18th International Multimedial Art Festival - IMAF 2016
Nenad BOGDANOVIC:
It has been exactly 18 years since International multimedia art festival has been initiated. Coming of age is marked in relation of circumstances, continent, country, city, religious or political determination in different ways. Mostly celebrated when people are in concern. Diferent manifestation also mark it, each in its own way, this important moment in the life of their projects.
Marking the “coming of age” for the IMAF festival is the time to resume realized projects during past 18 years. From its humble beginnings IMAF has grown into serious art manifestation dedicated to international dialogue and cultural communication. IMAF became a good place for cooperation, exchange of experiences and cultural communication about contemporary art praxis.
IMAF was founded in Odzaci during 1998, within Multimedial Art Studio, nonprofit, nongovernment organization. For the first six years it was held exclusively in Odzaci at MAS gallery. On its seventh year of existence, it became a visiting manifestation at SKC of Belgrade. After three years ofexhibiting part of the program in Belgrade, for the next three years IMAF was held (for 3 years more since 2005) at IZBA Gallery in Novi Sad - Independent art asotiation. Formwerk (art zone) was the host of the Festival during 2013 and 2014. Festival IMAF has been held, besides Odzaci, at SULUV Gallery in Novi Sad since 2012.
Within the Festival , during the past 18 years, along with performances we realized many exhibition projects, especially during the first ten years. By the order of happening, those were as follows:
“Man Gallery” (65 participants), “Performance / Interventions on Photos” (51 participants), “Performances from photobooth” (27 participants), “Performance Art Today” (97 participants), “Nature of Performance – Performance in Nature” (67 participants), “The Future of Performance Art” (62 participants), “Ab Ovo” (65 participants), “(In)Place of Fear” (29 participants). IMAF festival also hosted many video presentations by various artists from Serbia and worldwide. During 2007, we presented video work by Nenad Bogdanovic “ titled “Performance in Serbia – selection ten” for the first time.
During 2009 we presented video work dedicated to the decade of the Festival titled “Ten years of IMAF”. As far the artists are concerned, we hosted more than 200 live performances by artist from the entire world so far.
This year IMAF was held in Odzaci and Novi Sad. In our hometown, Festival moved from the traditional MAS Gallery space into Center Gallery. In Novi Sad, we held the Festival in SULUV Gallery again, gallery of Association of Vojvodinian Artist Union. Both in Odzaci and Novi Sad hosted performances by the following artists: Hong Kong art group, Andrew Lam, Yuenjie Maru i Monique Yim; two Canadian artists, Bojana Videkanić i Stanley Février; Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Germany), Lenka Klodova (Czech Republic), SU-EN (Sweden), Michela Montrasio (Italy), Yin-Sheng Liu (Taipei) and Serbian artist: Students of 3rd year of scene design: Jovana Plavšić and Miroslav Živanov, artists Saša Denić-Špena and Nenad Bogdanović.
Within the program, both in Odzaci and Novi Sad, we exhibited digital works of Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith from Germany, Andy Tam from China and three Hong Kong artists: Gabriel Leung, Kay Mei Ling Beadman and Cheung Hong Sang Enoch.
Successful realization of the 18th IMAF was enabled, by the major influence, financial support of Ministry of culture of Republic of Serbia and support by Association of Vojvodinian Artist Union and Students Cultural Centre of Novi Sad. Large impact was given by individual support to the artists by cultural foundations of Sweden, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Canada.
Serbian text:
Nenad BOGDANOVIĆ:
Prošlo je tačno 18 godina od kada je pokrenut Međunarodni festival multimedijalne umetnosti – IMAF.
Punoletstvo se u odnosu na okolnosti, continent, zemlja, grad, religijsku ili političku određenost obeležava na razne načine. Uglavnom se proslavlja ako su u pitanju ljudi. Razne manifestacije takođe obeležavaju, svako na svoj način, ovaj važan period u “životu” njihovih projekata.
Obeležavanje “punoletstva” festivala IMAF je vreme za rezimiranje realizovanih projekata u predhodnih osamnaest godina. Od skromnog početka IMAF je izrastao u umetničku manifestaciju dugoročno posvećenu međunarodnom dijalogu i kulturnoj komunikaciji. IMAF je postao dobro mesto za saradnju, razmenu iskustava I edukaciju publike o savremenoj umetničkoj praksi.
IMAF je osnovan u Odžacima 1998. godine u okviru Studija za multimedijalnu umetnost, neprofitne, nevladine umetničke organizacije. Prvih šest godina mesto održavanja je isključivo u Odžacima i to u MAS galeriji. IMAF je 2005. godine sedme godine održavanja, pored Odžaka, postao i gostujuća manifestacija u Beogradu u Studentskom kulturnom centru. Pored tri godine predstavljanja dela programa u Beogradu festival IMAF je od 2006. godine održavan u naredne tri godine u Galeriji IZBA , Nezavisnoj umetničkoj asocijaciji u Novom Sadu. Formverk (art zone) u Banatskoj Dubici je dve godine 2013. i 2014. bilo takođe mesto održavanja festivala. Festival IMAF se od 2012. godine pa sve do sada, pored Odžaka, održava i u novosadskoj galeriji SULUV, galeriji Saveza Udruženja likovnih umetnika Vojvodine.
Na festivalu su tokom proteklih osamnaest godina, pored izvođenja performansa, realizovani i mnogi izložbeni projekti, naročito u prvih deset godina. Po redosledu događanja to su sledeće manifestacije međunarodni projekti i izložbe: “Čovek galerija” (65 učesnika), “Performance / Interventions on Photos” (51 učesnik), “Performances from photobooth” (27 učesnika), “Performance Art Today” (97 učesnika), “Nature of Performance – Performance in Nature” (67 učesnika), “The Future of Performance Art” (62 učesnika), “Ab Ovo” (65 učesnika), “(In)Place of Fear” (29 učesnika). IMAF festival je bio i mesto video prezentacija mnogih autora iz zemlje i sveta. 2007. godine po prvi put je prezentovan video projekat Nenada Bogdanovića pod nazivom “Performance in Serbia – selection ten”. 2009. godine je predstavljena video projekcija posvećena desetogodišnjici festivala pod nazivom “Ten years of IMAF”. Što se tiče dešavanja i umetničkih radova realizovanih uživo festival je do sada ugostio i omogućio predstavljanje vise od 200 umetnika iz celog sveta.
Ovogodišnji IMAF festival je održan u Odžacima i Novom Sadu. Održavanje programa festivala u Odžacima se iz već ustaljenog prostora MAS Galerije seli u novi prostor Galerije Centar. Program
festivala u Novom Sadu se i ovog puta odvijao u Galeriji SULUV, galeriji Saveza Udruženja likovnih umetnika Vojvodine. U Odžacima i Novom Sadu svoje performanse su realizovali sledeći umetnici: grupa umetnika iz Hong Konga, Andrew Lam, Yuenjie Maru i Monique Yim; dvoje umetnika iz Kanade, Bojana Videkanić i Stanley Février; Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Nemačka), Lenka Klodova (Republika Češka), SU-EN (Švedska), Michela Montrasio (Italija), Yin-Sheng Liu (Tajvan) i umetnici iz Srbije: Studenti 3. godine Scenskog dizajna: Jovana Plavšić i Miroslav Živanov, Saša Denić-Špena i Nenad Bogdanović. U okviru ovogodišnjeg programa, u Odžacima i Novom Sadu, priređena je izložba digitalnih radova Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith iz Nemačke, Andy Tam iz Kine i troje umetnika iz Hong Konga: Gabriel Leung, Kay Mei Ling Beadman i Cheung Hong Sang Enoch.
Uspešnu realizaciju, ovogodišnjeg osamnaestog po redu IMAF-a, omogućile su prvenstveno finansijska podrška Ministarstva kulture Republike Srbije i partnerske podrške Saveza Udruženja likovnih umetnika Vojvodine i Studentskog kulturnog centra iz Novog Sada. Od velikog značaja su bile i individualne podrške pojedinim umetnicima od strane fondacija za kulturu iz Švedske, Hong Konga, Tajvana i Kanade.
IMAF 2016 Programe:
Program 18. Međunarodnog festivala multimedijalne umetnosti - IMAF 2016
Programe of the 18th International Multimedial Art Festival - IMAF 2016
02. 09. 2016. Galerija CENTAR / CENTER Gallery (Studio za multimedijalnu umetnost / Multimedial Art Studio), Knez Mihajlova Blok C, Odžaci (Srbija / Serbia)
- Andrew Lam (Hong Kong) – „Trenutak za aktiviranje HK“ / „A Moment to Activate HK“
- Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Nemačka / Germany) – „Poželjna povorka“ / „Desirable procession“
- Lenka Klodova (Republika Češka / Czech Republic) – „Protesti“ / „Protests“
- Michela Montrasio (Italija / Italy) – „Temelj“ / „Foundation“
- Saša Denić-Špena (Srbija / Serbia) – „Šta ostaje?“ / „What’s left?“
- Stanley Fevrier (Kanada / Canada) – „Tiha kiša“ / „Silent Rain“
- SU-EN (Švedska / Sweden) – „Život - da li me čuješ“ / „Life - do you hear me!?”
- Bojana Videkanić (BIH/Kanada / BIH/Canada) – „Koža” / „Skin“
- Yin-Sheng Liu (Tajvan / Taiwan) – „Fizički/nebesko telo” / „Physical/celestial body“
- Yuenjie Maru (Hong Kong) – „Koja strana granice” / „Which side of the border?“
03. 09. 2016. Galerija SULUV / SULUV Gallery (Savez udruženja likovnih umetnika Vojvodine / Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina), Bul. Mihajla Pupina 9, Novi Sad (Srbija / Serbia)
- Bojana Videkanić (BIH/Kanada / BIH/Canada) – „Čista egzistencija” / „Pure Existens“
- Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Nemačka / Germany) – „Nemoguća povorka“ / „Impossible procession“
- Michela Montrasio (Italija / Italy) – „Suštinski“ / „Essential“
- Lenka Klodova (Republika Češka / Czech Republic) – „Protest“ / „Protest“
- Monique Yim (Hong Kong) „Queer Series No.7“
- Stanley Fevrier (Kanada / Canada) – „Tiha kiša“ / „Silent Rain“
04. 09. 2016. Galerija SULUV / SULUV Gallery (Savez udruženja likovnih umetnika Vojvodine / Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina), Bul. Mihajla Pupina 9, Novi Sad (Srbija / Serbia)
- Bojana Videkanić (BIH/Kanada / BIH/Canada) – „Čista egzistencija” / „Pure Existens“
- SU-EN (Švedska / Sweden) – „Akcija plakanja“ / „Crying Action”
- Nenad Bogdanović (Srbija / Serbia) – „Slikati ostacima“ / „Paint with the rest“
- Yin-Sheng Liu (Tajvan / Taiwan) – „Podsvesne zagonetke” / „Subconscious charades“
- Yuenjie Maru (Hong Kong) – „Koja strana granice” / „Which side of the border?“
- Studenti III godine Scenskog dizajna (Srbija / Serbia) – „Z_I_D”
- Andrew Lam (Hong Kong) – „Trenutak donošenja promene” / „A Moment to enact Change“
- SU-EN (Švedska / Sweden) – „Život - da li me čuješ“ / „Life - do you hear me!?”
2nd September 2016 (Center Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia / Galerija Centar, Odžaci, Srbija)
Opening of the festival / Otvaranje festivala: Nenad Bogdanović (Serbia / Srbija)
IMAF 2016 performances / performansi IMAF 2016:
Andrew Lam (Hong Kong)
The existence of MOST formed by Andrew Lam is emblematic of a parallel voice of the conventional culture, institution and museum. Andrew Lam studied art in Hong Kong and Cambridge and he initiated the provocative collective︳alternative space MOST (Museum of Site), which has been a community-cum-alternative space in Hong Kong since 1994. MOST represents an expanding glocal curatorial purview and innovative platform, aiming to advance insightful perspectives and projects for the art community. MOST’s projects aim to re-contextualise exhibition strategies, re-imagine fresh approaches and designs in global frameworks and conceive experimental curatorship and museum notions of glocalism.
For the past decade, Andrew Lam has initiated a dynamic array of curatorial programmes for the Museum of Site, 64 Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences and MOCA-China in the capacity of a curator. MOST’s projects are presented in the Hong Kong Art Biennale (HG), Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (Shenzhen and HongKong), Tashkent Biennale, Guangzhou Triennial, Gwangju Biennale, MAPP Singapore, ARCO Madrid, Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (HSL), Triennial di Milano (HSL), etc. MOST also engages dialogue with museums, counter-museum initiatives and institutions, including K11, M+ Museum, Education Commission, Heritage Museum and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, currently negotiating for an alternative museum/ public space for dOCUMENTA in the POST-MUSEUM era. Their new, mediated projects again crossover art, architecture, theatre and live performance, trajectoring relational aesthetic and activism.
IMAF 2016 performances / performansi IMAF 2016:
Andrew Lam (Hong Kong)
The existence of MOST formed by Andrew Lam is emblematic of a parallel voice of the conventional culture, institution and museum. Andrew Lam studied art in Hong Kong and Cambridge and he initiated the provocative collective︳alternative space MOST (Museum of Site), which has been a community-cum-alternative space in Hong Kong since 1994. MOST represents an expanding glocal curatorial purview and innovative platform, aiming to advance insightful perspectives and projects for the art community. MOST’s projects aim to re-contextualise exhibition strategies, re-imagine fresh approaches and designs in global frameworks and conceive experimental curatorship and museum notions of glocalism.
For the past decade, Andrew Lam has initiated a dynamic array of curatorial programmes for the Museum of Site, 64 Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences and MOCA-China in the capacity of a curator. MOST’s projects are presented in the Hong Kong Art Biennale (HG), Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (Shenzhen and HongKong), Tashkent Biennale, Guangzhou Triennial, Gwangju Biennale, MAPP Singapore, ARCO Madrid, Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (HSL), Triennial di Milano (HSL), etc. MOST also engages dialogue with museums, counter-museum initiatives and institutions, including K11, M+ Museum, Education Commission, Heritage Museum and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, currently negotiating for an alternative museum/ public space for dOCUMENTA in the POST-MUSEUM era. Their new, mediated projects again crossover art, architecture, theatre and live performance, trajectoring relational aesthetic and activism.
Odzaci: „Trenutak za aktiviranje HK“ / „A Moment to Activate HK“
Novi Sad: „Trenutak donošenja promene” / „A Moment to enact Change“
Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Nemačka/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 T.a.T.(pure action in art in action) Performance Art Workshops and City site-specific 12-hour Marathon Performance Art Workshops called 'Werktag'. She has been organizing public events with Live Performances and experimental exhibitions in the Art House ‘kunstwirkstoff’ in the countryside of Germany and developing further international exhibitions as event -transitstation- taking place in London 2003, Berlin 2005, Edinburgh 2006 and Copenhagen in 2010. Transitstation Copenhagen has been a collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy of Art. Live Actions and exhibitions took place in the USA, Germany, UK, France, Scotland, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand, Cyprus, Finland. She has been part of the Month of Performance Art, MPA-B Berlin 2012, 2013, 2015 presented Live Performances and Performance Art Workshops at 1st and 2nd Cyprus International Performance Art Festival 2013 and 2014, Live Performance Work – epitelesis Athens 2014 at Art Wall Gallery and Project Space, 2015 Lapsody performance Art Conference, Helsinki, curated and participated MPA-B Performance Art Weekend 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 at Cell63, 2015 Berlin Performance Art Workshop, 2015 Athens Performance Art Workshop hosted by epitelesis, China 2015 Live Art Tour #2, Beijing, Tianjin, Shen Zhen, 2016 BBK Braunschweig group exhibition, 2016 Solo Exhibition Kunstverein Schöningen
Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Nemačka/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 T.a.T.(pure action in art in action) Performance Art Workshops and City site-specific 12-hour Marathon Performance Art Workshops called 'Werktag'. She has been organizing public events with Live Performances and experimental exhibitions in the Art House ‘kunstwirkstoff’ in the countryside of Germany and developing further international exhibitions as event -transitstation- taking place in London 2003, Berlin 2005, Edinburgh 2006 and Copenhagen in 2010. Transitstation Copenhagen has been a collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy of Art. Live Actions and exhibitions took place in the USA, Germany, UK, France, Scotland, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand, Cyprus, Finland. She has been part of the Month of Performance Art, MPA-B Berlin 2012, 2013, 2015 presented Live Performances and Performance Art Workshops at 1st and 2nd Cyprus International Performance Art Festival 2013 and 2014, Live Performance Work – epitelesis Athens 2014 at Art Wall Gallery and Project Space, 2015 Lapsody performance Art Conference, Helsinki, curated and participated MPA-B Performance Art Weekend 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 at Cell63, 2015 Berlin Performance Art Workshop, 2015 Athens Performance Art Workshop hosted by epitelesis, China 2015 Live Art Tour #2, Beijing, Tianjin, Shen Zhen, 2016 BBK Braunschweig group exhibition, 2016 Solo Exhibition Kunstverein Schöningen
Odzaci: „Poželjna povorka“ / „Desirable procession“
Novi Sad: „Nemoguća povorka“ / „Impossible procession“
Lenka Klodova (Republika Češka / Czech Republic)
born the 22nd of October 1969 in Opava, Czech Republic, lives in Prague
Studies: 1990 - 1997 The Academy of Art, Architecture and Design , Prague; 1990-91 department of design, 1991-97 department of sculpture
2000 – assistant at department of sculpture, AAAD Prague; 2002 – 2005 doctor studies at AAAD Prague; 2005 - PhD. Acquired;2007 – art theory teacher at FAVU Brno; 2010 – head trachet of Studio of Body design, FAVU Brno; from 2001 – member of social – art group Mothers&Fathers; from 2006 – member of land&play art group Enfant Terrible; Collective and solo exhibitions: since 1994 in Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Latvia, Austria.
Performance and performance festivals:
2006 – MIFPA, mezinárodní festival performance, Mobius, Midway Theatre, Boston, USA
2007 – Wolnosc, Rownosc…Sztuka, Galeria Szara, Czesin, Galeria Szyb Wilson, Katowice, Poland; 2007 – Art of Birth, Veletržní palác, Praha; 2007 – Demolice, performance festival, Praha; 2007 – Malamut, performance festival, Ostrava; 2009 – Global Communication, performance festival, Radom, PL; 2009 – Preavis de Desordre Urbain, performance Festival, Marseille, France; 2009 – Malamut, performance festival, Ostrava; 2010 – festival Poběžovice
2010 – GrenzArt, performance festival, Kirchau, Německo; 2010 – Festival vytvrzení, Galerie Umakart, Brno; 2011 – Global Communication II., performance festival, Brno, Radom, PL
2011 – Malamut, performance festival, Ostrava; 2012 – Preavis de Disordre Urbain, performance festival, Marseille, France; 2012 – Useless Night, performance event, Divus – jižní křídlo, Praha; 2013 – Malamut, performance festival, Ostrava; 2014 – Private Nacionalism, Divus, Praha, Hala umenia Košice, M21 Gallery Pecs, Ostrale Dresden; 2014 – Landscape festival Praha, Nákladové nádraží Žizkov; 2015 – Festival Akt, Brno; 2015 – Festival Malamut, Ostrava; 2015 – Up On, Chengdu, China; 2015 – FNAF Festival of naked forms, Perla, Prague
2015 – Embodied Actions, Enacted Bodies, Hong Kong; 2015 – PCHAO, Polička, CZ; 2016 – Theatro Mundi, Prague
Lenka Klodova (Republika Češka / Czech Republic)
born the 22nd of October 1969 in Opava, Czech Republic, lives in Prague
Studies: 1990 - 1997 The Academy of Art, Architecture and Design , Prague; 1990-91 department of design, 1991-97 department of sculpture
2000 – assistant at department of sculpture, AAAD Prague; 2002 – 2005 doctor studies at AAAD Prague; 2005 - PhD. Acquired;2007 – art theory teacher at FAVU Brno; 2010 – head trachet of Studio of Body design, FAVU Brno; from 2001 – member of social – art group Mothers&Fathers; from 2006 – member of land&play art group Enfant Terrible; Collective and solo exhibitions: since 1994 in Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Latvia, Austria.
Performance and performance festivals:
2006 – MIFPA, mezinárodní festival performance, Mobius, Midway Theatre, Boston, USA
2007 – Wolnosc, Rownosc…Sztuka, Galeria Szara, Czesin, Galeria Szyb Wilson, Katowice, Poland; 2007 – Art of Birth, Veletržní palác, Praha; 2007 – Demolice, performance festival, Praha; 2007 – Malamut, performance festival, Ostrava; 2009 – Global Communication, performance festival, Radom, PL; 2009 – Preavis de Desordre Urbain, performance Festival, Marseille, France; 2009 – Malamut, performance festival, Ostrava; 2010 – festival Poběžovice
2010 – GrenzArt, performance festival, Kirchau, Německo; 2010 – Festival vytvrzení, Galerie Umakart, Brno; 2011 – Global Communication II., performance festival, Brno, Radom, PL
2011 – Malamut, performance festival, Ostrava; 2012 – Preavis de Disordre Urbain, performance festival, Marseille, France; 2012 – Useless Night, performance event, Divus – jižní křídlo, Praha; 2013 – Malamut, performance festival, Ostrava; 2014 – Private Nacionalism, Divus, Praha, Hala umenia Košice, M21 Gallery Pecs, Ostrale Dresden; 2014 – Landscape festival Praha, Nákladové nádraží Žizkov; 2015 – Festival Akt, Brno; 2015 – Festival Malamut, Ostrava; 2015 – Up On, Chengdu, China; 2015 – FNAF Festival of naked forms, Perla, Prague
2015 – Embodied Actions, Enacted Bodies, Hong Kong; 2015 – PCHAO, Polička, CZ; 2016 – Theatro Mundi, Prague
Odzaci: „Protesti“ / „Protests“
Novi Sad: „Protest“ / „Protest“
Michela Montrasio (Italija / Italy)
Michela Montrasio was born in Monza (Mi) on the 20th of august of 1960.
She took a degree in literature with a specialty in the history of arts at Milan's State University.
From 1985 to 1997 she took part to the direction of the magazine "Harta".
Since the beginning of the 80's she has been following courses and stages of dance and theatre dance. She has also been involved as a dancer and as a performer into several exhibitions and shows both in Italy and abroad. Her production spaces also to the field of visual arts: installations, photography and video dance.
ACTIVITIES AS DANCER AND PERFORMER
2015 "La quadratura del cerchio" Spazio Natta, Como*; 2014 "La quadratura del cerchio" Castello Visconteo di Trezzo sull'Adda (MI)*; 2014 "La quadratura del cerchio" Villa Monastero - Varenna (LC)*; 2014 "La quadratura del cerchio" Castello Visconteo di Legnano (MI)*; 2013 "Parole in movimento" Biblioteca Tilane - Paderno Dugnano (MI)*; 2013 "Improvvisazione" Salone Civico del Torchio -Carimate (CO)*; 2012 "Improvvisazione" Urban Center - Monza*
2009 "Demeures vivantes" (Festival di Butoh, Revellon - Francia) di e con Antoine Carle, Pinelopi Kapsalou, Michela Montrasio, Angéline Soum; 2008 "Volo Solitario - Decadenza" (International Performance Art Festival - Monza)*; 2007 Performance, Suisio - (BG). Azione collettiva; 2007 “Corporalità” (Rassegna di poesia e danza – Monza) di e con Lucia Nicola Frangione, Michela Montrasio; 2007 Performance (Festival di Butoh, Revellon – Francia) di e con Chiara Casciani, Michela Montrasio, Dominique Stark, Gen Shimaoka, Marialena Leon Ruiz
2006 “Volo Solitario” (Vertcal Action Poetry, Urban Center – Monza); 2005 “Uadi” (Rigiralarte, Milano) *; 2005 “I Giardini dell’anima” (Villa Reale, Monza) di e con Francesca Albanese, Valentina Bellinaso, Michela Montrasio; 2004 “Bianco, rosso, nero” (Rigiralarte , Milano) *
2004 Performance (Broellin – Germania). Azione collettiva; 2003 “A mio padre, alla terra” (Festival “Déménage IV” – Mont Saint Hilaire – Québec – Canada)*; 2003 “Transito in corporalità” Saletta Reale della stazione – Monza (Mi) di e con Francesca Albanese, Valentina Bellinaso, Michela Montrasio; 2003 “Brothers of darkness, sons of lights“ (Ferentino (Fr) *
2003 “Brothers of darkness, sons of lights” (International Performance Art Festival - Monza (Mi) *; 2002 “Danza sul ponte”, Suno (No)*; 2002 “Attesa in corporalità”, Saletta Reale della stazione – Monza (Mi) di e con Nicola Frangione e Michela Montrasio; 2001 ”I cortili dell’anima”, Monza (Mi) di e con Marcella Fanzaga, Michela Montrasio, Simona Tediosi; 2000 “Frammenti”, hiostro agostiniano di Santa Maria in Strada – Monza (Mi) di e con Doriana Crema, Michela Montrasio, Aldo Rendina.
* by and with Michela Montrasio
Michela Montrasio (Italija / Italy)
Michela Montrasio was born in Monza (Mi) on the 20th of august of 1960.
She took a degree in literature with a specialty in the history of arts at Milan's State University.
From 1985 to 1997 she took part to the direction of the magazine "Harta".
Since the beginning of the 80's she has been following courses and stages of dance and theatre dance. She has also been involved as a dancer and as a performer into several exhibitions and shows both in Italy and abroad. Her production spaces also to the field of visual arts: installations, photography and video dance.
ACTIVITIES AS DANCER AND PERFORMER
2015 "La quadratura del cerchio" Spazio Natta, Como*; 2014 "La quadratura del cerchio" Castello Visconteo di Trezzo sull'Adda (MI)*; 2014 "La quadratura del cerchio" Villa Monastero - Varenna (LC)*; 2014 "La quadratura del cerchio" Castello Visconteo di Legnano (MI)*; 2013 "Parole in movimento" Biblioteca Tilane - Paderno Dugnano (MI)*; 2013 "Improvvisazione" Salone Civico del Torchio -Carimate (CO)*; 2012 "Improvvisazione" Urban Center - Monza*
2009 "Demeures vivantes" (Festival di Butoh, Revellon - Francia) di e con Antoine Carle, Pinelopi Kapsalou, Michela Montrasio, Angéline Soum; 2008 "Volo Solitario - Decadenza" (International Performance Art Festival - Monza)*; 2007 Performance, Suisio - (BG). Azione collettiva; 2007 “Corporalità” (Rassegna di poesia e danza – Monza) di e con Lucia Nicola Frangione, Michela Montrasio; 2007 Performance (Festival di Butoh, Revellon – Francia) di e con Chiara Casciani, Michela Montrasio, Dominique Stark, Gen Shimaoka, Marialena Leon Ruiz
2006 “Volo Solitario” (Vertcal Action Poetry, Urban Center – Monza); 2005 “Uadi” (Rigiralarte, Milano) *; 2005 “I Giardini dell’anima” (Villa Reale, Monza) di e con Francesca Albanese, Valentina Bellinaso, Michela Montrasio; 2004 “Bianco, rosso, nero” (Rigiralarte , Milano) *
2004 Performance (Broellin – Germania). Azione collettiva; 2003 “A mio padre, alla terra” (Festival “Déménage IV” – Mont Saint Hilaire – Québec – Canada)*; 2003 “Transito in corporalità” Saletta Reale della stazione – Monza (Mi) di e con Francesca Albanese, Valentina Bellinaso, Michela Montrasio; 2003 “Brothers of darkness, sons of lights“ (Ferentino (Fr) *
2003 “Brothers of darkness, sons of lights” (International Performance Art Festival - Monza (Mi) *; 2002 “Danza sul ponte”, Suno (No)*; 2002 “Attesa in corporalità”, Saletta Reale della stazione – Monza (Mi) di e con Nicola Frangione e Michela Montrasio; 2001 ”I cortili dell’anima”, Monza (Mi) di e con Marcella Fanzaga, Michela Montrasio, Simona Tediosi; 2000 “Frammenti”, hiostro agostiniano di Santa Maria in Strada – Monza (Mi) di e con Doriana Crema, Michela Montrasio, Aldo Rendina.
* by and with Michela Montrasio
Odzaci: „Temelj“ / „Foundation“
Novi Sad: „Suštinski“ / „Essential“
Saša Denić-Špena (Srbija / 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.
Saša Denić-Špena (Srbija / 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.
Odzaci: „Šta ostaje?“ / „What’s left?“
Stanley Fevrier (Kanada / Canada)
A self-taught multidisciplinary artist with a background in social work, I have always expressed a deep interest in the study of human relationships. Art became an instrument allowing me to further explore these relations. Because of this, I have developed an artistic approach that explores and questions human tragedy, the problematic and the consequences of overconsumption, the impacts that this breeds onto our relationships with others, our environment, and ourselves. My work is framed through the observation, perception and individual or social definition given to human value, to (over) consumption and to the object, to its possession and to the role that it plays in our lives. A witness of the times, my work is a memory that revolves around the day to day, influenced by the media and by my personal life. Questions, inquiries, reaction argument…. made manifest through scans, photography, installation, sculpture and assemblage
My work has been presented in Cuba, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Mexico, China, New York, Spain and Canada. In 2011, a meeting with the artist Cluca sparked the birth of the moimoi collective (http://moimoiarts.blogspot.ca) where we employ various mediums (paint, ink, photography, video, sound, etc.) to address the body-object shadow to question individual and collective projections of contemporary society. Now i make my master in art at UQAM university.
Stanley Fevrier (Kanada / Canada)
A self-taught multidisciplinary artist with a background in social work, I have always expressed a deep interest in the study of human relationships. Art became an instrument allowing me to further explore these relations. Because of this, I have developed an artistic approach that explores and questions human tragedy, the problematic and the consequences of overconsumption, the impacts that this breeds onto our relationships with others, our environment, and ourselves. My work is framed through the observation, perception and individual or social definition given to human value, to (over) consumption and to the object, to its possession and to the role that it plays in our lives. A witness of the times, my work is a memory that revolves around the day to day, influenced by the media and by my personal life. Questions, inquiries, reaction argument…. made manifest through scans, photography, installation, sculpture and assemblage
My work has been presented in Cuba, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Mexico, China, New York, Spain and Canada. In 2011, a meeting with the artist Cluca sparked the birth of the moimoi collective (http://moimoiarts.blogspot.ca) where we employ various mediums (paint, ink, photography, video, sound, etc.) to address the body-object shadow to question individual and collective projections of contemporary society. Now i make my master in art at UQAM university.
Odzaci: „Tiha kiša“ / „Silent Rain“
Novi Sad: „Tiha kiša“ / „Silent Rain“
SU-EN (Švedska / Sweden)
SU-EN is artistic director of SU-EN Butoh Company, prize-winning choreographer and butoh artist and performance artist. SU-EN is internationally active in a wide field of the arts: performance, art video, art projects, voice work in addition to her dance work. She also holds a nattori licence from Yoh Izumo School of Jiuta-mai, traditional Japanese dance. Since 1997 SU-EN Butoh Company is based in the old village school Haglund Skola, 1 hour north of Stockholm in the middle of the forest.
Between 2006-2014 SU-EN curated for Friction International Performance Art Festival organized by Uppsala Art Museum and SU-EN Butoh Company. From 2013, SU-EN curates K.R.O.P.P, platform for contemporary dance, organized together with Uppsala Concert Hall.
In 2011 SU-EN recieved the Uchimura prize from Japan, and also the prize from the feministic art magazine Cora. In 2012 she recieved the medal of honour from Uppsala city. She currently holds a 10-year working grant from Swedish Arts Grants Committe. SU-EN has recieved many other scholarships and awards for her work.
www.suenbutohcompany.net
SU-EN (Švedska / Sweden)
SU-EN is artistic director of SU-EN Butoh Company, prize-winning choreographer and butoh artist and performance artist. SU-EN is internationally active in a wide field of the arts: performance, art video, art projects, voice work in addition to her dance work. She also holds a nattori licence from Yoh Izumo School of Jiuta-mai, traditional Japanese dance. Since 1997 SU-EN Butoh Company is based in the old village school Haglund Skola, 1 hour north of Stockholm in the middle of the forest.
Between 2006-2014 SU-EN curated for Friction International Performance Art Festival organized by Uppsala Art Museum and SU-EN Butoh Company. From 2013, SU-EN curates K.R.O.P.P, platform for contemporary dance, organized together with Uppsala Concert Hall.
In 2011 SU-EN recieved the Uchimura prize from Japan, and also the prize from the feministic art magazine Cora. In 2012 she recieved the medal of honour from Uppsala city. She currently holds a 10-year working grant from Swedish Arts Grants Committe. SU-EN has recieved many other scholarships and awards for her work.
www.suenbutohcompany.net
Odzaci: „Život - da li me čuješ!?“ / „Life - do you hear me!?”
Novi Sad: „Akcija plakanja“ / „Crying Action”
Novi Sad: „Život - da li me čuješ!?“ / „Life - do you hear me!?”
Bojana Videkanić (BIH/Kanada / BIH/Canada)
Bojana Videkanic is an artist and an art theorist. Born in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia she left her hometown as a teenager when the war in former Yugoslavia broke out in 1992. Since the late 1990s she has been living in Canada. Bojana holds a BFA degree in painting and drawing from Concordia University in Montreal, and has been doing performance and video work since the early 2000s. She has presented her work at various Canadian and international venues such as: Toronto Nuit Blanche (2008), Mountain Standard Time Performance Art Festival, Calgary (2012), 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival, Toronto (2010), International Performance Art Platform, Bristol (2015), Toronto Free Gallery (2010), Leona Drive Project, North York (2009), Hemispherica Symposium (2014). Bojana is teaching art history/theory and studio art at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo Canada.
Bojana Videkanić (BIH/Kanada / BIH/Canada)
Bojana Videkanic is an artist and an art theorist. Born in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia she left her hometown as a teenager when the war in former Yugoslavia broke out in 1992. Since the late 1990s she has been living in Canada. Bojana holds a BFA degree in painting and drawing from Concordia University in Montreal, and has been doing performance and video work since the early 2000s. She has presented her work at various Canadian and international venues such as: Toronto Nuit Blanche (2008), Mountain Standard Time Performance Art Festival, Calgary (2012), 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival, Toronto (2010), International Performance Art Platform, Bristol (2015), Toronto Free Gallery (2010), Leona Drive Project, North York (2009), Hemispherica Symposium (2014). Bojana is teaching art history/theory and studio art at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo Canada.
Odzaci: „Koža” / „Skin“
Novi Sad: „Čista egzistencija” / „Pure Existens“
Novi Sad: „Čista egzistencija” / „Pure Existens“
Yin-Sheng Liu (Tajvan / Taiwan)
Born in 1974,he is an artist of multi-disciplines. His art projects are mostly about Mysticism, and constructed with visual elements, music, and live performance. He recently has more cooperation with contemporary composer with images and also performance. In recently years he had been invited to Korea, China.
We are part of the universe, universe is also part of us. Our physical bodies run some way which is like the universe. The planets revolve some mysterious way in the universe just like our organs inside or physical body. This is a performance which female is in the male, and Yang is in the Ying, the celestial body is in the physical body.
Yin-Sheng Liu (Tajvan / Taiwan)
Born in 1974,he is an artist of multi-disciplines. His art projects are mostly about Mysticism, and constructed with visual elements, music, and live performance. He recently has more cooperation with contemporary composer with images and also performance. In recently years he had been invited to Korea, China.
We are part of the universe, universe is also part of us. Our physical bodies run some way which is like the universe. The planets revolve some mysterious way in the universe just like our organs inside or physical body. This is a performance which female is in the male, and Yang is in the Ying, the celestial body is in the physical body.
Odzaci: „Fizički/nebesko telo” / „Physical/celestial body“
Novi Sad: „Podsvesne zagonetke” / „Subconscious charades“
Yuenjie Maru (Hong Kong)
Yuenjie MARU is a Certified DanceAbility Teacher, Art Workshop Facilitator and Live Performance Artist. He explores in different art media such as drawing, writing, theatre, dance, happenings, performance art and installation art. His book "yuenjieMARULIVEARTenYearsPerformances1999-2009" has been published in June 2010. He focus on developing "Symbiotic Dance" and "Organic Dance Performance" in recent years.
Performance Artist. He gets in touch with installation art in 1995. From the time onward, he explores in different art media such as writing, theatre, dance, happenings and art performance. He is very active in art workshops and he is a jamer in “contact improvisation” and “environmental improvisation” dance. He started his solo performance since 1999 and then being so called as performance art and live art. He now call his works as "MARULIVEART".
Yuenjie Maru (Hong Kong)
Yuenjie MARU is a Certified DanceAbility Teacher, Art Workshop Facilitator and Live Performance Artist. He explores in different art media such as drawing, writing, theatre, dance, happenings, performance art and installation art. His book "yuenjieMARULIVEARTenYearsPerformances1999-2009" has been published in June 2010. He focus on developing "Symbiotic Dance" and "Organic Dance Performance" in recent years.
Performance Artist. He gets in touch with installation art in 1995. From the time onward, he explores in different art media such as writing, theatre, dance, happenings and art performance. He is very active in art workshops and he is a jamer in “contact improvisation” and “environmental improvisation” dance. He started his solo performance since 1999 and then being so called as performance art and live art. He now call his works as "MARULIVEART".
Odzaci: „Koja strana granice?” / „Which side of the border?“
Novi Sad: „Koja strana granice?” / „Which side of the border?“
Monique Yim (Hong Kong)
Yim was born in 1984, studied Cultural and Religious Studies, Fine Art and Studio Art, Journalism and Communication Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Yim became an artist during the social movement in 2006 and held the first solo exhibition "In The Name Of Art" commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Development Council at Shanghai Street Artspace in 2008.
Monique Yim, Hong Kong interdisciplinary artist, with cross-media works ranging from performance art, installation art, conceptual art, site-specific art, public art, community art to theatre design, film art directing, cultural criticism and cultural working, social activism, writing and publishing, art and drama education for children, teenagers, adults and disabled. Resently Yim started to curate performance art or visual art exhibitions and projects. Yim's identities are also a born Catholic, queer and depression patient for many years with long-term medication.
Important teaching experiences: Part-time Teacher (Caritas Community and Higher Education Service, 2010-11), Mentor of Art & Media Career (St. Mary's Canossian College, 2009), Guest Lecturer (the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the City University of Hong Kong, 2008-2013), Guest Speaker of HKCEE Visual Art (St. Mary's Canossian College, 2007), Artist-in-resident (Lok Jun School, 2007), Guest Advisor of Joint School Drama Production (Diocesan Boys' School and Diocesan Girls' School, 2006), Teaching Assistant (Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School, 2004).
Monique Yim (Hong Kong)
Yim was born in 1984, studied Cultural and Religious Studies, Fine Art and Studio Art, Journalism and Communication Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Yim became an artist during the social movement in 2006 and held the first solo exhibition "In The Name Of Art" commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Development Council at Shanghai Street Artspace in 2008.
Monique Yim, Hong Kong interdisciplinary artist, with cross-media works ranging from performance art, installation art, conceptual art, site-specific art, public art, community art to theatre design, film art directing, cultural criticism and cultural working, social activism, writing and publishing, art and drama education for children, teenagers, adults and disabled. Resently Yim started to curate performance art or visual art exhibitions and projects. Yim's identities are also a born Catholic, queer and depression patient for many years with long-term medication.
Important teaching experiences: Part-time Teacher (Caritas Community and Higher Education Service, 2010-11), Mentor of Art & Media Career (St. Mary's Canossian College, 2009), Guest Lecturer (the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the City University of Hong Kong, 2008-2013), Guest Speaker of HKCEE Visual Art (St. Mary's Canossian College, 2007), Artist-in-resident (Lok Jun School, 2007), Guest Advisor of Joint School Drama Production (Diocesan Boys' School and Diocesan Girls' School, 2006), Teaching Assistant (Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School, 2004).
Novi Sad: „Queer Series No.7“
Nenad Bogdanović (Srbija / Serbia)
Born in 1955 in Odzaci, Serbia (Ex Yugoslavia). He is engaged in multimedia art, photography, xerox art, video, installation art, performance and art actions.
His appearance at the beginning of the eighties in the international art network, he marked an post avant-garde period of Yugoslav art and his art work has been recognized and accepted internationally.
Freelance 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. In 1998 he founded of Multimedial Art Studio and MAS Gallery in Odzaci, Serbia. Organiser and curator of International Multimedial Art Festival - IMAF (since 1998, dedicated to performance art). He is the editor and owner of MAS Gallery in Odzaci than 1998 year.
Participates in group exhibitions since 1975 year, in more than 500 exhibitions in more than forty countries in the world. Since 1980 Nenad realized his art performances and art actions on many international festivals worldwide (France: 1994, 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014, Italy: 1995, 2003, 2004, 2011 & 2015, Slovakia: 1996, Germany: 1996, Japan: 1997 & 2008, Romania: 1998, Poland: 1999, 2007, 2010, 2012 & 2013, Hungary: 2001 & 2011, Belarus: 2001, United Kingdom: 2004 & 2010, Northern Ireland: 2004 & 2011, Switzerland: 2004, USA: 2005, Canada: 2006 & 2008, Croatia: 2015, Turkey: 2007, Israel: 2007, China: 2015, Austria: 2016, Czech Republic: 2016, Hong Kong: 2016, Spain: 2016 and many times from 1980 in Serbia.
From 1993 Nenad starts working on the art project called "Man Gallery" that lasted 15 years. 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-Italy (in the International Art Project: Brain Academy Apartment).
More about the artist: www.bogdanovicnenad.weebly.com
Nenad Bogdanović (Srbija / Serbia)
Born in 1955 in Odzaci, Serbia (Ex Yugoslavia). He is engaged in multimedia art, photography, xerox art, video, installation art, performance and art actions.
His appearance at the beginning of the eighties in the international art network, he marked an post avant-garde period of Yugoslav art and his art work has been recognized and accepted internationally.
Freelance 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. In 1998 he founded of Multimedial Art Studio and MAS Gallery in Odzaci, Serbia. Organiser and curator of International Multimedial Art Festival - IMAF (since 1998, dedicated to performance art). He is the editor and owner of MAS Gallery in Odzaci than 1998 year.
Participates in group exhibitions since 1975 year, in more than 500 exhibitions in more than forty countries in the world. Since 1980 Nenad realized his art performances and art actions on many international festivals worldwide (France: 1994, 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014, Italy: 1995, 2003, 2004, 2011 & 2015, Slovakia: 1996, Germany: 1996, Japan: 1997 & 2008, Romania: 1998, Poland: 1999, 2007, 2010, 2012 & 2013, Hungary: 2001 & 2011, Belarus: 2001, United Kingdom: 2004 & 2010, Northern Ireland: 2004 & 2011, Switzerland: 2004, USA: 2005, Canada: 2006 & 2008, Croatia: 2015, Turkey: 2007, Israel: 2007, China: 2015, Austria: 2016, Czech Republic: 2016, Hong Kong: 2016, Spain: 2016 and many times from 1980 in Serbia.
From 1993 Nenad starts working on the art project called "Man Gallery" that lasted 15 years. 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-Italy (in the International Art Project: Brain Academy Apartment).
More about the artist: www.bogdanovicnenad.weebly.com
Novi Sad: „Slikati ostacima“ / „Paint with the rest“
Studenti III godine Scenskog dizajna / Students 3rd year of Scenic design - Jovana Plavšić i Miroslav Živanov (Srbija / Serbia)
Studenti III godine Scenskog dizajna / Students 3rd year of Scenic design - Jovana Plavšić i Miroslav Živanov (Srbija / Serbia)
Novi Sad: „Z_I_D”
IMAF 2016 support:
IMAF 2016 support:
The IMAF Project/ Hong Kong event is supported by the Arts Development Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau,
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