10th International Multimedial Art Festival - IMAF 2008
This year International multimedial art festival - IMAF has been organized for the 10th time.What is there to say after ten years of struggle against various problems, more or less mostly bound to financial difficulties, following the festival since 1998. Certain institutions for culture and art on the level of state and province, down to local community, were not able,or perhaps didn't want to, recognize importance and particularity of IMAF on domestic andinternational art scene. Much better solution is to remember many artists who participated before and in this jubilee year. Artists who raised IMAF on a very high place of artistic manifestations of international scene with their engagement. During the first year we have been visited by Hero Itoh from Japan and Balint Szombathy from our country. Next years gave us opportunity to welcome artists like: Uto Gusztav from Romania, Jasunori Shiobara from Japan, Jorg Koppl and Peter Zacek from Switzerland and Kenny McBride from Scotland. Unforgettable was also the meeting of artists on river Danube during 2003. with following artists: Angel Pastor from Spain, Roddy Hunter from Scotland, Yu Kuramoto from Japan, Justin McKeown from Great Britain, Era Milivojevic, Radoslav B. Chugaly and Aleksandar Jovanovic from Serbia and Sinead O`Donnell from Ireland. IMAF 2004. was magnificent with yet another count of artists: Ryosuke Cohen from Japan, Nicola Frangione and Emilio Morandi from Italy, Andre Stitt from Great Britain, Martin Zet from Czech Republic, Hugh O`Donnell from Northern Ireland and Milan Grahovac from Serbia. Between 2005. and 2007. we had more important artist for the first time on IMAF: Phil Babot from Great Britain, Vassya Vassileva from Bulgaria, Peter Kuestermann from Germany, Adina Baron from Israel, Marilyn Arsem from USA, Jozsef Juhasz from Slovakia, Joan Casellas from Spain, MP and Art Circus groups from Serbia, Joseph Ravens, Juniper Perlis and Gertrude Berg from USA and Nela Antonovic from Serbia. Then followed more well known artists: Alastair Maclennan and Brian Connolly from Northern Ireland, John G. Boehme and Martine Viale from Canada, Gabrijel Savic from Serbia and Tamar Raban from Israel. More artists that I haven't mentioned have passed through open doors of IMAF realizing their important in live art projects. Alongside many artists that presented their performances and different art projects live on IMAF, during the festivals was also presented a certain number of group art projects and exhibitions, with several hundreds of participants worldwide: „Man gallery" (1998), „Performance - interventions on photos" (2000.), „Photo boot performances" (2001.), „Performance art today" (2002.), „Nature of performance - performance in nature" (2003.), „Future of art performance" (2004.), „Ab Ovo" (2005.), „(In)Place of fear" (2006.). There should be mentioned that, during last years, Multimedial Art Studio enabled people from Novi Sad (last 3 years in Independent Art Association IZBA), and from Belgrade (Students Cultural Centre from 2005 to 2007) to follow the programme of IMAF in their cities besides Odzaci - the home place of IMAF.
After the opening of the 10th IMAF, at MAS Gallery and on the first day in IZBA Novi Sad, we organized video presentation of six artists from various countries. Videos presented works of: Lidija Antonovic (Serbia) - „Action" and „Liberty Square", Shosh Israeli Grosz (Israel) ‐ „Stinky Beauty" and „Lovely Murder". For Marko Bogdanovic (Serbia) we presented video documentation of performance „N.W.O - 01" he performed in SULUV Gallery of Novi Sad during Museum Night 2008. We also presented Emilio and Franca Morandi with their video of „Immediately Here", they performed in Center for modern art in Madrid during 2006. Another artist was presented with his earlier work. Fiona McGregor from Australia was presented with video of her work „Dead Art" she performed without announcement and followed with police intervention in Museum of modern art in Sidney.
Joan Casellas from Spain made an interactive performance „‐ action based on specific place and memories of the past" at MAS Gallery on the first day. As opposed to his participation two years ago, Joan presents himself as „more modern man"ironicaly pointing that he now has cell phone and digital photo camera. Leisurely and directly talking with selected in Spain, then animates the audience documenting each gesture with photo camera, while the voice from background „marks" each ten minutes of the 60 minutes duration of the performance. On the second day, in the MAS Gallery yard, Joan realized short performance titled „Ten times ten second, ten times". During the performance author condenses space and time creating a sort of „mental installation". Third Joan's performance, on this IMAF, took place inside IZBA Novi Sad. In the first part of the work Joan repeats interactive communication with the audience. Then he rearranges an object (a table), from one place to another, with the aid of selected audience. Then while „hiding" under the table, he mimics dog barking „responded" by a local stray dog outside of the gallery.
Within this IMAF Multimedial Art Studio organized an exhibition of Angel Pastor's (Spain) work „Walking tree". Angel started this project five years earlier, also during IMAF, in natural surroundings of Danube River. At that time author designed T‐shirts and distributed them to the audience, and continued to „walk" like a „walking tree" all over the world, making photos of himself with motive of the „walking tree". Angel collected all those sites and exhibited them in MAS Gallery. This time he also prepared new T‐shirts selling them to the audience for a symbolic fee, inviting them to, during next five years, take photos of themselves and send them to him to make a new exhibition. After opening the exhibition and promoting the „Walking tree" project, Angel made another „Walking tree 2008" performance to continue his tale of a walking tree. First he installed 11 wooden cubes of the same size with letters written on each side of the cubes. Author turned the cubes and the audience could read: Performance, Walking tree, Angel Pastor. After that Angel, holding the branches in his hands, definitely equaled himself with a tree, symbol of survival of life on planet Earth. During his performance in Novi Sad „Disturbances/Walking tree", in IZBA, Angel projects an animation combined with a video of performance in Odzaci. Central figure is Angel in action with branches and behind him is large tree still living and defying all weather and current troubles.
Performance „Virus" was made by Dragan Vojvodic in the yard of MAS Gallery. In it author uses illustrated weekly magazine about life of „celebrities" whose leaves he places on the ground taping together with adhesive tape. Then he takes already prepared bicycle with installed bottle with white paint. Driving the bicycle across the „carpet" made of magazines, white paint dripping on the wheel and placing the trail after it. Circling on this colorful space after a period makes characters and themes, without any connection with needs and interests of average intellectuals, completely white. Creative artistic action of Dragan Vojvodic nullifies activities of aggressive consumer society, leaving white space as impulse for the more creative expression of future generations. Dragan Vojvodic represented himself at IZBA with performance titled "Territories". Basic material for this performance is red paint. During this action he paints books in red and throws them around dedicated space covered with plastic foil. At the end he paints a table, a chair, himself and the space of performance. Sits in the middle by the piled, red‐painted things and materials, and with the help of the audience, everything together with the artist becomes packaged together.
Malgosia Butterwick from Poland realised two performances, one in Odzaci and one in Novi Sad, titled „SEDU/a/CTION". Standing on chairs, at MAS Gallery, goes through the pages of the children`s book reading the text in Serbian language that didn`t sound understandable - just like a child that is learning to read, and then reads from „Critical theory of performance". Just like the children`s book, goes through the pages of the „serious" literature about conceptual art blowing her breath on the pages. From the first book she blew out confetti, and from another yellow tree leaves which made it look like to content is falling out of the books. Before reading the book about performances she placed huge red plastic lips on her own making this reading also non‐understandable. Same performance she made at IZBA, with certain changes, using random book from the library of this Independent Asociation. Malgosia points us to think harder, and with a lot of irony in her IMAF performances equalises writing for children with theoretical text describing contemporary art movements in the world.
Nieves Correa from Spain introduced herself in Odzaci with „Bigraphy III" performance. Nieves starts her biography with circular cutting of her black dress with scissors. This makes her „biography" naked together with the naked artist. Then she takes the next step by sewing the dress from her bare brests downward. At the end Nieves fixes her „bigraphy" completing the performance as she started - dressed in a newly tailored evening dress. At Novi Sad Gallery Nieves continues representing her biographies. In her „Biography IV" the artist, in IZBA space, makes a circle of plastic cups on the floor. Using one cup of water she fills the first cup, then using this cup fills the next and so on. As times goes by, her concentration fades and she looses water on the floor leaving her without any water. She walks in circles arround the cups, eating some snacks and droping it from her mouth on the floor. Then she sits on a chair, in the middle of the circle, taking her left and right shoe on and of in turns. At the end, she walks arround the Gallery, blowing in an unindentifiable object and smashes it in the midlle of the circle with a loud scream. Entire performance has metronome sound in the background, like time pendulum, reminding us that everything is ephemeral and we only leave biographies behind.
Radoslav B. Chugaly from Serbia performed „Transition" at IZBA in Novi Sad. Radoslav places cups on a table, covered with white canvas, and fills them with different color pigments. Then pours some water in each cup to fill it up, forcing the colored liquid to overflow and paint the space on the canvas. In the middle is a cup with red color which he uses at the end spilling bright red fluid all over the canvas. Radoslav uses different colors to simbolize all differences and problems facing nations and states going through transition of post‐communist government towards a better tomorrow.
In my performace „Prologue", that I (Nenad Bogdanovic, Serbia) made at IZBA, I`m sitting at the table cutting onions with a knife to very small pieces. On another half of the table there is a large political map of the world, where I placed a large onion on each continent. Video camera is pointed to the map all the time, and the events are projected directly to one of the walls. During this long term onion cutting, the vapours force the tears to my eyes. With such crying eyes, I finish cutting the onions and use it to write a single word WARS, along the world map. This tenth edition of International Performance Art Festival - IMAF justifies its long existence in this space with the quality of art creations offered. Tenth jubilee festival offered the audience in Odzaci and Novi Sad, during four days of it, 13 performances live, several documented videos of performances and several video works.
IMAF Festival, like so many years already, represented a certain number of extremely current art projects of domestic and international art scene.
Nenad Bogdanovic
After the opening of the 10th IMAF, at MAS Gallery and on the first day in IZBA Novi Sad, we organized video presentation of six artists from various countries. Videos presented works of: Lidija Antonovic (Serbia) - „Action" and „Liberty Square", Shosh Israeli Grosz (Israel) ‐ „Stinky Beauty" and „Lovely Murder". For Marko Bogdanovic (Serbia) we presented video documentation of performance „N.W.O - 01" he performed in SULUV Gallery of Novi Sad during Museum Night 2008. We also presented Emilio and Franca Morandi with their video of „Immediately Here", they performed in Center for modern art in Madrid during 2006. Another artist was presented with his earlier work. Fiona McGregor from Australia was presented with video of her work „Dead Art" she performed without announcement and followed with police intervention in Museum of modern art in Sidney.
Joan Casellas from Spain made an interactive performance „‐ action based on specific place and memories of the past" at MAS Gallery on the first day. As opposed to his participation two years ago, Joan presents himself as „more modern man"ironicaly pointing that he now has cell phone and digital photo camera. Leisurely and directly talking with selected in Spain, then animates the audience documenting each gesture with photo camera, while the voice from background „marks" each ten minutes of the 60 minutes duration of the performance. On the second day, in the MAS Gallery yard, Joan realized short performance titled „Ten times ten second, ten times". During the performance author condenses space and time creating a sort of „mental installation". Third Joan's performance, on this IMAF, took place inside IZBA Novi Sad. In the first part of the work Joan repeats interactive communication with the audience. Then he rearranges an object (a table), from one place to another, with the aid of selected audience. Then while „hiding" under the table, he mimics dog barking „responded" by a local stray dog outside of the gallery.
Within this IMAF Multimedial Art Studio organized an exhibition of Angel Pastor's (Spain) work „Walking tree". Angel started this project five years earlier, also during IMAF, in natural surroundings of Danube River. At that time author designed T‐shirts and distributed them to the audience, and continued to „walk" like a „walking tree" all over the world, making photos of himself with motive of the „walking tree". Angel collected all those sites and exhibited them in MAS Gallery. This time he also prepared new T‐shirts selling them to the audience for a symbolic fee, inviting them to, during next five years, take photos of themselves and send them to him to make a new exhibition. After opening the exhibition and promoting the „Walking tree" project, Angel made another „Walking tree 2008" performance to continue his tale of a walking tree. First he installed 11 wooden cubes of the same size with letters written on each side of the cubes. Author turned the cubes and the audience could read: Performance, Walking tree, Angel Pastor. After that Angel, holding the branches in his hands, definitely equaled himself with a tree, symbol of survival of life on planet Earth. During his performance in Novi Sad „Disturbances/Walking tree", in IZBA, Angel projects an animation combined with a video of performance in Odzaci. Central figure is Angel in action with branches and behind him is large tree still living and defying all weather and current troubles.
Performance „Virus" was made by Dragan Vojvodic in the yard of MAS Gallery. In it author uses illustrated weekly magazine about life of „celebrities" whose leaves he places on the ground taping together with adhesive tape. Then he takes already prepared bicycle with installed bottle with white paint. Driving the bicycle across the „carpet" made of magazines, white paint dripping on the wheel and placing the trail after it. Circling on this colorful space after a period makes characters and themes, without any connection with needs and interests of average intellectuals, completely white. Creative artistic action of Dragan Vojvodic nullifies activities of aggressive consumer society, leaving white space as impulse for the more creative expression of future generations. Dragan Vojvodic represented himself at IZBA with performance titled "Territories". Basic material for this performance is red paint. During this action he paints books in red and throws them around dedicated space covered with plastic foil. At the end he paints a table, a chair, himself and the space of performance. Sits in the middle by the piled, red‐painted things and materials, and with the help of the audience, everything together with the artist becomes packaged together.
Malgosia Butterwick from Poland realised two performances, one in Odzaci and one in Novi Sad, titled „SEDU/a/CTION". Standing on chairs, at MAS Gallery, goes through the pages of the children`s book reading the text in Serbian language that didn`t sound understandable - just like a child that is learning to read, and then reads from „Critical theory of performance". Just like the children`s book, goes through the pages of the „serious" literature about conceptual art blowing her breath on the pages. From the first book she blew out confetti, and from another yellow tree leaves which made it look like to content is falling out of the books. Before reading the book about performances she placed huge red plastic lips on her own making this reading also non‐understandable. Same performance she made at IZBA, with certain changes, using random book from the library of this Independent Asociation. Malgosia points us to think harder, and with a lot of irony in her IMAF performances equalises writing for children with theoretical text describing contemporary art movements in the world.
Nieves Correa from Spain introduced herself in Odzaci with „Bigraphy III" performance. Nieves starts her biography with circular cutting of her black dress with scissors. This makes her „biography" naked together with the naked artist. Then she takes the next step by sewing the dress from her bare brests downward. At the end Nieves fixes her „bigraphy" completing the performance as she started - dressed in a newly tailored evening dress. At Novi Sad Gallery Nieves continues representing her biographies. In her „Biography IV" the artist, in IZBA space, makes a circle of plastic cups on the floor. Using one cup of water she fills the first cup, then using this cup fills the next and so on. As times goes by, her concentration fades and she looses water on the floor leaving her without any water. She walks in circles arround the cups, eating some snacks and droping it from her mouth on the floor. Then she sits on a chair, in the middle of the circle, taking her left and right shoe on and of in turns. At the end, she walks arround the Gallery, blowing in an unindentifiable object and smashes it in the midlle of the circle with a loud scream. Entire performance has metronome sound in the background, like time pendulum, reminding us that everything is ephemeral and we only leave biographies behind.
Radoslav B. Chugaly from Serbia performed „Transition" at IZBA in Novi Sad. Radoslav places cups on a table, covered with white canvas, and fills them with different color pigments. Then pours some water in each cup to fill it up, forcing the colored liquid to overflow and paint the space on the canvas. In the middle is a cup with red color which he uses at the end spilling bright red fluid all over the canvas. Radoslav uses different colors to simbolize all differences and problems facing nations and states going through transition of post‐communist government towards a better tomorrow.
In my performace „Prologue", that I (Nenad Bogdanovic, Serbia) made at IZBA, I`m sitting at the table cutting onions with a knife to very small pieces. On another half of the table there is a large political map of the world, where I placed a large onion on each continent. Video camera is pointed to the map all the time, and the events are projected directly to one of the walls. During this long term onion cutting, the vapours force the tears to my eyes. With such crying eyes, I finish cutting the onions and use it to write a single word WARS, along the world map. This tenth edition of International Performance Art Festival - IMAF justifies its long existence in this space with the quality of art creations offered. Tenth jubilee festival offered the audience in Odzaci and Novi Sad, during four days of it, 13 performances live, several documented videos of performances and several video works.
IMAF Festival, like so many years already, represented a certain number of extremely current art projects of domestic and international art scene.
Nenad Bogdanovic
IMAF10 Program:
10. Medjunarodni festival multimedijalne umetnosti / 10th International Multimedial Art Festival
18th 09, 2008 ( Galerija MAS, Odzaci / MAS Gallery, Odzaci )
• Projekcija video radova sledecih umetnika: / Projection of video works of the
following artists: Lidija Antonovic, Serbia, Marko Bogdanovic, Serbia, Shosh Israeli
Grosz, Israel, Fiona McGregor, Australia, Emilio & Franca Morandi, Italy
10. Medjunarodni festival multimedijalne umetnosti / 10th International Multimedial Art Festival
18th 09, 2008 ( Galerija MAS, Odzaci / MAS Gallery, Odzaci )
• Projekcija video radova sledecih umetnika: / Projection of video works of the
following artists: Lidija Antonovic, Serbia, Marko Bogdanovic, Serbia, Shosh Israeli
Grosz, Israel, Fiona McGregor, Australia, Emilio & Franca Morandi, Italy
• „Akcija zasnovana na specificnom mestu i secanjima na prošlost” / „Action based in
this specific place and same memories from the past” Joan Casellas, Spain
19th 09, 2008 ( Galerija MAS, Odzaci / MAS Gallery, Odzaci )
• Otvaranje izlozbe „Hodajuce drvo“ i performans / Opening of the exhibition „Walking tree“
• „Hodajuce drvo 2008” / „Walking tree 2008” Angel Pastor,
Spain
• „Virus” / “Virus” Dragan Vojvodic, Serbia
• „SEDU/a/CTION” / „SEDU/a/CTION” Malgosia Butterwick, Poland
• „Biografija III” / „Biography III” Nieves Correa, Spain
• „Deset puta deset sekundi, deset puta” / „Ten times ten seconds, ten times” Joan
Casellas, Spain
20th 09. 2008. ( Galerija IZBA, Novi Sad / IZBA Gallery, Novi Sad)
• Projekcija video radova sledecih umetnika: / Projection of video works of the
following artists: Lidija Antonovic, Serbia, Marko Bogdanovic, Serbia, Shosh Israeli
Grosz, Israel, Fiona McGregor, Australia, Emilio & Franca Morandi, Italy
• „Biografija IV” / „Biography IV” Nieves Correa, Spain
21st 09. 2008. ( Galerija IZBA, Novi Sad / IZBA Gallery, Novi Sad)
• „Akcija zasnovana na specificnom mestu i idejama za buducnost” / “Action based in
this specific place and same ideas for the future” Joan Casellas, Spain
• „Tranzicija” / „Transition” Radoslav B. Cugalj, Serbia
• „Teritorije” / „Teritories” Dragan Vojvodic, Serbia
• „Prolog” / „Prologue” Nenad Bogdanovic, Serbia
• „SEDU/a/CTION” / „SEDU/a/CTION” Malgosia Butterwick, Poland
• „Smetnje/Hodajuce drvo” / „Interferences/Walking Tree” Angel Pastor, Spain
IMAF10 Biographies:
ANGEL PASTOR (Spain)
Angel Pastor (Barcelona, 1957) received a degree in Art History at Barcelona University with specialization in 20th century art. Started research in Performance Art that brought him to contact the scene of performance art in Barcelona in the late 90's, where Performance was called "Action" and was closely related to conceptual art and experimental poetry. He has been working in different directions, keeping performance art as a space for freedom, experiment and sometimes therapy. Pastor presents his first solo performance "F.O.C." in 1996. Since then he has worked in all sort of events (Festivals, meetings, galleries, clubs) in Spain, Europe and America. Since 2004 he has fixed his residence in Krakow (Poland).
JOAN CASELLAS (Spain)
Joan Casellas is one of the outstanding representatives of the Spanish parallel art scene during the 1990s. He has staget actions througout Spain, Europe and America, has led workshops and addressed conferences in various universities, and published numerous articles abaut performance art. In 1992, he set up the magazine AIRE, which has compiled the most complete photographic archive recording the performance art of his generation. He has been a member of numerous artistic self-management collectives, such as the CLUB 7, and has also organised festivals and exhibitions.
MALGORZATA BUTERRWICK (Poland)
I did my first live art piece in October 2003, and since then have realized over 30 actions - in Poland, Spain, Sweden, Quebec/Canada, Japan and Mexico. They include performances, sight specific/street actions as well as an experimental 9-month project ´9 and ½ Fridays´.
I live in Krakow, Poland, since 2003. I am a member of the Fort Sztuki Association (www.fortsztuki.art.pl ) and of its art magazine editing team, and write about actual art for various publications. I co-run together with Angel Pastor an independent art space Mostowa2 (www.mostowa2.net ).
The previous 8 years I spent in England and Northern Ireland where, while working at Flaxart studios in Belfast, I ´found´ performance art... In 2000 I co-found and for the next 3 years co-run in Belfast an independent art organization Bbeyond. Its aim is to organize life art events based on international exchange.
Before, I studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland, where I received MA in Art and Design.
NIEVES CORREA (Spain)
Madrid (Spain) 1960.
I begin to develop as performance artist from 1987, and since 1990 I had organised festivals and meetings of performance art and I had given courses and conferences at Universities, Museums, Cultural Institutions, etc..
My recent works have taken place at:
Art-Contac at ForumBox (Helsinki - Finland), ZeDosBois (Lisboa - Portugal), Museum of Contemporary Art of Valencia - IVAM (Spain), Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León - MUSAC (Spain), Frictions.Performance Art Festival. (Upsala - Sweden), Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago de Compostela - CGAC (Spain), Harta Performance Festival, (Monza - Italy), Centre of Contemporary Art (Murcia - Spain), Fine Art School University of Vigo (Spain), LIMES05, (Lund - Sweden), Circulo de Bellas Artes, (Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Spain), E.P.I-Zentrum, (Essen - Germany), Kaskadenkondensator, (Basel - Switzerland), University of Montevideo (Uruguay), National Museun of Fine Arts (Buenos Aires - Argentina), LeLieu (Quebec, Canada).
NENAD BOGDANOVIC (Serbia)
Born in 1955 in Odzaci, Serbia.
Freelance visual and performance artist, publisher and curator. Member of art societies of Vojvodina and Serbia. From 1984 to 1988 founded and published international art magazines "Total" and "Second Manifesto". Curator of various international art projects and exhibitions (since 1980). Founder of Multimedial Art Studio and MAS Gallery in Odzaci, Serbia.
Organiser and curator of International Multimedial Art Festival - IMAF (since 1998, edicated to performance art).
Realizes his art performances and art actions on many international festivals worldwide (France: 1994, Italy: 1995, 2003 & 2004, Slovakia: 1996, Germany: 1996, Japan: 1997 & 2008, Romania: 1998, Poland: 1999 & 2007, Hungary: 2001, Belarus: 2001, United Kingdom: 2004, Northern Ireland: 2004, Switzerland: 2004, USA: 2005, Canada: 2006 & 2008, Turkey: 2007, Israel: 2007, and Serbia - since 1980).
Realised art tours with Man Gallery project in France 1994, Italy 1995, Germany 1996, Japan 1997 and Switzerland 2004.
In 2003 year realised two art performances on 50th International Biennial of Venice (International Art Project: Brain Academy Apartment).
RADOSLAV B. CHUGALY (Serbia)
Conceptual artist, poet, performer, works with artistic objects and instalations, participated on many colective art exhibitions and festivals in Europe, Asia and America. Works in Odzaci.
Selected live participations:
2000. - IMAF 2000, Gallery "MAS", Odzaci
2001. - Gallery "Multimedia Arts", Novi Sad
- Artfort Festival, Komarom, Hungary
- IMAF 2001, Gallery "MAS", Odzaci
2002. - IMAF 2002, Gallery "MAS", Odzaci
2003. - PerformaNS, Gallery "Golden Eye" Novi Sad
- IMAF 2003, "Kamariste", Odzaci
2004. - IMAF 2004, Gallery "MAS", Odzaci
2005. - IMAF 2005, Gallery "MAS", Odzaci
- SCC Belgrade (with Nenad Bogdanovic)
DRAGAN VOJVODIC (Serbia)
- Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia, 1996.
- Member of the Artistic Assotiation of Serbia since 1997.
- Live and work in Novi Sad, Serbia
Selected solo exhibitions :
2008. Inside-Outside, Titanik gallery, Turku, Finland
2007. Hyperboreans (instalations), Sertorio sqver, Evora; Marble mind, Borba; Obras foundation, Herdade da Marmeleira, Portugal
2007. In Meantime(with A.Tisma and M.Stojanovic), Katakomb, Budapest, Hungary
2007. Organizm, Museum of Modern Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad
2007. Reflections (with M.Blanusa and Z.Grozdanic) Torhaus, Dortmund, Germany
2006. Teeth, SIM House, Reykjavik, Iceland 2006. Dental art, MP-art gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2006.Teeth ( instalation and digital prints ), SKC,Belgrade,Serbia
2006. Absurd design ( instalation, video and photography), Visual culture centre Golden eye, Novi Sad,Serbia
2006. Let me show you my teeth (street action), London, UK 2005. One man sculpture (street performance), Moscow, Russia
2005. Neverending history (paintings and digital prints), Podrum gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2004. Cite internationale des artes (digital photography), Paris, France
2004. I just don't know what to do with myself ( paintings), Izba gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2000. Plaza gallery, Herceg Novi, Montenegro
MARKO BOGDANOVIC (Serbia)
Born in Odzaci 1986. Graduated at the Secondary school of mechanical engineering.
He is lasting associate in organization of the IMAF festival.
He interfered in computer graphics and classical forms of artistic expression.
2002. standalone exhibit of paintings and computer graphics, MAS gallery, Odzaci.
Performances:
2007.- "World 1", 9th International Multimedia Arts festival - IMAF, MAS Gallery, Odzaci.
2007.- "World 2", 9th International Multimedia Arts festival - IMAF, Student Cultural Center, Belgrade.
2008.- "N.W.O.01", Night of the Museum - Performance Night, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad.
LIDIJA ANTONOVIC (Serbia)
(1984), student of 3th year Academy of Arts - photography
Solo performances: 2005. "Photo-shirt", Academy BK, Belgrade, Serbia / 2004.
"Inside of the photography", festival autoperformances "Mimart godovi", SCC
Costume designe for Theater Mimart from 1999 until 2002.
From 2002 performer with Theater Mimart.
FIONA McGREGOR (Australia)
Fiona McGregor is a Sydney performance artist currently developing solo durational and endurance work, with risk a crucial component. Since 2007's Dead Art, she has also been performing interventions in major art institutions. She co-founded senVoodoo performance troupe, who performed internationally from 1999-2007. McGregor is also a writer and has published 3 award winning books of fiction. In 2008 UWA Press publishes Strange Museums, a travel memoir about Poland through the lens of senVoodoo's 2006 performance art tour. In 2009 Scribe will publish McGregor's next novel.
HOSH ISRAELI GROSZ (Israel)
Education:
2002 - 2004: Video Art studies - Bezalel academy Jerusalem
1976 - 1978: Specialization printing workshop - Bezalel academy Jerusalem.
1976 - B.A. art department Bezalel academy Jerusalem
1968 - 1971: Studies in art history and general history, the Hebrew university Jerusalem.
1966 - 1967: Art studies, Avni institute - Tel Aviv.
1965 - 1966: Studies in general history, university of the Negev - beer sheva.
Work experience:
1978 - 1987: Ceramics designer, private works, large scale wall design, Mount Zion hotel - Jerusalem. Renovation and restoration, wall in Safra square - Jerusalem. Participation in restoration, Nahalat shiva promenade - design of decorative wall, hutzot hayozer - Jerusalem.
Teaching experience:
1993 - 2008: Lecturer, art department Bezalel academy - Jerusalem.
1994 - 2000: Art teacher, Emunah college - Jerusalem.
1993 - 1996: Art teacher, school of arts attached to Emunah college - Jerusalem.
EMILIO & FRANCA MORANDI (Italy)
Emilio - Painter,operator of installations and performer.
Emilio Morandi in the last years is present at many international art manifestations, festivals and meetings. The his investigation expressive is above all concentrate in the poetic behavior and installation, where he use the his own language, after many years of engagement and artistic relationship with others operators in the experimental art area.
The performance of Morandi is art work mixture of gesture, writing
and sound.
Franca Monzani - Fotografa performer collabora con l'Artestudio dal 1980 dove e'curatrice dell'archivio fotografico e video di Art Action Internazionale. Presente come performer in festival e meeting in Italia e nel mondo.
IMAF10 Support:
GRAD NOVI SAD,
GRADSKA UPRAVA ZA KULTURU /
CITY OF NOVI SAD,
CITY COUNCIL FOR CULTURE
Seiji Shimoda - NIPAF
