About and around curating/ Kustosiranje is a public and non-profit programme, open for all creative individuals from the fields of arts and culture: on contemporary curatorial practice, the technology of preparation and realisation of an independent exhibition project, education and supporting proactive attitude of young and future art curators.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
About and around curating #14 - photographs, Expodium, The 53rd October salon
23 September 2012
At 6 PM
The former building of the Geodetic institute
At 8 PM
Expodium NIGHTWALKERS_Parliament of transition #1
Savamala
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Video by participants of the About and around curating project at Mikser festival 2012
Video by participants of the About and around curating project at Mikser festival 2012
(or just click on picture on the right side, at the top of this blog)
(or just click on picture on the right side, at the top of this blog)
The participants of the project had an opportunity to make a
video (duration 90'') and, according to their own criteria and technical
skills, give voice to one of the following topics:
- The position of a curator in Serbia today, or the present
state of culture in Serbia
- Savamala space - through art, urbanism, history, (lack of)
perspectives...
All videos are merged into one, integral video
lasting 16 minutes and 20 seconds.
After the opening screening, the participants had a small
workshop - by random choice, each one got a chance to express a critical
opinion of another's work in five sentences. The time available for writing
short texts was 15 minutes.
By using a media "reserved" for the artists, the
videos represent the position and a statement of young and future curators of
today.
Video 2012, 16’20’’
More on About and around curating at Mikser festival 2012
at:
http://aboutandaroundcurating.blogspot.com/2012/05/about-and-around-curating-at-mikser_26.html
http://aboutandaroundcurating.blogspot.com/2012/05/yesterday-at-mikser-festival-two.html
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1. Ana
Stevanović and Marija Ratković
"2"
Directors and producers: Ana Stevanović i Marija Ratković
Editing: Marija Ratković
Camera: Ana Stevanović
The video by Ana and Marija, recorded from the tram,
directly adds to and (doesn’t) justifies
the image of the society where these two future art historians live, recalls
and reminds us about the actual state of Belgrade – the part that we could see
at Savamala district.
Decline.
Drab.
Loneliness, but also insurgency.
Enormous, almost insurmountable gulf between This Here and
Now and That There and Now.
Slađana Dragičević, art historian
...
2. Andrej
Bereta
"Roll another one"
Director, producer: Andrej Bereta
Editing, camera: Andrej Bereta
Protagonists: Andrej Bereta and Srđan Tunić
Music: The Fraternity of Man - Don't Bogart Me (1968)
Culture that’s locked in a system. Who has the key? Does
lobbying open the doors for art and culture projects? The financing of artistic
and cultural project is a problem without solution if there are not
famous/unknown Maecenas involved. It seems that the persons beholding the key
don’t need any Story to realise the importance of culture and art in society.
Tijana Trkulja, art producer
...
3. Dušan
Savić
"Noli me tangere"
Director: Dušan Savić
Producer: Srđan Tunić
Editing and camera: Dušan Savić
Protagonist: Dušan Savić
To be curious, to touch everything… To try, to feel… And to
find out. How else does one learn – about one’s surroundings, about one’s self?
With one’s hand, independent, exploratory, as a curator in action – a basis for
true toolbox.
Andrej Bereta, curator, art historian
…
4. Slađana
Dragičević
"Put ka SavaMaloj (A trip to SavaMala)"
Director and producer: Slađana Dragičević
Editing: Dušan Savić
Camera: Slađana Dragičević
This work was made while preparations for the Mikser
festival were taking place.
Travelling from Sombor to Belgrade, the author, without
purpose, takes an available medium to express her condition, which will later
become a basis of video artwork.
In the rain, one could find discomfort, and unrest in the
fast traffic.
She doesn’t walk the road, the road passed by her.
Hidden from the rain, the author finds shelter from where
she expresses retreat against current, chaotic, black and white events.
Jelena Micić, philologist, student of aesthetics
…
5. Tijana
Trkulja
"Critical issues of urban practice"
Director and producer: Tijana Trkulja
Editing and camera: Nenad Billy Urošević
Protagonist: Tijana Trkulja
Music: Nenad Billy Urošević – Way (2012)
The mask hides, but behind it could be anyone.
The straitjacket points at rejection from society, public
and the “normal“ field.
The author has both her hands tight, preventing her to
realise planned artistic interventions under Branko’s bridge.
Her position as „cultural worker“ thus is unambiguous.
The remaining question is: is critical rearticulation of
contemporary society through art either desirable or permitted.
Srđan Tunić, curator, art historian
...
6. Viktorija
Kamilić
"Zagrljaj za Savamalu (A hug for Savamala)"
Director and producer: Viktorija Kamilić
Editing: Viktorija Kamilić, Rastko Popović and Dušan Savić
Camera: Rastko Popović, Ana Stevanović and Marija Ratković
Protagonists: Viktorija Kamilić, Ana Stevanović and Marija
Ratković
Music: Nine Inch Nails - 6 Ghosts I (2008)
In this work, the author deals with pointing and praising to
the beauty of a long negligent place of Savamala. In a intimate and just about
intuitive way, she presents the viewers not the hidden, but the forgotten
examples of Serbian architecture which decorate one of the prettiest parts of
Belgrade. The hug itself does not represent
a mere comfort for a lonely Savamala district, it symbolises a true
promise that, with the participation of all fellow citizens and all those who feel
that way, Savamala will shine again.
Dušan Savić, art history student
...
7. Srđan Tunić
"La vie en
rose"
Director and producer: Srđan Tunić
Editing: Dušan Savić
Camera: Jelena
Micić
Protagonists:
Julijana Stanojević, Senka Latinović and Srđan Tunić
Music: Clara
Rockmore – La vie en rose (2006)
The past in Savamala or the past of Savamala.
We could see Srđan’s work as a reflection on the city that
changes, but stays the same. City spaces that still exist, but which lost their
original function.
Is the city going under change or just the people?
Viktorija Kamilić, art historian
…
8. Jelena
Micić
Untitled
Director and producer: Jelena Micić
Editing and camera: Jelena Micić
In the video artwork of Jelena Micić we could find an empty
billboard, in the middle of an urban jungle. The thing we are trying to
understand is what it causes. The passers-by, used to seeing a thousand of
commercials every day and react on their content overlook the white space.
Ana Stevanović and Marija Ratković, art history students
…
9. Neda
Radoičić
"Dah Savamale (The breath of Savamala)"
Directors and producers: Neda Radoičić i Slađana Dragičević
Editing: Tijana Trkulja and Nenad Billy Urošević
Camera: Neda Radoičić
Protagonists: Neda Radoičić, Slađana Dragičević, passers-by
Choosing passers-by as the protagonists of The breath of
Savamala, Neda tells us about our citizens’ knowledge of the terms: curator,
Mikser festival, Savamala, as well as what they find (not) annoying. Most of
them agreed on that the noise is disturbing and they would like to see the
place cleaned up a bit.
Asking too much?
Do we all share a little boy’s behaviour when he has a
privilege to say “no” by waving his head, when he’s displeased? Are we
childishly powerless and capable of waiting until the Savamala district becomes
one more Shopping mall where Mikser festival will be a DJ, providing “unseen
great fun”? And the curators will work at ticket-offices.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
About and around curating in Zagreb at the 31st Youth salon
About and around curating / Kustosiranje will be a guest of the 31st Youth salon in Zagreb, curated by Vladimir Čajkovac, as part of the programme Corrections (Saturday, 15 September 2012 at 7 PM).
Also, together with the colleagues from the Salon and Curatorial platform, who are organising a special programme called Practicum, we'll have a chance to visit exhibitions, Antisalon (Parallel/Salon of the Rejects) and have a deeper insight in the work of the Salon, its curators and artists.
PROGRAM: CORRECTIONS
1. Could artists rebel through institutions at all?
The central issue of this year’s Salon is the shape and purpose of the exhibition as Salon gradually came to oppose the institutionalized events and the most frequent objection to the “exhibited cross-section of two years’ creative work” is directly opposite the original ideas of rebellion of the young artists. This years’ Salon features only 20 works out of 180 submitted, but the true paradox is in the fact that a large number of those “rejected” - or in this Salon’s preferred wording, “not included”, has already been included in exhibitions of more renown. What future format of presentation will be responsible for treading new paths in art, while at the same time providing space for the affirmation of upcoming young artists, and must this platform necessarily have the format of an exhibition?
Leader: Karla Pudar
Saturday, September 15th, 7:00 p.m.
Borbála Szalai, freelance curator, BudapestÁron Fenyvesi, Trafó Gallery, BudapestAbout and around curating / Kustosiranje, Belgrade
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