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For an expanded network

March 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

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 […]

Tags: languages · cultures · communities · geopolitics

How to say “goodmorning”

March 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments

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 […]

Tags: languages · cultures · communities

Different languages / common issues

February 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Report by Giulia Giapponesi, video artists
University of Visual Arts, Bologna (part of Italian group)
As an Italian artist who participate in the international project Atlante Mediterraneo, I am part of the group of the exchange in which thirty young artists from five different Mediterranean countries have been invited to work together with the same task: having […]

Tags: languages · cultures