Biography
Website: http://www.geocities.jp/martina_stirn/

2006-2004 was guest student in the Conceptual Media Studio in The Academy of Fine Art in Prague, Cz; 2004 started with the Magisterial Study of Painting in The Academy of Fine Art in Ljubljana; 2002 graduated in The Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana 1998 graduated The Faculty of Philosophy department psychology in The University of Ljubljana; 1971 born in Kranj, Sl
Solo painting exhibitions: 2007 Hearten, Gallery National University Library, Ljubljana, Sl; 2005 Dancer, Gallery Srečišče, Hostel Celica, Ljubljana, Sl; 2005 Diaphanous, Gallery Bežigrad 2, Ljubljana, Sl; 2004 Glances, Gallery Zapor, Koper, Sl; 2003 Between, Gallery Gasspar, Piran, Sl; 2002 Intersection, Gallery Alkatraz, Ljubljana, Sl; 1999 Self-portrait, Gallery Stara šola, Komen, Sl
Group exhibitions: 2007 Exhibition of participants The Platform LabSUs zavoda SCCA – Ljubljana, Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana, Sl; Pittoraž, Gallery Equrna, Ljubljana, Sl; 4 Elements, Gallery Equrna, Ljubljana, Sl; Esoterica, Gallery Vystavišče, Prague, Cz; 2006 Generation XX 2.m, Gallery Miklova hiša, Ribnica, Sl; Generation XX 2.m, Gallery Slovenian Scientific Institute, Vienna, Aus; 2006 Tender cut, Gallery Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Cz; 2004 The 7 Youngs, Gallery Tenzor, Sl; 2003 Frauen.Raum.Kunst., Landhaus, Eisenstadt, Aus; Young painters from the coast, Gallery Insula, Izola, Pretoria palace, Koper, Palace Gravisi, Koper, Sl; 2000 Women in the display, Supermarket Nama, Festival of youth, Velenje, Sl
Dance Performance: 2007 Intimate parallels, group performances in architecture of Jože Plečnik, Days of Evropean Cultural heritage, Ljubljana, Sl; Sacred Marriage, duo performance, Festival Ana Desetnica, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Sacred Marriage, duo performance, Platform Labsus, Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana, Sl; Sacred Marriage, duo performance, Festival Vstop Prost, Celje, Sl; 4 Elements, group performance, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Opus Magnum, group performance in project Teatron, Goethe Institute in Ljubljana, Theatre Stara Elektrarna-Bunker, Ljubljana, Sla; 2006 Memory of Touches, Body Weather workshop by Frank van de Ven, The Theatre Archa, Prague, Czech Republic; Me kneeling, duo Butoh dance performance with Ryuzo Fukuhara, The Bookshop Trigon, Prague, Cz
Prize: 2007 honored price in Ex Tempore Piran, Sl; 2006 2nd Prize for solo dance piece titled Gecko Dance – Dance of Moonlight by Japanese contemporary choreographer and dancer Ryuzo Fukuhara, in the solo dance contest of 11 MASDANZA - The International Contemporary Dance Festival of Canary Islands in Spain, as assistance in Costume Designer and Stage Manager.

Michael Laird and Carina Gosselé are multimedia artists based in Antwerp who occasionally work on art projects together. Although they have lived together for many years, their artistic collaborations only began when they were invited to participate in a group show at De Branderij in Antwerp in November 2001 about artistic responses to 11 September. The result, "Cui Bono?", was a performance in the form of a talk show (with Michael as one of two "talking heads" and Carina as director and producer) which was a scathing critique of the reactions (or rather lack there of) and motivations of the Bush administration, as well as of the mass media. This lead to a series of joint projects, including a video version of "Cui Bono?"; "Homeland Security," a show at Factor 44 in Antwerp about surveillance, fear and eroticism in America's "war on terrorism"; and a series of multimedia events in collaboration with other Antwerp-based artists in a group called "The Political Broadcast Unit." Their current series, "Factoid," is the first project they've done together that isn't overtly political in nature (although political readings are certainly possible).
The artists are both represented by the Dagmar De Pooter Gallery in Antwerp.

Fabrizio Ajello lives and works in Florence. After graduating with a degree in literature from the University of Palermo with a thesis on contemporary art, he began to travel across Europe. Returning to Sicily between 1998-2000, he took part in a number of group exhibitions in Rome, Turin, and Palermo. In 2001, he had a solo exhibition in Paris of his series, Work Books, composed of painting and mixed media on found historical documents. Later that year he was invited to participate in the prestigious The Genius of Palermo, exhibition along with Vector Pisani and Studio Azzurro.
Fabrizio Ajello continued to explore the technique of combining oil painting, photography and sculpture to find the equilibrium between contemporary art and the mythology embedded in the Sicilian culture. In 2004, he worked with the life and poems of the Czech writer Jiri Orten, displaying the results at the Embassy of the Czech Republic and Horti Lamiani gallery in Rome, and the Kalos gallery in Palermo. The following year, he participated in a group exhibition at the Orlov Palace in Moscow and helped to found the Island Project in Sicily along with Cesare Pietroiusti and Christian Costa. For this occasion he made a big site-specific installation of a golden boat placed in the middle of the harbor at Isola delle Femmine.
In 2006, he was invited by the National Archaeological Museum of Cerveteri (Rome) to realize an installation inside the museum. This prompted collaboration with other artists at the Etruscan archaeological site at Saint Severa. In the same period he began to work with video art and in the second edition of the Island Project he shot a piece on the evocative reef at Isola delle Femmine. The trajectory of the Fabrizio Ajello’s research lies between the fields of cultural studies and the investigation of place, identity and mythos.

Gabriele Ajello was born in Palermo in 06/01/1977. After graduating in Psychological University, in 1996 he begins his work as filmmaker shooting some short video and some documentary-films. He studied technique of filming, photography, editing, compositing and computer graphic 2d and 3d. Ha collaborate with the documentary director Daniele Incalcaterra and attended cinema lessons of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami and the French director Robert Guediguian. He helped Studio Azzurro for a workshop in Bagheria (Palermo). From 1998 he plays experimental/pop music with the Om group, combining the language of music and the language of video preparing a few projections to match concerts and exhibitions. From 2000 he realizing the scenery/video for theatre/dance shows directed by the musician Alesandro Mancuso and the director Antonio Raffaele Addamo. Later he realized the photographic building of VR works of an 18th-century country house of Bagheria. At the same time he shoots commercial spots and experimental documentary about the Madonie mountains. In 2005 he started, with others video makers, Lula Immagini a small cinema production. In 2006 he worked as cameraman in a television format for Sky channel Alice. He was involved as actor in Don Giovanni theatrical piece, and he writes the text for the performance La falena suonava il tamburo. In 2005 he beguine to study how to use virtual set, green screen, motion capture and HD camera. He lives and works in Palermo as Psychologist and video maker.

Fouad Asfour, born in Offenbach am Main, studied linguistics and arabistics in Vienna. He is freelance author and editor, currently part of the editorial team of documenta 12 magazines.

Born in Egypt 1964. Studied at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo, and pursued advanced studies in painting and sculpture at the Egyptian Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Received an MFA in sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania. Represented Egypt at the Venice Biennial in 1995 taking the top pavilion prize with Akram Al-Magdoub. Showed at the Cairo Biennial in 1997 and the Canaries Biennial in 2006. Work has been shown in private and group exhibitions in Cairo, New York, Paris, Rome, Sao Paulo, Detroit,
Canaries, Zanzibar, Salsburg, Basel, Moscow, and Philadelphia. He has also been commissioned for a number of public works in Egypt, Italy, and the U.S.
Currently lives and works between Egypt and the United States.

Born in Israel
Lives and works in New York

Rotem Balva has exhibited in numerous venues in Israel (Ha’Kibbutz Israeli Art gallery,Tel-Aviv; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Rishon-Lezion Art Workshop, Rishon-Lezion; Art gallery, University of Haifa; Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv; Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya; Art Focus 3, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem); and abroad (Lawndale Art Center , Houston, Texas; Round 22 Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas; Vector Foundation, Iasi, Romania; Widener Gallery, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity College, Connecticut; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; Le Quartier, Contemporary Art Centre, Quimper, France; Frac Bretagne Art Gallery ,TNB, Rennes, France; Cittadellarte Foundation Pistoletto, Biella, Italy; Biennial for European And Mediterranean Artists, Rome, Italy).

Born 1951
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Teaches at Bezalel Art Academy (Jerusalem) and Camera Obscura Art School (Tel Aviv)

Adina Bar-On’s work holds a discourse about conflicts of identity and conflicting identifications. Her work, as a performer and video artist creates moments of emotion, states of behaviour that her audience might share in empathy or criticism.
Adina has been an active performer since 1973, when she was a 3rd year student at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Jerusalem.
Over the years, she has presented her work in Israel’s major Art Museums and galleries (Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, Herzliah Museum) and galleries.
In recent years she has been travelling abroad often as an artist and teacher (USA, Thailand, Lithuania, Albania, Poland, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Germany, Hungary, France, Mexico…).
In 2001, she was awarded a major prize for her contribution to Israeli Art by the American Israel Cultural Foundation, and a biographical book "Adina Bar-On, Performance Artist", had been published.

Ioannis Belimpasakis, (b.1978 in Athens, Greece) studied at the School of Fine Art of Aristotle University of Thessalonica (1998-2003) and the Royal College of Art, London (2004-2006). He received the Alexander S. Onassis MA printmaking scholarship for the academic years 2004-2006, the Royal College of Art Fees Bursary (2004-2006) and the European exchange programme Erasmus-Socrates funding (Barcelona 2001-2002).
He was Artist in Residence at the European Cultural Capital of 2001, (Espacos Interactivos, Porto of Portugal), at the 6th international meeting of European Artists in Didimotiho (Greece 1999) and at Eidomeni cultural centre of Kilkis Municipality (Greece 1998).
Performances include: Mapping the Aura of Brain Activity II (solo performance-lecture, Royal College of Art, London 2005), solo performance at Speakers’ Corner (Hyde Park, London 2005), Re_Materialising Aesthetics (group Performance-Conference, Goldsmiths College of Art, London 2005).
Selected group exhibitions include: The Summer Show (Royal College of Art, London 2006), Platform for Art (South Kensington, Earl’s Court and Charing Cross Underground stations in London 2006), LET’S RIOT (Café Gallery Projects London 2006), 60 seconds (291 Gallery, London 2004), Macedonian Museum of Modern Art (Thessalonica 2004), Leksands Kulturus (Sweden 2003), 6eme Triennale Mondiale de L’Estampes de Petit Format (Auvergne, France 2003), H2O (Eirmos Gallery, Thessalonica 2003), Kodra ex-military Campus-Field of Activities (Thessalonica 2002), 2nd Biennale - Schools of Fine Art Athens & Thessalonica (Greece 2002), Espacos Interactivos (installation, Porto, European Cultural Capital 2001). He is also the creator of the 21mins documentary Sfika (2005-2006 London).
His work is held in various collections including Royal College of Art, School of Fine Art of Limoges-Aubisson, National Library of Paris, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, museum of Kilkis Municipality (Greece).
He lives and works in London and Athens.

Born 1961
Lives and works in Moscow
Art critic, curator of contemporary art. Graduated from Fine Arts Academy, Saint-Petersburg in 1992. Organized exhibition of Russian contemporary art at the Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale (1996-1999), at Istanbul Biennale (1997), San Paulo Bienial (1998).
National adviser for Documenta 12 (2007).
In 2000s curated projects: /Subject and Power/ (2001, Moscow), /Davai! From Laboratories of Free Art in Russia/ (2002, Berlin), /Toward Video Islands/ (2005, Samara), /Gate Keepers of New/ (2006, Budapest) etc.
Contributor for Moscow Art Magazine. Permanently collaborates with MediaArtLab, Moscow from 2000. Curator of many MediaArtLab projects (Media Forum 2005-2007 etc.) and presentations.
Researcher in New Media Theory and Globalisation of Contemporary Arts.
Teaches Media Theory at the Moscow State University of Psychology. Member of Moscow Union of Artists and AICA.

• 9.11.2007 at 18:00, Kavarna Metropol: Lecture and screening

Born 1979, Academy of fine Arts Vienna 1997-2003 (Master); collaboration with Marlene Haring as Halt+Boring 2000-2003. 2003 Schindler-residency in Los Angeles, 2004 official grant for artistic photography; 2006 first place in Art in Public Space Lower Austria for the design of the city hall Hochleithen; grant of the state for fine art in Rome.
Solo exhibitions (selection): 2004 No show is an island, Rossek/Stahl (Frankfurt, Germany); 2005 there is still something you should know, Gallery Winter (Vienna, Austria); 2006 mtkvari njet, National Art Center (Tbilissi, Georgia); the lost good mood, Austrian Cultural Forum (Warszaw, Poland); 2007 Mechurchletukhutsesi, Gallery Winter (Vienna, Austria).

Born in 1969 in Belgrade, Serbia. Graduated in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2001, in 2005 MA degree on the same Faculty. Since 2002 he is full-time professor of drawing, painting and preservation of art pieces at Art College in Šabac, from 2005 he is co-founder of ProArtOrg (Professional Artists Organization), a non governmental organization for contemporary art. He lives and works in Belgrade.

Selected solo exhibitions:
2007 - New Moment Ideas Gallery, Belgrade
2007 - Likovni Salon Celje, Celje, Slovenia
2007 - “Significant Other – Joint Venture”, Remont Gallery, Belgrade
2005 - “From the Closed circuits files” (with M. Milunović and T. Dabo) Raccoon Gallery, New York, US
2005 – Paintings (with Milica Milicevic), Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Belgrade
2005 - “Fatherland” ,Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pančevo, Serbia
2002 - Sculptures and Drawings (with Dj. Jankovic), Paviljon Veljkovic, CZKD, Belgrade, Serbia
2002 - “Sacrificial”, SKC Gallery, Belgrade

Selected group exhibitions:
2007 - 48th October Salon, Belgrade
2007 - Equal Opportunities, C2C Gallery, Prague
2007 - Steirischer Herbst 2007, „Next code: love“, Graz, Austria
2007 - Equal Opportunities, Stanica Gallery, Žilina, Slovakia
2007 - Equal Opportunities, Gallery OPEN, Bratislava, Slovakia
2007 - „Nobody wants to be nobody“, Graz, Austria
2006 - Inauguration of International Workshop show, Alexandria, Egypt
2006 - “Step out”, Gallery O3ONE, Belgrade
2006 - “ORTung 2005”, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
2004 - ”Oktobarski salon”, Šabac, Serbia
2002 - “Students exhibition”, Duchess Ljubica residence, Belgrade, Serbia
2002 - New members of ULUS , Pavilion “Cvijeta Žužorić”, Belgrade
2001 - “Perspectives”, Yugoslav Gallery, Belgrade
2001 - Exhibition of awarding students (also 1998 and 1999), Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade,
Serbia
2000 - Students exhibition (also 1999 1998 1997), Dom omladine Gallery, Belgrade
1997 - Graphics exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

Francisca Caporali is a Brazilian artist based in Brooklyn. She has a degree on Communications, a Master Degree from MECAD – ESDI in Barcelona- Spain, she is a current student at Hunter College in the Integrated Media Arts - MFA program, and has received the AAUW International Fellowship 2007/08. She has completed 2 residencies in this year – Wonder Woman II in Hoboken, Tiltfactor Game Lab in NYC.
Francisca's videos have been shown in many festivals – Toronto World Wide, VideoBrasil, OhneKhole in Austria, Sidney Film, Brooklyn Film Festival and others. Her installations and interactive pieces have been in group exhibitions as: MANA Fine Arts in Jersey City, ESC at BlackBox, Eyespeak Show, IMA Spring Show, SCOPE Art Fair with LeoBahia Contemporanea and Pratt Institute with NonAlternative Collective.
She has recently finished two collaborations, one about the Lebanon War – "July War the Movie" with filmmaker Brandon Jourdan; and the other is "Passagens" with Brazilian artist Marta Jourdan, which will be shown in December at an event organized by the Gandy Gallery in Slovakia.
Francisca has received several awards with two collective video pieces "The same old choice" and "The Quiet and Subtle Cyclone".

Website: http://www.franciscaporali.org

Born in New York, 1958
Lives and works in Amsterdam.

Solo Exhibitions
2006 - Hard Boiled New York (photos), Neutral Space, Hove, East Sussex, England
2004 - Trans-Formations, Portuguese Esnoga, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2001 - Gallery On, Joe goes Around the World, Poznan, Poland
2000 - Reconstructions, Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999 - A Memory Palace, A Photo-Journey, Disoriented Perspectives, Nationaal Restauratie Centrum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Where-House, The Flying Garmentos, Hooghuis Arnhem, Netherlands; Three Houses for The City of Utica, Sculpure Space, Utica, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions
2007 - Smack-Mellon Benefit Auction,Kentucky Derby, Dumbo NY, USA; Serenity (curatorship: The Mark Anthony Foundation) ,Gallerie Dis, Maastrict, Netherlands; Camouflash, Patio Art Center, Academy of Humanities and Economics,Lodz, Poland (curator: Marius Soltysik)
2006 Fear of Diversity, The Messenger. (Installation), in ‘Nederland I’, (curator: Tjong Ang), Gouda Museum, Netherlands; Making Love to My Ego (curators: Another Product, Dawn Woolley and James Moore) Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK; 12 International Sample of Performance Art, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico

Teaching
2007 - Panelist, NewYork Foundation for The Arts,Performance and Interdisciplinary Categories, New York, USA; Kunstenaars & Co. Course in Art and Internationalism, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Kunstenaars & Co. Mentoring and External Advice, International Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006 - Abstract Sculpture Workshop Menlo Park and lecture at Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, California, USA; Kunstenaars& Co. Mentoring Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Kunstenaars & Co,c ourse in Art and Internationalism, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Recent lectures
The Art of Mis-Understanding, Nederlands 1 exhibition, Gouda Museum, Netherlands
Art in Public Space, Kunstendorp, Zwolle, Van Stad Als Theater, Netherlands
A Memory Palace, Williams Proctor Institute

Education
1982 - BA Art/Art History State University of NewYork at Binghamton
1988 - Fellow RijksAcademie voor Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam, Sculpture Deptartment, Grant, City of Amsterdam: 1989, 1990, 1992

Sala-manca is a group of independent Jerusalem-based artists that creates in different fields: performance, video, installation & new media since 2000.
Sala-manca's works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts and with the tensions between low tech and high tech aesthetics, as well as social and political issues.
The group publishes Hearat Shulaym Art Journal, produces and curates Heara Art Events, organized in an independent way with no commercial or official sponsors, co-edits no-org.net , a platform for experimental projects in the area of netbased and digital art, organizes and curates The Upgrade! Tel
Aviv, gatherings hold by new media artists, curators and media activists, and The New Media Cheyder (Studyroom).

Sala-Manca are Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman. Selected presentations/ exhibitions/projects: New York University, Observatori Festival - Valencia, Liverpool Biennale 06, Nod Gallery – Prague, Eyebeam - New York, Blurrr Performance Biennal- Tel Aviv, Science Museum- Jerusalem, Transmediale-
Berlin, Jerusalem Film Festival - Jerusalem, La Fabrica - Buenos Aires, Digital Art Center - Holon and NOMAD under.ctl project, Forum Stadtpark, Graz.

EIA (Enlightened Illusive Art) are: Sarah Swansea (born 1984 Cardiff), Nadia Goldstaub (born 1983 NYC), Gustav Selbst (born 1980 Berlin) and Sepp Mistlhuber (born 1982 Vienna).
All of them studied from 2001-2006 at the Pommes d'Or Fine Arts School in Scotland.
After their master degree, they founded the artist collective EIA in 2006. In the same year they wrote a manifesto and started to exhibit - always collective installations - at the Samuel Murphy Gallery in Dublin, titel of the show: HISTORY OF FALSE CAT BURGLERS. Then they exhibited under the title DUMMY OR NOT TO BE at the Eva Stutti Gallery in Berlin. After in the Jack Goldberg Contemporary Art Center in NYC with the title THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY OF A SANDWICH MAN. Later: NEW SETTINGS IN OLD SHOWS THROUGH INNOVATION, EXPERIMENTATION & FREEDOM at the Baronessa di Lauro art center in Milano. After in the Luna Andrade Gallery in Sao Paulo with the title DEVITALIZED DESILLUSIONS IN DETERRITORIALIZED ART-ZONES. Then DISSECT DISSERTATIONS ON DISSENT DISSIMULARITIES (DDDD) at the Moser-Institute in Munich. Next: CURATORS AS GUARDS IN METAMODERN NEOLIBERLAL CONCENTRATION CAMPS: THE CONTEMPORARY ART WORLD. AN ENLIGHTENED RESEARCH at the Dos Santos Silva Ciceron cultural center in Lisboa.

BAVO is a Rotterdam and Brussels-based independent research office focused on the political and theoretical dimension of art, architecture and planning, founded in 2002. BAVO is a collaboration of Gideon Boie and Matthias Pauwels who both studied architecture (Ghent) and philosophy (Rotterdam). Apart from numerous articles in magazines such as Archis/Volume, Metropolis M and De Groene Amsterdammer, they wrote and edited several books. The latter include De Onverdeelde Stad en haar Gewillige Beulen (‘The Undivided City and its Willing Executioners’, Stroom hcbk: 2003), a special issue of the cultural magazine Andere Sinema entitled Spectres d’avant-garde (no. 176, 2006), Cultural Activism Today. The Art of Over-identification (Episode Publishers: 2007) and Urban Politics Now. Re-imagining Democracy in the Neo-liberal City (NAi Publishers: 2007). Over the last years BAVO has also organized a series of debates, conferences, symposia, research seminars and fora. In 2005, for instance, they organized a major conference entitled Psychoanalysis, Urban Theory and the City of Late-capitalism at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Currently, they are curating a forum on transnational regions in the EU – the so-called ‘euregions’ (www.euregionaalforum.net). Finally, BAVO also intervenes within art exhibitions through theoretical performances, their most recent one being their manifesto for an uncreative city in the exhibition ‘Neo-beginners’ in TENT in Rotterdam in 2006.

Website: http://www.bavo.biz

In February 2005, a group of more than 80 artists and researchers invested the empty, abandoned building of Street General Lasalle, 10-14, in the popular, multicultural district of Belleville, Paris. They converted 6000 square meters into one of the most active centre for artistic and cultural production, diffusion, and exchange.
They created studios for visual artists, musicians, theatre groups, dancers, choreographers, and filmmakers; rehearsal spaces for performing arts and theatre; exhibition spaces;  , a gallery space for short-term shows, installations, and screenings; a photo studio; two cinema studios; an editing room; a wood workshop; an associative restaurant; and a webcast radio.
For two years, La Générale has connected in multiple, creative ways the local community, non-profit associations, national and international art scenes. It has organized numerous workshops, projects, exhibitions, interventions, plays, and concerts.
In April 2007, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Sèvres, La Générale has moved to the former ceramic school of the Manufacture of Sèvres, since it had to leave the building on General Lasalle street (to be converted into a psychiatric hospital).

Website: http://www.la-g.org

Not An Alternative is a non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, whose mission aims to integrate art, activism and theory in order to affect popular understandings of events, symbols and history. Their practice aims to transform systems, not by promoting their alternatives, but by shifting symbolic terrain so that a system becomes it's own alternative. This approach seeks to produce moments where impossible instances are made possible.
As a Production Company, Not An Alternative engages in prop-making, public relations and political grassroots organizing built on narrative structures. In the past three years of operation, they have collaborated with artists and cultural producers, NGOs, and grassroots community groups, such as Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Oxfam International, and Greenpeace.
Recent campaigns have focused on challenging the privatization of public space, including the Williamsburg/Greenpoint Development Campaign and Picture New York, both of which were profiled in international media outlets. Videos, installations and presentations produced for the campaigns were shown at Eyebeam, Pratt Institute, NYU, the Brecht Forum, Artists Space, Hazel and Robert Siegel Gallery, White Box, and in the Howl Festival (2004 and 2005), NYC Grassroots Media Conference, ART/SPACE Conference, Conflux Festival, and Public Address (Denmark/NY).
The organization also operates a multi-purpose venue named The Change You Want To See Gallery and Convergence Stage, where free and low-cost community programming, trainings, and socially engaged cultural production occurs. Programming consists of lectures, screenings, panel discussions,
workshops and artist presentations. The space also consists of a production workshop, filming studio and editing suite.

Website: http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org

LIGNA exists since 1995. The Group consists of the media theorists and radio artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hueners and Torsten Michaelsen, who since the early nineties work at the “Freies Sender Kombinat“ (FSK), a public non-profit radio station in Hamburg. Bi-weekly they provide a program called LIGNA's Music Box, which asks the listeners to call in and play their favourite songs via the telephone. In numerous shows, interventions and performances LIGNA has explored the effects of the dispersed radio voice and of radio as a means of dispersion in general.
The work of LIGNA often refers to remote possibilities of radio use in order to develop new formats of radio practices. Focussing on the reception side of radio, LIGNA is looking for ways to turn the situation of reception into a performative intervention into places. Listening to the radio then becomes a collective production, which bears uncontrollable results.
One of LIGNA's models of media usage, the Radioballet (invented in 2002), provides radio listeners with a choreography of excluded and forbidden gestures in formerly public, now controlled spaces. Others are the Radio concert for 144 mobile phones, which engages the radio listeners in a process of collective composition, or The Future of Radio Art, a monologue, that is distributed over a pedestrian zone by means of hidden radios.

http://www.ligna.blogspot.com

• 13.11.2007 at 14:00, Kavarna Metropol: Where are the masses for art?

Born in 1973, Delphine de Blic studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, Paris, France. She realized her first works on the basis of photographs, “Malraux ou l’épopée sauvage”, “Mémoires”, and “Kuravas, peuple gitan”. Her first long-feature documentary, “La trace vermillon” (ARTE) received the prize Louis Marcorelles and a special mention of the Patrimony Award, Festival du Réel, 2003 (France). Later on, she collaborated in numerous contemporary dance projects for which she made video works screened on stage, “L’art du plongeon”, and “A-Quatuor” (Brussels, Theatre Tanneurs, Charleroi-Danse). In 2006, she realized in Le Fresnoy (France) a one hour-long documentary movie, “Tout entière dans le paysage”. While working on this movie, she realized the video work “Ul Stawki”. The same year, she made a video screened on stage for “Khaled Kelkal”, a show of Roger des Près at the Ferme du Bonheur. In 2007, she realized a video work for “Messe un jour ordinaire” of Bernard Cavanna, played by the National Orchestra of Lille. She then realized, in collaboration with the composer, a video installation “Ce qui nous traverse” that was presented in le Fresnoy, in the frame of the exhibition Panorama 8.

Lives and works in Alytus, Lithuania
Studies: 1986-1991 Tallinn Art Academy (Estonia); metal crafts
Employment: Alytus Art School, Principal since 1995, teacher since 1991
Artistic activities: social situations, sculpture, graphics, installation, performance, writing, lectures, curatorship.
Positions, membership: lifetime expert for the North of Eastern Europe at ZCCA-Libušin since 1999; IAPAO (International Association of Performance Art Organizers) since 2003.
Since 1993 has arranged 15 solo shows in Lithuania, Germany and Czech Republic.
Since 1993 has participated in numerous group shows and projects in Lithuania and abroad throughout Europe and US. Among them: 2007 – Falun Triennial; 2006 – Social Graphics, M. Žilinskas Art Gallery at M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas. 2005 – 8th Biennial of Graphics “Kaliningrad-Koenigsberg 2005”, Russia. 2004 - Un-Staged, at Arti & Armicitae, Amsterdam, Holland; 2004 - The Way the World Is, Iasy, Romania. 2003 – Tirana Biennale 2, Tirana, Albania. 2001- Fluxus at Art in General, Gallery Art in General, New York, N.Y., USA; 2001 - XII International Tallinn Triennial of Graphic Art, Roterman's Salt Storage Art Center, Tallinn, Estonia.
Has arranged numerous permanent artworks in public spaces. Among them:
2005 – Civil Resistance, drilled wall piece in the board meeting room of Publishing house of Andersonstown News daily, Belfast, Northern Ireland; 2003/04 – The Chess Player, Panevėžys, Lithuania; 2000 - The Scaterman – Lukashenko # 16, Tawn Hall Square, Alytus, Lithuania.
2004-2007 - lectures in art universities, colleges and academies in Lithuania, Germany, UK, Ireland.
2000-2007 - has participated in few international seminars on issues of contemporary art and criticism.
1993-2007 - has curated diverse art events and shows on contemporary arts and graphic art. Among them: 2005 – Alytus Biennial 1, Beware!Politics!; Festival of Contemporary Experimental Art in Alytus city public spaces; 2004 – 13th Tallinn Print Triennial In Exile – one of co-curators for Baltic States’ part.
Has published numerous articles on contemporary art issues in national and international press.

• 6.11.2007 at 16:00, Kavarna Metropol: Where are the masses for art?

Lives and works in Berlin.
Among the many venues where he has exhibited: Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey; MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig im MQ, Vienna; Futura, Prague, Czech Republic; De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2006); Institute of International Visual Arts - inIVA, London, England; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA; Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Museo d`Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2005); Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England; Busan Biennale 2004; George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, USA (2004); Fri-Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Gagosian Gallery - Chelsea, New York, USA; Büro Friedrich, Berlin, Germany; Whitney Biennial, New York, USA; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Lake Worth, USA; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (2001); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, USA.

Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for over a decade. His work has been shown at SF MoMA, the de Young Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Center, The Wrong Gallery, and Smackmellon in NYC, DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture show in Houston, TX, PICA in Portland, OR, CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, Signal in Malmo, Sweden, Domain de Kerguehennec in France, and The Royal College of Art in London. Fletcher exhibits in San Francisco and Los Angeles with Jack Hanley Gallery, in NYC with Christine Burgin Gallery, in London with Laura Bartlett Gallery, and Paris with Gallery In Situ. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. In 2002 Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, an ongoing participatory website with Miranda July. A book version of the project was published in 2007 by Prestel. He is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His current traveling exhibition The American War originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, TX, and traveled in 2006 to Solvent Space in Richmond, VA, White Columns in NYC, The Center For Advanced Visual Studies MIT in Boston, MA, PICA in Portland, OR, and LAXART in Los Angeles. Fletcher is a Professor of Art and Social Practice at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.

Robert Franciszty (born in 1969 in Zagreb, Croatia) has been a poet, painter, photographer and a performance artist since 1986. In his animal related work, performance arts and actions he depicts animal rights, environmental protection, urban ecology, ecofeminism and ecoanarchism. He is an active member of the non-profit and non-governmental organization Animal Friends Croatia.

Biography
1987 Ryuzo Fukuhara started dance in Japan.
1991 Fukuhara joined the Butoh group Maijuku directed by one of the leading figures in Butoh, Min Tanaka.
2000 Fukuhara switched focus to Europe.　He has performed and held workshops in many countries, including the UK, Italy, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Germany, Austria, Russia, USA and Vietnam; and more recently Spain　and Slovenia.
2006 he was awarded the 2nd prize of solo-dance contest for Gecko Dance at the International Contemporary Dance Festival in Canary Islands, Spain.
http://www.geocities.jp/ryuzodance/

• 13.11.2007 at 20:00, Mestni muzej Ljubljana: Dance Performance

Was born in Prizren in 1961. She studied at Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Department of Yugoslav Literature and Serbo-croatian Language.
Since 1992 she has been professionally dealing with journalism. She has been the member of Independent Journalist Society of Vojvodina since 1994, and of the Independent Association of the Journalists of Serbia since 1996. As a journalist and editor of culture programme, she worked at Pan radio, from 1992 to 1994. At Vojvodinian local newspapers "Nezavisni", she worked as a journalist and culture editor (from 1998 to 2000) from 1994 to 2000. From January to March 2000, she was chief editor of Vojvodinian local newspapers "Nezavisni". In the period from 1994 to 1997, she was permanent associate of culture department at weekly magazine "Vreme" (Belgrade) and daily newspapers in the Hungarian language "Magyar Szo" (Novi Sad). In daily and weekly newspapers she published more than 200 texts, interviews, reviews, and comments. From November 2000 to June 2001, she was editor of culture programme MULTIGRAD, which was broadcast weekly at local TV stations in Novi Sad and Vojvodina, at the production of TV urbaNS, Novi Sad. This was bilingual programme in Serbian and Hungarian.

Since 1994, Marija Gajicki has been active at non-governmental scene in Vojvodina and Serbia and at the territory of former Yugoslavia. She participated numerous initiatives and projects, as well as seminars, international conferences, journalist workshops, and the actions which specifically dealt with the issues of conflict resolution on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, creative workshops, and camps for the young organised by POSTPESIMISTI and Open Club – Novi Sad.
She is one of the founders of non-governmental organisation "Vojvodjanka – Regional Women's Initiative" in Novi Sad in 2000. Since May 2001, she has been non-governmental representative for Vojvodina at Stability Pact Gender Task Force. From December 2000 to December 2003, she was the member of the board of Citizens' Pact for South East Europe.

She is the author of six short documentaries on the activities of non-governmental organisation "Vojvodjanka – Regional Women's Initiative", realised in the period from 2000 to 2003. She is an author and editor of several publications published by non-governmental organisation "Vojvodjanka – Regional Women's Initiative".
For her short documentary VIVISECT, Marija Gajicki got award for the best short film at the first international Film Festival on Human Rights, held in Barcelona (Spain) from 22nd October to 3rd November 2003.

Marija Gajicki's engagement at non-governmental sector is related to the realisation of individual projects and the participation at common projects with various organisation.
In 2004, she launched in Novi Sad the Festival on Human Rights – VIVISECTfest
Website: http://www.vivisectfest.org

• 14.11.2007 at 16:00, Fakulteta za dužbene vede: The double role of mass media

monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna
and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic
fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and
political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and
foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of
ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost
every other) form since 1993.

The group's members are: Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger,
Evelyn Fürlinger, Harald List, Anika Kronberger, Franz Ablinger, Frank
Apunkt Schneider, Daniel Fabry. In November 2005 Roland Gratzer joined as
PR content manager

Under the name Pula Group, a constructive answer to the strange regional policy in Istria was formed in April 2006 during the architectural workshop organized by three Architecture faculties (Ljubljana, Zagreb, Venice). The results of the workshop were the yearbook Katarina 06 (where the projects and theoretical starting points for urban solution of northern part of Pula port are included) and an exhibition with the same title (it was shown in Pula, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Venice, Istanbul, and on 13. Biennial of Youth from Mediterranean and Europe in Alexandria). The activism of Pula Group waims at political fraud and nepotism with the help of science and art. It mainly focuses on the development of the Istria region.

Dr. Marina Grzinic, philosopher, artist and theoretician
She works in Ljubljana and Vienna.

Grzinic is Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Institute of
Fine Arts, Post Conceptual Art Practices. She is researcher at the Institute
of Philosophy at the ZRC SAZU
(Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art)
in Ljubljana. She also works as freelance media theorist, art critic and
curator.

Marina Grzinic has been involved with video art since 1982. In collaboration
with Aina Smid, Grzinic produced more than 40 video art projects, a short
film, numerous video and media installations, several websites and an
interactive CD-ROM (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany).
http://www.grzinic-smid.si/

Grzinic most recent books are:

Marina Grzinic, Une fiction reconstruite. Europe de l'Est, post-socialisme
et rétro-avant-garde [Fiction Reconstructed. Eastern Europe, Postsocialism
and Retro-avantgarde], L'Harmattan, Paris, 2005.

Marina Grzinic, Avant-garde and Politics: The Eastern European Paradigm and
the War in the Balkans, Beogradski krug, Belgrade, Serbia and Monte Negro,
2005.

Marina Grzinic, Aesthetics of Cyberspace and the Effects of De-realisation,
Multimedijalni institut mi2 - MaMa Zagreb, Croatia and Kosnica - centar za
komunikaciju i kulturu, Sarajevo, Bih, 2005.

Marina Grzinic, Situated Contemporary Art Practices, Art, Theory and
Activism from (the East of) Europe, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana and Revolver,
Frankfurt am Main, 2004.

Corrado Guzzanti

Television.
1990 - “Scusate l’interruzione” – Rai Tre - di Antonello Falqui
1991/93 - “Avanzi” – Rai Tre (alcuni personaggi: Rokko Smitherson, Lorenzo)
1993 – “Madecheaò” – Rai Tre – Striscia Quotidiana ( conductor “Lorenzo”)
1994 - “Tunnel” – Rai Tre - (some characters: Emilio Fede, Umberto Bossi)
1995/96 - “Pippo Chennedy Show” Rai Due – (some characters: “Quélo”, Gianfranco Funari, Walter Veltroni, Gianni Livore)
2001 - “Ottavo Nano”– Rai Due – Prima Serata – (some characters: Francesco Rutelli, Antonello Venditti, Snak e Gnola con Marina Massironi, Vulvia, Gabriele La Porta)
2002 - ”Il Caso Scafroglia” – Rai Tre – (some characters: il Massone, il Mafioso, il ministro Tremonti – Fascisti su Marte)

Cinema.
2001– “Fascisti su Marte – Una vittoria negata” – Festival di Venezia – fuori concorso sezione “Nuovi Territori”

Theatre.
1996/97 tournée nei teatri con lo spettacolo “millenovecentonovantadieci” ,scritto e interpretato da Corrado Guzzanti; sul palco anche Marco Marzocca.
1997/98 tournée nei teatri con “… la seconda che hai detto”, sempre come autore e interprete con Marco Marzocca, “biglietto d’oro “della stagione teatrale di quell’anno.

Books.
2005 – Lorenzo e la maturità ( libro + dvd) –Bursenzafiltro
2006 – Il Caso Scafroglia – ( libro + dvd) - Bursenzafiltro

• 15.11.2007 at 21:00, Kavarna Metropol: Fascisti su Marte

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is yhchang.com. Its C.E.O., Young-hae Chang (Korea), and its C.I.O., Marc Voge (U.S.A.) are based in Seoul. YHCHI has presented work at Tate, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Whitney Museum, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Center, Los Angeles, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, the Venice Biennial, and the São Paulo Biennial. In fall 2007 it is participating in the Istanbul Biennial and will have a solo show at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
Detailed CV: http://www.yhchang.com/RESUMAY_I.html.

After having completed her PhD on the work of French philosophers Michel Foucault and Emmanuel Levinas at the Radboud University Nijmegen (NL), Benda Hofmeyr conducted research at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL) on the political dimension of art and cultural production. Her current post doctoral research at the University of Pretoria (ZA) is focussed on the conditions of possibility of ethical agency in Levinas and Kant. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious scholarships and awards (the most recent of which is a Veni-grant) and has published in a variety of fields including contemporary Continental philosophy, political and moral philosophy, art and cultural production.

• 17.11.2007 at 14:00, Kavarna Metropol: Where are the masses for art?

Born 1967, Paris, France.
Since 1990 he developped projects of environmental design, exhibition and museum design, installation in public space and interior design. He teaches interior an exhibition design (in particular Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg from 2001 to 2006, Ecole du Patrimoine Africain since 1996). He is also a writer and published texts in magazines specialised in design, heritage or litterature, and the book "La vie des systèmes" (Life of systems), 2005, Comp'act ed.

Recent exhibitions
2006 - Solo exhibition "Exhibition" Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Valenciennes (France)
2006 - Exhibition "Annotations - explosante fixe" with Thierry Costesèque, Pantin (France)
2005 - Collective exhibition"Beware ! Politics !", Alytus Biennial (Lithuania)
2004 - Collective exhibition "The way the world is", Periferic, Iasi Biennial (Romania)
2003 - Collective project "Reality principle", U-Topos, Tirana Biennial (Albania)
2003 - Superluxe, Collective exhibition - Galerie Roger Tator, Lyon (France)

Recent projects
2003 - 2007 - Museum design - Museum of the Land of Frankincense, Salalah (Sultanate of Oman)
2007 - Exhibition design, "On n'arrête pas le progrès", Château de Trévarez, Finistère (France)
2007 - 2009 - Museum design, "center for interpretation of architecture and heritage", Saint-Denis (France)
2006 - Scenarisation of the conference "Les Arts de la Subsistance, stocker, préparer, manger", CulturesFrance, VIA, Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
2005 - 2007 - Exhibition design, BIometrics, the body as identity, Cité des sciences, Paris (France)
2003 - Exhibition design, "Transferts", Center for Fine Arts, Brussels (Belgium)
2002 - Museum design, "Science museum of Bibliotheca Alexandrina", Egypt
1997 - 2000, Museum design, Museum of Abomey - Royal Palaces of Abomey, Benin
2000 - Public space design, Underground station "Villejuif-Léo-Langrange", Paris (France)

Books
"Une rame de métro qui roule à vive allure remplie de personnages en cire", to be issued in 2007, L'act Mem ed.
"La vie des systèmes" (Life of systems), 2005, Comp'act ed.

Website: http://www.franckhoundegla.com

Rafał Jakubowicz

Born in 1974 in Poznań. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań; Department of Art Education (1999) and Department of Painting (2000). Ph.D. student at Institute of Art History of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Works in various media. Since 2000 lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. Since 2002 the member of Wunderteam art group. Author of various publications in art press („Czas Kultury”, „Tygodnik Powszechny”, „Format”, „Exit”, „Umělec”, „Raster”) and catalogues of exhibitions. Since 2005 the member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). Lives in Swarzędz (Poland).

Selected exhibitions:
2007 ti tabu dibu daj, Atlas Sztuki, Łódź
2007 Prozna Street 2007, IV. Jewish Culture Festival “Warszawa Singera”, Warsaw
2007 Jewish Culture Festival, Schindler's Factory, Kraków (with Yifat Lajst)
2007 Nachbarn, KulturForum Altona, Hamburg [D]
2007 ¼ Magyar / ¼ Hungarian, Institute of Contemporary Art - Dunaújváros, Budapest [HU]
2006 100 Tage=100 Videos, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg [D]
2006 Czechpoint, International Exhibition / Festival of Political Art, Gallery C2C, Prague [CZ]
2006 The Lost Whistle, Sekcja, Warsaw (with Yifat Lajst)
2006 GABINET, Galeria Entropia, Wrocław
2006 Pływalnia, Auschwitz Jewish Center (Centrum Żydowskie), Oświęcim
2005 Mittel Weiss, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
2005 Industriestadt, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg [D]
2005 Sztuka zabija, Galeria Pies, Poznań
2004 FORMA, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
2003 Zugzwang, Galeria Wieża Ciśnień, Konin*
2002 Arbeitsdisziplin, Squat Rozbrat, Poznań
2002 OUT THERE, Galeria ON, Poznań*
2000 Reparation, wystawa dyplomowa, prezentacja w Galerii AT, Poznań

Born in 1981 in Ljubljana. After studying theater direction at AGRFT in Ljubljana he continued his master study of contemporary theater practices under the patronage of European program for student exchanges Erasmus-Socrates at LIPA (Liverpool institute for performing arts) where he started dealing intensely with integration of contemporary electronic media and technology potentials in performative practices. With his projects he collaborated on various festivals of net, video and cyber art, among others: Netmage 05, Boston Cyberarts festival 2006, »Slamet Riyadi« festival, Inport 2006 in Prix Italia.

B. Cordoba, Argentina, 1961
Resides in Mexico City since 1990.
Selected solo exhibitions: MACO-Oaxaca’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca, Mexico (2007); Rastreo, Celda Contemporanea, Mexico City (2006); Daño y reparacion, Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico City (2005); One and a half miles, Berwick Gymnasium Art Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed, England (2004); Pieza sonora sin título para cuatro máquinas, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City (2003); Sécurité, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France (2002); Esgrima, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City; La fiesta interminable, Caja Negra, MUCA-CU media art space, Mexico City (2001); Trois barques, deux tours, Camac centre d’art, Marnay-sur-Seine, France; 16; 12; 7.62, Acceso A Gallery, Mexico City (2000); Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City; Paisaje, La Torre de los Vientos, Mexico City (1998); Outdoors Installation and Open Studio, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada (1997); Observaciones, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (1995)
Selected group exhibitions: La era de la discrepancia, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City (2007); Artists and Arms, M'Ars Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Alytus Biennial 1, Alytus, Lithuania; Eco, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2005); X Salon de Arte Bancomer, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Mexican Report, Blue Star, San Antonio, USA (2004); Cuarta Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2003); Lascas, L’Oeil de Poisson, Quebec, Canada; Zebra Crossing, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2002); Yo y mi circunstancia, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (1999), 70-80-90, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires (1996); InSite '94, San Diego-Tijuana (1994)
Artist Residencies: Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2005); Berwick Gymnasium Studios, Berwick upon Tweed, England (2003-04); Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France (2002); Centro Multimedia, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City (2001); Camac Centre d’art. Marnay-sur-Seine, France (2000); Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada (1997).

• 7.11.2007 at 17:00, Muzej novejše zgodovine: Suspended parade

Born in 1974 in Hranice, Czech Republic. He graduated at FAMU in Prague, department for camera. Since 1992 he has been active as cameraman and editor in the Czech video underground scene. In his own filmography and many of his experimental films like Plastic Trees (1998), Rubber Teddy-bears (1999), Spare Parts / Spare Paths (2000), he deals with the problems of artificiality of human body and environment. Through his video collages he investigates conflicts of contemporary media constructs: Men without head (2001), Lies in Layers (2002). His films have been shown in more than twenty festivals, among others: Fresh film festival (Karlovy Vary), Rotterdam, Thessaloniki, Media that matters film festival (New York).
When shooting Wind is rustling me (2003), he met Ticha in Šumava on the southwestern part of Czech Republic – Ticha (Silence) is a girl who doesn’t speak. She became his muse. After this meeting, he settled in Šumava. As his work was increasingly influenced by Czech poet Jiří Jílek, he decided to take his name.

Tadeusz Kantor (1915 Wielopole Skrzyńskie – 1990 Cracow). Painter, drawer, art theoretician, scenographer, creator of happenings and director; a distinguished theatre reformer, one of the most important figures in the artistic circles in Poland. He was a student of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts, where in the post-war period he became a teacher twice and was deprived of this function twice. During the German occupation he established the Clandestine Independent Theatre, where the staging of J. Słowacki’s Balladyna (1943) and The Return of Odysseus by St. Wyspiański (1945) took place; in 1945 he was a co-founder of the Group of Young Painters. In 1948 he was one of the organizers of the 1st Exhibition of Modern Art in Cracow, during which his metaphoric paintings were shown. In the years 1950 – 1954 he withdrew from public life as an artist: this was the way in which he manifested his protest against the doctrine of socrealism. In 1955, together with Maria Jarema, he established the independent Cricot 2 Theatre. Until 1973 he focused on Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s plays; his successive productions were the realization of the Autonomous Theatre (The Cuttle-Fish, 1956), the Informel Theatre (In a Little Manor House, 1961), the Zero Theatre (The Madman and the Nun, 1963), the Happening Theatre (The Water-Hen, 1967), the Impossible Theatre (Lovelies and Dowdies, 1973). In 1957 together with other artists he reactivated the Cracow Group.
Kantor’s paintings were inspired by the latest trends in the world art which he could observe during his numerous journeys, for instance to Paris and New York. Drawing on his experience he created pictures belonging to Art Informel, to Dadaism or alluding to minimal art. In the early 60s he was no longer interested in portraying reality – what he focused on instead was, among other things, the realization of his own idea of emballage.
In 1965 he began his cooperation with the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, where he had his exhibitions and where he organized a number of artistic events and happenings.
In 1975 he announced the manifesto of the Theatre of Death; his highly acclaimed production The Dead Class was based on those ideas. In 1980s his next well-known productions were shown: Wielopole, Wielopole (1980), Let the Artists Die (1985) and I Shall Never Return (1988). It was also the moment when a significant change in his work as a painter took place – he returned to figurative painting. At the end of his life he created a series of meaningful paintings Further on, Nothing, in which he summarizes his own life and work. In 1990 Kantor prepared his last production Today Is My Birthday, which was shown by Cricot 2 Theatre after the artist’s death.

Compiled: Małgorzata Paluch-Cybulska
Translated: Monika Markiewicz

Born 1975, Moscow. Artist, critic. Author of various publications on art, media and social movements, and of 'Media-activist Cookbook' (Moscow, Ultra.Culture, 2006; at 2007 won "Innovazia", а prize on contemporary art and criticism).
As an artist, uses a practice of news-jockeying (nj'ing), which is extracting current news in real time from the internet and making them flow at the disco. Defines his method as "media-realism".
In the past, participant of various artistic actions and media-political campaigns ("legal/illegal", "Barricade", "Against all parties").
Nowadays mostly reads and writes on history. Based at Moscow.

Staš Kleindienst is a post-graduate student at the Accademy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana. He works in the field of art and theory in collaboration with Sebastjan Leban an is also a member of Trie group. He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad and has texts published in different publications. Most known projects are: Mixed Media, From the Series Systems of Power: An Interview with Teo Spiller, Grand Tour 2007, Buy Your Own Art Experience.
He lives and works in Ljubljana.
Selected exhibitions:
2006 - Mixed Media, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006/07 – Not-quite/Not-right, Histories, Bodies and Concepts in Contemporary Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia, Herman Pečarič Gallery, Piran, Slovenia, Galerijafotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Pilon Gallery, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
2006/07 – 10th Cairo International Bienniale, Cairo, Egypt
2007 – Toposcapes: Interventions into Socio-cultural and Political Spaces, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Austria,
2007 – Buy Your Own Art experience, APT Photogalerry, Novo mesto, Slovenia

Selected lectures:
2006 – Not Quite/Not Right, Histories, Bodies and Concepts in Contemporary Photography, International Days of Photography, SPOT 2006, Kostanjevica na Krki
2007 – Simposium about Art, Ideology and Politics, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Slovenia

Born 1979, Rijeka, Croatia. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, at the University of Zagreb/Croatia in 2004. Originator of the International Art Camp Tarsa. Member of Croatian Freelance Artists Association (HZSU) and Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU). Works and lives in Zagreb and Rijeka.

Selected solo exhibitions:
2007 – Pratijelo, Gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Pratijelo
2007 - Pratijelo-glinotisci, Gallery VN, Zagreb, Pratijelo-glinotisci
2006 - Gallery SC, Zagreb
2004 - Gallery Camera Obscura, Rijeka
2004 - MMC, Gallery OK, Rijeka, “Dead AM”
2003 - Gallery Mali Salon, Rijeka, (with D. Dundara)

Selected group exhibitions:
2007 - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka,"10 years of Gallery OK“
2007 - Dom HDLU, 42. Zagreb Salon, Zagreb
2007 - Gallery Kortil, «60+1», Rijeka
2006 - Galerija Kortil, Rijeka, 60. Annual exhibition of HDLUR
2006 - Museum of Koprivnica,“Drava Art Annale Koprivnica 2006“, Koprivnica
2006 - Gallery VN, “Fetish as object of infatuation“, Zagreb
2006 - Gallery Nova, “Normalisation, dedicated to Nikola Tesla” (with WHW), Zagreb
2005 - Art Gallery, ”New Rijeka scene”, Dubrovnik
2005 - Art festival Metamorfoze, Kranj, Slovenia
2004 - MMC, Gallery OK, “Upper Underground-Tarsa”, Rijeka
2004 - Gallery Močvara, „Warehouse of the Young”, Zagreb
2003 - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, "Emerging artists", Rijeka
2003 - Festival of new art, FONA 04, Bale

a.k.a *CANDY FACTORY
born in 1965 Japan, organizes *CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS, a platform for international collaborative art projects since 1998.

Website: http://artonline.jp/

*CANDY FACTORY has overlooked the creation of artist books, music and artworks both off and online, and the organization of original curatorial exhibition projects in many venues.

1998 to 2001
*CANDY FACTORY was opened as a gallery space and web project in Yokohama Japan. After the close of the gallery space, *CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS continued to organise projects and collaborative activities in many different arts spaces.

2003
Worked as a guest curator for the Akiyoshidai International Artists Village Japan.

2006
Opened new platform artonline.jp as a director of AIK the Art Institute Kitakyushu

2007
Director of the first Kitakyshu Bienniale Japan (September)

Neven Korda is an independent pure video artist, a pure video fan and worshiper. He began working with video medium as a member of the Theatre FV 112/15 in the beginning of Eighties. He co-founded FVVideo, the independent video production group, which produced numerous art, documentary and music video projects. Until the end of Eighties he was a member of multimedia electro-punk group Borghesia, his responsibility was visuals on concerts and performances as well as video clips. Then he went on with his story by continued working with Zemira Alajbegović as a tandem on Art products. At that time he also started working as video editor, author of TV images and director - especially in the field of industrial propaganda and artistic video, as well as TV production. Besides regular and constant videoart production, he collaborates a lot with contemporary dance, theatre and music projects. Recently he started to collaborate with BAST Collective as a live-video performer in the "Burn Out" series of improvised audio-visual events in klub Gromka.

• 17.11.2007 at 21:00, Potemkin Palace, Bohoričeva 5: Side Branch 2: The Lost City

Born on October 13, 1956, in Ljubljana. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he also completed postgraduate studies in sculpture (M.A. in Fine Arts, 1988). Founding member of Ana Monro Theatre (1981–1991), R IRWIN S Group (1983–1985) and Zlati Kastrioti music and multimedia band (from 2000). Interdisciplinary and polymedia artist: his field of interest covers different media: performance, sculpture, installation, video, music, film and theatre. He is the holder of Golden Bird Prize (1987) and Zupančič Award (1994). His project The Civilisation of Plastos was gained the title of the Artwork of the Month by ICAN, International Contemporary Art Network based in Amsterdam (February 2003).

Selected exhibitions:
1994 - Urbanaria - Part One, SCCA-Ljubljana, Ljubljana
1994 - Interregnum, Notes on Contemporary Slovene Art, U3 - Trienal of Slovenian Contemporary Art, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
1994 - Forward to the Past, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
1995 - The Collection of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum: Slovene Art of the 1990s, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
1996 - For Your Eyes Only, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
1996 - Immaginario altro,Trieste, Italy
1996 - The Lull Before the Storm, Ljubljana, Bežigrajska galerija
1997 - Realisation: Kunst in der leipziger Messe. The Blurring of the Public Sphere: Working in Interstices, Oktagon, Köln, Germany
1998 - Star?, Metelkova mesto, Galerija Alkatraz, Ljubljana
1999 - Campo video – Slovenian videoart, Castelvecchi editoria, Rome, Italy
1999 - Eastern Europe After The Berlin Wall, Marble Palace, State Russian museum, St. Peterburg, Russia
1999 - Katastropolis 2227, Razstavni salon Rotovž, Maribor
2000 - Plastos: Paleontropološki muzej, Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana
2001 - A Short Notice Show, Muzej savremene umetnosti & CCA- Beograd, Serbia
2001 - Survived City: Katastropolis, SKC Gallery, Beograd, Serbia
2001 - Vulgata: U3 - Trienal of Slovenian Contemporary Art, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
2002 - Dr. Skavčenko / Plastos Civilization,, National Museum, Ljubljana
2003 – At the 3D Screen, Artist’s studio, Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana
2004 - Seven Sins: Ljubljana-Moscow, Modern Gallery Ljubljana
2005 - Flash Back, Kibla, Maribor
2005 - Essence of Life of Art, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
2006 - Ljubeči pogled, City Gallery, Ljubljana

Home page www.markokovacic.org

Sebastjan Leban is a post-graduate student at the Accademy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana. He works in the field of art and theory in collaboration with Staš Kleindienst an is also a member of Trie group. He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad and has texts published in different publications. Most known projects are: Mixed Media, From the Series Systems of Power: An Interview with Teo Spiller, Grand Tour 2007, Buy Your Own Art Experience.
He lives and works in Ljubljana.
Selected exhibitions:
2006 - Mixed Media, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006/07 – Not-quite/Not-right, Histories, Bodies and Concepts in Contemporary Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia, Herman Pečarič Gallery, Piran, Slovenia, Galerijafotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Pilon Gallery, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
2006/07 – 10th Cairo International Bienniale, Cairo, Egypt
2007 – Toposcapes: Interventions into Socio-cultural and Political Spaces, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Austria,
2007 – Buy Your Own Art experience, APT Photogalerry, Novo mesto, Slovenia

Selected lectures:
2006 – Not Quite/Not Right, Histories, Bodies and Concepts in Contemporary Photography, International Days of Photography, SPOT 2006, Kostanjevica na Krki
2007 – Simposium about Art, Ideology and Politics, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Slovenia

The director, playwright and actor, Federico León, was born in Buenos Aires in 1975. He has written and directed Cachetazo de campo [Country Smack], Museo Miguel Ángel Boezzio [The Boezzio Museum], Milquinientos metros sobre el nivel de Jack [Fifteen Hundred Feet Above Jack’s Level] and El adolescente [The Adolescent]. His theatrical work also includes the unperformed Ex Antuán [Ex-Antoine].
In 2001 he wrote, directed and acted in his first film, Todo juntos [Everything Together]. Everything together was premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, London Film Festival, La Habana, Toulouse and the Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, among others.
He has won various awards for his work, including the First Prize for Playwrighting from Argentina’s National Theatre Institute, the 2004 Konex Prize awarded by the National Arts Fund, and the First National Prize for Playwrighting 1996-1999 from the Argentinian Government. His plays have been performed at theatres and festivals in Germany, France, Holland, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Scotland, Canada, Belgium, Spain, Brazil and Australia.
In 2002 he was selected among other artists from around the world to participate at “The Rolex Mentor and Protegé Arts Initiative”. Dealing with this artistic initiative, he worked for a year with Robert Wilson.
He recently participated as co-writer of the movie El Pasado [The Past], which is currently being shot by Héctor Babenco, director of Kiss of the Spider Woman.

• 16.11.2007 at 21:00, Kavarna Metropol: Estrellas

Zhenchen Liu was born in 1976 in Shanghai. He graduated at Ecole Nationale Supérieur de la Villa Arson; and at the Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Art in France. He works a lot on the subjects of "urban", "modernization", and "the problem with the development of China". Recently, he participated in the "Panorama 8" at Le Fresnoy, Locarno International Film Festival, Festival de Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen International Film Festival… Currently he works as a freelance artist in France and China.

Website: http://zhenchen.free.fr/

Marcos Martinez is a journalist, photographer and videomaker. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 22 August 1974 and studied Human Communication Science at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), photojournalism at FOTOTEA and film at the Centre for Video & Film Research (CIEVYC). He has worked on the newspaper supplements Revista (La Nación) and Espectáculos y Cultura (La Prensa). He has made experimental shorts for the BTV television channel in Barcelona, Spain and has directed the video documentaries MM [MM] about the last night of the 20th century, Social [The Social] a production with images of weddings, baptisms and communions, and Edificio [Apartment Block] produced entirely with images from closed circuit security cameras.

Christina McPhee works in the central coast of California. She graduated with the MFA in painting from Boston University School of Arts, where she studied with Philip Guston. She is an interdisciplinary artist working in critical spatial practice at sites where rapid and recursive environmental change disrupts and transforms technological landscapes. She works in photography, video, drawing, painting, the net, and writing. Her most recent interactive video installation is Latency Structures: Bonneville Salt Flats, created in collaboration with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles; which premiered at the Split Film Festival, Croatia, September 2007. Her latest collaboration is part of “The Space of Europe,” a project designed by Markus Meissen for the Lyon Biennial 2007. La Conchita mon amour, a site study in photomontage, video, drawing, and net art on traumatic memory and shrine building at La Conchita, California, premiered at Sara Tecchia Roma New York in 2006. 2007 installations include "La Conchita N=Amour", a 22 screen installation for the Thresholds Art Space, Perth, Scotland October – December 2007 and for Break Festival 2.4, Ljubjana in November 2007. Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, a conceptual project linking seismic geomorphology and post traumatic stress visualization (or ‘seismic memory’) was a solo exhibition American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, Washington DC, June-July 2007. The Diaries have also shown at InteractivA07 Biennial, Merida; Cartes Centre for Art and Technology, Espoo Finland (2006) with support from the American Scandinavian Foundation; and Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden (2005). Pacific Film Archive showed two Carrizo films for “Artistic Disasters” for the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, April 2006, curated by Steve Seid; in 2007, they showed in "noise: in language, culture, body and nature" at Itaú Cultural Centers in Bela Horizonte, Brazil, curated by Marcus Bastos. Christina is a participating editor for the documenta 12 magazine project, 2006-2007, in collaboration with the -empyre- online listserv, Sydney.
Websites:
http://christinamcphee.net
http://strikeslip.tv
http://naxsmash.net

Born in 1964 in South-Kazakhstan. Currently lives and works in Almaty.
Sculptor, video- and photo-artist

Erbol creates the image of Asia as a psycho-aesthetic cocktail, which is difficult to convey, in which aggression and obedience are mixed with the reality of the mass reprisals of people in Andijan and Bishkek. The art of Erbol is stunningly visual and spontaneous. This is the art of direct action, which excludes enjoyment and aesthetic searches. For him force as a form of primeval power is connected with instincts, with the Eastern type of self identity. That’s why he transforms force into art. The emotional response to the provocative exposure of the situation is, for Erbol Meldibekov, far more valuable than the internal problems of art. Both the essence of that shocking, for the West, reality which was created by Medieval authoritarian power and the perception of the generalised image of Central Asia by the West are concentrated in the precise and harsh images of Erbol.
(Alexander Evangely)

Selected group exhibitions
2007
Thaw. Fifteen Years of Marat Guelman Gallery. Marat Guelman Art Foundation. State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg
Marat’s Choice. Special project of Marat Guelman Foundation within the 2nd Moscow Biennale. Russian State Museum of Contemporary History, Moscow
Artist’s Diary. Special project of Marat Guelman Foundation within the 2nd Moscow Biennale. Central House of Artist, Moscow
2005
51 Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Tamerlan Syndrome" Exhibition, Orvieto, Italy
2004
"Pueblos y Sombras", Canaia Galerie, Mexico City
"Privatisierungen", Zeitoenossische Kunst Avs Osteuropa Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
"Ideas in Motion" Alfieri Atelier Cinema, Florence
2002
"No mad's land", House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
"Abseits der Seidenstrasse" Kunst und Kultur aus Zentralasien. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin.
"Politik-um. New engagement", Prazhski Grad, Prague, Czech Republic
"Re-orientation", ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
"Trans Forma". Center for Modern Art, Geneva, Switzerland

OPA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression) is an artistic collaboration founded in 2001 by the visual artists Slobodanka Stevceska (*1971, Macedonia) and Denis Saraginovski (*1971, Macedonia). Both of them studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje and are working on the borderline of art, media and performance. Their work focuses on researching the social, cultural and everyday issues, as well as ways of looking, thinking and behaving of certain community in the shifting social and political conditions. This way, it questions the various social habits related to forming the individual and national cultural identity, and on the other hand stereotypes built by forming the identity. OPA reacts to the actual situations conceptualizing them in an artistic way, thus their activities are in form of action, site specific projects, video, TV screenings, mockumentaries, etc. Their projects are often related to the everyday life of the artist in its usual situations, such as preparing an exhibition, participating in art events, offering a work to the art market…
OPA received residency fellowships in Estonia, France, Germany and Switzerland and has exhibited widely in group exhibitions and festivals such as Transmediale, Berlin; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Transeuropa - European Theatre- and Performance Festival, Hildesheim; Instants Video Festival, France; etc.
On part of the projects OPA collaborates with the journalist and writer Sašo Talevski, under the name OPA&HA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression and Chronically Arrogance).

Born in Lyon. He graduated at the Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts. Most of his performances and early installations were created and produced in the wake of May 1968 political-activist movements. He was one of the leading actors of Paris based political-activist artist movement called PAPA. He was so disappointed by the political situation and the state of mind in France and western civilization that he retreated to the east in the early seventies. He spent almost thirty years in Sri-Lanka, India, Tibet, Kirghistan, Timor and Australia. After the death of his father in 2005 he returned to France and resumed his artistic career. The perception of time (mostly the gap between cyclic and linear times) represents the central axis of his newer artworks.

Born in 1979 in Raška, Serbia. Lives and works in Belgrade. Graduated in painting on the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2003, since 2003 she is attending post graduate studies on the same faculty.

Selected solo exhibitions:
2007 - New Moment Ideas Gallery, Belgrade
2007 - Likovni Salon Celje, Celje, Slovenia
2007 - “Significant Other – Joint Venture”, Remont Gallery, Belgrade
2005 – “Paintings” (with Milan Bosnić), Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Belgrade,
2005 - Zadužbina Ilije M. Kolarca Gallery, Belgrade
2003 - SKC Gallery, Belgrade

Selected group exhibitions:
2007 - 48th October Salon, Belgrade
2007 - Equal Opportunities, C2C Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2007 - Steirischer Herbst 2007, „Next code: love“, Graz, Austria
2007 - Equal Opportunities, Stanica Gallery, Žilina, Slovakia
2007 - „Nobody wants to be nobody“, Graz, Austria
2006 - Inauguration of International Workshop show, Alexandria, Egypt
2006 - “Step out”, Gallery O3ONE, Belgrade
2006 - Gallery for Contemporary Art, Niš, Serbia and Montenegro
2006 - “ORTung 2005”, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
2004 - Dom culture “Vera Blagojevič” Gallery, Šabac, Serbia and Montenegro
2003 - “Perspectives XXX”, Yugoslav Gallery, Belgrade
2002 - Exhibition of FLU students, Thessaloniki, Greece
2001 - Students exhibition, Dom omladine Gallery, Belgrade
2000 - Dom culture “Vera Blagojevič” Gallery, Šabac, Serbia and Montenegro

A writer and independent filmmaker based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has been writing for the Malaysian print media since the age of 14. In 2000 he wrote and directed Malaysia’s first DV feature, and his works have been featured in many international film festivals including Sundance and Berlin. He has also helped produce several other Malaysian DV movies. Up next is a co-directed horror film “Susuk.”

Director’s Filmography
LIPS TO LIPS (2000) (fiction)
6HORTS (2002) (shorts)
THE BIG DURIAN (2003) (semi-documentary)
TOKYO MAGIC HOUR (2005) (experimental)
THE YEAR OF LIVING VICARIOUSLY (2005) (documentary)
THE LAST COMMUNIST (2006) (documentary)
SUSUK (2006) (fiction) (co-director)

Photo of Amir Muhammad: Credit Yee I-Lann

• 13.11.2007 at 21:00, Kavarna Metropol: The Year of Living Vicariously

Seville, Spain. (1969)
Website: http://www.jesuspalomino.com

E D U C A T I O N
- Fine Arts Degree Castilla-La Mancha University. Cuenca, Spain. (1988-1993)
- PHD Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (2001-2002)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
- February 2005. "POETRY,POLITICAL THEORY & COMMON SENSE: TRANSFORMER"
Sala Mendoza. Caracas. Venezuela.
- April 2005." PARA LA GENTE DE LA CIUDAD".Casa de América. Madrid. Spain.
- October 2005. "BIG FAVELA&8 RADIO BROADCASTINGS"
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo Patio Herreriano. Valladolid, Spain.
- May 2006. "CONVERTISSEUR DE PEURS/ LA FONTAINE DE COURAGE".
Galerie CLARK. Montéal, Canada.
- December 2006. "MEDIA FILTER & BIG COMPASS ". The Chinati Foundation.
Marfa, TEXAS. U.S.A.
- January 2007. "WHY IS THERE SOMETHING INSTEAD OF NOTHING?".
Gallery INVALIDEN 1. Berlin, Germany.
- October 2007. OCT Contemporary Art Terminal. He Xiangning Art Museum.
Shenzhen, Popular Republic of China.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection )
- March 2003. "CIUDAD MULTIPLE". Ciudad de Panama. Panama.
- May 2004. International Biennial of Contemporary Art Serbia & Montenegro.
- October 2005. "HASTA PULVERIZARSE LOS OJOS". BBVA Foundation. Madrid, Spain.
- October 2005. "PERMANENCIAS DIFUSAS". Centro de Arte CAB. Burgos, Spain.
- June 2006. "Wittneses" Fundación Montenmedio de Arte Contemporáneo. Cádiz, Spain.
- May 2007. "Mediterranée". Musée Carré de D'Art Contemporain. Nimes. France.

AWARDS
- 2004. Visual Arts Award Junta de Andalucia. Spain.
- 2006. Visual Arts and Atrtistic Creation Awards. Junta de Andalucia. Spain.

• 8.11.2007 at 16:00, Kongresni trg: On Now No Won

Don has been a Designer for over 10 years, setting up his first company in
Camden, London in the early Nineties and designing album covers. After
designing over 200 album covers he worked for such companies as Wolf Ollins,
David Davies and Newell and Sorrell on a freelance design