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Europe: AL, BY, HR, SL, I, F, SB, H, PL, SK, D, NL, BiH, FYRMC, TR, L, B, RU, BG, GE, AZ
Asia: TR, SY, IR, PK, IN

 

 

11. Albania


Art impressions
From
Country of bunkers and colors


Our first link to Albania was Temo Mikel, an excellent painter we met through internet. He pointed us to his wife who is working for the Albanian municipaly at the Project Coordination Unit. They have connected us with the National Art Gallery where we have held our Global Mobile exhibition.
We got hooked up with Codart from Amsterdam who is organizing an Albanian festival around the musical of Alexander Peca, in autumn 2004 in Netherlands. They have used our contacts to explore more of Albanian art, they might use the results of our painters workshop and Gerard Hulsenbeck came with us in order to record music, film and give all kinds of support.
But art is wide in Albania. The new major, Edi Rama, considers himself as a painter and one of the first things he did was to paint the city in all colors. The city looks extremely good because of that.
As mentioned many yongsters are artists doing exhibitions and art actions.



 

Name : Club FM radio
Objectives : world music program

kilometer : 13293

At club FM radio we did a weird but great worldmusic program with Aurora, the translator getting very nervous about the pronounciation of Nachicevan, Djindyanarlai and Kolkheti.

Name : Martn, Bertrand and Aurora
Objectives : add painting

kilometers: 13282

Bertrand Shijoku made a very nice and strong political painting about the pluriformity of his society. "I hope politics will become as pluriform as our society"

Name : with Lumturi Blloshi
Objectives : give congratulations
kilometers: 13301

Lumturi was the winner of the Albanian workshop through popular vote. This woman, who never had any time all week, can't speak and ran away all the time, came at the end when we had no time and gave spinace cake, a big kiss and said goodbye.

Name : Target Eye
Objectives : play back role in film
kilometer : 13302

They have asked us to sit down and play a little background role in this new movie about Albanian recent history. 'Just drink your drink and relax', they sais. At take 5, I was getting really drunk.


Name : Natasha Bega
Objectives : waitig for our missed appointment
kilometer : 13305

Natasha waited several hours for our company. We were late. This is not done in ALbania. It took us some hours to make her more relaxed. Natasha participated in the global mobile exhibition but took back her painting. We will invite her once more. beautifull woman.

Name: Poliphonik singing
Objectives : degestive relaxing
Kilometer : 13484

coincidentely we ran into a group of people who were singing after lunch. "We are not professionals, we do this just for fun. Like everyone", was their simple but honest reply to our questions

Name : Book Fair
Objectives : Sell Albanian and Kosovar books
kilometer : 13309

These days also the Albanian and Kosovar book fair was going on with remarkabe many books, writers, media and audience.

Name : Gerard Hulsenbeck
Objectives : The multinational song recording

kilometer : 13485

Gerard Hulsenbech came with us mainly to work for Codart, to make video recordings of 80 questions work and to record the multinational song. Here we are doing some shots at the last day, in order to make more images with the sound recordings he had done.
Good stuff, good support and good fun.

 

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