Artist-in-residence program of Art Today Association (Center for contemporary art – Plovdiv www.arttoday.org and < rotor > association for contemporary art, Graz, Austria http://rotor.mur.at
Short description of the project: Art Today Association (Center for contemporary art – Plovdiv and < rotor > association for contemporary art, Graz, Austria have launched joint artist-in-residence program for 2006. One Bulgarian and one Austrian artist will take part in it. They will reside one month respectively in Graz, Austria and Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The program aims at activating the relation between artists and artistic community, creating new contacts and opportunity for future projects.
Art Today Association (Center for contemporary art – Plovdiv) gathers applications for the Bulgarian participant in the program, who will reside for a month in Graz, Austria. Artists from every field, without restriction of the media can apply. It is not compulsory that a project should be realized during the stay. At the end of the residency the artist will make a presentation of his/her work and the projects he/she has realized.The Bulgarian resident is invited to stay in Graz between 27th of February and 31st of March 2006. An apartment, located in the very center of the town, will be at his/her disposal. Covered are the travelling costs (train tickets or cheap plane), also 25 Euro is the daily allowance to maximum of 700 Euro for the whole stay.

Please apply with:
* CV
* portfolio with copies (no originals), DVDs or CD-Roms
The documents should be sent by post, deadline 8.02.2006.

Address:
Art Today Association
Center for contemporary art - Plovdiv
36 Konstantin Stoilov Str.
Plovdiv 4000
for more information:
tel. +359 32 638868
email: arttoday(at-symbol)arttoday.org

The result of the selection will be announced between 10 – 15 February on the site of Center for contemporary art - Plovdiv www.arttoday.org

Art Today Association presents for the third time ART POSITIVE, exhibiting authors working in Plovdiv. The theme of this edition is "Light". Author and organizer - Art Today Association.

The new edition of ART POSITIVE exhibition is coming in April and May in the Center for contemporary art – Plovdiv. It is a projects that presents authors of contemporary art who works in Plovdiv. The theme is „Light“. The attention will be focused on this position of light when it is at the same time the Theme, the Idea, the Means of expression and the Material in the artwork.

Center for contemporary art – Plovdiv, Ancient Bath presents: The last, seventh edition of the Literary Serial
19th November (Saturday), at 18.00.
Two literary installations will be presented: „Non accoustical“, author Maria Radulova and „Narrowing of the road“ a reading room for the poetical cycle „osht“, author Veselina Sarieva. The literary installations will stay at the Center for contemporary art – Plovdiv until 26th November 2005.

The event is organized with the support of the Swiss cultural program in Bulgaria and in cooperation with Art Today Association.

Center for contemporary art – Plovdiv, Ancient Bath
22 November 2005 (Tuesday), 18.00
Presentation of the activity of the Center for contemporary art Skopje by video and photo documentation. Nikola Pisarev i Anita Ivkovik will present the activity of the Center for contemporary art Skopje (and its CIX Gallery) during the period 1998-2005. During 1998-2003 the CIX gallery was one of the most productive art spaces in Macedonia. The presentation is part of the archive of the Center for contemporary art Skopje. It will show contemporary art by Macedonian artists and realized projects in the Center.

October 2005, Center for contemporary art – Plovdiv, First edition of the International Project for Low and High Technics in Contemporary Art. Under the topic: “Critique of Pure Image – Between Fake and Quotation”, curated by Dimitrina Sevova. The project is composed of three parts: an international exhibition, a theoretical meeting and an international workshop.
Site of the project: fake.arttoday.org

Opening: 7 October 2005, 18:30h Center for Contemporary Art - Ancient Baths, Plovdiv
19:00h Performance “Second Hand” by Sexismus Productions, Zurich
20:00h Party with DJ Pauline Boudry; 22:00h Cinema Projection: Surprise movie
Exhibition: 8 October-8 November 2005, Ancient Baths, plus: billboard at the corner of 6-i septemvri/main street, installations in the main hall of the central train station
8 October 2005, 18:00h Performance “Who shot immanence?” by Monochrom, Vienna
10 October 2005, 18:00h Performance “I’ve Seen My Body Electric” by Nina Stuhldreher, Vienna
Theoretical Symposium: 8-10 October 2005, Ancient Baths
Openair Screening: 9 October 2005, 21:30h, main street in front of municipality building

Participants in the exhibition:
0100101110101101.ORG, Florian Agalli and Eri Daka (LK47), Ursula Biemann, Pauline Boudry/Brigitta Kuster/Renate Lorenz, The Centre of Attention, Vera Chytilov? and her fans, David Crawford, Alexandra Croitoru, Guy-Ernest Debord and his fans, Maria Draghici, Etoy, Nadia Genova, Rumen Jekov, Oliver Kielmayer, Athanasia Kyriakakos, Rudi Maier, Karin Michalski, Emil Miraztchiev, Monochrom & Georg Paul Thomann (Johannes Grenzfurthner & G?nther Friesinger), Oliver Musovik, Vlad Nanca, Dorel Naste, Nebudu group (Borjana Ventzislavova, Mladen Penev, Miroslav Nicic), Veselina Sarieva, Sexismus Productions (Gaby Baldinger, Sabina Baumann, Lilian R?ber), selection from the Shedhalle archive, Mirjam Wirz, The Yes Men, Artur Zmijewski, Tim Zulauf
Participants in the Theoretical Symposium:
Pauline Boudry/Brigitta Kuster/Renate Lorenz, Alice Cantaluppi, David Crawford, Maria Draghici, Etoy.ZAI and Etoy.HAEFLIGER, Indymedia Sofi a, Oliver Kielmayer, LK47 (Florian Agalli, Eri Daka), Rudi Maier, Monochrom (Johannes Grenzfurthner & G?nther Friesinger), Karin Michalski, A Room Of One’s Own (Nina Stuhldreher & Kristina Haider), Dr. Klaus Sch?nberger, Sexismus Productions (Sabina Baumann, Gaby Baldinger, Lilian R?ber), Nina Stuhldreher, Mirjam Wirz, Vencislav Zankov, Peter Zorn, Tim Zulauf
Openair Screening with films by:
Pauline Boudry, David Crawford, Daniel Lo Iacono, code flow; from a selection by Emil Miraztchiev: Yavor Gardev, Plamen Solomonski, Kamen Stoyanov; from a selection by Athanasia Kyriakakos: Lina Theodorou, Ioanna Myrka, Chi-Jang Yin, Morgan Showalter