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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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.
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Micropolitics lecture series_CARLOS MOTTA_Suturday, September 5, 2009 at 7 pm
Carlos is a Colombian born, New York based artist working primarily in photography, video and installation that engages political history by employing strategies used in documentary genres and sociology in order to interrogate governmental structures, to observe the repercussions of political events, and to suggest alternative ways in which to interpret those histories. Motta's work has been individually presented at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Konsthall C, Stockholm; Fundación Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; and Art in General, New York and included in group exhibitions such as the X Biennale de Lyon 2009; The Greenroom, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Soft Manipulation, Casino Luxemburg and Democracy in America, Creative Time, New York, amongst others. The presentation at G-MK will encompass Motta's projects since 2005.
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Micropolitics_ lecture series_ MATEI BEJENARU_Tuesday, JuLY 14, 2009 at 7 pm
Matei Bejenaru is an artist and initiator of Periferic Biennial in Iasi, Romania. Established in 1997 as a performance festival, Periferic transformed into an international contemporary art biennial defined as a platform for discussions on the historical, socio-political and cultural context of Iasi. Together with a group of artists and philosophers from Iasi, Matei Bejenaru founded in 2001 the Vector Association, a contemporary art institution which supported the local emerging art scene to become locally and internationally visible. He is also member of the editorial stuff of Vector – art and culture in context magazine, a publication that mainly analyses the regional artistic and cultural situation of the South East European countries, in the process of transition, and the Middle East region, subdued to the pressures of conflicts.As an artist, he is socially engaged in analyzing the way globalization affects postcommunist countries labor force and rapidly changes mentalities and lifestyles. In 2003, for the second edition of Tirana Biennial he installed a water post in the center of the city offering a free water distribution for Albanian inhabitants. In 2004, he initiated the cARTier project, a socio-cultural project aiming to regenerate a workers district from Iasi. In 2005, he published in the Idea Magazine and later exhibited at Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art in Vienna, a Travelling Guide for Romanian illegal workers. In 2007, he developed the project Impreuna/Together involving the Romanian community from UK and showed it at Tate Modern – Level 2 Gallery. In 2008 he participated in the Taipei Biennial where he presented the video Maersk Dubai, a documentary about the assassination of three Romanian immigrants.
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Micropolitics_ lecture series_ JUDI WERTHEIN_Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 7 pm
In her work Judi Werthein relishes in relinquishing control, moving art from the gallery into the world, where its power and effectiveness can be questioned. «Recognizing the individual power of the audience», Werthein writes, «I attempt to provide them with an opportunity to recast the limitations of reality that structure our existence.»Judi Werthein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she received an MA in Architecture and Urbanism from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Tate Modern, London, UK; De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; and the Center for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania. Werthein has also participated in Manifesta 7, Bolzano, Italy; InSite_05, San Diego/Tijuana; Bienal de Pontevedra, Galicia; and the 7th Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba, among others.
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