21st International Multimedial Art Festival - IMAF 2019
6th - 8th September 2019
Odzaci & Novi Sad
Very important is the belief, which is nurtured among the participants of many artistic manifestations of this kind, and for the upcoming 21st International Multimedial Art Festival - IMAF 2019, and it seems an effort worthwhile, that each performer develops a unique and personal approach to performance art . In a literal sense, it must be true that no one is quite the same as anyone else. But how different they are will be shown by artistic performances, on this occasion by artists coming to us from the following countries: France, Germany, India, Bulgaria, Israel, Spain, Iran, Ukraine, Italy and Serbia. With every new issue of IMAF, this statement is "different enough," worth the expectation, which brings greater satisfaction to the audience and participants.
Here is part of the text by Juniper Perlis from 2006, which is still current, changing only the year of maintenance:
„Every artist, every performance in 21st IMAF offers new possibilities for perception and challenges our understanding of ourselves, and of each other. As it engages the audience, with direct participation or by the physical presence of the artist, performance art demands an investment. It is not possible to be a passive viewer, receiving what is offered. We must all be present and allow change. Being a part of the 21st IMAF performance festival allowed me to experience what it is to be responsible for creating change, both as an artist and as part of the audience. As we shared our ideas and inspiration with each other, we built a momentum that cannot be undone. We are an infectious influence.”
And this year the program will take place in two places, in Odzaci on 06.09.2019. and Novi Sad on September 7th and 8th, 2019. The artists will perform in multiple locations in Odzaci: in the grand hall of the former Youth Center, in yard and on the street. In Novi Sad, artists will perform their works in the SULUV gallery and on the streets of Novi Sad, in cooperation with the The Union of Associations of Fine Artists of Vojvodina.
Veoma važno je uverenje, koje se neguje među učesnicima mnogih umetničkih manifestacija ove vrste, tako i za predstojeći 21. Međunarodni festival multimedijalne umetnosti - IMAF 2019, i čini se napor vrednim je da svaki izvođač razvija jedinstven i ličan pristup umetnosti performansa. U doslovnom smislu mora biti tačno da niko nije sasvim isti kao bilo ko drugi. Ali koliko su različiti pokazaće se umetničkim nastupima, ovom prilikom od strane umetnika koji nam dolaze iz sledećih zemalja: Francuske, Nemačke, Indije, Bugarske, Izraela, Španije, Irana, Ukrajine, Italije i Srbije. Svakim novim izdanjem IMAF-a ta je tvrdnja “dovoljno drugačije”, vredno iščekivanja koje publici i učesnicima donosi veće zadovoljstvo.
Ovde je deo teksta Juniper Perlis iz 2006. godine, koji je i dalje aktuelan, menjajući samo godinu održavanja:
“Svaki umetnik, svaki performans na 21. IMAF-u ponudiće nove mogućnosti za percepciju i izazove za razumevanje nas samih i ljudi koji nas okružuju. Kako uključuju i publiku, sa direktnim učešćem ili fizičkim prisustvom umetnika, performans zahteva ulaganje. Nije moguće biti pasivni posmatrač, primajući ponudjeno. Moramo svi biti prisutni i dozvoliti promenu. Bivajući, 2019. godine, delom 21. IMAF-a mogli bi smo iskusiti šta znači biti odgovoran za stvaranje promene, i kao umetnici i kao deo publike. Da bi smo delili ideje i nadahnuće, stvarali zamah koji ne može da se raščini.”
I ove godine program će se odvijati na dva mesta, u Odžacima 06.09.2019. i Novom Sadu 07. i 8.09.2019. Umetnici će nastupati na više lokacija u Odžacima: u velikoj sali bivšeg Doma omladine, njegovom dvorištu i na ulici. U Novom Sadu, umetnici će izvesti svoje radove u galeriji SULUV i na ulicama Novog Sada, u saradnji sa Savezom Udruženja likovnih umetnika Vojvodine.
IMAF 2019 PARTICIPANTS:
Andriy Helytovych (Ukraine)
Barbara Friedman (France)
Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Germany)
Dimple B Shah (India)
Eva Dabara (Israel)
Susanna Pruna (Spain)
Nia Pushkarova (Bulgaria)
Sana Ghobbeh (Iran)
Vincenzo Fiore Marrese (Italy)
Sonja Jankov (Serbia)
Sasa Denic-Spena (Serbia)
Nenad Bogdanovic (Serbia)
Program 21. Međunarodnog festivala multimedijalne umetnosti - IMAF 2019
Programe of the 21st International Multimedial Art Festival - IMAF 2019
06. 09. 2019. Bivši Dom omladine / Former Youth Center, Knez Mihajlova 16, Odžaci (Srbija / Serbia)
15:30h Početak programa IMAF 2019 Odžaci / Start the program IMAF 2019
15:30 - Otvaranje festivala / Opening of the festival: Sonja Jankov, likovni kritičar / Art Critic
15:35 - Andriy Helytovych (Ukrajina / Ukraine)
15:45 - Sonja Jankov (Srbija / Serbia)
16:00 - Barbara Friedman (Francuska / France)
16:10 - Eva Dabara (Izrael / Israel)
16:25 - Sana Ghobbeh (Iran / Iran)
17:00 - Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Nemačka / Germany)
17:30 - Vincenzo Fiore Marrese (Italija / Italy)
17:50 - Susanna Pruna (Španija / Spain)
18:25 - Dimple B Shah (Indija / India)
07. 09. 2019. Galerija SULUV / SULUV Gallery (Savez udruženja likovnih umetnika Vojvodine / Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina), Bul. Mihajla Pupina 9, Novi Sad (Srbija / Serbia)
20:00 Početak programa IMAF 2019 Novi Sad / Start the program IMAF 2019 Novi Sad
20:05 - Vincenzo Fiore Marrese (Italija / Italy)
20:25 - Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Nemačka / Germany)
21:00 - Dimple B Shah (Indija / India)
22:00 - Saša Denić-Špena (Srbija / Serbia)
22:30 - Sana Ghobbeh (Iran / Iran)
08. 09. 2019. Galerija SULUV / SULUV Gallery (Savez udruženja likovnih umetnika Vojvodine / Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina), Bul. Mihajla Pupina 9, Novi Sad (Srbija / Serbia)
20:00 Početak programa IMAF 2019 Novi Sad / Start the program IMAF 2019 Novi Sad
20:05 - Nenad Bogdanović (Srbija / Serbia)
20:35 - Andriy Helytovych (Ukrajina / Ukraine)
21:05 - Eva Dabara (Izrael / Israel)
21:30 - Susanna Pruna (Španija / Spain)
22:20 - Nia Pushkarova (Bugarska / Bulgaria)
22:45 - Barbara Friedman (Francuska / France)
IMAF 2019 BIOGRAPHIES:
Andriy Helytovych (Ukraine)
Andriy Helytovych is a visual artist based in Lviv, Ukraine. Studied at the Lviv State College of Applied and Decorative Arts and the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Helytovych participated in a range of performance art events in Poland in 2017: International Art Festival “Interactions” and “Contexts” International Festival of Ephemeral Art. In 2018 he participated in “Performance Train” at the festival Trans Art Communications. In 2018 he also participated in Pulsazioni at MACRO Testaccio Mattatoio Art Museum, Rome. Gaude Polonia scholarship holder (2017). Co-founder of Zabih Performance Art project (2017, Lviv, Ukraine). Co-organizer of ZABIH Performance Festival (2018-2019). In his work Helytovych often concentrates on the aspects that appear on the site and on the moment of doing. That puts more attention on the frameworks of an art piece. Including bigger part of reality in the focus challenge the borders of the work. Something new may happen during the action.
Barbara Friedman (France)
Barbara Friedman (b. 1982) is an artist based in Ponteilla, France.
She holds a Master in Fine Arts from the Toulouse-Le-Mirail University, Toulouse, France.
Since 2005 Barbara Friedman is exploring the dialog between visible reality and intangible landscapes through mediums such as drawing, video, sound, installation and photography..
She started Performance Art with Gilivanka Kedzior, also known as Red Bind duo, Within this duo (2010 - 2017) , she participated in the 1st MHPAB Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale, Kurukshetra
& Chandigarh (India) ; the 15th OPEN International Performance Art Festival and ART NOW Live Tour | International Performance Art Tour from Beijing to AnYang, Beijing (China) ; IMAF 2013 & 2015 | 15th & 17th International Multimedial Art Festival, Novi Sad (Serbia) ; MPA-B 2012 & 2015 | Month of Performance Art-Berlin and the 23rd International Week of young Theatre | ARENA... of the young Arts, Erlangen (Germany) ; AVAF 2013 | Athens Video Art Festival, Athens (Greece) ; the Lower Polk Art Walk, San Francisco (United States) ; AFIAC 2015 ‘Des artistes chez l’habitant’ 16ème édition - In partnership with LES ABATTOIRS / FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Fiac (France)
and the NUIT BLANCHE 2013 | 5th Edition of FRASQ, Paris (France). Analysing the confrontation to otherness and its inter-thematic with subjects such as : social yokes ; relationships ; codes and what happens to them out of their context ; gender and its limits and ambiguities ; or yet the identity, status and image of Woman.
While bearing her foregoing reflections, she is working since2017 on the notion of Border as a meeting point. She is also attending and organizing independent Art events. Director and curator of BAM, Art Space / Artists residencies, Ponteilla, France.
Eva Dabara (Israel)
Eva Dabara is a multi-disciplinary artist, poet, performer and dancer, born in Israel, lives and works in Tel-Aviv. She studied Philosophy and English literature at Tel-Aviv University, art, photography and video at Camera Obscura and performance art at The Performance Platform in Tel-Aviv. She published 3 books of poetry, won literary prize and participated in anthologies and numerous art magazines.
An adventurous year in the Caribbean Islands was followed by the poetry book "Paradise Episodes" which eventually formed her second solo exhibition "Bermuda Triangle" - a minimalist installation confronting the stereotype images of a tropical island, and the tension between reality and fantasy.
Using photographs, text, video, objects and performance Eva Dabara creates a syntax which reveals a conceptual yet personal drive juxtaposing the concrete and the imaginary, verbal and visual, low and high art. Zigzagging between the different elements and media she explores an eclectic world of diverse existence which is at times dramatic, absurd, humorous, hallucinated, poetic or mundane.
Eva Dabara has exhibited in solo shows of installation and participated in many group exhibitions, performance festivals/events and video screenings both locally and internationally.
Dimple B Shah (India)
Dimple B Shah
Professional Artist and lecturer
I am a multidisciplinary artist from Bangalore, studied in MS University, Baroda and currently practicing in Bangalore, Karnataka. Over the years my work has developed in number of ways yet from the very beginning I have worked in Painting, Printmaking, Installation and Performance Art. My intention is to blend these mediums into an interdisciplinary language.
My works has been recognized with National & International Awards and also been Jury for 2009 Commonwealth Foundation, Asian Region. Over the years my works are in collections of Indian and International collectors. Currently I am focusing on Performance Art along with community based performances; also I am trying to work with new media integration in my performances to study the impact and to reach out wider audience.
Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Germany)
Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith graduated in London from the Royal College of Art in 2000 and from Goldsmiths' College in 1994. After her completion of a two year Picker Fellowship at Kingston University in 2003, she returned to Germany organizing international Performance Art Workshops and City sitespecific 12-hour Marathon Performance Art Workshops called 'Werktag'. She has been organizing public events with Live Performances and exhibitions at ‘kunstwirkstoff’ Jerxheim Bahnhof in the
countryside of Germany, developing further the international art event -transitstation- in London 2003, Berlin 2005, Edinburgh 2006 and Copenhagen in 2010. Glausnitzer-Smith is Senoir Lecturer at Kingston University, London since 2003.
Sana Ghobbeh (Iran)
Born: Tehran, Iran
Lives and works in Brussels, Studies: 2016-‐2017_Post_Master program, advanced performance and Scenography studies (a.pass) at Posthogeschool voor Podiumkunsten vzw, Brussels, Belgium 2009-‐2011_Master of Fine Arts, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå, Sweden 2002-‐2007_BSc in Architecture, Art and Architecture faculty, Azad Tehran University, Iran Last position: 2013-‐2015_Research assistant at Umeå school of Architecture, Umeå, Sweden (Invited Artist to the research environment in Relational Architecture).
Solo performance:
2018_The Ferris turns as the wind blows, part of the symposium "From Performance to Action and Back Again" , M Museum, Leuven Belgium_
October 2017_This wall grows at it's root, Summer school #2 Making public domain, Middleheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium_September 2017_This wall grows at it's root, Gallery PODROOM, Cultural center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
August 2017_HERESAY, a.pass end presentation, Greylight Projects, Brussels, Belgium.
May 2015_Artist Evening, Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Switzerland_February
Susanna Pruna (Spain)
Susanna Pruna, Catalan multidisciplinary artist concerned about the voice of women, social injustices and the politics of power, which affects the bodies and the land in which we live. The painting, sculpture, installation, poetry, performance, serve to create spaces of communication with the viewer and question their own existence. Create spaces that help generate awakenings. Red is a symbol in his work. Thread of life and death, it also inherits that it captures at the same time the power and fragility of human flesh. His life has been traversed by male violence dressed in different ways. It uses the body as memory, material in which it is printed and as a tool to be able to weave against aggression, new social.
Since 2009 he has abandoned painting and installation, to perform in public spaces, art centers and alternative spaces. I obtained a residency at the Performing Arts Center Can Felipa, with the show Aparadores y realidades escondidas 2014 Barcelona, taken to the Caixa Fórum, Can Felipa Art Center, Sala Margarida Xirgu. Implementation of actions against women's violence, VI Writers Meeting of Ciudad Juarez, LaContra Creation Center, with them + Estan + Presentes. The International Day against gender violence with Línia Roja (2016, 2018). Participates in Art Festivals and is Coordinator and artist of Corpologia, a group of artists of action art, and editor of the magazine Corpologia> 25. Performance an Brown Arts Initiatie, Brown University, Guardian Women (2018)
She was born in Barcelona on September 27, 1968. He studied at the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Transdisciplinary Art Therapy, where he obtained the title of Bachelor of Fine Arts and the Master in transdisciplinary art therapy and human development. She is currently studying the Master in Sexual Differences Studies at the Women's Research Center of the University of Barcelona.
Sonja Jankov (Serbia)
Sonja Jankov (1985) is independent curator (with state exam from 2015) who is also active as artist. In her practice, she uses art media (in-situ and/or site-specific installations, photographs, sketches) as much as theoretic writing to present researched issues. Jankov is part of the Future Architecture Platform since 2016 and author of exhibitions and projects GIF and Cities, Post-Archive of Contemporary Art, SPENS and Socialist Sport Halls Today, GIF and Public Urban Spaces. She exhibited at the Biennale of Young Artists in Milan (2015) and authored numerous texts for exhibition catalogues, papers, reviews and critiques. She lives in Novi Sad.
Nia Pushkarova (Bulgaria)
Nia Pushkarova is a multimedia artist, curator and founder of Water tower art fest. In her work, she deals with issues connected to feminism, localism, geopolitics, while she connects conceptual and political oriented practice with moments of autobiographical and poetic.
“Moreover, no matter if she creates personal artwork or organizes big scale events, interconnected with contemporary art like festivals and residencies, she is consistent in her strivings for experimenting trough different mediums, images and issues, which lead to extremely personal revelations.” Nadejda Djakova – Curator and Director of SAMCA – Sofia Arsenal Museum of Contemporary arts
Nia Pushkarova graduated Fine Art from Reading University, UK 1995, won a Kodak award upon her graduation. She has been the founder and Director of NGO IME since 2004, responsible for organizing Water tower art fest, also she is part of Artist Initiative Network since 2014; and a cofounder and member of Bulgarian Festival Association. She had numerous of participations both as an artist and organizer across the world, most recent are: A juror of 21st International show at “Woman made gallery”, Chicago, 2018 ; Nakanojo Biennale, Japan 2017 ; Participation at EFFE Festival academy, Atelier for young festival managers, Chiang Mai 2016; Participation at PARABIOSIS 3,”Communication and co-existence”, Chongqing, China, 2016 ; Participation at Mexico, Coahuila “RAYA EN EL AGUA”.
Vincenzo Fiore Marrese (Italy)
Vincenzo Fiore Marrese was born in Florence, Italy.
He had the high school diploma at the National Institute of Art and a master’s degree in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.
He has the Teaching Qualification, assigned by the Ministry of Public Education, for Secondary and High School in Art, History of Art and Technical Drawing.
For his thesis, he studied in detail the structure of animal bones and the human anomalies from anatomical and medical collections.
From painting and drawing, he learns the know-how related to the formal aspect of images structures. Then he connected his technical skills to topics on the relationship between the body, politics and society.
His works have been presented in several spaces, conventional and unconventional, like former slaughterhouses, convents, mines, prisons and mental hospitals and in Europe and Asia, in several countries like Greece, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, England in the United Kingdom, Czech Republic and Bangladesh.
Saša Denić – Špena (Serbia)
Born on 4. 10. 1971. in Odzaci.
Graduated from the High School of Life. His nationality is Human. Is interested in every form of art, and has an open mind for everything that improves human beings.
Performances:
2018. – „Human Stains“,20th International Multimedial Art Festival – IMAF, Hotel „Sloboda“ place, Odzaci (Serbia)
2017. – „Mea culpa“, 19th International Multimedial Art festival – IMAF, Center Gallery, Odzaci (Serbia)
2016. - „What’s left?“, 18th International Multimedial Art festival – IMAF, Center Gallery, Odzaci (Serbia)
2014. - „Observe, think, react“, 16th International Multimedial Art festival – IMAF, MAS Gallery, Odzaci (Serbia)
Nenad Bogdanović (Serbia)
Born in 1955 in Odzaci, Serbia.
Independent visual and performance artist, publisher and curator. Member of art societies of Vojvodina (SULUV) and Serbia (ULUS). Curator of various international art projects and exhibitions since 1980.
1998 year he founded of Multimedia Art Studio and MAS Gallery in Odzaci, Serbia.
Organiser and curator of International Multimedial Art Festival – IMAF, from 1998.
Since 1980 Nenad realized his art performances and art actions on many international art projects and festivals worldwide: Paris, Cassel, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Minsk, Venice, Belfast, Monaco, Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, New York, Quebec, Istanbul, Warsaw, Krakow, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Yokohama, Nagano, Toronto, Budapest, Marseille, Toulouse , Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Prague, Bilbao, Berlin...etc.
IMAF 2019 places:
Former Youth Center, Odzaci, Serbia
SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
IMAF 2019 sponsors:
Ministry of Culture and Information
Ministarstvo Kulture i Informisanja
Ministarstvo Kulture i Informisanja
Provincial Secretariat for Culture, Public
Information and relations with Religious
Communities
Pokrajinski sekretarijat za kulturu,
javno informisanje i odnose s verskim
zajednicama
Information and relations with Religious
Communities
Pokrajinski sekretarijat za kulturu,
javno informisanje i odnose s verskim
zajednicama
IMAF 2019 partner and support:
The Union of Associations of Fine Artists of
Vojvodina
Savez udruženja likovnih umetnika Vojvodine
Vojvodina
Savez udruženja likovnih umetnika Vojvodine
IMAF 2019 media support:
