European Cultural Foundation

By Nadim Karam, Atelier Hapsitus, Beirut (www.hapsitus.com)
I always felt it important to go public.
Maybe as a need to reach the world around me and exteriorize myself. Also as a necessity to address the city culturally, especially the emerging post war cities like (Beirut & others) were the financial issues are first addressed while the city’s […]

As conclusion of the Atlante Mediterraneo project, the aMAZE cultural lab in Milan together with the department of Industrial Arts & Design of the IUAV in Venice, offer a moment of reflection in collaboration with Venice International Biennial.
An experimental and multi-disciplinary debate on seven “case study” cities (Istanbul, Beirut, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Alexandria, Barcelona […]

by Claudia Zanfi, artistic director aMAZElab (www.amaze.it)
Atlante Mediterraneo is a collective project, designed to create a network of theoretical and artistic research among the countries that look onto the Mediterranean. An international and multi-disciplinary exchange space, a crossroads of different ideas, theoretical reflections and contemporary artistic practices. Atlante Mediterraneo has prepared a series of activities, […]

Report by Barcelona group, from Can Xalant, Matarò(www.canxalant.es)
coordinated by Martí Peran - Barcelona University, answering to some questions on cultural collaborations and artistic workshops:
What are the daily issues one is confronted with?
To confirm that is possible to develop projects in group
To insert the art questions into the real world
To create different dynamics to the […]

Report by Nermin Saybasili, curator
Project coordinator for Platfom Garanti, Istanbul (www.platform.garanti.com.tr)
For the project Atlante Mediterraneo, a group of young artists from Istanbul is conducting their research individually. Here I want to make a special emphasis on mobility, a mobile artistic practice and analysis, on a Deleuzian ‘nomadic becoming’, which allows for otherwise unlikely encounters and […]

Report by Achilleas Kentonis, artist
Director of Artos Foundation, Nicosia Cyprus (www.artosfoundation.org)
What are the daily issues one is confronted with?
I would focus on two key words on this question: daily and confronted. Human nature deals with these two “codes” in an opposite way. “Western” people as part of a social group always try to keep on […]

Report by Abdalla Daif, artist and writer
Co-founder of Gudran Association for Art and Development (www.gudran.com)
The first question that came on my mind is what I would do, as an artist going to that community, with all those artists gathered in that meeting. A question that takes many forms, beginning with how to say “goodmorning“, including […]

We are pleased to announce the release of the book
GOING PUBLIC ‘06. ATLANTE MEDITERRANEO
The book gathers the results of 18 mounth of public art and territorial project, the site specific artistic interventions, and the researches of partners and contributors from six mediterranean cities: Istanbul, Beirut, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Alexandria, Barcelona.
250 pages, 2 languages (it+engl), 160 […]