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.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
About and around curating #32: Donald Russell
Wednesday
10th December 2014 at 18h, Artisphere (artist in residence
gallery), Arlington, VA, USA
Tea
talk & About and around curating #32
Tea
talk is part of an accompanying program of LIVE/LIFE
exhibition which explores the life cycle of silk bugs through art.
The artist Elsabe Dixon is organizing every month from October 2014
till February 2015 series of Tea talks – conversations with
audience and professionals from different fields such as art,
ecology, agronomy, etc. The goal of these talks is to understand the
exhibition as a space of encounters and merging practices, as well as
possibilities to network perspectives.
Moderator:
Elsabe Dixon, visual artist, professor at George Mason University.
Participants:
Donald Russell, Karmen Wong,
Sue Wrbican, Bill Mitchell and Srđan Tunić.
Guest:
Donald Russell
Photographer,
founder of Provisions library and university curator at George Mason
University.
Foto: Elsabe Dixon and Srdjan Tunic.
Provisions
investigates the relationship between art and social change through
research, production, and education. From its library home in George
Mason University’s School of Art in Fairfax, Virginia and at sites
throughout the District, Provisions produces and supports
projects in the US Capitol Region and across the globe.
Provisions’
art and culture research explores models for a more inclusive,
equitable, and connected society.
Provisions
partners with organizations, individuals, and institutions to develop
and amplify contemporary narratives across cultures, support
grassroots modes of action, and provide open access to knowledge and
understanding of social change in its artistic and creative
dimensions. The library, public programming, and research
opportunities host artistic, intellectual, and activist endeavors
that explore the educational and social promise of contemporary
culture.
Local,
national, and international projects include exhibitions, public art,
residencies, screenings, workshops, lectures, and publications.
Participants include artists, activists, academics, students,
professionals from a variety of disciplines, and everyday people.
About and around curating / Kustosiranje
is an educational and a research programme
which deals with curatorial practice, the technologies
of preparation and realisation of independent exhibition projects,
education and support to proactive attitude of young and future art
curator. The target groups are final-year(s)
students and graduates of Arts universities (art history, visual and
applied arts, architecture, dramatic arts, etc), professionals from
the fields of arts and culture (curators, artists, managers and
entrepreneurs).
Project authors: Andrej Bereta and Srđan
Tunić, curators, art historians
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Lithuania: Conference at Faculty of humanities in Kaunas, students' lectures and workshops
By call from professor Dr. Raminta Pučėtaitė, from Faculty of humanities in Kaunas, University of Vilnius (Lithuania), About and around curating was presented at the international scientific conference Creative urban development: Culture, Business, Community, with a topic Curating environment with dedicated creative force.
Day later, a short two-day version of our course (lectures and workshops) was held for students of Art management at the same faculty.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Festival DJART '14, 6th-15th November 2014 in Algiers
Dear followers,
We are proudly announcing multimedia festival DJART '14 which will take place in Algiers from 6th till 15th November.
Our
Civil association ARTIKAL and About and around curating project are
part of the organization, coordination and artistic program, as well of
the Trans-Cultural Dialogues team. Press: https://www.mediafire.com/?x7bdf27z9hb98zw
...
DJART '14
Algiers, 6th-15th November
Trans-Cultural
Dialogues is a platform composed by a group of young professionals
from different cultural and artistic Euro-Mediterranean associations.
This platform aims on examining various contemporary social issues
through a multidisciplinary cultural approach to offer solutions and
new sustainable models for mobility and exchange between cultural and
artistic actors, and researchers in the Euro-Mediterranean area.
To
serve this purpose, Trans-Cultural Dialogues is organizing a regional
project with local importance taking the shape of a multidisciplinary
cultural Biennale to be held in different Euro-Mediterranean cities.
This year, and to welcome the first edition of this initiative, the
city of Algiers was unanimously chosen given its rich history,
cultural diversity and its place in the Mediterranean area. This
first edition was titled: DJART (a contraction of the words Djazaïr
and Art, a combination that sounds "Jar" meaning neighbor
in Arabic).
DJART
'14 encourages the democratization of culture and promotes art as a
way to share knowledge, discourse and various practices. DJART '14
program was designed following a research path in Algiers by TCD
team, meeting the needs and expectations of the public regarding the
artistic and cultural initiatives. DJART '14 aims to bring art
(often forgotten, disparage or put into the background) to the
Algerian public by making it accessible, affordable and appealing to
the audience. DJART also aims to raise public awareness among
Algerians on themes that concern them as: identity, citizenship,
North African and Mediterranean dimensions of Algeria or exchange and
mobility among artists.
It
is envisioned through participatory methods in the hope of creating
social impact in an optical consistency and sustainability by
integrating activities that are open to general public with the "Do
It together" spirit, home-made or recycled creations and low to
zero-budget productions.
DJART
also encourages the public to reclaim urban spaces that have been
left behind and long abandoned by giving them a new meaning and an
alternative use while exploring their historical memory and
considering their current state. In this perspective, a multifaceted
approach is emerging combining visual arts, architecture,
performances, and research that will lead to creative workshops,
discussions, exhibitions, happenings and various artistic events.
The
DJART '14 program offers various activities:
- Walid
Bouchouchi - graphic artist will lead a workshop on the diversion of
images providing the opportunity for participants to express
themselves through stickers, they will paste around the streets of
Algiers. Walid, who’s also the creator of AKAKIR collective and concept from Algiers, will set
his visual creations in an outdoor exhibition squatting various
stairwells and buses inside the city.
- eL Seed, French-Tunisian calli-graffiti
virtuoso whose frescoes adorn the walls of many countries, will meet
and exchange with his young local peers and leave a trace of color in
the main street of the city center.
- Architect Salim Lamari, from Algeria, will
conduct an open to public workshop to redesign the Ben-Boulaid square
creating street furniture using recycled materials.
- Algerian photographer
Youcef Krache proposes a series of portraits of Algerian women to be
screened in a place in which many Algerians pass by every day.
- Also
in the series of exhibitions programmed, Tunisian artist Nicene
Kossentini through her urban sound installation that lets testify
five Algerians on their daily life, will guide the audience on a
journey through monuments and museums which lately lost attention
from the public.
- The program also includes discussions on art in
public space and artistic mobility bringing together artists and
cultural actors from different nations and backgrounds, such as:
curator and art critic Nadira Laggoune-Aklouche (Algeria), independent curator Yasmina Reggad (a.r.i.a. - artist residency in Algiers), artist Mohamed ben
Soltan (BAC center, Tunis), writer and performer
Mustapha Benfodil (Algeria), visual artist Annalisa Cannito (Teatro Valle Occupato, Italy),
art historian and curator Xavier de Luca (Spain/Tunis), visual artists and performer Souad
Douidi (Algeria), curator Djalila Kadi-Hanifi
(Algeria), Karim Ouaras Mostaganem university professor, CEMA, Algiers), Camille de Witt (Trans-Europe
Halles, Sweden/France) and Lorena Cosimi (Teatro Valle Occupato, Italy).
These will be joined and coordinated by a multitude of
international organizations and associations such as the
Teatro Valle Occupato (Italy), JISER Reflection Mediterrànies
(Spain), Algerian association Chrysalisde and Mains d'Oeuvres from
France (part of Trans Europe Halles network).
Following the traditions of festivals, music
& celebrations won’t be missing in DART ’14. Two open to the
public concerts are scheduled with the group Yacine Belhacene &
The Oriental Groove (Barcelona), Oranian new generation of reggae-rock band Democratoz, storyteller Faycal
Belattar who will perform with oud musician Labib Benslama (Algiers), and musician
Hamza El Fasiki (Fez, Maroko), as part of the celebration of first Cultural
Innovation Day (Cultural Innovators Network).
DJART
'14 has more surprises still to discover from 6th to 15th November 2014.
For more info visit:
Trans-Cultural Dialogues is a platform and project developed with great support of Cultural Innovators Network and Mediterranean Goethe Institutes in 2012. The team consists of partner organizations and freelance professionals: Khaled Bouzidi (TEDxCasbah, Algiers), Xavier de Luca (JISER Reflection Mediterrànies,
Barcelona/Tunis), Srđan Tunić (Civil association ARTIKAL, Belgrade), Annalisa Cannito (Teatro Valle Occupato, Roma), Khaoula
Bessame (Algiers), Hichem Merouche (Annaba), Slavica Ilieska
(Skopje-Amsterdam), Sonja A. Linke
(Berlin), Chrysanthi Koumianaki (3 137, Athens), Victor de las Heras
(Generación Espontánea, Madrid), Bouchra Saab (Beirut), Malik
Chaoui (SAYKA, Constantine), Nassim
Hadj-benali (Algiers) i Myriam Amroun (Algiers).
Support and cooperation: Andrej Bereta (Civil association ARTIKAL, Beograd),
Muhamed Ben Soltane (BAC center, Tunis), Anass Heddan
(Morocco-Belgium), Nesrine Merzougui (TEDxCasbah, Algiers),
Ghanes
Mohamed Walid (Algiers-Paris), CIN radio, and organizations Chrysalisde (Algiers), A.R.I.A. (Algiers) i AIESEC Benak
(Algiers).
Financial support and sponsors: Goethe Institut (Alexandria i Rabat), Cultural Innovators
Network, North-South Center / European Commission, AnnaLindh fondation, Instituto Cervantes in Algiers, Mairie d'Alger centre, Air
Algerie, Avenir Déco, LVSC Méditerranée, Arts Collaboratory,
Stichting DOEN, Hivos, Ministere de la culture de Algeria, Embassy of Netherlands in Algiers, Embassy of USA in Algiers, ONDA, Agence
Algérienne pour la Rayonnement Culturel, ETUSA, IFAlgérie, European
Institute of the Mediterranean.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Do you know what we were doing this summer?
If you were somewhere in the Balkans this summer, we'd agree that it was... pretty unsummer-ish, to say it mildly.
We hope that you you managed to take some creative rest and that you're ready for autumn's challenges. We are, as always.
This is what we have been doing, chronologically:
After almost two years of work, as co-organizers, we are announcing an art festival in Algiers, as part of biennial DJART.
Afterwards, we will take part in conference in Kaunas (Lithuania) and a short edition of our academic course for students of Department of Art management of Kaunas faculty of Humanities, by call from Prof. Dr Raminta Pučėtaitė.
And yes - new challenges are on the way :)
Andrej and Srđan
We hope that you you managed to take some creative rest and that you're ready for autumn's challenges. We are, as always.
This is what we have been doing, chronologically:
- We were part of the organizational team of Mangelos 2014. award (Young Visual Artists Award in Serbia) together with Independent artistic association REMONT and had a lot of activities to prepare for this and for next year too. Most of it wasn't so visible, but here are the actions that were...
- About and around curating #28 was focused towards the Mangelos award itself as means to support the contemporary art in Serbia, from it's very start till nowadays (guests Branislav Dimitrijević and Maja Ćirić, Belgrade Youth center).
- About and around curating #29 was dedicated to Dimitrije Bašičević (and) Mangelos (guests Jerko Denegri and Ivana Bašičević-Antić, Legat Čolaković).
- Afterwards, we had Boba Mirjana Stojadinović as a guest and used the opportunity to talk about her project Artist as audience (Umetnik kao publika) in Kraljevića Marka 8 gallery space, About and around curating #30.
- We had a lecture for art history students at Novi Sad's Academy of art, by call from docent Dr Dijana Metlić.
- As members of CIN (Cultural Innovators Network, Goethe Institut network in the Mediterranean) we were in Berlin.
- We had a cooperation with Visual artists association Tač.ka (Prijedor, B&H) in preparing and organizing 7th Ars Kozara art in nature laboratory.
- About and around curating #31 was dedicated to this year's Ars Kozara: art in nature laboratory in The museum of contemporary art of Republika Srpska in Banja Luka (MSURS).
After almost two years of work, as co-organizers, we are announcing an art festival in Algiers, as part of biennial DJART.
Afterwards, we will take part in conference in Kaunas (Lithuania) and a short edition of our academic course for students of Department of Art management of Kaunas faculty of Humanities, by call from Prof. Dr Raminta Pučėtaitė.
And yes - new challenges are on the way :)
Andrej and Srđan
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