[spectre] TiCA newsletter

[Geert Lovink]

> From: "TICA TIRANA INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART" 
> <contact.tica at gmail.com>
> TIRANA INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART ORGANZIES:
>  
> Why does gravity make things fall?
>   
> Date and time: 15th of March 2007 at 7pm
> Place: The International Center of Culture "Arbnori", in the spaces of 
> ICC.
> The exhibition is open every day between 9am-7pm.
>  
> Why does gravity make things fall?  is conceived and organized by the 
> TICA -Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, with the support of 
> European Cultural Foundation, International Centre of Culture 
> "Arbnori", Institute of Tirana Biennale, Tirana Town Hall  and Moving 
> Culture. The exhibition is curated by Tina Finnäs.
>  
> TICA's first Residency Period is coming to an end which will be 
> celebrated with an exhibition featuring the projects of the Residency 
> artists: Sidi Kanani, Shkodër, Albania; Damir Ocko, Zagreb, Croatia 
> and Nitsan Domidiano, Jerusalem, Israel.
> During the two month stay each one of the artists has been developing 
> works that in different ways relates to the place of their stay; 
> Tirana.
>  Nitsan Domidiano has been observing the everyday life in Tirana. Her 
> work Notes presents the conceptions, or rather misconceptions, seen 
> through the eyes of the artist. These six short videos are like notes 
> that one would write in her diary, regarding the impressions Tirana 
> left on her. Each video has its own label: history, language, 
> religion, education, progress and bureaucracy.
> The End of the World is a story about a place hidden far beyond 
> telescope devices and star navigations, in time when the Earth was 
> flat and the Sun rotating around it. Damir Ocko has worked during the 
> Residency Period on a film that portrays wonderers and blindfolded 
> strangers in a distorted gameplay. As in most of Ockós works the drama 
> in the story is strenghten by using music.
> In Sidi Kananis paintings we can see stylized reproductions of 
> different abandoned buildings. The atmosphere in the paintings is 
> ghostlike and has a strong presence of the history related to each 
> place. It is like if the buildings would want to tell us a story: 
> about the past and what once took place here. In the exhibition why 
> does gravity make things fall we can see four paintings of the pyramid 
> in the centre of Tirana. Like in Sidis previous works this building 
> stands alone asking us for attention and referring to the title of the 
> work: as if it would be calling for identity.
>  
> For more information about our events and activities please visit our 
> website on the following address: www.tica-albania.org
> TICA- Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art is founded and directed by:
> Monica Melin, artist; Edi Muka, curator; Joa Ljungberg, curator; Gezim 
> Qendro, curator; Tina Finnäs, artist and Stefano Romano, artist and 
> curator.