[spectre] ATTITUDE - video /short & experimental film/ photography festival - Bitola, Macedonia

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ATTITUDE 
video /short & experimental film/ photography festival
Bitola, Macedonia 
 
Opening:  December 24 / 2005  at  20.00
Bitola, Macedonia ­ Cultural Center ³Magaza²  (Institute and Museum)
Organizer: Center for Contemporary Public Arts ELEMENTI
Curator: Biljana Petrovska Isijanin
 
PRESS RELEASE  

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.

The festival will open with the screening of Fabiana Roscioli¹s video,
titled ³Impossible love² 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).
 
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.
 
The organizer of ³Attitude² is the Center for Contemporary Public Arts
³Elementi² from Bitola, Macedonia. Since 1992, ³Elementi² 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 ³Elementi² are: Biljana Petrovska Isijanin (art
director), Ljupco Isijanin  and Mirna Arsovska.
 
Selectors the ³Attitude² 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
 
Support: 
The project is mainly supported by ³Pro Helvetia² ­ 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
 
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