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Syndicate: UG FIA and Workshop, Banja Luka |
[general info and a call for designers] Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 22:54:56 +0200 From: atv <atv@inecco.net> Organization: Alternativna Televizija Banjaluka Subject: Workshop, Banja Luka UG FIA and WORKSHOP. UG FIA is an art group from Belgrade established in late 80-ties. So far we had more then 50 exhibitions all around the world, some of our works are exhibited in New York Museum of Contemporary Art. We have produced 7 artistic calendars for years 1993-1999 (NEMOGUCE, L'IMPOSSIBLE, LA VIE MOBILE, DANCE BALKANIQUE, SURREALISME-OPTIMISME, PHATAMORGANA, etc) and have many other projects - e-zines, performances, video art, etc. NGO WORKSHOP is recently established organization. (Our first, and so far the only, realised project was - Banja Luka night in Roxy club in Prague on May 4, 1999, that contained a premiere of a documentary film about Banja Luka, concert of a rock band from Banja Luka and an exhibition of BL photographers). Our main task is to establish relationships between Bosnian and other European artists, and to put city of Banja Luka on a cultural map of Europe, meaning that we would like to bring artists from European countries to present their work in Bosnia and to get Bosnian artists to perform/exhibit in Europe. Idea is to make a multimedia cultural center here in BL that would gather local artists and provide them with equipment, contacts, etc. needed for their work and presentation of their work, and also to get foreign artists to perform/exhibit here, to meet local artists and finally to try to organize joint projects. We are still in a process of finding a proper place for our cultural center. In doing that we have help from Dutch organization C.R.A.S.H. (they provided a grant in equipment needed for launching the club (P/A system, lighting, furniture, etc.) + Revajvl Center from Prague (our partners for establishing of a cultural center). One of projects conceived by ug FIA and Workshop is a project called CALENDAR 2000 The basic idea is to make a calendar for year 2000 with 12 different artists (graphic designers) from 12 different european countries designing one month of a calendar. Significance of a year 2000 is obvious (new millenium, etc), but Europe (as things stand at this moment) is entering new millenium with war on a part of its territory, and whole 20th century was history of world and other minor clashes, cold war, etc. With this project we would like to enter new millenium with cross-european joint project showing that all our differencies can be used in making a common thing/object. (every designer should creatively play with some national/traditional symbol (not official simbol like flag but sth traditional) of his home country, sth that can be easily recognised as coming from France, Austria, Bosnia, etc.). The final product will be an allEuropean calendar for year 2000 and new millenium. This is still a rough idea that needs to be polished. And we definitely need all the help we can get. So far, we have confirmation of artists from Bosnia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Austria and Czech republic to participate in this project. We need six more (not from mentioned countries of course). The calendar should be printed in Bosnia (as a sign of its recovery after the war on its territory). If you are interested in participating in this project, please, get in touch. All the best, Slobodan Tabakovic Nada Rajicic atv <atv@inecco.net> ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress