11th International Multimedial Art Festival - IMAF 2009
Nenad Bogdanovic:
The 11th IMAF Festival was opened with Following the Whispers in-between, a durational performance trilogy by UK based artists couple Alexandra Zierle originally from Germany and Paul Carter from the UK. The work cross-references many traditions and philosophies based around the symbology of the apple on one hand presenting the fruit of love and on the other the fruit of knowledge. One such reading is that Zierle and Carter reached for eternal subjects found in the Bible, speaking of the apple, sin and of love. Paul, during their durational work, energetically cuts out the "heart" of the apple, eats it, offering the remains to the present audience, seemingly the sinners. During that time, Alexandra chops the red apples in half while hiding her torso and face behind a large book and gracefully at times, abrupt at others, leaves the halves amounting as an offering for Paul and the audience. Later on, "wired" to mics, they tell a silent tale on a 1000 white papers. The whiteness of the paper is covered only with imprints of their ink-blackened occasional bloodstained lips, uttering sighs, whispered declarations, and sometimes a cry, for love. At the end all of us received two halves of the "sinful object" with the messages "the end of knowledge is love" and "the end of love is knowledge".
An hour-long compilation of videos was also presented during IMAF 11, containing short extracts of works made by all IMAF participants during the first ten years of the Festival. The audience could see precious footage of works performed in Odzaci, Novi Sad and Belgrade made by the 64 artists during this time period.
On the first day of the festival, Peter Kuestermann, another artist from Germany, presented his work Magic in my hands, a performance in which Peter does magic tricks for the enjoyment of the audience, both children and adults. Despite his conviction, Peter is not an actual magician and his tricks are mostly directed at enhancing positive energy and atmosphere, whether they are successful or not. His magic is in revealing the artistic side in us/the audience. By presenting certain professions and situations in more or less naive but determined fashion he provokes compassion and understanding thus receiving the full support of the audience.
Stanisa Krstic, a young artist from Odzaci performed at IMAF for the first time with his performance Levitation. His work is dedicated to the exploration of esoteric meanings, presenting the people of Odzaci with possibilities of feeling levitation and universal cosmic freedom. He achieves this by moving things like carpet, table, chairs, desk lamp, book and a lit candle from the floor to the wall of the gallery. He suggests and invites on movement within space dedicated only for illuminated ones.
Great interest and confusion was provoked by Colm Clarke from Northern Ireland with his durational performance titled Strain, which he performed on the second day of the festival, both in the yard in front of MAS gallery and on the street. From 6 in the morning till 6 in the evening, Colm dressed in a white delicate suit with a ‘band aid plaster mask’ on his face, made interventions around and up a tree. His white attire and bare red painted feet caused different reactions from passersby. With the use of salt to map particular space and boundaries - a tree on the street, and later in the yard of MAS Gallery, Colm’s intense concentration on the act of doing and subtle physical strains left all mesmerised. This work spoke of ritual cleansing. Sweeping dry twigs, leaves, dust and different garbage from the pavement cracks, Colm meditatively invoked the cleansing of these ‘special spaces’, gathering junk, to later on identify himself with certain natural energy components.
Entitled Voyage, Aleksandar Jovanovic’s performance profoundly speaks about mans voyage from birth to death. A marble plate, an hourglass rested on a black cube, and a glass of water with a pocket size human skeleton dominated the gallery space. With a black baby doll suspended from the ceiling, Aleksandar consistently pastes photos on each side of the cube starting with the one of a very small child in large hands with the inscription: “They were once like me ... I’ll someday be like them“. Periodically turning the cube, drinking water from the skeleton glass, the sand and time run out suggesting that life is also. He pastes the last photo with inscription: “we were once like him ... he’ll someday be like us“, finally takes the baby doll and removes its head, pouring from it white dust on his head, allowing us towitness his transformation old age.
Radoslav B. Chugaly’s performance holds it’s meaning entirely in its title Polyglot washes hair. In his latest works, as the author, he simplifies the idea, and it’s realization. In his performances, Radoslav does not make work on ‘great issues’ nor on important and great subjects such as politics, history, love...etc. Instead Radoslav took an electric hair clipper, stood in front of mirror suspended to an outside wall and trimmed his hair, shaved his beard, and afterwards simply washed his hair from a bucket of water. He knows that one does not need to complicate a performance and that clarity and simplicity of the idea can create valuable and memorable works. The audience was provided with the thought space needed to think about an artwork as a title or about the concept of an artwork in a sentence.
IMAF 2009 guests were Hip-hop duo from Odzaci KALTEK, comprised of young and visionary Nikola Sumic and David Jovanovic. Their texts are often highly engaged with musical production and clearly embed social themes within them. Their works usually speak of youth problems and present a critic about an expanse of a transitional society. At the closing of the festival they presented half an hour from their new album that is soon due to be published.
Despite the weak financial situation presented to us, this year’s festival, through it’s diversity and strength of work was still able to confidently fulfil the expectations of contemporary art critics as well as local audiences. IMAF 2009 was kindly supported by the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia, Department of culture of the Province of Vojvodina and a certain number of business organizations from Odzaci. We would like to thank them for all their support and help in making this event a success.
Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter:
This diverse and charged festival of performance art drew to an end with Nenad Bogdanovic’s mesmerising durational performance Process. Set to a meditative backing track, dressed in black Nenad lay in the middle of the performance space beneath a suspended cheese cloth filled with fermenting cheese in it’s process of maturing and solidifying. Excess water from the straining process dripped through the cloth down onto Nenad’s naval, emphasing his subtle breathing movements, relaxed, but fragile, illustrating the nature of the human experience. Periodically he would stand and go to the corner to write a single letter on a piece of card and tape fasten it to the string holding the cloth. Starting from the top and one by one working his way down, each letter gradually unveiled the message. Keeping the audience in anticipation, the message eventually spelt out ‘Nature’. After the continued process of laying beneath the progressively slower drip for periods of time, Nenad began to fasten images of himself from different periods of his life. Starting chronologically from top as a young child he worked his way down the string to the last image, a photographic negative of himself standing in front of a church. Both sides of the string now presented a clear, simple yet powerful message, one that when united tells us of the process of life. It mirrors the process of nature, consisting of maturing and change, nurtured by the steady rhythm of the breath and perpetual drip, that ran it’s course. The performance ended with an act of painting in white the words ‘Perf’, short for performance, and ‘life’ vertically next to each other on to his shirt suggesting their equality.
Serbian texts:
Nenad Bogdanović:
Jedanaesti festival IMAF 2009. je otvoren dugotrajnom performans trilogijom Prateći rasipanje u međuprostoru, umetničkog para nastanjenog u Velikoj Britaniji Aleksandre Zirle poreklom iz Nemačke i Pola Kartera iz Engleske. Rad koristi reference iz mnogih tradicija i filozofija baziranih oko simbologije jabuke koja u jednu ruku prikazuje voće ljubavi, a u drugu voće znanja. Dotiču se večite teme iz Biblije koja govori o jabuci, grehu i ljubavi. Pol, tokom njihovog dugotrajnog rada, nožem energično, iz prepolovljenih jabuka, vadi „srca“, jede ih i ostatak nudi prisutnim grešnicima/publici. Aleksandra za to vreme, krijući torzo i lice iza velike knjige, preseca crvene jabuke na pola i ostavlja ih kao ponudu Polu i drugima. Kasnije „ozvučeni“, povezani na mikrofone, govore nemo priču na hiljadu belih listova papira. Na belini komada od hartije ostaju samo otisci njihovih usana pokrivenih bojom a povremeno i krvlju, i uzdasi, ponekad se učini krik, za ljubavlju. Na kraju dobismo svi dve polovine „grešnog objekta“ i na njima poruke „kraj znanja je ljubav“ i „kraj ljubavi je znanje“.
Na festivalu je takođe predstavljena jednočasovna kompilacija video zapisa, kratki sadržaj radova svih učesnika IMAF-a prvih deset godina. Pred publikom je, u galeriji MAS putem video prezentacije, prodefilovalo 64 umetnika koji su za poslednjih deset godina, na ovoj manifestaciji u Odžacima i po nekoliko godina još u Novom Sadu i Beogradu, izvodili svoje umetničke predstave uživo.
Prvog dana festivala performansom se predstavio još jedan umetnik iz Nemačke Peter Kisterman. U performansu Magija u mojim rukama Peter izvodi mađioničarske trikove na radost dece i odraslih koji su bili prisutni tokom njegovog performansa. Peter nije pravi mađioničar i njegovi trikovi bili uspešni ili ne uglavnom podstiču pozitivnu energiju i lepu atmosferu. Njegova magija je u otkrivanju umetničke strane u nama/publici. Predstavljajući određena zanimanja i situacije manje-više naivno ali odlučno i istrajno izaziva saosećanje i razumevanje i zasluženo dobija podršku prisutnih.
Na ovogodišnjem festivalu se pojavljuje, po prvi put performansom, još jedan mladi umetnik iz Odžaka Staniša Krstić sa performansom Levitacija. Staniša i inače posvećen izučavanju ezoteričnih stvari i dešavanja nudi nam, u svom radu, mogućnost osećanja stanja levitacije i univerzalne kosmičke slobode.
Staniša je izmestio stvari, sa poda galerije, kao što su: tepih, sto, stolice, stona lampa, knjiga i zapaljenu sveću na zid galerije. Predlaže i poziva, predlažem ubuduće takođe insistiranje na interaktivnoj saradnji sa publikom, na kretanje unutar prostora namenjen samo posvećenima.
Veliko interesovanje i zabunu je izazvao Kolm Klark iz Severne Irske sa veoma dugotrajnim performansom pod nazivom Naprezanje kojeg je drugog dana festivala izvodio u dvorištu ispred galerije MAS (Studija za multimedijalnu umetnost) i na ulici i to od jutra u 6 časova do uveče u 6 časova. Kolm obučen u belu odeću, sa maskom na licu, interveniše oko drveta i na drvetu, ispred galerije i svojom pojavom izaziva razne reakcije građana Odžaka slučajnih prolaznika. Autor solju mapira odabrani prostor, u početku oko drveta na ulici a kasnije u dvorištu galerije MAS, i koncentriše svoju akciju ritualnog čišćenja na suvo granje, lišće, prašinu i ostalo smeće. Kolm meditativno realizuje čišćenje određenog prostora i prikupljanja smeća da bi se kasnije identifikovao sa izvesnim prirodnim energetskim komponentama.
Aleksandar Jovanović je izveo umetnički performans pod nazivom Put koji na istančan umetnički način govori o čovekovom putu od rođenja do smrti. Mermerna ploča, na njoj piramidalno postavljena crna kocka, peščani sat i čaša vode u kojoj se nalazi „džepni“ skelet čoveka. Dok se sa plafona njiše crna lutka deteta, u određenim vremenskim razmacima Aleksandar na kocki lepi fotografije počevši sa majušnom bebom u ogromnim šakama na kojoj je ispisano sledeće: „oni su nekad bili kao ja... a ja ću jednog dana biti kao oni“. Okrečući kocku, ispijajući vodu iz čaše sa skeletom, vreme na pešćanom i životnom satu ističe. Lepi poslednju fotografiju sa lobanjama i ljudskim kostima sa sledećim tekstom: „mi smo nekad bili kao on...a on će jednog dana biti kao mi“. Na kraju skida lutku deteta sa plafona, u kojoj je beo prah kojim se posipa, i u trenutku doživljavamo autorovu transformaciju u čoveka u dubokoj starosti.
Radoslav B. Čugalj je ovaj put na IMAF-u izveo performans čiji se sadržaj može predpostaviti u samom nazivu rada: Poliglota pere kosu. Autor u poslednjim radovima pojednostavljuje ideju a takođe i realizaciju. Ne bavi se „velikim pitanjima“ i ne obrađuje u svojim performansima velike i važne teme kao što su politika, istorija, ljubav...itd. Radoslav je uzeo mašinicu za šišanje, podšišao svoju kosu i obrijao bradu a zatim je iz kofa sa vodom jednostavno oprao kosu. On zna da u umetnosti ne treba komplikovati i da jasnoća i jednostavnost ideje može iznedriti izuzetno vredna dela. Ostavlja publici veliki prostor, da razmišlja o umetničkom delu kao samom nazivu dela ili koncept umetničkog rada u jednoj rečenici.
Gosti festivala IMAF 2009. su bili odžačka hip-hop grupa KALTEK koju sačinjavaju mladi perspektivni muzičari Nikola Šumić i David Jovanović. Bave se veoma angažovanom muzičkom produkcijom i izrazito socijalnim temama u njihovim tekstovima. U svojim radovima najčešće govore o problemima mladih i uglavno su kritički raspoloženi u odnosu na stanje celokupnog društva u tranziciji. Oni su na zatvaranju festivala izveli polučasovni repertoar svojih pesama sa njihovog albuma koji je u pripremi za izdavanje.
I pored ovako nezavidne finansijske situacije i ovogodišnji festival je ispunio očekivanja ljubitelja savremenog umetničkog izražavanja. IMAF 2009. su inače podržali: Ministarstvo kulture Republike Srbije, Pokrajinski sekretarijat za kulturu i jedan broj privrednih organizacija iz Ožaka. Želimo da im se zahvalimo za svu njihovu potporu i pomoć u pravljenju ovog događaja uspešnim.
Alexandra Zierle i Paul Carter:
Ovaj raznolik i nabijen festival performansa stigao je do završetka očaravajućim dugotrajnim performansom Nenada Bogdanovića Proces. Postavljen u meditativan položaj, obučen u crno, Nenad leži u sredini prostora za performans ispod okačene krpe za sir ispunjene prevrelim mlekom u procesu sazrevanja i očvršćavanja sira.Višak vode iz ovog procesa curi kroz krpu na Nenadov pupak, naglašavajući njegove lagane pokrete pri disanju, opušteno, ali krhko, ilustrujući prirodu ljudskog iskustva. Povremeno, on ustaje i odlazi u ugao da napiše jedno slovo na komad papira i da ga trakom pričvrsti na kanap o kojem visi krpa. Počevši sa vrha i gradeći put na dole, jedno po jedno slovo otkriva celokupnu poruku. Držeći publiku u neizvesnosti, porukom se na kraju ispisuje „priroda“. Po nastavku procesa ležanja ispod progresivno sporijeg kapanja tokom perioda vremena, Nenad počinje da vezuje svoje fotografije iz raznih perioda svog života. Hronološki gledano od vrha kanapa kao deteta, gradi svoj put do poslednje fotografije, fotografskog negativa sebe kako stoji ispred crkve. Obe strane kanapa predstavljaju čistu, jednostavnu ali moćnu poruku, koja nam ujedinjena govori o procesu življenja. Reflektuje prirodne procese zrenja i promene, podržane ravnomernim ritmom daha i večnog kapanja, koji idu svojim tokom. Performans je završen činom bojenja belim slovima reči „Perf“, skraćeno od performans, i „Život“ vertikalno jedna pored druge na Nenadovoj majici sugerišući njihovu izjednačenost.
IMAF 11 Program:
11. Medjunarodni festival multimedijalne umetnosti
11th International Multimedial Art Festival
10th 09, 2009 (Galerija MAS, Odzaci / MAS Gallery, Odzaci)
• Alexandra Zierle (Germany) i Paul Carter (United Kingdom): “Prateci rasipanje u medjuprostoru” / “Following the Whispers in-between”
The 11th IMAF Festival was opened with Following the Whispers in-between, a durational performance trilogy by UK based artists couple Alexandra Zierle originally from Germany and Paul Carter from the UK. The work cross-references many traditions and philosophies based around the symbology of the apple on one hand presenting the fruit of love and on the other the fruit of knowledge. One such reading is that Zierle and Carter reached for eternal subjects found in the Bible, speaking of the apple, sin and of love. Paul, during their durational work, energetically cuts out the "heart" of the apple, eats it, offering the remains to the present audience, seemingly the sinners. During that time, Alexandra chops the red apples in half while hiding her torso and face behind a large book and gracefully at times, abrupt at others, leaves the halves amounting as an offering for Paul and the audience. Later on, "wired" to mics, they tell a silent tale on a 1000 white papers. The whiteness of the paper is covered only with imprints of their ink-blackened occasional bloodstained lips, uttering sighs, whispered declarations, and sometimes a cry, for love. At the end all of us received two halves of the "sinful object" with the messages "the end of knowledge is love" and "the end of love is knowledge".
An hour-long compilation of videos was also presented during IMAF 11, containing short extracts of works made by all IMAF participants during the first ten years of the Festival. The audience could see precious footage of works performed in Odzaci, Novi Sad and Belgrade made by the 64 artists during this time period.
On the first day of the festival, Peter Kuestermann, another artist from Germany, presented his work Magic in my hands, a performance in which Peter does magic tricks for the enjoyment of the audience, both children and adults. Despite his conviction, Peter is not an actual magician and his tricks are mostly directed at enhancing positive energy and atmosphere, whether they are successful or not. His magic is in revealing the artistic side in us/the audience. By presenting certain professions and situations in more or less naive but determined fashion he provokes compassion and understanding thus receiving the full support of the audience.
Stanisa Krstic, a young artist from Odzaci performed at IMAF for the first time with his performance Levitation. His work is dedicated to the exploration of esoteric meanings, presenting the people of Odzaci with possibilities of feeling levitation and universal cosmic freedom. He achieves this by moving things like carpet, table, chairs, desk lamp, book and a lit candle from the floor to the wall of the gallery. He suggests and invites on movement within space dedicated only for illuminated ones.
Great interest and confusion was provoked by Colm Clarke from Northern Ireland with his durational performance titled Strain, which he performed on the second day of the festival, both in the yard in front of MAS gallery and on the street. From 6 in the morning till 6 in the evening, Colm dressed in a white delicate suit with a ‘band aid plaster mask’ on his face, made interventions around and up a tree. His white attire and bare red painted feet caused different reactions from passersby. With the use of salt to map particular space and boundaries - a tree on the street, and later in the yard of MAS Gallery, Colm’s intense concentration on the act of doing and subtle physical strains left all mesmerised. This work spoke of ritual cleansing. Sweeping dry twigs, leaves, dust and different garbage from the pavement cracks, Colm meditatively invoked the cleansing of these ‘special spaces’, gathering junk, to later on identify himself with certain natural energy components.
Entitled Voyage, Aleksandar Jovanovic’s performance profoundly speaks about mans voyage from birth to death. A marble plate, an hourglass rested on a black cube, and a glass of water with a pocket size human skeleton dominated the gallery space. With a black baby doll suspended from the ceiling, Aleksandar consistently pastes photos on each side of the cube starting with the one of a very small child in large hands with the inscription: “They were once like me ... I’ll someday be like them“. Periodically turning the cube, drinking water from the skeleton glass, the sand and time run out suggesting that life is also. He pastes the last photo with inscription: “we were once like him ... he’ll someday be like us“, finally takes the baby doll and removes its head, pouring from it white dust on his head, allowing us towitness his transformation old age.
Radoslav B. Chugaly’s performance holds it’s meaning entirely in its title Polyglot washes hair. In his latest works, as the author, he simplifies the idea, and it’s realization. In his performances, Radoslav does not make work on ‘great issues’ nor on important and great subjects such as politics, history, love...etc. Instead Radoslav took an electric hair clipper, stood in front of mirror suspended to an outside wall and trimmed his hair, shaved his beard, and afterwards simply washed his hair from a bucket of water. He knows that one does not need to complicate a performance and that clarity and simplicity of the idea can create valuable and memorable works. The audience was provided with the thought space needed to think about an artwork as a title or about the concept of an artwork in a sentence.
IMAF 2009 guests were Hip-hop duo from Odzaci KALTEK, comprised of young and visionary Nikola Sumic and David Jovanovic. Their texts are often highly engaged with musical production and clearly embed social themes within them. Their works usually speak of youth problems and present a critic about an expanse of a transitional society. At the closing of the festival they presented half an hour from their new album that is soon due to be published.
Despite the weak financial situation presented to us, this year’s festival, through it’s diversity and strength of work was still able to confidently fulfil the expectations of contemporary art critics as well as local audiences. IMAF 2009 was kindly supported by the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia, Department of culture of the Province of Vojvodina and a certain number of business organizations from Odzaci. We would like to thank them for all their support and help in making this event a success.
Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter:
This diverse and charged festival of performance art drew to an end with Nenad Bogdanovic’s mesmerising durational performance Process. Set to a meditative backing track, dressed in black Nenad lay in the middle of the performance space beneath a suspended cheese cloth filled with fermenting cheese in it’s process of maturing and solidifying. Excess water from the straining process dripped through the cloth down onto Nenad’s naval, emphasing his subtle breathing movements, relaxed, but fragile, illustrating the nature of the human experience. Periodically he would stand and go to the corner to write a single letter on a piece of card and tape fasten it to the string holding the cloth. Starting from the top and one by one working his way down, each letter gradually unveiled the message. Keeping the audience in anticipation, the message eventually spelt out ‘Nature’. After the continued process of laying beneath the progressively slower drip for periods of time, Nenad began to fasten images of himself from different periods of his life. Starting chronologically from top as a young child he worked his way down the string to the last image, a photographic negative of himself standing in front of a church. Both sides of the string now presented a clear, simple yet powerful message, one that when united tells us of the process of life. It mirrors the process of nature, consisting of maturing and change, nurtured by the steady rhythm of the breath and perpetual drip, that ran it’s course. The performance ended with an act of painting in white the words ‘Perf’, short for performance, and ‘life’ vertically next to each other on to his shirt suggesting their equality.
Serbian texts:
Nenad Bogdanović:
Jedanaesti festival IMAF 2009. je otvoren dugotrajnom performans trilogijom Prateći rasipanje u međuprostoru, umetničkog para nastanjenog u Velikoj Britaniji Aleksandre Zirle poreklom iz Nemačke i Pola Kartera iz Engleske. Rad koristi reference iz mnogih tradicija i filozofija baziranih oko simbologije jabuke koja u jednu ruku prikazuje voće ljubavi, a u drugu voće znanja. Dotiču se večite teme iz Biblije koja govori o jabuci, grehu i ljubavi. Pol, tokom njihovog dugotrajnog rada, nožem energično, iz prepolovljenih jabuka, vadi „srca“, jede ih i ostatak nudi prisutnim grešnicima/publici. Aleksandra za to vreme, krijući torzo i lice iza velike knjige, preseca crvene jabuke na pola i ostavlja ih kao ponudu Polu i drugima. Kasnije „ozvučeni“, povezani na mikrofone, govore nemo priču na hiljadu belih listova papira. Na belini komada od hartije ostaju samo otisci njihovih usana pokrivenih bojom a povremeno i krvlju, i uzdasi, ponekad se učini krik, za ljubavlju. Na kraju dobismo svi dve polovine „grešnog objekta“ i na njima poruke „kraj znanja je ljubav“ i „kraj ljubavi je znanje“.
Na festivalu je takođe predstavljena jednočasovna kompilacija video zapisa, kratki sadržaj radova svih učesnika IMAF-a prvih deset godina. Pred publikom je, u galeriji MAS putem video prezentacije, prodefilovalo 64 umetnika koji su za poslednjih deset godina, na ovoj manifestaciji u Odžacima i po nekoliko godina još u Novom Sadu i Beogradu, izvodili svoje umetničke predstave uživo.
Prvog dana festivala performansom se predstavio još jedan umetnik iz Nemačke Peter Kisterman. U performansu Magija u mojim rukama Peter izvodi mađioničarske trikove na radost dece i odraslih koji su bili prisutni tokom njegovog performansa. Peter nije pravi mađioničar i njegovi trikovi bili uspešni ili ne uglavnom podstiču pozitivnu energiju i lepu atmosferu. Njegova magija je u otkrivanju umetničke strane u nama/publici. Predstavljajući određena zanimanja i situacije manje-više naivno ali odlučno i istrajno izaziva saosećanje i razumevanje i zasluženo dobija podršku prisutnih.
Na ovogodišnjem festivalu se pojavljuje, po prvi put performansom, još jedan mladi umetnik iz Odžaka Staniša Krstić sa performansom Levitacija. Staniša i inače posvećen izučavanju ezoteričnih stvari i dešavanja nudi nam, u svom radu, mogućnost osećanja stanja levitacije i univerzalne kosmičke slobode.
Staniša je izmestio stvari, sa poda galerije, kao što su: tepih, sto, stolice, stona lampa, knjiga i zapaljenu sveću na zid galerije. Predlaže i poziva, predlažem ubuduće takođe insistiranje na interaktivnoj saradnji sa publikom, na kretanje unutar prostora namenjen samo posvećenima.
Veliko interesovanje i zabunu je izazvao Kolm Klark iz Severne Irske sa veoma dugotrajnim performansom pod nazivom Naprezanje kojeg je drugog dana festivala izvodio u dvorištu ispred galerije MAS (Studija za multimedijalnu umetnost) i na ulici i to od jutra u 6 časova do uveče u 6 časova. Kolm obučen u belu odeću, sa maskom na licu, interveniše oko drveta i na drvetu, ispred galerije i svojom pojavom izaziva razne reakcije građana Odžaka slučajnih prolaznika. Autor solju mapira odabrani prostor, u početku oko drveta na ulici a kasnije u dvorištu galerije MAS, i koncentriše svoju akciju ritualnog čišćenja na suvo granje, lišće, prašinu i ostalo smeće. Kolm meditativno realizuje čišćenje određenog prostora i prikupljanja smeća da bi se kasnije identifikovao sa izvesnim prirodnim energetskim komponentama.
Aleksandar Jovanović je izveo umetnički performans pod nazivom Put koji na istančan umetnički način govori o čovekovom putu od rođenja do smrti. Mermerna ploča, na njoj piramidalno postavljena crna kocka, peščani sat i čaša vode u kojoj se nalazi „džepni“ skelet čoveka. Dok se sa plafona njiše crna lutka deteta, u određenim vremenskim razmacima Aleksandar na kocki lepi fotografije počevši sa majušnom bebom u ogromnim šakama na kojoj je ispisano sledeće: „oni su nekad bili kao ja... a ja ću jednog dana biti kao oni“. Okrečući kocku, ispijajući vodu iz čaše sa skeletom, vreme na pešćanom i životnom satu ističe. Lepi poslednju fotografiju sa lobanjama i ljudskim kostima sa sledećim tekstom: „mi smo nekad bili kao on...a on će jednog dana biti kao mi“. Na kraju skida lutku deteta sa plafona, u kojoj je beo prah kojim se posipa, i u trenutku doživljavamo autorovu transformaciju u čoveka u dubokoj starosti.
Radoslav B. Čugalj je ovaj put na IMAF-u izveo performans čiji se sadržaj može predpostaviti u samom nazivu rada: Poliglota pere kosu. Autor u poslednjim radovima pojednostavljuje ideju a takođe i realizaciju. Ne bavi se „velikim pitanjima“ i ne obrađuje u svojim performansima velike i važne teme kao što su politika, istorija, ljubav...itd. Radoslav je uzeo mašinicu za šišanje, podšišao svoju kosu i obrijao bradu a zatim je iz kofa sa vodom jednostavno oprao kosu. On zna da u umetnosti ne treba komplikovati i da jasnoća i jednostavnost ideje može iznedriti izuzetno vredna dela. Ostavlja publici veliki prostor, da razmišlja o umetničkom delu kao samom nazivu dela ili koncept umetničkog rada u jednoj rečenici.
Gosti festivala IMAF 2009. su bili odžačka hip-hop grupa KALTEK koju sačinjavaju mladi perspektivni muzičari Nikola Šumić i David Jovanović. Bave se veoma angažovanom muzičkom produkcijom i izrazito socijalnim temama u njihovim tekstovima. U svojim radovima najčešće govore o problemima mladih i uglavno su kritički raspoloženi u odnosu na stanje celokupnog društva u tranziciji. Oni su na zatvaranju festivala izveli polučasovni repertoar svojih pesama sa njihovog albuma koji je u pripremi za izdavanje.
I pored ovako nezavidne finansijske situacije i ovogodišnji festival je ispunio očekivanja ljubitelja savremenog umetničkog izražavanja. IMAF 2009. su inače podržali: Ministarstvo kulture Republike Srbije, Pokrajinski sekretarijat za kulturu i jedan broj privrednih organizacija iz Ožaka. Želimo da im se zahvalimo za svu njihovu potporu i pomoć u pravljenju ovog događaja uspešnim.
Alexandra Zierle i Paul Carter:
Ovaj raznolik i nabijen festival performansa stigao je do završetka očaravajućim dugotrajnim performansom Nenada Bogdanovića Proces. Postavljen u meditativan položaj, obučen u crno, Nenad leži u sredini prostora za performans ispod okačene krpe za sir ispunjene prevrelim mlekom u procesu sazrevanja i očvršćavanja sira.Višak vode iz ovog procesa curi kroz krpu na Nenadov pupak, naglašavajući njegove lagane pokrete pri disanju, opušteno, ali krhko, ilustrujući prirodu ljudskog iskustva. Povremeno, on ustaje i odlazi u ugao da napiše jedno slovo na komad papira i da ga trakom pričvrsti na kanap o kojem visi krpa. Počevši sa vrha i gradeći put na dole, jedno po jedno slovo otkriva celokupnu poruku. Držeći publiku u neizvesnosti, porukom se na kraju ispisuje „priroda“. Po nastavku procesa ležanja ispod progresivno sporijeg kapanja tokom perioda vremena, Nenad počinje da vezuje svoje fotografije iz raznih perioda svog života. Hronološki gledano od vrha kanapa kao deteta, gradi svoj put do poslednje fotografije, fotografskog negativa sebe kako stoji ispred crkve. Obe strane kanapa predstavljaju čistu, jednostavnu ali moćnu poruku, koja nam ujedinjena govori o procesu življenja. Reflektuje prirodne procese zrenja i promene, podržane ravnomernim ritmom daha i večnog kapanja, koji idu svojim tokom. Performans je završen činom bojenja belim slovima reči „Perf“, skraćeno od performans, i „Život“ vertikalno jedna pored druge na Nenadovoj majici sugerišući njihovu izjednačenost.
IMAF 11 Program:
11. Medjunarodni festival multimedijalne umetnosti
11th International Multimedial Art Festival
10th 09, 2009 (Galerija MAS, Odzaci / MAS Gallery, Odzaci)
• Alexandra Zierle (Germany) i Paul Carter (United Kingdom): “Prateci rasipanje u medjuprostoru” / “Following the Whispers in-between”
• Video projekcija / Video projection: “Deset godina IMAF-a” / “Ten years of IMAF”
Učesnici / participants:
Balint Szombathy (Serbia), Nenad Bogdanović (Serbia), Nikola Šindik (Serbia), Jaroslav Supek (Serbia), Šandor Gogoljak (Serbia), Hero Itoh (Japan), Aleksandar Jovanović (Serbia), Uto Gusztav (Romania), Eva Vajda (Romania), Yasunori Shiobara (Japan), Michiko Shiobara (Japan), Yea_Net Poett (Hungary), Sinead O’Donnell (Ireland), Kenny McBride (United Kingdom), Peter Začek (Switzerland), Jorg Köppl (Switzerland), Ksenija Kovačević (Serbia), Dragana Hajduk (Serbia), Mihajlo Hajduk (Serbia), Nikola Sapundžić (Serbia), Ana Milovanović (Serbia), Roddy Hunter (United Kingdom), Justin McKeown (United Kingdom), Era Milivojević (Serbia), Yu Kuramoto (Japan), Angel Pastor (Spain), Martin Zet (Czech Republic), Milan Grahovac (Serbia), Hugh O’Donnell (Northern Ireland), Emilio Morandi (Italy) Franca Morandi (Italy), Radoslav B. Chugaly (Serbia), Ryosuke Cohen (Japan), Andre Stitt (United Kingdom), Nikola Vukobratović (Serbia), Katherina Zakravsky (Austria), Nicola Frangione (Italy), Vassya Vassileva (Bulgaria), Marilyn Arsem (USA), Phill Babot (United Kingdom), Gabrijel Savić Ra (Serbia), Zorica Jovanović (Serbia), Dragan Ignjatov (Serbia), Jozsef R. Juhasz (Slovakia), Peter Küstermann (Germany), Adina Bar-On (Israel), Joseph Ravens (USA), Nela Antonović (Serbia), Lidija Antonović (Serbia), Group MP (Serbia), Juniper Perlis (USA), Joan Casellas (Spain), Gertrude Berg (Austria/USA), Martine Viale (Canada), John G. Boehme (Canada), Brian Connoly (Northern Ireland), Jovana Dimitrijević (Serbia), Leo Devlin (Northern Ireland), Marko Bogdanović (Serbia), Marko Nektan (Serbia), Tamar Raban (Israel), Alastair McLennan (Scotland/Northern Ireland), Dragan Vojvodić (Serbia), Nieves Correa (Spain), Malgosia Butterwick (Poland)
• Peter Kuestermann (Germany): “Magija u mojim rukama” / “Magic in my hands”
• Staniša Krstic (Serbia): “Levitacija” / “Levitation“
11th 09, 2009 (Galerija MAS, Odzaci / MAS Gallery, Odzaci)
• Colm Clarke (Northern Ireland): “Naprezanje” / “Strain”
• Aleksandar Jovanovic (Serbia): “Put” / “Voyage”
• Nenad Bogdanovic (Serbia): “Proces” / “Process”
• Radoslav B. Cugalj (Serbia): “Poliglota pere kosu” / “Polyglot washing hair”
• Gosti IMAF-a: Hip-hop grupa KALTEK (Odzaci, Srbija) / Guest of IMAF festival: Hip-hop group KALTEK (Odzaci, Serbia)
IMAF 11 Biographies:
Alexandra Zierle (Germany) and Paul Carter (United Kingdom)
Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter's collaborative work is interdisciplinary, multi-sensory and site and context responsive spanning from performance, sound, video to installation. Through their practice, Zierle & Carter critically examine different modes of communication and what it means to be human both as individuals and as a ‘collective entity'. Their work addresses notions of belonging, cultural identity, harmony through conflict and the transformation of limitations.
Colm Clarke (Northern Ireland)
Clarke is a perfromance artist based in Belfast, born in New York 1983. Clarke's most recent performances include Anymous Festival (Pilsen, Czech Rep.), Arsenal Gallery (Bialystock, Poland), Perfomance:Irelanda (Santiago, Chile) and I AM (Stranmillis, Belfast). Clarke views performance as a tactile strategy to develop understanding and explore relationships between ourselves and our environment. Clarke was co-director of Catalyst Arts (2006-8). He currently sits on the board of Bbeyond (NI) and is founding director of ADHOC (NI).
Peter Küstermann (Germany)
Peter Küstermann was born in Hagen/Westphalia in 1950. He has contributed to the network since 1983 as mailartist, author, painter, filmer, art critic, gallerist, and alternative cultural manager in a roman(t)ic old church: Culture Center BÜZ in Minden/Germany. His works are represented in numerous collections: Museum of Modern Art New York. Tate Gallery / London. Biblioteca Publica de Aragon / Spain. Dallas Public Library / Texas. Mail Art Museum Koshienguchi / Japan. Artpool Archive / Budapest. The Museum of Museums Waregem / Belgium. Literaturium Edewecht / Germany, Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa / Portugal und diverse Postal Museums.
Aleksandar Jovanovic (Serbia)
Born in 1962 in Odzaci. Autodidakt . Deals with conceptual forms of artistic expression. During total blockade of Yugoslavia, protesting, before all, against cultural blockade, publishes ''Cage'' magazine in period 1992 to 1995. Organizes artistic anti-embargo actions ( Belgrade, Novi Sad, Odzaci), exhibitions of contributions published in the magazine ( Wichte-Belgium, Dallas-USA, Tokyo-Japan, Belgrade and Novi Sad-Yugoslavia), international anti-embargo projects (''The Networkers Spirit'' and '' Unblockade book''
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, Serbia / 2001. - Gallery "Multimedia Arts", Novi Sad, Serbia - Artfort Festival, Komarom, Hungary - IMAF 2001, Gallery "MAS", Odzaci, Serbia / 2002. - IMAF 2002, Gallery "MAS", Odzaci, Serbia / 2003. - PerformaNS, Gallery "Golden Eye" Novi Sad, Serbia - IMAF 2003, " Kamariste", Odzaci, Serbia / 2004. - IMAF 2004, Gallery "MAS", Odzaci, Serbia / 2005. - Transformation, International Festival, Zrenjanin, Serbia - IMAF 2005, Gallery "MAS", Odzaci, Serbia - IMAF 2005, Students Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia / 2006. - IMAF 2006 "IZBA", Novi Sad, Serbia / 2007. - "Performance Time", Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey - "INFANT", KCNS, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Nenad Bogdanovic (Serbia)
Born in 1955 in Odzaci, Serbia. Freelance visual and performance artist, publisher and curator. Member of art societies of Vojvodina (SULUV) and Serbia (ULUS). 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. In 2003 year realised two art performances on 50th International Biennial of Venice (International Art Project: Brain Academy Apartment).
Stanisa Krstic (Serbia)
Born 1977 in Odzaci, Serbia.
Does artistic carpentry, paints, sculpts, designs interior, web design. performance art.
Work history: Internet caffe "MAHADEVA" Odzaci interior design, Club "SPACE" Karavukovo interior design, Book illustrations for Ivica Andrejek , Web design with Basic Elements, IT Agency Serbia: www.pushmarketing.com , www.chaletsofchamonix.com , www.luxuryesmeraldavillas.com , www.imaf.org.rs.
Guests : KALTEK (Serbia)
Hip hop group Kaltek consisting of two members: David Jovanovic and Nikola Sumic, was created in the desire for free and positive expressions. Group was formed in 2006 and is well known in a regional music scene. Their newest compilation ‘College of Street Science' has 15 songs.
IMAF 11 Support:
AUTONOMNA POKRAJINA
VOJVODINA, POKRAJINSKI
SEKRETARIJAT ZA KULTURU
/AUTONOMUS PROVINCE OF
VOJVODINA, PROVINCIAL
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE
