transformation04

_about project
the transformation of the space, at the end is the activity of a subject in the objective sphere of a personal expression; knowing this, the space always shows as a personal category – as a space of a personality; according to this, the transformation of the space is transformation of a personality – affirmation trough artistic practice / act; so it is possible to join many different artistic acts and gather them in to one project like this one through something else but the primary theme; even if we put all this behind it is still possible to enjoy in the simple meaning of the happening whose purpose is to put the city life in action with a hope that this kind of transformation will bring any kind of flexible events in the town.
davor džalto

this project is attempt of displacing of city life from introverting places in to open city space; people who work on this places have monopolistic opinion that particular kind of events are possible in particular kind of spaces; in open city space, events (art objects) are available to anyone; whole city population from the moment when author put object in space or perform some action is creator of the further destiny of objects, performances or any other action; in the other way, spaces built for specific purpose project tried to put into the function /gallery places / or alternative places never used in artistic purpose (shop windows, basements of galleries…) give new function;
to make object for some specific place, to organize the exhibition according to the place for the exhibiting ; finding the place which fits to the work; all this will produce a place for the happenings, ordinary life as well as artistic or any other events;
in this project participated 30 authors; they occupied 10 places- four exteriors and six interiors.

_reactions
our first idea was to start transformations in many small towns in Serbia with artistic actions like making of site specific works ( objects, installations, sculptures, performances); after the project is finished we asked ourselves: is there any sense for making similar actions in any other town? because the reactions of the public were not so good in zrenjanin; is this project finished?

< cv >
senior undergraduate at the academy of fine art in novi sad / painting

<reasons>
the national museum is closed for a long time and still we do not know when it will be open;
the museum of destruction tells us about present situation in the society;
”exhibition” in the museum of destruction is a metaphor and essence of our reality;
while reading this, somebody is destroying in some way the “museum”;

basic idea is simple: the proclamation of the pin family house in to the city museum or museum of destruction
goals> citizens should visit the house like they did 10- 20 years ago and to be witness of its devastation;
authors interventions in the form of titles, photos are his associations, thoughts and emotions related to the city or any other levels of our reality;
author thinks that destruction is major problem which gather the past and the present with new tendencies - destruction of meanings, paradox as parallel existence of human needs for meaning and passion for absurd in the same time;

the house of pin family – the museum of destruction is always in front of our eyes and it could be example of both tendencies;
beauty, knowledge, willing for lightness and darkness which destroy its and coming not from outside but from ourselves;

rain- visually – audio – phenomenon
I am interested in how the spectator is affected by the rain;
the rain is a specific and wonderful feature for me, and this work is based on trying to simulate it; the authors impressions are replaced from outside into inner space;
the rain murmur made us feeling calm and it gives tranquility; we can hear music of the raindrops; it depends on the place we are listening to the rain: we hear a different melody walking in the streets; it is a different sound coming from the roof, window, outdoor, in the country… there is also a sound line in this work; the environment is created by the strength, rhythm and thickness of the rain sound;
the pictures on the floor create a visual field: the conflict between the water and the earth I have translated into material world in the picture (material: the water, the varnish, the plaster, the sand, the putty, the colors); the pictures are round and the dimensions are different (the diameter is of 10 cm to 1 m) and thickness (2-10 cm); they are arranged on the floor in certain rhythm; the whole work is marked out by the third element – the light; a narrow beam of light simulates the rain slope; it is given a rhythm, which is connected with audio impression;

MIND * DREAM * DEATH * ESTRANGEMENT * MADNESS * FIRE * NOTHINGNESS * LINE * PAIN * LIGHT * CIRCLE * INTUITION * MACHINE * GREASE (fat) * DESERT * FORTUNE TELLER * CHILDHOOD * WHITE * FEAR * MIRROR * POWER * CONTROL * WEAKNESS * FULL STOP * BLINDNESS * SEARCH FOR GENIUS * STAINS * SMOKE * BLACK * EARTH * SENSE * FAMILY ALBUM * NOISE * COMMERCIAL (advertisings) * SPOT * BALL DRESS * COFFIN (trunk) * CUT * SLEEPER * PAN * DIGGER * DRUNK SONG * WHITE * TRACE * EMOTION * MEAT * EMBRYO * TIME * DUMB PLAY * PARALYSIS * SUBWAY * WALL * BLACK * NOSTALGIA * UNCONSCIOUSLY * BRAIN * MATHEMATICS * NATURE * MASK * CHAOS * ILLUSION * SCRIBBLING * COSMOS * LAUGHTER * RAIN * ENERGY * HARMONY * TESLA * HOPE * COLOR * NEWBORN DAY * SHADOW * JAPAN * WHITE * JOURNEY * BREAD * FRIEND * ABOUT FREE DEATH * MILK * LOVE * SCRIBBLE * SOURCE (spring , well) * BLUE * ICON * SELF-LOST * HAPPINESS * SELF-CHANGING * MOTIVE * PEACE 8 MEDITATION * RECONVALESCENT * THE MOST QUIET HOUR * BONE * PASSENGER *

in the photo installation “elevators”, milan stosic has anthologized the elements of everyday, in a topography of the city and the entire urban structure, which are compressed in a map symbol; by the light worlds of the electric bulbs in the elevators, those which are taking up and down all the burdens that one man carries with him, here and now.
a vertical plan, expressed thru the identity of light which is hiding in and behind the photography, is a mannered effort of deep inner observation and living throughout of various attempts of preserving faraway source of light and its identity, on a plan which is usually not used in map making...

<biljana bodiroga>
born in pnacevo,1979
senior undergraduate at the academy of fine art in novi sad/ print media / class of professor milan stanojev.
<contact>
biljanabodiroga@yahoo.com

<slavica danic>
born in zrenjanin, 1976.
senior undergraduate at the academy of fine art in novi sad/ print media / class of professor milan stanojev.
< contact>
slavizz@yahoo.com

< cv >
born 1957. in belgrade; lecturer of architecture and technique of scenic space on faculty of dramatic arts / university of arts, belgrade; lecturer of interdisciplinary master studies of scenic design on same university;
author of more then 30 accomplished projects mostly theatres, cultural and sports centers;
he worked ten years in theatre “atelje 212 “ as a technical director and tree years in british council as a assistant of director of the cultural centre in belgrade; he is one of the establisher and the president of the YUSTAT / centre for scenic art ant technology /

“if I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal; if I have the gift of prophecy and fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing; if I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my bogy to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing;
love is patient, love is kind; it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud; it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres;
love never fails. but where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away …”

realisation>
text spoken by gojko santic
music sasa lokner
recorded by rade vladic
screenplay and directing rajna krulj
text extracted from Hymn of Love and spoken by the actress of belgrade theatre – sonja jaukovic

author> dunja radosavljevic
video> where art thou distant fairies?
total time> 8:30 min

<contact>
RadoD111@newschool.edu

cherries - red, juice, sensual, beautiful, delicious – woman – strong, tender, subtle, cheerful, crazy; idea is to explore relations between the cherries and woman and to follow the interaction in the space; visual element is very important - red color of cherries as a symbol of love, passion, blood, aggression and white color as a symbol of pureness, meditation, exactness and spirituality... master studies– video - new york

author> elise picon
video> al mounira
total time> 11:15 min

<contact>
elise.picon@free.fr

a town in the middle east, cairo; because from here we do not get the same picture as from france; because, here I am just an occidental woman, therefore I found my refuge with my camera on the balcony of an apartments building; here I expose my intimacy, my neighborhood, the scenes of the everyday life so banal and picturesque at a time; every day my fictive personages observe at the window the street theatre; un odd meeting or non-meeting for I fear to affront ones look, other annoyance; I spy passionately those who see so well what I film from the fourth floor; is it the voyeurism or simply the reflection of my situation? are the looks going to cross? I leave the time flow in the sound of the car horns, the winter light irradiates the faces, a woman waiting… what else… nothing special, people live beneath my window...

authors>irena pivka > brane zorman
video> cona C / zone C
total time> 9:58 min

<contact>
brane.zorman@guest.arnes.si
irena.pivka@guest.arnes.si

the audio-visual situation called (Cona C) zone C explores migration processes through various aspects. it follows an individual who has left his/her domestic ground, friends, culture - the homeland territory - behind. the project focuses on the phenomenon of the border as a geo-political crossing line, which acts as a membrane, as a two-directional filter.
it appears as a border defining the power of one territory against the other, affecting the immigrant's position according to order and laws imposed by the state on either side. it is a game with different rules for different people.
borders, fences, walls. Some preventing from exiting, others prohibiting entering. the iron curtain, schengen. the chinese wall, the berlin wall, west - israeli wall… this enormous snake (8 m high, 40 m wide, and 650 km long) is supposed to divide palestinian west bank from israel and prevent suicidal bombing attacks …
how does a wall come into existence? by a mental barrier transforming into a material one! a wall that grows in people's minds materialises on Earth. An owner's wall, a defence wall, a border wall, a racial wall, a wall of prejudices and mistrust…

author> mario fijatovic
video> trambolina 03/2
total time> 0:59 min

< cv >
born 1979 in vrsac; senior undergraduate on academy of fine art in novi sad. several group exhibitions. the first video project was created in 2001.
he participated at festivals of video and digital media in novi sad and belgrade throughout 2002.

<contact>
mfijatovic@hemo.net

both works are more practices than completed video projects. the first version of tramb03/1 is an installation of VHS TV inserts. there are some changes in the computer version. tramb 03/2 is a computer version. these versions are soundless

author> davor džalto
video> creating
total time> 9:56 min

< cv >
born 1980 in travnik; graduated history of art in belgrade; now on master studies on same university and also on doctoral studies in frajburg;

<contact>
ddzalto@yahoo.com
davordzalto@yahoo.com

video works “from a mask to a personality” and “the creation of a masterpiece, of a personality, the history of art” are dealt with the meaning and the status of a personality (and with both the author and the audience)
in the past the personality was hidden behind a mask and this problem is explored here.
the mask is the main subject of the changeable and fashionable character and so both the personality and the creation don’t have an important role. the personality is created by the mask–personality, to be carried with a specific aim to hide or completely erase a coherent, dynamic, ecstatic identity.

author> VIA.NEGATIVA-performance research project

<contact>
www.vntheatre.com

via negativa is a method of reduction. the starting point of each year's research is one of the
seven deadly sins. the task for the performer in VN process is to investigate and perform a personal relation to the sin. VN presents its work annually with a theatre performance. in the eighth year, the research will be concluded by the performance of VIA NOVA, which will integrate the material from the past seven years. by giving workshops VN develops its working method and expands its international research network.
STARTING POINT> ANGER sets itself into different contexts of visual arts. seven performers perform six scenes. each scene is a 15-minute statement on the personal drive of anger. the six performances run simultaneously and are repeated six times. those in the audience can follow each performance from the beginning to the end and therefore, like touring the gallery exhibition, formulate their own dramatic sequence of viewing the scenes. after the sixth repetition the performers exchange their roles and perform the copies.

authors> tatjana milosevic > nevena stanimirovic
animation> the pirouette

< cv >
nevena stanimirovic
master studies of digital media / university in belgrade
e-mail. nevena.s@sezampro.yu

tatjana milosevic
master studies of scenic design / university in belgrade
e–mail. mandicd@eunet.yu

a specific spot for a bench repeats a sight and points out the distance, view, perception, sensation and relations with human being, benches, nature, town.
readers, lovers, homeless are arrayed sideways to the bench lines.
the change of the point of view: a bench is replaced to a place usually empty which represents a passage, departure, senseless – it becomes the center of its previous restriction.
it is created an early non-existed hierarchy a new possibility, a new choice of point of view, e new way and new feelings.
one is demanded a certain decision to sit on it and also is demanded an agreement to get out of line and get into the focus and look through a new focus. this bench is on the way to a passerby and it isn’t exposed to his view.