Radionica/Workshop Towards Curating as a Critical Practice

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Fotografije/Photos by: Ivan Petrović, Mirjana Stojadinović, Radomir Uzelac

27 – 29. april 2011, Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine

Radionica Towards Curating as a Critical Practice
(Ka kuratorstvu kao kritičkoj praksi)

27. april
18:00 Javni intervju sa Irit Rogoff (London), razgovor vodi Branislav Dimitrijević (Beograd)

28. april
18:00 Javni intervju sa Sabinom Sabolović – WHW (Zagreb), razgovor vodi Branka Ćurčić(Novi Sad)

29. april
18:00 Predstavljanje zbirke medijskih praksi Muzeja savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, Kristian Lukić, kustos MSUV (Novi Sad)
Učesnici/e: Nikita Kadan (Kijev), Iva Kovač (Rijeka), Marko Miletić(Beograd), Noa Nahari (Prag), Gordana Nikolić (Novi Sad), Nini Palavandishvili (Tbilisi),Livia Panchu (Jaši),  Jakob Racek (Plovdiv), Marlene Rigler (Beč/Minhen), Wiebke Stadler(Skoplje) i Elena Veljanovska (Skoplje)

U okviru izložbe obeležavanja 10 godina Mangelos nagrade za mlade umetnike/ce u Srbiji, održaće se kustoska radionica “Ka kuratorstvu kao kritičkoj praksi”, koja će okupiti 12 mladih kustosa i kustoskinja iz Srbije, Hrvatske, Bugarske, Makedonije, Ukrajine, Gruzije, Češke, Rumunije i Austrije.

Kustoska radionica će se baviti kritičkim preispitivanjem polja savremene kustoske prakse i njenih diskurzivnih alternativnih strategija delovanja u širem kulturnom i društvenom polju. U okviru radionice održaće se i tri predavanja prominentnih kustosa i teoretičara umetnosti među kojima su: Irit Rogoff, teoretičarka vizuelne kulture i profesorica na Goldsmiths fakulteta Univerziteta u Londonu, Branislav Dimitrijević, kustos i predavač iz Beograda, Sabina Sabolović, kustoskinja i članica kolektiva “Što, kako i za koga” (WHW) iz Zagreba i Kristian Lukić, kustos Muzeja savremene umetnosti Vojvodine iz Novog Sada. Koncept radionice i moderiranje je povereno Branki Ćurčić, kulturnoj radnici iz Centra za nove medije_kuda.org iz Novog Sada.

Napomena:

Organizovan je prevoz iz Beograda 27. aprila, sa polaskom u 16 časova sa Kosnačićevog  venca (kod Austrijske ambasade). Broj mesta je ograničen, prijave poslati na dezorg@gmail.com, do 25. aprila.

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Workshop Towards Curating as a Critical Practice 
27th – 29th April 2011

27th April
18:00, Public interview: Irit Rogoff (London) interviewed by Branislav Dimitrijević (Belgrade)
28th April
18:00, Public interview: Sabina Sabolović – WHW (Zagreb) interviewed by Branka Ćurčić (Novi Sad)
29th April
18:00, Presentation of: Media Art Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, curator:Kristian Lukić (Novi Sad)

Participants: Eva Eggermann (Vienna), Nikita Kadan (Kiev), Iva Kovač (Rijeka), Marko Miletić (Belgrade), Noa Nahari (Prague), Gordana Nikolić (Novi Sad), Nini Palavandishvili(Tbilisi), Livia Panchu (Iasi), Jakob Racek (Plovdiv), Marlene Rigler (Vienna/Munich),Wiebke Stadler (Skopje) i Elena Veljanovska (Skopje)

A curatorial workshop Towards Curating as a Critical Practice will be held within framework of marking 10 years of Mangelos Award for young visual artists from Serbia, joining together twelve young curators from Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Ukraine, Georgia, Czech, Romania and Austria.

The workshop will address the critical reexamination of the field of contemporary curatorial practice and its discursive alternative strategies of work in wider cultural and social field. Several prominent curators and art theorists will participate in public interviews within this workshop, such as:  Irit Rogoff, visual culture theoretician, Branislav Dimitrijević, freelance curator and theoretician from Belgrade, Sabina Sabolović, curator and member of “What, How and for Whom?” collective (WHW) from Zagreb and Kristian Lukić, curator of Museum of Contemporary Art form Vojvodina in Novi Sad. Creating concept of the workshop and its moderation was entrusted to Branka Ćurčić, cultural worker of Center for New Media_kuda.org from Novi Sad.

Organizacija/Organization: DEZ ORG, Ilija & Mangelos Foundation, Remont – Independent Artistic Association and Center for New Media_kuda.org.

Podrška/Support: Erste Foundation, Foundation for Open Society, Department for Culture of Vojvodina Province, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia, City of Novi Sad

Između kada i ako / The Curious Case of Ifs and Whens

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Fotografije: Ivan Petrović, Mirjana Stojadinović, Radomir Uzelac

27. april – 12. maj 2011.
Otvaranje izložbe: 27. april 20:00, Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine

Između kada i ako
10 godina Nagrade Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos

Učesnici/e: Dušica Dražić, Siniša Ilić, Vladimir Nikolić, Ivan Petrović, Milena Putnik, Milica Ružičić, Ivana Smiljanić i Katarina Zdjelar

Kustoskinja izložbe: Radmila Joksimović

Izložbom radova dosadašnjih dobitnika nagrade „Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos“ pod nazivom „Između kada i ako“ obeležava se desetogodišnjica ove najznačajnije nagrade za mladog umetnika/umetnicu u Srbiji. Istovremeno sa otvaranjem izložbe u MSUV raspisuje se i konkurs za desetog dobitnika ili dobitnicu.

Naziv izložbe „Između kada i ako“ proizlazi kako iz samih radova umetnika na njoj zastupljenih, tako i iz okolnosti pod kojima ona nastaje. Prostor u kojem delamo jeste realan, „iskustven“. Njega čini mreža uzroka i posledica, preduslova, međuzavisnosti i pregovora. Pa ipak, on je omeđen odrednicama potencijala: „kada“ i „ako“. One pružaju samo nagoveštaj mogućnosti oslobođenja iz odnosa preduslov-posledica, odnosno nagoveštaj mogućnosti realizacije zadate „pogodbe“. U slučaju kada ta pogodba iznova i iznova izostaje ili nam izmiče, logika ove mreže postaje neuhvatljiva, pregovaranje nemoguće, a prostor u kojem delujemo nesiguran.

Radovi prikazani na izložbi prepoznaju određene elemente i momente ovog stanja nesigurnosti i neizvesnosti. Na različite načine ga beleže i istražuju njegove zakonitosti i mogućnosti akcije: od preispitivanja mogućnosti umetničke akcije i njenih dometa (Vladimir Nikolić), preko (ne)mogućnosti društvene akcije (Katarina Zdjelar), prevođenja pasivnog posmatrača u performera, performativnog odnosa prema gradu ili izmeštanja tačke posmatranja (Siniša Ilić, Dušica Dražić, Milena Putnik), do (pre)ispitivanja pozicije pojedinca u napetom odnosu između intimnosti, radikalne individualizacije, realnosti nacionalne države i sopstvenog (meso) okruženja (Milica Ružičić, Ivana Smiljanić, Ivan Petrović).

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Napomena:

Za otvarenje izložbe je organizovan je prevoz iz Beograda 27. aprila, sa polaskom u 16 časova sa Kosnačićevog  venca (kod Austrijske ambasade). Broj mesta je ograničen, prijave poslati na dezorg@gmail.com, do 25. aprila.

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7th April – 12th May 2011
Exhibition opening: 27th April at 20:00, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad

The Curious Case of Ifs and Whens
10 years of Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award for young visual artists

Participants: Dušica Dražić, Siniša Ilić, Vladimir Nikolić, Ivan Petrović, Milena Putnik, Milica Ružičić, Ivana Smiljanić i Katarina Zdjelar

Curator: Radmila Joksimović

Exhibition The Curious Case of Ifs and Whens marks the tenth anniversary of the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award, one of the most relevant awards for a young visual artist in Serbia. Participants of the exhibition are former award laureates, and the opening will be followed by announcement of this year’s open call to artists for participation.

Exhibition title The Curious Case of Ifs and Whens relates to the case in which the logic of network of the conditions, circumstances, causes and consequences of interdependence and negotiation, in space of reality in which we operate, is unpredictable, and impossible to negotiate, and thus becomes a space of uncertainty and insecurity. Works in the exhibition The Curious Case of If’s and When’s recognize and explore some of its elements, examine the potential and scope of artistic and social action and the possibility of relocation of the point of view and its consequences.

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Katalog izložbe/Exhibition catalog

http://www.mangelosnagrada.org.rs/

Towards Curating as a Critical Practice

"Of Abnormality" by Ranko Travanj, Remont Gallery, June 2010

First call for applications
Curatorial workshop: Towards Curating as a Critical Practice
27th – 28th April 2011
Novi Sad, Serbia

We are pleased to launch an open call for applications for a curatorial workshop targeted at individuals who have started a career
in contemporary art as curators, writers or critics. This workshop will be part of the 10 years of D.B. Mangelos Award program (YVAA network) and is aimed at starting a dialogue about contemporary artistic/curatorial practice in S/CEE region.

The workshop will take place in Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia on 27th and 28th April 2011 (Wednesday and Thursday) and is organized by Remont, DEZ ORG and Ilija and Mangelos Foundation.

Towards Curating as a Critical Practice

Context outline:
Is there such a practice as a critical curating and what would it assume? In today’s conditions of cultural and knowledge production and general flexibilization and professionalization of labor, it could be said that particular figure of a curator lives its expanded role as a cultural producer. Indeed, the role of a curator in contemporary production of art&culture goes way beyond mediation of art works towards the audience, since it includes variety of activities ranging from basic conceptualizing and mounting of the exhibition, to handling complex institutional network of relationships and financial logistics. Curators’ role today is expanded indeed, but that expansion also comprehends imperative to network, to improve managerial skills, to communicate and cooperate, which is pointing out a new form of professionalization in cultural field of post-fordist labor market. That position often encompasses ambivalence which is present in practice of curating as a representational, an intermediary strategy
between art world and society’s power structures/institutions. On the other hand, the curatorial practice is very much involved with theoretical reflection, with knowledge and knowledge production, and it is rich with a potentiality, as a point of access to engagement in political aspects of society. Last but not least, although loaded with different influences, what should be remembered as a bottom-line of this particular practice in the art world is curator’s responsibility towards audience and the public.

Two-days long workshop in Novi Sad will try to open space for discussion among younger generation of curators from South East Europe, by enrolling and challenging theoretically on what they observe and do in the field of contemporary curating, and on what could be done. The discussions among curators and art critics will be accompanied with lectures and conversations with renowned international and regional curators and art theorists, which will serve as a further discussion booster. The workshop aims to map wider context of contemporary curating practice and to try to imagine discursive alternative strategies to it by answering the question: Is there such a practice as a critical curating and what would it assume?

The workshop will be led by art critic Branka Ćurčić.

Branka Ćurčić is a writer, art critic and program editor in the New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad (kuda.org), since 2002. She graduated Fine Art and Theory of Art and Media (MA) in Novi Sad and Belgrade, Serbia. In the New Media Center_kuda.org, she is the editor of publishing project (kuda.read), which is focused on examining critical approaches towards new media culture, new cultural and political relations, contemporary artistic practice and the social realm. She actively participates in (co-)curating exhibitions, in organizing lectures, conferences and workshops regarding contemporary art theory and practices. She also takes part in several international research projects and her essays have been published in many magazines and publications in the region and internationally. She lives and works in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Documents to apply:
In order to apply, please email the following information in English to dezorg@gmail.com by February 1st, 2011:
- A motivation letter explaining your background, why you are interested in participating in the workshop.
- A short biography, presenting recent relevant projects, or project/s you are currently involved with.

Selection process:
Ten applications will be accepted. Applicants living/working in the S/CEE region are welcomed to apply. Primary attention will be paid to applicants’ motivation letter. All applicants will be notified of the selection results by the end of February 2011.

Workshop will be held in English language. For any additional info please write to dezorg@gmail.com.

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The State of Exception Proved to be the Rule

The State of Exception Proved to be the Rule
A video documentary of the prevention of an exhibition
by Eduard Freudmann and Jelena Radić 

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Serbia 2008, 84 min., Serbian with English subtitles
produced by DEZ.ORG and Kraja

On February 7th 2008 the opening of the exhibition entitled “Exception – Contemporary Art Scene From Prishtina” presenting artworks by Albanian artists from Kosovo in the ‘Kontekst Galerija’ Belgrade was prevented by a clerical-fascist organization, violent football hooligans and the Serbian police.
The incident was accompanied by a hysterical infamous campaign in the Serbian media and marks another milestone in the continual state of exceptions in the Serbian public space after the Milošević regime was overthrown in 2000. It became apparent in 2001 when Belgrade’s first Gay Pride Day was brutally suppressed. In both events the realization was impossible due to lack of safety. Following Boris Groys’ assumption that art differs from non-art by being under an extraordinary police protection, non-protection of the exhibition should be recognized as an attempt to invalidate the exhibition’s artworks converting them into non-art.
Along with the narration about a series of events the documentary video examines the tradition in which the incident is embedded, points out its political context, displays the media coverage, reflects its preconditions, meanings and impact and concludes that hateful reactions were being triggered by the fact that Serbian cultural racism cannot accept its stereotype of the “uncivilized Albanians” to be strongly contrasted and therefore annulled by a perfectly articulated artistic positions of Prishtina’s contemporary art scene.
Catalogue of the 49th October Salon Belgrade

Instead of particularizing and thereby historicizing an event by examining it as an isolated phenomenon, the film aims to clearly point out the political and theoretical context in which it is implanted. Therefore it connects the incidents in Kontekst Galerija with the national and international political situation, the production of public opinion by media in Serbia and a theoretical analysis and interpretation of the situation.

Watch/download full video here.

Greetings from Bucharest

Backyard residency program.

Greetings from Iasi

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