Syndicate: Establishment of BAN

["misko" <mpandil@soros.org.mk>]

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:
 
/Â Â  To establish conditions for a 
functioning art market
/Â  To facilitate artist mobility and 
exchange of production and presentation of art work
/Â  To enhance the awareness of local, 
regional and common problems as well as resources
/Â  To work for a establishment of an open 
platform for funding the development of 
independent art production 
/Â  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)
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)Â  

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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