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The Egyptian participants on this biennale will be 32
artists on different artistic area such as electronic music, video art, Interactive,
painting, printmaking, Photography, sculpture, drawing, poetry,
writing, film, Architecture, Fashion and installation. also it
will be a group of Theatre and a group of Music.
Egyptian
Delegation:
- The president of
Egyptian Delegation
Prof. Mohamed Rafik
Khalil
- Curator / Art
director of Atelier of Alexandria
Artist. Moataz El
Safty
- Artists:
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Mountain Language
This production is the result of a theatre experiment
researching new and different forms of theatricality via
the untraditional use of space and the special
communication with the spectators. It is also a new
reading of Pinter’s play in the light of today’s
globalization of taste, art, values and –even- food.
Some basic questions are raised: is freedom a universal
value or does it differ from one culture to the other ?
Does the military system serve freedom or what? |
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Adel
Abdelwahab / Show /
Theatre group
Nancy Adel,
Mahmoud El Saghir,
AL Shemaa Hamed,
Asmaa Tarek and
Adel Antar |
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Shams and Friends of the Sea
was first formed by Khaled Shams,
Khaled Wafik and Ahmed Hafez in 1993 in order to produce
an alternative non-commercial music where ordinary love
songs and dancing ones aren't a main part of, the band
developed since then with musicians and friends, in
numerous concerts inside and outside Alexandria their
hometown. In 2008 the 3 friends decided to start over
again after 14 years from the first meeting joined by
Boustan, who already was a part of the group in many
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Khaled Shams and Freinds of the
Sea / Music /
Music group
Ahmed Hafez, Khaled Wafik and
Boustan Magdi
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Other Together
A mixture of electronic sounds and synthetic rhythm,
created by keyboards, computer. his aims to create a
mood of vocal improvisation varies between The past, the
present and the future; on the purpose of measuring the
effect of these different vocal vibrations on the
audience.
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Muhammed Hosni / Music |
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Teapot’s vengeance
An interesting experience was
born as a result of a dramaturgy workshop; this film has
been the offspring of a surprise when the film maker was
awarded a grant from the Goethe institute to produce it.
The film revolves around the life of an Indian teapot
who has over-stepped his cultural boundaries; living in
a small kitchen that belongs to an intermediate Egyptian
household. The central characters of this film are
transcended from mere lifeless objects to humanized
entities where their emotions are shown through magic of
animation and dialogue. |
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Amina Abodoma / Images on the
Move / Film |
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Untitled
Combining the color temperature in the East and in the
simplification of forms to create a fanciful world full
of vitality and mobility on the surface more than the
level of interest in the traditional framework of
equilibrium models of the form or traditional plays to
create a state of mental balance and mobility based on
the creation of a new type of balance and form
relationships through awareness of new relationships in
the normal forms of relations or the creation of a
special kind of magic. |
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Mohamed Bassuony / Visual arts /
Painting |
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Goozor synopsis
The artist
tried to mad a movie expressing the
alienation
that we’re living in because of the Global changes, and
the effects of these changes in his cities “Alexandria”
the movie is talking about a group of people they don’t
know each other but they have the same feelings which
are
alienation
and loneness.
When you end up suffering of loneliness, with no one to
talk to, there may be someone nearby you don’t know but
who’s in the same situation. You never exchange a word
and you each go your own way.
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Mohamed Salah / Images on the
Move / Film |
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Mono Project
Electronic Visual Performance
Despite the crowd that we are going through, in all its
kinds, the ordinary individual is turning to be Alone,
like the Mono Tone... Electronic Music by : Mohamed
Ragab , Monoprints on Video & Percussions by : Mahmoud
Hamdi . |
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Mohamed Ragab / Music /
Electronic Music |
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The cocoon wisdom
I believe that the
wisdom comes from struggling to get the experience that
we need for our life and we can see that in the relation
between the cocoon and the butterfly. In fact, the
butterflies spent most of its life crawling around with
a swollen body and shrivel wings. It never was able to
fly. What we did not understand was that the restricting
cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to
get through the tiny opening were the only way of
forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its
wings. |
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Mohamed Khafagi / Applied arts /
Fashion |
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Secured
is the name that I have chosen for these paintings ,that
represent the searching for security by human , which is
considered as the widest concept , that comes before
concepts like right , deprivation , immigration |
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Kareem El-Qurity / Visual arts /
Painting |
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Circles
From nothing begins a human. Starting an endless journey
looking for the lost horizon. That journey which ends
exactly where it started and then starts again. It could
take days, maybe years or even a whole life. Between
those starts and endings some of us may find his horizon
in one of his long journey stops. He may find it in a
few seconds while he is flying in the spacious space.
Floating with every single part of his body, remembering
every little thought that once crossed his soul, holding
a dream. |
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Tamer Shahen / Visual arts /
Photography |
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Electricity Meter
Badry’s project will deal with the dread of monthly
electricity bills in Egypt’s society. He will build an
oversized kilowatt-hour-meter out of wood. In its center
a metal counting wheel will slowly be turning. (moving
counting wheel and moving numbers in tv screens)
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Ahmed Badry
/ Visual arts /
Video Installation |
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New Cairo
From the fact of being one of the
habitant in Cairo, I realize that it is crawdad with
thought’s and idea’s that always change. So from that
change came my idea, that idea of the change of Cairo
the change of all the eastern stuff and we give up about
our happed and change it by the west happed but in the
fact the western civilization controlled us and
controlled our mind and our life So here I explain the
idea of my paintings from takes sine seen from our
houses our life our homes. |
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Nahla Reda
/ Visual arts /
Printmaking |
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Enter Skopje
The idea of the project is to
design 7 gates to enter Macedonia square; these gates
are portable so that they can be placed in any other
plaza in the world. The 7 new gates are oriented on the
axes of the important spots of the city. Each gate is a
small exhibition that exhibits the history of the
important spots that it is on its axis. Connection,
wealth, strength, memories, highness, and heritage of
Skopje influenced the design of the 7 new gates. |
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Mohamed El-Sheikh and Mohamed
Alaa / Applied arts / Architecture |
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I Will not Bathe
To Make Freud More Beautiful and More Human
I Believe the Winter Sun
Upon being invited to participate in the
Biennale of Young Artists, that which sets
foundations for a creative dialogue of cultures, I began
to speculate: Can I plant with the seeds of my poems a
garden that embraces all our differences and where in
its safe haven we are allowed to converse and interact?
There is no language then but one: love, for nothing
else can, in all colors, plant our trees. I somehow
started remembering all the poets I have read and whose
works were translated into Arabic. |
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Omar Hazek
/ Literature / Poetry |
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Reem Kassem |
Literature - Writing |
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Taha Nasr |
Sculpture |
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Amira Al Sotouhy |
Sculpture |
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Maha Sobeih |
Video installation
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Ahmed Nagy |
Video
Installation |
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Chadi Salama |
Interactive |
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Ahmed Abulnasr |
Installation |
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Karim Shaaban |
Video art |
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Maryam Hassan |
Photography |
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Sarah Hany |
Photography |
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The XIV Edition of the Biennale 2009 in Skopje, invites young
artists from Europe and the Mediterranean to participate and
present their works. The artists will play a leading role in an
event that will present new and interesting productions. The
city in effect is characterized by a strong multiethnic nature
which, together with the presence of a great number of students
and young people, guarantees a culturally stimulating
atmosphere, ready to welcome the selected young artists.
The theme of this edition is “Seven Gates”, which ask the
artists to be inspired by the ancient legend of the city of
Skopje, which says that the seven gates of the city stand on
where once stayed the eyes, the nose, the mouth and the ears of
a giant.
For further information about the history of the Biennale, the
BJCEM Association and the Biennale of Skopje 2009, please see
the website
www.bjcem.org.
The XIV Edition of the Biennale 2009 will take place in Skopje,
from 3rd to 12th September 2009. The
number of the works to be presented has been fixed by the
Organizing Committee for the Biennale Skopje 2009.
In countries and regions where the BJCEM Association has members
or partners, the artists will be selected through a local or
national process organised by the BJCEM members and partners. In
other countries, the selection process of the artists will be
dealt directly by the BJCEM Association.
The chosen theme for the XIV edition of the Biennale Skopje 2009
is “Seven Gates”.
This theme is related to the legend of Skopje, like the City of
Seven Gates. Seven roads lead to and from Skopje, very similar
to the seven perceptions and vital accesses to and from the head
of the human being. The capital of the soul, consciousness, or
the personality of every human. According to an ancient myth,
all of the seven roads were part of a huge monolith that was
located exactly in the position of today’s Skopje basin. The
monolith was round, similar to the human head. Legend says that
this rock used to be a head of a giant, over whom spells were
cast. All seven openings in the giant’s head were sealed by
those spells. One day, a hero walked by and with a magic spear,
he reopened the eyes, the ears, nostrils and mouth. Thus the
city sees, listens, breathes and talks through them. Even
nowadays everyone who passes along these roads will be able to
see with the eyes of Skopje, listen with the ears of Skopje,
breathe with the breath of Skopje, understand the speech of
Skopje, taste the flavours of Skopje.
We will give the opportunity of the seven disciplines of the
Biennial to enter in Skopje from these seven gates. Gate is an
association of a free entrance and always ongoing circulation. A
spot from where the different cultural creativity from
everywhere can enter and can be mixed with the cultural heritage
inside. A spot from where the authentically cultural potential
can come out and share with the others.
Art.4 Subdivision in Areas
The Biennale of Skopje 2009 is organized in seven Artistic
Areas, each of them
includes
several disciplines.
- Visual
Arts
(Plastic Arts, Photography, Installation, Performance, Video
Art, Comic Strip, Cyber Art, Public Art)
- Applied
Arts
(Architecture, Visual/ Industrial/ Web design, Fashion, Digital
Creations)
- Literature
(Writing, Poetry)
- Music
(Folk/Ethnic,
world music, Contemporary, Electronic, DJ's. Jazz, Pop, Rock)
- Show
(Theatre, Dance, Urban Acts)
- Gastronomy
- Images
on the Move
(Film, Video, Animated Films)
The productions selected by the different artistic juries will
be presented at the Biennale of Skopje 2009.
The Selection
committee are:
Prof. Mohamed Rafik
Khalil
Dr. Reem Hassan
Mr. Ibrahim El-Dessouky
Artist. Ibrahim El
Tanbouli
Artist. Alfons Lous
Artist. Hany El
Sayed
Artist. Moataz El
Safty
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