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11.07.2012.

COLLECTIVE DREAM THAT IS BECOMING REAL

The Third Belgrade, Belgrade

By: Bojan Krištofić

Big city suburbs in the post-socialist Balkans are deteriorated and messy which presents, along with all the flaws of unplanned urbanisation, a sort of an oasis of slower rhythm opposite to rushed and loud city centres. Where huge blocks of buildings disappear and fast motorways run over slow and muddy rivers, it is still possible to sit down and think; to do something sensible for your community and for yourself, here far away from all the noise and fanfares – to make your own nest, quite literally. Last spring, in Belgrade’s suburbs, an unusual art association used this opportunity, which city’s urban planning calls the Third Belgrade. They chose the northern bank of Danube, Pančevački path, to create their own ‘’mental and physical space for art’’ and to discover possibility of utopia in contemporary post-transition, capitalist, post-modern social context. They opened their own gallery, work and living space.

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11.07.2012.

REALITY OF WAR

Memory Module of the 52nd International Theatre Festival MESS Sarajevo, Dejan Vekić, Danilo Krstanović, Zoran Kanlić: Reality of War, Contemporary Art Gallery Java, 7th April — 21st April, 2012

By: Slađana Golijanin

Memory Module is an off-programme of International Theatre Festival MESS that has been taking place for 16 years in Sarajevo. This project presents art that symbolises occupation of capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 1992 to 1995. During the past few years, this concept has extended to war experiences taking place today, like in Egypt or Syria, with emphasis on how to read and interpret these conflicts. Most importantly, it serves as a reminder of the past in order to face it on a psychological level through reconstruction, reading and interpretation.

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29.05.2012.

ON VALUE

Jelica Radovanovic and Dejan Andelkovic: A Multimedia Project, The Gallery of Modern Art at the Pancevo Cultural Center, April 3rd – 20th, 2012.

By: Slađana Golijanin

Jelica Radovanovic and Dejan Andelkovic, an artist couple from Belgrade, have been creating and exhibiting their artwork together for over two decades.  They decided to work together when they realized that they had the same or similar ideas and that their ways of realization coincided.  In their method of creating, various media and materials are used, while the themes that intrigue these two artists remain the same at their core, with minor variances from 1991 until today.  This time period is at the same time characterized by turbulent and radical changes in social relationships, in the status of the individual in society, as well as in the role of art in society.  Above all, the themes that they deal with are based on the reexamination of the identity of the subject via Lacan’s theory of language, through the relationship between and towards “The Great Other,” and, in the past few years, on questions that are posed by neoliberalism.  The modern framework of life and work in this region, which appeared after the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, is developed by the artists from the aspect of posing questions instead of giving concrete and defined answers.  In this way, new works of art also enter the prism of former interests, and they are placed under the inspection and research of relational instances between those concepts from the social practice of the former Yugoslav States which seem to have been determined once and for all.

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