BELEF 2003 Vizuelna umetnost
Visual Art

 


VISUAL ART

I am not sure as to what extent contemporary artistic production direction can be realized due to at least two reasons. On one side, the remains of the former regime inertia, isolationism, pseudo-dissidence and phantasies of one’s own exclusivity and creativity are still clearly visible, while on the other, the production is rather modest, not only materially, but more dangerously, ideologically. However, the reality principles primarily affect this segment in both its planes.

The amalgamation of these two (and some other) elements irresistibly drags the entire stage into provincialism and small-town arguing dominated by local idioms rendering any discourse on domestic stage not only obscure but uninteresting outside itself.

Democratic potential of such quibbling equals zero, thus corroborating non-conscious favouring of antiquated models in which the domination of one or several interest groups is more significant than any pluralism, production of cornucopia and tolerance as opposed to diversity or the Other.

The Fuchovian “care of oneself”, or one’s own recent production, would primarily consist of the tendency to substitute linear and hierarchical understanding of local Modernism history by different and unexpected clusters, thus shifting democratic potential intensity of domestic art/culture forward.

A belief that the local culture harbors apparent models of the 60s, 70s and 90s is just a product of such linear, substantial and passivist perception of the post-war art and culture in general. To enter a world of global culture horizontal hierarchies, in which the value of every point in the new topology is measured by the intensity of events instead of by historic merits, means making different and unexpected clusters using the fragments of some of already existing models. This implies incessant experimenting and researching, connecting unexpected loops, a work in progress, as taking care of oneself.

Jovan Cekic,
Visual Art Selector
For the Belgrade Summer Festival - BELEF

JULY 2003

Tuesday 01.07.
THE SAIL INSTALLATION, Bob MIilosevic 
river Sava

Wednesday 02.07.
Performance THE BIG SUMMMER AIRING, Goran Delic
Streets of Belgrade

Wednesday 02.07.
VIdeo installation SHAKING, Aleksandra Zdravkovic
Kalemegdan

Wednesday 02.07.
Video installation NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP, Goran Micevski
store Todor, Kney Mihajlova street

Wednesday 02.07.
PRINTS
Kalemegdan

Saturday 05.-06.07
PRINTS
Kalemegdan

Tuesday 08.-09.07
Films by Želimir Žilnik
Kalemegdan, Open Air Venue

Thursday 10.07.
Performance SPYING OUT THE SHADOWS, Gabrijel Savić
Barutana

Thursday 10.- 11.07. 21:00
NEW YORK ALTERNATIVA, Video presentation
Kalemegdan, Open Air Venue

Sunday 13.07.
Installation THE TREE, Ivana Brezovac
Kalemegdan

Sunday 13.07.
GRAPHITES
New Belgrade

Monday 14.07.
PRINTS
Kalemegdan

Tuesday 15.07. 21:00
Video installation THE PASSAGE, Anica Vučetić
Sava Centre Garden

Wednesday 16.07. 09:00
PRINTS
Kalemegdan

Wednesday16.07. 19:00
Temporary installation A MODEL OF A CHURCH, Branislav Nikolić
Kalemegdan, Zindan Gate

Wednesday 16.07. 19:30
Permanent installation THE DREAM CATCHER, Mirko Lazović
Kalemegdan

Saturday 19.07.-21.07. 21:00
CINEMA CLUB Old films
Kalemegdan

Wednesday 23.07.
Temporary installation CHAIN FIGURES, Zoran Kuzmanović
Kalemegdan

Wednesday 23.07.
PRINTS
Kalemegdan

Thursday 24.07.
Performance DEFYING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS..., Đorđe Kaurin
Kalemegdan

Friday 25.07.
PRINTS
Kalemegdan

Tuesday 29.07.
Performance THE KING AND THE QUEEN, Era Milivojević and Ana Ćetković
Kalemegdan, Open Air Venue

AUGUST 2003

Saturday 02.08. 20:00
Installation WHITE LADDERS, Predrag Miladinović
Kalemegdan

Sunday 03.08.
Installation A DRESS, Brankica Končarević
The Belgrade Window 

Saturday 03.08. 20:00
Performance BASKETBALL MATCH, Aleksandar Jestrović
Kalemegdan, KK Partizan

Monday 04.08.
Installation MANHOLES, Miloš Tomić
Prizrenska street

Wednesday 06.08. morning
Performance BREAKFAST WITH THE HEAD, Isidora Fićević
Kalemegdan

Thursday 07.08. 21:00
Performance VINCENT ON WAX, Boris Mladenović
Barutana

Monday 11.08. 21:00
VIDEO WORKS
Kalemegdan, Open Air Venue

Monday 11. 08. 21:00
Experimetal movie INDIGO OR I'M LYING
Katarina Cirilovic, Jelena Besir, Ana Djordjevic
Kalemegdan, Open Air Venue

Wednesday 13.08.
Sound installation MUSIC BOX, Andrej Pavlović
Kalemegdan, Nebojsa Tower

Thursday 14.08. 21:00
Video installation LACKY COUPLES , Maja Rakočević
Kalemegdan

Monday 18.08.
Installation THE SPACE, Irena Kelečević
Branko's Bridge, New Belgrade

Friday 22.08.
Permanent installation IN/OUT, Branislav Nikolić
New Belgrade, Merkator

Sunday 24.08. 21:00
Performance WATCHING 02, Vesna Pavlović & Vladimir Tupanjac
Kalemegdan

Monday 25.08. 21:00
Video presentation, Slobodan Šijan
Kalemegdan, Open Air Venue

Monday 25.08.
Video installation FINE TUNING OF HISTORY, Aleksandra Zdravković
Kalemegdan

Tuesday 26.08.
Installation RUBBER WRAPPINGS, Danijela Andjelković
Kalemegdan, Zindan Gate

Saturday 30.08. 20:00
Performance NOTHING BUT THE NET, Zoran Naskovski
New Belgrade, basketball court AND1.