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We are more

Bjcem staff — 24/1/2012

Bjcem supports the campaign We are more

- We are many individuals that value and shape contemporary European cultures. We are more than many. We are more than producers and consumers. We are committed to cultural rights, education and active citizenship.

- We believe that the strong tradition of public funding of the arts across Europe makes a difference to the diversity, accessibility and quality of the arts available to us all.

The arts, culture and the humanities engage and inspire us, and stimulate us to challenge the world we live in.Investing in the arts from kindergarten to old age builds societies that are creative, innovative, democratic and diverse. Let us re-imagine long-term public investment that contributes to human, social and environmental progress.

National governments and EU policymakers are currently taking decisions on the next EU budget that will influence the next ten years of support to cultural activities that benefit everyone who lives in Europe.

More info: www.wearemore.info

UNIDEE in Residence 2012

Bjcem staff — 23/1/2012

Online the open calls for applications for UNIDEE in Residence 2012:

UNESCO-Aschberg bursaries for Artists Programme UNIDEE in Residence 2012: grant assigned to Shah Zaman.

UNIDEE – University of Ideas is Cittadellarte's international pole of formation and exchange between knowledge and diverse problematics, open to a varied and multidisciplined group of creatives, professional people and students.
Here art abandons the conventional cannons and instead places itself to integrate with society and with other disciplines: communication, production, economics, politic, architecture, design, literature, music, spirituality, ecology and nourishment.

UNIDEE in Residence runs for four months - from June to October - to explore the rapport between art and society and to investigate methodologies of creative interventions able to activate projects for a socially responsible change in society.
Unidee in residence forms a new professional skill: that of “activator” of projects for a Responsible Transformation of Society, which reunites the characteristics and skills of the artist, curator, cultural enterpreneur and social-projects manager.
At Cittadellarte the residents acquire a professional creative dimension that is productive and socially relevant, capable of responsibly confronting the problematics of real society and that offers innovative proposals to companies and administrations in different contexts.

The UNIDEE programme develops in direct synergy with the activities of Cittadellarte, interacting with the exhibitions, research and projects of the Uffizi in the areas of ecological architecture (Architecture Office), sustainable design (Production Office), of economic alternatives (Economics Office), of intercultural dialogue (Politics Office and Love Difference Project), of the relation between ecology and creativity (Ecology Office and ReMida Project), of sustainable fashion (Fashion Office), of creative communication (Communication Office), of art and social change (Art Office) and of the spirituality of art (Spirituality Office). The residents in this way have the opportunity to enter into contact and collaborate with the diverse realities of the territory and with the businesses and institutional partners of Cittadellarte. Numerous meetings, lectures and workshops are organised with experts from the creative world, business and art, who share with the residents their experience and knowledge.

For more info: http://www.cittadellarte.it/progetti.php?prog=28

Visual Arts Festival Damascus

Bjcem staff — 23/1/2012

Visual Arts Festival Damascus @ International Film Festival Rotterdam
January 30 – February 02, 2012

Suspended Dreams, experimentation and documentary in Syrian cinema, curated by Charlotte Bank /Shifting Shores, video, installation and performance, curated by Delphine leccas and Charlotte Bank /Complete programme attached and available on the festival website: http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/programmaonderdelen/signals-power-cut-2012/

The non-profit organization AIN launched the Visual Arts Festival Damascus in 2010 with a program comprising exhibitions, screenings, multi-media performances, lectures and talks. The aim of the festival is to create a forum for meetings and discussions focused n contemporary visual practice in the Middle East in dialogue with other regions of the world and to facilitate exchange between young artists from Syria and the neighboring Arab countries. The 2012 edition of the festival will have a nomadic form and see its premiere as a guest of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. To facilitate this new format, the emphasis in the 2012 edition will be on moving images; film and video, presented as screenings, installations and performance.

Curators: Charlotte Bank and Delphine Leccas

More info: http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com

Between the Seas

Bjcem staff — 20/1/2012

Between the Seas Festival of Mediterranean performing arts invites submissions to its second edition
(August 20-26th 2012 at the Wild Project)

Between the Seas Festival of Mediterranean Performing arts is excited to announce an open call for submissions in the fields of dance, theater and music from performing artists of the Mediterranean and Mediterranean diaspora as well as artists with a working interest in the Mediterranean region. The festival, which aims at promoting contemporary Mediterranean culture and encouraging exchange between Mediterranean and US-based artists, is interested in programming short or full length formats, works in progress or full productions, new or previously staged performances, original works and adaptations. The deadline for submissions is March 1st 2012. For more information and to access the submissions guidelines please visit www.betweentheseas.org

In its first edition in August 2011 Between the Seas presented 14 artists, including two NYC and two US premieres, and performances representing Morocco, France/Algeria, Egypt, Israel, US, Greece, Canada, Italy and Spain. The Festival is produced by Les Manouches Theater under the artistic direction of Aktina Stathaki. The Wild Project theater that will host the festival for the second time is a beautiful 87- seat black box theater, with state of the art facilities, eco-friendly, located in the beautiful and vibrant neighborhood of the East Village in the heart of New York City.

For inquiries and information please contact: lesmanouchestheatre@gmail.com

Migration, Stories of a Journey

Bjcem staff — 16/12/2011

Accademia Apulia UK
Presents
Migration, Stories of a Journey
Photography Award 2011

Accademia Apulia UK is proud to present Migration, Stories of a Journey, an international
Photography Award aimed at promoting emerging photographers of all nationalities based in
the European Union.
The award aims to foster a cultural exchange between countries through the Arts.
A distinguished jury will select the photographers who best interpret and explore migrants’
plight - their journey from a disadvantaged homeland to making a social and economic contribution in another country.
The works of five finalists will be shown in a group exhibition at the Royal Horseguards in
London, where the winner will be announced.

For more info and to Apply click here

Rome 2011

Bjcem staff — 12/12/2011

XV Biennale de la Méditerranée - Final stage, Rome
December 16th - 17th 2011
Opening Ceremony 16th Dec at 6 pm
Cinema, Literature, Music

After the first stage of the XV Biennale de la Méditerranée held in Thessaloniki we are ready for the final stage of the event in Rome at MACRO museum on december, 16th and 17th 2011. The event is promoted by Bjcem and produced by Roma Capitale in cooperation with MACRO and Zetema.Two days of music performances, readings and projections, from 6 pm to midnight (free entrance) at MACRO.

The official programme will be preceded by two days of parallel events at Fanfulla, an independent centre for arts in the vibrant neighborhood of Pigneto.

The complete programme is now available: click here to download it.

If you want to discover the selected artists browse the catalogue

You can also relive some of the moments of the Thessaloniki events trought our Flickr and Vimeo channels.

See you in Rome!

The landing

Bjcem staff — 1/12/2011

The landing

On 10 December 2011 is planned the international workshop led by master Costas Varotsos.
This workshop will regard the restructuring of the wreck “Kater I Rades” , sunk in 1997 off the coast of Otranto. The wreck will be a work dedicated to “humanity migrants”.

The workshop was attended by artists from some countries of the Mediterranean. Five of them have been selected by the Biennal of Young Artist from Europe and Mediterranean, in Thessaloniki, last October. They are: Victoria Lenidou from Cyprus, Mohamed Ziada from Egypt, Dusica Ivetic from Montenegro, Rami Farah from Syria and Sandra Lorenzi from France.
The artist will be shelter for two week in Otranto during the 10th to 30th December.

The workshop is dedicated to the relationship between migration and public art. The artists involved will work on the relationship between artistic production and the local community with the aim to promote the active participation of citizens in the creative process and sharing of content.
All the artistic materials produced in the workshop will create an exhibition, a journey of research and discovery set in eight public spaces in the city of Otranto.

Creative Revolutions!

Bjcem staff — 22/11/2011

Creative Revolutions!
user-generated videos da Tunisia, Egitto, Giordania, Siria, Libia

Sunday, 27th November h 7:00 pm, Teatro Valle occupato, Rome

Creative Revolutions! is a focus on the grassroot Arab Spring creativity coming out of the web. Creative Revolutions! features all sorts of creative user generated contents coming from Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Syria and Libya: from cartoons to videoclips, from satirical news bulletins to mini soap-operas and short films. This material has been created by users, shared on the web, remixed and re-manipulated from other users.
Creative Revolutions! is a tribute to the Arab youth that in 2011 has taken over the streets of many Arab countries, showing the world how they could eventually bring their future back in their own hands. This generation has proven to be able not only to regain control over its political life but also over its creativity. "Armed" by mobile phones, cameras and computers they have told us the "Story" of the revolutions and their own stories. Creative Revolutions! features these Story-stories and explores the creativity unfolding from both the alleys of the Arab world and those of the Internet.

For more info: www.mediaoriente.com and http://www.teatrovalleoccupato.it/

Artists Rome

Bjcem staff — 23/11/2011

More than 70 artists coming from 16 countries will be expected in Rome for this final stage: Albania, Bosnie and Herzegovine, Egypt, Finland, FYROM, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Lebanon, Malta, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and UK.

Have a look to the catalogue!

Here the names:

CINEMA
Ergys Peqini	Albania
Ass. Rencontres Musicales	France
Eirini Steirou	Greece
Matteo Giacchella	Italy
Valentina Ferrandes	Italy
Giacomo Abruzzese	Italy
Fabrizio Cotognini	Italy
Alberto Diana	Italy
Gabriele Piazzesi	Italy
Manfredi Lucibello	Italy
Marco Longo	Italy
Lino Strangis	Italy
De Serio	Italy
Shota Bukoshi	Kosovo
Manon Nammour	Lebanon
Tarek Korkomaz	Lebanon
Darijan Pejovschi	FYROM
Ivan Ivanovski	FYROM
Bianca Zammit	Malta
Kaled Jarrar	Palestine
Cristiano Mourato	Portogallo
José Trigueiros	Portugal
Vladimir Macar	Serbia
Urska Djukic	Slovenia
Sami Natseh	Spain
Almudena Verdes	Spain

LITERATURE
Rama Eldira	Albania
Ahmic Nermic	Bosnia Herzegovina
Alimanovic Lejla	Bosnia Herzegovina
Bakr Hend	Egypt
Diab Marwa	Egypt
Korna Mohamed	Egypt
Anis Leila	France
Jamison Andrew	United Kingdom
Clark Daniel Marcus	United Kingdom
Point Blank Poets	United Kingdom
Vrizas Stergios	Greece
Valentina Facchini	Italy
Celeste Clery	Italy
Fabio Chiriatti	Italy
Michele Ciavarella	Italy
Selmani Arber	Kosovo
Grozdanovsky Zivko	FYROM
Velickovska Juljiana	FYROM
Azzopardi Keith	Malta
Borg Keith	Malta
Sabaneh Faris	Palestine
Trigueiros José	Portugal
Pino Ana	Spain
Gonzalez Andino Andres	Spain

MUSIC
Hyphen hyphen	France
Scarlet O'Hanna	France
Si Tew	United Kingdom
Liburn Jupolli	Kosovo

It's LIQUID

Bjcem staff — 21/11/2011

Call for Artists: It’s LIQUID International Contest - First Edition 2012
Submission Deadline: January 19, 2012
Winners Release: March 08, 2012

It’s LIQUID Group, in collaboration with International ArtExpo, is proud to present “It’s LIQUID International Contest - First Edition 2012”.

The contest is born with the goal of promoting contemporary art, photography and design through all the divulgating tools that the communication platform It’s LIQUID has used for years (press release, mailing list with more than 60,000 subscribers, international contemporary art and design events realization). Solo artists and designers can participate to the contest as well as groups of artists and designers.

Who can apply?
The contest is open to artists and designers from all over the world without any limit of age and nationality.

Categories
The contest have five main categories:
– painting and drawing
– sculpture and installation
– photography
– videoart
– product design

Awards
- Prize of the value of 15.000,00 euro consisting in one year of interviews, publications and specials about winner artists of all categories on the It’s LIQUID Platform, and one year of email announcements sent to the mailing list dedicated (more than 60.000 subscribers).

- A collective exhibition about winner artists of all categories at the Rearte Gallery, Wien (Austria).

- The realization of a site-specific artwork set in the context of the city of Venice, for winner artists of sculpture and installation, videoart, product design categories. The prize is offered by Contaminante, an interactive project between planners, artists and territory which carries out site specific shows that become in the end integral part of the heritage of the city.

- Prize of the value of 5.000,00 euro consisting in one year of participation to the International Videoart Festivals organized by International ArtExpo Group.

- A special about winner artist of videoart category on one of the most important videoart platforms (videoartworld.com).

- The participation to International Videoart exhibitions organized by the group “The Palestinian Social Cinema Arts Association”, for the winner artist of videoart category.

For More info:

info@itsliquid.com
www.itsliquid.com/contest/2012

Out of Left Field

Bjcem staff — 9/11/2011

Out of Left Field
Curator: Jovana Stokic
Project manager: Ksenija Orelj, MMSU curator
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
November 11 – December 23, 2011

Opening: November, 11 at 6 pm

The Quadrilateral Biennial was initiated in 2005 focusing on contemporary art practices in the neighboring region of Croatia, Italy, Hungary and Slovenia. First BQ considered relativism, the second crisis of cultural heroes, and the third angles and intersection of media art. In its 4th edition, the Biennial embraced the challenge of exploring the open-ending and nomadic character of contemporary art, beyond regional and national boundaries, thus reviewing its regional focus in the broader, multilateral framework.

Out of Left Field
The title of the exhibition invokes a foreign US English idiom, that stems from baseball and means suddenly; from an unexpected source or direction. In the same manner, the curatorial concept for this
Biennial seeks to evoke this element of surprise but also to allude to political and ideological spheres. Artists represented are guided to mimic the strategy of non-alignment, where, starting from strongest
individuality, a possibility of coexistence is established. Artists co-present works in all media in powerful dialogue with performance art. Starting from examinations of body and identity, subjectivity and objectivity, the artists follow discursive practice of rigorous questioning of both the ideological apparatus and the self.

For more info and the programme click here

Visual Arts’ Festival Damascus

Bjcem staff — 25/10/2011

Call for submissions of video works

Visual Arts’ Festival Damascus
@ International Film Festival Rotterdam

Curators: Charlotte Bank & Delphine Leccas

The Visual Arts’ Festival Damascus was launched in 2010 with a program comprising exhibitions, screenings, multi-media performances, lectures and talks. The aim of the festival is to create a forum for meetings and discussions focused on contemporary visual practice in the Middle East in dialogue with other regions of the world and to facilitate exchange between young artists from Syria and the neighbouring Arab countries. Due to recent events in Syria, the 2012 edition of the festival will have a nomadic form and see its premiere as a guest of the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

For this upcoming event, we are looking for short, innovative videos produced during the past year (2011). The videos should be directed and produced by an Arab artist or film maker, regardless of his/her country of residence.
To reflect contemporary models of communication, the call will be spread through social networks, starting with Facebook. Submitted works should be uploaded on video sharing sites like Vimeo, YouTube or alike, made private and the links send to the curators:
delphineleccas@gmail.com / charlotte_bank@yahoo.de

Videos should be submitted as soon as possible, but no later than November, 20 2011. After this date, submissions will no longer be accepted.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=181603948585568

From Thessaloniki to Rome

Bjcem staff — 24/10/2011

From Salonicco to Rome
XV Biennale de la Méditerranée

Bjcem Association is pleased to invite you to the event: XV Biennale de la Méditerranée, From Thessaloniki to Rome.
We will relive together, with images, videos and documents, some of the highlights from the first stage of the XV Biennale de la Mediterranée held in Thessaloniki and we will present the final stage of the event, expected to be in Rome at the MACRO museum on december, 16th and 17th 2011.
Copies of the catalogue “XV Biennale de la Méditerranée - Symbiosis?” will be available for our guests
A wine tasting will be offered by our donor Cantine Nervi - Gattinara..

Little constellation - the land seen from the sea

Bjcem staff — 24/10/2011

little constellation - the land seen from the sea
workshop by Alessandro Castiglioni
october 14 and 15, 2011

Republic of San Marino
Library Archive Little Constellation - Contemporary Art in small States

Contents of the workshop
I - The international relations of contemporary art against the isolation of a small state
II - How to create a centre for international contemporary arts for the territory
III - A special projcet for the Biennale of Mediterranean, Ancona 2013

The objective of the workshop it was the inclusion of new artistic and intellectual contributions to the Little Constellation network and the network’s forthcoming exhibition at Villa Croce, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Genoa

workshop participants:
Alireza Amirimoghaddam
Daniela Barulli
Clara Bastianelli
Rita Canarezza
Martina Conti
Pier Paolo Coro
Giovanni Giulianelli
Giovanni Lens Vincenzi
Maria Chiara Monaldi
Caterina Morganti
Fausta Morganti
Monica Moroni
Michela Pozzi
Sara Rossini
Valentina Toccaceli
Paolo Tognozzi
Marco Vincenzi

Little Constellation is a project and an international network for contemporary art, which focuses its research on the symbolic sensitivity of the geographic dimension. Highlighting the different possible relationship between the geo-cultural centres and peripheries, through a plan of knowledge taken to the extreme of opposition and resistance between the concepts of proximity and distance, from February 2012, at the Museo di Villa Croce in Genoa, it will present the exhibition The Land Seen from the Sea.
Little Constellation conducts research devoted to the complex theme of isolation, which finds its definition in the dimension of the island (both geographically, but naturally also linguistically).
Isolation and the network of relationships are thus intertwined as fields of a single front. We live around a sea like frogs around a pond, declared Socrates. This brings out the fact that the peoples of antiquity owed their prosperity and relations to the great sea (almost enclosed like a pond) that is the Mediterranean. It is this duality between distance and vicinity that the research project seeks to focus on.
This research therefore focuses on the Mediterranean by starting from particularly sensitive areas, such as Montenegro, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Ceuta, and also other areas with which it is possible to make cultural and geographical comparisons, such as Iceland, Luxembourg, Andorra and Liechtenstein.
Specifically, the multiple identities of the Mediterranean will be examined through three nuclear and seminal case studies, compared with the different cultures encountered in this small basin.
These three areas are: Cyprus and its relations with Oriental cultures (Turkish, Arabic and Indian), Malta as a bridge between the North African basin and continental Europe, Gibraltar (and Ceuta), and relations with the Atlantic and English-speaking cultures.
Viewed in this perspective, these three different areas become useful mediums for broader anthropological, cultural and social reflection on the Mediterranean, which Fernand Braudel described as “a constant encounter between past and present. History is no more than a continuous series of questions aimed at the past in the name of the problems and curiosity – as well as the concerns and anxieties – of the present that surrounds and besets us. More than any other human universe the Mediterranean is proof of this, endlessly narrating itself and living on. Having been is a condition for being.”

The preparatory phase of this complex project will be developed in a specific dialogical dimension in collaboration with different institutions and artists which have been collaborating with the network for some years now. Specifically, between October 2011 and January 2012 Rita Canarezza, Pier Paolo Coro and Alessandro Castiglioni will conduct a series of workshops, laboratories and round tables with the aim of developing open discussion around the themes of the exhibition, which in their broadest terms are issues of an anthropological and geopolitical nature which characterize the territories in question. From isolation to distance, from autoproduction to the relations between artistic research and the territorial specifics, these workshops will be held in major venues for contemporary art research and will see the participation of scholars, theorists and artists.

Republic of San Marino; Their Excellencies the Captains Regent; Secretariat of State for Foreign and Political Affairs; Secretariat of State for Education and Culture, University and Youth Policies; Secretariat of State for Tourism and Sport; Ofﬁce for Social and Cultural Activities; Degree Course in Industrial Design, University of San Marino IUAV University, Venice; San Marino National Commission for UNESCO.

City of Genoa, Department of Culture, Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art
www.littleconstellation.org/project_eng.php?act=progetto&id_progetto=91
www.littleconstellation.org

Library Archive Little Constellation
Contemporary Art in Small States of Europe
international network, documentation, library, archive

Young Slovenian Artists

Bjcem staff — 3/10/2011

Young Slovenian Artists
Biennial of young artists from Europe and Mediterranean 2011
SKUC Association, Ljubjana, Slovenia

Alja Piry (visual art)
Mito Gegič (visual art)
Katja Dolganoč (literature)
Tjaša Kermavnar (applied arts)
Urška Djukić (film)

“Symbiosis?” is the question in focus of this year’s Biennial of Young Artists. In the times of the economic crisis and unpredictable changes of socio-economic relations, cohabitation in the Euro-Mediterranean region has become more than questionable. The eruption of military conflicts and social unrests has rocked the established levers of European power, maintaining the relative peace and seeming social progress on the coasts of the Mediterranean. The uncertain future puts us in a position where we need to reconsider our attitudes towards the past, the systems of power, as well as the roles that art plays in it.
It seems that history is repeating itself, driven by public amnesia. The desire for a great change, for the end of history, or rather some sort of resolution of the question of human civilization, appears omnipresent in virtually every thought, step and view of the buzzing crowd who, like Gauguin in similar times over a century ago, may be asking themselves: “Where do we come from?, What are we?, Where are we going?”
The selected Slovenian artists are asking themselves similar questions and provide the answers in their works. By recreating digital images of hunting scenes on the canvas, Mito Gegič successfully exposes the way we perceive the world “second-hand”, conveyed by the media – the perception of the world through the media always enables us to simply shut out the unpleasant reality. In her sound installation, Alja Piry gathers thoughts of artists from across the Mediterranean, as words of encouragement to a young artist in the modern world. In the field of design, we have Tjaša Kermavnar, who makes use of the energy generated during our exercise with the Rogenac device, thus introducing new renewable sources of energy in this energetically insatiable world. Ironically, man becomes his own power station. In her satirical drama full of black humour, Urška Djukić explores the effects of the modern globalized world in a local small-town bar, while Katja Gorečan’s poetry explores the dark intimate life of the young artist Hana.
Together, the Slovenian selection makes up a mosaic of images and words portraying the modern world, entering the map of the tumultuous Mediterranean through local starting points. From auto-poetics to active interventions in the environment and media reality, the authors offer us answers to the question Who are we? and indicate several possible answers to the question Where are we going?

Text extracted from the slovenian catalogue. Click her to download it

XV Biennale: the program

Bjcem staff — 4/10/2011

XV Biennale de la Méditerranée at the
Port of Thessaloniki
Opening: 6/10, 19.30 (see below for the program of the opening)
Duration: 7/10-6/11 2011

Download the program here

Warehouse 1
Special screenings

Warehouse 7
Main Program - Applied Arts
Parallel Program - Diploma Thesis Projects’ Exhibition 2010-2011 (School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & School of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University)
Parallel Program – SOULbiosis

Warehouse 8
Music, performances

Warehouse 9
Main Program - Visual Arts (1)
Parallel Program - Graduates’ Exhibition - School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Warehouse 13
Main Program - Gastronomy (4-6 November)
Parallel Program - W13
Parallel Program - SOULbiosis
Info Point

Warehouse 15
Main Program - Visual Arts (2)

Warehouses opening hours: 13.00-22.00 (Mondays closed)

Program - 6/10

12.00-13.30 Press Conference (Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Amphitheater)

13.30-14.30 Meeting of the participating artists and delegates with the organizers of the biennale in Thessaloniki (Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Amphitheater)

14.30-16.30 Visit to the 3^rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (Meeting point: Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art)

19.30 Opening Ceremony (Thessaloniki Town Hall)

20.00-20.15 Performance We feel… by Briscìu! (Thessaloniki Town Hall)

21.00 Passenger Station, dance performance by Kostas Gerardos, commissioned and produced by Dimitria Festival (Port of Thessaloniki – Passengers Station building)

21.45 Main Visual Arts Program - Performances by Marko Marković (Warehouse 9) and Samar El Barawy (Warehouse 15)

23.00 Opening Party: The Speakeasies – live band + DJ Set by Stefanos Tsitsopoulos & Dimitris Karathanos (Warehouse 8)

Program - 7/10

12.00 Visit to the 3^rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art at the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Moni Lazariston – 21 Kolokotroni Str., Stavroupolis)

15.30-16.30 Meeting for the workshop La Forma by ARCI Rome (Warehouse 13)

Official opening tour of the parallel projects: a bus will leave the port at 16.30 and will tour to the following openings and events:

17.00 Visit to the exhibition Still Live… is still alive
(National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation - Thessaloniki Centre, Villa Kapandji, 108 Vas. Olgas Ave.)

18.30-19.30 Performance Image of the World by La Xixa Theatre (Aristotelous Square)

19.30 Opening - exhibition Duet - Aris Rammos
(National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation - Thessaloniki Centre, Bookshop, 11 Tsimiski Str.)

20.00 Opening - Exhibition: Photography Workshop “Diavlos”
During the opening, the participating artists & their friends will offer traditional food from their countries that they will prepare.
(Piraeus Bank Conference Centre, 12-14 Katouni Str.)

21.00 Opening - exhibition Hotel Ariston
DJ Set The Kids at the Club Hotel Ariston, 5 Diikitiriou Str.

Other simultaneous activities:

Main Visual Arts Program - Performances by Me & The Machine and Realtympanica

19.00 Round table: “Diploma Thesis Projects from the Schools of Architecture of AUTH and ITU”. Participants: prof. George Papakostas (Head of the School of Architecture, AUTH), prof. Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis (School of Architecture, AUTH), prof. Orhan Hacihasanoglu (Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, ITU), Prof. Arzu Erdem (Faculty of Architecture, ITU) (Warehouse 7)

20.30 Opening of the exhibition facing Mirrors at the Thessaloniki Photography Museum (Port of Thessaloniki, Warehouse A)

Program - 8/10

12.00-14.00 Thessaloniki Photography Museum – presentation of the exhibition “Facing Mirrors (Warehouse 13)

18.00 Presentation by the Goethe Institut (Warehouse 13)

19.00 WEYA World Event Young Artists - London Cultural Olympiad 2012, presentation by the director, Mrs. Silke Pillinger (Warehouse 13)

19.45 “Kater i Rades” project, presented by artistic curator, Mr. Varotsos and the Mayor of the City of Otranto, Mr. Cariddi (Warehouse 13)

20.30-21.30 Concert Presències op. 16 by Ensemble col legno, Valencia
(Municipal Centre of Music Activities, 17 Kountouriotou Str.)

Program - 9/10

11.00 Lecture by Enriqueta Llabres and Eduardo Rico (responsible of the Relational Urbanism Studio, Berlage Institute) on “Relational Urbanism: Cities, models and systemic utopias” (Warehouse 7)

XV Biennale de la Méditerranée around the city
Parallel Program Exhibitions

Still Live… is still alive

Exhibition
Opening: 1/10, 20.00

Duration: 2-30/10/2011
Venue: National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation – Thessaloniki Centre
Villa Kapandji, 108 Vas. Olgas Ave.
Opening hours: Tuesday 9.00-16.00, Wednesday-Thursday 14.00-21.00, Friday-Sunday 10.00-18.00
Closed every Monday and October 26 & 28

Duet – Aris Rammos

Photography Exhibition

National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation - Thessaloniki Centre

Bookshop, 11 Tsimiski Str.

Opening: 7/10, 19.30

Duration: 7/10-7/11 2011

Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday, Saturday 09.00-15.00, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 09.00-21.00, Sunday closed

Exhibition: Photography Workshop “Diavlos”
A Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art project
Opening: 7/10, 20.00
Duration: 8/10-5/11/2011
Venue: Piraeus Bank Conference Centre, 12-14 Katouni Str, 546 25
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 10.00-14.00, Saturday 12.00-16.00

Symbiosis? Hotel Ariston
Ariston could mean we can live together
Opening: 7/10, 21.00
Duration: 8/10-6/11/2011
Venue: Hotel Ariston, 5 Diikitiriou Str.
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 17.00-23.00, Saturday-Sunday 12.00-23.00

Young Greek Photographers 2011
Institut Français de Thessalonique
Opening: 19/10, 20.00
Duration: 20-29/10 2011
2A Leoforos Stratou, 0030 2310 821 231
Opening hours: Monday-Sunday 17.30-21.00

Τeenage Angst
Dynamo Project Space
Duration: 28/10-18/11/2011
5 Typou Street (Valaoritou Area)
Opening hours: Tuesday-Thursday 18.00-21.00, Friday 11.00-15.00 & 18.00-23.00, Saturday 11.00-18.00

Rrose Selavy
Institut Français de Thessalonique
Opening: 31/10, 19.30
Duration: 1-21/11 2011
2A Leoforos Stratou, 0030 2310 821 231
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 10.00-13.00 & 17.30-20.30, closed on weekends

Outdoor locations

White Tower area
All projects open 6/10

Awake Installation – Anastasios Veloudis
Duration: 7/10-6/11/2011

Action Field Kodra’s Stalking Horses
Duration: 6-8/10/2011

Walking 4 Art Exhibition
Duration: 7/10-6/11/2011

Carpe Diem – Public Murals
Blu / Students Flats (Telloglou Str), Nade and Nastwo / Ippokratio Hospital, Live2 and Apset / Rotonda area (Melenikou Str), Faith47 and Dal / Ladadika area (23 Katouni Str), Woozy and Kez / Workers Residences of Xirokrini, Same84 / Students Flats (Telloglou Str), Ser (city centre)

Open Call: Message in a Bottle

Bjcem staff — 29/9/2011

ΤO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS / PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IN THE
XV BIENNALE DE LA MEDITERRANEE
THESSALONIKI, 6/10-6/11 2011

OPEN CALL – PROJECT Message in a Bottle

SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO THE AUDIENCE VISITING THE BIENNALE IN THE FORM OF AN ORDER-EXHORTATION-CALL TO ACTION

The project Message in a Bottle was inspired by the possibility of communication and intercultural dialogue offered by the Biennale de la Mediterranée.

As a reference to the gesture of sending off a message to the unknown using a bottle cast into the sea –a gesture that on the one hand sounds extremely environment-unfriendly, but on the other is used as a standard metaphor for a cry for help, the participating artists and others involved in this year’s Biennale are invited to contribute their own “cry of desperation” in the form of a command or instruction. The phrases collected can have a diverse quality; they can be harsh commandments or friendly exhortations and can take various directions, political, personal, artistic or other.

The idea was born after the kind donation of 22.000 bottles of the famous Natural Sparkling Water “Doubia” that belongs to the Malamatina Group. The collected phrases offered by the artists or other professionals involved in the organization are printed and inserted into the bottles and distributed to the biennale visitors, who take a piece of the biennale with them as they leave the exhibition space.

PLEASE SEND YOUR MESSAGE ALONG WITH YOUR NAME, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY , CITY AND COUNTRY TO: info@artbox.gr.
Example:
LIVE EVERYDAY LIKE IT IS YOUR LAST
Lydia Chatziiakovou, ArtBOX.gr (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Croatian Artists

Bjcem staff — 20/9/2011

An the winnere are...

MARKO DJEŠKA
TONĆI GAĆINA
IVA KOVAČ
ELVIS KRSTULOVIĆ
MARKO MARKOVIĆ
DINA RONČEVIĆ
MAJA VODANOVIĆ
BORKO VUKOSAV

Every second year there comes the time for a creative revision of young Croatian artists’ production.
The Re:vision works at two levels – as a group presentation of the works selected in Croatia and as participation of selected authors at The Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean. This specific, multidisciplinary art manifestation gathers hundreds of artists aged between 18 and 30 in different cities of the Euro-Mediterranean region. The focus is on live encounters of artists, curators and audience, as well as the plurality of art and the way of presentation, from exhibitions, urban actions, performances and workshops to debates and lectures. So far 14 biennials have taken place. For ten days, together with the artists from about thirty countries of Europe and Northern Africa, they have conquered different spots on the map of Europe.
It began in Barcelona in 1985, turned to Marseille in 1990 to Sarajevo in 2001, and reached 14th station, Skopje in 2009. The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art got involved in 1990 having realised the importance of supporting the young generation of artists in the international surroundings, which has nowadays become a usual or rather inevitable standard in creating art programme.
So far, abut a hundred Croatian authors and groups from various fields have been introduced (visual art, film, literature, architecture, music…), some of them having become a recognised part of the contemporary scene (Andreja Kulunčić, Ivana Franke, Kristijan Ko�ul, BADco., Let 3, Saša Randić and Idis Turato...)
This year’s host, the Greek city of Thessalonica, for the second time the biennial organiser, is welcoming us with the topic set under a question mark. Symbiosis? is meant as a question about the possibility of living together and creating the future, relevant in the context of presentday spiritual and material crises and conflict geopolitical situations in broader region. Faced with the interrogative point Symbiosis? art can’t reply with assertive, closed and defined concepts. By its nature it defines instead a vast area of possibilities, a fluid landscape of visions, a sea of suspension in which answers are substituted by new questions, new openings toward the different possibilities of collective knowledge and sensitivity. Here is another creative nervation, an oncoming generation of artists born in the early 1980s. Leaving the traditional visual art genres for good, group testing, experimenting, and cross-sectioning the media, they refer to the critical consideration of reality, its social, political, cultural and gender aspects, as well as to creative questioning of the position of an artist and the system of art.
This is a new format of the Biennial which, besides in Thessalonica, will also be held in Rome focusing on visual applied art together with the selections of film and literary creations. The Croatian selections are also presenting the new model of cooperation to domestic audience, shown for the first time at the Multimedia Cultural Centre of Split, the new member of the Biennial network for the young since this year. [Ksenija Orelj]

Text extracted from the croatian catalogue. Click her to download it

More info here

La Ville Ouverte

Bjcem staff — 16/9/2011

Cantieri d’Arte
Viterbo 20th September-2nd October 2011
La Ville Ouverte
BJCEM’s Workshop of Public Art- Biennial of the Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean

Arci and Casamemoire have activated, inside the net BJCEM, a workshop of public art that will be held in September in Viterbo, within the project of public art “Cantieri d’arte”.
“Cantieri d’arte” it is the name of a project of public Art born to Viterbo in the 2005. it’s a fluid base of active search that intends to investigate the relationship between art and city and the dynamics related to the public space through the tools of the contemporary art.
The 15° Biennal exhibition of the young artists of Europe and the Mediterranean will be characterized by a new concept: not only a single event but a long trip through the Mediterranean, with the partecipation of 3 principal cities (Salonicco, Rome and Casablanca) and many other territories where collateral events, workshop and meetings will be proposed.

La Ville OUVERTE
The workshop , promoted by Arci and CasaMemoire, it is a base of reflection on the use of the public space between south and north bound of the Mediterranean Sea. After a first session of close examination in Casablanca, the second part of the workshop, will be hold in Italy, it will bring six young artists (Italian and Moroccans) to realize projects to re-consider the public space using art. In Viterbo, the sessions of discussion between artists and art curators will take place in a public space, temporarily occupied, like a residence for the performance called “permit of stay (Visa card) by Alexander Nassiri Tabibzadeh.
The project is edited by Alexander Nassiri Tabibzadeh, Denis Isaia, Marco Trulli and Claudio Zecchi.
Permesso di soggiorno “PERMIT OF STAY (VISA CARD)
The title “permit of stay” is a pun intended among "permit “ and "stay where the first word suggest the permission to occupy a public space while the second refers both to the stay and the place in the house that generally concerns to conviviality (soggiorno in Italian language); the project is based on the concept of hospitality: the artist asks the permission to occupy the public ground bringing the living room (soggiorno in italian) from his house.
Participants: Chiara Colombi, Gregorio De Luca Comandini, Younes Atbane, Zohueir Atbane, Pietro Zucca, Isabella Mara

PROGRAM:
20/09/2011 7 p.m.
Opening “Permesso di soggiorno” (Visa card) by Alessandro Nassiri Tabibzadeh

21 September
10:00/13:00 artists presentation portfolio
16:00/18:00 artists presentation portfolio
18:00/19:00 meeting with Martina Angelotti (Curator )
Progetto ON : Lights of public Square
20:00 presentation of Alessia Galletta (BJCEM Finalist -category gastronomy) at Arci Jesce Sole club.
22 September
10:30 planning laboratory
16:00/17:00 meeting with Elisabetta Cristallini (Università degli studi della Tuscia )
art outside the museum: some reflections
17:00/18:00 meeting with Elena Federici (Università degli studi della Tuscia)
Public art and urban retraining. Experiences in comparison.
19:00 opening of Drawing a new memory vol.2 at BiancoVolta, , Via delle Piagge, 23
23 September
10:30 meeting with Giuseppe Stampone (artist)
The solstice project and the” neodimensional “ experiences
16:00/17:00 meeting with Patrizia Mania (Università degli studi della Tuscia)
Marcel Broodthaers – work of art as act of thought;
17:00/18:00 tea tasting by Tea town and Cucino da te.
18:00/19:00 meeting with Anna Lo Vecchio (Università degli Studi di Bologna)
The strategies of the chameleon. Mimetic devices in the contemporary art
24 Settembre
The whole day: presentation and debate about projects
25 Settembre
10:00/13:00 carrying out projects
End of the workshop and departures

La Forma – o delle memorie delle città
La Forma is a “do-it-yourself” low-cost and low-fi publishing project by. A magazine capable of collecting narrative suggestions to tell a story as if it were a serialized novel. An experimental novel written by multiple hands which involves artists, writers, cartoonists and critics accommodating at the same time diverse types of languages . A work that examines the urban space reflecting on the concepts of geography, urban planning and architecture; folklore, history, and tradition, deriving its strength from its diversity. Each artist will give a personal view of an euro-Mediterranean city in the form of nostalgic notes or imaginary postcards full of memories and projections of the urban space.
http://laforma.tumblr.com/
Curated by Marco Trulli, Claudio Zecchi and Tothi Folisi (Laboratorio Saccardi)
Texts and Images
108, Adalberto Abbate, Francesco Arena, Alterazioni Video, Claudia Di Gangi, Thamara Emanuele, Christian Frosi, Luca Ghedini, Sonia Giambrone, Francesco Guttuso, Vincenzo Profeta, Laboratorio Saccardi, Luciano Maggiore, Alessandro Nassiri Tabibzadeh, Clio Nicastro, Gloria Pasetto, Cosimo Piediscalzi, Massimo Ricciardi, Pietro Ruffo, Roberto Santoro, Alessandro Saturno, Giuseppe Stampone, Roberta Martina Zagarella, Marco Trulli e Claudio Zecchi.

www.cantieridarte.org
Organized by Arci, CasaMemoire e Cantieri d’Arte, in cooperation with the municipality of Venice Under the aegis of MIBAC (Italian ministry of cultural heritage and environmental conservation), supported by COOP.

Default

Bjcem staff — 15/9/2011

DEFAULT

Masterclass in Residence on art, cities and regeneration
Lecce, Italy
21st-30th September 2011

DEFAULT Masterclass is an international cultural and artistic residence hosted in Lecce, Southern Italy.

During ten days, twenty selected artists will discuss with curators, artists, cultural producers, transnational partners and local audience about some key questions of our (austere) time: how to interact within a wider governmental policy concerning urban regeneration? How to tackle the increasingly politicised stakes that underpin cultural inquiry on urban centres’ and neighbourhoods’ revitalisation?

Do artists, curators, art managers and policy makers have to default to “art and regeneration practices” which are no longer feasible yet still entrenched in cultural structures because there is no other alternative given?

The works will take places in several regenerated spaces in the city of Lecce.

Among the guests and invited lecturers: Lewis Biggs (Biennial of Liverpool), Celine Condorelli (artist), Hannah Conroy (curator, AGM), Alfredo Cramerotti (curator, AGM and QUAD), Julia Draganovic (No Longer Empty), Ana Hoffner (artist), Andrea Lissoni (Xing and Hangar Bicocca), Paolo Mele (Ramdom), Gregor Neuerer (artist), Filipa Ramos ((curator and art critic), Andrei Siclodi (Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen), Yesomi Umolu (curator, AGM) and Pietro Gaglianò (art critic).

Complete guests’ bios: http://ramdom.net/it/2011/08/default-introduces-its-guest/

Artists were asked to present a project on the topic of “shared memory” and renewed spaces. An international committee of art professionals has selected 10 international and 10 Italian artists (7 from Apulia region) to participate in the residence.

The selected artists are:

Rachela Abbate (DEU), Heba Amin (EGY), Maria Rebecca Ballestra (ITA), Bean (UK), Alberto Borea (PE), Stefano Cagol (ITA), Natascha Hagenbeek (NL), Emma Houlihan (EIRE), Lucia Leuci (ITA), Tonka Malekovic (HRV), Simone Massafra (ITA), Anthony McInneny (AUS), Marcus Owens (USA), Giuseppe Pansa (ITA), Serena Porrati (ITA), Rosario Montero Prieto (UK), Sergio Racanati (ITA), Alessia Rollo (ITA), Tatiana Villani (ITA), Angela Zurlo (ITA).

Complete artists’ bios: http://ramdom.net/it/artists/

Off Programme

The programme of workshops, lectures and panels will be enriched by several fringe events. Among these, D-Day: Default’s Party and Artlab 2011 closing event which will take place on 24th September, h.21.30, at Archiviazioni. The scenery will be occasion for site-specific installations and audiovisual experiences investigating the topics of mobility and border. The indoor and outdoor spaces will host artist Devrim Kadirbeyoğlu’s first italian solo exhibition “Who draws the line?” (produced by Ramdom and Archiviazioni, curated by Giusy Checola), the site-specific installation by artist Luca Coclite and live media by Gianluca De Rubertis (Il Genio) and Alberto Piccinni, following DJ Sonda. Location: Archiviazioni.

The 25th September, h.18.30, Default will open its doors to the everyone with “Apertif in residence”: a meeting and debate forum hosting cultural and art organisations, Default’s artists and guests. Location: Liberrima (TBC).

The 22nd September, h.18.00, public panel entitled “Paesaggio con figura. Arte, sfera pubblica e trasformazione sociale”. Intro by: Gabi Scardi. Moderator: Caterina Seia. Participants: Andrea Bartoli, Maria Rebecca Ballestra (Ramdom), Ilaria Oliva, Giusy Checola (Café Musagetes). Location: Liberrima.

The 30th September exhibition The Wall (archives) # 4, a project by Pietro Gaglianò in collaboration with Archiviazioni. Location: Archiviazioni.

Other initiatives, events are still be planning, details delivered by Ramdom (www.ramdom.net)

ORGANISERS

DEFAULT is organised by RAMDOM Association (Lecce) in the frame of the project “Memorable Arts” and it is curated.

The main partners of the project are: Associazione Sud-Est - Manifatture Knos (ITA); AGM – Annual General Meeting Culture (Nottingham, UK); Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Innsbruck, Austria); Bjcem - Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo; Arci Puglia; Fondazione Fitzcarraldo (Torino); Archiviazioni (Lecce)

With the support of: Vessel (Bari); Arci Puglia; Officine creative; Comune di Lecce, Lupiae Servizi, ANFITEATRO Lab.

DEFAULT Masterclass is financed by Regione Puglia, Principi Attivi 2010 – Giovani Idee per una Puglia Migliore, in the project frame of “Memorable Arts”.

Urban Landscape Perspectives

Bjcem staff — 13/9/2011

Urban Landscape Perspectives: Towards a collective project
Venice – Casablanca – Thessaloniki October 2010 – October 2011

Urban Perspectives is a public art project promoted by the Council of Venice ‘Youth Policies and Peace Department’. The project was conceived with the intent to approach the 15th BJCEM, through the construction of a collective work made by a group of artists and curators in the Porto Marghera area of Venice.Six artists -Videotrope (Roberto Sartor and Matteo Stocco), Neill Kidgell, Valentina Ciarapica and Claudia Rossini, Giulia Filippi – coordinated by the collective Tri.P Group (Alessandro Bellinato, Alvise Giacomazzi and Carlo Tinti), chose four areas in which to create low budget interventions to improve the urban environment and to build connections with the local community. The design of Urban architecture is influenced by many aspects of ordinary life, such as politics, socio-economics, availability of open spaces and their impact on perceptions of the urban habitat. This project aims to promote and test a strategy for urban requalification that is open, incremental, and engaging. Extensive research of the area (Via della Libertà and surroundings) was undertaken before initial ideas, proposals and individual responses were developed by a team of artists working closely with architects and city planners as well as the general public. In this way, the resulting artistic inquiries, both tangible and/or virtual, become a tool for the development of a proposal relating to the planned urban regeneration of the area. The regeneration of the urban space will commence with the installation of street furniture purposely conceived on a “low budget” guiding principle.The round table 'Waiting for Thessaloniki' is the last encounter before the BJCEM where will be presented the result of a collective experience of investigation, dialogue, workshops and artistic interventions in public spaces.

Program

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 17:00> 20.00 ROUND TABLE WAITING FOR THESSALONIKI 2011 Forte Marghera Marghera - Venice  17:00> 18.00 Urban Landscape Perspecitives: towards a collective project Final presentation

18.00> 18:30 "Attempted similar action" video performance by Younes and Zouhair Atbane (Casablanca)   18:30> 19.00 "La ville ouverte" Final presentation
by Marco Trulli (Viterbo) and Alessandro Nassiri (Milan)  19:00> 20.00 Marghera: soundscapes by Marco Cecotto (Venice)

Bjcem @Artlab 2011, Lecce

Bjcem staff — 9/9/2011

Bjcem @Artlab 2011, Lecce

Fondazione Fitzcarraldo (Turin) is organizing from September 22nd to 24th the 6th edition of its annual meeting on cultural management ArtLab-Dialogues about Cultural Management.
Since 2006 ArtLab has been a unique debate forum where artists, cultural managers, researchers and decision makers can share their experiences about the state of art of cultural management in Italy and in the international ground.
In 2011, ArtLab’s overall programme foresees several international events focused on issues regarding cross-border cultural and artistic mobility, co-production and cooperation, community interventions and development through arts and culture, paying especially attention to the Mediterranean area.

Bjcem is one of the main partner of Artlab 2011 and we will take part to different panels.

Have a look to the programme!

For more information visit: artlab.fitzcarraldo.it

Egyptian selection

Bjcem staff — 8/9/2011

Atelier of Alexandria is proud to present the egyptian selected artists that will take part to the XV Biennale de la Mediterranée.

14 young artists in visual arts by 9 artists, Applied arts by 2 artists, poetry by 2 artists and short story by one artist whose will send her artworks only, these numbers provided by the Foundation for the participation of Egyptian artists in BJCEM.

Here the selected:

► THESSALONIKI - GREECE: 6-9 OCTOBER 2011

Visual arts (9 artists):

1. Ahmed Abulnasr (Visual - installation)

2. Alaa Abd El Hamed (Sculpture - Installation)

3. Hady Moustafa (Visual - painting)

4. Marc Henine (Visual - Painting)

5. Mohamed Ziada (Visual – sculpture)

6. Mohamed Alaa (Visual - Video)

7. Salma Badawy (Visual - Installation)

8. Samar El Barawy (Visual - Painting-Performance)

9. Wafaa Yehia (Visual - painting)

Applied arts (2 artists):

1- Aly Mohamed (Applied arts - Architecture)

2- Khadiga Mostafa (Applied arts - Fasion)

► ROME - ITALY: 16 - 17 DECEMBER 2011

Literature:

(the required participants in Rome – Italy = 2 artist & 1 will send her works)

1- Marwa Diab (Literature - Poetry)

2- Mohamed Korna (Literature - Poetry)

3- Hend Bakr (Literature - Short story) - will send her artworks only

Have a look to the artist's work, click here

The selection committee:

Prof. Mohamed Rafik Khalil

a Head of Atelier of Alexandria

Dr. Manolis Maragkoulis

the director of Greek cultural center in Alexandria

Mr. Daniel Stoevesandt

the director of Goethe institute in Alexandria

Mrs. Tatiana Weber

the director of French cultural center in Alexandria

Prof. Reem Hassan

Assistant professor in Faculty of fine arts - Alexandria University

Mr. Moataz El Safty

the Art Director of Atelier of Alexandria

Between the Seas

Bjcem staff — 31/8/2011

Bjcem is official partner of "Between the Seas", a festival of Performing Arts from the Mediterranean.

The Festival will last for one week and will include performances in the fields of dance, music and theater. Artists will be selected following an open call for submissions alongside with a smaller group of curated performances. An adjacent mini-conference with papers by young researchers, graduate students and academic-practitioners will complement the festival providing the theoretical framework for approaching and understanding the main festival themes.
More info about the program me: http://betweentheseas.org/home/program.html

Between the Seas aims at promoting the representation and understanding of Mediterranean identity and culture in North America. There is at present a growing number of political, cultural and economic institutions, based primarily in Europe, that explore the historical and geographical interconnections between Mediterranean countries and focus on the Mediterranean as a region whose distinct history and culture has the potential to serve as a model for cross-cultural exchange, co-existence and growth. In proposing a festival of Mediterranean performing arts in New York City, one of the world's largest cultural and intellectual capitals, our goal is to open up this intellectual debate to the other side of the Atlantic and engage North American artists, scholars and audiences in a discussion and understanding of the region's culture and identity. BtS want to share the vibrancy of the region's contemporary artistic production, aspects of which often remain under-represented or inaccessible in North America and celebrate the diversity and dynamism of contemporary Mediterranean culture moving beyond discourses that represent the region in either homogenizing or polarizing terms.
The festival will be organized for the first time in NYC in 2011 with the goal to become an annual event. Its mission is to:   familiarize North American audiences, with the latest developments in the performing arts from the participating Mediterranean countries.   explore, through artistic creation and scholarly discussion, Mediterranean culture, its commonalities and divergences and envision the potential of a polyphonic, hybrid, interconnected Mediterranean identity that resists homogenizing or polarizing interpretations.   give the opportunity to emergent artists from the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean Diaspora to articulate their voice and present their work in an international event, encouraging artistic exchange and debate and bridging Mediterranean culture and its diaspora.   bridge the fields of research and performance practice on topics of Mediterranean culture, history and identity.

Thessaloniki 2011

Bjcem staff — 29/8/2011

 XV Biennale de la Méditerranée – Thessaloniki 2011
1 7th October – 6th November - Opening 6th October
The new edition of the Biennial is coming soon.  25 years after the first successful organization of the Biennale of young creators from Europe and the Mediterranean, the city of Thessaloniki is ready to host the XV Edition of the Biennale de la Méditerranée. This year, the Biennale will be characterized by a new format, not just a single event, but a long journey through the Mediterranean area, with the participation of 2 main cities – Thessaloniki in october and Rome in december 2011. The organizing institutions – the General Secretariat for Youth, the Municipality of Thessaloniki, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and the Aristotle University – are collaborating with other local institutions and independent organizations (among these Dynamo Project), in order to activate all the creative forces of the city towards the creation of a memorable event.

Opening days 
The opening ceremony will be held at the White Tower on the 6th of October at 7pm. After the opening a parade will accompany the public through the beautiful waterfront to the Port area, main venue of the event, where there will be a party curated by Soul Magazine.  From friday 7th to sunday 9th a rich program of parallel events, performances, seminars and talks included activities for professionals as international network meetings, portfolio parade and showcases, talks and presentations from international organizations, experts and curators. Among these our new partners from Kosovo and Syria: Stacion - Center for contemporary art - Prishtina and AIN Association - Damasco 
Soon more details.

  Venues 
The XV Biennale de la Méditerranée will thus take over the whole city, as it will unfold in a variety of public and alternative spaces around the city, beyond the standard museum-type presentation. The main area for the exhibitions, meeting point and main events will be the industrial Port area, other activities will be also in presented in waterfront, Aristotelous Square, New Town Hall and the White Tower area, Valaoritou area, Aristotle University campus. A group of curators and architects is curating the set up of the exhibition venues in the docks area getting inspired by the work of Lina Bo Bardi a Brazilian modernist architect born in Italy. Click here to see a gallery of the main venues.

Artists 2011
The selections are closed, we wish to thanks all our partners for their great work. Official website with all the artists will be on line very soon, but if you want to discover some of them here you have first suggestions:  
Isabella Mara,
Mito Gegic,  
Axel Koschier and Belen Rodriguez,  
Ana Teresa Vicente,  
Didem Erk ,
Muhammad Ali,
Samar El Barawi

Getting to Thessaloniki
Don't miss the opportunity to visit Thessaloniki during our event.  The city is very well connected thanks to its international airport, you can find very good rates on Easyjet and Ryanair. We are working for having very special prices in 4 stars hotels for our guests, if interested please send an email to bjcem.aisbl@gmail.com. For a cool glimpse on Thessaloniki read these articles on the New York Times and Huffington Post. For more general informations on the city click here

Map 2010-2011

Bjcem staff — 3/8/2011

Call for proposals - artistic residency - Map 2010-2011

Sound / digital / hybrid art At Transcultures in Mons (Belgium)

november 2011 > january 2012

The call for tender for the residency is opened until September 10th 2011 at midnight (Brussels time).

Transcultures, interdisciplinary centre for electronic & sound art & cultures (Mons, Belgium), in partnership with the City of Mons and the Ministry of the French speaking community of Belgium, in the framework of the promgram map 2010-2011 led by the Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, will host a project (media/digital arts, sound art, new innovative interdisciplinary form…) for 3 months in Mons from the 1st of November 2011 to end of January 2012. The project has to show some international quality and should be able to work also in a site specific way with Transcultures and its local partner.
The artist residency will be offered 3750 euros (1250 euros per month) as production/accomodation support + apartment facility in Mons + technical, communication support by the Transcultures’ staff and will have to propose a public event with his-her sound/media/hybrid creation at the end of the residency in Mons.

The map 2010-211 programme is a extension of the map programme, which has been initiated by the Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes. In order to address the different movements of the young generation of artists, this program offers a panel of artists mobility concepts led by partner places. It is open to artists between 18 and 35 years old, living in one of the program’s member countries:
Austria – Belgium – Bulgaria – Cyprus – Czech Republic – Denmark – England – Estonia – Finland – France – Germany – Greece – Hungary – Iceland – Ireland – Italy – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malta – the Netherlands – Poland – Portugal – Quebec, Canada – Romania – Serbia-Montenegro – Scotland – Slovakia – Slovenia – Spain – Sweden – Turkey.
This residency must be outside of their country of origin and/or residence.
Former map programme laureates are not allowed to candidate.

More info: http://art4eu.net/

Artefatto 2011/2012 – Motus Urbis

Bjcem staff — 3/8/2011

The “Artefatto” project, which from this year will enjoy the added co-operation of the International Association of the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM), is administered by Area Educazione, Università e Ricerca of Trieste City Council, Servizio Servizi Educativi Integrati per l’Infanzia e Giovani e la Famiglia, in collaboration with Area Cultura and Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte, under the patronage of GAI.

Objectives »
The initiative is backed by Trieste City Council and aims to support talented young artists and promote their work. The project involves a series of events (workshops, seminars, meetings, performances) devoted to young artists from Friuli Venezia Giulia (Regional section), to be held in November 2011, and an international group exhibition, to be staged in Trieste in May 2012 (international section).
This year a third section will have the task of selecting an artist from the Region to take part in this autumn’s 15th Biennale des Jeunes Createurs de l’Europe e de la Méditerranée (BJCEM section).

Sections»
Regional Section
The regional section is reserved for young artists resident or domiciled in Friuli Venezia Giulia aged between 17 and 35

International Section
The international exhibition will put on display the work of artists of any nationality aged between 17 and 35.
The event will also include works by artists from the Region selected for the 2011 BJCEM and a selection of works by artists taking part in workshops being held in autumn 2011.

BJCEM Section
Artists aged between 18 and 30 resident in the Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia can also take part in the competition to select an artist to represent the Region at the 2011 BJCEM in Salonica. The theme of the 15th Biennale de la Méditerranée takes the form of a question: “SYMBIOSIS?”.
For further information on the theme: www.artefatto.info and www.bjcem.org.

Deadline»
Applications for the BJCEM section must be made in English and sent exclusively by e-mail to questions@artefatto.info not later than 20 June 2011. Further information is available from the FAQ sheet, which can be downloaded from the www.artefatto.info website.
Applications for the regional and international sections must be sent no later than 20 July 2011; if sent by mail, the letter must bear a franking date no later than 12th August

More info www.artefatto.net

3 workshops by Arci

Bjcem staff — 28/7/2011

In the program of the prepatory events of the XV edition of the Biennale de la Mediterranée which will be held in Thessaloniki from October 6th to November 6th, Arci, in collaboration with Bjcem, organize 3 international workshop.

Workshop of Public Art - La Ville Ouverte (the Open city) - an Urban Art Project
In association with : Arci Lazio, Casamemoire, Cantieri d’Arte, City of Venezia
Institutional partnership : MIBAC – Minister of Culture in Italy Sponsored by COOP

Workshop of Gastronomy
In collaboration with : AIAB – Italian Organic Agriculture Association, Fairtrade Italia, “Decanter”- Rai-Radio2. With the support of: COOP

Workshop of Literature "Living in the city of Babylon: Symbiosis"
In collaboration with: Arci Lecco, Arci Forte Fanfulla, dall’Associazione Les Cultures onlus, Ligue de l’Enseignement, Lire et Faire Lire, la rivista El Ghibli, Associazione Altera, RadioRai Tre – Fahrenheit with the support of: COOP, Center for the Book and Reading of Ministry of Culture (Cepell-Mibac) 

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Workshop of Public Art
La Ville Ouverte (the Open city) - an Urban Art Project
In association with : Arci Lazio, Casamemoire, Cantieri d’Arte, City of Venezia
Institutional partnership : MIBAC – Minister of Culture in Italy  Sponsored by COOP

Arci and Casamemoire set up, within the framework of Biennal of the Young Creators (artists) of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, a workshop of public art which will take place from 20 till 24 September in Viterbo (Italy) during the Festival " Cantieri d' Arte ".

The workshop will involve 6 young creators under 30 years of the countries of the Mediterranean Sea.
They will participate in all the events of the workshop and will realize an artistic project which will be displayed (exposed) in the spaces of the Macro « Pelanda » in Rome from 16 till 17 December 2011. The biographies of the artists which will participate in the workshop will be published on the catalog "Simbyosis " of Bjcem on 2011.

To participate it is necessary to send a curriculum vitae, a portfolio and a small biography. It is also necessary to send the data of contact. It is necessary to send all the material by e-mail to : HYPERLINK "mailto:arte.cantieri@gmail.com"arte.cantieri@gmail.com from July 27th as object in emails « application call « la Ville Ouverte ».
Workshop program
On September 20th - Conference of presentation of projects and participants;
On September 21st - Laboratory about public space and performance " permesso soggiorno". The product of the laboratory will be display in the MACRO « Pelanda » in Rome during the BJCEM.
On September 22nd - Conference " Public Art: history of a research practice "and" Estétique du Camouflage "
On September 23rd - Exchange of éxperiences about reusing of public spaces;
On September 24th - Participation to " Storie di lavoro (Stories of work) "and" Pulmino Fiat Theatre "

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 Workshop of Gastronomy
In collaboration with : AIAB – Italian Organic Agriculture Association, Fairtrade Italia, “Decanter”- Rai-Radio2. 
With the support of: COOP
Among the young cooks selected by the international net of the Biennal exhibition, the organization, will choose 6 people (3 italian one and 3 from remaining countries of the Mediterranean basin) to participate to a workshop that will take place in in Sesto St. Giovanni (Milan - Italy) from 16th of September to 18th.
The young cooks will know and appreciate topics as biological products, some kind of short distribution chain and fair trade. Working in team the participants will HYPERLINK "http://www.wordreference.com/enit/highlight"highlight interaction and “symbiosis”between different gastronomical cultures inspired by some specific Mediterranean products " Aim of the workshop is a collective menu that will be introduced during the meeting of the Biennal exhibition in Salonicco (7 October. 6 November 2011).

Registrations term within 26/08/11
Place : Sesto Sang Giovanni - Milan (Italy)
Duration : 16-17-18 september
Info: Arci Direzione Nazionale - tel. +39 06 41609501 - email: cultura@arci.it

In collaborazione con: DECANTER - RaiRadio2

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Workshop Literature "Living in the city of Babylon: Symbiosis"
In collaboration with: Arci Lecco, Arci Forte Fanfulla, dall’Associazione Les Cultures onlus, Ligue de l’Enseignement, Lire et Faire Lire, la rivista El Ghibli, Associazione Altera, RadioRai Tre – Fahrenheit with the support of: COOP, Center for the Book and Reading of Ministry of Culture (Cepell-Mibac)

  During the workshop the participants will be invited to work on the syntactic characteristics of idioms used by people living on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea by proposing an analysis on their idiomatic features. The working instruments will be those of the creative poetic writing. At the workshop will participate 6 young artists form the Mediterranean countries.
The workshop will be divided in a brief period of training on writing and linguistics, followed by
a creative experimentation on the city as a melting pot of sounds, words and images in constant evolution. At the conclusion of the activity, participants will be invited to create and share a new common key to sintactis by which it can be drawn up a description of the “city of Babylon”, starting with the main theme of the Biennale: "Symbiosis ".

Entering till the 10 septembre 2011 Place: Lecco (Italy) dans le festival “Immagimondo”  Date: 3, 4, 5 ottobre 2011  Info: Arci Direzione Nazionale, tel. +39 06 41609501, mail cultura@arci.it

Izmo Summer School 2011

Bjcem staff — 25/7/2011

Izmo Summer School 2011 - Public Spaces in the City - Torino, Italy

 Main information
What: Summer School
Topic: Public Spaces in the City 
When: September 5th - 14th, 2011 
Where: Torino, Italy
Hours: 9:30am - 8:30pm 
How: Lectures, Design Workshop, Installation in the Public Space 
Organization: Izmo cultural association in partnership with Politecnico di Torino (Second School of Architecture) and St. John International University 
Fee: 490€ until August 1st || 550€ until August 22nd 

Izmo has organized an International Summer School in Torino from September 5th to 14th 2011 that proposes the public space as its theme. The course is aimed at students, graduates, professionals and anyone interested in the issue of public space and urban regeneration.  The registration fee is set at € 490 for students who submit their application by 1 August 2011 or € 550 for students who submit their application no later than August 22, 2011.
The lectures (entirely in English language) will be held by professors of the Politecnico di Torino, University of Eastern Piedmont and St. John International University, as well as members of Izmo, and will face issues related to public space with the aim of providing insights in a broad and multidisciplinary manner. In addition, students will have the opportunity to directly experience several methods of field research (urban drift, urban missions, interviews) that will allow them to observe and make contact with the territory and its inhabitants.
Finally, the training will be enriched by a series of meetings with experts and professionals: informal moments during which students will have the opportunity to interact and engage with those who work in the public space, such as members of Izmo.
At the end of the lecture series, participants will intervene effectively in the public space, designing and implementing a series of installations, parts of an overall project for the redevelopment of District 7 in Turin. Each student will have a budget of 50 euros for the purchase of materials, while Izmo will provide the tools needed and work alongside students in every phase of the design studio.
Participants of the Summer School will be awarded 3 credits, recognized by the Politecnico di Torino or by the St. John International University, transferable to any other university (with ECTS in Europe). In addition, participants will receive ongoing support with regard to logistics, the search for accommodations, transportation and tourism.
For any further information, please visit the web site: http://www.izmo.it/Web/Progetti_%7C_Projects/Izmo_Summer_School_2011_-_Public_spaces_in_the_City_-_Torino%2c_Italy

Izmo was established in 2006 in Turin, Italy. The association focuses on participatory process, local development, architecture, design and ICT. The name Izmo originates from the word isthmus, a thin line of land that joins two areas. Our research topic is in fact the territory: where interactions take place between public space and individuals. Our mission is to link the territories, the people with the land and the citizens with each other. We do this, for instance, through projects of urban design, installation; organization of seminars, meetings and workshops; and developing of Web platforms. In all cases, the projects designed by Izmo come from reading and from listening to people and places that will benefit from our operations. 

The 9th Fnac Photographic Competition

Bjcem staff — 22/7/2011

Photo: Stephanie Gengotti Fnac Prize 2010

The 9th Fnac Attenzione Talento Photographic Competition 2011.

The winner will be rewarded with a one-man exhibition in
Fnac Galleries in France, Portugal and Italy

Deadline for submission of entries: 15 October.

Now in its ninth year, Fnac’s Attenzione Talento – the photographic competition sponsored by Fnac in several European countries – is an established event for the discovery and promotion of up-and-coming artists in the field of photography. With this project, Fnac plans to select a new talent in Italian photography and to offer them a real chance to gain visibility and endorsement.

Fnac’s Attenzione Talento competition is for photographers who are already experts, capable of presenting an extensive project in which an idea is coherently developed in both its form and contents. Entrance is free and open to all photographers regardless of age and country of origin. Each portfolio must include 20 photographs. The images, to be submitted in digital format, in colour or black and white, must be in jpg format with 72 dpi resolution and the shortest side of the photograph must have a minimum of 1080 pixels.

A jury of experts and personalities from the world of photography will judge the works submitted and select, by 31 December 2011:
• the winner, rewarded with a one-man show held in the Fnac Photographic Galleries (Italy, Portugal and France);
• the Internazionale Special Mention, rewarded with the commissioning of a work for the Internazionale magazine in the course of 2012;
• the TPW Special Mention, rewarded with free enrolment in a TPW (Toscana Photographic Workshop) workshop.

The 2011 jury is made up of:
the photographers Paolo Verzone and Alessandro Albert; Elena Boille, photo-editor of Internazionale; Arianna Rinaldo, photo-editor of D-La Repubblica delle Donne; Gigliola Foschi, lecturer and photography critic; Carlo Roberti, director of the Toscana Photographic Workshop; Roberto Mutti, journalist for the daily Repubblica and photography critic; Marion Hislen, head of Gallerie Fnac France and Valeria Moreschi, head of Gallerie Fnac Italy.
The jury will pay particular attention to the originality of the project submitted, its expressive quality and the thoroughness of its artistic endeavour.

In Italy, in 8 years, the Fnac Competition has collected over 3,500 portfolios, selected 10 winners and 23 special mentions Most of the award-winning photographers have had contacts with agencies or newspapers, received job opportunities or other awards

The winners of the previous competitions:

Giorgio Barrera (2003)
Marco Calò (2004)
Emiliano Mancuso and Mattia Insolera (2005)
Simona Ghizzoni and Elena Givone (2006)
Massimo Mastrorillo (2007)
Antonio Zambardino (2008)
Maurizio Cogliandro (2009)
Stephanie Gengotti (2010)

More info: www.fnac.it/atf

Architecture in the City

Bjcem staff — 11/7/2011

NUOVE GENERAZIONI PROGETTANO: “Symbiosis?”

GIOVANI CREATIVI PER IL FESTIVAL ARCHITETTURA IN CITTA’

Torino

Cortile del Maglio

14 luglio 2011

ore 11.00 - 12.30

Dopo l’inaugurazione della nuova sede presso il Cortile del Maglio, secondo appuntamento organizzato dalla Bjcem nell’ambito delle attività di avvicinamento alla XV edizione della Biennale de la Mediterranée.

Giovedì 14 luglio 2011, alle ore 11:00, nel programma delle attività del festival Architettura in Città, la Bjcem presenta:

Nuove Generazioni presentano: “Symbiosis?”

Curatori, artisti e architetti presenteranno workshop e iniziative realizzate nel programma degli eventi di avvicinamento alla XV edizione della Biennale de la Mediterranée che si terrà a Salonicco dal 6 ottobre al 6 novembre. Terreno comue di lavoro delle diverse esperienze è stato “Symbiosis?”, incentivare la riflessione sul come sia possibile vivere insieme, sull’influenza esercitata dagli attuali eventi politici nel Mediterraneo su questi aspetti e in che modo l’opera d’arte possa funzionare come mezzo per leggere il sé e l’altro.

In particolare saranno presentate le esperienze di Cantieri D’Arte (Viterbo), del workshop La Ville Ouverte (Casablanca-Venezia-Salonicco), e delle attività frutto della collaborazione tra l'Ufficio Giovani Artisti del Comune di Ferrara e l'Unità Operativa Didattica Arti Sceniche

Partecipano

Marco Trulli
Presidente di Arci Viterbo e curatore del progetto di public art Cantieri d'Arte. Collabora con Arci nazionale per la realizzazione di progetti d'arte pubblica nell'ambito della BJCEM

Denis Isaia
ricercatore culturale e curatore d'arte contemporanea, ha ideato il concorso per giovani curatori Best Art Practices e il Premio Nazionale delle Passioni

Alessandro Nassiri Tabibzadeh,
Artista, è autore di diversi progetti nello spazio pubblico tra cui Cinema take away, risciò che proietta video d'artista in maniera itinerante

Antonio Utili
Responsabile Unità Operativa Didattica Arti Sceniche del Comune di Ferrara e docente di Scenografia presso la Facoltà di Architettura dell'Università degli Studi di Ferrara

Leonardo Punginelli
Comune di Ferrara, segretario comitato italiano Bjcem

Balmoral Scholarships

Bjcem staff — 19/6/2011

Call for application for the Balmoral Scholarships, Foreign- and Exchange-Scholarships for 2012

For the year 2012 the Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Foundation for Culture Rhineland-Palatinate,
awards scholarships to international visual artists and one curator. Available are six residence scholarships, one project scholarship, one curator scholarship and scholarships for artists who were born in, studied in, have lived or live in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The application period for 2012 scholarships runs until 4th July 2011 (date of postmark).

You will find information about all scholarships on our homepage (www.balmoral.de/english), where you can download the relevant application form (www.balmoral.de/english/balmoralscholarships). Please note that visual artists from Rhineland-Palatinate have the possibility to apply for foreign- and exchange-scholarships to London, New York, Paris and Wiepersdorf (www.balmoral.de/stipendien/stipendienfuerrheinlandpfaelzer).

Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
Villenpromenade 11
56130 Bad Ems

Telefon: +49 (0)2603 9419-0
E-Mail: info@balmoral.de

Default: Masterclass in residence

Bjcem staff — 20/6/2011

Bjcem is partner of Ramdom Association and we invite young artists to apply for this interesting project!

DEFAULT Masterclass in Residence: Art, Cities and Regeneration
Lecce, Italia
21-30 September 2011

Call for artists

DEFAULT masterclass is an international cultural and artistic residence, hosted in the town of Lecce, in Italy’s Puglia Region. For ten days, selected artists will discuss with curators, artists and cultural producers, transnational partners and local audiences in order to propose sustainable ideas for how art can interact with the regeneration of former industrial spaces.
An international committee of art professionals will then select 10 international and 10 Apulian artists to participate in the masterclass.

Current faculty and lecturers include: Lewis Biggs (Biennale of Liverpool), Celine Condorelli (artist), Andrea Lissoni (Xing and Hangar Bicocca), Julia Draganovic (No Longer Empty), Alfredo Cramerotti (curator, AGM and QUAD), Yesomi Umolu (curator, AGM), Hannah Conroy (curator, AGM), Andrea Siclodi (Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen), Ana Hoffner, Paolo Mele (RAMDOM), Filipa Ramos (writer and art critic), Pietro Gaglianò (art critic), Emiliano Paoletti (Bjcem), Chris Torch (Intercult).

See the Call on: www.ramdom.net

Deadline: 17th of July 2011

During the ten days participants will develop their research approach in intense workshop and seminar sessions, expand their network and exchange know-how with the support of a residency curator; they will meet international leading curators and artists, art managers and representatives of cultural and artistic organisations from the European and the Mediterranean area.
Participants will be encouraged to develop and present a professional proposal: a publication documenting the masterclass and individual artist projects will be produced after the masterclass.

DEFAULT is organized by RAMDOM Association (Lecce, Italy) in the frame of the project "Memorable Arts" and curated by AGM Culture (Nottingham, UK).
It is delivered in collaboration with Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Innsbruck, Austria).
With the partnership of Sud-Est association (Manifatture Knos), Fondazione Fitzcarraldo, Arci Puglia, Archiviazioni, Municipalità of Lecce, Lupiae service, Province of Lecce.

DEFAULT Masterclass is financed by the Regione Puglia, Principi Attivi 2010 - Giovani Idee per una Puglia Migliore.

Contact: info@default.net

About RAMDOM
RAMDOM is an association working on cultural and artistic design and production, on international mobility and on research and development of new communication languages.
RAMDOM aims to promote and diffuse creative and innovative practices in the field of culture and art interacting with citizens and, private and public, national and international, organizations.

Bjcem has a new office

Bjcem staff — 14/6/2011

Bjcem New Office

Starting from the 21th of June 2011, Bjcem has a new seat of the executive office.

It is at the Cortile del Maglio, Via Andreis 18 / C, 10152 Torino.

BJCEM wish to thank the City of Turin, which offered this space.

In the Cortile del Maglio our Association will be able to promote and organize events and activities involving local bodies and all the BJCEM network.

Living in the city of Babylon: Symbiosis

Bjcem staff — 20/6/2011

"Living in the city of Babylon: Symbiosis"

Workshop on literature - Anti-Racism Meeting – Cecina (LI), June 27-28-29  

Organized by: Arci 
In collaboration with:

Bjcem (Biennale de la Mèditerranée)

Arci Toscana, the magazine El Ghibli, Alteracultura, RAI RadioTre-Fahrenheit. with the support of: COOP, Center for the Book and Reading of Ministry of Culture (Cepell-Mibac)  

During the workshop the participants will be invited to work on the syntactic characteristics of idioms used by people living on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea by proposing an analysis on their idiomatic features. The working instruments will be those of the creative poetic writing.
The workshop will be divided in a brief period of training on writing and linguistics, followed by
a creative experimentation on the city as a melting pot of sounds, words and images in constant evolution. At the conclusion of the activity, participants will be invited to create and share a new common key to sintactis by which it can be drawn up a description of the “city of Babylon”, starting with the main theme of the Biennale: "Symbiosis ".

Tutors: Barbara Pumhoesel, journalist of the multicultural magazine El Ghibli, Paolo Albani, expert of potential letterature, Vladmir Mastrogiacomo, Associazione “Alteracultura” di Torino;

Age of participants: 18-30
N° max of participants: 10
For information: Arci – Direzione Nazionale Via dei Monti di Pietralata, 16 00157 Roma www.arci.it tel. + 39 (0)6.41609501 mail: cultura@arci.it

We are more

Bjcem staff — 8/6/2011

Campaign

We are more – a Europe-wide arts advocacy campaign

Whether at local, regional, national or European level, cultural policies and funding have to reflect the needs of all those who enjoy and produce today’s and tomorrow’s culture. We believe that it is necessary to re-imagine public investment to contribute to developing human, cultural and social capital – Europe’s most precious assets. The concrete goals of the campaign are to increase support for cultural activities that benefit all European citizens and stimulate their enjoyment of the arts.

We are more (2010-2013) is a Europe-wide arts advocacy campaign set up by Culture Action Europe. It will use the upcoming EU political and financial negotiations for the period 2014-2020 as a timely opportunity to develop and sharpen the arguments used when advocating for arts and culture. The ultimate goal of the campaign is to contribute to a strengthened recognition of the role of arts and culture in the development of our European societies. The concrete campaign objectives focus on improving the quality and quantity of support that the sector receives from 2 key EU policies (the Culture Programme – providing direct support to cultural co-operation projects, and EU regional development policies – supporting cultural interventions as key contributions to social, economic and territorial development). The aim is for the campaign to function both as an eye-opener for policy-makers at local, regional and national level, and as a mobilisation and professional development tool for the sector.

We ask for:

A bold and daring Culture Programme for the period 2014-2020 that will fund cutting edge artistic and cultural experimentation around our common European concerns and aspirations. A programme that will support innovative cultural co-operations, and experiment with new artistic, intercultural, social and economic models. Read more about our demands on the next Culture Programme here.

An earmarked and enhanced support for cultural interventions and cultural investment in the EU regional development funds, with the building of human, cultural and social capital, sustainable development, social inclusion, cultural participation and enhanced citizenship and governance as objectives. Read more about our demands on the EU regional development funds here.

Why now?

We are launching this campaign to influence the next EU budget negotiations for the 2014-2020 period. The EU budget will be negotiated over the next two years and we want to make sure that the EU contribution to culture is explicit and with a stronger financial envelope.

Who’s behind the campaign?

The we are more campaign is launched by Culture Action Europe, the umbrella advocacy organisation for the arts and culture in Europe. It is carried out in strategic partnership with the European Cultural Foundation.

Culture Action Europe currently has over 100 members that together represent over 50.000 arts and culture players across Europe and beyond – in more than 14 artistic disciplines. The campaign is run in an open source way, and provide tools on the campaign website that encourage and facilitate for the entire culture sector as well as individuals to get involved in and support the campaign.

Why the name we are more?

we are more is a positive message that communicates the multiple ways in which individuals, communities and arts organisations do more, and contribute more than is superficially apparent.

The EU is more than coal and steel, we need more than a single market, we are more than mere consumers.

We are many organisations built up by individuals who value and act for culture in Europe.

We are citizens, parents, arts organisations, lovers of culture, and active participants in society.

For more info: http://www.wearemore.eu/campaign/

SHOT

Bjcem staff — 7/6/2011

SHOT

Sala DoganaHands-On Transformation. A call to live creativity as a tool for change, free, constructive and collective

A year after the start of the project "Sala Dogana. Giovani idee in transito", the Municipality of Genoa and Genoa Palazzo Ducale Foundation for Culture, in collaboration with GAI -Young Italian Artists Circuit and BJCEM - Association Internationale pour la Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, invite young artists to design a site-specific intervention able to re-interpret and enhance its special spaces, creating an intimate dialogue between architecture and contemporary languages: tactile, visual and acoustic sensations able to transform the perception of space and places.
A temporary installation, an invasive action of transformation acting transversally on different levels of communication, between inside and outside, city and closed space, art and society, contemplation and participation.
A call to live creativity as a tool for change, free, constructive and collective, able to involve and attract the attention of a larger public.

Deadline July 18, 2011
Gianna Caviglia
coordinamento Sala Dogana. Giovani idee in transito

Comune di Genova
Area Sviluppo della città e Cultura
Direzione Valorizzazione Istituzione Patrimonio Culturale Parchi e Ville, Rapporti Università Ricerca
Ufficio Cultura e Città
Palazzo Ducale - Piazza Matteotti, 9 - 16123 Genova
tel +39010 5573975/ fax +39010 5573970
gcaviglia@comune.genova.it

Situa.to

Bjcem staff — 24/5/2011

SITUA.TO CALLING:

HOW DOES CULTURE DISCOVER/AFFECT PUBLIC REALM?

Deadline for submissions: July 9, 2011

The italian association situa.to launch a public call for the selection of Young artists, researchers, art curators, cultural jammers and freethinkers, associations and private corporations from all around Europe.

Future, culture, project, research, work, necessity, beauty are some of the topics by which one could try to look at the complexity of the contemporary life, in a common field: the city. A shared realm, therefore a public realm.

In 2011, since its birth one year ago, and after several experiences like urban exploration, representation and intervention, situa.to makes a plea for a multidisciplinary network, open to young artists, researchers, art curators, cultural jammers and freethinkers from all around Europe. Our aim is to create an atlas made of different point of views and practices, necessary to discover and affect the public realm for competent communities.

An archive able both to correlate signs, forms and projects, by crossing expressive languages and transversal knowledge, and to design a map of the emerging problems and ongoing changes, in order to test good practices for the public realm.

More info: http://www.situa.to/Web/Calling_situa-to

Premio Celeste 2011, VIII edizione

Bjcem staff — 24/5/2011

The competition, aimed at promoting contemporary art in Italy, involves the construction of an exhibition, a catalog of about 150 pages with about 130 color illustrations and texts, and the final assignment of four monetary awards for a total € 20,000. The exhibition of the 40 finalists, voting and awarding of prizes will take place from 8 to 16 October in Bologna Exhibition Hall of the Archaeological Museum.

Special artists under 30 in Emilia-Romagna: the exhibition and awards of € 4,000.
Iceberg Award and the City of Bologna have four artists participating in the Celeste Prize 2011 (for an award category) and those living or working in Emilia-Romagna, a prize 'Iceberg' of € 1,000 (see Article 10 - Benefits).

The award is open to professional artists, emerging and self-taught students of Italian nationality (resident and non-residents in Italy) or foreign operating on Italian territory. There are no age limits for those candidates, neither of qualification or resume. The award encourages the participation of artists of all levels.

The quality, research, innovation and modernity are the basic criteria of the selection. The work must be the highest artistic expression of the candidate, made in the last 24 months. It is not necessary that the candidate work is unpublished. There is a special issue which follow.

1. PAINTING PRIZE € 5,000
One first prize of € 5,000 *

2. DIGITAL GRAPHICS & PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE € 5,000
One first prize of € 5,000 *

3. VIDEO & ANIMATION PRIZE € 5,000
One first prize of € 5,000 *

4. PREMIUM INSTALLATION, SCULPTURE & PERFORMANCE € 5,000
One first prize of € 5,000 *

5. ICEBERG AWARD - YOUNG ARTISTS IN BOLOGNA € 4,000
4 prizes of € 1,000 each for four selected artists in the 4 categories of Heavenly Prize (see art. 1 and art. 10 for details).

More info: www.premioceleste.it

Leggimi forte

Bjcem staff — 16/5/2011

According to a national survey, dated 2010, in Italy there is the 37% of "non readers" among the popularion above the age of 6. To analize this phenomenon and to discuss the strategies to promote reading Arci organize "Leggimi Forte!" an international seminar to be held in Rome on May 20th and 21st. Among the lecturers there will be Michèle Petit, renowned cultural anthropologist.

"Leggimi Forte!" is organized by Arci, National Center for book and reading (www.cepell.it) and the Ministry of Culture.

For information: www.arcibook.it

The initiative is promoted by national Arci, Arci Roma, Arci Fanfulla Forte, with the support of Cepell (Center for the Book and Reading) and the collaboration of Arci Toscana, BJCEM (Biennale of Young Artists of the Mediterranean), Casamemoire (Casablanca-Morocco), the journal El Ghibli, the Ligue de L'Enseignement (FR) and "Lire et faire lire"(FR).

Viva Il Live! 3.0

Bjcem staff — 5/5/2011

Bjcem tomorrow will be part of “Viva Il Live! 3.0” The future of live music.

The meeting is organised with the support and cooperation of Arci Lombardia, Arci Mantova and Arci Tom of Mantova.

Each day meetings between clubs, workshops, concerts and more.

Click here for more information

Edition 2011

Bjcem staff — 5/5/2011

The XV edition of the Biennial of young artists from Europe and Mediterranean will be characterized by a new format: a long journey trough the Mediterranean that will involve different cities, as Thessaloniki, Rome and Casablanca, linked between them, who will organise events and workshop.

The present call is only dedicated to the selection of artists for:
- Thessaloniki: Visual Arts (Urban Arts included), Applied Arts and Gastronomy.
− Rome: Cinema and Literature

The event is promoted by the Bjcem Association. For further information about the history of the Biennale, the Association and the Biennale 2011.

In the call you will find an introduction on the general theme of the event and then specific guidelines for each artistic disciplines.
Please refers to the technical form for the technical specifications.

To apply, please, contact the Bjcem's member in your country (http://www.bjcem.org/members_list.asp).

Click here to download the Call.

Click here to download the Application Form

Urban Perspectives

Bjcem staff — 4/5/2011

Urban Perspectives: towards a collective work – La Ville Ouverte

The Projects

Urban Perspectives, La Ville Ouverte are two projects addressed to public art started autonomously in Italy- the first promoted by the Youth Policies and Peace Department of the Municipality of Venice, the second by the Arci Association – who found a common point in the collaboration with the Casamémoire Association of Casablanca, to increase the value of the public areas.
Urban Perspectives was born to approach the 15th BJCEM, through the construction of a collective work made by a group of authors and curators in the Porto Marghera area, in Venice, and at the docks of Casablanca. Seven artists - - Videotrope (Roberto Sartor and Matteo Stocco), Oxstudio (Eleonora Marton and Neill Kidgell), Valentina Ciarapica and Claudia Rossini, Giulia Filippi – coordinated by curators Alvise Giacomazzi and Alessandro Bellinato, have located four areas where to plan and build low budget interventions to improve the urban environment and to build a connection with everyone who lives in those places.
La Ville Ouverte plans to imagine a process of collaboration between Moroccan and Italian artists with the purpose of carrying out a project of public art all long the tram tracks under construction in Casablanca. The project is cured by Marco Trulli, Denis Isaia and Alessandro Nassiri Tabibzadeh. La Ville Ouverte started with the installation The world changes by Alessandro Nassiri Tabibzadeh set on Boulevard Mohamed V in Casablanca. The work of art was inspired by an Octavio Paz quotation: «The world changes if two people look and recognize each other». This is a starting point: to imagine paths and melting-pots of lives where to look at and recognize each other can change the world.

Casablanca Venezia Salonicco Casablanca..

From the 15th to the 21st of April the work started in Casablanca. The artists of Morocco figured urban paths at the docks and the tracks of the tram under construction. The common element is the city subject to continuous transformation: the area of the docks is developing very fast and the tram will redefine journeys and distances of the urban area.
The activities has been added in the programme of the Journées du Patrimoine (April 15-18) organized by Casamémoire, as an occasion to think about the changes of the city: the 16th of April the Ecole des Beaux Arts hosted a round table where architects, town planners, professors, artists, curators and the representatives of the Municipality of Venice and Arci have talked about the role of the artists in urban planning.
In the next months the artists will work form a distance about possible interventions of urban regeneration and all the performances will be recorded in a video and in a map. The work and the different experiences will be compared during a workshop organized by the Municipality of Venice in mid-September, with the participation of the working groups of Casablanca and Arci.
The recording, the map and the possibility to repeat some urban interventions will be the artistic proposal that the Municipality of Venice will bring to Salonicco for the 15th BJCEM. Final stage of the biennale will be a workshop on public art in Casablanca in February 2012, which will be the definitive project.

Welcome to Artegiovane

Bjcem staff — 27/4/2011

Committee of Donors

We are glad to announce that Artegiovane is the first partner to join our Committee of donors.

Becoming Donors of the Bjcem, Artegiovane is now a privileged interlocutor Association and we assure them great visibility and a relevant presence in our institutional activities.
Artegiovane is a non-profit and non-trading association established in 1995 by a group of collectors to promote young artists with Public and Private Institutions, to support the enrichment of their résumés and the purchase of their works. Click here to have more information about Artegiovane.
Are you interested to become a Donors? Write to candelaresi(at)bjcem.org asking for more informations.

Time for changes!

Bjcem staff — 27/4/2011

In the past months Bjcem Association has renewed its representative bodies. We have a new General Secretary, Mr. Emiliano Paoletti, a new the Treasures, Mr. Paulo Gouveia and a renewed Board of Directors.
Bjcem wish to thank the former General Secretary, Alessandro Stillo, for his precious work from 2001 to 2010.

News organisations joined our network and the board of partners has been renewed. Visit the section Association to know our local members and their contact persons.
We are also glad to welcome in our network to two new members:
⁃ MKC Split (Multimedia Cultural Centre, Split), Croatia
⁃ Association Casamémoireand Collectif des Abattoirs de Casablanca, Morocco

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Conflicts

Bjcem staff — 26/1/2011

La "Storia in Piazza" revient à Gênes du 14 au 17 avril 2011.

 Après le succès de la première édition, consacrée à "La naissance des nations", en cette année 2011 des historiens, des écrivains, des philosophes et des réalisateurs de toute l'Europe viendront nous parler, pendant 4 jours, de "L'invention de la guerre" .
Plus de 60 évènements autour du passé et du présent, pour que l'histoire soit accessible à tous, pour mieux connaître les temps que nous vivons.
À l'occasion de la deuxième édition de LA STORIA IN PIAZZA organisée par Genova Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura et Comune di Genova, curée par Donald Sassoon de la Queen Mary University of London, est lancé le Concours International de Bande dessinée CONFLICTS War Balloons, avec la collaboration du GAI - Association Jeunes Artistes Italiens et BJCEM - Association Internationale pour la Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs d'Europe et de la Méditérranée.

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6th Art Laguna Prize

Bjcem staff — 1/9/2010

Applications open for 6th International Arte Laguna Prize
Prize amount: 150,000 euros
4 money prizes of 7,000 euros each, art residences, personal exhibitions in art galleries, participation at International Festivals and collective exhibitions, collaborations with companies.

Arte Laguna Prize opens a new application period for artists coming from all over the world, with no limits of age and free subject of the participating artworks.
As every year, it is possible to subscribe directly online: http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/enrollment-of-the-6-international-art-prize-arte-laguna.html

Sections: painting, sculpture, photographic art, videoart and performance
Deadline: 11th November 2011
Application fee: 50 € one work, 90 € two works
Collective Exhibition of 110 artworks in a prestigious venue in Venice (the awarded artworks will remain of artists’ property)
Special Prizes: Personal and Collective Exhibitions, International Festivals
Artist in Residence: Carlo Zauli Museum, Glass School, Art Stays, iaab
Business for Art:: money prize and artistic project offered by the firm STILE Original Design

Prize Curator: Igor Zanti - Art Critic
Jurors:
Alessio Antoniolli - Director Gasworks of London
Chiara Barbieri - Publications Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Gabriella Belli - Director MART of Trento and Rovereto
Ilaria Bonacossa - Freelance Curator
Soledad Gutierrez - Curator at MACBA Barcelona
Kanchi Metha - Curator Indian Pavillon Prague Biennale
Ludovico Pratesi - Director Centro Arti Visive Pescheria of Pesaro
Maria Savarese - Freelance Curator
Ralf Schmitt - Director Preview Berlin
Alma Zevi - Art Critic

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Journeys of Expression VIII

Bjcem staff — 25/7/2010

Journeys of Expression VIII

Celebrating Through Times of Crisis: Prospects and Potentials for Tourism, Festivals and Cultural Events
Copenhagen, Denmark, 11-12 September 2010

Building on the established collaboration between the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) and the International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA), this conference will bring together international academic researchers in the field of tourism and festival studies with policy makers and practitioners in the festivals and cultural events sector. The CTCC and IFEA are delighted to be working in partnership with the Centre for Tourism and Culture Management, Copenhagen Business School in the organisation and hosting of this event which coincides with IFEA's annual conference.

The conference will discuss the complex implications of the global economic downturn for the relationships between tourism, festivals and cultural events. We particularly welcome paper proposals that consider questions of how the balance between social, artistic and commercial aspects of festivals can be sustained during these challenging times and how festivals and cultural events and their attractiveness to tourists may contribute to addressing economic, social and environmental crises at local, regional, national and international levels. The conference will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark and will form the 8th edition of the 'Journeys of Expression' conferences organised by the CTCC with partners since 2002.

For further information please visit www.tourism-culture.com/conferences_and_events.html

WORK ON DISPLAY

Bjcem staff — 20/7/2010

Artoteque.com is pleased to invite artists to WORK ON DISPLAY the 2nd Annual Juried Contemporary Art Competition /Exhibition 12 months on display that takes place online at www.artoteque.com

Guidelines 
All entries go through a selection process. The competition is judged solely by visuals submitted on-line as Jpeg [.JPG] attachment. Numbers of entries: 6 - 12 works / image files submitted on-line to: submit@artoteque.com.
We send out a monthly digital files of artists in our displays to very important customers, and collectors interested in buying art. If art buyers are interested in purchasing any artwork featured on Artoteque.com they need to contact the gallery via e-mail. All financial transactions are strictly between the customer and the artist.

 The Screening 
The screening is free and is conducted by review on 6 - 12 Jpeg [.JPG] of 72 dpi up to 700 pixels image files versions of the submitted works inline or attachment along the works details -title, year, medium, size, price.
     Submitters whose entries pass the screening are included in competition and are requested the participation fee payment.
     Entries without a fully completed entry form will not be accepted.  If you are not able to fell the PDF application form you can submit a letter that includes: - name - country - number of the works submitted - he method of entry fee payment. 

Entry Fee
Submitters whose pass the screening will be requested the competition fee.
There is a USDollars 80 / Euros 50 entry fee for 6 works. and USDollars 15 / Euros 10 for each additional work. Payment by Direct Transfer on account, by Money Order, by PayPal, by Western Union. 
Size and Works to be received In order to complete the inclusion you may submit as attachments or on-line 6 ~ 12 works /JPG s image files 72 dpi up to 700 pix (21x21 cm /8,3x8,3) and the works details: title, year, technique, size and price All submissions must be mailed to submit@artoteque.com.  
Awards 
Grand Prize. Award value 4,900 Euros: One Artists will be awarded two-page spreads in Art in Vogue (Art Made Only Once) a quality art book in Masters of Today series for collectors, galleries, museums, dealers and art lovers.
     Award of Distinction. Award value 2,450 Euros: Two Artists will be awarded one-page in Art in Vogue (Art Made Only Once) a quality art book in Masters of Today series.
     Honorable Mention (Honorable Award): 60 Artists will be selected for Diploma of Excellence.  Jury Andre Russ, (London), fine artist, film maker, Andrea Pagnez, (Florence) art critic, fine artist, editor, curator (Venice Biennial) and Marta Dimitrescu, (London) fine artist, gallery director, art editor.  Exhibition period  The event will run one-year beginning with the date of the inclusion.  

Deadlines
The earlier the better. The inclusions are in progress.

Indigenous and Alien

Bjcem staff — 14/7/2010

L’appel s’adresse à des artistes de différentes disciplines comme : l’art dramatique, la danse, les arts visuels (vidéo, cinéma, photographie), littérature, musique et la recherche de son et de nouveaux médias. Les artistes
peuvent s’inscrire seuls ou en groupe. Les projets peuvent être créés pour l’occasion ou faire l’objet d'un travail en cours.

AUTOCHTONE ET d’AILLEURS Résidence de Création d’Artistes, est organisée par le CENTRO RURAL D’ARTE dans le cadre de ses activités de caractère éventuel et nomade. La résidence aura lieu dans le Parc National Los Alerces (Patagonie, Argentine) avec comme intention de travailler dans un endroit public et protégé à partir d'un thème particulier.

Date de la Résidence: 5 au 21 Mars 2011
Les projets doivent être envoyés avant le 2 Août, 2010 / Les places sont limitées

Plus d'infos: http://www.centroruraldearte.org.ar