28 March
- 9 April, 09:00 - 12:00
SCHOOL OF MISSING STUDIES (SMS)
Workshop - Looking for October (LFO)
9 April, 20:00 - public presentation
School of Missing Studies - SMS, is a flexible platform for education
and an international network for the study of the culture of urban
environment in the cities in which the situation is marked by
an uncertain course of political, social and cultural transition.
SMS provides an opportunity for young architects and artists to
devote themselves to the subjects absent from their studies, carrying
out creative research and to the processes characteristic of local
urban changes. The participants in the SMS project will research
into the vague realm bordering on the established disciplines
such as architecture, art, sociology and culture studies with
the aim of throwing some light on the phenomena missing in the
development of urban transition in the cities including Belgrade,
New York, Rotterdam and Zurich.
The SMS project was conceived thanks to the cooperation between
Liesbeth Bik (artist, Rotterdam), Katherine Carl (writer/custodian,
New York), Ana Dzokic (architect, Rotterdam), Srdjan Jovanovic
Weiss (architect, New York), Ivan Kucina (architect, Belgrade),
Marc Neelen (architect, Rotterdam), Milica Topalovic (architect,
Rotterdam), Jos Van der Pol (artist, Rotterdam), Sabine von Fischer
(architect, Zurich) and Stevan Vukovic (writer/custodian, Belgrade).
LFO is supported in part by Trust for Mutual Understanding New
York and by Pro Helvetia Zürich. www.normalgroup.net/sms
Thursday,
1 April, 20:00
GIANT ROBOT (Finland) in concert
(funk/hiphop/pop/rock fusion)
It is hard to define the genre to which GIANT ROBOT belong. Their
music combines the elements of hip hop, dub, electro and space
rock, while their urban attitude is described as art rock, electro
dub or wild eclecticism, future funk.
The band itself believes that their music is a "meltning
pot", a mixture of genres filtered through the Finnish experience
to produce an eccentric sound. Critics say their work is a turning
point in the history of Finnish music. They performed at different
clubs all over Europe from Paris to St. Petersburg. www.giantrobot.fi
mp3 download (right click --> Save Target As...): Giant
Robot - Heartbreakdance.mp3 [ 2,55 MB | 64kbit, 32000Hz, stereo
] Giant
Robot - Public Shopping.mp3 [ 1,69 MB | 64kbit, 32000Hz, stereo
]
[Tickets can be bought at REX on 1 April. To make your reservation
please dial 3284 534]
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Wednesday,
7 April, 19:00
WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN, WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING Guest/
host of the evening at REX: Ljiljana Blagojevic, architect, senior
lecturer at the Department of Architectural and Town-Planning
Design at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade
In the period 1989-1997, Ljiljana Blagojevic worked in London
as an architect employed at the firms Renton Howard Wood Levin
and Office of Zaha Hadid. She is a member of the team that designed
the Great Bridgewater Hall (RHWL) - concert hall in Manchester,
the opera in Cardiff - Cardiff Bay Opera House, Boilerhouse -
gallery at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and Habitable
Bridge in London (Zaha Hadid). Since she came back to Belgrade
in 1997, she has participated in design competitions and won two
first prizes. Moreover, she has been focusing on research and
publishing works on the history and theory of XX century architecture
in Yugoslavia and Belgrade. She is the author of a number of essays
and books: "Modern house in Belgrade 1920-1941" (Belgrade
2000) and "Modernism in Serbia: The Elusive Margins of Belgrade
Architecture, 1919-1941" (MIT Press, 2003). She was a lecturer
and member of the Board of Counsellors at the School for the History
and Theory of Images of the Centre for Contemporary art in Belgrade.
She delivered several lectures and participated in symposia and
educational programmes in the country and abroad.
She will explain her reasons for coming back to this country,
in spite of the fact that she had a very successful career in
London and express her views on the difference in the status and
role of architects - designers here and abroad. Ljiljana Blagojevic
will also tell us why, in this country, she does not do the kind
of work she specializes in. The presentation will feature photo
documentation of the structures and projects Ljiljana Blagojevic
worked on.
Thursday,
8 April, 20:00
FANTASTIC GOSPEL ACCORDING TO VIRGINIA "This play is based on an attempt to turn the essential
phenomena of the life and work of Virginia Woolf - "England's
most liberated woman writer" into a pattern for a one-year
theatrical research, as well as for the play itself." www.rex.b92.net/plavo
Tuesday,
13 April, 20:00
Presentation of the EXPEDITION project
Author/narrator: Hana Gadomski
This little investigative journey is a story about two people,
Scheherazade and the personages appearing in Greek myths.
"Expedition" is a tale of wandering, understanding,
searching for meaning and finding a possible way. "Expedition"
can be put in a suitcase and taken to any place on earth.
Sunday,
18 April, 19:00 - 22:00
BACKSPACE 002
Transcendental video session by the group "Alt___Ctrl"
Mixing sounds and images into a single capsule for detoxication
and teleportation in the BACKSPACE /a cool chill-out ambient,
minimal and glitch/.
BACKSPACE 002 is the new performance of the digital art group
"Alt___Ctrl". After very successful projections on the
smoke and the disco ball at SKC and Dom omladine, the group will
be mixing sounds and images live on the ceiling and the walls.
Experimenting with optical effects and abstract video samples
and using ambient music they create a new coordinate-free dimension.
The work of the "Alt___Ctrl" group was shown at electronic
music festivals: Transmediale, European Media Art Festival, Videoex,
as well as at numerous experimental film and video festivals in
Europe and the US. *Entrance is free www.alt_ctrl.org
24 - 30
April
Exhibition of war photographs
DOCUMENTS OF RECONCILIATION
Author: Milos Cvetkovic Cvekla, Uzice-based photographer Saturday, 24 April, 20:00 - opening of the exhibition
The exhibition is open every day from 12 to 8 pm.
Forty war photographs taken in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
and Serbia that were shown in Uzice will also be shown at this
exhibition in Belgrade held as part of the programme "Documents
of Reconciliation" which is a segment of the project "Responsibility
for the Future". The project is aimed at increasing the level
of inter-ethnic tolerance and speeding up the process of reconciliation
of young people, since it is seen as one of the ways of preventing
clashes, developing a multiethnic society in the region, facing
the past and starting a discussion about war crimes and individual
responsibility. Tuesday, 27 April, 20:00 Discussion
DOCUMENTS OF TIME
organized as part of the exhibition project
Participants: Milos Cvetkovic, author of the photographs shown
at the exhibition DOCUMENTS OF RECONCILIATION, Goranka Matic and
(editor of photography at the Vreme magazine) and Vojin Dimitrijevic
(Director of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights)
The project is carried out with the support of Freedom House and
financial backing of the C.S. Mott Foundation
Sunday,
25 April, 19:00
WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN, WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING Guest / host of the evening at REX: Nebojsa Milikic
Nebojsa Milikic will be talking about his participation in the
MASTERCLASS workshop and the conference Almost Real (www.almostreal.org)
held in Utrecht, the Netherlands from 1 to 14 March 2004. Nineteen
artists coming from ten European countries took part in the workshop
creating and broadcasting radio programme 24 hours a day. The
programme could be heard within a two-kilometre radius of the
building of the Central Museum in Utrecht. The guest/host of the
evening at REX will describe working conditions in the workshop,
methods and results of the work of artists and moderators, as
well as the way in which it was related to the conference Almost
Real that focused on new ideas and strategies applied in socially
committed artistic practice. Moreover, at the competition held
as part of the workshop, Nebojsa Milikic was awarded the first
prize by the jury. The topic of the competition was "A message
to an Absent Friend". The presentation will also feature
photographs taken in Utrecht and Amsterdam.
Thursday,
29 April, 20:00
Presentation of the book TWO ESSAYS
written by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy
Published in the past.forward book series by the Multimedia Institute
from Zagreb and Arkzin.
Presentation of the book containing two of Nancy's key essay that
greatly influenced the development of philosophical thought in
the last two decades will be held as part of the World of Freedom
promotional tour. This is the first time this book is published
in any of the South Slavic languages. Jean-Luc Nancy is a professor
of philosophy at the Mark Bloch University, Strasbourg, author
of a number of very influential studies and undoubtedly the most
important thinker of the generation that succeeded Derrida, Foucault,
Deleuze or Lyotard. Having in mind the importance of Nancy's thinking,
we could say that with him the French philosophy entered the 21st
century.
Speakers: Ivan Milenkovic, Obrad Savic and Petar Milat
The book will be available at a promotional price. www.pastforward.org
+ Belgrade
Resource Centre artistic project competition is still open
for entries
For more information visit: www.rex.b92.net/rc
+ HORKESKART - choir established by the SKART art group
will hold its rehearsals at REX during April. SKART choir official
website: www.horkeskart.co.yu
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