Fwd: ATTITUDE - video /short & experimental film/ photography festival - Bitola, Macedonia

[claudia westermann]

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>ATTITUDE
>video /short & experimental film/ photography festival
>Bitola, Macedonia
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>Opening:  December 24 / 2005  at  20.00
>Bitola, Macedonia - Cultural Center "Magaza"  (Institute and Museum)
>Organizer: Center for Contemporary Public Arts ELEMENTI
>Curator: Biljana Petrovska Isijanin
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>PRESS RELEASE  
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>Festival ATTITUDE ATTITUDE video /short & experimental film/ 
>photography festival curated by Biljana Petrovska Isijani 
>encompasses more than 60 artists at Cultural Center "Magaza" in 
>Bitola, Macedonia. Festival launches on 24.12. 2005 with a 
>photograph exhibition and video projections.
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>The festival will open with the screening of Fabiana Roscioli's 
>video, titled "Impossible love" by Luca Curci.
>The contributing artists are Vladimir Nikolic (Serbia and 
>Montenegro), Massimo Franchi (Italy), Laura Skocek(Austria), Jovan 
>Balov (Macedonia/Germany), Igor Ivanov-Izi (Macedonia), Alex Villar 
>(USA), Hose Alejandro Lopez (Sweden), Aleksandar Vasiljevic/Sasa 
>Markovic/Stephen Howard (Serbia and Montenegro), Pogan-Pagan 
>(Macedonia), Caroline Waltman (Netherlands), Martin Zet (Czech 
>Republic), Aleksandar Grozdanovski (Macedonia), Hristina Ivanoska 
>(Macedonia), Boris Mladenovic (Serbia and Montenegro), Corpicrudi & 
>Francesco Arena (Italy), Gilles Delalex & Thomas Wessel-Cessieux 
>(France), Cecelia Condit (USA), Hilda Hiary (Jordan), Fulvio 
>Rifuggio (Italy), Tine Louise Kortermand (France), Flavio Sciole 
>(Italy), Claudia Mongini (Austria), Alex Grant (USA), Natasha Beste 
>(USA), Sebastian Schluglmann & Helene A(punkt) (Austria), Ariane 
>Maugery (France), Lasse Brandt and Bosse Sudenburg (Germany), Oneika 
>Russell (Jamaica), Wiktor Polak (Poland), Augusto & Flavia Netto 
>Sisa (Paraguay), Luis Gabriel Cantillo Mojica (Colombia), Pablo 
>Ribot & Debbie Grimberg (Argentina), Roberto Belini Alves Monteiro 
>(Brazil), Paulina del Paso Gordillo & Pedro Gonzales Deister 
>(Mexico), Jorge Alberto Alban Dobles (Costa Rica), Sejla Kameric 
>(Bosnia & Herzegovina), Erzen Shkololli (Kosovo), Artists Without 
>Walls (Israel), Marcia Brandao (Brazil), Diego David Cifuentes 
>Guerra (Ecuador), Carlos Fernando Osuna (Colombia), Seung ah Lee 
>(Korea/UK), Kira Kim (Korea/UK), Mirna Arsovska (Macedonia), Franc 
>Purg (Slovenia), Jakup Feri (Kosovo), Sasa Vrabic (Slovenia), 
>Patrick Ward (United Kingdom), Damir Niksic (Bosnia and 
>Herzegovina),Natasha Dimitrievska (Macedonia), Vanja Dimitrova 
>(Macedonia), Peter Holl (Austria), Songul Boyraz (Austria/Turkey), 
>Caroline Koebel (USA), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Gulsun Karamustafa 
>(Turkey), Selda Asal (Turkey), Valentin Dimanovski (Macedonia), 
>Charles Citron (Netherlands), Elementi (Macedonia), Osman Bozkurt 
>(Turkey), Orit Ishay (Israel), Viktor Sekularac (Serbia and 
>Montenegro), Reinhard Bernsteiner (Austria), Katerina Veljanovska 
>(Macedonia), Tracy Cornish( Australia), and Darko Prokes (Croatia).
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>The photography exhibition will be opened on January 20th 2006. On 
>28th of December 2005, the project Rooms by Danish group N55 will be 
>presented as a part of this event. N55 designed a room for 
>discussions and production of non-commercial works on individual 
>rights. This idea is very close to the concept of this festival 
>which expresses the different conception towards some established 
>criteria in this kind of manifestations.  
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>The organizer of "Attitude" is the Center for Contemporary Public 
>Arts "Elementi" from Bitola, Macedonia. Since 1992, "Elementi" 
>worked as a group and in 2002 it became an association which 
>organizes international exhibitions of contemporary art in the 
>country and abroad. Center for Contemporary Public Arts "Elementi" 
>are: Biljana Petrovska Isijanin (art director), Ljupco Isijanin  and 
>Mirna Arsovska.
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>Selectors the "Attitude" Festival:
>Biljana Petrovska Isijanin/Mirna Arsovska/Ljupco Isijanin - Center 
>for Contemporary Arts ELEMENTI, Bitola Macedonia
>Luca Curci - International ART EXPO - Italy
>Sasa Janjic- REMONT Gallery Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
>Margarethe Makovec- < rotor > Gallery, Graz Austria
>Alenka Gregoric - SKUC Gallery-Ljubljana, Slovenia
>Basak Senova- NOMAD Istanbul, Turkey
>Melentie Pandilovski -Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide  Australia
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>Support:
>The project is mainly supported by "Pro Helvetia" - Skopje (Swiss 
>Cultural Program in Macedonia)
>It is partly supported by USA Embassy in Macedonia
>It has media & technical support by TERA Television
>Sponsor for the opening: BOVIN Negotino
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>Contact persons:
>In Bitola           Biljana Petrovska Isijanin   ++389 47 252 877 
> or 071 746 481
>In Skopje         Mirna Arsovska                ++389 2 3062 112  or 
> 070 678 279
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