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MONUMENT TO TRANSFORMATION January 20 – February 20 2010. Exhibition opening: WEDNESDAY, 20.01.2010. 7pm
The exhibition presents the outcome of more than two years of researching “social transformation“. It is conceived as an imaginative and analytical space that – with a certain distance – enables the visitor to see and reflect the processes of change that started by the fall of the Iron Curtain and have to an extent continued until the present. The way this topic is approached is influenced by a feeling of affiliation to these changes which are in a way co-formed by us and whose impact affects and influences us. It is therefore an attempt to look at “transformation” as at a “lived out” and gradually receding process. (from the text by Zbynek Baladran and Vit Havranek) curated by Vít Havránek and Zbynìk Baladrán. Participating artists: Artur ¯mijewski, Lise Harlev, Anggun Priambodo, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Anibal Lopez, Lia Perjovschi, Lida Abdul, Ivan Moudov, Jiøí Kovanda, Erick Beltrán.
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Micropolitics_Differentiated neighbourhoods of New Belgrade_Monday, January 11, 2010 at 19.00
BLOK and DeLVe invite you to the presentation of the project of the Centre for Visual Culture at MoCA Belgrade with projections, promotion of the publication and public discussion with Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Stefan Römer and Helmut Weber moderated by the project curator Zoran Eric. The project explores different connotations of the term neighbourhood, in the vocabulary of its urban, architectural and social contexts, and analyses the historical development and actual dynamics of urban transformations of the neighbourhoods of New Belgrade. This sentence could be seen as a common denominator and a platform for all different approaches to the topic developed in the course of more than a year long process of working within an international and interdisciplinary team.The particular topics of the public debate are: - How to build on the local socio-political legacy of workers self-management and reaffirm this concept in the new context where different kind of self-organization would be desirable? - How to deal with rapid urban transformations resulting in socio-spatial homogenisations and segregations?, and - Is there a possibility for spatial justice in the city neighbourhoods?
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And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out / 2nd chapter on stories and the 'immemorable' /
Join us for the last G-MK event this year on Suturday, December 19, at 12 am. The exhibition And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out is the second part of the exhibition trilogy that explores the relation between narrative structures and the notion of the 'immemorable' and which began with the exhibition Stalking with Stories: The Pioneers of the Immemorable at Apexart, New York in 2007. The second chapter exhibition was first organised by Kusnthalle Exnergasse in Vienna earlier this year, and beside the works on view now Zagreb - by Ben Cain, Tina Gverovic, Kristina Kvalvik, Anders Kreuger, Marko Tadic, Slaven Tolj and Judi Werthein- presented also the works by Ann Botcher, Sven Johne, Rosa Barba and Marko Tadic. The exhibition explores the relations between the uncanny and the immemorial through tensions resulting from points of ruptures between dominant and visible narratives, collective truths and that which is suppressed in order to keep them together; it enlights cracks in the surfaces, the moments of clash between the visible and the hidden, between the articulated and the silenced, but also between the possibility and impossibility of articulation.
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Micropolitics_Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere_Friday, December 4, 2009 at 7 pm @ HDLU
Nevarez and Tevere’s research interests lie in the intersection between music and civic action/responsibility and historical moments that resonate through musical instrumentation and rhythmic/melodic traditions. The presentation will focus on the idea of public as it pertains to their research and projects in the following ways: In considering public plazas and city parks as a stages in which various enunciative acts transpire; As a site of intervention - into systems of daily transportation, urban space, the street, and the public and private institutions that administrate such spaces; The public and the airwaves and the so-called public governing body that regulate the broadcast spectrum. From 2001 to 2008 Nevarez and Tevere, under the collaborative name neuroTransmitter, had engaged in an artistic practice that considered new possibilities for the broadcast spectrum as discursive public space. Much of the focus of the work was mining the histories, technology, and materiality of radio. Since then, Nevarez and Tevere, have been investigating the content of radio, particularly the commingling of music, dissent and public fora as subject of their work. Over the past two years various projects have taken this into account as the two have produced works that focus on musical archives, lyrics and performance, and they have worked in direct collaboration with musicians.
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