<nettime> (Fwd) BAN/Balkan Art Network

["MR JAVIER BERNAL" <988005350@98.lincoln.ac.uk>]

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Date sent:      	Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:01:09 +0100
From:           	misko <mpandil@SOROS.ORG.MK>
Subject:        	BAN/Balkan Art Network

Cultural workers, artists, independent art producers and NGOs in the SEE
Region express their deep concern and interest for creating trans-border
networks of communication, transportation and cultural facilities. 

The goal of joining and creating common networks for communication and art
production is: 

/   To establish conditions for a functioning art market

/ To facilitate artist mobility and exchange of production and
presentation of art work

/ To enhance the awareness of local, regional and common problems as well
as resources

/ To work for a establishment of an open platform for funding the
development of independent art production

/ To support curatorial workshops and educational projects in the arts



Proposals for the Conference of Reconstructing Cultural Productivity in
the SEE Region

(02. /04.December 1999, Sarajevo) 


Concrete actions:

1. Establishment of the Balkan Art Network / BAN in Sarajevo, 02. /
03.September, ULUBIH http://zayac.scca.org.mk/ban/



 Members:  

Dean Zahtila (Labin Art Express, Croatia)

Mensud Keco (ULU BIH)

Enver Hadziomerspahic (Ars Aevi, Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo)

Jan Kenneth (University of Art and Design, Helsinki) 

Pertu Rastas (KIASMA, Helsinki) 

Sinisa Rogis (Cyber Rex, Belgrade) 

Katarina Zivanovic (Cyber Rex, Belgrade)  

Borut Vild (CSU Beograd) 

Branislava Andjelkovic (CSU Beograd/ Seminar for History and Theory of
Art) 

Uros Djuric (REMOND) 

Liljana Tadic (Galerija ZVONO) 

Eva Bicskei (Budapest, Museum of Contemporary Art LUDWIG) 

Marta Nagy (Balkon, Contemporary Art Magazine, Budapest) 

Melentie Pandilovski (Contemporary Art Center Skopje) 

Yvana Enzler (PRO HELVETIA, Sarajevo) 

Zlatko Pankov (PANEKS, Skopje)

Dunja Blazevic (SCSU Sarajevo) 

Carmen Scher (Goethe Institut)

Annemarie Turk (KulturKontakt, Austria) 



 2. Following meetings with the topic "From Art Production to Art Market"
 will be organized at:

 2.1.Ohrid, Macedonia, May 2000 within the Conference UNDERSTANDING THE
 BALKANS organized by the Contemporary Art Center - Skopje

 2.2. Labin, Croatia, CC LAMPARNA, September 2000, within the TRANS/ART
 Festival, organized by Labin Art Express 



Both Conferences will be dealing with 

a. Identifying NGOs , artist cooperatives, artists and cultural workers
with interest in permanent communication and exchange of information,
marketing and art production facilities. 

b. Discussions and future art projects, creation of conditions for art
production and marketing . 

3. The BAN will organize and promote series of exhibitions of the Balkan
Contemporary Art with a special stress on new media, video art,
installation, conceptual art and performances, in the major cities of the
Balkans as well as all over Europe. 



BAN considers it of extreme importance to start the process of integrating
local and emerging artists with the international scene, education and to
open the communication to the European cultural scenes and resources. 





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Melentie Pandilovski        

Contemporary Art Center - Skopje

Orce Nikolov 109, 91-MK

+389.91.133.541

http://www.scca.org.mk/

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