“Displacements” is a collaborative project that aims to explore the principal aspects of contemporary art production and live performance within a newly built platform. Essentially, it is an interactive and interdisciplinary physical interface for live holographic video streaming of performances. Displacements is a collaborative project that aims to explore the principal aspects of contemporary art production and live performance within a newly built platform. Essentially, it is an interactive and interdisciplinary physical interface for live holographic video streaming of performances. The limitations and possibilities brought by these new conceptual, production, performance and spectatorship conditions will inevitably generate specific experiences for audiences as well as for performers; the platform’s fundamental goal is to initiate, monitor, document and classify these experiences. The Displacements platform is constructed as a physical space that mimics a small performance stage, embodying the means of online communication within a digital, virtual space. It enables artists living in different geographic locations to jointly create the piece. Newly-created productions can be performed live from distant places and experienced by a physically present audience. The tools used for the creation of the artwork are video, audio, performance streaming, web presence and holographic projection. The selected artists come from different fields such as the visual arts, performance, theater, music, literature, film and new media. Through new art productions, the Displacements platform explores complex notions of personal experience, sensibilities, presence, displacement, audience, immediacy, space, private vs. public, intimate vs. spectacular, individual vs. collective, digital vs. corporeal. What happens in the absence of the mutual physical presence of performers and audience? What happens when the virtual body inhabits the same space as its audience, disrupting the overall physical limitations of the digital? How do performers negotiate their isolation from or the absence of the audience? How is this reflected in the performance? How do the physical limitations of the proposed platform’s space reconstruct the performance? The artistic responses provoked by these questions and elaborated within the production processes will be collected by documenting diverse modes of involvement, thus generating an extensive database of discussions, communication transcripts and audio and video records. This material will then be presented as a browsable archive of all discussed ideas, concepts and processes, relevant not only to the creation and development of the platform, but also to the prospect of expanding relevant performance-related art forms beyond the binding box of what is currently identified and approved of, into the digital realm. The platform being exhibited at the Serbian pavilion of PQ 2011 aims to explore art forms that depart from the premise of a mutually shared material existence and explore the legitimacy of digital – or even more so – multiple presences. It maps out potential routes for the departure from shared presence of artist and audience, and examines (both theoretically and practically) the ensuing implications on the performing arts.
- Ana Sofrenović
* 18.09.1972, Belgrade
Specialization: director, actor, Performer
Education: Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade
Collaboration with theatres: Performance Projects, NYC House of Foundation, NYC Zagreb Student Center Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade Dom Omladine, Belgrade Intercultural Theatre, Novi Sad
Teaching activities: Workshops and classes for performance and vocal exploration
Continuing collaboration with directors: Peter Sciscioli Meredith Monk Purisa Djordjevic
Exhibiting works
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Ana Sofrenović: In between Spaces (In between Spaces),
Studio B, Belgrade
(Studio B, Belgrade),
2011, Director: Ana Sofrenović, , Composer: Gunnlaug Thorvaldsdottir, Artist: Dorijan Kolundžija
- Bojan Đorđev
* 19.09.1977, Belgrade
Specialization: author, theatre director, Performer
Education: BFA in theatre directing, MA in theory of arts and media, PhD candidate in theory of arts and media
Collaboration with theatres: Centre for Cultural Decontamination since 2001. Little Theatre “Duško Radović” since 2003. Bitef Theatre and Festival since 2006.
Teaching activities: Performing arts workshops (theory and critique)
Participation in other important exhibitions: Beyond Theory, WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, and SUSHI Gallery, San Diego/USA (2008); Dokumenta 12 Magazines projects (2007, with TkH Walking Theory collective and Journal for Performing Arts Theory)
Awards: Artist in Residence, Akademie Schloss Solitude (2004 and 2005/06)
Additional information: Born in 1977 in Belgrade. BA in theatre directing (2001) and MA in theory of arts and media (2007). Author, director and performer of numerous theatre projects in Belgrade, plus several in Stuttgart, Vienna, Lyon, Gent. Since 2002, co-author with Siniša Ilić of long-term travelling archive-performance project Desert of Picture (Gent, Zagreb, Stuttgart, Bucharest, Belgrade, Vienna, San Diego – www.tiny.cc/desertofpicture). Currently developing, in collaboration with a group of artists from the independent Belgrade and Skopje scene, an on-line publication-in-progress of anti-jargon. Co-founder of the TkH (Walking Theory) platform and journal for performing arts theory (www.tkh-generator.net).
More info at: http://bojandjordjev.wordpress.com
- Dalija Aćin
* 15.10.1974, Čačak, Serbia
Specialization: choreographer, theatre director, Performer
Education: Ballet School Lujo Davico
Collaboration with theatres: Bitef Theatre, Little Theatre Dusko Radovic, Jugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade Drama Theatre
Awards: Prix Jardin d’Europe (2008); Special award for new tendencies in theatre for the children’s performance for “The Book of Roaming”, TIBA International Children’s Theatre Festival, Belgrade (2009)
Exhibiting works
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Dalija Aćin: Seizure (Seizure),
Studio Belgrade
(Studio Belgrade),
2011, Director: Dalija Aćin, , Rastko Lazič, Geneve - live audio, Dorijan Kolundžija - video
- Aleksandar Denić
* 31.10.1963, Belgrade
Specialization: architect, author, producer, theatre director, lighting designer, painter , sculptor, scenographer
Education: Master’s degree in scenography, Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade
Collaboration with theatres: National Theatre Belgrade; Atelje 212 Belgrade; Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade
Teaching activities: Professor of film and theatre scenography, Production Design School of Art and Design (FUD) in Belgrade; presentation at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe/Germany; Conference/Workshop: Revitalization of Industrial Zones, Budapest/Hungary
Participation in other important exhibitions: “True Lies”, Ludwig Museum Budapest
Continuing collaboration with directors: Michael Basset,Srđan Dragojević,Uli Edel,Srđan Karanović,Emir Kusturica,Tanja Mandić Rigonat,Dušan Milić,Goran Marković,Darjan Mihajlović,Peter Kahane,Dejan Mijač,Mikele Merola,Jug Radivojević,Miloš Radović,Michael Rhodes,Alisa Stojanović,John Stockwell
Awards: Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special
- Manja Ristić
* 17.01.1979, Belgrade
Specialization: composer, author, art manager, sound designer, media artist
Education: BA, Belgrade Academy of Music; PGDip Royal College of Music, London
Collaboration with theatres: “Duško Radović” Children's Theatre, Belgrade; Mnemosyne – Theater of Memories/Work in progress troupe
Awards: first prize, “Petar Konjović” string quartet competition; third prize, Concorsi Internazionali di Musica "Città di Stresa"
Additional information: BAF! Balkan Art Fluxion curator, Amsterdam; gallery curator at the “Parobrod” cultural centre, Belgrade; supernovapoetry.net author; Supernova Platform / streaming web poetry international multimedia events coordinator; New Radio Belgrade “artist in focus” online gallery curator; Cybercinematography Belgrade video installations, co-author; “ECHO” festival of experimental arts, organizer and performer; “Grananje” performance with Marica Radojčić; “Dark Star” exhibition with Simonida Rajčević; Cronosfera Festival, performer and media partner; Visioni dal Futuro, video competition media partner; Mnemosyne – Theater of Memory/Work in progress, co-author; numerous music performances, both classical and experimental/improvisational as well as multimedia performances in Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and United Kingdom. Founder of the Auropolis Association of Multimedia Artists, Belgrade (1996)
- Igor Stangliczky
* 06.08.1977, Belgrade
Specialization: sculptor, Sound Artist
Education: Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade
Teaching activities: Guest teacher at Folkehøgskule Skogn, Norway (2001); guest teacher at Potstown Public High School, USA (2003); teacher at Studio 91/1 Belgrade/Serbia (2002/06)
Participation in other important exhibitions: The Archipelago Festival, European Sound Delta SoundDrop, Strasbourg (2008); BAF: Balkan Art Fluxion, Amsterdam (2008); The Zepter traveling international exhibition “CUP2004”
- Sinisa Ilic (Siniša Ilić)
* 1977
Specialization: author, set designer, scenographer, visual artist, Visual artist and performer
Education: BA and MA in painting, Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade
Collaboration with theatres: Centre for Cultural Decontamination since 2001. “Duško Radović” Little Theatre since 2003. National Theatre Belgrade since 2009.
Participation in other important exhibitions: No Ifs. No Buts, DEPO, Istanbul; Aftermath, Salon of MSUB, Belgrade; Dear Countrymen and Woman, Gallery MC, New York City; Salon of Revolution, HDLU, Zagreb; Beyond Theory, WUK, Vienna and SUSHI Gallery, San Diego; Dokumenta 12 Magazines projects
Continuing collaboration with directors: Bojan Đorđev, Ivica Buljan, Ksenija Krnajski, Đurđa Tešić
Awards: Artist in residence: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; Kultur Kontakt, Vienna; ISCP, New York
Additional information: He is based in Belgrade. An artist and performer, he deconstructs violence (from heteronormative to nationalist) and is a connector between different spaces within the realm of culture, art and activism. He is interested in conceptualising the possibility of rethinking financial capitalism and its financialization processes permeating art and social, political and critical discourse. This reveals the process of the continuous re-articulation of our own position in the world in which we live and work. His artistic work has been always strongly oriented towards team or group work, whether collaborative work or artistic projects (collaborations with writers and theoreticians in visual art projects and comics, people from theatre and performance fields). He is a co-founder and member of TkH (Walking Theory), an independent performance art and theory platform in Belgrade, and of TkH magazine.
More about his work:
http://sinisailic.blogspot.com/
http://sinisailic.wordpress.com/
- Zoran Rajšić
* 08.02.1972, Belgrade
Specialization: Visual and performing artist
Education: master's degree, Moving Academy for Performing Arts (MAPA)
Teaching activities: Moving Academy for Performing Arts (MAPA): Novi Sad (2009), Belgrade (2010)
Participation in other important exhibitions: PATOSoffIRANJE 05 international multimedia festival, Smederevo/Serbia; Oktopus: First International Biennial of Extended Media, Belgrade/Serbia
- Dragan Mileusnić
* 21.04.1967, Zrenjanin, Serbia
Specialization: Video designer
Education: Minerva Academy, Groningen, Netherlands
Continuing collaboration with directors: André Heller, Nacho Duato, Tomaž Pandur
Additional information: Has collaborated with Željko Serdarević since 2003 in the fields of publishing, graphic and video design.
Exhibiting works
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Dragan Mileusnić: First Person (First Person),
Studio Belgrade, Zrenjanin
(Studio Belgrade, Zrenjanin),
2011 Video designer: D. Mileusnić, Graphic designer: Želijko Serdarević
- Željko Serdarević
* 08.11.1965, Split, Croatia
Specialization: Graphic designer
Education: Philosophical Faculty, Zagreb
Continuing collaboration with directors: André Heller, Nacho Duato, Tomaž Pandur
Additional information: Has collaborated with Dragan Mileusnić since 2003 in the fields of publishing, graphic and video design.