ATTITUDE: ATTITUDE 3

3rd Attitude festival
2006 Cultural Center Magaza; Bitola, Macedonia

Selectors:
ELEMENTI with partners: International Art Expo, Italy; The One Minutes Foundation, Amsterdam; Prima Center, Berlin; Artens, Greece; Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

Participants:

Tracy Cornish, Australia
Tim Deussen, Germany
Mamta B.Herland, Norway
Damir Niksic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jovan Balov, Macedonia/Germany
Shahram Entekhabi (Iran/Germany)
Gerasimos Kyriakopoulos, Greece
Luna Park, Greece
Lisa Yachia, Italy
Mirna Arsovska, Macedonia
Sofia Simaki, Greece
Claudia Kappenberg, United Kingdom
Magda Matwiejev, Australia
Yi-Li-Yeh, Taiwan
Willehed Elliers, Germany
Nils Muhlenbruch, Netherlands
Brunel Wester, Netherlands
Jan Gryczan, Germany
Frans Hofmester, Netherlands
Tom Estlack, USA
Karen Tzina Georgudis, Greece
Hop La, France/Germany
Dionysios Kavaleiratos & Sifis Likakis , Greece
Georgia Kotretsos, Greece
Jason Mena, Puerto Rico
Grecoteam, Greece
Nicky Zwaan, Netherlands
Florian Goettke, Germany

Michael Butink, Netherlands
Vedran Samanovic, Croatia
Borjan Zafirovski, Macedonia
Michaela Strumberger, Austria/Germany
Georgia Kotretsos, Greece
Cliff Caines, Canada
Dragan Zivancevic, Serbia/

Germany

Mary Zygouri,Greece
Pui Lee, United Kingdom
Cheng Shin-Chun, Taiwan
Etta Safve, Netherlands
Velimir Zernovski, Macedonia
Mandy Albani, Greece
Maria Sarri & Yanis Stamatiou, Greece
Kostas Tzimoulis, Greece
Tina Kotsi, Greece
Heiko Daxl, USA
Eleni Tzirtzilaki, Greece
Yota Ioannidou, Greece
Arthur Neve, Netherlands
Vasilis Patmios-Karouk, Greece
ATHSL group, Greece
Guido van der Werve, Netherlands
Sanny Overbeeke, Netherlands
Tony Hofman, Netherlands
Michael Oven & Carole Ann Klonarides, USA
Kristin Lucas, USA
Karolina Sobecka, USA
Jacqueline Goss, USA
Bryan Doyle, USA
Mauricio Mayorga, Colombia
Gregory Steel, USA
Gianluca Bianchino, USA
Hubert Dobler, Austria
Lino Cairo (Italy)
Alberto Nacci (Italy)
Aleksandar Grozdanovski, Macedonia
Gerben kruk, Netherlands
OPA, Macedonia
Nuno Godinho, Portugal
Sarah Tremlett, United Kingdom
Matthew Bradley, Australia
Luca Curci & Fabiana Rosciolli,Italy
Zaneta Vangeli, Macedonia
Dominique Panhuysen, Netherlands
Yane Calovski, Macedonia
Charles Citron, Netherlands
Jana Kunovska, Macedonia
Orit Ishay, Israel
Marina Gertsovskaya,

Russia

Chris de Lutz , USA
Darko Moraitov, Macedonia
Vladimir Knezevic, Macedonia
Iwona Borkovska & Lucina Viale, Poland
Beti Avramovska, Macedonia
Valentin Dimanovski, Macedonia
Marina Lyubaskina, Russia
Ljupco Temelkovski, Macedonia
Skip Blumberg USA
Marina Gertsovskaya

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