Category: Croatia


STANDSTILL at Marshall Tito’s ship “Seagull”

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05/06/2011

Activist art exhibition from the Marinko Sudac Collection aboard Marshall Tito’s ship “Seagull”
04th June -18th June, 2011 in Rijeka, Croatia

(…) The material for the exhibition was taken from the Marinko Sudac Collection, the fast growing and the largest collection of historical avant-garde, neo avant-garde and post avant-garde movements and artistic expressions in the region and beyond. The collection today includes around twenty thousand units, works of art, documents and publications. It covers the period from 1909 to 1989 and the area from the Baltic to the Black Sea, with special emphasis on the region of former Yugoslavia, while the furthest end of the collection reaches as far as Japan. The exhibition will also include the documentation on Galeb’s intriguing history, in Tvrtko Jakovina’s writing on Galeb’s voyages through the seas of world politics, in Feđa Vukić’s account on the evolution of its symbolic meanings, and Ješa Denegri’s analysis of reasons and reaches of political standpoints on the area of artists’ activities on one particular example.

(…) “Standstill” is an exhibition that deals with the deconstruction of the untouchable, of the mythical ship Galeb whose decks and salons along with Marshal Tito and the elite of socialist state and military government are inhabited by ghosts of world statesmen from Winston Churchill, Paul of Greece, Elizabeth II, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ahmed ukarno, General Abboud, Kwame Nkrumah, Albert Tabnen, Habib Bourguiba, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, U Nu, Ne Win, Modibo Keita, Seku Ture, Archbishop Makariosa, Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Kurt Josef Waldheim, Nicolae Ceausescu, Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi and many, many others to scientists and artists as well as international movie stars such as Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Sofia Loren and Kirk Douglas.” (…) Branko Franceschi, President, Institute for the Research of Avant-garde

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54th Venice Biennale: Seeing with eyes closed

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31/05/2011

Installation by Ivana Franke and ongoing neuroscientific research by Ida Momennejad will be presented during the symposium ‘Seeing with eyes closed: Neuroscience and Art in dialogue’ in Venice. The installation will be on view from the 1st to the 6th of June in the Peggy Guggenheim Museum.

In resonance with the curatorial focus of the 54th Biennale: IllumiNations, the upcoming symposium on June 2nd, 2011 – organized in collaboration with Berlin School of Mind and Brain (Humboldt Universität) and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin – will explore the theme: Seeing with Eyes Closed. The symposium takes its title from an interdisciplinary project by artist Ivana Franke and neuroscientist Ida Momennejad, conceived through the support of Alexander Abbushi and the Association of Neuroesthetics – AoN. The project concerns the visual experience of flowing images induced by stroboscopic light behind closed eyes.

Some of questions are: “Can we construct spatiotemporal forms purely based on ‘imagination’? To what extent may different brains show similar activities in spite of differences in subjective experience? To what extent is our perception of reality constructed and altered by the intrinsic build-up of our brains rather than neural responses to stimuli that is strictly ‘out there’?”

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Subversive Film Festival in Croatia

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05/05/2011

Zagreb (7-21 May 2011) will be a host of  the International 4th Subversive Film Festival.  Subversive Film Festival is no ordinary, competition film festival. It is first-of-a-kind hybrid of film/video and critical theory, aiming to explore and understand recent cultural history.Film program in cinemas Europa and Tuškanac will be accompanied by film-theory school which will deal with post-colonial »aesthetics of resistance«. A lot of famous scientists will present their work: Antonio Negri,Terry Eagleton, Zygmunt Bauman, Istvan Meszaros, David Harvey, Gayatri Spivak, Slavoj Žižek, Samir Amin and many others.

“World forum of Alternatives: Decolonisation – New emancipatory struggles” –  Why is the meeting taking place exactly in Croatia?

Croatia seems to be a perfect place to meet: all contradictions from the capitalist core (financial shocks, reckless consumerism, media, elite-driven politics, democratic deficit, commercialisation of public services) are visible together with all political, social and economic problems of the post-socialist, post-partition and post-conflict semi-periphery. What the new wave of protests brings is a clear rejection of the system, both political and economic, amounting to the loudest critique of capitalist economy in Eastern Europe since 1989. This critique stems from ordinary politically undefined citizens, the new radical left and some right-wing elements trying to co-opt the social rhetoric into their populist defence of the “nation” and its “traditional values”. In spite of nationalist conservativism, it is precisely in Croatia where, since the 2009 student protests, a movement dedicated to direct democracy developed. In many occasions direct democracy was successfully exercised not only among students, but workers, peasants and urban activists alike. Croatia as the country at the doorstep of the EU is therefore an excellent place to engage in a productive debate on possible alternatives or further degenerations of global capitalism and the way it influences the semi-peripheral and peripheral regions(…)

Can we see a possibility of a trans-european and also trans-regional cooperation? Can the experience from other world regions, such as Latin America, be useful for the current situation in Eastern or Southeastern Europe? As we can see from all this questions, the debate is not restricted only to Croatia or Eastern Europe, but is of importance for the entire Left. (Srećko Horvat & Igor Štiks, coordinators of the WFA meeting in Zagreb)

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2CELLOS: Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser

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25/04/2011

With over 5 million hits on YouTube, their passionate, dueling cellos version of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” has taken the world by storm. Of the repertoire Stjepan says: “Both Luka and I love classical music and have studied it for years, but we are really excited to put our own take on classics by some of our favorite pop and rock artists.” Luka and Stjepan will make their first TV performance as 2CELLOS on The Ellen DeGeneres show on April 25th and on April 28th  they will play at Croatian music hall Vatroslav Lisinski,  accompanied by a worldly famous musician Maksim Mrvica, a humanitarian concert for the Japan.

Living in a small town in Croatia, 24-year-old music students, Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, are living a dream come true – and quickly! After posting a self-made music video of them performing Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” on their cellos, the longtime friends received more attention than they ever expected. Within days, the video became a viral sensation and received millions of views. It got the attention of Sony MASTERWORKS who signed them to a record deal. Concurrently, they received a phone call from legend Elton John who invited them to join him on his European tour this summer. Their debut album is slated for a July 2011 release and will feature Sulic & Hauser’s unique spin on hits by Guns N’ Roses, U2, Trent Reznor and Kings of Leon among others.

Luka and Stjepan are both very accomplished musicians who have been playing the cello since childhood. Both recently completed their studies at the acclaimed Royal Academy in London. Luka Sulic has performed all over the world at renowned venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus. He has won a series of international prizes including first prize at the VII Lutoslawski International Cello Competition (Warsaw, 2009). Stjepan is also a very talented cellist and has performed around the world in most European countries, South Africa, New Zealand and the USA, with debuts in London’s Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall, South Bank Centre and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. In his short career, he has already won twenty-one first prizes in national and international competitions including the prestigious Adam Cello Competition in New Zealand 2009 and VTB Capital Prize for Young Cellists 2009.

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Vlado Martek in Italy: language in freedom

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20/04/2011

A Trieste Contemporanea and Studio Tommaseo production are presenting  from April 16th 2011 to June 18th 2011 Vlado Martek’s exhibition: language in freedom, in the framework of the Words Room project conceived for the Continental Breakfast international network.

The exhibition is under the patronage of the General Consulat of the Republic of Croatia in Trieste, with the collaboration of  the Institute for Contemporary Art Zagreb and is sponsored by the Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, with the participation of Casa dell’Arte Trieste and Media Digital Business Srl. The curators are Dubravka Cherubini and Janka Vukmir, and contributors Dubravka Đuric and Darko Šimicic.

Media Via comment on Artisti Armatevi (Umjetnici naoruzajte se) : more grace is needed against the war-like impulse, as the famous Botticelli painting shows. “However, when Mars as an archetypal power is realised within us and the true warrior emerges, then his activity becomes focussed in service of Venus, of the Goddess, and he will fight to do her bidding, to restore her glory and reputation, manifesting his more noble qualities of courage, valour and honour. One only has to contemplate this fabulous renaissance painting of Botticelli to realise who is really in charge!”

Croatian artist Vlado Martek has a BA degree in philosophy and literature, whereby he entered the field of visual art by writing poetry. In the mid-1970s, his poetry acquired special forms: he extracted poetry from the book and incorporated it into “poetic objects” made of mirrors, clay and books; he wrote poster poetry which he exhibited in exhibition-actions held by the neo conceptualists Group of Six Artists (1975–1979) in the streets and squares of Zagreb and other places. Martek called himself a “pre-poet”, investing great effort into the “purification” of poetry to such an extent that it was reduced to no more than an emphasis on the reality of the constitutive elements of the poem’s materiality.

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Venus & Mars: A Balance of Power

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Superheroes

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14/04/2011

A young Croatian multimedia artist Ana Schaub (1983) is introducing herself in a Zagreb “Gallery of Events” in Culture center Pescenica by positioning the problem of media induced reality. Mass-media and contemporary technology define and designe our lives, our perception, thoughts and feelings, if we are not aware enough of it.  The artist criticizes that false grotesque world of trivialities, creating the same methodes that are valued in them: false heroes and their false powers……(from the catalogue, written by Ivana Gabrić).

After finishing Croatian Academy of fine Arts Zagreb (2007), she developed her skills at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, US. Ana Schaub is in a process of doing her postgraduate work on video at Academy of fine Arts in Slovenia.

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THE _IPHONE_IS_MY _SKETCH_BOOK

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03/04/2011

Void of any aesthetic or technical presumptuousness, demystifying artistic photography and its author, these photo and video sketches on the iPhone provide, in a subversive way, insight into the artistic raison d’être of Fedor Vučemilović. (Gallery Vladimir Buzancic, Zagreb, Croatia, 4th-26th  April)

Just as he had done forty years ago at the beginning of his career, regardless of whether he was doing “pure” documentary or conceptual photography, both courses he set for himself in life ever since he was a member of the Group of Six Authors, Fedor Vučemilović has remained discrete in his work to this day, always paying attention to both the aesthetic and technical perfection of photography(…)

At first glance, these simple everyday trivia when “caught” by the camera become picture – icons. The picture does not describe or aestheticise what is seen in it. It records the scene or through gestuality designates the author’s presence in it. By eliminating his professional tools, the metiér is deconstructed and thus turns into observation, while the artist becomes the observer. fedor catalog
(Anita Zlomislic)

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Mechanical Figures inspired by Tesla

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28/03/2011

Croatian video selection curated by Darko Fritz will be screened on 1st April on ´CologneOFF 2011´ Festival at Arad Art Museum  (Romania). 14min cut from ´Mechanical Figures´ by Bulaja.com, ´Archeo 29´ by Vladislav Knezevic and Edita Pecotic´s ´Time to Go Home´ will be presented within the festival´s programme. With an international team of authors, since 2006 Helena Bulaja is developing her new project, experimental interactive documentary Mechanical Figures, inspired by Croatia-born scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla.

Examining subjective opinions and myths about the private life of inventor Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943) in her work Mechanical Figures_Inspired by Tesla, Helena Bulaja reconstructs the ideas and the significance of his public activities.

The film will be released in different media: as a linear theatric and TV documentary, a series of short films, as well as an interactive film for the Web and mobile devices such as iPhone and iPad. In the film, stories and thoughts about Tesla and creativity are told by some of the most intriguing and inspiring artists, thinkers, writers and scientists, like the film director Terry Gilliam, musician and artist Laurie Anderson, performance artist Marina Abramovic, writer Christopher Priest, new media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, actor Andy Serkis, scientist and president of Kyoto University Hiroshi Matsumoto and others.

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Multimedia Ambience

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27/03/2011

While celebrating a school day the Croatian Primary school “Ivan Goran Kovacic” from Slavonski Brod prepared integrated project “Cultural Heritage” and presented  it inventively as an exhibition of workshops and a special Multimedia Ambience.

The project “Cultural Heritage” included several workshops: Slavonian cuisine, customs, housing, traditional kids games, folk habits, dance etc. This year a special event was a Multimedia Ambience created by team leader MA Vesna Srnic which integrated atonal music  “Improvisation II for piano and tape” composed by Kresimir Seletkovic and played by Damir Greguric, installations, projections and  jumbo poster with cultural authorities from the County history and contemporary artists as well, thus connecting tradition and (post)modernity.

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Perforations Festival New York

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13/03/2011

The Perforations Festival takes place annually in Croatia and presents a range of artists working in performance art, theater, and dance, whose diverse approaches to art-making blurs the borders between these genres. Highlights from this festival will be presented in New York at La MaMa from March 11 – March 20, 2011.

Their work touches upon issues of identity (public, political, religious), redefining borders and space, a collective past, and personal histories, but most of all their work talks about the present. Highlights from this festival will be presented at New York La MaMa, offering audiences insight into contemporary lines of artistic thinking from some of the most provocative and influential artists in the region. Perforations Festival New York will feature U.S. premieres from Ivo Dimchev (Bulgaria); BADco. (Croatia); Sanja Mitrović (Serbia); Igor Josifov (Macedonia); Petra Kovačić (Croatia); Željko Zorica (Croatia); Slovenian Youth Theater (Slovenia); Via Negativa (Slovenia); and Ivica Buljan/Mini Teater (Croatia/ Slovenia).

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Tom Gotovac (R.I.P.) and BADco. on the Venice Biennale

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15/02/2011

WHW curatorial collective from Zagreb has announced  that the concept for the next Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale is going to be based on the artworks by performance artist  Antonio Lauer aka Tom Gotovac and performative collective BADco. while exibited at Arsenale.

WHW initiated the project  in 1998 when independent alternative publishing house Arkzin published 150th anniversary edition of the Marx’s Communist Manifesto with an introduction by Slavoj Zizek, took its shape in the area in which the considerations about possibilities of political and artistic engagement were interlocked with issues of local daily politics. The collective has curated a wide range of international exhibitions around the world, most notably the Istanbul Biennale 2009.

Many years of consistent work in the field of experimental film and performance, made Tomislav Gotovac one of the most important Croatian contemporary artists. Gotovac began to transfer daily activities to art sphere with public performances such as Haircut and Shaves (1970, 1971) Watching TV (1980). In 1971 he acts in Lazar Stojanović’s film Plastic Jesus. The film was banned due its subversive content and Gotovac was not allowed to graduate till 1976. In 1971 Gotovac have run naked through Belgrade’s Sremska Street. The performance was reencted ten years later in Zagreb’s main street Ilica for Zagreb, I love you (running naked, kissing the asphalt) performance, which shocked dormant environment. In 2005 Gotovac has changed his name to Antonio Lauer. He died in 2010.

BADco. is a collaborative performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. Reconfiguring established relations between performance and audience, challenging perspectival givens and architectonics of performance, problematizing of communicational structures – all of that makes BADco. an internationally significant artistic phenomenon and one of the most differentiated performance experiences.

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Concept villas for Dubrovnik by Zaha Hadid

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09/02/2011

Zaha Hadid Architects have designed two prototype villas for a site overlooking the historic town of Dubrovnik in Croatia. The total development comprises 400 villas, two 5* hotels, luxury apartments, retail facilities, a spa and an 18 hole golf course including a golf resort club house.

The concepts, named “Rock” (left) and “Shell” (right), have been developed to help define the architectural style of the resort, which will eventually consist of 400 villas plus hotels and a golf course. The area of development is located north of Dubrovnik, a Unesco World Heritage Site. The land comprises 430 hectare and is located on a high plateau approximately 300m to 400m above sea level, north of the old town of Dubrovnik.

Design concept has a highly expressive, sculptural quality, infused with a sense of light and space. Light and views are the driving forces of the house.

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Croatian poster designers among the 10 best in the world

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A famous American journal for design  How has chosen Croatian poster for the Festival of European short stories 2010, between the ten best posters in the world. A creative poster is Maja Bagic Baric and Danijel Srdarev‘s  work of art.

At this year’s How’s competetion  How Poster Design Awards there were 800 authors entered from the whole world, but just ten of them were chosen as  the best. This is not the first collaboration of Bagic and Srdarev: for the same festival they won the gold in 2007 at the Graphis Poster Annual in New York, and were found themselves close to the biggest designers as Miltona Glaser and agencies like Pentagram Design, Penguin Design, Apple Computers, Ogilvy and Mather, and 2008 was a successfull year as well while competing  at ‘The Undiscovered Letter’ in famous gallery for visual communications Art Directors Club New York.

One of the winners is also the Croatian illustrator and designer Mirko Ilic with the work ‘Nuclear Power Plants’. He has been famous for his working as an art director in Time and The New York Times during 1980’s.

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26th Music Biennale Zagreb – World New Music Days

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22/01/2011

From 7 to 17 April, the 2011 ISCM World New Music Days are taking place within the 26th Music Biennale Zagreb 2011 in Croatia. Theme of the festival is Mirabilia Memorabilia.

The 26th Biennale, while celebrating 50 anniversary, will host the Inernational Society for Contemporary Music ISCM–World New Music Days 2011 Festival, which is once again returning to Zagreb, one of the few metropolises in the world the ISCM has chosen to host this festival. As much as 259 compositions by 51 sections entered into the open competition, along with 140 individual entries from all over the world.

The compositions are carefully selected by a panel of distinguished artists who met in Zagreb October 15th-17th: Luc Brewaeys (Belgium), Benet Casablancas (Spain), Lojze Lebic (Slovenia), as well as Marko Ruždjak and Nikša Gligo (Croatia). The panel’s work is overseen by the artistic director of the Music Biennale Zagreb Mr. Berislav Šipuš, and the selected compositions will be performed by orchestras coming from all over the world which are participating in the Biennale programme http://www.mbz.hr/eng/mbz_2011/program .

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Sanja Ivekovic at MOMA in December

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18/01/2011

After Marina Abramovic’s  famous performance  at Moma in New York last year, here comes another great performer, Croatian artist – Sanja Ivekovic. Born in 1949 in Zagreb Ivekovic  is among the most influential feminist artists and activists in European and global context.

By using very different media (video, performance, installations, and non-artistic media such as newspaper ads, postcards, or posters), she began discussing very early the mechanisms of social identity construction, placing an emphasis on the female identity as subject to social expectations and stereotypes since the ancient times.

“In her persistent exploration of the border between the public and private self, Iveković subtly insinuates the collective responsibility we share for the things that take place around us. By doing so, without any moral exhortation, her art permits us to see more clearly the interdependence of things and the scalability of our actions, from small gestures to grand narratives.”

Photo: Triangle

(Ivekovic performed a provocative Triangle alone on her Zagreb balcony: She read, drank whiskey, and pretended to masturbate at the moment Tito’s motorcade passed by. The triangulation involved not only three offending actions but a policeman stationed on a nearby roof, who she knew would see her, and the officer he summoned, who rapidly arrived.)

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Sky Spirits – a special award at Alternative Film & Video festival

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16/12/2010

Boris Poljak and Damir Cucic won a prize for their film ‘Sky Spirits’,  made in ‘Croatian Film Clubs Association’ production, at the  Alternative Film & Video festival in Belgrade (Serbia). The awarded  authors got a special  bonus – the possibility of producing next film or video work at Academic Film Centre (AFC) in Belgrade.

The experimental film ‘Sky Spirits’ used the documentary recordings of  fireworks as a bases, that have been collected during 2001-2008. They didn’t use computer programmes, but has been created  just by video processing.

Croatian Film Clubs’ Association is an association of non-professional film and video groups operating in Croatia since 1928. Founded in 1963 as the Croatian Cinema Association (and the Centre for Croatian amateur cinema before that), the Association works today as part of the Croatian Technical Culture Union.

Croatian Film Clubs’ Association assembles cinema and video clubs, film groups and individuals from primary school to adult members, encourages their work (providing financing, managing and expert help), contributes to education of mentors and members of film groups, organizes presentations and evaluation of film and video works by children and adult authors, at home and abroad, and works on preservation of best film and video works of non-professional cinema. Since 1992, the Association has been a member of the international organization of non-professional cinema (UNICA).

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New Media Genres

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26/09/2010

(Presentation at Harvard University: MA. Srnic – New Media Genres )
The first-year students of  The Faculty of Culturology in Osijek  (Croatia, Europe)   had to make experiments with glasses, light and  liquid as a topic named “Creative Glasses” while attending “New Media Genres” board, lectured by M.A. Vesna Srnic,  Art Historian and professor of Comparative Literature. Students have inventively made photographs of glasses as the abstractions, using only their cell phones! The aim of this project, realized at the seminary, was to encourage students to explore and reinvent the Reality with a new approach to seeing.

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Photography as an Art Extended Media

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27/08/2010

Find out something new  about Photography as an Art extended media .

In a short presentation you can explore a brief history of photography, Agency “Magnum”, Fashion photography, “High-fashion model look”, Erotic photography, Photography as a part of installation. Photography  (photographs taken from the catalogue, and some of them by artist’s courtesy)

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Creative design: Podravka annual report has to be baked!

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A  food company annual report that has to be cooked first.

Croatian creative agency Bruketa & Zinić have designed an annual report for food company Podravka that has to be baked in an oven before it can be read.

Called Well Done, the report features blank pages printed with thermo-reactive ink that, after being wrapped in foil and cooked for 25 minutes, reveal text and images.

To be able to cook like Podravka you need to be a precise cook. That is why the small Podravka booklet is printed in invisible, thermo-reactive ink. To be able to reveal Podravka’s secrets you need to cover the small booklet in aluminium foil and bake it at 100 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes.

This is the seventh annual report for Podravka designed by Bruketa & Zinić OM. Those seven books won numerous awards worldwide such as London International Awards (Gold), Art Directors Club New York (Silver), Red Dot (Best of the Best), Cresta (Winner of Category), I.D. Annual Design Review (Best of Category), Type Directors Club (Typographic Excellence), Graphis (Gold) , Creativity (Gold) , Good Design (Graphics Award), HOW International Design Awards (Best of Show), Moscow International Advertising Festival (Gold), International Forum Communication Design (Design Award) and ARC Awards (Gold).

Bruketa & Zinić OM is a 60-people independent agency based in Zagreb, Croatia. It was established 10 years ago. The agency has been awarded for their projects by many prestigious contests and their work has been presented in many publications, books and exhibitions worldwide.

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http://archimedespool.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/well-done/

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/07/27/dezeens-top-ten-stories-with-most-comments/#more-15733

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Ego destroys Art of Witnessing

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26/08/2010

An Ego in ordinary life and the Ego in Contemporary Art as well destroy explicitly the Art of Witnessing and Waiting through a Process!  As self-proclaimed creator Ego or Narcissus  jumps in his mind and  creates more problems…

How to heal the Postmodern Art? “Simply watching the thoughts, the noise inside there, and just waiting for it to be clear.” So, what is the most natural, divine and spiritual Creation you can imagine? Art of Imagination, Meditation and Sexual healing!

“Sexuality means “sex appeal”, erotic phenomenon, not as hedonism. Erotic attraction, as magnetism, the states of potent exsistence and especially autoerotics compose a strongly exalted mental image, as a bases for photogenics.

Such mental image creates a “counterpart” or phantom who is connected closely to photogenics. In video art and experimental films sexuality is expressed as extremely freed and natural energetic source, without simulations.”

(From Vesna Srnic` s Master`s degree: Video at the Origin of Image, https://media-via.net/scientific-research )

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Kao da me nema / As if I am not there

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At the Zagreb film festival (17th-23rd October, 2010) You can see the Juanita Wilson`s film “As if I am not there”  (Tuškanac cinema, Saturday, October 23rd at 21.00 ) made in coproduction of Ireland, Macedonia and Sweden, based on Croatian journalist and writer Slavenka Drakulic´’s book of the same name.

Synopsis
As If I Am Not There is a story of a young woman from Sarajevo whose life is shattered the day a young soldier walks into her apartment and tells her to pack her things. Rounded up with the other women from the village and imprisoned in a warehouse in a remote region of Bosnia, she quickly learns the rules of camp life.The day she is picked out to ‘entertain’ the soldiers, the real nightmare begins. Stripped of everything she ever had and facing the constant threat of death, she struggles against all the hatred she sees around her. In a final act of courage or madness, she decides to make one last stand: to dare to be herself. And this simple act saves her life. It’s when she realises that surviving means more than staying alive that she has to make a decision that will change her life forever. As If I Am Not There is a modern war story that explores love, identity and the connections based on Croatian journalist and writer Slavenka Drakulic´’s book of the same name.

Awards
 Sarajevo Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival

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25 FPS International festival of Experimental film and Video

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The 25 FPS will take place from 21st to 26th September 2010  in Zagreb, Croatia.

The 6th Festival 25 FPS is organized by Association for Audio-visual Research 25 FPS. The festival is supported by the Office of Culture City of Zagreb, Croatian Audiovisual Centre , Ministry of Culture Republic of Croatia and Student Centre University of Zagreb. Festival takes place at Student’s Centre in Zagreb, Savska 25.

25 fps denotes the number of full video frames per second as used in the European PAL video system, in contrast to film’s 24 or NTSC video system’s 30 frames per second.

You can see this year`s competition program:

http://25fps.hr/2010/pdf10/25_FPS_COMPETITION_2010.pdf

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A floating pavilion on Venice Biennale – collapsed!

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22/08/2010

Fascinating floating pavilion is an idea of Leo Modrčin and as masterpiece of group of architects is going to introduce Croatia on 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice on 29th August to 21st November 2010.

The floating boat, actually a barge, and his special “house” made of 35 tons of iron pieces in 885 thousand welded joints, has sailed in a harbour of Rijeka, on his way to Venice, already causing a huge interest of tourists.

This masterpiece is a work of art of 15 Croatian architects: Tonči Žarnić, Veljko Oluić, Saša Begović, Marko Dabrović, Tanja Grozdanić, Silvijo Novak (3LHD), Igor Franić, Petar Mišković, Helena Paver Njirić, Lee Pelivan and Tomo Plejić (Studio UP), Goran Rako, Saša Randić and Idis Turato (Randić-Turato), and Pero Vuković.

It corresponds basically with Japanese selector Kazuyo Sejima`s concept: “People meet in architecture”. As one of the authors, Goran Rako says: “It`s the result of huge synergy flown in a particular product”, and he adds that although they are still not aware of all that is going on, it`s obviously incredibly exciting! The space is emotionaly affected, but functionaly not dominant at all.

“When architect makes a house, it`s excellent; when he makes a floating house, it`s a masterpiece; but when that house goes to Venice – it`s a dream of dreams!” – says a satisfied arcitect Idis Turato.

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Source:

http://www.tportal.hr/kultura/kulturmiks/82847/Brod-kuca-uplovio-u-rijecku-luku.html

http://www.labiennale.org/en/Home.html

http://gizmodo.com/5622474/this-is-how-you-physically-construct-a-mirage

http://www.vecernji.hr/kultura/strucnjaci-za-krah-paviljona-nisu-krivi-valovi-nego-avanturizam-clanak-185907

It collapsed!

Croatian Floating Pavilion designed for this year’s Venice Biennale by the group of architects and professors (Sasa Begovic, Marko Dabrovic, Igor Franic, Tanja Grozdanic, Petar Miskovic, Leo Modrcin, Silvije Novak, Veljko Oluic, Helena Paver Njiric, Lea Pelivan, Toma Plejic, Goran Rako, Sasa Randic, Idis Turato, Pero Vukovic, Tonci Zarnic), who used the huge amount of Croatian taxpayers’ money to build it, was never exhibited there because it has collapsed on its way. In spite of the fact that inrepairable damage was caused by the structural failure nobody took responsibility for the blamage.

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Images courtesy Katarina Olujić

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ONE TAKE FILM FESTIVAL- No. 5

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20/08/2010

THE ONE TAKE FILM FESTIVAL (18/11-20/11) IS AN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILMS SHOT IN ONE TAKE, THAT IS FILMS SHOT WITHOUT INTERRUPTION, FROM THE MOMENT OF TURNING THE CAMERA ON TO THE MOMENT OF TURNING THE CAMERA OFF. THE ONE TAKE FILM FESTIVAL ELIMINATES A SEEMINGLY INDISPENSABLE PART OF A FILM – NAMELY, EDITING – AND THUS PROHIBITS CUT, DISSOLVE, FADE IN/OUT AND ALL OTHER TYPES OF TRANSITIONS. THE ONE TAKE FILM FESTIVAL IS THE ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD, AND IT TAKES PLACE IN ZAGREB.

THE ONE TAKE FILM FESTIVAL INCLUDES FILMS OF ALMOST EVERY GENRE IN IT’S PROGRAMME (DOCUMENTARY, FICTION, EXPERIMENTAL, MUSIC VIDEO AND COMMERCIAL). THE ONE TAKE FILM FESTIVAL, IN IT’S THREE-DAY PROGRAMME, CONVINCED YOU IN THE POSSIBILITY OF EXCLUDING THE CLASSIC CONCEPT OF FILM EDITING IN FAVOUR OF CAPTURING A PART OF REALITY IN ITS CONTINUITY, WHERE THE DIVERSITY OF CINEMATIC LUDISM IS NEVERENDING, AND THE RESTRICTION INCREDIBLY ENTICING.

Participants and programme:

http://www.onetakefilmfestival.com/2010_en/index_flash.html

Source:

http://www.onetakefilmfestival.com

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Extravagant bodies: Extravagant minds 2010

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19/08/2010

International festival of mental health, exhibition, performances, theatre plays, cinema, conference.

It is the first international project of this kind in this region. Find the answers to how we became mad, how autism and theatre are connected, do we perhaps need mental pacemakers or how does one fall in love with the Eiffel Tower, by coming to the festival, October 20-24, 2010 at Pogon Jedinstvo and Mochvara Club in Zagreb.

October 23, Saturday (11-16h conference)
● Panel 1: How We Became Mad
11:15h Dušan Bijelić (RS/US), Freud’s Self-Orientalism and the “Nazi Symptom” of Psychoanalysis
12h Ana Peraica (HR), The Victims’ Symptom
12:20h Zoran Roško (HR), How Did We All Become Mad?
● Panel 2: Doctoring the Mind
13:45h Sergio Benvenuto (IT), Age of Happiness, Age of Depression
14:30h Adi Hasanbašić (BA), The Voice of Madness Live on Air
14:50h Leonard Roy Frank (US), Electroshock Damages the Brain and Destroys Memory / video conference

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Source: http://kontejner.org/extravagant-minds-2010-english

http://kontejner.org/schedule-extravagant-minds-english

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Virtual walk through Contemporary Art

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14/08/2010

The Croatian Museum of Contemporary Art (Muzej suvremene umjetnosti-MSU) was founded in 1954 with the aim of following, documenting and promoting events, styles and phenomena in contemporary art. After the old museum, which was located in the Upper Town, new museum was opened in 2009 between capital`s historical centre and its new districts across the Sava river.

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The collections of the museum include some twelve thousand contemporary artworks, created by Croatian and international artists between 1950 and the present day. the museum includes the following collections: Drawings, Prints, Posters, and works on Paper; Film and Video; Photography; Media art; Sculpture and Painting.

The core of newly founded collection of Media Art is constituted by early computer artworks that the MSU collected during the five international exhibitions entitled New Tendencies, which took place in the period from 1961-1973. The third exhibition of New Tendencies (1965) investigated the relationship between cybernetics and art, while the fourth (1968/69) was dedicated to information theory. In accordance with that, an international symposium on Computers and Visual Research took place in the same year, accompanied by the publication of the first issue of BIT international.

Virtual contemporary gallery

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Source:

http://www.msu.hr/#/en/

http://www.msu.hr/#/en/19/


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Franceschi introduces Croatian avantgarde in Turkey

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11/08/2010

Famous Croatian Art Historian and director Branko Franceschi will introduce his Virtual Museum of Avantgarde Art with a special approach to avantgarde movements in previous Yugoslavia, during Biennale in Turkish Sinop, between August 14th-September 4th, 2010.  The third edition of Sinopale is “Hidden Memories, Lost Traces”. The project aims to gather a “transportable memory” of the city in order to reveal hidden memories and lost traces thus stimulating memories of the artists as well.

The Biennale organizer stresses: „ The actualization of this crucial period by means of arts will bring back memories and link with the present maybe unexpected singular events, thus allowing new readings of the process of change in European cities and actual events that take place in those cities. (…)

Sinop has the characteristic of an isolated port city which has existed throughout ages.  It has a loaded history and a loaded memory. The existence of a penitentiary (prison) where some of the prominent intellectuals of that period had to do time and its impacts is part of the collective memory of the city (…) Black Sea region is a transit area between the geographical Europe and the political Europe where historical conflicts still take place.

Sinopale 3 will deal with the artistic, creative works related to the expression of the “hidden memory” together with contrasts such as the “choice of the inhabitants” and the “choice of the governors” in integrity on “city, district, individual” basis. Through workshops, exhibitions, performances where “proposals for the future” will be discussed (…), the Biennale will be held in a “participative-interactive” way.

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Sources:

http://www.culturenet.hr

http://www.sinopale.org/

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“Film mutations: the festival on invisible cinema” in MSU, Zagreb

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03/08/2010

Film Mutations: the Festival of Invisible Cinema is a Croatian filmological project on the modes of film presentation and interpretation, or the politics of film curatorship, Gorgona, 1.- 5.12.2010.

This year’s festival-symposium will take place from 1 to 5 December, 2010, at the MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, with programs and lectures by world film scholars, Alexander Horwath (director, Austrian Film Museum), Olaf Möller (permanent curator, Film Festival in Oberhausen), Nicole Brenez (professor, University Paris III) and Go Hirasawa (lecturer, Tokyo University Meiji-Gakuin) and filmmakers Lech Kowalski and Klaus Wyborny, who will start a debate and reflexion on the modes of non-commercial exhibition and on the ethics, aesthetics and politics of poor, minority curatorship.

In previous years, amid discussions of the digital, of the death and mutations of analog film, of the expectations for the archival and museum destiny of film on celluloid tape, a challenge with which film museums and archives will confront the digital age, of the utopian role of museums in relation to the image market, there was a call for a redefinition of the notion of film curatorship.

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Source:

http://www.msu.hr/#/en/18934/

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Gilbert & Georg get apart!

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01/08/2010

Croatian artist Snježana Ban created the ambiental installation “Gilbert & Georg get apart”,  in  2007, while Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb has announced the exhibition of those artists in Croatia, which is opened on June 10, 2010 till September 12.

Very close artistic and life partners are shown in characteristic poses, as they have abandoned their works, and each other as well.

Snježana Ban was born in 1980 in Zagreb, a capital of Croatia. She graduated in 2007 on Academy of fine arts in Zagreb,( mentor prof. Ante Rašić), where she teaches as assistent, and she also finished  Textile design faculty in 2008.

More:

http://msu.hr/

https://media-via.net/2010/06/03/208/

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Motovun Film Festival in July likes October

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A famous Monty Python actor Terry Jones, a special Maverick winner, closed 12th Motovun film Festival on 30 July.

Motovun Film Festival is an annual film festival established in 1999 and held in Motovun, Croatia. It usually takes place over 5–6 days in late July or early August. Motovun Film Festival is also the name of the company organizing the festival. This year festival was held between 26 – 30 July.

Motovun Film Festival is entirely dedicated to films made in small cinematographies and independent productions.

Motovun wants to be a small festival showing small films, small in the warmest sense of the word. Festival program consists of around 70 titles from all over the world, from documentaries to feature films, from short to long films, from guerilla made films to co-productions. The only criteria in their selection is that they fit in the open-minded atmosphere of the festival with their innovations.

The festival also gained in status. From what was once a backpacker’s film festival, it is today widely recognized as being the most important film festival held on the territory of the former Yougoslavia, along with the Sarajevo Film Festival.

This year festival jury awarded with the first prize  (Propeller of Motovun) Daniel and Diego Vega`s film “Octubre” (October), and a special Fipresci Award went to “The Four times” directed by Michelangelo Frammartino. Among short film the best one was “Balls” by Chris Niemeyer.

This year a Maverick aword went to a special guest Terry Jones who was dressed like a bishop while blessing the audience and Croatian President as well, at the closure of the festival!

MV

Source:

http://www.filmski.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motovun_Film_Festival

http://www.motovunfilmfestival.com/


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