Today CAN brings you an essay about an international collaboration that began in Israel when two art students organized an "urgent conference" during the 2009 Gaza war. Artist Moran Been-noon writes about Cannons and Muses, a project aimed at enabling artists around the world to collaborate and create art in the context of real-time crisis. In January 2009, writes Been-noon, two dance-theater students at the Kibbutzim Seminar art school, Premshay Hermon and Danielle Natalie Kind, decided to organize a conference at their school, while the war was still 'live,' to review and examine the role of art in real-time crisis. Been-noon (born in Israel, now studying in Dublin) relates the exchanges at the conference and describes new developments as the project has spread around the globe, with upcoming activities planned by cells in Israel, Ireland, Japan, Germany and Iceland. The story is accompanied by a call for local participation by groups all over the world. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham