VISUAL ARTS PROGRAMME OF THE AUTHOR FILM FESTIVAL

SUBTITLES
Igor Milovanović
November, 27th – December, 3rd, 2010.

At the time where impressive number of the world renowned visual artists started to articulate their artistic practice in the field of the contemporary cinematography as well and vice versa, links between the movies and contemporary art productions are more complex, strengthening and intertwining. That produces exciting artistic scene as almost dominant contemporary visual arts discourse in the world today.

Reacting to this practice, parallel Visual Arts Programme of the Author Film Festival, Belgrade, brings together cinematography, achievements of the Film Festival itself and contemporary visual art production at the joint platform and in a multimedia context.  In order to present visual art work with the particular art sensibility that includes active participatory role of the public, parallel Visual Arts Programme is aimed at the development of the interactive, multidisciplinary projects, encouragement of the expression of the collective and individual critical awareness and attitudes and demonstration of the cross sector collaboration.

Project “Subtitles” by Igor Milovanović is based on the recent tragic events that took the place in Belgrade. At the symbolically key locations in the city, where those tragic events took place – murders of the political and sport opponents, journalists, places of violence, demonstrated intolerance – author initiates mechanisms of the interpretation and critical thought articulations, through the projections of screen noises, that is blank fields signifying the end of the media signal or the end of the movie tapes, with subtitles from the movies, presented at the Film Festival. With an intention to activate personal initiative of every citizen who walks through the projected “movie screen”, author reacts on urgent social problems, brutality, violence, reinvestigating the level of the collective and individual responsibility as well.  

Project reminds us that for the most part collective and public memory and judgments are different from the personal memory and that experience can have lots of different forms, always in service of some particular interest. Therefore is necessary to critically reexamine the way how we remember events and how we commemorate them.

If in a society still exists a need for debates on an elementary categories of right and wrong, this project reaffirms as well elementary social value system. 

Project is supported by the Fund for an Open Society, Serbia.

Project is supported by the Cultural Center Belgrade, Children Cultural Center and French Cultural Institute, Belgrade.

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PUBLIC SIGNAL STATIONS AT THE 51. OCTOBER SALON

Programme
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Family Zone

Saturday, October 16th at 12h
1st workshop “Creative expression of emotions and feelings”

Saturday, October, 23rd at 12h
2nd workshop “Pictograms”

Saturday, October 30th at 12h
3rd workshop “Animation”

Saturday, November 6th at 12h
4th workshop “Video art”

Video material from the “Family Zone” programme

Photo material from all the programmes

Intergenerational dialogue

Sunday, October 17th at 18h
Slobodan Šijan and Dane Komljen
Moderator: Dragan Jovićević

Artist about artist

Tuesday, October 19th at 17h
Saša Rakezić, alias Aleksandar Zograf

Wednesday, October 27th at 18h
Darko Lungulov about Zoran Naskovski

Thursday, November 18th at 18h
Boban Savić Geto about Steve McQueen

PUBLIC SIGNAL STATIONS AT THE 51. OCTOBER SALON
The building of the former Military Academy, Resavska Street, 40b

The importance of the active public at the contemporary visual arts scene

The expression “active public” is nowadays flexibly used to indicate different forms of audience participation in the field of the contemporary visual art production. In this process participatory role of the audience is not understood in the context of the direct participation in the artistic production itself, but as a legitimate outcome per se, defining time, social and public dimension of the artistic works.

Transformative potential particular for the contemporary visual arts culture, alters the role of the public from the static and passive observer towards the active participant and therefore active citizen.

Organization “Anonymous said:” turns the attention to the crucial importance of the audience, with three parallel educational programmes and to different aspects of audience development through the programmes: “Family Zone”, “Intergenerational dialogue” and “Artist about Artist”.   

The concept of three programmes is placed in the “station” atmosphere, places where we stop to rest, meet “other passengers”, refresh during the journey, exploring procedures, forms and consequences of the contemporary visual art production, raising the questions on reception and humanistic insight in processes in the world and in the individual personality.

ARTIST AS AUDIENCE
Series of twelve conversations

In cooperation with Mirjana Boba Stojadinovic, «Anonymous said:»  organizes series of conversations on contemporary art production in the Cultural Center REX in the time period from April until July 2010. 

The conversations are intended to start the research of the artist-art-institution-public field in the time frame of 2000 - 2010 in Serbia, and Belgrade in particular. They serve as a case study of the state of art and its reception. These conversations will allow identification some of the crucial issues in visual art in Serbia from the previous decade in a public discourse. Through an open discussion we wish to emphasize the necessity to argue the value and meaning the individual, within the general, audience gains from the art works, but also the ways the work is conveyed in public and mis/represented. We hope these carefully prepared conversations will allow the audience to focus on the presence (or perhaps absence) of visual art in the public domain and together to come up with examples, problems, questions, concerns of the contemporary visual art production in Serbia and cultural development in general.

The choice of the artists is based upon their extensive production of provocative and thought-through works and exposure to the audience (some of the most exhibited authors on the scene), the “official” selection of authors (national “representatives” on international manifestations, state institutions, artist who have had retrospectives, etc.), artists recognized internationally, in local gallery system, as well as a selection of some not so prominent, yet just as excellent works, whose choice is based upon different criteria that are of importance to the audience (e.g. the importance of the medium, striking the ‘underground’ culture, questioning the art system). 

The project “Artist as Audience” takes upon a series of twelve conversations with the audience on the works of following artists: Saša Rakezić Zograf, comics author, journalist (21.04.2010); Nikoleta Marković, visual artist/activist (07.05.2010); Zoran Todorović, visual artist (28.05.2010); Igor Milovanović, designer (08.06.2010); Vesna Golubović, painter (22.06.2010); Miloš Tomić, visual artist designer (05.07.2010); Boris Šribar, sculptor; Mrđan Bajić, sculptor; Lana Vasiljević, visual artist/designer; Dušan Otašević, visual artist; Zoran Naskovski, visual/video artist; Dragana Ognjenović / Ana Ljubinković, artists and fashion designers. 

The second series of six conversations will take place from September until December 2010. 

The project is intended for the general audience as well as the professional public, especially students from all art academies, students of philosophy, art history, sociology, accomplished young experts from these areas, professional artists, theoreticians, critics, art historians. The conversations use common language and the topics are approached in such manner as not to give advantage to professional expression of thoughts and attitudes, though all opinions are welcome. .

Entrance is free and on our web site preparatory texts for each conversation are available in pdf format.

For more information please contact us at: artistasaudience@anonymoussaid.org or +381 11 3237 546 

Supported by the Fund for an Open Society – Serbia. 

Initiator and moderator - Mag. Boba Mirjana Stojadinović
Co-authors - Mag. Boba Mirjana Stojadinović and
„Anonymous said:“
Organization - „Anonymous said:“ , Nušićeva 12/V,
11 000 Belgrade
Project's partner: Kulturni centar REX
Visual identity and design: Verica Sokanović

LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES / LIEBE UND ANDERE VERBRECHEN
Exhibition
25. March, 2010, Vienna

Presentation of the exhibition Love and other crimes, announcing the premiere of the
Stefan Arsenijevic movie in
Gartenbaukino in Vienna.
Authors of the photographs are Biljana Ristivojcevic Bizic and Dusica Drazic.

Photos from the exhibition