The Artbakery (Douala, Cameroon) website email info »  Goddy Leye (Rijksakademie 01/02) started Artbakery in 2002. Artbakery wants to stimulate the arts in Cameroon and the surrounding region. A special focus is on multimedia. Artbakery aims to improve the chances of local artists and their production of contemporary art through interaction and exchange with more experienced colleagues within Cameroon and abroad. By organising workshops, master classes and the ‘portfolio programme, they try to reach this goal. ................................. read »  2006 Artist in residency: Eza Komlan, Togo read »  2006 Workshop web design for visual artists read »  2004 Video workshop by Sonia Khurana read »  2003 Portfolio Programme read »  2002 Bessengue City Project

KARThala (Moroni, Comoros) website email info »  The kARThala Arts Center, set up by Ali Mroivili (Rijksakademie 95/96) wants to offer Comorian artists the opportunity to develop new ideas in their artistic expression. kARThala wants to introduce art education at Comorian public schools by giving art training to local artists in collaboration with the local authorities and teachers. kARThala wants to support interaction between Comorian artists and those of the islands in the Indian Ocean as well as support the interaction between African artists and the rest of the world. .................................

Taleb Cherche Midi (Videokaravaan) (Agadir, Morocco) website email info »  The Moroccan artist Abdellatif Ben Faidoul (Rijksakademie 01-02, developed in cooperation with Abdelaziz Taleb a Video Art Platform in Agadir (Morocco). Aim of the initiators is to establish a platform for video art in Morocco that will stimulate the knowledge, possibilities and experience for video artists in the country. With their activities they wish to stimulate an open and critically debate and a place for young artists to meet and to create new possibilities for a new generation of artists. With the organisation of international video art workshops with European and Moroccan artists and Moroccan video art students is a starting point in the process to make a connection with the art worlds of the north and the south. ................................. read »  2006 Media Art workshop Agadir Part II read »  2005 Researchtrip for Media Art workhop II read »  2004 Participation 8th RENCONTRES Internationales Paris/Berlin read »  2004 Video workshop Agadir part I

BAS (Istanbul, Turkey) website email info »  BAS (officially Istanbul Sanat Arastirmalari Dernegi – Istanbul Art Research Association) is an artist run space in Istanbul initiated by Banu Cennetoglu (RA 2002/2003). With a primary focus on artist books and publications BAS collects, displays and will produce printed matter. BAS aims as well to generate a new platform for Turkish artists to explore printed matter as an alternative space. A book can create a discussion because it demands the reader’s participation. It is not a detached or a distant participation; it is a direct one involving the reader’s body and mind. BAS focuses on artists, writers, cultural producers and a curious, interested and engaged public. In a country where the art world is quiet limited in terms of infrastructure, book art could be an efficient way to disseminate work and words. Local production will be the priority and the distribution will be developed by, partly already established, international contacts and collaboration. ................................. read »  2006 South-South exchange with ruangrupa, Indonesia read »  2005 IN A TALL DISTANCE WITH MR. REIS

CARF (Calcutta, India) email info »  The Calcutta Art Research Foundation, CARF, is conceived as a network-based facility, aiming at promoting dialogue and collaboration between Calcutta and the international art world. The Swiss curator Anders Kreuger and artist Praneet Soi (Rijksakademie 02/03) from India initiated CARF. CARF places an emphasis on process and research related art practice, using the city of Calcutta as a base as well as a resource for its activities. Since December 2005 it functions as a platform for visiting international artists. .................................     read »  2005 Founding of CARF

VERY REAL TIME (Capetown, South Africa) website email info »  Very Real Time is organised by Gregg Smith (Rijksakademie 01/02) and is ongoing programme of research and contemporary art projects located mainly in Cape Town. Very Real Time relies largely on process-based and non-object based art-making techniques, favouring a performative mode of social engagement and the creation of situations, which facilitate the exchange of ideas, insights, amusement and at times awkward confrontation. The project strives to harness the positive aspects of the city and her inhabitants. Activities of Very real time among others: workshops, artists’ presentations, web discussions and a publication. ................................. read »  2005 Very Real Time part II: Forum, online discussions, residency and exhibition read »  2003 Very Real Time part I: residency with African and international artists

VYDIA VIDEO (New Delhi, India) email info »  In autumn 2004, Sonia Khurana (RA 02/04) set up Vidya Video, a video platform in New Delhi. With the organisation of contemporary video art screenings and workshops, Khurana wanted to establish a platform for contemporary video art in the city. The idea was to build up a network, podium and meeting place for a new generation of video artists in New Delhi and her surroundings. Vydia Video has been operative in RAIN till December 2005. ................................. read »  2005 Video Workshop by Sonia Khurana at el despacho, Mexico read »  2005 Video workshop Daniëlle van Vree