 
19th - 29th, December, 2004
BankART1929, Yokohama, Japan
Hours : 11:30-19:00
Admission Fee : Free
Address : 4-44, Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, JAPAN
Access : 1 min. walk from Exit5, Bashamichi Sta. on the Minatomirai Line / 5 min. walk from Sakuragicho Sta. on the JR Keihintohoku Line
Inquiries : 0424-86-6314, info@amorfon.com
Organized by Colavo + Elementi
Patronized by Japanese Embassy in Austria, Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Macedonia in Japan, Japan-Macedonia Friendship Association
Supported by Pola Art Foundation, Nissho Iwai Foundation, Ministry of Culture of Maedonia
Cooperated by SEIJO ISHII Co., Ltd., KOKUYO S&T Co., Ltd., Winery TIKVES a.d.
In collaboration with BankART1929, Chieko Hirano, Harada Kikaku, Aneta M. Cubrinovska, Yumi Nakajima, Tocka, Kazu Lesnikovska
*Collaborative exhibition
*Collaborative concert
*Workshop with children
*Symposium
Japanese participants:
Atsuhiro Ito, Keiichi Sugimoto(minamo), Tetsuro Yasunaga(minamo), Yuichiro Iwashita(minamo), Cab(Hukazawa Art Laboratory), Isamu Joseph Yamazoe(Hukazawa Art Laboratory), Yoshio Machida, Akiko Muto, Chieko Hirano
Macedonian participants:
Mirna Arsovska, Elena Bojadzieva, Bogdan Grabuloski-Bonac, Elementi, Oliver Musovic, Irena Paskali, Zaneta Vangeli
*Opening Party
December 19(Sun) 6pm-
Admission Free : Macedonian wine, foods available
*Macedonian Video works + Concert
December 19(Sun) 4pm-
Admission Fee : 1500yen (with 1drink)
Music: Atsuhiro Ito, minamo, Yoshio Machida
Video: Elena Bojadzieva, Irena Paskali, Zaneta Vangeli
*Symposium, "Macedonian Contemporary Art"
December 20(Mon) 7pm-
Admission Fee : 500yen
Biljana Petrovska-Isijanin, Chieko Hirano, etc.
*movie "The Judge" by Zaneta Vangeli
December 23(Thu) 7pm-
Admission Fee : 500yen *wih English subtitle
*Collaborated Workshop for children
December 19(Sun)-29(Wed)
Admission Fee : 1000yen (+500yen for materials)
Interesting Workshop for Children
-ask for details
 | Elementi
A Bitola based art group, organizer by Biljana Petrovska Isijanin and Ljupcho Spirovski Isijanin. Through their performances, installations, actions and curatorial concepts they provoke the public with the chosen places as well as with the way of realizing the works which are sliding on the thin line between life and art. |
 | Atsuhiro Ito
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 | Irena Paskali
An artist who creates an art as a mixture of performance and video. The problems which are investigating in her videos are presented through her own experience which she takes as a basement for creating the story, even in
the works which are socially or politically engaged and where she presents the situations in which one can see the limitations of the human mind, provoked by some religious, social or cultural prejudices. |
 | minamo
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 | Elena Bojadzieva
One of the young artists of the new generation in Macedonia. Registering the everyday "usual" objects by making photos of them, she is giving them a notation of romantic charm and at the same time she is being reminding us on the very moment of living. This approach gives her a very special style which is recognizable from the first glance. |
 | Zaneta Vangeli
Skopje based artist who is profoundly concerned with the cultural and political context of Macedonia. "Having said that, one thing should be made clear from the outset: although she is dealing with issues that do not necessarily derive from the internal rules of the art system, the means of engagement with the real in her art differ fundamentally from the one accepted and entertained within the realm of socially and politically engaged art, as it is conceived today."(Suzana Milevska) |
 | Hukazawa Art Laboratory
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 | Oliver Musovic
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 | Yoshio Machida
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 | Bogdan Rabuloski
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 | Akiko Muto
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 | Mirna Arsovska
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4th - 14th, June, 2004
In the city of Bitola & Skopje, R. Macedonia 
*Collaborative exhibition
*Collaborative concert
*Workshop with children
*Japanese movie show: "HANA-BI", "ZATOICHI", "Ghost in the Shell", "Shin Chan"
Organized by Elementi
Co-organized by Colavo
Sponsored by Ministry of Culture of R. Macedonia, Pola foundation and Nisso Iwai Foundation
Supported by Japanese Embassy in Austria
Macedonian participants: Elementi, Foltin, Oliver Josifovski, Zaneta Vangeli, Iskra Dimitrova
Japanese participants: Atsuhiro Ito, Keiichi Sugimoto(minamo), Tetsuro Yasunaga(minamo), Hukazawa Art Laboratory, Yoshio Machida
Collaboration: Towards the Field of Potential
2004 japan-macedonia exchange exhibition of contemporary art
When we are fascinated by a soccer game, we are not only interested in the
score, but in its process. Though each player has own role in the team, the
organization during the game is more flexible. What truly attracts us is the
process of collaboration towards unexpected moments.
Such flexible organization made by collaboration will have an aspect of
improvisation changing time by time, as no one can control it totally. In
doing so, we will share more complex and interactive time and space, in
which our sensation would synchronize or un-synchronize.
Of course, we should say "Art of Macedonia" or "Art of Japan" is framed
by its cultural contexts. However, the act of collaboration will reveal
more sensitive and complex texture of art than that we were aware
with the existing contexts. Through the experience of collaboration, we will
share the multi-dimensional and interactive experience that will also be the
potential for the future activity. Mutual experience of such quality will
help us to think about our further exchange beyond the stylized contexts.
"Collaboration" - This exhibition stresses the process. We see the process
of exhibiting and performing more important than exhibition as the outcome:
1 Presentation/ Performance with Collaboration
Artist will work one another for the exhibition and performance. This
preparation will be done in public.
2 Workshop with Children
Artists and children from the primary school will collaborate on painting,
object and sound.
3 Synposium
Artists, organizers, critics as well as visitors will think about
collaboration.
Participants from Macedonia
- music group "Foltin"
(Branislav Nikolov, Pece Trajkovski, Pece Nikolovski, Petar Dimitrovski,Slave Jovev, Marjan Stanic)
- art group "Elementi"
(Biljana Petrovska Isijanin, Ljupco Spirovski Isijanin)
http://www.cac.org.mk/elementi/about.htm
- Oliver Josifovski (multimedia performer)
- Zaneta Vangeli (visual artist and film )
http://www.scca.org.mk/vangeli/index.htm
- Iskra Dimitrova (multimedia art)
http://www.geocities.com/iskradimitrova/Iskra.html
Participants from Japan
- Atsuhiro Ito (visual artist, sound performer)
http://www.japanimprov.com/aito/index.html
- "Hukazawa Art Laboratory"
(cab, Isamu Joseph Yamazoe)
http://www.hukalabo.com/
- music group "minamo"
(Keiichi Sugimoto, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Namiko Sasamoto, Yuichiro Iwashita)
http://www.cubicmusic.com/
- Yoshio Machida (visual artist, sound performer)
http://www.yoshiomachida.com/
© 2004 Colavo
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