Siniša Ilić and Bojan Đorđev | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Siniša Ilić and Bojan Đorđev

Sinisa Ilić, visual artist and Bojan Djordjev, theater director are collaborating since 1998. on hybrid works on the border of Fine and Performing Arts as a co-authors or in larger collaborative structures. Both are co-founders and members of the editorial collective TkH – Teorija koja hoda/Walking Theory - a theoretical art platform from Belgrade (since 2001.) within who they generate much of their artistic activities through research, artistic and theoretical actions and the work in the field of cultural policy. They presented their works of art,  artistic and theoretical actions in New York, Belgrade, Documenta 12 in Kassel, Zagreb, Vienna, Berlin, etc.  They are members of research-editorial collective and online publication Antijargon (antijargon.tkh-generator.net.).

Siniša Ilić (1977., Belgrade) is working in the field of visual and performing arts, and is occasionally engaged in set design. The his works he deconstructs iconography of social phenomena and mechanisms such as the types of work, violence in society, the concepts of education. His works are often oriented toward self-organization of a team work and collaborative projects with authors from different artistic fields (visual art and theory, theater, performing arts). He obtained his Master's degree and studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Art residencies: ISCP New York, KulturKontakt, Vienna Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Selection of exhibitions : What happened to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 2012.; Point blank, building Geozavod, Belgrade, 2011., Life in the Forest, Arsenall Gallery, Bialystok, Relocation, Prague Quadriennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague , No Network, 1st Time Machine Biennial, Konjic, Bosnia, uncertain adaptation (with Tina Gverović and Jelena Vesić) Art gallery of the Cultural Centre in Belgrade, Never that's when, Open Space, Vienna, 2010; But ifs. No buts, Depo, Istanbul; incomparable formation of hazardous conditions (with Tina Gverović), Gallery Nova, Zagreb, not Cooperation Corporation, ITS-Z1, Belgrade, I am what I am, Cacak, 2009th, Consequences, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, The Law of Capital: Histories of Opression, Meat Museum of Ljubljana; Dear countrymen and Woman, Gallery MC, New York, 2008th, Salon Revolution, Artists, Zagreb; Beyond theory, WUK Kunsthalle im Exnergasse, Vienna and Sushi Gallery, San Diego, No! Against Racism and Exploitation and Colonization, Pavel House, Graz, 2007th; Drunk on Dreams, Fruehsorge Galerie, Berlin; Hybrid-Imaginary, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Off-Center Feminities, Kimmek Center, New York; Disapearance of Public Space, MSU Salon, Belgrade, Press to Exit Gallery Skopje.

Bojan Djordjev (1977., Belgrade) is a theater director and performer active in the institutional and independent theater. His interests include design collective authorship, work with experimental drama script and post-dramatic theater. He graduated in theater and radio directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, and got his MA in theory of art and media at the University of Arts in Belgrade, where is currently pursuing his doctorate. Art residencies: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Paris (within TkH project How to do Things by Theory) and Artslink / New York Theatre Workshop, New York. Between 2012. The participant is DasArts master program in Amsterdam. Selection of theater projects: 2012: H. Guibert, Dogs, Queer / GK Gavella, Zagreb, 2011: Mr. Ferlec, Letter to Heiner Muller, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Zagreb, J. Joyce, exiles Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade 2009th: E. Jelinek / I. Sajko, Jack Kennedy / Medea, Bitef Theatre, Belgrade: J. Cocteau / P. Glass, Debbie (Les Enfants Terribles), Little Theatre Dusko Radovic / Youth Center, Belgrade, 2008: I. Sajko, woman-bomb Belgrade Drama Theatre, Belgrade 2007th: I. Sajko, Rio bar, stacks of Prince Marko, Belgrade; I. Sajko, Europe, the Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade 2006th: Mr. Kapetanovic / A. Djordjevic / J. Walshe / B. Djordjev, Operrrra (the feminine), Belgrade Summer Festival / Botanical Garden Jevremovac, Belgrade; R. Valsera / A. Vujanovic, No name: Snow White, Little Theatre Dusko Radovic.

Pustinja slike/Desert of the image

15.07.-31.08.2013.

Pustinja slike/Desert of the image - research and collaborative lab

In the nomadic, long-term project Desert image (since 2002) Ilic and Djordjev redearch  performative potential of communication with the audience in a variety of artistic formats through a critical reading of images that surround us. This artistic research project is based on a collection of frames – the term itself refers to images collected in different ways (in electronic and paper format), denoting power and space of the image in different political contexts, presenting models and imperatives of socially acceptable or expected behavior, movement , looks, and social cracks, excesses or errors. The collection combines media images, countless in their sources and photos from private albums. The project, from its inception in 2002. moved through different genres and contexts in precarious position between the performing and visual arts (including performance, printed formats that combine text and image, performance lectures, workshops, etc.) - keeping its main interest friction, dialogues and misunderstandings between images, author and the audience.

 During a series of performing trials and errors, the project is separated from the literal use of images from the archives and their re-reading and is trying to focus on the reading of social reality as a picture. Temporary images are in the background, and all is focused on the proposals of audio narrative instructions as navigation instructions for reading reality as a series of images. Issues that are currently imposed on the project are: Does intervention in the act of reading / interpretation / translation? How to perform a disorder of reality? How to make, edit or destroy an image or word or sound? Desert image is a potential model from which to read the recent performance history of consumption of images and its citizen rights. During their stay in Rijeka authors plan to work on further research and the new release / project format. This segment of work  would involve collaboration with artists in Rijeka in the field of visual and performing arts (manipulation of images from the collection of frames, screening, interview, recorded or improvised narration, the combination of images with text, image analysis, etc.). This sort of practice of image analysis and communication would be developed as a platform for communication, tool or infrastructure within which artists, through the concept of the ad hoc collections of frames the narrative of their own practice or jointly analyze everyday events and their representation in the unstoppable flow of images that surround us. Some editions of Pustinje slike/Desert pictures are: Picture by other means, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, 2012., The Black Box, Quadrennial design space and performance, Prague, 2011., Passing - audio guide for reading the city, gallery SULUV, Novi Sad, 2011th, Desert pictures - instruction, SUSHI Gallery, San Diego, 2008th, Desert pictures - demonstrations, WUK Kunsthalle im Exnergasse, Vienna, 2008th, European Session, Academy Theatre NIS / Center for Cultural Decontamination, Pirot, 2006th, workshops Jam session, University of Arts in Belgrade Summer School Pirot, 2006th, Operrrra (the feminine), BELEF2005., Terror of the Desert of Picture, Arts Biennial, Bucharest, 2004th, SnowWhite Session, Vooruit, Gent / Schlosss Solitude, Stuttgart, 2004th, Visibility itself - B-ing in the Desert of Picture, Vooruit, Gent / Queer Zagreb, Zagreb, 2002 / 0^.

Institution POGON

→ www.upogoni.or

Institutional definition

POGON – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth is hybrid cultural institution based on a new model of public-civil partnership.
Pogon’s founders are the Alliance Operation City and the City of Zagreb.

Pogon is not an independent institution, but it is the institution of the independents: through it’s purpose (supporting independent cultural and youth scene), the way it is managed (civil-public co-management) and its context (direct result of initiative taken by the independents).

Mission

To establish an open local center for development of independent contemporary arts and culture as well as for the active involvement of young people in cultural and social life.

Goals

1. To provide space and adequate conditions for the production and presentation of contemporary cultural and artistic programs of Zagreb’s independent cultural scene, as well as for programs of civil society organizations that promote the active involvement of young people in cultural and social life.
2. To promote Zagreb’s independent cultural and youth scene, their programs and activities that take place in Pogon.
3. To contribute to strengthening the capacities of Zagreb civil society organizations that operate in the field of contemporary arts and culture and of youth self-organization.
4. To support the advocacy campaigns of cultural and youth civil society organizations at local, national and EUropean level.
5. To encourage the participation of independent cultural organizations and artists in international cultural cooperation.

Program

Pogon’s operation is not defined in terms of aesthetic criteria or strong programmatic / curatorial concept. Rather, it is determined by the realm of policy, being one of the instruments that bridges the big gap between the traditional public sector and the independent scene. Therefore, Pogon’s core activity is providing free of charge venues to independent organizations and artists working in all the different fields of contemporary art and culture, as well as to organizations working in youth activities. At the same time, Pogon develops its own activities, currently focusing on international artists-in-residence program and European project Corners.

International

Pogon is member of international organization Culture Action Europe, where Pogon’s director serves as vice-president of the Executive Committee.