Balkans, Ancona
will Australia the farthest voluntary association for Atopos Ankon Balkans in a week for 5 artists at Ancona Balkan under 29. Talevski Marina is the name of the young Australian of Macedonian origin, found information concerning www.idealist.org site, a portal to the world that allows the exchange of volunteers in the cultural and human rights. Will come from Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia artists, grappling with the issue in the Balkans Ankon: the stranger, 'the atopos'. 'No place' in greek, is used for the first time in reference to Socrates, the alien excellence of the Greek polis. A foreigner, however, is not barbaric, but not meek.
photo: Installing Vincent Lopardo for ArtBlitz, Ancona 29/12/2007
urban raids to provocation from performing, artists will be involved in the construction of a true spectacle in the Herb Market in the center of Ancona. Thanks to the tunnel 400metriquadri then, the artists will have a space to exhibit a work-to-head in a work in progress that will see them guests for a workshop at the design center and then at the Art Institute Poliarte Vannucci , also in the Doric capital.
Ancona city is in fact 'Sicilian', which the Dorians arrived from Syracuse in much the same time that Plato was in town to practice his Republic. He ended up a slave around the Adriatic - Mediterranean with the status of 'atopos' note. Later, the same word becomes synonymous with 'unpleasant, unexpected' in the Catholic Church to be analyzed in the psychoanalytic field. Etymology complex in fact, that even the characters attributed to epilepsy atopy. It is clear that analyzing the foreigner is never easy.
Blerta Kambo, Drazen Grujic, Mitko Gogov, Laurentiu Stoica, Milica Milosevic will try to tell us what their way of 'foreign' for them. They will do this with photos, stories and a collective performance with the artists of Atopos, the theater group a bridge between cultures and the students of prof. Moorish Art Institute. Special Condition is to Laurentiu Stoica, Romanian Constance, but in Ancona for almost 10 years and already present in events such as Atopos Trashumanza June 21, 2008 in Piazza Pertini ol'Artblitz first foray into town December 29, 2007. A little story that opens to an association that sees in the 'foreign' an indispensable resource for a country made of the Adriatic and cultural proximity to the world of international cooperation and informal.
'I always wanted to go to Italy '- says Marina, the 20 year-old Australian-Macedonian -' Strange to think that is my first time in a Balkan Festival .. ' Maybe it still is not a festival, moreover, there is already the Adriatic Mediterranean Festival, which will also take part Atopos in 2010, but space for hospitality and a comparison of creative should be from now on throughout the year, to ensure that the atopos be less 'nasty' to what our culture is accustomed to think.
Ancona is in fact a place of passage for many illegal immigrants, mostly teenagers from Afghanistan and Iraq, that our coasts come hidden in trucks and cells frigofere. A relentless and terrible traffic, which can not see us unaware. 'Fortress Europe' is under attack by barbarians, and barbarians, to take the greek poet Konstantinos Cavafy, 'when they arrive, if the language do it alone'. In order not to abandon our culture is the only way to discover it together 'foreign', with no easy rhetoric, but with the consciousness of a given historical and economic factors which make inaction more risky opening. So, good Balkans at all!
SEE IN Atopos The Balkans:
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April 25 - Around The intruding Guasco 
