International artists selected in TICA storytelling residence

TIRANA, April 3 – Bosnian artist Adela Justic, Albanian artist Enton Koca and four performing artists of the Kosovo-based Haveit group as well as Georgian artist Keto Logua have been selected to participate in the two-month artist-in-residence organized by the Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art.
The residence programe scheduled to be held in April and May 2014 will focus on “Storytelling as artistic experience.”
Born in 1982, Adela Ju۩ć lives and works in Sarajevo. “Her socially engaged practice has its foundation in personal experience and memory. She mostly works in video performance, using narrative and her voice as main element of expression. She mostly uses critical feminist approach to all the subjects,” says TICA.
Enton Kaca (1977) is a theater director based in Tirana. “In his work, Enton explores the performance potential by using a direct visual language, powerful texts and characters. He engages in his plays artists from different disciplines which by interacting with music, light, images, objects, place/space (not necessarily a stage) perform ideas and statements.”
HAVEIT (Alketa Sylaj, Hana Qena, Lola Sylaj, Vesa Qena) is a group of performing artists living and working in Pristine/Kosovo HAVEIT was founded in 2011 and the artists consider themselves as: “A group of four girls that tend to go beyond everyday pleasure, moralistic rules and refuse to agree with the matters that are being served. We won’t do anything except tell our and your story!”
Keto Logua was born 1988 in Sokhumi, Georgia. She was trained in painting at the Tbilisi
State Academy of Arts and her work has since crossed multiple mediums within art, including sculpture, installation, video, painting and performance art.