17 mar 2010

BALKANS IN ANKON, BY ATOPOS

They come from Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia. 5 guest artists for Balkans in Ankon, NEWBALKANIK happening on ‘atopia’ – being foreigner among foreigners.
April 17-26 is the time for Ancona, Marche region, to realise how much closer is Croatia than Rome even!
Blerta Kambo, Drazen Grujic, Mitko Gogov, Laurentiu Stoica and Milica Milosevic, all under 29, will be guests of Atopos Association featuring: Galleria 400mq, Istituto d’Arte Mannucci, Culture branch of Ancona’s municipality, theatre collective Un ponte tra Culture, Paper Experience and design centre Poliarte.
Main appointments will be: What is Atopos? A secret urban blitz carried along the very centre of town..
And, april 24th, a crossreading on contemporary balkanik literature in original language.
Art in abandoned or daily places, photos and reportage, work in progress videos and online documentation – looking for ‘atopos’, ‘no place’. Atopossss, THE HOME WHERE WE ARE GUESTS.