Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
June 7 – July 14, 2013
Opening: June 7, 19h
Video,
television, anticipation
Curators: Branka Benčić and Aleksandra Sekulić
Tomislav Gotovac / Mio Vesović, Sanja Iveković, Bojan
Jovanović, Apsolutno, Ivan Faktor, Dalibor Martinis, Studio Imitacija Života
(Darko Fritz, Željko Serdarević), Zank/Borghesia, Dejan Vlaisavljević NIKT,
Zhel (Željko Vukičević), TV Galerija, Low-Fi Video
Projects: Technology to the People! (MSUV, Novi
Sad: Gordana Nikolić), DIVA Station
(SCCA, Ljubljana: Barbara Borčić), The
Futurists (Zavod Zank: Neven Korda), Dalibor
Martinis talks to Dalibor Martinis; Macedonian
Video Art 1985-2005 (Evgenija Teodosievska)
Video, Television, Anticipation
Aleksandra Sekulić i
Branka Benčić
Anticipation is a
build-in perspective, which we intend to reveal by a certain epistemology of
forgetting, or evoking the (pre)sense of future of art and media as a horizon
of video as a practice in its initial exploring and agonistic relations to
television. In the
entire cultural space of former Yugoslavia we can recognize continuity and
anticipation in regarding the film production of cinema clubs and pioneering
work with video art. Soon television is becoming a point of reference and field
of research as well as the artistic influence on the formation of specific
aesthetics. This exhibition connects works from several
decades: from the struggle in broadening the space of artistic interventions,
using media ‘space of flows’, through the radical practices in Yugoslav
cine-amateurism and alternative culture of the 1980s; experiments within the
television program and appropriation of the media images; to the creation of
the self-organized media spaces sustained by the video as the media of new microcinema communities. At the
same time as the television has shaped the specific aesthetics, art is shaped
by television, and the works of artists presented at the exhibition are
questioning the cultural impact of television and its authority. Artists have
destabilized the codes and conventions such as watching television, TV set as
an object in the fields of installation and sculpture, and questioning the
passive attitude of observers as well as ways of cultural production and
consumption. Making an overview of a history of freedom,
as it was claimed by the practices of video, we are in process of getting back
its future, and revealing the potential which is now accessible, and in its
course, anticipated.
Program
of discussions and presentations
08.06 17h
Presentations and discussion:
Barbara Borčić, SCCA, Ljubljana; Gordana Nikolić, Museum of Contemporary Art
of Vojvodina (MSUV) i Low-Fi Video, Belgrade
15. 06. 17h
Presentations and discussion:
Evgenija Teodosievska, Bojan Jovanović, Neven
Korda (Zavod Zank), Zoran Pantelić i Dalibor Martinis (Dalibor Martinis talks to Dalibor Martinis)