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22.12.2011.

To love your country, there is no need for advertising?!

Patriotic Supermarket, directed by Dino Mustafić, a Kulturanova Association (Novi Sad), Multimedia Centre (Prishtina) and Bitef Theatre (Belgrade) co-production

By: Vanja Nikolić

We will understand each other! We are talking! are the sentences that are being cried out, just like slogans, at the end of Patriotic Supermarket. Bearing in mind the play premiered during another round of important, but unsuccessful negotiations between Belgrade and Prishtina, Serbia and Kosovo, Serbian politicians and the European Union, it is obvious the meaning of these words comes across as extremely ironic. The only ones who are not talking to each other on a global level are the Albanians and the Serbs, constantly finding themselves in the crossfire.

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30.11.2011.

ON AUDIENCE MANIPULATION THROUGH EVERYDAY IMAGES

Lecture: Zoran Todorović’s Moving Images, Filmforum, Student’s Culture Centre (SKC), Belgrade, October 18, 2011

By: Ana Bogdanović

The relationship between contemporary art and its audience, if we exclude experts and a small circle of true connoisseurs, is a problematic field of interaction which often creates great misunderstandings. On the one hand, art knows that pursuing the self-referential path means abandoning various levels of accessibility regarding its broader audience. On the other hand, the public is often impatient, disinterested and not very keen to take on an artistic challenge without prejudice. One of the authors that addresses the audience directly, trying to bridge the gap between art and the world around us through provocation, is the Belgrade artist Zoran Todorović (1965). Presentation of his video works as part of the Student Culture Centre Filmforum programme in late October at the SKC’s Little Hall, was another opportunity to delve into the issue of the reception of Todorović’s work in his homeland. His opus is begrudgingly commented on and causes crude and negative response based on complete misunderstanding of his artistic endeavour.

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25.11.2011.

INTERVIEW WITH JASNA ŠAMIĆ

Razgovarao : Jovan Nikolaidis

J.N.: Proučavala si mnoge oblasti,  orijentalistiku, posebno za mistiku , to jest sufizam – na tome si i doktorirala na Sorboni u Parizu- , zanimala si se za književnost, za muziku,  film i pozorište…

J.Š.: Sve to  je prvenstveno rezultat moje  radoznalosti.  Postoji jedan izraz kod « nas » za to : « svestran» , « svestrana » ; on je krajnje pežorativan, a i za mene je takav.  U francuskom postoji sličan, « touche-à-tout » , označava onoga koji se dotakne raznih područja. Ne zaboravimo da su ta područja još  uvijek za « stručnjake »  ostala feudi u koje drugi nemaju pravo da zaviruju. Ti drugi  koji se « petljaju » u tuđe posjede, domene,  područja,  profesije,   važe za uljeze i nepoželjni su. Mislim da mene prati takva sudbina, iako ja tvrdim neprestano da je ono čime se bavim od djetinjstva u stvari vrlo usko povezano. A od djetinjstva sam učila strane jezike, pa tako i strane književnosti , pohađala muzičku, klavir,  zanimala se za  teatar…  Izabrala sam studij orijentalistike i tu otkrila  mistiku/sufizam, koji je najbliži mom shvatanju života. Nosilac « sufijskih ideja » i « sufijske filozofije » je prvenstveno poezija, koja me je oduvijek zanimala.

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12.11.2011.

First Art Reviews and Supplement no. 1

Criticize This! project, dedicated to afirmation of the significance of contemporary art and importance of its critical observation in the process od development a democratic and open society, presents through the portals of the organizers and in a form of a supplement in newspapers Novosti, Danas and Pobjeda, the first art reviews by young critics produced under the supervision of well experianced and renowed art critics from the region.

Six selected art reviews in the fields of literature and performing and visual arts, will be published as the first edition of supplement in weekly Novosti in Croatia and daily newspapers Danas in Serbia and Pobjeda in Montenegro.

Other 16 art reviews will be published on portals of the organizers of the Criticize This! project – Booksa.hr, Elektrobeton.net, Kulturpunkt.hr, Plima.org i SEEcult.org), as well as on this web site.

Selected art reviews will be published in portal Eurozine.com, too.

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