Syndicate: UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS - Press Releas

[Kalina Bunevska <kalina@scca.org.mk>]

UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS
October 13 - October 16, 2000, Hotel Belvi in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

Organizer (organization and contact person): 
Contemporary Art Center - Skopje; Melentie Pandilovski - Director 
Tel/Fax: ++389.91.13.35.41    ++389.91.21.44.95
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
http://www.scca.org.mk/utb/index.htm
e-mail: misko@scca.org.mk

Sponsored by: European Cultural Foundation, ProHelvetia

UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS 
The rapid changes that the countries of South-East Europe are confronted
made it a necessity and essential challenge to perform a certain "archaeological cut"
through the different heterogeneous layers of the Balkan region.
Therefore the international Conference UNDERSTANDING THE BALKANS is
conceived as a challenge to examining the alteration stratum of the
Balkans, concentrating strongly on questions of society, culture, art,
and history. Reflections and analysis dedicated to these complex issues
will be examined during the Conference. 


PROGRAM

9:30 	- Opening of the Conference


1. 	IDENTITIES: CREATION AND USE
Saturday, 14.10.2000, 10.00
moderator: Bojan IVANOV
			
10:00	- Introduction by the moderator
10:10 	 - Edi MUKA (Albania), 
		Identities: Creation and Use
10:30 	 - Bojan IVANOV (Macedonia)
		Identity and Legitimation
10:50 	 - Stevan VUKOVIC (Yugoslavia)
		They Came as Workers
11:25 	- Murat HATIPOGLU (Turkey)
		Who is 'the other' in the Balkans and why? - Comparative analyses
11:45 	- Ferid MUHIC (Macedonia)
		Understanding Balkans as Balkans understands itself
12:05	- Discussion 

2. 	MEDIATED IMAGES: THEORY AND CREATION
Saturday, 14.10.2000, 4.00 PM
moderator: Zoran PETROVSKI

16:00	- Introduction by the moderator
16:10	- Dragana ZAREVAC JOVANOVIC (Yugoslavia)
		Defending Tradition
16:30	- Gezim QENDRO (Albania)
		The Soil of Narcisism
16:50	- Coffee Break
17:05	- Dejan SRETENOVIC (Yugoslavia)
		THE IMAGE OF POWER
		On Construction of Milosevic's Image in Public and in Media
17:25	- Luchezar BOYADZIEV (Bulgaria)
		Host(s) and Guest(s) in contemporary art - one experi(ment)ence of the Balkans in Paris
17:45	- Zoran NASKOVSKI (Yugoslavia)
		1. Images from Balkan
		2. Performance Apolo 9 
18:05	- Discussion 


3.	CODES NOT UNDERSTOOD: REASONS AND CONSEQUENCES
Sunday, 15.10.2000, 10.00 AM
moderator: Branislav SARKANJAC

10:00	- Introduction by the moderator
10:10	- Alexander KIOSSEV (Bulgaria)
		HEROES AGAINST SWEETS. 
		The Split of National and "Anthropological" cultures in South - East Europe
10:30	- Ana PERAICA (Croatia)
		Place where everything has a sense
10:50	- Vasif KORTUN (Turkey)
		Balkans, Balkanizations, Places without Centers
11:25	- Nebojsa VILIC (Macedonia)
		Imagining the [Unimaginable] Balkans
11:45	- Branislav SARKANJAC (Macedonia)
		What discourse?: Can thinking in dichotomies articulate experience
12:05	- Discussion 


4. 	NETWORKS AND CULTURAL CURRENTS ON THE BALKANS: NEW QUALITY OR
EDUNDANT ACCUMULATION
Sunday, 15.10.2000, 4.00 PM
moderator: Melentie PANDILOVSKI

16:00	- Introduction by the moderator
16:10	- Charis N. MELETIADIS (Greece)
		Cultural Flows, Educational Reforms and the Emergence  of
		Inner Cross-cultural Structures in the Balkans
16:30	- Dostena ANGUELOVA - LAVERGNE (Bulgaria, France)
		Regional Identity in the Balkans: Debate and Perspective
17:05	- Violeta SIMJANOVSKA (Macedonia)
		Balkan Art Network
17:25	- Melentie PANDILOVSKI (Macedonia)
		The Position of Culture in Southeast Europe
17:45	- Discussion 
18:30	- General Conclusion



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Kalina Bunevska Isakovska
Visual Arts Program Coordinator
CAC - Skopje, Macedonia
Address: Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
tel./fax: ++389.91/133-541; 214-495
e-mail: kalina@scca.org.mk
http://www.scca.org.mk
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