NOVEMBER


20.11. 7 pm
Projection of the film "5 Factories-Worker Control in Venezuela" (by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler) + discussion on the topic of workers' struggle in Jugoremedija factory (Zrenjanin)
Participants: Nina Hoechtl, Vladan Jeremić and Ivan Zlatić
Moderator: Marko Miletić



In their second film regarding political and social change in Venezuela, after "Venezuela from Below" (67 min., 2004), Azzellini and Ressler focus on the industrial sector in "5 Factories-Worker Control in Venezuela" (81 min., 2006). The changes in Venezuela's productive sphere are demonstrated with five large companies in various regions: a textile company, aluminum works, a tomato factory, a cocoa factory, and a paper factory. In all, the workers are struggling for different forms of co- or self-management supported by credits from the government. "The assembly is basically governing the company", says Rigoberto López from the textile factory "Textileros del Táchira" in front of steaming tubs. And coning machine operator Carmen Ortiz summarizes the experience as follows: "Working collectively is much better than working for another-working for another is like being a slave to that other".

The protagonists portrayed at the five production locations present insights into ways of alternative organizing and models of workers' control. Mechanisms and difficulties of self-organization are explained as well as the production processes. The portrayal of machine processes could be seen as a metaphor for the dream machine of the "Bolivarian process", and the hopes and desires it inspires among the workers. The situation in the five factories varies, but they share the common search for better models of production and life. This not only means concrete improvements for the workers. Aury Arocha, laboratory analyst at the ketchup factory "Tomates Guárico", emphasizes that the difference between "social production companies" (EPS) and capitalist corporations is that the EPS "work for the community and society". Carlos Lanz, president of the second largest aluminum factory in Venezuela, Alcasa, coins the key question: "How does a company push toward socialism within a capitalist framework?"
The film ends with an extended sequence from a management meeting at Alcasa, a company with 2.700 workers, with discussions about co-management and the changes of production relations they aspire towards.

The film will be introduced by Nina Hoechtl, an artist from Vienna who is at the moment in Belgrade on the artist residency program "AIR 08" organized by Rotor from Graz (Austria) and Kontekst gallery. During the stay in Serbia she will make a research about workers struggle in the factory Jugoremedija in Zrenjanin, and about workers' temporary control of the factory. In her project proposal for the residency in Belgrade Nina Hoechtl was referring to "5 Factories -Worker Control in Venezuela" by Azzellini and Ressler discussing the possible models of workers control that she wants to research on the example of Jugoremedija factory. Jugoremedija is a Serbian pharmaceutical factory, from Zrenjanin, that was privatized in 2000, in such a way that 58% of the shares were given to the workers, and the state took 42%. In 2002, the state sold it's shares to Jovica Stefanovic, an infamous local capitalist, who made his fortune smuggling cigarettes, and who was wanted by Interpol at the time he bought the shares of "Jugoremedija". As all the other buyers in Serbian privatization, Stefanovic was not even investigated in money laundering, because the Serbian Government's position at that time was, and still is, that it's better to have dirty money in privatization, than to let workers manage the company, because that will "bring us back to the dark days of self-management"...

After the screening Nina Hoechtl, Vladan Jeremic (Biro za kulturu i komunikaciju) and
Ivan Zlatić (Freedom Fight) will open a discussion on the issue of workers struggle in Jugoremedija factory.

http://freedomfight.net/cms/index.php?page=jugoremedija-fabrika-lekova-ad-zrenjanin---lek-za-srbiju

http://www.ninahoechtl.org/

http://www.ressler.at/content/view/93/lang,en_GB


12.11. Wednesday at 7 pm
Lana Zdravković, On Her Pleasure: Naked Reading of Lacan~
Author: Lana Zdravković, Institut za umetničku produkciju i istraživanje Kitch, Ljubljana
www.kitch.si



Video was made in co-production of the Institute of Art Production and Research Kitch Ljubljana (www.kitch.org), festival City of Women Ljubljana (www.cityofwomen.org) and Multimedia - Performing Art Centre Skopje (www.multimedia.org.mk).

Video was presented on March 8th 2007 within the festival Red Dawns in Ljubljana(http://www.kudmreza.org/rdece/2007/ENGLISH/index.html) and on September 8th 2007 within the festival of women art Pitchwise in Sarajevo (http://pitchwise.fondacijacure.org).

Exhibition is open till 19.11.


OCTOBER


24.10. Friday, 8 pm
Commonplaces of Transition
A screening and talk by Joanne Richardson
Organized in collaboration with Biro for Culture and Communication



Joanne Richardson will present the collaborative video project Commonplaces of Transition and discuss some of the issues raised by the project, focusing on the 1989 revolution and post-communist "transition" in Romania and on the difference between political art and making art politically. The presentation will include a screening in full of In Transit and excerpts from Two or Three Things about Activism.

Commonplaces of Transition is a collaborative video project by D Media (Romania), in collaboration with Ak-Kraak (Germany), Interspace (Bulgaria) and K:SAK (Moldova). The aim of the project is to open up a critical dialogue about the shape of transition and other alternatives than simply "catching up" with the global market. The project has produced 8 videos on themes including the remapping of borders and identities, the transformation of labour and the evolution of activism.

In Transit (30 min, 2008) is a diary of a journey through space and time, composed of subjective impressions of the present and childhood memories of the past. While traveling across Romania in the year of its EU accession, the narrative reflects on the meaning of transition, the re-writing of history and the relation between images and memory.

Two or Three Things about Activism (73 min, 2008) is a counter-documentary based on a distinction once made by Godard between making a political film (a film about a political struggle) and making film politically. While 13 protagonists, from anarchist groups and environmentalists to NGOS, discuss activism in Romania and its historical context, the filmmaker reflects on her own motivations.

The talk will focus on aesthetics and politics, on strategies of counter-documentary and on what Godard meant by "making film politically," which has important implications for activist art. Making film politically means questioning the dominant forms of producing images and sounds, but also those of the "opposition." Today much activist art has become propaganda in reverse, a cheerleader for social movements that is devoid of self-reflection. The videos in the Commonplaces project attempt to find different forms of expression where art and resistance can meet, forms that question the automatisms that have become part of activism itself.

Joanne Richardson is living and working in Cluj (Romania) as a theorist, artist and program director of D Media (www.dmedia.ro). She is the editor of Subsol (subsol.c3.hu), a webzine on activist art and media theory, and of two books on digital culture. She has written essays on the radical left, experimental film, video activism, tactical media, free software, the myth of authorship and copyleft.
Her videos reflect an ongoing interest in globalization, nationalism and postcommunism, and manifest a critical perspective toward the status of documents, history and memory.

Commonplaces project: http://www.dmedia.ro/index-e.htm
Memoirs of a video activist: http://translate.eipcp.net/transversal/0307
Est-ethics of counter-documentary:
http://www.artmargins.com/content/feature/richardson.html
Bio and links to other texts:
http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/richardsonbio.html


26.09 - 09. 11.
49th October Salon, Belgrade
Artist-Citizen
Contextual Art Practices


Artists: Ana Adamović / Antea Arizanović / Reli Avrahami / Maja Bajević / Yael Bartana / Lutz Becker / Cristiano Berti / Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz / Dan Calin / Chto delat? / DAH teatar / Danica Dakić / Braco Dimitrijević / Lina Dokuzović / Andrej Đerković / Eva Filova / Kendell Geers / Girls on Horses / Kaspars Goba / Ion Grigorescu / Živko Grozdanić / Igor Grubić / Marina Gržinić / Aina Šmid / Driton Hajredini / h.arta / Ana Hoffner / International strike of artists / Fitore Isufi Koja / Sanja Iveković / Vladan Jeremić / Šejla Kamerić / Gülsün Karamustafa / Sigalit Landau / Wei Liu / Milovan Destil Marković / Nikoleta Marković / Dalibor Martinis / Goranka Matić / Mladen Miljanović / Monument Group / Damir Nikšić / New Collectivism / Tanja Ostojić / Vesna Pavlović / Dan Perjovschi / Tadej Pogačar / Darinka Pop-Mitić / Marta Popivoda / Zoran Popović / Danilo Prnjat / Nurhan Qehaja / Queer Belgrade
Collective / Jelena Radić / Eduard Freudmann / Oliver Ressler / Pipilotti Rist / Martha Rosler / Katya Sander / Judith Siegmund / Ivana Smiljanić / Sašo Stanojkovi? / Hito Steyerl / Mladen Stilinović / Branimir Stojanović / Saša Stojanović / Balint Szomabthy / Škart / Ilija Šoškić / Frank Thiel / Raša Todosijević / Jelena Tomašević / Milica Tomić / Ranko Travanj / Goran Trbuljak / Egbert Trogemann / Ulay / Gergelj Urkom / Valie Export / Katarina Zdjelar / Artur Zmijewski
Curator: Bojana Pejić
Assistents: Vida Knežević i Ivana Marjanović

More information about exhibition, venues and program http://www.oktobarskisalon.org



SEPTEMBER


26.09 - 09. 10
49th October Salon, Belgrade
Artist-Citizen
Contextual Art Practices


Artists: Ana Adamović / Antea Arizanović / Reli Avrahami / Maja Bajević / Yael Bartana / Lutz Becker / Cristiano Berti / Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz / Dan Calin / Chto delat? / DAH teatar / Danica Dakić / Braco Dimitrijević / Lina Dokuzović / Andrej Đerković / Eva Filova / Kendell Geers / Girls on Horses / Kaspars Goba / Ion Grigorescu / Živko Grozdanić / Igor Grubić / Marina Gržinić / Aina Šmid / Driton Hajredini / h.arta / Ana Hoffner / International strike of artists / Fitore Isufi Koja / Sanja Iveković / Vladan Jeremić / Šejla Kamerić / Gülsün Karamustafa / Sigalit Landau / Wei Liu / Milovan Destil Marković / Nikoleta Marković / Dalibor Martinis / Goranka Matić / Mladen Miljanović / Monument Group / Damir Nikšić / New Collectivism / Tanja Ostojić / Vesna Pavlović / Dan Perjovschi / Tadej Pogačar / Darinka Pop-Mitić / Marta Popivoda / Zoran Popović / Danilo Prnjat / Nurhan Qehaja / Queer Belgrade
Collective / Jelena Radić / Eduard Freudmann / Oliver Ressler / Pipilotti Rist / Martha Rosler / Katya Sander / Judith Siegmund / Ivana Smiljanić / Sašo Stanojkovi? / Hito Steyerl / Mladen Stilinović / Branimir Stojanović / Saša Stojanović / Balint Szomabthy / Škart / Ilija Šoškić / Frank Thiel / Raša Todosijević / Jelena Tomašević / Milica Tomić / Ranko Travanj / Goran Trbuljak / Egbert Trogemann / Ulay / Gergelj Urkom / Valie Export / Katarina Zdjelar / Artur Zmijewski
Curator: Bojana Pejić
Assistents: Vida Knežević i Ivana Marjanović

Program

Friday, September 26 2008, at 19:00
The opening ceremony and the presentation of the 49th October Salon awards
The May 25 Museum - the Museum of the History of Yugoslavia, Botićeva 6

21:00 - The Queer Belgrade Collective, Women at Work and Queeria
"Soldier" - based on interview with Boban Stojanović, script - Jet Moon
"Girl with Cigarettes" - in cooperation with Marija Savić, script - Jet Moon
"Techno-ballerinas", collage from the performance Transkitchen Rhythmic Therapy, Biljana Stanković-Lori and
Zoe Gudović, Women at Work

Saturday, September 27th 2008.
Beogradsko psihoanaliticko drustvo, Smederevska 9a
Opening of the archive of texts and publications written by N.M. Šugar
Every Saturday guided tour through archive by Branimir Stojanović
The May 25th Museum - the Museum of the History of Yugoslavia, Botićeva 6
17:00 - Guided tour of the exhibition by Bojana Pejić, curator of the 49th October Salon
18:00 - Ana Hoffner, Gazimestan 08, performance
The Monument Group, Matems of Reassociation:
19:00 - Dr Damir Arsenijević, cultural theorist and critic
Gender the Bone, lecture
The facade of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, Kralja Milana 14
21:00 - Gergelj Urkom, Proposal for a Complete Society, projection
Sunday, September 28th
The Legacy House, Knez Mihailova 46
The Monument Group, Matems of Reassociation:
18:00 - Dr Jasmina Husanović, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies
Faculty of Philosophy, Tuzla University
The Regimes of Trauma Management and Therapeutic Justice on the Local/Global Boundaries of Traumatic
Nationalism/Capitalism: Towards an Emancipated Policy of Testifying, lecture
Tuesday, September 30th
The Legacy House, Knez Mihailova 46
The Monument Group, Matems of Reassociation:
18:00 - Šejla Šehabović, writer
Reading and discussing the story "Ruvejda"

More information about exhibition, spaces and program http://www.oktobarskisalon.org


19.09. Friday, 7:30 pm
Ana Hoffner, Panic: Perverted, performance
Intervention by Kontekst gallery in Queer Beograd festival
Place: Cultural Center Rex, Jevrejska 16



Expanded Cinema: In 1969 Valie Export enlarged the parameters of cinema with her body. She appeared in trousers that displayed her genitals in a cinema in Munich to show that the division between the stage/screen and the audience is not only a question of media but also a question of gender. As a feminist, Valie Export placed herself in opposition to men in order to establish a different point of view than that of the male viewer and female object. Today, engagement as the common subject "woman" has become difficult for many reasons. We see ourselves faced with the end of identity politics where being a woman is not enough. Global neoliberal capitalism has made phallocentrism its highest order. Raised to an abstract level, the power of the ONE (phallus) is reducing every antagonism to a set of differences that can be evacuated, controlled and normalized. The question is how to act in a world of abstraction and empty signs, how to find a position in a state of exception, where one is continuously watched and supervised.

Like Valie Export, I choose to include my own body in a media installation that provokes self-reflection. The audience is projected on to a square between my legs and is confronted with its own involvement within the closed circle of power. Who is allowed to watch and who is supposed to be under surveillance? If strategies of feminism have to be articulated for the present (and this is my intent) than it is necessary to put them into a broader setting of politics and histories. That means that "Panic: perverted" cannot remain a silent reconstruction of what happened 40 years ago. We have to ask even bigger questions like: Who is allowed to speak and take the position of an active subject?

Queer Beograd festival program:
http://eng.queerbeograd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=1




AUGUST


There are no programs in August.



JULY


09.07. Tuesday, 7 pm
Talk about Mangelos Award 2008
Participants: The winner, finalists and jury members



Winner: Ivan Petrović
Finalists: Marina Marković, Goran Micevski, Andrijana Palašti and Ivana Smiljanić


07.07.-31.07.
Poster campaign
Land of Human Rights
Artistic analyses and visions of the human rights situation in europe
Artists for the 2nd campaign: bankleer (Berlin), Miklós Erhardt & Dominic Hislop (Budapest), Tadej Pogačar (Ljubljana), Alexandros Georgiou and Jennifer Nelson, in collaboration with ITYS, Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, Athens and Konate Mamadou and Theophile Yerbanga.

Land of Human Rights is a project dealing with the status quo of the human rights in Europe seen from the perspective of visual art, which will also work on the issue in an analytical and visionary manner. Over a period of three years the discourse on human rights in Europe will be disseminated in the general public with the means of art. The discussion shall purposely be based on issues "in front of one's own door" or "inside one's own house". The planned activities are supposed to reach a broad audience and shall make us aware of the following fact: In many respects the observance of human rights is not guaranteed in Europe too!

One integral part of the long-term project Land of Human Rights is a poster campaign that will be realized in the KONTEKST gallery as well. Starting in September 2007, a set of 4 posters will be printed every half a year. The front side of the posters will present works of artists and on the back side there will be short texts of theorists or human rights activists who will thematize current human rights issues.

The aim of the campaign is to inform the people about their rights in connection with the human rights and to raise awareness of current human rights issues in a large part of the population.

Land of Human Rights is developed and organized by < rotor > association for contemporary art Graz, Austria in cooperation with 5 countries - Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary.

Posters are for free! They can be taken away every working day from 4pm till 8 pm in KONTEKST Gallery.

http://www.landofhumanrights.eu/


JUNE


19.06. Thursday, 7 pm
Presentation of artists participationg in exhibitions 1/1 and BUG



Exhibitions 1/1 (Kontekst Gallery, june 2007) and BUG (Kontekst Gallery, june 2008) are exhibitions of the Belgrade Fine Arts Academy students who took part in the workshops in the intermedia art subject by professor Zoran Todorovic.

Download catalogue 969 KB

www.kontekstgalerija.org
http://www.zenergija.org/


APRIL


24.04., Thursday, 7 pm
Projection of the film The Subjective Factor
Director: Helke Sander
Intro: Marijana Stojčić
Organization: KONTEKST galerija, WOMEN AT WORK and Goethe institute in Beolgrade

www.kontekstgalerija.org
http://www.zenergija.org/
http://www.awin.org.yu
http://www.goethe.de/INS/cs/bel/uun/srindex.htm


FEBRUARY/MARCH


PRESS CONFERENCE

MEDIJA CENTAR, Wednesday, 13 February, 2008. at 12 h
Milentija Popovića 9 (Sava Centar)

TOPIC
Freedom of thinking and expressing - violent prevention of the opening of exhibition "Exception"

ORGANIZATION
Cultural workers, Napon and Kontekst gallery


PRESS RELEASE/PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT


Exhibition "Exception / Contemporary art scene from Prishtine", that was planed to be exhibited in Kontekst Gallery in Cultural Centre "Stari Grad" in Belgrade from 7th of February until 15th of February, was closed because of police valuation that safety of visitors and organizers was jeopardized. Therefore exhibition will not be opened in planned terms. During the opening of the exhibition organized group stopped opening of the exhibition by violent means and also destroyed artistic work "Face to face" by artist Dren Maliqi.

Exhibition "Exception / Contemporary arts scene from Prishtine" was exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad, from 22 nd of January until 5th of February without incidents. Organizers of exhibition are organizations "Kontekst" from Belgrade and Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies - Napon from Novi Sad.

We invite Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia and Secretariat for Culture of City of Belgrade to react and publicly condemn this violent act and allow exhibition "Exception" to be exhibited in this moment when democracy, tolerance and openness of Belgrade and Serbia are most needed.

Curators:
Vida Knezevic, Kristian Lukic, Ivana Marjanovic and Gordana Nikolic

www.kontekstgalerija.org
www.napon.org


PETITION FOR REOPENING OF THE EXHIBITION

We are forwarding petition initiated by interested citizens, cultural workers and artists.

....

On the following link you can sign the petition for opening of the exhibition Petition for opening of the exhibition "Exception/Contemporary Art Scene From Pristina" that was planned to be exhibited in Kontekst Gallery in Centre for Culture Old Town in Belgrade from 7th until 15th of February, and was censored through closing of the event even before it was opened. This happened due to violence expressed by nazi-clerical organisations.

Petition is directed to Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia, Secretariat for Culture of City of Belgrade, as a demand for express and direct support to the organizers for opening of this exhibition.

http://www.petitiononline.com/odstupi/petition.html

This petition is the initiative of interested citizens, cultural workers and artists that consider that state institutions cannot allow nazi-clerical organizations to lead cultural politics of one state.


VIDEO CLIPS OF THE VIOLATION OF THE EXHIBITION OPENING


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRSzUSwcVcQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVC25afxpkU


PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE EXHIBITION REOPENING:

Ministarstvo kulture Republike Srbije
Sekretarijat za kulturu and Grad Beograd
Koalicija protiv diskriminacije:
Anti Trafiking Centar
Centar za unapređivanje pravnih studija
Gayten-LGBT
Gej strejt alijansa
Inicijativa mladih za ljudska prava
Inicijativa za inkluziju VelikiMali
Labris - organizacija za lezbejska ljudska prava
Mreža Odbora za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Švedski helsinški komitet za ljudska prava
Udruženje studenata sa hendikepom


Žene u crnom, Beograd
Komitet pravnika za ljudska prava , Beograd
Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, Beograd
Fond za humanitarno pravo, Beograd
Incest trauma centar, Beograd
Glas razlike, Beograd
Rekonstrukcija ženski fond, Beograd
Inicijativa mladih za ljudska prava, Beograd
Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava, Beograd
Škart, Beograd
Mreža Žena u crnom Srbije : Boljevac, Bor, Vranje, Vrbas, Vlasotince, Velika Plana, Zaječar, Kikinda, Kraljevo, Kruševac, Leskovac, Novi Sad, Novi Bečej, Novi Pazar, Niš, Pančevo, Preševo.

Druga scena

Društvo istoričara umetnosti Srbije (DIUS)

Kulturni centar REX

"Građanska Vojvodina" (Nezavisno društvo novinara Vojvodine, NVO Centar za regionalizam, Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji, Građanski fond "Panonija", NVO "Otvoreni licej" iz Sombora i Građanska akcija iz Pančeva).


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Statement issued on February 10, 2008

STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR ARTISTS, CURATORS and INSTITUTIONS involved in the exhibition EXCEPTION: Contemporary art scene from Prishtina, scheduled to be open on the 7.02.2008 in Belgrade, Kontekst Gallery

The statement is a reaction to the fact that the exhibition EXCEPTION,
Contemporary art scene from Prishtina (Kosova) that  was scheduled to open
on 7 February 2008 (and to be on display until 15 February 2008) at KONTEKST
Gallery in Belgrade WAS FORCED TO CLOSE JUST BEFORE THE OPENING.

The Serbian police that had to intervene just before the opening as they
estimated that  they cannot guarantee safety to the curators and
the public, after an organized  group of Serbian nationalist  forces
attacked the gallery space and even destroyed Dren Maliqi's work Face to
face.

The artists taking part in the exhibition are Artan Balaj, Jakup Ferri, Driton Hajredini, Flaka Haliti, Fitore Isufi Koja, Dren Maliqi, Alban Muja, Vigan Nimani, Nurhan Qehaja, Alketa Xhafa and Lulzim Zeqiri

On 8 February 2008, the curators of the project Vida Knezevic, Kristian
Lukic, Ivana Marjanovic and Gordana Nikolic asked PUBLICLY the Ministry of
culture of Serbia and the city of Belgrade to react firmly against such
nationalist forces in order to protect the exhibition in the
future. The curators insist on the right to present the project in Belgrade
in the near future.

 On 8 February, these violent nationalist forces attacked again, they threw
stones in the  windows of the KONTEKST gallery and broke them and as well they destroyed gallery's sign on the door.

All of us signed under this statement are expressing our support TO ARTISTS,
CURATORS and INSTITUTIONS  involved in the exhibition EXCEPTION:
Contemporary art scene from Prishtina.

We ask the Serbian Government and the governmental bodies of the Serbian
Ministry of Culture as well as the Belgrade city council and city
institutions to ACT and PROTECT (in accordance with the law) the artists,
curators and institutions involved in the organization of the exhibition
project. Also, we apply to these bodies to ask for the SUPPORT and help in
organizing the reopening of the project and to allow an open non violent
platform discussion on the topic.

The exhibition is an important project by the young generation in Serbia who
is willing to see, discuss and understand historical and current relations
between Serbia and Kosova.

The exhibition was presented previously at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Vojvodina, Novi Sad (22.01 - 05.02.2008). The exhibition is a joint effort
of two organizations Kontekst, Belgrade, and Napon, Novi Sad.

THE SIGNED STATEMENT WILL BE SEND TO ARTISTS, CURATORS AND INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT, TO SERBIAN'S GOVERMENTAL BODIES, BELGRADE CITY COUNCIL'S BODIES and SERBIAN MASS MEDIA.


SIGNATURES:

1. Rosa Reitsamer, gallery aRtmosphere, Vienna  
2. Marina Grzinic, artist and researcher, Ljubljana, Vienna
3. Manuela Schreibmaier, gallery aRtmosphere, Vienna
4. Laszlo Najmanyi, writer, artist, New York, Budapest
5. Tanja Passoni, freelance translator, Ljubljana
6. Zoya Kocur, professor, Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University
7. Sebastjan Leban, artist and theoretician
8. Razvan Ion, editor Pavilion magazine, Bucharest
9. Eugen Radescu, director Bucharest Biennale
10. Staš Kleindienst, artist and theoretician
11. Reartikulacija, artistic-political-theoretical-discursive platform
12. Eva Khachatrian, curator and art critic, Yerevan/Armenia
13. Johanna Schaffer, translator, teacher, writer, Vienna
14. Louisa Avgita, art historian and theoretician
15. Geert Lovink, media theorist and net critic
16. Gabrijela Ivanov, Expanse of Gender and Media Culture 'Common Zone', Zagreb
17. Ricarda Denzer, artist, Vienna
18. Sebastian Bodirsky, filmmaker, Berlin
19. Claudia Reiche, theoretician, artist, curator, Hamburg
20. Catherine Quéloz Professor, University of Art and Design, Geneva
21. Pier Luigi Capucci, theoretician and teacher
22. Felix Vogel, curator and theoretician, Kassel
23. Reni Hofmueller, activist, artist, ESC Graz
24. Alexander Nikolic, artist and activist
25. Sabine Breitwieser, Vienna
26. María José Belbel Bullejos, researcher, Spain
27. Tanja Ostojic, Artist/ cultural activist, Belgrade/Berlin
28. Ljubomir Bratic, philosopher and curator, Vienna
29. Eva Moschitz, photographer, Vienna
30. Jasmina Jankovic, freelance translator, Vienna
31. Joanna Hoffmann, artist and academic
32. Martina Hochmuth, Tanzquartier, Vienna
33. Goran Petrovic, freelance curator, Beograd, Brussels
34. Anca Daucikova, artist and teacher, Bratislava
35. Joeri Smet, theatre maker, Brussels
36. Karl Ingar Roys, artist
37. Biljana Marinkovic, artist and activist, Belgrade
38. David Rych, artist, Berlin
39. Dejan Atanackovic, artist, Belgrade / Florence
40. Anna Balint, curator, Budapest
41. Anja Kovacs, researcher, Delhi/India
42. Jan Ritsema/Association PAF, St Erme Outre et Ramecourt, France
43. Ines Garnitschnig, psychologist, Vienna
44. Katarina Popovic, designer and visual artist, Belgrade
45. Aleksandar Covic, IT marketing professional, Belgrade
46. Katharina Prinzenstein, feminist researcher, scientist, equal rights office worker, Vienna
47. Michael Blum, artist, New York-Vienna
48. Claire Daudin, artist, France
49. Irene Hana, editor, Vienna
50. Kirsten Forkert, artist, writer and researcher, London
51. Oliver Ressler, artist and film-maker, Vienna
52. Beatrice Leanza, Beijing, art writer, researcher and curator
53. Corrado Folinea, artist and lawyer, Napoli/Italy
54. Emma Hedditch, artist and writer, London
55. Vlatka Frketic, Diskursiv - Association for Queering the Society, Vienna & Zagreb
56. Virginia Villaplana, artist and independent cultural producer
57. Margarethe Makovec, < rotor >, Graz, Austria,
58. Anton Lederer, < rotor >, Graz, Austria
59. Sonja Hofstetter, < rotor >, Graz, Austria
60. Karin Schagerl, < rotor >, Graz, Austria
61. Gulsen Bal, curator, writer, London, Vienna
62. Nino Jaeger, artist and freelance media educator, Vienna, Berlin
63. Romana Hagyo, artist, Vienna
64. Sophie Eliot, PhD, freelance curator, Berlin
65. Anca Gyemant, h.arta, artist collective, Timisoara, Romania
66. Rodica Tache, h.arta, artist collective, Timisoara, Romania
67. Maria Crista, h.arta, artist collective, Timisoara, Romania
68. Inge Manka, architect, Vienna
69. Anthony Gardner, Lecturer and writer, Melbourne/Sydney, Australia
70. Franco Torriani
71. Geska Helena Andersson, artist, Kista/Sweden
72. Florian Malzacher, co-programmer Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz
73. Lisl Ponger, artist, Vienna
74. Dmitry Vilensky, editor of Chto Delat newspaper St. Petersburg
75. Monika Szewczyk, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Poland
76. Thomas Campbell, writer and translator, St. Petersburg
77. Richard de Boer, De Balie - Centre for culture and Politics, Amsterdam/The Netherlands
78. Vincenza Perilli, Italy
79. Ilina Koralova, curator, Leipzig
80. Jesse Birch, curator, Amsterdam
81. Marta Deskur artist, Cracow, Poland,
82. Leila Cmajcanin, artist, Sarajevo
83. Marta Deskur artist, Krakow, Poland
84. Ruth Weismann, student-artist , Vienna
85. Aleksandra Petkova, artist-sculptor, R. Macedonia
86. Mario Strk
87. Raphaël Grisey, artist, Paris,
88. Andreas Fogarasi, artist, Vienna
89. Piotr Krajewski, Artistic Director, International Media Art Biennale WRO
90. Zbigniew Libera, artist, Praha, CZ / PL
91. Grzegorz Klaman artist, media art proffesor, president Wyspa Progress Foundation Gdansk Poland 
92. Mariola Przyjemska, artist, Praha, CZ / PL
93. Elke Boon, artist, Ghent, Belgium
94. Pai Dusi (progettozero+), artist and curator, Venezia, Italy
95. Gon Zifroni, spatial designer, Metahaven.net, Brussels
96. Justin McKeown, (SPART Action group) Artist, Researcher, Belfast, Northern Ireland
97. Marco Baravalle, researcher and curator (S.A.L.E. Docks - independent art space), Venezia, Italy
98. Krzysztof Czyzewski, Borderland Foundation, Sejny, Poland
99. Tshiung Han See
100. Alessandro Bertoncello (progettozero+), Venice, Italy, artist and curator
101. Sigrid Gareis, artistic direction Tanzquartier, Vienna
102. Lotta Rüger, student, Maastricht
103. Vladimir Todorovic, Singapore, isea2008.org, artist
104. Fedja Klikovac, Handel Street Projects, London
105. BBB Johannes Deimling, Port Performance, Berlin, Germany
106. Angelika Fojtuch, Port Performance, Gdynia, Poland
107. Michael Lumb, artist and educator, Ipswich, England
108. Francesco Fonassi, student-artist, Venezia
109. Esther Straganz, Vienna
110. Tea Hvala, writer and activist
111. Monica Restrepo, artist, Lugar a dudas, Colombia
112. Sally Mizrachi, Lugar a dudas Coordinator, Colombia
113. Anna Ehrlemark, student and activist
114. Biljana Marinkovic, artist and activist, Belgrade
115. Goran Djordjevic, artist, Belgrade/ New York
116. Natasa Kokic, artist, Belgrade
117. Azucena Vieites, artist
118. Gita Hashemi, Artist, Curator, Writer, Adjunct Faculty, York University, Editorial Board, Fuse Magazine, Canada
118. Walter Seidl, curator, artist, Vienna
119. Dr. Matthew Fuller, David Gee Reader in Digital Media, Centre for Cultural Studies Goldsmiths College, University of London
120. Antonia Majaca, g-mk | galerija miroslav kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia
121. Ivana Bago, g-mk | galerija miroslav kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia
122. Tamas St.Auby, IPUT/NETRAF, Hungarian Fine Art University
123. Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Artist and Writer, Raqs Media Collective), Delhi
124. Naeem Mohaiemen, artist, Dhaka, Bangladesh
125. Cosmin Costinas, theoretician and curator, Vienna/Paris
126. Federica Timeto ( Italy)
127. Francesco Paolo Marineo ( Italy)
128. Marko Stamenkovic, curator
129. Marcin Lodyga, artist, theoretician and curator, Poland
130. Jasmina Metwaly, artist and curator, Poland
131. Vladimir Umanets, artist and curator, Poland
132. Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Philosophy Department,
Université Libre de Bruxelles
133. Duba Sambolec, Artist & Prof. of Fine Art
134. Stefanie Busch, artist, Dresden, Germany
135. artists space "7.Stock", Dresden, Germany
136. Georgie Gruber, queer activist, Vienna
137. Ursula Scherrer, New York
138. Nicolas Vass, artist
139. Nina Höchtl, artist, Vienna and Mexico City
140. Pery Bard
141. Lee Mayr
142. Pauline von Bonsdorff, professor, Helsinki/Jyväskylä ( Finland)
143. Christiane Erharter, program culture, ERSTE Foundation, Vienna/Austria
144. Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Director, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz
145. Franziska Sauerbrey, sauerbrey | raabe, büro für kulturelle angelegenheiten, Berlin
146. Anton Koslov, Associate Professor, American Graduate School, Paris
147. NextGENDERation, transnational European feminist network
148. Carolee Schneemann, artist, New York
149. Robert Atkins
150. Svetlana Mintcheva, Ph.D.Director Arts Program National Coalition Against Censorship, USA
151. Alexandra Ganser, assistant professor, cultural studies, Erlangen / Vienna
152. Eduard Freudmann, artist, Vienna/Belgrade
153. Zoran Petrovski - curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje
154. Alex Villar, artist, New York
155. Maja Pan, human rights activist, Ljubljana

Status on 12.02.2008

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07.02. Thursday at 7 pm
EXCEPTION
Contemporary art scene from Prishtina
exhibitions / panel discussions / presentations / publications
Exhibition opening in KONTEKST Gallery



Artists: Artan Balaj / Jakup Ferri / Driton Hajredini / Flaka Haliti / Fitore Isufi Koja / Dren Maliqi / Alban Muja / Vigan Nimani / Nurhan Qehaja / Alketa Xhafa / Lulzim Zeqiri

Curators: Vida Knežević (Belgrade), Kristian Lukić (Novi Sad), Ivana Marjanović (Vienna/Belgrade), Gordana Nikolić (Novi Sad)

The exhibition represents a segment of the production of young artists from Prishtina which emerged during specific social, cultural, economic and political contexts of the contemporary Kosovo. The exhibition is about questioning dominant cultural hegemonies, national and gender identities in the field of visual art which are defined by Balkan particularities, doctrines of limited sovereignty, conflicts of global security alliances, nationalisms, conditions and consequences of Euro-Atlantic integrations and strengthening of neo-liberal capitalism.

Production and organization
Institute for Flexible Culture and Technologies - Napon, Novi Sad
Kontekst, Belgrade
Co-production and co-organization:
Rhizoma, Prishtina

The project is supported by Pro Helvetia Belgrade, European Cultural Foundation, Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Cultural Centre "Stari Grad" and Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad.

The exhibition was planed to be open from 07.02. till 15.02.

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