LATEST INFO:
The Making of Balkan Wars: The Game project has been officially presented:
- November 2002, Thessalonica during the FORUM international art exchange meeting
- December 2002, Athens, Conversations 2002, The Direct Involvement of Art with Society in Europe
* more details on the presentations texts you can find : #1 #2
Selected artists and new participants are supposed to submit their proposals ( in the form of information images, written explanation texts on the works, etc) by the 1st April, 2003. Final selection is scheduled for the 1st May, 2003. Then we will inform you about the schedule for the shipping of the works, which will be kept for the whole period of The Making of Balkan Wars: The Game exhibitions, starting in Thessalonica, November 2003 and other sites through 2004. The first part of the exhibition will take place at Thessalonica, Skopje and Belgrade and/or Novi Sad. We will inform you about the dates and other locations of the second part of the exhibitions as soon as they are confirmed.
The Making of Balkan Wars: The Game is intended as a dynamic process, so any further intervention on already submitted and exhibited art works, or submission of a new works, during the series of exhibitions, is warmly encouraged and welcome.
IMPORTANT – for the artists:
In order to anticipate the exhibition and catalogue production for the first show section, we request to have AS SOON AS POSSIBLE detailed information on the works.
Contacts:
Ilias Marmaras game@personalcinema.net mb@hol.gr
Tel: +30 210 3313978
Nina Vagic nina@tuttoarte.com
Tel: +30 210 2135167
Fax: +30 210 8018632
Physical materials can be sent to:
Attention: Maya Bontzou
P.O. Box 30537
Athens 10033
Greece
International collaborators and supporters:
Erden Kosova (curator, writer); Ruxandra Ballaci (curator, writer); Biljana Tanurovska (curator); Violeta Simjanovska (curator); Panos Papadopoulos (producer); Konstia Vassilopoulou (writer); Maria Karamitsopoulou (anthropologist); Edi Muka (curator, writer); Gulsen Bal (artist,curator), Florian Agalliu (curator, writer); Dr. Vassilis Fouskas, international relations specialist and editor of Journal for Southern Europe and the Balkans, Kingston University, UK; Ljubomir Vucinic (curator), Cultural Center of Novi Sad, YU; Nikos Xydakis (curator, journalist)
International Institutional contacts:
PAC New Media Center of Skopje
Contemporary Art Museum of Skopje
Forum for South East Art Exchanges 2002, Thessalonica – presentation of the project November 2002
Art Box, Thessalonica
OTENET International
Media Center, Brussels
C.G.R.I. Brussels
Communaute Francaise de Belgique, Brussels
Goethe Institute
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
Cultural Center, Novi Sad