided to DJ 20 minute music and movement sessions at 6pm every evening for all of the people in our courtyard. We decided to call ourselves DJ Collective Resilience (or DJ Resilienza Collettiva). The main idea was for people to come together, out onto their balconies or wave from their windows to call out messages of support, to sing, to dance, to stand still together: whatever it takes to nourish and nurture the bonds of a community trapped inside their homes. The playlist was composed of a mixture of all kinds of music, so that everybody might feel included to sing, to dance, to smile to cry. Or as they say in the language of the lockdown: State con noi a casa insieme (Be with us at home together).

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10 February 2020 In Art, Culture, Dance, Movement, Movement Research, Visual By MA

Zhongjing Fang @ Prix de Lausanne Jury (CH) (February 2-9, 2020)

MA was overjoyed to hear that Zhongjing Fang (“Ziggy”), soloist at American Ballet Theatre (ABT) was on the jury of the Prix de Lausanne 2020. Miriam Aziz collaborated with Ziggy in New York City in 2010-11 as part of the Artist (s) at Large ® performance lab that MA established and ran between 2009-12. Sessions with Ziggy also involved individual coaching, creative collaboration and choreography. An experience summarised by Ziggy in the following terms:

 

“I had the most incredible experience working with Miriam while I was a single-minded ballerina during my early career period. She helped to open my mind and soul and grow as an artist within the life experiences. Using the knowledge of dance to create a new dialogue with the audience or the space and time.”

Zhongjing Fang, American Ballet Corps de Ballet, New York (01.09.2015)

 

 

 

 

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4 February 2020 In Art, Culture, Filmmaking, Italy, Photography, Scholarship, The Artist, Visual By MA

JURY DUTY FOR THE JAMES KAYE MEMORIAL PRIZE @ EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, FIESOLE (IT) (FEBRUARY, 2020)

MA has been invited to join the examining committee for the James Kay Memorial Prize for the best thesis in History and Visuality obtained at the European University Institute (EUI) in Fiesole, Italy. The prize will be awarded at the EUI’s conferring ceremony on June 19, 2020.

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31 January 2020 In Art, Culture, Design, Filmmaking, Milan, Music, Photography, Scholarship, The Artist, Travel, Visual By MA

FILM PREMIERE of “NO SUBJECT” by MA @ NEW YORK CITY (USA) (1 FEBRUARY, 2020)

Check out the new Trailer of Miriam Aziz’s film “NO SUBJECT” which will be premiered on February 1st in New York at the NYsoundCircuit (NYsC) salon series at the Flux Factory.

Miriam Aziz (“MA”) shot “NO SUBJECT” in Denver, Colorado during the winter of 2011 while she was a Visiting Professor at the Korbel School of International Studies at Denver University. She edited the film and created the sound scape in Milan last year in time for a 2020 release. What inspired MA to make the film was a sense of the tactile loss of ‘vintage’ forms of communication (e.g. face to face meeting, letter writing, public phones, type-writers) and its effect on muscle memory for creating and experiencing dialogue in real time. She seeks to explore whether there is a danger of the virtual world overly colonising the space and the time it takes to be human; to share our experience of being human; and our capacity for community. In “NO SUBJECT”, MA questions whether this has led to a loss of contact and connection and whether this has in any way affected the authenticity of her voice. These are questions for which she does not have any answers nor does she expect to find a definitive conclusion. The film is a mere observation.

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22 December 2019 In Art, Culture, Filmmaking, Music, The Artist, Visual By MA

NYsoundCircuit (NYsC) @ New York City (USA) (December 22, 2019)

Press Release by NYsoundCircuit (NYsC): The multimedia salon series that became a hotbed for underground new music and artistic creation for half a decade from 2009-14 – returns on February 1, 2020 at the Flux Factory in Long Island City, New York. NYsoundCircuit 7.1: “Renegade” will celebrate the relaunch with bold and audacious musical and visual acts that speak to the struggle and resilience of the human spirit to break free from regressive constraints and systems. The relaunch show features composer HOWIE KENTY, musical groups the ÆON ENSEMBLE and RESONANT REFRACTIONS, the photography of LUCAS ANDAHL, video and film by JAIME IGLEHART andNYsC alumnus MIRIAM AZIZ, and the club stylings of DJ JCLEF.

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