STUDENTS’ CITY CULTURAL CENTER
Gallery, 4th – 18th September, 2009
Opening: Friday, September 4th at 7PM
usually4 with Vanessa Mayoraz, THE SEMIOTICS OF THE CITY
Gallery is open every day except on Sundays 17:00 – 21:00
The project The Semiotics of the City presents the international group of artists usually4 – Karolina Freino [Poland], Sam Hopkins [UK/Kenya], Teresa Luzio [Portugal] and Dusica Drazic [Serbia]. The group was formed as the extension of a cooperation between alumnis from the master program «Public Art and New Artistic Strategies» at the Bauhaus University Weimar that studied between 2003 and 2006. The artists collect information and create their works by moving within, and intersecting with, a city. They communicate with passers-by/citizens in a manner often referring to the broad field of walking art.
A guest of the project is Vanessa Mayoraz [Switzerland], also an alumni from the Bauhaus University Weimar.
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In the video-work Motion Picture, Karolina Freino navigates already existing web cameras and, using a live-stream video of the constant movement in Belgrade (Trg Nikole Pasica), records her performative act that slips out of a common routine of that place – by breaking a routine she becomes visible.
In the project 6 hours for 6 days that was realized in Wroclaw in 2006, Sam Hopkins explores the state of being stationary within a city that is in constant flux. Hopkins searched for patterns/routines within the city, but he also attracted people’s curiosity…
Teresa Luzio installs a flag on a pole in the Student City announcing her work Bohemian Home together with a series of photographs in the Gallery that remember an act of discarding the personal belongings that refer to a nomadic identity.
Dusica Drazic reconstructs Deadend street and by that connects the exhibition space and the public space. A viewer is in the gallery, but placed within the city – the photography functions as a virtual gate taking the dimension of the corridor. The viewer performs a walk from the moment when he faces the deadend street and goes back taking a new path.
Outer Circle is the work by Vanessa Mayoraz which consists of five notebooks that will be given away at the opening. Visitors will use them to draw their favorite bench, street, window, or any other place within the city which is significant for them. By dissemination of these notebooks Mayoraz will detect existing personal networks that exist in the city.
The project is supported by Swiss Cultural Program – Pro Helvetia Belgrade, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Ministry of Culture Republic of Serbia.
Contact:
STUDENTS’ CITY CULTURAL CENTER
Bul. Zorana Djindjca 179
11070 New Belgrade
T:+381 11 2691 442
E: galerija@dksg.rs
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