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Hristina Ivanoska - presentation
16 October 2006, 7 p.m.

Hristina Ivanoska (b. 1974, Skopje) is an artist that is building her artistic practice by finding ways of individual action against the established roles and norms, defined by the conventional social and political systems. Her manner of work includes research, perception and interactive action. She did an artist-in-residencies at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2004, through CEC ArtsLink; the Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs in 2001; and at the Stufung Kunstlerhaus Boswil in Switzerland in 1998. Her works have been exhibited in Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Finland, Lithuania, USA and Serbia and Montenegro. Recently Ivanoska presented her last video work Naming of the Bridge: Rosa Plaveva and Nakie Bajram, curated by Suzana Milevska, in the FWA Foundation for Women’s Art as part of the event “Art Under Construction: the Balkan in Context” organized by School of Arts in collaboration with School of Social Sciences at City University in London (UK).
www.scca.org.mk/artists/hristina

Ivanoska will talk about her experiences as a practicing artist based in Skopje (Macedonia). The presentation will be focused on her recent projects such as the video work about the first women protestors against the veil in Macedonia and the artist’s initiative for naming the newly built bridge in Skopje with their names titled Naming of the Bridge: Rosa Plaveva and Nakie Bajram (2006), Skopje Park Fun (2005) a collaborative projects with the artists Kristen Baumlier and Nathaniel Parsons (USA) developed as initial interaction of the Skopje City Park with series of site-specific actions/performances which included interaction with the audience and spatial navigation, the animation What’s Behind (the urban prototypes project) (2003) that is dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee questioning the civic freedoms and the capacity for survival etc.

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press to exit project space (2005-2006 program)
www.presstoexit.org.mk

Hristina Ivanoska who is founder and program advisor at press to exit project space, during her presentation will also present their recent publication that gives and overview of the last two years of programming.
Press to exit project space focuses on exploring new ways of generating and producing projects and collaborations with artists and curators from Macedonia and abroad through the Visiting Curatorial Initiative (VCI), the New Project Productions (NPP), and the Lectures, Presentations and Exhibitions (LHE) series.
Visiting Curatorial Initiative (VCI) aims to stimulate and support the research and implementation of new curatorial projects by emerging and established international and local curators. The guests in 2005 and 2006 included Sebastian Cichocki (Poland), Goran Petrovic (Serbia), Basak Senova (Turkey), and Agnieszka Kurant (Poland/France). During the residency, the curator is engaged in researching and developing a project to be realized in Skopje, while delivering a lecture series focusing on their curatorial practice.
New Project Productions (NPP) is a program designed to engage Macedonian artists and curators in production of new projects by partnering them in development of the concept and the production by offering a start-up budget. The first artists invited were the collaborative team OPA&HA, Dejan Spasovic, Aleksandar Stankoski, and Liljana Gjuzelova, followed by the curatorial team of Elena Veljanovska, Hristijan Panev, and Boris Petrovski and the group exhibition Citism, and also Marjan Denkov and Biljana P. Isijanin who curated the exhibition OFF.
Lectures, Presentations and Exhibitions (LHE) is a dynamic program that invites individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions, to present recent research, projects, publications, and productions in the gallery. Guest in the LPE program include (to name just few): one of the most relevant photographers working today Wolfgang Tillmans who had his first solo show anywhere in the Balkans with our space; internationally established artists Marjetica Potrc and Kyong Park who were doing research travel in Skopje for the project the Lost Highway Expedition as well as the lecture of Laura Mansfield and Amy Freneck about the art space in Bristol, Spike Island, and the lecture by Dr. Jean-Paul Martinon, lecturer in Museum Studies and Cultural Theory at Goldsmiths Collage in London.

Press to exit project space is made possible with the continuing support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Skopje, the Swiss Cultural Programme South East Europe and Ukraine, and other partners.