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february 2010
Project “TRANFERS” is dedicated to
activation of artistic potentials of unexpected urban spaces, to artistic production inspired by the Chinese Trade Center as well as to actual social and economical events,
gathering authors with different aesthetic sensibilities and professional vocations.
Setting up a balance to the existing models of contemporary art representation and production, the aim of this project is to create imaginative spaces allowing formation of different possible future models.
Participants of the project are the authors who recognize Chinese Trade Center as important part of our city. In their work they react to existing alienation and ambivalent feelings related to the Chinese Trade Center, creating art works that will help the regeneration of this local community.
Therefore, “TRANFERS” are set up as pilot project of the art activation of the Chinese Trade Center, where authors cover different visual art fields – concept art, design, illustration, film and architecture.
As an example on art practice presented in this symbolic building, art works necessary produce meanings and forms of the city. In this sense they can influence its further development and ask important questions – Who uses this space? What is the history of this place? What benefits can artistic projects bring to the local community?
Responding to the spatial characteristics and significance of the Chinese Trade Center, authors use their local experience, like Aleksandar Maćašev, whose work „REC > PLAY > PRINT“ relates to the set of economic questions tied to the Chinese culture at the space of few square kilometers in Manhattan, New York, where author lives and works. Authors from Kontrastudio, Niš, in their work „Made in China“, address phenomenon of the Chinese product, while Nebojša Cvetković reminds the public how multifaceted is the relation between the traditional Chinese culture motives on the one side and challenges of the contemporary art production on the other side, that is the complex issue of acceptance of the culture as a commodity, through the welcoming note given by „Maneki Neko“, well known Chinese ornament. Space experience, as the base of the overall social experience is at the bottom of the work by Stefan Arsenijević, “Chinese box”, asking questions based on space experience – what it tells us about us, investigates fixed coordinates of the spatial system and individual in it and whose work functions as unique tribute to the Chinese Trade Center. Igor Milovanović uses aesthetics of the Chinese revolution and holiday melodies from the music boxes, making a connection between the local problem with the issue of the universal need for justice, while «Chinese replica» by Verica Sokanović with original drawings of manufactured goods, usually put up for sale in the Chinese Trade Center, investigate the problem of multiplicity through an intimate selection of products and objects where she applied the original pattern, as an act of intimate liberation of multiplicity of mass made products with hand made drawings of each product.
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Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, Secretariat for Culture, Belgrade and ENJUB. |
