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Media-via president PhD Vesna Srnic visited the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and saw the exhibition of the avant-garde video art artist Sanja Iveković, with whom she once made an interview for the Croatian magazine Svijet. Sanja is a fighter for women’s rights, for anti-fascism and in this sense she is known for her sculpture the Pregnant Memory (Lady Rosa of Luxembourg) installed in prestigious world museums (MOMA, New York, Luxembourg)…

Sanja Ivekovic and dr Srnic have known each other since 1980. while as a student of art history dr Srnic worked in the Gallery of the City of Zagreb (today MSU) in Gornji grad. And Media-Via president is pleasantly surprised when she sees herself in the photo of a document of one of Sanja’s dramatic works.

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Croatian Cantus Ensemble has been developing successful artistic collaborations with several related ensembles in Europe and the world for years. On Monday, October 9, 2023 they were joined by the flute ensemble Kölner Gesellschaft Für Neue Music – KGNM.
In the preface of the program we read about the witty combination of tones of the German ensemble and Cantus at HDS (Croatian Society of Composers): “Ka-Ge-eN-eM + Ce-A-Ha-De-eS = NEW MUSIC!” is the winning formula of the first concert of the new season under the conductorship of the artistic director of the Cantus Ensemble, Berislav Šipuš”.

The following compositions were performed:

KGNM: Magdalena Buchwald – Syrinx II
KGNM: Igor C. Silva – We Live in a Bubble
Cantus Ensemble: Zlatko Tanodi – Cyborg
KGNM: Georg Heike – Stimmungen

KGNM: Anne La Berge – Conduits
Cantus Ensemble and KGNM: David Batinić – Echoes of alienation (first performance)
Cantus Ensemble and KGNM: John Hawkins – Divisibility

The announcement of new music is always exciting, because it opens up a field of synchronicity with the present moment. In the company of lucid art theoretician and excellent music connoisseur Dr. Kruno Martinac, we problematized the relationship between the “old” and the “new”. Dr. Martinac stated the point of view that old music in every performance is always new music at a given moment. The interesting point of view in which the old is intertwined with the new and actually apostrophizes tradition as a process, I personally considered insufficiently distinguishable: what, in my opinion, appears as new in New music has its own syntax that is not only manifested in the way of performance or synchronizing the old with a new moment, but contemporaneity and synchronicity are already given in the composition, in the manner of indeterminacy and aleatorics. Tonight’s concert still brought some overtones of the already mentioned “matrix of new music”, I would say like Cage (Water walk in We Live in a Bubble) or as Dr. Martinac felt it like Stockhausen (Stimung, although the vocal performance in Stimmungen “was like singing into an instrument”)…
Tonight’s new music types are all written compositions that mostly control “chance”, but the musicians experimentally exposed themselves to the audience’s proximity and feedback during the all-sensing, interactive performance of Heike’s just-mentioned composition Stimmungen – entering the audience.
Digitization of sound is part of the imaginative performance of We Live in a Bubble, and the humane perception of technology was contributed by Cantus’ performance of the Zlatko Tanodi composition – Kiborg.

NGO Culture, Media and Education – ARTHEA president Dr. Vesna Srnić is honored with an agreed collaboration with the Cantus Ensemble on the spring performance in 2024.

PhD. Vesna Srnić, Media-Via editor

The Civil organisation Culture, Media and Education – ARTHEA is preparing sounds for performance art – Modular Performance: Lighthouse of Slavonski Brod (Croatia).

Writing lucidly, visualizing enigmatically, Kipke the artist lives a hermetic reality and existential sensibility, but has to avoid quick statements in that singular Image of the World.

Kipke shows the degrees of his belief, moving from a magic trick to an effort to prove authenticity, all through the hard work.

Dr Vesna Srnic, docent

More on the exhibition:

8th December 2022 to 29 January 2023, the National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb 

National Museum of Modern Art

In front of the Art Pavilion in Zagreb, the artist Kata Mijatovic set up a small black house without doors and windows, slightly larger than a dog’s house. But the house hums, generating a mechanical threatening sound of some machine…

Without the ancient good, beautiful and true, without the human dominance over technology, only the power for dominance and fear of other people produces a black threat of dead Art…

New performance Glocal Art of Aging is a strong performative symbol and a unique field of knowledge – the image of the meeting of young and old is an INDICATION OF THE PROBLEM in Western culture that needs to be addressed on many levels: philosophical, social, cultural and artistic, religious…

LIVE STREAMING WILL BE AVAILABLE AT: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009361466293

Situationally and performatively through the “site-specific” artistic action (city square Ivana Brlić Mažuranić in Slavonski Brod / noon), we will multiply the simultaneous symbolic overlap of intense symbolic encounter of young and old: through the dance experience of three dancers, students (Elementary School I. G. Kovačić and Crafts -technical school) and 80 students on a multimedia assignment (Teacher Training, UNISB) will meet with 5 senior users of the Home for the Elderly and the Infirm.
Along with minimalist, contemporary music, three dancers from Zagreb of different generations will perform dance meditation on the Square: retired choreographer and dancer Mirjana Preis, middle-aged dancer Tamara Curić and young student Gita Curić.

All students will be aware of the importance of their existential role “moving to meet the elderly”, university students will be mentors who will guide old people a few meters across the square to meet the young, and young people will give them flowers and cakes… During the meeting three interactive generations of dancers will encourage dancing as “the revolution of tenderness” (Papa, I wish you a smile).
Writing about the importance of meeting and listening to “young prophets and old dreamers”, the Pope stressed the need for the reality of wise rooting with the synergy of young, playful enthusiasts with experienced elders who want to make their wealth available to the mutual benefit of growth.

A large number of students will actively participate in the performance by recording multimedia tasks as final works in the course Media Culture (UNISB).
In a scientific review of this phenomenon of dialogic actualization of young and old, eminent scientists with glocal addresses will write: Dr Kruno Martinac from Melbourne, Australia, Professor Ph.D Lino Veljak and Assistant Professor Suzana Marjanić from Zagreb, then psychiatry specialist MA Jugoslav Gojković and Assitant Professor Ph.D Vesna Srnić from Slavonski Brod who is also the author of the project.

Ph.D Vesna Srnic, ARTHEA president

PUBLICATION (in Croatian language)

CULTURENET.HR

https://www.culturenet.hr/hr/performans-glokalna-umjetnost-starenja/179305

UNISB – Odjel drušveno-humanističkih znanosti

FACEBOOK.COM

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009361466293

SBPLUS PORTAL

https://sbplus.hr/slavonski_brod/zivot/udruge_gradana/zasto_su_stariji_danas_sjedili_nasred_brodskog_korza.aspx#.YmVySlRBzct

BRODPORTAL

http://www.brodportal.hr/m/clanak/performans-glokalna-umjetnost-starenja-za-sve-generacija-31872

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Social network GLOCAL – ART

http://glocal-art.ning.com/

TWITTER.COM

https://twitter.com/VesnaSrnic

Primary school Ivan Goran Kovačić

http://os-igkovacic-sb.skole.hr/

Secondary school Obrtničko-tehnička škola

http://www.ss-obrtnicko-tehnicka-sb.skole.hr/

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A student of University of Slavonski Brod/UNISB Magdalena Tunjic created a short video on performance Glocal Art: Counterpoint Harmony.

By combining the artistic process into a harmony of free variation and contrast punctus contra punctum or point against point, we created a dynamic performative composition. We have woven the differentiation of the stylistic identities of the musicians into the stimulating, minimalist What Lies Hidden at the Root of an Obscure Edifice matrix of a professional composer. Each of the musicians, mostly related by birth in the same city of Slavonski Brod, but now from different parts of the world, from Australia (Dr Kruno Martinac) through Europe (University Professor Predrag Repanic, MA Mus. Aljaz Razdevsek, Musician Tomislav Brezicevic) to Canada (MA Arch. Siniša Tomic), innovated from their environment a representative audio sample of authentic and complex integration into the cantus firmus matrix, with the subsequent fairly summarize procedure done by the Professor of composition.

The resulting intelligent quantum / holographic fractal (pars pro toto) of consecutive octaves with consecutive spacing error tolerance is going to be exposed intensively in a specific place (Town Square), at a specific time (12 AM) for 15 minutes and accompanied with contemporary dancer Nastasja Stefanic from Zagreb in front of the urban citizens and students on a multimedia assignment.

It will be another NGO ARTHEA’s glocal call to the City and the World to live aesthetic and ethical values.

PhD. Vesna Srnic, Associate Professor, UNISB

NGO Culture, media and education – ARTHEA president

Ministry of Culture and Media in Republic of Croatia informed on their official web page about our performance which will be held on May 8 (Saturday) in Slavonski Brod:

https://www.culturenet.hr/default.aspx?id=104038&fbclid=IwAR2FyiwgnMnt8S7NxzcXZInL8CyR5SLC7nDxfUePk36mlEgCq3dvR3deOQ4

Final e-learning work of 2nd year students of the Teacher Education Department at the University of Slavonski Brod (UNISB), within the course Contemporary Media in Literature Teaching, under the mentorship of PhD Vesna Srnić, research associate.

PhD. Vesna Srnic has just published an original paper on Memory in co-authorship with Vice-Dean of Faculty of Teacher Education in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod PhD. Emina Berbić-Kolar and student Igor Ilić, in the American journal “Communication, Society and Media” (ISSN 2576-5388 (Print) ISSN 2576-5396 (Online), Vol. 1, No. 2, 2018 http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/csm )

Vedran Ruzic jazz quartet played multimedially joined with a huge screened film „Spiritual Market“ on 28th June, 2018 in The Ivana Brlic Mazuranic Concert Hall in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. „Spiritual Market“ combines the original jazz album of Vedran Ružić – inspired by the journeys of Marco Polo with the music accompanying art film, made by John Kardum and Ira Tomić.

Highly coordinated quartet sounded not only as a perfect western jazz, but also as a singular and highly spirited shaman in his endevaor! The sound was extremely and crystally penetrating thanks to the new, expensive equipment of the concert hall. Especially the Vedran’s dubble bass was impressive. The film pretended to be abstract but was illustrating facts occasionally. “Spiritual Market” was awarded with Porin for The Best Jazz Album in 2016.

Spiritual Market teaser

The jazz album was created in combination with overtones from Istria and the Far East, it follows Polo’s journey from Venice to China. The album unites 5 original pieces of Ružić, a late medieval motet and a traditional Mongolian piece with new arrangements. With Ružić on the double bass, the quartet is completed with his colleagues from the conservatorium in Klagenfurt – Adriano Bernobić on the drums, Pavle Miljenović on the guitar and Mario Biočić joining them with the saxophone on three pieces on the album. In addition to the music and paintings, Ira Tomić and John Kardum joined with photography and an art movie – as a result, the project “Spiritual Market” evolved, inspired by the journeys of Marco Polo to the Far East.

Vedran Ružić is an academic painter (on his last year at the academy of fine arts in Rijeka/Croatia) and a professional double bass jazz-musician. In 2017 he won the Croatia’s highest prize in music for the best jazz album of the year (Spiritual Market). He has his own atelier in Volosko/Opatija, where he works on his paintings and music. http://vedranruzic.com/en/

Vedran Ruzic Trio – Night speaking (Official video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFs6kPoh7Xs 

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Teaser and a Media-Via short video with courtesy of the artist.

After several European leftist philosophers, scientists and writers (Julia Kristeva, Niccolo Ammanti, Slavoj Zizek, Saskia Sassen and Richard Sennett, Thomas Piketty) Philosophy Theatre moderator Srecko Horvat organised an interview with the famous English Oscar winning actress Vanessa Redgrave, at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. The old, sometimes lucid, good looking aristocratic and arrogant actress is still involved in human rights activism.

Vanessa Redgrave (1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.

She is also known by the activist work as she has started protests against the Vietnam War, and continued with the struggle for Palestine and visiting Sarajevo during the occupation. The Stage magazine listed her in 2010 to ninth place on the list of the greatest actresses of all time. She played more than thirty roles in the West End and Broadway, most notably those in the plays The Year of magical thinking, Long journey into the night and Driving Miss Daisy.

Beside the theater career, she appeared in more than eighty films, six times was nominated for the Oscar, which was awarded to her for Best Supporting Actor in the film Julia (Fred Zinnemann, 1977). The films in which she acted like Isadore (Karel Reisz, 1968) and Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) have become classics of film history.

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Sources

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