MARCH 2007

12.03. - 21.03.
Nikica Klobučar (HR) and Tomislav Šoban (HR), Green border

Short documentary movie Green border deals with unofficial border crossing near village Bric, in community Buje, on Croatian - Slovenian border. Narration of the movie is based on audio recording of situations and authors interview's with three persons who live near border. All of them have there own experience and attitudes toward illegal crossing. The young man from that area helps us to find border crossing, where the illegal transport of merchandise and people is possible. Story of the Priest gives us speculations about moral attitude of local people (inhabitants) toward illegal crossing. Police employee from border sector informs us about meaning of green border in terms of law and regulations and he talks about different ways of controlling green border crossings.

Nikica Klobučar was born 1977 in Zagreb. Graduated Philosophy and History of Art at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb

Tomislav Šoban was born 1981 in Zagreb. 2003 CEEPUS scholarship - study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. 2004 Graduated at the Graphic Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, prof. Frane Paro Class.


23.03. Friday, 8 pm
Sebastian Bodirsky, opening of the exhibition What to start from?

27.03. Tuesday, 7 pm
Talk with the artist

In "What to start from" Sebastian Bodirsky is going to present two projects he has been realizing in the public realm of Belgrade. The exhibition includes a complete guide for Belgrade's bus tickets and a presentation of Bodirsky's current work of artistic documentary video.

Sebastian Bodirsky, born 1981, studies art and film at UdK Berlin in the class of Prof. Heinz Emigholz. A big fascination for Belgrade and the yugoslavian film of the early seventies made him decide to spend half a year in this city, where he collaborates with "Škart" art group.

The exhibition is open till 03.04.

24.03. Saturday, 6 pm
Iva Nenić, Troubling Critique: Hip-Hop as a Cultural Praxis
lecture



Recent analyses of rap music/hip-hop culture carried out in the fields of culture studies/ethnomusicology impose a crucial question: does hip-hop offer and perform a substantial social critique, or is it still repeating (and deepening) prejudices and stereotypes embedded in dominant patriarchal ideology? Interpretations of 'cases' coming from the cultures other than Afro-American show that rap's original paradigm is evolving in unpredicted ways. If we understand rap's subversive potential as a non-consistent challenge to social constructs of race/class/ethnicity (to the lesser degree, gender also), then, it is vital to understand dynamic relation of local hip-hop to the field of global popular culture, and why certain matters are at stake in local cultural context. Rap/hip-hop represents a field of social struggle where certain and powerful symbols of identity are repeated, changed or contested. Douglas Kellner claims that media culture creates new identities in such a way that it "replaces nationalism, religion, family and education as sources of identity". In the case of Serbian rap, we can say that this assumption is true to a degree, as Serbian rap scene frequently narrates a particular "modern" version of national identity that derives both from the older nationalist values and popular "ghetto" urban culture. Rap musician as a modern "singer of tales" in Serbia, often uses lyrics and speech formulas to celebrate national past, but also to mock the prevailing stereotypes of local "people's culture" or cultural values of recent history. Ivan Nenić wll discuss several examples of both global and local rap in order to demonstrate different (often antagonistic) positions that characterize hip-hop culture nowadays.


31.03. Saturday, 8 pm
BobiBobi and friends present VIRGIN SUICIDE Tribute:
Exhibition / Installation

After the opening of the exhibition an evening dedicated to Virgin Suicide radio show will follow from 10 pm in the Dollar club. Music played by Bojana Petkovic.

Cultural Center Rex, Sunday, April 1st at 8 pm
Concert TARWATER (Morr Music, Berlin / GER)

From the 30th of March until the 1st of April several intimate events will be held dedicated to radio show Virgin Suicide that was broadcast for a few years on radio SKC and its author Bojan Markovic.

The exhibition / installation is organized according to the authors idea by his friends in the KONTEKST gallery. For this occasion the gallery will be open on Sunday, the 1st of April from 3 pm to 8 pm.

Virgin Suicide was one of the rare radio shows in which one could hear new tracks from the post-rock, electro-pop or neo-folk milieu.

31st of March - free entry
1st of April - tickets will be sold at the entrance of Cultural Center Rex, price 500 din