ATTITUDE: ATTITUDE 4

4th Attitude festival
Bitola 2 - 17 October 2008

Organizer:
Center for Contemporary Public Arts ELEMENTI

Selectors:
Biljana Isijanin (CCPA Elementi)
Jovan Balov (Prima Center Berlin)
Luca Curci (International Art ExpoItaly)
Sophie Leferink (The One Minutes, Amsterdam)
Reinherd Bernsteiner (Franz West Studio, Wien)
Davorka Vucic Sneperger (Visura Aperta, Zagreb)
Dejan Budzevac (Macedonian section of AICA)
Sasha Janjic (Remont , Belgrade)

Lecturer:
Uwe Laysiepen - Ulay

Programe:

2^nd October
Hotel Ambasador

11.00
_ press _

20.00
_ Opening performance_
Reinhard Bernsteiner _ Freaks on tour

Franz West _ Hansi’s look _ video _ objects
_Franz West Studio_

Anton Herzl _ Half sister step daughter _ photo

Kosta Tonev _ photo and video

Ronald Zechner _ Tree parts of a tree _ photo installation

Franz Kapfer _ video

Heiri Haflinger _ Puppentanz _ video

Photo exhibition: _ Albert Gaspari _ Jovan Balov _ Michaela Strumberger _ Genia Chef _ Martin Juef _ Iwona Borkowska & Lucina Viale _ Dagmar Tinschmann-Lichtefeld _ Aleksandra Petrusevska _ Metodi Angelov _ Spencer Murphy

Gallery Magaza

21.00
Luca Curci selection of videos

Photo exhibition: Irena Paskali _ Wadim Rakowski _
Dusan Todorovic _ Spartak Dulic

3^rd October
Hotel Ambasador

18.00
Uwe Laysiepen –Ulay
_ lecture _
The phenomenology of the photographic image
The ontological in the photographic image
Performative photography

20.00
Ulay in photography ( 1995 -97)
_screening_

21.00
The One Minute World Exhibition _ Today Art Museum in Beijing 2008
_ selection of one minute videos _

Gallery Magaza

22.00
Victoria Melody _ Enactment _ video
Mirjana Marinsek Nikolic _ Frida _ video
Sonja Vuk _ Mental Prison _ video
Vlasta Zanic _ An evening prayer _ video & performance
Renata Poljak _ Me, the housewife _video
Darija Andovska /Mladen Dukic _ If you need me _ video
Jovan Balov _ The angel_ Time _ video
Multifex _ Book one _ video
Wolfgang Patrick & Walter Leneritz _ Volkstantz _ video
Christian de Lutz _ Cordoba _ video
Irena Paskali _ Circuit _ video
Gorge Jovanovic _ Sviracinja Fun Club _ video
Nada Prlja (music: Disciplina kicme) _ East West_ video
Marina Markovic _ Consumer whore _ video

4^th October
Gallery Magaza

21.00
Tanja Dabo _ You are wonderful person _ video

The Mondriaan Foundation - Netherlands

Municipality of Bitola

Hotel Ambasador - Bitola

www.hotel-ambasador-bitola.com

Macedonian Airlines

FESTIVAL ATTITUDE Video/Short & Experimental Film/Photography

The artist’s attitude can show a destructible power in the society and can spring the individual to oppose the mind globalization by expressing its authenticity and particularity. Opposing the mind globalization and at the same time using the possibilities of the new technologies, which enables to realize the global communication, a contradiction has been made on which the concept of ATTITUDE is based on – the consciousness of the knowledge that the most powerful way against the mind globalization and concentration of power in the society are in the hands of the artist Going back into the almost abandoned idea that the world can be changed by the individual, ATTITUDE persistently represents the standpoint that the feebleness to change the world is an instigation for changing ourselves.

Can the artist be identified through his(her) own work considering the fact that the new visions and attitudes are changing the image of a new world?

BILJANA PETROVSKA ISIJANIN

Biljana Petrovska Isijanin (1965) is a graduated Art Historian and Archaeologist. Since 1999. she works as a conceptual artist too as well as an Art History teacher in Secondary Music school in Bitola. Her main interest is art managing and curatorial work. She has been working as a curator in Institute and Museum in Bitola (in 1999 and in 2005/2006). In 2002 she has founded the NGO – Center for Contemporary Public Arts “Elementi”(ccpaelementi.blogspot.com) and as a director of this organization she is researching the relation between the individual and the society by creating a situation in which the posed curatorial concept is a basement for making the artwork. She was a curator of international exhibitions in Macedonia: “No-Yes” (2000), “I-You” (2002), “If” (203), “Sites” (2004), “Gates” (2005) with participation of more than 50 artists around the world (www.cac.org.mk/artists/elementi). She was also a curator of Japan-Macedonian exhibition in Yokohama, Japan (Bank Art Gallery in 2004) and she made presentations of Macedonian art in Italy, Netherlands, Japan. She was also a selector of Macedonian one minute videos for the Festival in Amsterdam (2006) and Festival in Beijjing (2008) and national selector for the International exhibition of miniature art in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia (2008). As a conceptual artist she took part at many group exhibitions in Italy (Arta Terme), Japan (Bank Art Gallery Yokohama), Netherlands (Arti and Amicitiae Gallery, Amsterdam), Czech Republic (Center for Metamedia Plasy), Poland (Arsenal Gallery, Byalistok), England (London, NTH Art), Skopje (Museum of Contemporary Art). Since 2006 she is a member of Macedonian section of AICA (International organization of Art critic). Her texts has been published in many catalogues as well as in art magazines and books: “Big Glass” (Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje), “Editing” (Zerynthia, Rome), “Art Republic (Skopje), “Margina” (Skopje) etc.

In the last few years she started the festival “Attitude”- video/short & experimental film/photography in Bitola, Macedonia (2004, 2005, 2006).

She participated in many seminars, workshops and lecturers.

Address/ Boris Budevski 18, 7000 Bitola, Macedonia

e-mail/ elementi@freemail.com.mk
biljana.elementi@gmail.com

phone/ 389 47 257 315
mobile/ 078 257 315