April 2004.

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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