Tuesday, September 16, 2014

7th Ars Kozara 2014

As a part of our regional activities, this year's Ars Kozara was originally designed from a curatorial point of view, as a collaborative activity between the artistic and the curatorial team. However, due to various cuts, it was reduced down to its basics. Our role was just a curatorial one, taking care of the concept and production of artistic works on mountain Kozara, as part of an residency art laboratory.


This year's organizers were Nemanja Čađo (project manager), Andrej Bereta (curator of 7th Ars Kozara), Dragan Inđić (artistic production and logistics), Charlotte Whelan (curatorial associate) and Biljana Banović (coordinator of project activities).







Participants of 7th Ars Kozara were artists from Zagreb, Belgrade, Krupanj, Banja Luka, Maslovar, Užice and Prijedor: Goran ČupićAleksa GajićMiodrag JovićDavor PaponjaAleksandra KukoljacBojan Matović FliglerMelita Matović FliglerIrena MirkovićBojana RadenovićVladimir SekulićIvana ŽivkovićTanja MarićDanka Terzić and Suzana Vulović, were selected on international open call by Art association Tač.ka from Prijedor.

International cooperation: Trans Cultural Dialogues in Berlin

As participants of several independent projects from CIN (Cultural Innovators Network, Goethe Institute), we are developing activities in cooperation with several partners from the Mediterranean (Euro-Mena). A series of working meetings was organized with members of projects Artivists4Change and Trans Cultural Dialogues. As such, TCD (Trans Cultural Dialogues) platform was developed as an open space for mutual exchange of ideas and creative narratives within contemporary arts and culture. The trip to Berlin was important to enable in person work with colleagues from Italy, Greece, Algeria, Spain, Macedonia, Tunis and Germany, in order to finalize plans for an unique art multimedia set of events, similar to biennial, being held in different cities every time. The first edition is called DJART, which stands as an acronym which connects geographical location (Algiers), neighborhood concept and arts.

We are happy to announce that DJART will take place in November 2014 in Algiers, after reaching material and technical support, in the times when fundraising for these kind of international/continental cooperations in arts and culture are hard to sustain. More on DJART and TCD: http://transculturaldialogues.net/
























Foto: Hichem Merouche & Andrej Bereta


Novi sad Art academy art history students' lecture

About and around curating was invited to have a lecture and a workshop for MA art history students of Novi Sad Academy of arts, by call from art historian Dijana Metlić.








About and around curating #30: Artist as audience

For About and around curating #30 we had as guest Mirjana Boba Stojadinović, visual artist from Serbia and an author of Artist as audience project.










foto: Kustosiranje and Sandra Stojanović


About and around curating #29: Mangelos 2014

About and around curating #28 and #29 were dedicated to open a discussion about Young Visual Artists Award in Serbia, called Mangelos in honor of conceptual artist, art historian, critic and curator Dimitrije Bašičević.

The discussions took place as accompanying program of 2014 program, covering various topics such as why the award carries the name of Mangelos, his life and work, as well as the importance of establishment, continuity of the award and ways of supporting the young visual arts scene in Serbia.

 






About and around curating #28: Mangelos 2014

About and around curating #28 and #29 were dedicated to open a discussion about Young Visual Artists Award in Serbia, called Mangelos in honor of conceptual artist, art historian, critic and curator Dimitrije Bašičević.

The discussions took place as accompanying program of 2014 program, covering various topics such as why the award carries the name of Mangelos, his life and work, as well as the importance of establishment, continuity of the award and ways of supporting the young visual arts scene in Serbia.