Vesna Pavlovic
Vesna Pavlovic was born in 1970. She graduated
from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Film and Television Camera
Department. Vesna Pavlovic has been working in the field of photography
since 1990. So far she has exhibited her work at the fifteen solo
and numerous joint exhibitions in the country and abroad.Vesna
Pavlovic participated in several photo and video projects such
as: The Sorrow, The Winter Diary, L’Origine du Monde, White Light/White
Hit and Zombietown. She works for the German newspaper Die Zeit.
Vesna Pavlovic was awarded at the 40 October Salon in Belgrade
in 2001 for the series of photography: Herzlich Willkommen im
Hotel Hyatt Belgrad, April 1999.
Vladimir Tupanjac
Vladimir Tupanjac was born in 1974. He is the
arts critic and arts historian form Belgrade. He is at his final
year of the History of Art studies at the Faculty of Philosophy
in Belgrade. Vladimir Tupanjac published his critic reviews in
various catalogues and magazines in the country and abroad. In
the period of 1999-2001 he worked as an Associate of the Center
for Contemporary Arts in Belgrade. He also was the editor of the
magazine 3 + 4, and of the web site of the Cultural Center Rex,
related to arts and was one of the authors of the project “Young
Yugoslav Artists 2000”.
Thank's to
KK Partizan, Vladimir Sibinovic, Vlade Divac, Djordjije Stajkic,
Vladan Obradovic, Nikola Mladenovic, Casey Smith, the Playball
magazine.
Performance Watching 02
Project Watching is based on series
of black and white photos taken during the process of watching
basketball matches in characteristic situations starting from
the TV live broadcast in public and private environs to watching
the game at the spot, in the sports hall where the match is actually
taking place.
The project has been happening in the period
2002 – 2005 in four phases through which the authors – Vesna Pavlovic
(photos) and Vladimir Tupanjac (narrative) are trying to present
several cultural aspects of a sports event phenomenon, such as
relations between the audience and the event, between the local
and global, the recognition of the identity of the community,
personal and collective identification etc.
In the second phase of the project (Watching
02) the photos of the audience watching the Partizan Basketball
Club game are taken in the Pionir sports hall in Belgrade. The
intention of the authors is to show through the series of photos
and the narrative the differences in the ways of consuming the
sports events and to draw attention to the context or importance
of such an event of the specific intensity in a contemporary society.
Scenes of observers of the game are taken in
the sports arena, their attention this time not limited by the
media intermediaries; they form a constitutive part of the spectacle,
they are included in its structure, not just in a sense of social
relations, but as a forming element of the audio and visual content
of the event itself.
