Saturday, 4 May, 11 am - 5 pm RHYTHM DANCE Dance workshop WAVES led by Lucija Ana Glagolić, Zagreb
Gabrielle Roth's 5 Rhythms method is simple, aimed at freeing the bodies of dancers regardless of their shape, size, age, physical limitations or experience. This dancing pathway is very accessible, everyone can participate fully, no dance background or special skills are required, rather the courage and willingness to step onto the dance floor and move with who and what you are, moment to moment, movement to movement. The DANCE RHYTHMS method provides the following benefits: body awareness, improved physical fitness, self-confidence, liberation and the development of your creative potential, exploration of the relationship to the self and to others.
Info and enrolment at zverac@EUnet.yu www.plesritmova.net, www.gabrielleroth.com
Monday 5 May, 7 pm Future Architecture: shopping and business centre & recreation centre (Block 62 New Belgrade)
Suzana Kovljanić's student project - design of a business centre with additional features bringing together recreational, business and commercial elements, based on the principles of landscape architecture will be presented at REX as part of the Belgrade Design Week. www.belgradedesignweek.com
8 - 14 May
RING RING Posters
Thursday, 8 May, 7 pm Opening of the exhibition Exhibition of the posters designed by the students of School of Design in Belgrade www.dizajnerska.edu.yu
9 - 14 May XIII International New Music Festival RING RING www.ringringpromotions.org Friday, 9 May, 8 pm Sparks (USA)
Evelyn Toth "The shades of Jazz Noir" (Hu/USA/Serbia)
Saturday, 10 May, 8 pm Irene Schweizer with Omri Ziegle (Ch)
Jean Luc Guionnet/Seijiro Mirayama (Fr/J) Sunday, 11 May, 8 pm Ken Vandermark/Tim Daisy (USA)
Oval (D)
Monday, 12 May, 8 pm Fennesz (A)
PUMA (N)
Tuesday, 13 May, 8 pm Tetuzi Akiyama/Toshimaru Nakamura (J)
Belgrade Noice Society (Srb) Wednesday, 14 May, 8 pm Paolo Angeli/Antonello Salis/Hamid Drake (I/USA)
The Gathering Of Drummers (Cz/Jam/UK/J/NZL/Nig)
RING RING + Tuesday, 27 May, 8 pm
Sava Centar Amphiteatre, KROKE (Pol)
Tickets will be sold at Bilet servis and REX from 5 May. Ticket prices:
single evening tickets for the concerts held at REX - 350 dinars (except 11 and 12 May - 450 din), weekend pass (Fri - Sun) 1000 din, six-day festival pass: 1800 dinars.
17 - 30 May Exhibition: ARCHIVES IN PROGRESS (projects 1987 - 2007) by Darko Fritz (Croatia) Saturday, 17 May, 6 pm Opening of the exhibition
Can new media help to archive art forever saving it thus from oblivion? The exhibition Archives in Progress is a retrospective of artistic projects carried out from 1987 until 2007 by Darko Fritz, one of the most important Croatian new media artists. Some of the projects lasted for up to five years. The exhibition explores the possibilities of putting archival tools (audio-visual media) and "pure information" to artistic use as an art form which has been conceived as a "film shown in a space" i.e. a gallery.
Twelve entities, separate audio-visual displays, feature material about ten solo and two group art projects by Darko Fritz. The audio-visual archive presentations feature more than two hundred art objects, in-gallery installations, outdoor art installations, contextual projects, videos, photographs, Internet projects and other art forms and formats.
The audio-visual displays show photographic and video documentary material about the projects (that the author has been colloecting since 1987) adapted to the gallery setting. The video material shown on the displays is a hybrid of a documentary film (with a professional voice over narrator), art documentation, animation and video art. Photo documentation and video material recorded in different formats on different media, some of which are no longer so easily available today, (e.g. U-Matic the old professional video system) have been digitalized and reformatted.
The audio-visual displays provide an insight into the context of certain projects that cannot be understood from a single segment. Some segments of projects have been presented in such a way as to function as separate works (e.g. a photograph from the End of the Message series. The context of the work widens if one sees the entire series of photographs and discovers further details of the story (which projects preceded or followed that particular segment throughout the entire project that lasted for five years). Thus the context itself becomes a work art. Such a context can be shown in various formats including printed and electronic publications, internet documents or video. The exhibition Archives in Progress features video material of this kind. On the other hand, many of the individual works contained material that is affected by the passage of time, making it impossible to show them in their original context e.g. floral installations in public spaces in Amsterdam, Linz, Zadar, Zagreb and Fuertevetura.
Featured works:
Studio Imitation of Life 1987 - 1990
Cathedral 1988
3 x Moscow Intershadow 1992
Theatre Time 1994
Keep the Frequency Clear 1994 - 1995
Error Reports 1995 - 1997
End of the Message 1995 - 2000
XXX 1997 - in progress
space=space 1998 - 2003
time=money=time= 2000 - 2001
Internet Error Messages 2001 - in progress
Migrant Navigator 2002 - in progress
Group projects:
Studio Imitation of Life: Darko Fritz, Željko Serdarević
Cathedral: Bakal, Fritz, Juzbašić, Marušić, Premec
space=space 1999: Darko Fritz, Ademir Arapović
p.sound remix [as part of the XXX project]: network art
Additional info on Darko Fritz's work: http://darkofritz.net The exhibition is part of the annual event MUSEUM NIGHT www.nocmuzeja.org.yu. It will be open throughout the night of 17/18 May
Carried out with the support of the City Secretariat for Culture, Belgrade and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia
Saturday 31 May 3-6 pm Women's Day
Why is women's day important? One of the key features of the emancipatory effort conducted by Žene na delu - Women at Work is its practical value and accessibility. That is why they to set out to explore the possibilities of what can be done primarily to familiarize women with the diverse activities carried out by more than twenty women's organizations, initiatives and programmes operating in Belgrade. Women can be often heard saying that they know very little about the activities of women who took initiative and organized themselves to improve the quality of life in the society. This is an opportunity for them to get precise information that could prove to be important in their personal, professional or family lives and find out whether the services provided by these organizations are free or not, become members or take part in some activities. Žene na delu - Women at Work decided to start from Belgrade where they will set up a bazaar offering information about women's organizations and more importantly an open platform for all interested women and girls to spend three creative /recreational hours participating in the programme hosted by other women. Women's day will be held at the REX cultural centre, 16 Jevrejska Street on the last Saturday of every month. That day will be open for women to come, enjoy a cup of coffee or tea, chat with other women and do something useful for themselves and share their time with others.
The organizers - Žene na delu - Women at Work invite you to come!
Dear women, you are all welcome to join us to change our lives together!
Women's day is organized with the financial support of the Dutch foundation Mama Cash
Additional information available at: www.zenergija.org
*WE, THEY, EVERYONE - Intercultural dialogue in the projects carried out by Cultural Centre REX. The exhibition to be held from 19 April until 20 May at the Cultural and Information Centre of Serbia in Paris will feature selected material illustrating the production of the REX cultural centre. It will focus on the projects to which the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue adds a new meaning and importance, namely, those that investigated and presented different aspects of the contemporary culture in Serbia including the marginalized Romany population and Dorćol Jews between the two World Wars, Ring Ring New Music Festival, projects oriented towards the suburbs of Belgrade and smaller towns in Serbia aimed at decentralizing the contemporary artistic production both local and foreign. The authors of the projects to be presented and the numerous participants in them initiated the discussion on the locally topical and globally always sensitive issues. A modern approach to themes and an innovative and thought-provoking exhibition staging strategy have improved and popularized many of these themes, opening up new production possibilities and setting new standards.
* The BIBLIOTOK project aims to introduce the wider public to the publications focusing on contemporary art, theory of culture, literature, comics, gender studies and minority groups. The library at REX has many such publications that appeared in the volatile conditions in the 1990s and after 2000. How does the general public perceive and understand the content of these magazines, studies and collections of articles about the still topical issues from the worlds of culture and politics? This is the question we aim to find an answer to together with the people living in three buildings in the vicinity of the REX cultural centre. The people in each building have been given a dozen publications, among which the issues of magazines Arkzin, Reč, Profemina, Stripburger, Prelom, Remont, etc. This project is open to other groups and individuals as part of the project FLUX AROUND US. www.rex.b92.net/fluxokonas
* REX hosts the rehearsals of the HORKESTAR choir and the PROBA collective
- REX reserves the right to make changes in the programme -