ATTITUDE: ATTITUDE 1

1st Attitude festival
2003 Club Porta Jazz; Bitola, Macedonia

Participants:
Caroline Koebel, USA
Zev Asher, Canada
Zaneta Vangeli, Macedonia
Tessa Joosse, Netherlands
Jen Morris, Canada
Borjan Zafirovski, Macedonia
Iskra Dimitrova, Macedonia
Hope Hall, USA
Robert Jankuloski, Macedonia
Theo Schepens, Netherlands
Jillian McDonald, USA

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