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External activity: October 09, 2010/ November 21, 2010

Open city in Modena (It), curated by Claudia Zanfi

aMAZElab Art&Culture, Milano

OPEN CITY aims to identify the city as an open space, a place of exchange and encounter, of freedom and equity, a crossroads of cultures in which the individual may become a 'citizen’.

OPEN CITY is therefore an arena of potentiality, multiculturalism and interdisciplinarity.

The exhibition is a public installation presented in the urban research centre Laboratorio della Città. It is comprised of site-specific contributions by over 40 international artists invited to participate to the project such as Marina Abramovic, Albanian Pavillion, Alterazioni Video, Balkan Depot / Tomislav Terek, Pavel Braila, Yane Calovski, Danica Dakic, Calin Dan, Biljana Djurdjevic, Group Elementi (Biljana Isijanin and Ljupco Isijanin), Thomas Hirschhorn, Hristina Ivanovska, Armin Linke, Rasa Todosijevic – Marinela Kozelj, Borjana Mrdja, Oliver Musovik, Vladimir Nikolic, Damir Niksic, Adrian Paci, Anton Petrov, Tadej Pogacar, Stefano Romano, Massimo Sciacca, Shoba, Igor Sovilj, Biljana Stefanovska, TooA / Cogni – De Mattia, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and Zaneta Vangeli. The installation features a great mosaic that brings together ideas, emotions, drawings, photographs and images by the artists, called on to rethink and examine the Balkans as a complex whole and the concept about ‘open city’.

aMAZElab, the Milano-based cultural organization (www.amaze.it), is behind the international

project entitled GOING PUBLIC 2010, winner of the 2007 European Union Culture Award.

press to exit is part of this project together with SCCA from Sarajevo and TICA from Tirana.