of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts
Skopje, Macedonia

1111 Portrait

[8-18. July 1998.]

Art City, e.g. H'vzi Pashini Konaci (Garages), v. Bardovci, Skopje

The project 1111 Portrait is envisioned as a cooperation or work on a mutual project of a Fine Artist and a Curator, i.e. of the project team. The idea for this way of production is guided by the intention to strengthen the co-operation between these, by their nature mostly opposed, fields of acting - artistic creation and fine arts critique. The goal is to create a unified (and not common) artistic product as a result of the influence and the intention of the curator over the artist who then, opposing to the "dictate", will find solutions which will change these influences and intentions in the sense of an interactive and creative exchange process between the artist and the curator. The project is led with the intention to receive a work of art signed by the project team.

1111 signifies the number of Artists (11) and Curators (11), which will take part in this project. The theme for this years, fourth annual exhibition of SCCA - Skopje is Portrait. The basic intention is to explore this, in recent times, neglected motif by the members of the current generation of artists, counting on the need of reexamination and valorization of artistic approaches which lately on the surface grasp the motifs of the works in the recent artistic practice, and intending to once more place the same again in the center of the artistic and critics interest as artistic and theoretical provocation. The motif portrait is understood in the widest sense of its artistic and theoretic interpretation.

The artwork, which should result from this co-operation, can be realized in any medium or several media, i.e. the project team has been left the freedom of choice of the medium or the way of artistic transposition. The limitation is applies only to the condition that the project is not to be previously or at other occasions realized.

The project 1111 Portrait should represent 11 achievements of 11 project teams.

The Board of SCCA - Skopje determines 7 Curators that propose 7 Artists

(1 Curator and 1 Artist) with the elaboration of the project task. Each of the 4 outside members of the Board has for a task to lead as a mentor one young Curator in the period of the preparation and the realization of the project (additional 4 curators). All 11 project teams enter evenly the competition for an award.

The exhibition 1111 Portrait will take part on the location of Art City, e.g. H'vzi Pashini Konaci, v. Bardovci, in the part of the Garages. The choice for this location is led by the obligation of SCCA - Skopje to give support to a new form of outside institutional acting in the country and with the goal of urging a promotional and exhibition strategy of this location.

The exhibition will be open on July, 08.1998. and will last until July 18, 1998.

The jury will be contained by the Directors and Chairs of the Boards of the Soros Centers of Contemporary Arts from Eastern and Central Europe and by the members of the SCCA International Advisory Board. The jury will award 1 prize in the amount of US$2,000.00 which is to bee divided equally by the members of the project team. If the prize is awarded by the project team, which has been led by a mentor - member of the Board, the latter does not participate in the award. The jurying will take part by a singular vote of each member of the jury. The award will go to the achievement of the project team, which will receive most votes.

The expenses of the project realization fall on the burden of SCCA - Skopje and of the sponsors interested for this project. A financial assistance in the amount of US$150.00 is planned for the technical realization of each project. As an addition to the technical realization of the work SCCA - Skopje places on disposal its own technical equipment and secures the technical assistance for its realization. The catalogue of the exhibition will be printed out after the documenting of the projects.