The Rhizome team enters the archive of the project Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem in search of triggers that it writes into new artistic projects of authors Maja Bojanić, Hrvoslava Brkušić, Nadia Markiewicz, Fette Sans and curator Lea Vene. In the format of an audio walk, performance, open rehearsal and work room, the artists open up their artistic work processes as a form of dialogue between the above-mentioned archive and personal projects initiated outside of this context. Maja Bojanić invites us on an audio expedition through the wild ecology of Pogon’s space, corroded by mould and dampness. Nadia Markiewicz investigates anomalies in the rose family in order to revive her own ballad about a mutant rose through her performance. Hrvoslava Brkušić dives into the Yugofuturist research of the archive about Veda Zagorac (one of the founders of the Museum of African Art in Belgrade) and her life in Africa. With Fette Sans, we follow the protagonist of her new film through an open rehearsal examining the relationship between the director and the leading actress.
Four emergent site-specific artistic positions openly speak about individual artistic methodologies and possible reparative models of artistic action.
(Lea Vene)
_ Hrvoslava Brkušić: Veda Zagorac (working title), installation
moje putovanje plus veda
Svakim putovanjem proširi nam se horizont.
Na čas smo zemlja po kojoj hodamo, zrak koji udišemo, nebo koje gledamo.
Na čas preuzimamo ritam ulica u kojim jesmo i preobražavamo naš hod njihovim prelaskom. Čekamo trenutak, procjenjujemo svoju sposobnost kretanja kroz gužvu, svoj stupanj povjerenja u ono što je pred nama i ulazimo u tok.
Bočno, pa naprijed, rukom dajući znak da strujanja stanu, zaobilazimo aute plešućim korakom, ulice su širke, mnoštvo je motora, trube su lagane, glas su komuniciranja, a ne upozorenja.
U sjećanja mi se vraćaju slike pretrpanih vozila, piramide od tijela, mnoštvo na motoru, autobus bez sjedala, kamioni ko neboderi, ljudi u pokretu.
Ljudi na ulicama, ulice u ljudima. Uz kolnik voće, gume, cipele.,plastika, tkanina, alati, drvenarije, perike, torbe, životinje u krdima. Galopiraju u koloni.
Slika: kombi pretrpan vrećama, na krovu čovjek u crvenom stoji, vreće formiraju brdo veće od njega, negdje se voze.
Slika: na motoru dvoje odraslih i jedno dijete. Između dvoje odraslih je dupli madrac za spavanje. Dijete sjedi naprijed. Žena otraga gleda sa strane.
Kako se Vedin pogled mijenjao kroz godine bivanja u Africi? Kako su se mijenjale kronološki njezine fotografije? Dal se početnički pogled bez iskustva može uspoređivati?
I što nam je nepoznatima zanimljivo?
Slučajni prolaznici? Motivi ulice? Šareni uzorci? Krajolici?
Kako čitamo krajolike koje nismo doživjeli?
Hrvoslava Brkušić: Veda Zagorac (working title), installation _video: Vanja Babić
Hrvoslava Brkušić: Keywords _full text below
_ Fette Sans: I Passed the Stage of Disappointment Long Ago, film, installation, performance
Fette Sans: I Passed the Stage of Disappointment Long Ago, performance _video: Vanja Babić
_ Credits:
Concept: Fette Sans
Written and directed by: Fette Sans
Performed by and developed in collaboration with Zora Bjelousov, Jasna Givens and Fette Sans
Music and sound design: Philipp Wüschner
Light design: Fette Sans and Jasmin Dasović
Technical coordination and suppot: Jasmin Dasović
Fette Sans: I Passed the Stage of Disappointment Long Ago (video, installation) _video: Fette Sans & Jasna Givens
_ Credits:
Written and directed by Fette Sans
Performed by Zora Bjelousov
Camera: Jasna Givens
Additional camera: Fette Sans
Editing and sound: Fette Sans
Piano and singing: Philipp Wüschner
Fette Sans: I Passed the Stage of Disappointment Long Ago, performance script _photo: Fette Sans
_ Nadia Markiewicz: Ballad of the Withering Rose, performance
Extracted from an imaginary garden, a single oversized deviant rose intimidates and fascinates the gaze. In full bloom she migrates from the flat surface onto a performing body. The anthropomorphic rose appears on stage, alive and grieving an recent loss of her dear friend, who appears in the form of a moon. She surrenders to gentle and slow decay.
_ Credits:
Concept: Nadia Markiewic
Written, directed and performed by: Nadia Markiewicz
Directorial support: Łukasz Ronduda, Filip Pawlak
Dramaturgy and final direction: Szymon Adamczak
Light director: Sebastian Klim
Costume production: Wisła Nicieja
Music: Marcel Pieczonka
Scent: Alchembot
Voice coach: Agnieszka Kocińska
Technical coordination and suppot: Jasmin Dasović
_ Maja Bojanić: HIC SVNT DRACONES, no actually mld, participatory in-situ expedition of mold
Maja Bojanić: HIC SVNT DRACONES, no actually mld, participatory in-situ audio expedition on mold _photo: Sanja Bistričić Srića
_ Credits:
Concept, research and direction: Maja Bojanić
Expedition guide: Maja Bojanić
Technical coordination and suppot: Jasmin Dasović