Cloud Conversations

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Cloud Conversation with Canadian Author Lesley Strutt and Curator Anne Murray.

Lesley Strutt will talk about her novel, On the Edge, on ZOOM from Ottawa, Canada.
"Another pebble. And now a note. Why leave a note? It must be because whoever it is wants her to know for certain that she’s being watched, followed." On the Edge by Lesley Strutt.
Jun 6, 2020 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Ottowa
Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74418942868?pwd=R09vVy9UNnMzeDBrdTZsWXNEWXYzQT09
Meeting ID: 744 1894 2868
Password: 7vMT5Q

​https://lesleystrutt.ca/
Today's scheduled talk is canceled due to the unfortunate loss of a loved one. Our hearts go out to Agata and we hope to reschedule in the future when it is emotionally possible.

Cloud Conversation with Artist/Curator Agata Lankamer canceled
May 9th Częstochowa, Poland

Lankamer was scheduled to talk about the project, Legumina Second Life, which is showcased by Jest Gallery.

https://agalanka.wixsite.com/portfolio?fbclid=IwAR12G7FO3E-IEejv_E426hHHZGCrsxRMYFpvSrqjWkDRr1M0NKpyGQs5Dbk

Past Events

​On May ​7, 2020, from Wroclaw, Poland, Cloud Conversations' curator Anne Murray spoke with Artist Kinga Bartniak about her project Legumina Second Life.
"Statistically, during the pandemic situation, the average time of talking to a new person on dating portals is getting longer. Can a conversation become a substitute for physicality? Maybe on the contrary - it becomes a mental touch? During isolation, online forms of communication - text and video chats - return. A form of so-called Role Play is common, where participants play scenes involving other senses - not only sight and hearing.
How to provide an experience equivalent to touch?" Kinga Bartniak
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​https://bartniakkinga.wixsite.com/portfolio
The Poet-A-Thon is now officially listed as an event in the Festival of Hope by Versopolis!     

On ZOOM- Please join Cloud Conversations Curator Anne Murray for an Endless Night of poetry and prose around the world! Zoom in through these links from a Budapest Sunset on April 25th to a Sunset on April 26th in Budapest- Sunset to Sunset. Yes, that is a 24 hour night around the world!! Perpetual Poetry and some moments to ask questions, share and exchange thoughts during each session and then a 30 minute break until the next one starts. 

All are welcome to participate by sharing poems, prose, excerpts from longer writing in turn to keep a momentum of Hope traveling around the world in just one Endless Night . Please share your native language with us, we are a world of multiplicity, a prismatic vision of the future!
Our opening guest writer and artist was John Ebbert.
Ebbert holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Pratt Institute and is currently working on two novels: Plain Paper Wrapper, a highly-illustrated middle grade novel; and Under Nether Sky, an ambitious tale of stories within stories that creates a complete mythology for a race of left-facing flounder from the ocean floor up. Ebbert is also working on a number of picture books with his wife Mison Kim, and an illustrated book of poetry called TOSS. 
https://www.johnebbert.com/
Time: Apr 25, 2020, 20:30-21:00 PM Budapest Time (14:30-15:00 EST in USA)
Artist Joshua Rubin will share some of his writing inspired by the people on the streets of New York City.
​http://www.joshuadylan.net/
Time: Apr 25, 2020, 21:30-22:00 PM Budapest Time (20:30-21:00 en Alger)
Algerian musician Adjeneg Abbas played music like poetry from Paris, France.
Time: Apr 25, 2020, 22:30-23:00 PM Budapest Time
Actress and Writer Casey Seymour-Kim will share poetry from Providence, Rhode Island.
Time: Apr 25, 2020, 23:30-00:00 PM Budapest Time
Writer, Actor, and Founder of Avalonia Film Festival  Mike Messier will share his work from Jacksonville, Florida.
​https://mikemessier.com/ ​
Time: Apr 26, 2020, 00:30-01:00 Budapest Time
Artist and Poet Vasiliki Antonopoulou will read from London. ​
​https://vasilikiantonopoulou.com/
Time: Apr 26, 2020 01:30-02:00 AM Budapest Time (02:30-03:00 Istanbul Time)
Writer, Artist, and Musician, Said Toumi, will read from Istanbul, Turkey.
Time: Apr 26, 2020 02:30-03:00 AM Budapest Time
Le conteur Algérien, Fares Idir a conté de Bejaia, Algerie. 
Time: Apr 26, 2020 03:30-04:00 AM Budapest Time (7:30pm-8:00pm in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Michael Conforti reads from his novel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Time: Apr 26, 2020 09:30-10:00 AM Budapest Time (same time in Spain)
Writer Theo Berry will read an eclectic selection of his favorite poetry from his home in Alicante, Spain.
​Time: Apr 26, 2020 10:30-11:00 AM Budapest Time
The Writer and Artist Greg Baines reads his work from Gunning, Australia.
https://www.facebook.com/Greg-Baines-Writer-358910581613525
Time: Apr 26, 2020 12:30-13:00 PM Budapest Time
The Artist REYNA reads from Toulouse, France
​http://reyna-art.net/
Time: Apr 26, 2020 16:30-17:00 PM Budapest Time (15:30-16:00 London time)
Artist Filmmaker/writer L. Barron will read some of her poetry from London.
Time: Apr 26, 2020 18:30-19:00 PM Budapest Time (17:30-18:00 London Time)
Zoë Marden read some poems from Lockdown in London
Time: Apr 26, 2020 19:30-20:00 PM Budapest Time
Artist and Writer Anne Murray closed the Poet-a-Thon with her original poems, from her studio in Budapest.
www.annemurrayartist.com
On April 25th, Curator of Cloud Conversations Anne Murray met with Artist Amado Alfadni in Cairo on ZOOM. The event was open to the public.  
​Alfadni is an Egyptian-born Sudanese artist working with printmaking, sculpture, sound, installation, and photography.

"My work discusses the relationship between the included and the excluded, and opens dialogue on issues of identity and politics.
​By working with forgotten historical events and current state policies, I raise questions of power dynamics between the individual and authority on a social and political level." 

Amado Alfadni

https://amadoalfadni.com/
On April 23rd, Curator of Cloud Conversations Anne Murray spoke with author and artist Gregory Baines in a small village outside of Canberra, Australia on ZOOM. Baines is the author of The Nail House, a novella published in August of 2019, as well as Concrete Fish and Disco Mao.
Baines, a native Australian, lived in China for more than ten years, which has been a great inspiration for his writing. 

https://www.facebook.com/Greg-Baines-Writer-358910581613525
On March 30th, 2020, we had our first ZOOM Cloud Conversation with Curator of Cloud Conversations Anne Murray speaking to Director and Screenwriter Mike Messier in Jacksonville, Florida. The event was open to the public on ZOOM and was recorded live. 
​https://mikemessier.com/
https://distancefromavalon.com/avalonia-festival/
On April 3rd, 2020, artist Vasiliki Antonopoulou met with curator Anne Murray to introduce her recent video and performance work, which incorporates poetic writing and images of landscape, architecture, and the figure. This took place from her London studio on ZOOM and was open to the public.
https://vasilikiantonopoulou.com
On April 5th, 2020, artist Joshua Rubin met with curator Anne Murray to speak about his ongoing series of paintings, Exposed Human Attitudes on ZOOM, from his studio in Brooklyn, New York. The event was open to the public.
Rubin's paintings address the racism and xenophobia that is exposed on the bathroom walls of New York's architecture.
http://www.joshuadylan.net/
​www.joshuarubin.art
On April 8th, 2020, our curator, Anne Murray, met with artist Seren Morey live from her studio in  Brooklyn, New York on ZOOM. The event was open to the public. Morey's work is a manifestation of the energy and movement we experience all around us. Her textural paintings come to life in a myriad of forms and colors, bursting with a cosmic energy.
http://serenmorey.com/
On April 9th, 2020, Anne Murray, Curator of Cloud Conversations met with artist Andrei Farcasanu in his Barcelona Studio on ZOOM.
​The event was open to the public. Farcasanu's photographic series, Timeless Interventions, are bespoke lith prints capturing moments of poetry in everyday life. As a response to Farcasanu's work, Murray shared poetry written about his uniquely intimate photographs.
http://www.andreifarcasanu.com/
On April 14th, 2020, Cloud Conversations' curator Anne Murray met with artist Jeanette Doyle in Dublin on ZOOM. Doyle's work is connected to theorists Jean-François Lyotard and Lucy Lippard with its references from immateriality to dematerialization like dancing synapses across different media. The event was open to the public.
http://www.jeanettedoyle.com/
On April 18th, 2020, Cloud Conversations' curator Anne Murray met with Artist Mison Kim in her Greenville, New York studio on ZOOM. The event was open to the public.
Kim's work reminds one of flow visualization; there is not one chosen perspective, but more a flow of energy, of interrelationships of choices in drawing, painting, and color sequences.

http://www.misonkim.com/wordpress/
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Cloud Conversations is about bringing artists from around the world to you, so you can see and understand who they are and what their work is about.  It connects artists from different disciplines, cultures, and philosophies to bring the best minds together using art as a way to better understand our society and perhaps, to help build a stronger and brighter vision for our world, through intelligent investigation and hard work.

This project is curated by Anne Murray.