http://www.arttoday.org News and events from the schedule of Art Today Association Plovdiv en Copyright (c) Arttoday.lab blum@arttoday.org blum@arttoday.org Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:44:04 +0200 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:44:04 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sunday 20 Contemporary Art in Plovdiv, Bulgaria RSS Builder 60 http://www.arttoday.org http://www.arttoday.org/art-base/site/images/logo/at-logo.png 41 40 Arttoday logo http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath Open Call Facade Video Festival 2012 Media and video artists all around the world are invited to send video art for the 3rd editon of the Facade Video Festival that will take place in Plovdiv between the 12th and 16th of September 2012. Facade Video Festival is a project of the Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv , The Ancient Bath. The Facade Video Festival intertwines people, art and urban environment by video art projections onto the walls of houses all around the city, which is a still quite unusual artistic practise in Plovdiv. Submission Deadline: 31st of May 2012 - 00:00 More about the festival and the Open Call: on www.facade.arttoday.org. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:44:04 +0200 http://www.arttoday.org/#228 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath Art Positive 2012 -MINI- Concept: Stefka Tsaneva Open Call Art Today Association – Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath organizes the annual festival Art Positive – an unique in its kind and scale forum for manifestation of artists from Plovdiv which promotes the development of contemporary art in all its forms. The ninth edition of the festival has the ambiguous motto -MINI-. The concept -MINI- is a starting point for artistic explorations and an endless field for interpretations and associations. It gives many possibilities for experiments with the topic, materials and techniques. -MINI- as minimalism, as a radical refusal and liberation from ornaments. Minimalism - as a search for the fundament of art and as a focus on the creative energy on one single form, color or sound. The minimalism as the end phase of the eternal cycle of art which destroys the already existing opulence and makes a new way for the modern. Or minimalism as a small claustrophobic space in which the artist desperately tries to fit an idea. The minimalistic movement in art originates from the 60s in the USA and has proven itself as a unique provocation towards the audience which is left alone with its own imagination and has to reach the massage of art without any help. But also minimalism as a border position in art which rebels against the already existing aesthetics. -MINI- has the potential to wake the memory of minimalism which is still alive due to artists like Robert Morris and Sol Lewitt. -MINI- is also a provocation towards the modern society. We all live in a situation of pre-apocalyptic fear of the collapse of globalization in a time when people are forced to live with the minimum. This minimum’s position on the scale of welfare is an unknown value which wakes new predictions and fears. But the minimum is a challenge towards the artist in a situation of reduction of the market and resourses. –MINI- challenges the definitions of how art originates and which is the absolute minimum for the existence of an artwork. -MINI- is also a linguistic provocation which stimulates the associative thinking and gives infinite possibilities for interpretations in all areas of art. Terms of participation: 1. A short biography 2. Idea for a project – description and budget 3. Visual materials To submit at office@arttoday.org in the following formats: doc., pdf., jpg., mpeg2. Deadline: 05.03.2012 RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:08:28 +0200 http://www.arttoday.org/#227 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath The 17th Week of Contemporary Art The End and Beyond Art Today Association is pleased to present the project “The End and Beyond” within the framework of the 17th Week of Contemporary Art Curator: Vera Mlechevska Artists: Cyprien Gaillard, Janek Simon, Rada Boukova, Vikenti Komitski, Nasan Tur, Isabelle Krieg, Markus Selg, Boryana Rossa & Oleg Mavromatti feat. Ultrafuturo, Igor Bosnjak, Luiza Margan, Erik Sikora, Pavel Sterec, Lara Favaretto, Lubri, Nedko Solakov, Pravdolub Ivanov The future is over and now we stand on the ruins of projects for happy and prospering humankind. During the last decades a start countdown has been activated from ground zero and it set a new threshold between old and new in the intersexual relations, geopolitics and history, wishing to close chapters with antiquated rules. The artists who participate in the exhibition do not search for an apocalypse at all means, or at least – they do not find their audience after that. Most of them offer us a view from the end and beyond. Their artworks turn time into an endless loop, time, which bends into itself and carries different perspective to past events; it offers us to believe into new utopias or to dethrone the belief that the future is happy. Today we live beyond the end of the story, beyond the end of art... As we find ourselves in that very moment when the animation character has stepped over the edge of the precipice, and walked into the air and a second after he has realized that, he would fly down. The exhibition “The End and Beyond” will be opened on 9th September, 18:00 o’clock at Center for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv, the Ancient Bath and it will remain open until 9th October, 2011. Working hours: 11:00 – 18:00. Closed on Monday With the support of the Foundation of “America for Bulgaria”, Municipality of Plovdiv, Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Robert Bosch Foundation, Pro Helvetia, Czech Cultural Centre Sofia and of the media partners BNT Plovdiv, Katra FM and Radio Plovdiv. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:12:19 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#226 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath FAÇADE VIDEO FESTIVAL 09. – 13. September 2011 “Façade” is an international festival of video art, organized by Art Today Association and hold annually in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The films from the competition program together with some video installations will be projected on the façades of different buildings in the Old City of Plovdiv, in the period from 9th until 13th September from 21:00 until 22:30. “Façade Video Festival” enjoys particular popularity in Bulgaria and abroad, although it is only the second time it has been held. The competent international jury selected 93 short films by 83 artists from 24 countries among the great number of candidates. This year we have participants from all over Europe, as well as from Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, North Korea, and Taiwan. “Façade” has no particular requirements to the themes or the genres of the films, but it attempts to promote young artists throughout the world, who work with experimental and art films. The open space becomes active, the façades become alive and thus the festival looks for points of intersection between architecture, visual arts and urban environment. With the kind support of the Foundation America for Bulgaria, Municipality of Plovdiv, Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Foundation Robert Bosch and the media partners BNT Plovdiv, Katra FM and Radio Plovdiv. For more information, the list of the participants, an archive, and contacts: www.facade.arttoday.org Program Friday, 09. 09. 2011. 20:30 – Cocktail opening of the festival, Lapidarium (next to the Balabanov House) 21:00 – Start of the screenings Alles in Ordnung (Everything’s Fine) – Verena Seibt and Clea Stracke, Germany 2010 Without title– Christian Eisenberger, Germany, 2010 Stone Scissors Paper – Sylvia Nicolaides, Cyprus, 2010 Electric Garden – Micheline Dorucher, Canada, 2009 I Am – Sylvia Nicolaides, Cyprus, 2009 Without title (Jona) – Andreas Schneider, Germany, 2008 The Steamroller and the Plumbers – Thiago Parizi, Germany, 2011 Touchscape – Kenji Ouellet, Germany, 2010 Cesta (Journey) – Marta Daeuble, France, 2011 Instructional Video – Kalina Terzieva, Bulgaria, 2011 Synchronisation – Kamen Stoyanov, Austria, 2010 Beneath It All… I Am Human – Baptist Coelho, India, 2009 Self-Destruction for Eternity – Wei-Ming Ho, Taiwan, 2011 Nordic Mosh – Gun Holmstrom, Finland, 2011 (en) vestida – Anna Natt and Alex Forge, Germany, 2011 23:00 – Open end – after party in the Center for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath, with music by Yankovable, Gone Thru & Martin Saturday, 10.09. 2011. 20:00 – Presentation of “FILTER Detroit – transformation and observation” by Kerstin Niemann, a member of the international jury of the festival and freelance curator from Germany. She will present three film projects, produced by the participants in FILTER Detroit – research project for artists and cultural producers, ho work with space, urban intervention and transformation. Eu Sou Um Artista, Sov Un Atista, soc un artista, I'm an artist – Natalia Ribeiro Magdalena de Mello, Brazil, 2011 Reaping the Fallen – Mikael Prey, Sweden, 2010 Only Two Things - Nadine Zoller, Germany, 2010 When We Are In Heaven – Daniela Risch, Germany, 2008 And the Ship Sails On – Verena Seibt and Clea Stracke, Germany, 2009 Flickering – Kika Nicolela, Brazil, 2009 Choral – Jeremie Dauliac, France, 2010 RGB – Stefka Tsaneva, Germany, 2011 As If… – Chiara Scarfo, Italy, 2010 Propaganda 1 – Lois Fried, Germany, 2010 Desesmetak 2 – Kika Nicolela, Brazil, 2009 Lilong – Valentina Fernandes, UK, 2009 Novia – Chiara Scarfo, 2010 If It Would Оnly Еnd... – Baptist Coelho, India, 2009 Polymoids – Tina Willgren, Sweden, 2010 The Dreams of Ghengis Khan – Danny Winkler and Emilia Loseva, UK, 2009 Fenella – Tai Amiran, UK, 2011 Sunday, 11.09. 2011 20:00 – Presentation by Adelina Popnedeleva, video artist, artist and member of the international jury of the festival. The selection “After the feminism” puts together video art works, created by female artists in the period 1996 – 2006. Hours in Fabra and Coats – Anna Moreno, Spain, 2010 Mirror – Éva Vica Kovács, Hungary, 2010 CD Mobile Machine – Albert Mayr, Austria, 2006 Coimeas – Micheal Salkeld, UK, 2010 High Wire – Joseph Ismail, UK, 2010 Requiem for Cosmos Cinema – Viktor Yankov and Krum Filiopov, Bulgaria, 2011 Caffeine – Danae Diaz, Germany, 2011 Mecha Cardboard House – Samuel Dermigny, France, 2010 To The Moon – Yunji Park, South Korea, 2009 +1°C – Dénes Ruzsa, Hungary, 2009 Something Terrible Has Happened – Baptist Coelho, India, 2009 C’est la vie (That’s Life) – Adelina Popnedeleva, Bulgaria, 2011 Workout – Tina Willgren, Sweden, 2011 Canal Glitch – Gun Holmstrom, Finland, 2011 Al Vessga – Samuel Dermigny, France, 2009 Focus (No1) – Sam Holden, UK, 2009 Speak – Clare Harris, England, 2010 Breakfast in Rubljovka – Eugenia Gortchakova, Germany, 2011 Trace, Drawing, Walking – Joseph Ismail, UK, 2010 The Museum – Gerbrand Burger, The Netherlands, 2010 Monday, 12.09. 2011 Tivating – Niall Farrell, North Ireland, 2010 Spaces – Signe Chiper-Lillemark, Denmark, 2010 Fragments For Piano – Gergana Stomatova, Bulgaria, 2011 Colourful EU – Peter Vadocz, Hungary, 2009 Vehicles – Tina Willgren, Sweden, 2009 Tatitude – Vivian Ostrovsky, France, 2009 70 Still Frames and 5 Minutes 50 Seconds of Video – Sam Holden, UK, 2008 Golem and the Plumbers – Thiago Parizi, Spain, 2011 Film Machine – Babylonia Constantinides and Franz Wanner, Germany, 2010 The Judgement – Kosta Tonev, Bulgaria, 2011 Petiofi Street – Nicola Minchev and Zhenia Bozukova, Bulgaria, 2011 In Between – Katerina Apostolidou, Greece, 2010 Winter – Еugenia Gortchakova, Germany, 2011 Facades – Tai Amiran, UK, 2011 The Title Was Shot – Vivian Ostrovsky, France, 2009 Universal Tourist – Christine Bolewski, Germany, 2010 Slick Horsing – Kiron Hussain, England, 2010 Erasing – Sylvia Nicolaides, Cyprus, 2010 Little Girl – Clare Harris, England, 2010 Facial Perception (Algilama) – Tahir Ün, Turkey, 2010 Three Light Studies – Ted Sonnenschein, Germany, 2011 My Jazz – Emanuela Lorga, Moldova, 2011 Rihla – Gerbrand Burger, The Netherlands, 2009 Feed – Еlena Кnox, Australia, 2009 Tuesday, 13.09. 2011 Time – Katerina Liana (Kukuland), Greece, 2010 Excuse Me – Kati Bessenyei, Hungary, 2010 Survival Instinct – Natalia Ribeiro Magdalena de Mello, Brazil, 2011 The Facade (Housewife) – Lauren Moffat, France, 2010 Crossroad – Khalil Charif, Brazil, 2011 Terrain Vague – Markus Keim and Beate Hecher, Austria, 2011 Passing Moment – Clare Harris, England, 2010 DIN 16951 – Sonja Dürscheid, Germany, 2009 Interview #3 – Marlene Denningman, Germany, 2011 Мenu – Daniel-Nicolae Djamo, Romania, 2011 Windows/Screen – Samuel Dermigny, France, 2010 22:15 – Prize awarding ceremony “Facade” 2011 22:30 – TOP 10 in “Facade” 2011 Video-installations in the open space: Taschen (Bags) – Nina Malotta, Germany, 2010 Instantane 11 – Beatrice Plumet, France, 2010 Instantane Chasso - Beatrice Plumet, France, 2010 RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:22:16 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#225 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath FLUID GROUND A symposium on board of a cargo ship across the Black Sea July 21 - 23, 2011 Public presentation: Wednesday, July 20 - 6 PM, Graffit Gallery, Blvd. Knyaz Boris 65, Varna On Thursday, July 21, a group of 16 artists, curators, theoreticians and cultural activists from 8 different countries will go on board of a ship, connecting the two Black Sea ports of Varna (Bulgaria) and Batumi (Georgia). The program includes lectures, presentations and discussions, real-time interventions and documentation. FLUID GROUND is part of the ATLANTIS network. This initiative fosters crossborder cultural exchange between art professionals through collaborative exhibition projects, residencies for artists and curators, panel discussions, workshops and conferences. The symposium across the Black Sea is based on the idea of inter-disciplinary collaboration, cross-linking artistic practice, knowledge production, research and reflection in this remote and mobile location. The freighter will temporarily be transformed into a thinktank, confronting relevant cultural, artistic, economical, social and political discourses and practices, and blending them together. Thus a journey across the Black Sea will offer an adequate platform to examine questions pertaining to Europe’s identity and integrity. Participants: Inka Thunecke / director Heinrich-Böll-Foundation (Berlin), Karoline Weber / media philosopher (Stuttgart), Ulrike Grelck / art historian (Berlin), Livia Pancu / curator Vector Association (Iasi), Simonetta Ferfoglia, Heinrich Pichler / artist collective "gangart" (Vienna), Nadja Abt / artist (Berlin), Sebastian Bodirsky / filmmaker (Berlin), Anna Soucek / curator (Vienna), Susanna Gyulamiryan / director Arts and Cultural Studies Laboratory (Yerevan), Nino Palavandishvili / curator GeoAIR (Tbilisi), Anastasia Zhivkova / curator (Kiev), Jakob Racek / curator (Plovdiv) This project is kindly supported by Goethe-Institute Bulgaria and the Austrian Embassy in Sofia. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This press release reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:28:16 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#222 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath Margherita Moscardini A project for the Ancient Bath opening: Friday, June 24 - 5 PM exhibition: June 25 - July 16, 2011 The project has its roots in the same place where it is hosted, a place of reference and lived by the artist in residency: the Ancient Bath, with its original hamam structure, nowadays is the base of Plovdiv Contemporary Art Center Art Today. In this building the artist could read the history of the city, not only as the civilization but also as time going across it. As the water of a river carries debris along its course – sometimes leaving them and some other time depositing them – this town apparently doesn’t have a conformity and embellishment planning strategy, but is openly subjected to the flow and the stratification of events and their necessities. The Ancient Bath plan is superimposed to the Bulgaria hydrography, where rivers wildly outline the territory, constantly changing it, ignoring political boundaries and without tracing definitive dividing lines. The empty baths drops – almost like an upside-down pedestal – are considered a big table of study, of information collection and cartographical planning, where information is catalogued into drawers and then unnoticeably lost because of its impossibility to be kept. This represents some local rivers water which floods the environment again drop by drop, challenging its current role and any effort to define a destination. Margherita Moscartini’s residency is part of the exchange program organized these last two years between Nosadella.due and Bulgaria, as part of PASS – Produce Art (as) Social Strategy, created by Giusy Checola in collaboration with Elisa Del Prete. The project is dedicated to Italy exploration as a Mediterranean country and to the dialog with those Eastern European countries which consider Italy as the “promised” or “transit” land, in order to investigate transformation processes through artists practice and point of view. Margherita Moscardini attended the Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Fondazione Ratti, Como, held by Yona Friedman and the workshop by Peter Friedl in Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte, Torino. In 2010 she was invited to take part of the residency program of CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain. In 2007 she won the first edition of Premio Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, building a permanent intervention inside the Vallette prison, in Turin. Her main solo shows: Una Stanza/Fuori Luogo, galleria SpazioA, Pistoia, IT, Studio per un'erosione, Fondazione LaQuadriennale, Roma, IT. Her main group shows: Mastermind, neon>campobase, Bologna, IT, Ada, Musei civici of Imola, Bologna IT, Public Improvisation, careof, fabbrica del vapore, Milano, IT, In Full Bloom, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Kaleidoscope project space, Milano, IT; Collecciò Art Foundation Mallorca, Andratx, Mallorca, SP; EmergingTalents 2011, CCCStrozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, IT; Premio Ariane de Rothschild, Palazzo Reale, Milano, IT. This project is kindly supported by DE.MO./MOVIN'UP - Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Direzione Generale per il Paesaggio, le belle arti, l’architettura e l’arte contemporanee and GAI - Associazione per il Circuito dei Giovani Artisti Italiani. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:50:40 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#221 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv The Ancient Bath SITES + SUBJECTS Performance Art Festival June 16 - 19, 2011 After a successfull launch in 2010 this year´s edition of SITES + SUBJECTS brings together artists from various disciplines in the Center for Contemporary Art - The Ancient Bath as well as in particular venues and in the public space of Plovdiv. Artists from Bulgaria, Serbia, Great Britain, Austria and Germany come together to create a unique atmosphere of creative expression on the crossings of contemporary dance, minimal and electronic music, public interventions and new media arts. The conceptual framework of the festival is characterized by it´s productive openess, with singular performance projects that carry the potential to merge one into another. Simultaneously the distinction of producer and audience is widely trascended through the inclusive approach of most of the artistic projects. Thus SITES + SUBJECTS creates a temporary space of communion through social interaction. For the first time this year the festival offers a series of collateral events, inviting professionals, curators and art historians to talk about the genre of performance art from different angles. Program Thursday, June 16 7 PM opening of the festival 7.15 PM performance / Petit Buffet (Berlin): "Reality Cheque" 8 PM performance / Ansgar Wilken (Berlin): "Pasolini for Chello and Pedal" 9 PM performance / Zabuna (Beograd): "Bring your Noise!" performance / Krasimir Dobrev (Sliven): "The Big Melancholy" All events take place in the Center for Contemporary Art Plovdiv - The Ancient Bath. Friday, June 17 5 PM performance / The Great Learning: Paragraph 1 & 3 & 4 Evangelic church Plovdiv, Lady Strangford Str. 21, Plovdiv 8.30 PM lecture / Ruen Ruenov (Sofia): A Hisory of Performance Art in Bulgaria. The 1990´s artnewscafé, Otec Paisy Str. 38, Plovdiv 9 PM exhibition opening / "Revelation": Mariola Groener, Ben Cottrell Sariev gallery, Otec Paisy Str. 40, Plovdiv Saturday, June 18 2 PM lecture / Eirini Papakonstantinou (Thessaloniki): "Curating Performance" artnewscafé, Otec Paisy Str. 38, Plovdiv 4 PM workshop & concert / Sebastian Lexer (London): "piano+" Academy of Music, Dance and Arts Plovdiv, Concert hall 7 PM performance / WILHELM GROENER (Berlin, Vienna): "Politics of Imagination: Preparation Oracle" Center for Contemporary Art Plovdiv - The Ancient Bath Sunday, June 19 2 PM lecture / Peter Stamer (Vienna): "The Village. On collaboration" Public space, tba. 4 PM performance / The Great Learning, Paragraph 2 & 6 & 7 Center for Contemporary Art Plovdiv - The Ancient Bath The project is kindly supported by Goethe-Institute Bulgaria; Robert Bosch Foundation; Foundation America for Bulgaria; Austrian Embassy Sofia. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:29:36 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#220 http://www.arttoday.org ATLANTIS '11 Art Today Association at the Venice Biennale 2011 Exhibition: 1 – 5 June 2011, 10 am – 6 pm Panel discussions: 2 – 3 June 2011, 7 pm Opening: 1 June 2011, 7 pm Palazzo Zenobio, Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael, Dorsoduro 2596, Venezia The ATLANTIS network connects seven European cities from Berlin to Yerevan through cultural exchange and cooperation between seven institutions working in the field of contemporary art. During the preview days of the 54th Venice Biennial the ATLANTIS network will be presented through the exhibition ATLANTIS '11 and a series of panel discussions all focusing on the theme of “Power and contemporary art”. The ATLANTIS '11 event is organized as part of the HEICO project - Heritage, Identity and Communication in European Contemporary Art Practices, which aims to promote the cultural reflection of the identity in the countries involved in the partnership. The further development of the of the Atlantis project is planed as series of workshops and conferences hosted by the participating countries as well as through artists exchange residency programs in Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Yerevan (Armenia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Bratislava (Slovak Republic) and Chisinau (Moldova). From 1 to 5 June, the ATLANTIS '11 exhibition at the Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael, Palazzo Zenobio, will work as a platform for presentation and discussion of projects originating in these countries. As partners in the ATLANTIS network, the guest curators Emil Mirazchiev and Jakob Racek invited the artists collective R.E.P. (Kiev) to produce a work especially for this occasion. The artists will show the video documentation of their performance "A place, where we won´t be again (Tresene)". The performance recreates the story of the Bulgarian (non)presence at the Venice Biennial as folklore, sang by the traditional Bulgarian folk singer Sonya Georgieva. Art Today Association, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, invited The Bulgarian Pavilion (www.bulgarianpavilion.org) initiative to be presented in Venice. It proposes an alternative for Bulgaria’s sporadical presence in The Venice Biennial by creating a critical platform for diverse artistic activities. The project envisages the pavilion as a symbolic, ephemeral or movable structure and questions the historical relationship between art and power, national representation and international art. Please join the panel discussion "Good Governance? Bad Curating!" on 2 June with the initiators of The Bulgarian Pavilion - Dessislava Dimova, Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, Vera Mlechevska and Vessela Nozharova. Art Today Association is a non-governmental organization founded in 1997. The association is running the Center for Contemporary Art Plovdiv, situated in an Ancient Turkish Bath - a unique monument of culture from the 16th century with a specific interior. Its mission is to present, promote and document alternative and experimental forms of contemporary art; to host artists and curators in residence; to prepare periodical and unique print materials; to implement training programs, workshops and seminars for students and young art professionals; to build an informational multimedia data base presenting contemporary authors. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This press release reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Fri, 27 May 2011 17:06:47 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#219 http://www.arttoday.org Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv, Ancient Bath ART POSITIVE 2011 ELASTICITY 13.05 - 10.06.2011 working hour: Tuesday - Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Participants Ana Salasar, Antonia Kostova, Desislava Dimcheva, Emil Mirazchiev, Konstantin Banderov, Tsonka Valcheva - Michel, Adriana Genadieva, Kolio Karamfilov, Krasimir Dobrev, Lora Parmakova, Martina Vacheva, Nadia Genova, Petar Kochevski, Ramgel Gidikov, Roumen Zekov, Sevdalina Kochevska, Velizar Dimchev, Viktoria Filipova, Yavor Petrushianev. Idea: Mariya Andreeva May 13 - 6.15 PM - performance Ana Salasar 6.30 PM - performance Javor Petrushianev and Break Art supported by RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:54:58 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#216 http://www.arttoday.org art project RE_LOCATE IIlgın Seymen, Gökçe Süvari, Mehmet Dere, Selda Asal, Suat Öğüt, Zeyno Pekünlü, HaZaVuZu (Günes Terkol, Sukru Ozgur Erkok, Zeynep Beler) May 10 - 15, 2011 public presentation May 10, 2011 - 6 PM Center for Contemporary Art - The Ancient Bath "Illuminations: A Theory of Writing presentation by Gita Hashemi (Toronto/Canada) May 11, 2011 - 6 PM Academy of Music, Dance and Arts – Concert hall "Cut the Flow" public intervention by HaZaVuZu Istanbul May 13, 2011 - 5 PM meeting point: Dzhumaya square Taking place in 5 destinations (Istanbul, Plovdiv, Athens, Skopje, Prishtina) RE_LOCATE aims to address the historical fact of compulsory population exchanges in the Balkan region, which took place between two world wars and after, changing borders and possibilities to create new bonds through artistic dialogue. The shared history within the chosen regions; Istanbul (Turkey), Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Athens (Greece), Skopje (Macedonia) and Prishtina (Kosovo) provides a basis to establish a mutual platform to research both about common history and develop a cultural understanding on various levels. The conceptual framework of RE_LOCATE was developed by Apartment Project Istanbul and is divided into two parts: in the first phase the artsits undertake a collective exercise by travelling by bus and train through the Balkans. An experimental workshop involving different ideas emanating from the collective, different experiences brought on by being together and sharing, various narratives using different materials and drawings, photographs, videos, texts and talks produced in places visited. The second phase of the project will be hosted by Apartment Project in Istanbul in July 2011 with resident artists from countries visited: Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia and Kosovo. Finally an exhibition will be realized in Istanbul as a collateral event of the 12th Istanbul Biennial in September and October 2011. Thus RE_LOCATE project endeavors to establish a cultural network on contemporary arts and series of art events to facilitate awareness in the region. Gita Hashemi Artist, curator and writer, Gita Hashemi works with a diverse range of creative/critical strategies including media, installation, performance, intervention and publishing. She has worked extensively in collaborative, networked and participatory contexts using different media including digital text, still and moving image, sound and code. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Australia, Germany, Palestine, Argentina, Thailand, Italy, Poland, Spain and Armenia. www.gitaha.net Project partners: Apartment Project Istanbul, Art Today Association Plovdiv, Nova Melanchoia Athens, Line Initiative Skopje, Stacion - Centre for Contemporary Art Prishtina Supported by European Comission - Program Culture RSS News on arttoday.org Contemporary Art arttoday.org - arttoday@arttoday.org Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:33:28 +0300 http://www.arttoday.org/#215