Tomislav Marković | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

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  Tomislav Marković (1976.) writes poetry, satire, aphorisms, nonfiction and texts that are genre hybrids. He cooperated with numerous newspapers, magazines and web portals, such as: Feral Tribune, Zarez, zurnal.info, Novosti, e-novine, e-balkan, tacno.net… He worked as a columnist of the monthly magazine Rez and on-line magazine Plastelin, and currently writes columnes for the portal e-novine.  He edits column Regija stranaca/Foreign Legion in Zagreb weekly newspapers Novosti. He is one of the founders and co-editor of  KPK Beton (Kultural promotional set Concrete). With the Editorial board of Beton he has been awarded the Dušan Bogavac Award from Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) for „journalistic ethics and courage“ in 2007.. With the Editorial board of Beton he published two books with the selection of published texts, comics and illustrations: Srbija kao sprava/Serbia as a machine (Dangraf, 2007.) and Antimemorandum-dum (VBZ, 2009.),  two issues of Beton on German language under the patronage of Traduki (2010. and 2011.), as well as a preview of young literary scene in  Serbian on Albanian language Nga Beogradi, me dashuri/From Belgarde  with love (2011.). In April 2011. he visited Prishtina as a part of the writers exchange programme Marimange. He participated in various public discussions, literary evenings and promotions in the region of Western Balkans and he was a guest on The Leipzig Book Fair in 2012. He wrote songs for the theatrical production of the play Ubiti Zorana Đinđića/To kill Zoran Đinđić  that premiered in October 2012. (directed by Zlatko Paković). His poems and satirical texts have been translated in German and Albanian.  He lives and works in Belgarde as the deputy of editor-in-chief Petar Luković for the portal e-novine.

  Bibliography:

  Grafite na ulicu! (1995., aphorisms)

  Sneg na ispitu zrelosti (1999., poetry)

  Rvanje s anđelom (2003., poetry)

  Na mestu zločina (2005., aphorisms)

  Vreme smrti i razonode (2009., satirical prose and poetry)

• Man yawns after the war

  05.-31.01.2013.

  The programme concerns multi-genre text in progress that deals with the state of denial in Serbian society, different forms od negation of war crimes that the Serbian military forces have committed during the '90s, as well as "sweeping under the rug" of nationalistic criminal  project through different discourses: literary, political, journalistic, etc. Since the state project of the so-called Great Serbia has been defined mostly thought the institution of literature, thus compromising itself, through this book author tries to shape the facts on estethically valid way – by re-examining the status and effect of Serbian literature in the past 30 years.

  In theory, the text relies on the research of Stanley Cohen, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Hannah Arendt, Nenad Dimitrijević, Branislav Jakovljević and et al., while, in the literaray sense, it attaches itself on engaged literary tradition (mostly poetic) of Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Bertolt Brecht, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Kent Johnson, Erich Fried, group 47...The book forms a dialogue with the poets that wrote in similar post-war conditions – Rastko Petrović, Miroslav Krleža, the Surrealists, Branko V. Poljanski, Dušan Vasiljev (from where the title itself comes from – as a paraphrase of his famous poem - "Čovek peva posle rata"/"Man yawns after the war"). In the terms of genre, we can talk about a book that combines different genres – poetry being the dominant one - and it is intertwined with essays and genre-hybrids (para-prose formations, intervetion unit – where he re-writes the Classics – from Harm to Ionesco and Quenoau, different satirical forms...)

  During his stay in Rijeka, Marković has planned two literaray evenings - the first one is imagined as a overview of authors' satirical works through various forms: poetry, prose, columns... He will also present his collaboration with the band Ah, Ahilej that has resulted in the album entitled "Pesme zlih volšebnika"/"Poems of evil wizards", so the event will have a musical background. The second evening is planned for the last week of his stay and he plans to read poems and texts written during his stay in Rijeka.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

• NGO BETON

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  KPK Beton (Kultural promotional set Concrete) is a printed newsletter of Association of citizens, artists and workers of KPK Beton (KPK – the official meaning of the abbreviation is Cultural promotional community, but it is rather fluid – sometimes its meaning is Cultural educational community). Since 2006. it has been published as monthly supplement of the daily newspaper Danas from Belgrade. Its purpose is the deconstruction of nationalistic cultural model and the promotion of: negative art and literary criticism, alternative comics, political satire and investigative journalism. Since 2007. KPK Beton runs its own web site www.elektrobeton.net where the archive of all of their texts is available. Beton has published two books with the selection of published texts, comics and illustrations: Srbija kao sprava/Serbia as a machine (Dangraf, 2007) and Antimemorandum-dum (VBZ, 2009). Tomislav Marković, one of the editors has published a book entitled Vreme smrti i razonode/Time of Death and Leisure (VBZ, 2010) compiled from satirical texts from synonimous column in the magazine.

  KPK Beton advocates the preservation of memory of  heritage of antifascism from the Second Word War and the systemic condemnation of neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic and xenophobic pamphlets, occurrences and movements in Serbian society. That is the source of the series of texts and, especially, 50. issue of  Beton (July 2008.) dedicated to promotion of antifascist values in Serbian society.

  KPK Beton promotes literature of minority cultural communities in Serbia, encourages translations from minority languages to Serbian. In line with that, several issues of Beton have been dedicated to minority themes: bilingual Hungarian-Serbian (issue 46., May 2008.) dedicated to contemporary Hungarian literature in Vojvodina, issue dedicated to Albanian contemporary literature in Kosovo (issue 108 from February 2011.) and issue dedicated to contemporary alternative scene in Macedonia (issue 114 from June 2011.).

  In cooperation with the editorial board of magazine MM from Priština, and under the patronage of European book network Traduki, editorial board of KPK Beton has compiled two anthologies: Iz Prištine, s ljubavlju/From Prishtina with love, anthology of contemporary literary scene in Kosovo (poetry, prose and drama) that has been translated in Serbian and Iz Beograda, s ljubavlju/From Belgrade with love, anthology of contemporary story of young authors, translated into Albanian.

  Editorial board of Beton has published two special issues if Beton in German an promoted them on The Leipzig Book Fair (2010. and 2011.). The editors of Beton have participated on both Leipzig Fairs on numerous public discussions concerning contemporary literature, culture and society in Serbia and the region of Western Balkans.

  KPK Beton has also developed successful strategic cooperation with various independent organizations and media in the zone of former Yugoslavia. Beton has been published as a supplement in the magazine Feral Tribune (Split, Croatia), and today it is published as a supplement in a literary magazine Zarez (Zagreb, Croatia).

  For the last two years it has been implementing, in cooperation with bookshop Booksa from Zagreb, a project of exchange of critics in which critics from Serbia write about book from contemporary literary scene in Croatia, and critics from Croatia write about book from contemporary literary scene in Serbia. These texts are being published every Monday on the Booksa portal www.booksa.hr.  They closely cooperate with magazine Plima plus and the publishing house Plima from Ulcinj as well as with students' magazine  (SIC!) from Sarajevo. Beton is promoted in Serbia, region of Western Balkans and throughout German-speaking territory.

  Editorial board of Beton is consisted of writers and journalists from Belgrade : Miloš Živanović, Saša Ilić, Tomislav Marković and Saša Ćirić. Collaborators of Beton are numerous authors from Serbia and abroad. Editorial board of Beton has been awarded from Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) for „journalistic ethics and courage“ in 2007..