Carnival in the Eye of the Storm
War / Art / New Technologies: KOSOV@

Kosovo /Kosova has been referred to here as Kosov@ in the attempt to retain both the "o" and "a" characters used in both (Serbian and Albanian) spellings

Exhibition- Participants

CLAUS BACH is a Weimar based artist whose work has been exhibited across Europe. Exhibitions include "NEW TERRITORY: ART FROM EAST GERMANY"(School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MA), "ART IN FREEDOM"-artists from Eastern Europe (Antwerpen, Belgium), "Kunst in Deutschland 1945-1995". Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (Germany), Galeria Metropolitana, Barcelona (Spain)

THANASIS CHONDROS (1953), ALEXANDRA KATSIANI (1954) and DANNIS TRAGOPOULOS (1953) formed in 1984 a group named "DIMOSIOYPALLILIKO RETIRE", based in Thessaloniki/Greece. They use to combine visual performances with musics. Selected discography: The Other Side (LP, 1989), Ianus (cd, 1995), The Party (cd-r, 1999).

ABDELALI DAHROUCH is a Moroccan artist living in New York. His videos are shown in the US and Europe. Exhibition include "The War Bulletin" at Postmasters Gallery.

LEON GOLUB Since 1950, through painting and since 1950 through large scale installations, Leon Golub has focused on stress, violence and war (and most recently on a sardonic "pseudo metaphysical" look at current "realities.") This occurs in our schizoid media saturated contemporaneity. "While The Crime is Blazing," an exhibit of recent painting originating at Bucknell University, will travel 2000-2001 to US and Canadian venues. A traveling retrospective exhibition originating at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin will travel to other locations in 2000 - 2001.

ALBERT HETA an Albanian artist born in Prishtina, Kosova where he currently works. Group Exhibitions include: "Perspektivaâ 97", Dodona Gallery, Prishtina, Kosova (1997) "Perspektivaâ 98", Dodona Gallery, Prishtina, Kosova (1998) "Peja destroyed market happenig", Peja, Kosova (1999) "Kosovar Golgotha", The Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina (1999) He also works in graphic design, his ework includes posters and book cover designs like: "Hamlet" by W.Shakespeare, directed by David Gothard, "Stjuardesat" by Mark Kameloti, "Uncle Vanya" by Chekhov, "Na dutz na ho utz-Toward home" by Migjen Kelmendi, "Kosova, Separate Worlds", by Shk‘lzen Maliqi, "Expo Libris Î98", "Annual Children's Exhibition", "Condom against Aids", "Take drugs, commit suicide"

EMILY JACIR is a New York based Palestinian artist whose work has been shown internationally. She was an artist in residence at Cite International des Arts, Paris, France and at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

DARIO KAVARA born 21.10.69, Mostar. Works and lives between Oslo, Berlin, Paris and Venice. Selected Appearances "Out of site" Buro Friedrich , Berlin `99, "Bible of networking"P-Hous Gallery Tokyo 99,"Recollecton For Repressive Memory" Transmission Gallery Glasgow,"Reason of all Values" Venice Biennial 97, "Critic of Pure Reason" Museum of Modern Art , Stockholm 98 , "Art For Human Speices", Streets of Rome 96.

MARY KELLY is Professor and Chair of Art and Critical Theory at UCLA. Kelly was Director of Studios at the Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York from 1989 -1996. She has been a contributor to Screen Magazine, October, and Art Forum. Her published works include "Post-Partum Document" (1983), "Interim" (1985), "Pecunia Olet" (1989), "Gloria Patri" (1992), and "Imaging Desire" (1996). Kelly has had solo exhibitions at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. "Mea Culpa" Postmasters Gallery, 1999

LAURA KURGAN is an artist and architect, and teaches in the School of Architecture at Princeton University, In addition to a design practice in New York City, her work includes installations and projects which have been exhibited at the StoreFront for Art and Architecture and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Museu d'Art Contemporani inBarcelona, the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, and this year at the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf and the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis. Her projects construct sites for encounters between global data networks and highly specific local conditions. (They expose, delineate, and visualize information infrastructures in an effort to reinvent architectural fundamentals -- forms, materials, and media.) Working with advanced information technologies including the global positioning system, high resolution satellite imagery, and digital money networks, her work seeks to describe and chart new territories of information.

TOM LECHNER is a Portland based artist who attended Caltech and PNCA, and has been making political cartoons.

JANINE & LEIF ROSTRON-LIEBENSCHUETZ are working as Transformers, artists in disguise. In 1997 they founded the cultural production group inhabit from which projects as a 'living workstation' (UK 1998) and the trans-culture-flat' (Germany 1999) were initiated. Contributions across Europe include: social interventions, performances, new music, multi-media installations, videos, seminars and lectures.

ZORAN NASKOVSKI Born in 1960 in Izbiste, Yugoslavia. MA in Visual Arts, Academy of the Fine Arts, Belgrade. Works in various media. Deals with the issues related to contemporary Yugoslav society as well as global phenomena like NBA, movies, fetishism, state of the body, aiming at disclosing visual mechanisms standing behind the contemporary visual obsessions.

HALLIE O'BRIEN KELLY and JAMIE SCHULTZ are currently students at Pacific NW College of Art

JENNY PERLIN is a New York based artist and filmmaker. Her films are shown at festivals in the US and Europe. Her installations are exhibited in the United States, Switzerland Germany, and the Czech Republic. She presently teaches film at Sarah Lawrence College.

MARTHA ROSLER works with photography, video and installation. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally. She lives in New York City and teaches photography and media at Rutger University. Recent video tapes "How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unite d' Habitation de Le Corbusier at Firminy, France" (1993); "Seattle: Hidden Histories" [on native Americans] (1991-95); In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (2-channel video installation) (1993); "Chile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National Police Band" (1997).

SANDRA SCH¤FER, born 1970, studied Art in Kassel and London. Currently she is a postgraduate student in media art at the Hochschule fuer Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. In September and October she will be at the Artec institute in London as European media artist in residence (Emare). Her works are mainly video, installations and photography based. Selected exhibitions: 1999, Wie+Macht+Kunst, Kunstverein, Kassel; 1998, Subfiction, 3. Werkleitz Biennale, Tornitz; 1996, Monitoring, Video- und Dokumentarfilmfest, Kassel; Bound, Commercial Too Gallery, London.

HENRIK SCHRAT is a Berlin and Dresden based artist and curator. His work has been exhibited across Europe. Projects include "EUROPE IN THE BOX II" (99/00, Weimar, Praha, Helsinki, Bologna) FERNSPRECHER & SPRUCHTR¤GER Transitgallery, Berlin. He is currently working on a project about the stock exchange and publishing a comic on this issue.

GREG SHOLETTE is a founding member of the REPOhistory artist's collective (1989-present) and PAD/D (Political Art Documentation and Distribution 1980-1986.) Sholette's art has been exhibited at Randolph Street Gallery, New Langton Arts, Exit Art, as well as the streets and subways of New York City. His critical essays have been published in Afterimage, the New Art Examiner, and Third Text. He is Assistant Professor and Co-Chair of the Master of Arts in Arts Administration Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently directing CIRCULATION, a public art project by REPOhistory that opens on February 24th, 2000.

NANCY SPERO's art spans four decades across several media. Spero investigates the status of women by culling images of women-- victims of war and rape, goddesses such as Artemis, Athena, Sheela-na-gig, Kali, etc. from ancient history and mythology as well as current media images of roller skaters, athletes, dancers, old women, etc. Spero's paintings, prints and handprinted wall installations challenge assumptions about the nature of women's power and presence. From the sadism and violence directed at women to woman as protagonist, in dramatic control of self. Her most recent installation was at the 7th Cairo Biennial where Spero was the American representative. The Metropolitan Transit Authority's Arts for Transit program commissioned Nancy Spero to design a twenty-two panel mosaic which is in progress at the 66th St. subway station at Lincoln Center, New York City.

GORDANA STANISIC born in BG 1969 lived in GB from 1991 to 1998 living in BG from september 1998 up to now.

MIRO STEFANOVIC was born in Gorazde, ex Yugoslavia today Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1991 he became permanent associate of political daily newspaper "Borba". In 1995, this newspaper became independent, political newspaper known as "Nasa Borba". Since 1997, he began cooperating with the new independent political newspaper "Danas". In his career he has published over three thousand caricatures in both, Yugoslavia and abroad. He did illustrations for book of children's poetry, "Kako se kaze volim te" by Sloboban Stanic and illustration for the book of aphorisms "Koma" by Nikica Banic. In 1995, his published book of political caricatures "Mislio sam·" , for which he received 2nd Prize in Beringen, Belgium's 1996 International Festival. Stefanovic has recently shown about the Kosov@ war at ABC NO RIO in New York City.

OCEAN EARTH DEVELOPMENT Inc., the author of the work being exhibited is Ocean Earth Development Corporation, with a representation being made personally in Portland by Peter Fend. Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation, a Subchapter S New York corporation. articipation in Ruhrgebiet, withreginal planning scenario, exhibited in Duisburg Contract for stretch-fabric testing for architectural nets and membranes, based on Gordon Matta-Clark work; "Global System", Chase Manhattan Plaza, outdoor display First exhibits of satellite monitoring by artists.1982-1987 Extensive news production worldwide Commissioned report to the Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress Satellite methodology, exhibited by Gunther, at Documenta VII (Fend refused Gunther offer at co-show) Analysis of North Sea algae bloom, with oceanographic institute in Kiel Exhibitions at American Fine Arts (4 altogether under company name) Rights secured for ocean-rig testing in New Zealand, Wellington Harbor. Atopic Site, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, commission first model of the Giant Algae System rig Contract with Institute of Marine Biology, Kotor, Montenegro.

ANDREW HERSCHER is a Boston-based architect and public artist. He has recently taken part in projects and exhibitions in Bosnia, the Czech Republic, Kosovo, and Slovenia. He is currently co-directing the Kosovo Cultural Heritage Project at Harvard, where he is completing a doctoral dissertation in architectural history and theory.

OLAV WESTPHALEN is a German artist who currently lives and works in New York. Education: 1990: MA in Design, FH-Hamburg, Germany; 1993: MFA in Visual Arts, UC San Diego (Fulbright Scholar). Awards include: K&Mac217;nstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Philip Morris Kunstfs&Mac255;rderung); Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito; Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst, Kultursenat Berlin. Selected Shows: "Park", K&Mac217;nstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; "Blind Date", Malmoe Konsthall, Sweden; "Gummi TV" LACE, Los Angeles; "Scenic", Four Walls, San Francisco; "Soft Concept", Galleri Wallner, Malmoe; "Arrested Ambition", Apex Art, New York; "Sampling", Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, "Domesticity", Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin; "Surfing Systems", Kunstverein Kassel, Germany; "Battlefield", Kunsthalle Palazzo, Basel.

SISLEJ XHAFA is a Kosov@ born artist currently based in Pisa (Italy) exhibitions include XLVIII Venice Biennale, Italy (1999) "Hot Journey Towards Heaven " Placentia A-rte, Piacenza, Italy "They came by Taxi" Parabolic Space, Berlin, Germany Kunstvalsend Art Gallery, Stavanger, Norway Onufri 99 National Gallery of Albania, Tirana, Albania "Atlante " MACS, Sassari, Italy, XLVII Venice Biennale (Illegal exhibition, Albanian pavilion), Italy "Christmas Tree" The Rookery Building, Chicago, USA

STUDENTS of Pacific Northwest College of Art