Exhibitions / Opening of the Kaleidoscope of Culture
As part of the opening of the Kaleidoscope of Culture programme arch, which will be held from September 1 to 4 at several locations in the city, attendees will have the unique opportunity to visit 8 exhibitions by artists from Serbia, the region and the world in 4 days.
‘Dark Room’ is an audio-visual, interactive installation by the award-winning artist Vladimir Lalić intended for indoor public space, which you can see at Skladište, in the Creative District, from 1 to 9 September, at 8 p.m. Inside a completely darkened room, visitors use the torches on their mobile phones to illuminate the drawings on the Plexiglas, projecting them onto the walls of the room and thus participate in the installation itself, where they create a theater of shadows. An audio recording of the artist’s singing fills the space, creating a cacophonous atmosphere.
The interactive installation ‘Autokorekt’ by the Karkatag Art Collective will be set up on 1 September on the façade of the Route66 building in the Creative District. This work emerges as a synthesis of visual arts, architecture, digital and new media art, and stage design. The art installation ‘Autokorekt’ encompasses a robotic and automated web of mobile industrial elements that, with their synchronised digitally controlled movement, produce choreography, with the machines dancing on the façade, turning the entire building into a stage, and the audience, passers-by, and the building users into accidental or intentional co-authors of this work of art. The installation spreads across 300 square metres of the façade and a few dozens of visitors can simultaneously interact with it, while its contents will be visible to the spectators from the entire plateau in front of the District.
The exhibition by the French contemporary painters will be on view in District from 1 September to 7 October. The exhibition represents part of the active and rich French scene by artists of all ages using different artistic styles: Ascal (surrealism), Béatrice Bescond, Grataloup (symbolism), Compiano, Guyomard, Morteyrol (narrative figuration), Kriki (free figuration), Baumann (photography), Dessupoiu, Morel, Plex, Marianne Williams (urban art).
The Biennale of the Stage Design will run from 6 to 9 September, at several locations in District. Renewal of the Biennale of the Stage Design, which was originally held from 1997 to 2007, was launched by the art and design department (Architecture at the Faculty of Technical Sciences) with the idea of creating a platform that will promote, improve, stimulate, develop and perfect creative and professional work in all areas related to design, technique and technology, production, realisation and promotion of theatre projects and stage events in general, and especially those invisible arts and crafts without which the stage event could not exist. The new redefined Biennale has been initiated by the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, Centre for Stage Design, Architecture and Technology. The theme the Biennale of Stage Design 2022 addresses is fluidity, that is, liquidity, as understood by one of the most significant sociologists and philosophers of the 20th century, Zygmunt Bauman.
The ‘Move in Code’ exhibition will be held in the SULUV Gallery from 1 to 9 September. The ‘Move in Code’ project is created in the study of minimal movements within the digital record code and is based on the research of digital media images – new screen images and simulations with different views based on pixel and/or vector image. The topic in the technological sense is code as a symbol that suggests the movement of shape and form, sound, light, colour and code that allows movement, action, interaction, turning one form of communication into another. These movements are determined by various technological and media processes, backlighting, screen display, colour, sound, etc.
The ‘World Biennale of Student Photography – Best Of’ exhibition implemented by the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad will be held from 1 to 9 September. The Department of Photography of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad presents a selection of photographs from the traditional world student photography competition, which has been held every other year since 2004. The wide range of topics, approaches, styles and narratives paint an exciting picture of contemporary photography as a dominant medium in the 21st century. The exhibition of about a hundred photographs from the previously exhibited and awarded works will be a kind of journey through the world, different cultures, customs, political orientations, families, individuals, and will raise numerous questions about existence, art, society, the future… that concern young people all over the world.
Japanese artist Rie Yamada will represent two projects at the solo exhibition as a guest artist within the exhibition ‘World Biennial of Student Poster – Best of 2022’ in District, in Petica, facility No. 3, between 2 and 8 September. Using old, found photographs of ten families, five from Germany and five from Japan, she humorously recreated the past both as a photographer and a model. Through mimicry, she brings to life other people’s family photos which were once left behind, starting from the idea that family photos, even those of complete strangers, reflect our own experiences and memories and thus cause a certain nostalgia and empathy. The second part of the exhibition includes a work entitled ‘Familie Suchen’ (‘Searching for a Family’) based on Rie’s personal experience. The work consists of 63 reconstructed portraits of men she met at arranged marriage meetings in Japan, where she was searching for a life partner. Through the process of disguising as these men, she began to discuss her ‘real self’ from another person’s perspective.
The exhibition ‘The Transformative Power of Open Spaces’ organised in cooperation with Sankt Pölten will be opened in District on 1 September and will last until 4 September. As part of the project, 6 artists from the Danube region will come together. The idea is to provide artists with a place, time and means to reflect on their artistic practice freely and openly in the natural environment, searching for inspiration in the green, park environments of these cultural centres, but also in mutual synergy.
The installation ‘Gendered Witnessing’ by Goran Despotovski will be placed in the Creative District from 1 to 4 September. Gendered testimony represents and indicates a choral group of twelve puppets (female and male). All twelve puppets were reproduced in the same way, they were placed with minimal changes that are reflected in the position of the movement of the neck, that is, the head as the only trace of a personal gesture in relation to the position and field of observation. The group of puppets conceived in this way represents a gender group that simulates the representation of a female choir. The replicated female figures in long dresses with plates instead of heads that strive to go higher speak of a certain form of trance, but also marks important for cognition. On the plates, there are erased traces, fluid spaces, and reflections of records that can be codes, formulas, texts, possible reflections on life. The sound of this chorus was created by multiplying a female voice, without vibrato, which performs the A tone at different pitches, and with several added tones, it indicates a sublime existence, but also the impossibility of any greater knowledge about it. The curiosity of the sound part of the installation is that the final sound result depends on the acoustics of the space, so it is also possible to hear aliquots, that is, sounds that are not part of the integrated recording, and which create a rich timbral impression on the spot.
Open Days – Pera, Tadija and Boris is an exhibition that will last from September 1 to 4 in the Studio of Pera, Tadija and Boris. The exhibition represents the marking of space.
The Art of Gaming is an exhibition, a story, a dance, and an experience! During a four-day programme in District from 1 to 4 September, visitors will have an opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of gaming art and to peek behind the pixels of everything that makes the world of gaming so fascinating. From the first video game of simple tennis on an oscilloscope almost 65 years ago to the fully immersive experience that modern video games offer, where mostly all the senses are activated, gaming has come a long way. The very act of playing games, which is at the core of what we call gaming, would not be nearly as interesting if the art in video games did not develop simultaneously with the design of video games. Screenplay, music, and 2D and 3D graphics are inevitable artistic elements of video games that take us to the centre of the action.
From 1 to 4 September in District, at the Radionica, location 5 building, the ‘Three Stupid Heads’ video exhibition will be held, while the opening will take place on 1 September at 7 p.m. The ‘Three Stupid Heads’ video performance tries to express some of the timeless problems of man and civilisation using modern technologies. These are the problems of identity and purpose of existence. The screenplay was inspired by the works of the greatest avant-garde dramatists of the 20th century, such as Danil Harms and Samuel Beckett, while it was written by Nenad Lanšuški and directed by Ivana Janošev. In the videos, all three heads are portrayed by Stefan Ostojić. The ‘Three Stupid Heads’ is an artistic content that mimics philosophical questions, but presents them in a humorous way, appealing to a wide audience. In addition, given that we live in a world of screens today, consumers of this content will be able to see on phone screens, billboards, computers, TVs, etc., that are accessible to them, something that is not an everyday phenomenon. In other words, the project seeks to bring back the avant-garde through new digital media, but at the same time, to keep the authenticity of the avant-garde expression.
Mime Avenue 2 is an exhibition that will be held in the District on September 3. Mimes are a reflection of the generation of millennials, who, with the popularization of the Internet, created a new type of graphic and video art. The original mimes were photos with text, while today it has taken on a much broader form. The mimes exhibition will feature mimes in print and video form. The gallery of mimes would be an exhibition about them, held here for the first time.
Partners of the Kaleidoscope of Culture 2022 are Erste Bank, IDEA, DDOR, A1 Srbija, and Heineken Srbija.
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