Art Gallery Slovenj Gradec

International video exhibition

Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative

January 12 - February 5, 2012

Opening on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 6 p.m.

Koroska galerija likovnih umetnosti, Glavni trg 24, 2380 Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia

Participating artists:

4! (PL), Giuseppe Di Bella (UK), Sheila Bishop (USA), Elena Bellantoni (I/D), Marek Brandt (D), Michał Brzeziński (PL), Sérgio Cruz (PT/UK), Chris Dupuis (CA), A. Jacob Galle (USA), Silvia Giambrone (I/D), Aldo Giannotti (I/A) & Viktor Schaider (A), Aldo Giannotti (I/A) & Stefano Giuriati (I/D), Clara Games (PT), G.R.A.M. (A), Nilbar Güreş (TR/A), Marianne Holm Hansen (DK/UK), Francis Hunger (D), Isidora Ilić (SR), Željko Jančić Zec (A), Lemeh42 (I), Gerwin Luijendijk (NL), Ignacio Martín de la Cruz & Bárbara Bañuelos Ojeda (ES), Ljiljana Mihaljević (CRO/USA), Luisa Mizzoni aka luxi lu & Emilio Corti (I), Eugenio Percossi (I/CZ), Maria Petschnig (A/USA), Zoran Poposki (MK), Gastón Ramírez Feltrín (MX/I), Nuno Rodrigues de Sousa (PT), Mauro Romito (I), Joshua & Zachary Sandler (USA), Peter Simon (PL/D), Evelin Stermitz (A/SI), Ljupcho Temelkovski (MK), Attila Urbán (SE), Volante (PT/MX/UK), Jonas Zagorskas (LT/PL), Wojtek Ziemilski (PL)

Selection: KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanic, Lada Cerar)

Production: Photon Gallery & Kolektiva Institute

Coproduction: Koroska galerija likovnih umetnosti

Project is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

Koroska galerija likovnih umetnosti (Art Gallery Slovenj Gradec) hosts international video exhibition Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative. The third edition of the project, which in 2011 became a video festival organized by Kolektiva Institute and Photon Gallery, was first presented in 2009 at Kino Siska Centre for Urban Culture in Ljubljana (SI). Since then the project was presented in various forms in Gdansk (PL), Skopje (MK), Torino (IT), Rotterdam (NL) and Rijeka (HR).

The third edition of Video in Progress exhibition project is the result of international competition on the subject of performance for video. 46 selected videos featuring various formal and conceptual premises present heterogeneous interpretation of performance in relation to motion picture within the contemporary visual art.

Everything from regular performance in front of audience in a gallery to an exhibitionist and voyeuristic presentation of a body as an aesthetic object, absurd actions, exploration of identity, social and political roles, subjective views, narratives and the creation of film or documentary atmosphere.

Three works directly address the topic of language and explore various methods of communication. In the performance Different, Zoran Poposki illustrates the influence of a society full of prejudices as to the image of an individual. The performer is, beyond recognition, covered with projections of words that express mainstream society’s view of those who live at its margins. The video Repeat After Me by Marianne Holm Hansen shows two persons in parallel who alternately repeat basic foreign language phrases lifted from a tourist guidebook and thus generate an impossible dialogue. In his video Quiet, Attila Urban uses two parallel pictures in a dialogue, which, with the help of universal gestures, form a peculiar narration.

More info: 

KOLEKTIVA: http://www.kolektiva.org/curating/video-in-progress-3-fields-of-the-performative

Koroska galerija likovnih umetnosti Slovenj Gradec: http://www.glu-sg.si/en/news/67-video-in-progress-3-polja-performativnega

Art and politics in (post)communism

Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review, vol. XI, no. 4, 2011

Special issue: Art and Politics in (Post)communism

ARGUMENTUM

CATERINA PREDA, Art and Politics in (Post)communism. The Transformation of Institutions and Artistic Practices in Central and Eastern Europe (pp. 597-605)

ARTICULI

SIMON PAUL BELL, Laibach and the NSK: Ludic Paradigms of Postcommunism (pp. 609-619)

AMY CHARLESWORTH, ”Warte Mal!”. Construction and Consumption of Female Subjectivity after the Velvet Revolution (pp. 621-631)

ANDREI POAMĂ, Il était une fois un pays. Propagande, pouvoir et ténèbres dans l’Underground d’Emir Kusturica (1995) (”There once was A Country”. Propaganda, Power and Darkness in Emir Kusturica’s Underground [1995]) (pp. 633-645)

MARIA ALINA ASAVEI, A Theoretical Excursus on the Concept of Political Art in Communism and its Aftermath (pp. 647-660)

FLORENTINA ANDREESCU, The Changing Face of the Sacrificial Romanian Woman in Cinematographic Discourses (pp. 661-674)

ELENA ARHIRE, Le Centre National de la Cinématographie: articulations du postcommunisme roumain (National Center of Cinematography: Articulations of Romanian Postcommunism) (pp. 675-686)

CRISTINA STOENESCU, Continuităţi şi contraste în spaţiul artistic postcomunist românesc (Continuities and Contrasts in the Postcommunist Romanian Artistic Space) (pp. 687-699)

TIJEN TUNALI, The Politics of ”Roma Inclusion” at the 52nd Venice Art Biennale (pp. 701-711)

ZORAN POPOSKI, Spaces of Democracy: Art, Politics and Artivism in the Post-socialist City (pp. 713-723)

ELENA GKARTZONIKA, Post-Cold War Trajectories of Memory and Oblivion in Bulgaria and Kosovo (pp. 725-736)

RECENSIONES

JACQUES RANCIÈRE, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible, Continuum, London, New York, 2010 (ALEXANDRA IRIMIA), pp. 739-741

JACQUES RANCIÈRE, Dissensus: on Politics and Aesthetics. Edited and translated by STEVEN CORCORAN, Continuum International Publishing Group, Great Britain, 2010 (ANDRA GRIGORE), pp. 741-744

MICHAEL SHAPIRO, Cinematic Geopolitics, Routledge, New York, 2009 (IRINA VELICU), pp. 744-747

MICHAEL SHAPIRO, The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy, and Genre, Routledge, New York, 2010 (JOHN SWEENEY), pp. 747-752

BORIS GROYS, Art Power, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2008 (GABRIELLA CALCHI-NOVATI), pp. 753-755

PIOTR PIOTROWSKI, In the Shadow of Yalta. The Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989, translated by Anna Brzyski, Reaktion Books, London, 2009 (ALEXANDRA NEACŞU), pp. 756-760

ANCA BENERA, ALINA ŞERBAN (ed.), Bucureşti. Materie şi istorie. Monumentul public şi distopiile lui, R.A. Monitorul Oficial, Bucureşti, 2010 (ELENA ARHIRE), pp. 761-765

Kniga: Prostori na mokta - Book: Spaces of power

Zoran Poposki - Prostori Na Mokta

INTERFERENCE - NETHERLANDS

Interference -Schaduwspel-
1 till 11 dec. 2011
Breda, Netherlands

Interference explores the significance of art within science and science in art, guided by milestones in scientific progress.
Interference 2011-2012 is inspired by The Allegory of the Cave by Plato a philosophic milestone in which the quest for scientific and systematic thought is first set.
For the first part Het Schaduwspel artist were asked to research the function of moving images in a public space. The city centre of Breda will be the stage for eight projections.

Projections can be seen daily 1 - 11 December between 17.00h and 24.00h.

Zoran Poposki's video 'Different' will be screened as part of the DVD Project selection to mark its fifth-year anniversary.
Location: ‘t Ezelsoor Bredase Boekenmarkt, Veemarktstraat 52 - 54
1 till 11 dec. 2011 from 17.00 till 23.00 hours

Opening
The Opening of Interference – Het Schaduwspel will take place thursday 1the of december in collaboration with the Huis voor Beeldcultuur:

19:00 Doors open Huis voor Beeldcultuur
19:30 Openingceremonie Huis voor Beeldcultuur
20:45 Openingceremonie Interference – Het Schaduwspel
location: Kasteelplein
21:00 Première ’t Turfschip van Breda van Studio Smack
21:30 Walk along all Interference projections, artists will be present
23:30 Performance Sculpture (UK) at Huis voor Beeldcultuur

Pre-Opening / Blinde Muur

Thr. 10 nov 20.00h
Blinde Muur: a selection from the DVD-project
Chassé Theater

Pre-Opening / ETALAGE

Thr. 24 nov 20.00h
ETALAGE Innercity #113 – Steph Byrne
Trainstation Breda CS

Grand Opening Interference

Thr. 1 december

19.30h in collaboration with Huis voor Beeldcultuur

20.45h Worldpremière animationfilm 't Turfschip van Breda (Studio Smack)
23.30h Performance Sculpture

DELAWARE CENTER FOR THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS

Not So Distant Memory
Exhibit Dates:
Nov 4, 2011 - Jan 5, 2012
Location: Moving Media Hall
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
200 South Madison Street | Wilmington, DE 19801 | 302.656.6466
Hours: Tue, Thu, Fri & Sat: 10 to 5 | Wed & Sun: 12 to 5 | Mon: Closed |

This hour-long presentation features contemporary video works centering around the history of The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1943-1992). Made by artists from ex-Yugoslav republics and provinces, the works contain a multitude of voices and perspectives: from the performative and more politically engaged to the lyrical and humorous. The focus is not on developing an over-arching theme or conclusion but experiencing art from a particular region that is often neglected by the West.

Participating artists: Leban-Kleindienst (Slovenia), Borjana Mrdja (Bosnia & Hercegovina),Renata Poljak (Croatia), Marija Djordjević (Serbia), Alban Muja (Kosovo), Danilo Prnjat (Montenegro), Mladen Miljanovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Boris Glamočanin & Sandra Dukić (Bosnia & Herzegovina) and Zoran Poposki (Macedonia).

Related programming:

November 3
Curator of the Moving Media video Not So Distant Memory Boshko Boskovic will speak about video works centering around the history of The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1943-1992).

November 4 Art Loop
Q & A with Boshko Boskovic and Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art Maiza Hixson.

The DCCA, a non-collecting art museum founded in 1979, presents between 20 - 30 exhibitions annually of regionally, nationally and internationally recognized artists that explore topical issues in contemporary art and society.

CYBERFEST 11 ST. PETERSBURG

Digital artist and theorist Zoran Poposki will present a video performance at the 11 CYBERFEST International Cyber Art Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 18-23 November 2011. The work will be shown as part of Not So Distant Memory, a video program curated by Boshko Boskovic.

The 11. festival edition is dedicated to the theme Show Us Your Tongue, and includes: exhibitions (media installations and interactive objects), media performances, sound art, educational program (lectures, workshops, movies), video art program, media art for children, and media opera.

According to the statement by the curator Marina Koldobskaya:"Tongues could be simple or complex, archaic or modern, alive and dead, one’s own and somebody else’s. One’s own, native tongue, is, as a rule, but one. We acquire it practically at birth and lose it together with life. If the tongue is lost, everything collapses. Many tongues are not better than one – even builders of the Tower of Babel realized that. The contemporary art is similar to that great construction – tongues got mixed. It has been a few generations already, starting with Pop Art, that artists have been using the language of mass culture and politics, sociology and psychoanalysis, journalism and advertisement, glossy photo and traditional painting, design and graffiti, theater and film, street activism and academic studies, business and outsiderism. A word emerges when a phenomenon emerges; a statement – when there is something to say; a tongue – when there is a community. The international art crown today is not unlike the population of Diaspora: people talk each in their own way, each does his own thing and each lives in his own conditions – and it is no longer really clear what characteristics and what common belief make people recognize their own kind. For how long will art preserve itself without its own speech? And what is capable of giving new vocabulary, syntax and grammar to the contemporary art that has been for several generations already leading the unenviable life of mocker, parodist, doppelganger of the “real life”? New technologies that change the civilization before our own eyes is a challenge that will have to be met; a reality that is worthy of discussion; unlimited possibilities that are impossible not to use. One should answer the question: will the art remain the mocker that would everlastingly stick out its tongue to the “big boys” or will it acquire its own tongue, on which it will say most important words – to itself and to everyone."

Skopski urbani prikazni

SKOPSKI URBANI PRIKAZNI

6 AKTO Festival of Contemporary Art

A performance in public space by artist Zoran Poposki in front of the Oficerski Dom in Bitola on 11 August 2011 at 8 PM will mark the start of the 6th International Festival of Contemporary Arts AKTO.

AKTO will be held until Sunday, under the motto "(Never) Work", inspired by a graffiti "Ne travaillez jamais" by the French philosopher Guy Debord in the 1950s. The festival, which this year places emphasis on the visual arts and music, announced 30 prominent participants from Macedonia, Italy, Croatia, Bulgaria, Mexico and Finland, and over twenty famous musicians from Macedonia, Serbia and Canada.



Artists include: Zoran Poposki, Igor Toševski, Neda Firfova, Atanas Botev, Filip Jovanovski, Nikola Uzunovski (Macedonia); Mancasola Basillico, Progettozeropiu (Italy); Beatrice Andre (France); Ania Puntari (Finland); Nemanja Cvijanović, Marijana Vukić, Petra Kovačić, Vlasta Delimar (Croatia), Detext, Warren Neidich (USA), Walter Steinacher (AT); Gaston Ramirez Feltrin, Ruben Gutierez (Mexico), etc.

ProArt International Summer School

Arts -- Politics -- Economics. New perspectives of the arts

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany

July 31 - August 6, 2011

Arts, politics and economics have always existed in a dynamic interdependent relationship, which is, in part, stimulating, and, in part, produces contradictions or even oppositions: The arts are integrated into political and economic functional relationships, but they also appear as political protagonists, whose aesthetic strategies - whether explicit or implicit - reflect societal events or provide guidelines for successful coexistence in society. The spectrum of theoretical debate in the study of the arts ranges from questions concerning the position of the political in the aesthetic and aesthetic forms of expression of the political, to those who devote themselves to the political role of art or discuss the relationship of art and economics.

The interdisciplinary summer school, which incorporates the subjects Art History, Art Education, Musicology, Music Education and Theatre Studies, aims to discuss the following aspects:

How does the political manifest itself in the arts against the background of its dissolution of boundaries and internationalisation?
To what institutional change are the arts subject in the light of (global) structural political and economic changes?
What role does the study of the arts play in this process?

9 Art Stays International Festival of Contemporary Art

Digital artist and theorist Zoran Poposki will present a video performance and hold a lecture within the 9. International Festival of Contemporary Arts "ArtStays" and Summer Academy of Contemporary Arts in Ptuj, Slovenia on 28 July 2011.

The 9. festival edition is comprised of about 50 new projects by established and young international artists from the United States, Singapore, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Poland, Russia etc. The festival is part of the 2012 Maribor European Capital of Culture.

Poposki will present a video performance in a public space, whereas the lecture will focus on several of his projects regarding the relationship between the socially engaged art practice and social-political issues originating from the transformation of urban space in Skopje, challenges related to art operations in the public sphere, as well as tactics for interaction with diverse publics.

Artists:

Zulkifle Mahmod (Singapore); Jeongmoon Choi (Korea); Alice Andreoli, Mariantonietta Bagliato, Resi Girardello, Valentino Menghi, Elisa Bertaglia, Chiara Sorgato, Gabriele Grones, Thomas Braida, Peppe Perone, Lemeh42, Lucio Perone (Italy); Eike Berg (Germany/Hungary); Dia Bögi, András Zalavári, Tamás Fehérváry, Adrien Dorsánszki, Krisztián Szőke, Dominika Trapp, Dia Zékány, Benjamin Nagy, Kiss Gábor Attila, Vera Romhány, Máté Csató, Katarina Sevic, Endre Koronczi, Szacsva y Pál, Beöthy Balázs, Eszter Szabó, Marianne Csáky, Csongor G. Szigeti, László László Révész, Miklós ErhardtRita Varga (Hungary); Lynn Book, Robin Starbuck, Lou Mallozzi, Mary Ting, Kristin Mariani, Jean Marie Casbarian, Shawn Decker, Martha Rosler, Nina Sobell (USA); Nicolás Dumit Estévez (USA/Dominican Republic); Knoll+Cella (Austria/USA); Sujin Lee (USA/Korea); Johannes Knesl (USA/Austria); Katharina Klement, Manfred Kielnhofer, Christoph Luckeneder, Mounty R. P. Zentara, Alexander Hengl, Daniela Auer, Theresa Eipldauer, Maria Luz Olivares Capelle, Matthias Bernhard, Mark Fridvalski, Vinz Schwarzbauer, Matthias Peyker, Sebastian Koch, Christine Katscher, Christian Bazant Hegemark (Austria); Nebojša Despotović, Miroslav Ničić (Serbia); Doris Schmid (Switzerland); Alexandre Murucci (Brazil); Zoran Poposki (Macedonia); Nemanja Cvijanović, Miljana Babić, Ivica Buljan (Croatia); Borjana Ventzislavova (Bulgaria); Jaša, Matej Sitar, Tanja Verlak, Aleksander Velišček, Suzana Brborović, Jon Derganc, Tina Dobrajc, Mito Gegič, Urška Mazej, Dušan Fišer, Nika Autor, Jurij Meden, Staš Kleindienst, Sebastjan Leben, Vesna Bukovec, Evelin Stermitz, son:DA, Maja Cimermam (Slovenia), Monika Grycko (Poland); Olga Schigal (Russia/Germany); Karoe Goldt (Germany).


Curators:

Jernej Forbici, Slovenija, Galerija FO.VI
Marika Vicari, Italija, KUD ART STAYS
Laszlo Laszlo Revesz, Madžarska, Akademija za likovno umetnost v Budimpešti
Eike Berg, Nemčija / Madžarska, VideoSpace, Budapest
Gunter Damisch, Avstrija, Akademija za likovno umetnost na Dunaju v sodelovanju s Kro Art Contemporary
Dušan Fišer, Slovenija, Tovarna umetnosti, Majšperk
Lindy Poh, Singapur
Lynn Book, ZDA, Wake Forest University & Transart Institute
Giovanni Sasso, Italija, Galerija Nuvole Arte Contemporanea
Bianca Maria Rizzi, Italija, Galerija Bianca Maria Rizzi
Matthias Ritter, Nemčija, Galerija Bianca Maria Rizzi
Ksenija Orelj, Hrvaška, Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti Rijeka
Emanuele Beluffi, Italija, Kritika, Milano
Vladimir Forbici, Slovenija, Galerija Tenzor
Mitja Gegič, Slovenija, za Akademijo za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani
miha(son:DA), Slovenija, EX-garaža, Kino Udarnik & ArtFemTV