Alexandria ­ Marseilles ­ Naples, April 17th to 30th 2005

For several years now, the cities making up the Biennial's network propose workshops to the selected artists prior to the event itself. Ranging from three to five for the preceding biennials, approximately a dozen workshops will be organized between February and May 2006 in Alexandria,  Bologna, Hyères, Istanbul, Ljubjana, LaVallette, Marseilles, Milan, Sarajevo, Rome and Venice.
These workshops serve a twofold purpose: to provide young artists with an instructive and artistic collective experience as well as to favor encounters and exchanges between artists from different cities, before and after the Biennial.

Principle
Host cities propose a subject and artistic supervisors for the workshop. Only graduates of the biennial may apply. The "curators" select fifteen to twenty young creators to participate in the workshop. The result will be presented in Naples and/or in the different cities where the workshops are held.
The workshop represent an interesting and constructive initiative in that they allow participating artists to arrive at the Biennial with contacts established beforehand and thus get more benefits out of the event.
This program is developed within the context of actions carried out by the BJCEM International Association between Biennials. It is the concrete expression of our will to provide selected artists with opportunities to meet others, acquire technical skills and gain international experience.

Alexandria ­ Marseilles ­ Naples, April 17th to 30th 2005
Aside of the 12th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Espace Culture produces an experimental multimedia workshop of art. The 13 young creators (5 French, 5 Egyptians, 2 Italians and 1 Cypriote, selected for the Biennial in different artistic disciplines (visual art, literature, dance, music) will work as a group to create a stage performance.
Using the various lively arts as a starting point (dance, stage designing, acting, music, stage direction, scriptwriting), visual arts (photography, plastic arts, video and new technologies), the artists and multimedia designers will conceive a performance based on the theme of passion and trajectories. The workshop will begin in Alexandria and will be followed by a residency in Marseilles. The project will be finalized during the Naples Biennial before the presentation of workshop results.

The workshop¹s goals are the following:
Allow artists participating in the Naples biennial to meet each other.
Confront artistic disciplines and practices from different countries.
Gain an understanding of how multimedia tools can be applied to artistic creation.
The production of an artistic proposition in the form of a performance, which will be presented namely during the Naples Biennial.

Production:
Espace Culture - Marseilles, in conjunction with Espace Culture Multimedia / Friche Belle de Mai / SFT and l'Atelier d'Alexandrie.
With support from the Centre Culturel Français d'Alexandrie, city of Marseille, Région PACA, Direction Régionale et Départementale Jeunesse & Sport, BJCEM Association and the Roberto Cimetta Fund.
Espace Culture - Marseille, in collaboration avec Espace Culture Multimédia / SFT et l'Atelier d'Alexandrie membre du réseau Biennale.
Avec le support de: Centre Culturel Français d'Alexandrie, Ville de Marseille, Région PACA, Direction Régionale et Départementale Jeunesse et Sport, Association BJCEM et le Fond Roberto Cimetta.

Supervision:
multimedia designers (Marine Quiniou, Mehdi Bencheikh, Delphine Rochette), artistic directors (Magdi Habachi, Egyptian artist ­ Anne Le Batard, Compagnie Ex-Nihilo, choreographer)

Coordination:
ECM (Claudine Dussollier) and Espace Culture (France Irrmann)

Participants:
- Alessandro Giurciullo : info@accademiartesiracusa.com
- Haris Epaminonda :info@harisepaminonda.com ; www.harisepaminonda.com
- Marie-Céline Siffert : mariecelinesiffert@yahoo.fr
- Matthieu Voirin : pr.inc@wanadoo.fr
- Cécile Bordas : cecilebordas@yahoo.fr
- Emad Ali Mabrouk : moviola_77@lycos.com
- Hadil Salem : haziznazmy@yahoo.com
- Mahmoud Muhammad Siam : mahsiam@yahoo.com
- Julien Crépieux : julien.alaligne@laposte.net
- Guillaume Stagnaro : stagnaro@010175.net
- Nabil Mohamed : abouziad76@hotmail.com
- Valeria El Kheir : barbielera4@yahoo.com
- Santo Arizzi : arizzi-santo@libero.it