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From: "Branko Dimitrijevic" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:15:13 +0200 Reply-to: [email protected] Subject: [konverzacije] KONVERZACIJA (a short-notice show) = info1 Dear Friends, Museum of Contemporary Art and Centre for Contemporary Art (Belgrade) would like to invite you to the re-opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade on October 20 with the exhibition: KONVERZACIJA (A Short-Notice Show) The project. The project KONVERZACIJA is conceived as an opening exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade under its new management. During the 90s this Museum represented a cultural mirror-image of the official war-mongering policy of the Serbian regime. KONVERZACIJA - the first big international show of contemporary art in Belgrade in the last two decades - mark an attempt to alter the institutional treatment of contemporary art in Serbia. The project is conceived as a joint project of the Museum and Centre for Contemporary Arts - Belgrade. The show aims at establishing, re-establishing and confirming communication among artists and curators in Serbia, in the region, and internationally. For this first show of the Museum we are inviting local artists who have not had any opportunity to exhibit in a "main-stream" art space during the last ten years, as well as those distinguished international artists with whom we have been in a certain form of conversation (professional collaboration, personal meetings, correspondence) throughout the last ten years that have been marked by war, trauma, isolation and break of even basic communication. The subtitle 2A Short-Notice Show2 describes the situation we have, as curators, found ourselves in. Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade is dedicated to be open to projects that will avoid the usual slowness and insipidness of institutions of this kind. We feel that it is important for the local scene to re-open the Museum with the international show in which participants will be artists who take an active role in establishing new links within international art networks, and take a critical attitude towards the status of these networks. The opening of the exhibition is scheduled for October 20, commemorating the day when in 1944 Tito's Partisans along with the Red Army liberated Belgrade from the Nazi occupation and its quisling government. Why KONVERZACIJA? In many of its meanings, the term conversation is first of all taken to denote an informal interchange of thoughts, and to signal the ability to open that interchange within an isolationist environment. Conversation will take place in many different aspects during preparing, mounting and interpreting this show. Given that to converse implies a verbal act, it cannot be literally taken as the theme of the show. However, most of the invited artists employ forms of conversation in juxtaposing sometimes opposed lines of thoughts and discourses. It is our intention to present social and personal implications of this talk with others. The Latin word conversare means to turn constantly, which is precisely the aspect of contemporary art we want to put forward: an ability to turn positions through mutual interchange of ideas and actions. Finally, another origin of the word was also important to confirm the title of this show: conversari in Latin means to keep company with. This exhibition is an homage to, sometimes aborted, cooperation during the traumatic period we tend to exit but not to forget, the period we tend to analyse by not being brought into line with fixed "solutions". The space. The exhibition will be held in the modernist building of the Museum near the bank of the river Sava across the Kalemegdan fortress. The internal space is organised as an open plan exhibition space at various levels interconnected by a central staircase, with no corridors or dividing walls. The continuity of the space allows views over the different levels from the ground floor to the topmost gallery. The building represents an example of eminently modern architecture of the late 1950s/early 1960s The catalogue. The show will be accompanied by a catalogue planned to be ready for the opening. The catalogue will consist of short introductory texts and artists' pages with illustrations, short CVs and artists' statements. List of participating artists: AES, Dejan An�elkovi� & Jelica Radovanovi�, Huseyin Bahri Alptekin, Breda Beban, Luchezar Boyadziev, Phil Collins, Mirjana Djor�evi�, Biljana Djurdjevi�, Uro? Djuri�, Tomo Savi� Gecan, Dejan Grba, Kendell Geers, Roza el Hassan, Aleksandar Ili�, Zdravko Joksimovi�, Dragan Jovanovi�, Dejan Kaludjerovi�, Ivana Keser, Miodrag Krkobabi�, Zsolt Kovacs, Marko Kova�i�, Yuri Leiderman, Aleksandar Ma�a?ev, Nikoleta Markovi�, Goranka Mati�, Era Milivojevi�, Mihael Milunovi�, Oliver Musovik, Zoran Naskovski, Vladimir Nikoli�, Vesna Pavlovi�, Dan Perjovschi, Marjetica Potr�, Anri Sala, Jayce Salloum, Neboj?a �eric �oba, �kart, Balint Szombathy, Nata?a Teofilovi�, Zoran Todorovi�, Ra?a Todosijevi�, Milica Tomi�, Marija Vauda, Vera Ve�anski, Dragana �arevac. Project by: Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Centre for Contemporary Art - Belgrade Curatorial team. Branislava Andjelkovi�, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Branislav Dimitrijevi�, Centre for Contemporary Art - Belgrade Dejan Sretenovi�, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Usce Save bb. 11070 Novi Beograd Serbia October 20 - December 2, 2001 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list [email protected] http://extra.waag.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://extra.waag.org/pipermail/nettime-ro