Tuesday, 4 May, 7:30 pm
VOLUNTEERS' PARTY AT REX
EVS volunteers working at Cultural Centre REX together with the team of REX's event organizers invite you to the party and exhibition/presentation at REX. The evening is dedicated to EVS volunteers, their friends, everyone with an experience of volunteering and also young people who have no such experience but would like to gain it. During the event, the audience will have the chance to see an exhibition and a presentation of the activities of the volunteers living and working in the Balkans. All of you wishing to travel around Europe and gain work experience in the areas that interest you, meet new people and widen your social network, come and hang out with us! Come and find out something new about EVS, the European Voluntary Service and the programme Youth in Action. Meet the volunteers from across Europe currently working in the region.
See you at REX!
The programme has been conceived and organized by the EVS volunteers working at REX Martina Prokopova (Slovakia, http://www.stanica.sk) and Aleksander Stamatovski (Slovenia, http://www.pekarna.org).
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Youth in Action is a programme launched by the European Commission supporting mobility and informal education of young people from all over Europe aged from 13 to 30. It is aimed at connecting them to their peers worldwide, regardless of their education, culture or social origins. The programme stimulates active participation of young people, promotes the benefits of solidarity and tolerance, and strengthens mutual understanding and the development of high quality systems of support intended for youth activists and organizations. Moreover, it encourages co-operation in the field of working with the young at the European level.
Links:
European Network of Independent Cultural Centres (TEH) http://www.teh.net/
SALTO - YOUTH Resource Centres http://www.salto-youth.net/
Youth in Action Programme http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/doc82_en.htm
Youth in Action - Programme Guide http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/doc443_en.htm
The European Year of Volunteering 2011 http://www.eyv2011.eu/PublicImageVoting.asp
Wednesday, 5 May, 7 pm
MISSION BARELY POSSIBLE
GUEST: Noa Treister - LUG
The Belgrade-based artist Noa Treister launched the Lug project five years ago in the village of Debeli lug near Majdanpek. The aim of the project was to initiate the production of handicrafts, which would lead to an improvement of the financial situation and social status of women in Debeli lug and the surrounding villages. The project was meant to serve as a model showing the possibilities of launching and maintaining production in the regions where economic development has been in jeopardy or completely stalled for almost two decades. Noa Treister will be talking about the reasons for launching such an initiative, which is an artistic intervention of sorts, the current phase of its development and outcome, as well as about all the difficulties encountered in the course of conceiving and carrying out such an idea.
MISSION BARELY POSSIBLE is a series of presentations and discussions featuring artists, architects, cultural workers, cultural policy creators and activists from Serbia and the region introducing their projects carried out or partially carried out over the past few years. According to their initiators and protagonists, these projects have failed or have not completely fulfilled their chosen, planned or assigned mission.
The presentations and discussions should pinpoint and analyse the dissonance or dichotomy between intentions and accomplishments in the recent artistic, cultural, production-related, entrepreneurial or construction-related practice in the country and the region. The entrepreneurial and construction-related practice includes not only projects in the domains of the economy and construction, but also the establishment and development of the conditions in the state and the society, such as the founding of political movements and parties, setting up specialized government agencies, citizen initiatives and civil society institutions. More information about the project and the previously held debates can be found at: www.rex.b92.net/mvm
Thursday, 6 May, 7 pm
WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN
WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING
Ivana Smiljanić: The New York Experience
As the winner of the Dimitrije Bašičević - Mangelos award, Ivana Smiljanić participated in the International Studios and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York in the period from October to November 2009. She will be talking about art-related events where she had the opportunity to show her work: ISCP Open Studios, the exhibition Dear Countrymen and Women curated by Jovana Stokić held at the MC gallery and her solo exhibition A Dense Dance (in collaboration with András Cséfalvay) where she showcased her performance I DANCE DANCE DANCE for which the music was chosen by the custodians, editors and critics from MoMA, Artforum, X Initiative, White Columns, the Brooklyn Museum...
Plus many photographs and the accompanying stories from the streets of New York!
Friday, 7 May, 6 pm
ARTIST AS AUDIENCE
Stimulating public critical approaches to art
12 discussions about works of art with audience members as discussion participants
The discussion focuses on the work of Nikoleta Marković From April to June 2010, the organization "Anonymous said:" in collaboration with project initiator, Boba Mirjana Stojadinović will be holding the first series of discussions at the REX cultural centre about the contemporary artistic production. The discussions Artist as Audience have been conceived as a platform for exchange of opinions between audience members i.e. the participants in the discussion revolving around a selection of works prepared in advance, an essay about the featured works and a series of questions that the artist prepares in advance. During the discussion, the artist remains passive, while audience members assume an active role in the debate and get encouraged to question each other's opinions and attitudes.
The project is aimed both at establishing active communication between works of art and the audience and at offering critical appraisal of one part of the existent artistic production in the field of visual arts (fine arts, design, comics) in Serbia in the period 2000 - 2010. Open discussions highlight the necessity of debating the values and importance of an individual approach within the general one, as well as the question of what part of the overall body of works of art is received by the audience and the context in which art works are presented and receive media coverage.
The target group of this project includes wider public, especially students of all art-related faculties and philosophy, sociology and art history students together with young experts in these fields, professional artists, theorists, critics, art historians, as well as journalists covering culture. The debates will not feature specialist jargon, while the approach to the topics will not be favouring professional opinions and attitudes.
The choice of artists is based on their exceptional production of provocative and well thought-out works and exposure to the public (some of the featured artists are among the most present on the local scene) and the "official" selection criteria (the artists representing the country at big events, in state-run institutions and the authors who have had their retrospectives held, etc), authors who have won recognition internationally and in the local gallery setting. This will be combined with a selection of some less well-known but equally high quality works whose choice required the application of a different set of criteria that are important to the audience (e.g. the significance of the media, involvement in the underground culture, questioning the system on the art scene).
The discussions will be focusing on the works of Nikoleta Marković, Zoran Todorović, Igor Milovanović, Boris Šribar and Miloš Tomić. The second series consisting of six discussions will be carried out from September to December 2010.
As part of the preparations for the discussion, it is necessary to read the essay, the author's statement and see the work. All documents are available for download from http://www.anonymoussaid.org. Alternatively, they can be obtained in the printed form at the office of the organization "Anonymous said:", 12/V Nušićeva Street from Friday, 16 April from 12 am to 4 pm.
Entrance at the discussions is free. For seat reservations and additional information, feel free to write to artistasaudience@anonymoussaid.org or dial 3237 546.
The project is carried out with the support of the Open Society Fund
Initiator of the project and discussion moderator: Boba Mirjana Stojadinović, M.A.
Co-authors of the project: Boba Mirjana Stojadinović, M.A. and the organization "Anonymous said:" http://www.anonymoussaid.org
Saturday, 8 May, 8 pm
George Bagdasarov in Concert
The Armenian artist George Bagdasarov (Kazahstan) began his studies of cybernetics at the technical university in Kaluga switching to composition studies at the musical academy in Moscow, graduating from the St. Petersburg film school. Bagdasarov's musical career began when he became the guitar player in a psychedelic punk band. Later on, his style developed going through several stages, from conceptual techno to free improvisation. He collaborated with numerous musicians including Richard Deutsch, Jerome Noetinger, Yoshio Mashida, Les Halmes, Dill, Yutaka Makino, DJ Sniff, Nikolay Rubanov, Fitz Ellarald and participated in a wide variety of projects from punk-blues to audio-visual noise performances. George Bagdasarov currently lives in Prague, where he is completing his doctoral studies. http://myspace.com/georgebagdasarov
The second part of the concert will take the form of a small improvisation laboratory. This is an invitation for all self-proclaimed, immature or genuine musicians who would like to perform live together with George to come to REX on the day of the concert as early as 4 pm to meet, rehearse and jam together a bit. This is because we don't want to leave everything to chance. Imagine what it would be like if it turned out that guest musicians have no technique, ear for music, instruments or even a soul of a musician!
Saturday, 9 May, 8:30 pm
OBJECTIVE DRAMA PROJECT - POD TEATAR
WHO SWALLOWED THE MOON? A futuristic play of the absurd
Performers: Branka Bajić, Tatjana Stefanović, Sonja Stojić, Dejan Pajović, Sara Santini, Miloš Rusimović, Anja Dimitrijević, (Petar Jovanović)
Directed by Tatjana Pajović
Dramaturge: Jelena Vuksanović
Stage: Una Stević
Design: Sanja Drakulić
When - in the near future. Where - a religious cult. He who believes exists, he who believes that he believes, he who asks no questions, he who wants to be God, he who has no doubts, he who seeks consolation, he who searches for meaning, he who always goes all the way.
Inspiration: Albert Camus - "Caligula", Mark Twain "Satan's Letter"
Albert Camus - "Caligula": precisely because no one goes all the way, nothing is achieved. That truth is so simple and pure, slightly crazy, but painful when discovered and hard to live with. People die and are not happy.
Mark Twain: "By the Law of Periodical Repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again and again - and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's, and each obeying its own law."
Monday, 10 May, 5:30 - 8 pm
The showing of the film about Michel Odent
The civil initiative "Majka hrabrost" (Mother Courage), the Serbian Midwives' Association and the NVO "Dokument" (Document) organize the showing of a short film about Michel Odent and his lectures on physiological birth and good birth practice to mark the International Day of the Midwife as part of the project "Menjamo Srbiju zajedno" (Let's Change Serbia Together). The showing will be followed by the debate: "Practice - physiological versus actively assisted birth" featuring eminent experts in the field, representatives of the civil sector and state-run institutions.
12 - 16 May
15th International New Music Festival RING RING
This year's 15th International New Music Festival Ring Ring will be held from 12 to 16 May at Cultural Centre REX and the Kolarac concert hall
A number of participants have previously performed at the Ring Ring festival in Belgrade. However, almost all the concerts will be held for the first time in the region. The violin player Iva Bittova appeared at the festival nine years ago and it is time to see and hear her again. The Czech drummer, Pavel Fajt who performed at the festival several times in the past as a member of different bands, now plays in Mia Zabelka Trio led by the Austrian violin player Mia Zabelka. The Chicago-based saxophone player, Dave Rempis comes with his Percussion Quartet, while the Australian Tony Buck, who led the Necks trio last year, now comes with the fresh Transmit Project.
Nordic jazz is represented by the band Angels this year. The biggest stars, apart from Iva Bittova are undoubtedly the Dutch band The Ex that we have been waiting for for years now.
The world music scene is represented by three bands of singers: Corsican A Filetta are the cream of the age-old polyphonic singing, while Tuvan Huun Huur Tu are genuine show-stoppers. Svetlana Spajić and her singers are the domestic highlights coming straight back from their European tour. Darko Džinović's contemporary music performance and Luka Toyboy's special Blind Tapes Quartets project lasting throughout the festival complete the line-up of local artists featured at Ring Ring.
The ticket can be purchased at REX every work day from 29 April from 10 am to 4 pm and during regular evening events starting 29 April, as well as at Bilet Servis and in Kolarac (for the concert to be held in the Kolarac concert hall).
Daily ticket prices:
12 and 13 May - 600 dinars
14 and 15 May - 500 dinars
16 May - 1000 dinars
Ring Ring ticket set - 2500 dinars
The owners of Ring Ring ticket sets will get a free ticket for Svetlana Spajić's concert. For additional information about the participants and the festival, please visit http://www.ringring.rs . Programme: Wednesday, 12 May, 8 pm, REX
Branko Džinović feat. Lukatoyboy (SRB)
Iva Bittova (Cz) Thursday, 13 May, 8 pm, REX
Angles (Swe/NL)
The Ex (NL) Friday, 14 May, 8 pm, REX
Xu Fengxia / Lucas Niggli (China/CH)
Transmit Project (AUS/NL) Saturday, 15 May, 8 pm, REX
Mia Zabelka Trio (A/Cz/D)
Rempis Percussion Quartet (USA) Sunday, 16 May, 8 pm
Kolarac Concert Hall
Huun Huur Tu (Tuva)
A Filetta (FR)
12 - 15 May, 2 - 11 pm
Cultural Centre REX
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Instructions for recording a Blind Tape Quartet
A 4 track recorder will be ready for you and your ten-minute performance. A microphone and a line input will be at your disposal. You will not know who played before you, what they played or who will be playing after you. On the day following the recording session, a limited number of copies of the cassette with the day's recordings will be made available for purchase.
Bring your instrument. Imagine that you are playing in a quartet but can't hear others while playing your part. Think about your dynamic as being part of the quartet. Silence can be your special friend on this occasion. Not everyone has to play/talk/sing all the time - but the risk is yours to take. If you are an electronic musician, limit your output to one instrument only - you might not be the only musician in the quartet using electronic instruments.
Contact and registration: blindtapes@gmail.com
Tuesday, 18 May, 8 pm
RING RING +
Svetlana Spajić Group in Concert (Srb)
Svetlana Spajić - voice, video
Minja Nikolić - voice
Dragana Tomić - voice, kaval
Zorana Bantić - voice
Svetlana Spajić Group is the new, a cappela project of Svetlana Spajić, the singer dedicated to preserving musical heritage. This time, she brought together three first-class singers from Belgrade. Minja Nikolić is a member of the duo "Drina" with whom she recorded and released the album "Živa voda" some ten years ago. Dragana Tomić is a remarkable singer and an equally accomplished kaval player, while Zorana Bantić has a black belt in karate and singing. Their repertoire is broad and challenging for the singers and the audience alike. It consists of a wide variety of traditional airs from the orzalica originating from the Lika region, the forgotten Bosnian potresalica, the ganga from Herzegovina, the Zlatibor kajda, sjeckavica and kantalica from the Podrinje area, tender age-old ballads from the Timočka krajina region, all the way to the pleasant singing accompanied by the kaval originating from Kosovo and the foot of the Šar planina mountain.
Svetlana Spajić Group is rediscovering the second-long beats from the Dinara region and elsewhere, unexpected harmonies and the forgotten idioms combining them with their signature stage act and emotionally charged and physically demanding performance. Their debut in Belgrade and the Ring Ring festival comes right after their first European tour and the baptism of fire received at the country fair held in the vicinity of the Krušedol monastery.
Thursday, 20 May, 7 pm
SEPI DRU listens to records and talks with people
Saša Stojanović, painter and rock and roll fan is holding a series of meetings with his friends and the audience as part of the talks programmes at REX. The meetings center on listening to collectors items: rare American and British folk and psychedelic records from 1967 to 1969. This time, the focus will be placed on the music created by the bands such as The Mugwumps, Tudor Lodge, Haymarket Square, Blues Magoos, Mellow Candle, Fever Tree, Fotherringay, Buffy Sainte Marie that will provide a musical backdrop for the conversations with the participating visitors.
(Sepi Dru is the main protagonist of the book "Rej je OK" (Ray is OK) written by Branislav Babić Kebra. On this occasion, Sepi Dru helps us to get closer to the music and each other's hearts.)
Friday, 21 May, 9 pm
Virvel in Concert at REX
Launch of the new single "A sve neki fini svet" (All Those Nice People) from their latest EP "Sibir" (Siberia)
New songs, new band members debuting at REX!
Adventures, romance, trivialities. As always with Virvel, surprises are everywhere.
About the band:
The band Virvel was formed in Belgrade in 1999. Its members were experienced musicians who had honed their skills playing in a number of Belgrade-based bands for years. However, they reached their creative peak in Virvel. Having started as an off project, the band quickly released its debut record (S/T - Rapanelli Records 2001) and had numerous concerts. Back then, the media dubbed Virvel's sound as post-rock or space-rock for lack of a better term, which met with the disapproval of the members of the band who considered these labels to be too narrow. The band continues holding concerts, creating music that opens up different possibilities. After the single "Brzi svemir/Ian Fleming" (Fast Universe/Ian Fleming), Rapanelli 2005, Virvel released their 2006 album "Sa dna" (From the Bottom) - Rapanelli Records that shot to the top of all important annual charts in 2007, the year that proved to be exceptionally successful for the band. In 2007, they toured the former Yugoslav republics. The tour culminated at the Žedno Uho (Thirsty Ear) festival in Zagreb and the gigs in Ljubljana, Maribor, Skopje.
Virvel are currently promoting their latest release SIBIR (Rapanelli Records). Its members are Tijana Drobac (bass, vocals), Zoran Stojičić (guitar) Dejan Drobac (guitar, analogue synthesizer), Vladimir Ocokoljić (drums) and Vladimir Ljubinković (keyboard). The band can be contacted via the e-mail address: virvel@rapanellirec.com
www.rapanellirec.com/virvel <http://www.rapanellirec.com/virvel>
www.myspace.com/virvel <http://www.myspace.com/virvel>
Monday, 24 May, 8 pm
JEAN LOUIS in Concert
Jean Louis is a French jazz trio that does not fit into the everyday categories of musical expression. They offer an exquisite mix of jazz, experimental and electronic music. The band builds its style on the hard rhythmic foundations provided by the drummer Francesco Pastacaldi and double bass player Joachim Florent nuanced by the numerous effects produced by Aymeric Avice's trumpet. The members of Jean Louis list Zu, Marc Ducret, Meshuggah, Melvins, Varese, Stravinski, Zakir, Hussein, Fela Kuti, Miles Davis and Fred Frith among their strongest influences.
Band members:
Aymeric Avice (trumpet, electronic instruments)
Joachim Florent (double bass)
Francesco Pastacaldi (drums)
Tuesday, 25 May, 8 pm
FREE ZONE AT REX
Documentary: Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast?
Miquel Galofré and Fernando García-Guereta, 61 minutes, Spain, 2009
+ discussion with the producer of the film, Fernando García-Guereta
Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast? attempts to discover the formula behind the remarkable success of Jamaica's male and female athletes. The film features athletes from the small island in the Caribbean: Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter, Shelly Ann Fraser and Melaine Walker, who write new pages in the world's sporting history led by the fastest man in the world Usain Bolt. The director Miquel Galofré and producer Fernando García-Guereta set out to uncover the secret of the fastest people on the planet documenting the reactions and emotions of Jamaicans during the event and after the victory and interviewing the sprinters and their coaches and fans. This award-winning documentary reveals the brutality of the country that shapes young runners and their unique struggle and desire that takes them straight to the top.
Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast? is a story of the six gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing that brought Jamaica once again to the focus of attention worldwide.
Miquel Galofré, director
Drawing on his twenty-year long experience in the Spanish television industry as a cameraman, editor, and director, Galofré made his debut in the world of documentary film- making with Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast? which was a huge success at festivals all over the world. In 2007, his first short-film (GUA!-PA!) won the "Fotogramas" audience award. He and Fernando García-Guereta have just finished shooting the film about the Jamaican reggae titled Hit Me with Music.
Awards:
Best Documentary at the American Black Film Festival in Miami
Garland of Honour 2009 Movies, Sports & TV Film Festival in Milan, Italy
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Ticket price: 100 dinars. Tickets will be sold at REX from Monday, 17 May, workdays from 10 am to 4 pm and from 10 am to 8 pm on the day of the event.
WELCOME TO THE FREE ZONE!
Additional information about the FREE ZONE programmes available at:
www.freezonebelgrade.org, email: info@freezonebelgrade.org
Friday, 28 May, 6 pm
ARTIST AS AUDIENCE
Stimulating public critical approaches to art
12 discussions about works of art with audience members as discussion participants
The discussion focuses on the work of Zoran Todorović
From April to June 2010, the organization "Anonymous said:" in collaboration with project initiator, Boba Mirjana Stojadinović will be holding the first series of discussions at the REX cultural centre about the contemporary artistic production. The discussions Artist as Audience have been conceived as a platform for exchange of opinions between audience members i.e. the participants in the discussion revolving around a selection of works prepared in advance, an essay about the featured works and a series of questions that the artist prepares in advance. During the discussion, the artist remains passive, while audience members assume an active role in the debate and get encouraged to question each other's opinions and attitudes.
The project is aimed both at establishing active communication between works of art and the audience and at offering critical appraisal of one part of the existent artistic production in the field of visual arts (fine arts, design, comics) in Serbia in the period 2000 - 2010. Open discussions highlight the necessity of debating the values and importance of an individual approach within the general one, as well as the question of what part of the overall body of works of art is received by the audience and the context in which art works are presented and receive media coverage.
The target group of this project includes wider public, especially students of all art-related faculties and philosophy, sociology and art history students together with young experts in these fields, professional artists, theorists, critics, art historians, as well as journalists covering culture. The debates will not feature specialist jargon, while the approach to the topics will not be favouring professional opinions and attitudes.
The choice of artists is based on their exceptional production of provocative and well thought-out works and exposure to the public (some of the featured artists are among the most present on the local scene) and the "official" selection criteria (the artists representing the country at big events, in state-run institutions and the authors who have had their retrospectives held, etc), authors who have won recognition internationally and in the local gallery setting. This will be combined with a selection of some less well-known but equally high quality works whose choice required the application of a different set of criteria that are important to the audience (e.g. the significance of the media, involvement in the underground culture, questioning the system on the art scene).
The remaining discussions will be focusing on the works of Igor Milovanović, Boris Šribar and Miloš Tomić. The second series consisting of six discussions will be carried out from September to December 2010.
As part of the preparations for the discussion, it is necessary to read the essay, the author's statement and see the work. All documents are available for download from http://www.anonymoussaid.org. Alternatively, they can be obtained in the printed form at the office of the organization "Anonymous said:", 12/V Nušićeva Street from Friday, 16 April from 12 am to 4 pm. Entrance at the discussions is free. For seat reservations and additional information, feel free to write to artistasaudience@anonymoussaid.org or dial 3237 546.
The project is carried out with the support of the Open Society Fund
Initiator of the project and discussion moderator: Boba Mirjana Stojadinović, M.A.
Co-authors of the project: Boba Mirjana Stojadinović, M.A. and the organization "Anonymous said:"http://www.anonymoussaid.org
Saturday, 29 May, 3 - 6 pm
WOMEN'S DAY - INNER RHYTHMS!
The workshop Inner Rhythms is a combination of movement, voice, and sound. It is based on the bits of tribal ritual traditions as models for group performances. Indian (Mapucho) and Mexican/Mayan rhythms provide a model for adding movement and voice to a pre-recorded instrumental background. The minimal use of percussions helps the participants get into the rhythm. In fact, this workshop offers a possibility to relax in an unusual way and give ourselves the gift of our own rhythms that we might not have felt or discovered inside us with the help of the music we listen to, the instruments we play or the dances we dance. Biljana Stanković - Lori is a radical feminist activist living and working in Novi Sad. She is the co-ordinator of the Novi Sad lesbian organization and an activist actress performing in two feminist theatre companies (FENS teatar - Novi Sad and ACT women - Belgrade).Please bring comfortable clothes and shoes!During a short break and before the event we will be offering refreshments: tea, coffee, water, fruit, some sweets and a wide selection of material and books on women's activism! This time too, we will do our best to provide free copies of feminist publications, brochures and books by female authors. The workshop is free and open to all women, friends, daughters, colleagues, neighbours, moms and grannies. The venue and the programme are accessible to women with disabilities, as well as those who would like to bring their children. Feel free to inform us of your needs so that we can give you best possible form of support. Welcome!
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The series of events Women's Day, organized by Žene na delu - Women at Work was launched in 2008. This year it continues and will be organized by Asocijacija za žensku inicijativu (the Association for Women's Initiative). We will do our best to offer a varied, instructive, interesting and cheerful programme. It will be held in the familiar environment of the REX cultural centre. Looking forward to a year full of exciting Women's Day events!
For more information about Women's Day, please write to: zenskidan@gmail.com. www.awin.org.rs
Saturday, 29 May, 8 pm
POETRY RING 18
Active Poetry Training
Active Poetry Training POETRY RING has become the most popular literary event in the city. The forthcoming September edition will feature poetesses and poets, new and seasoned, beginners and stars, favourites and renegades, wild ones and offenders, sensitive and fickle, quarrelsome and squeamish, diligent and discouraged but no quitters.
+ unexpected guest poets
+ guests of the evening
+ distribution of the book published with the money from the proceeds from the previous POETRY RING
A Škart production:
Organized by REX
Entrance fee: 100 dinars
The proceeds will be invested into the publication of the next book in the Poetry Ring book series (this form of self-financing opens up possibilities for the appearance of first books of poetry by authors active outside the mainstream and unwilling to accept the dictate of the market). If you would like to participate, please write to: pesnicenje@gmail.com.
Sunday, 30 May, 8 pm
THE IMPOSSIBLE IS POSSIBLE
Presentation of the experimental task completed by final year students of the Belgrade-based School of Design, Textile Department
The presentation of the task has been conceived as a performance through which the participants show the results of their individual research efforts inspired by surrealist art.
e-mail: tekstil.skolazadizajn@gmail.com
Monday, 31 May, 8:30 pm
OBJECTIVE DRAMA PROJECT - POD TEATAR
WHO SWALLOWED THE MOON? A futuristic play of the absurd
Performers: Branka Bajić, Tatjana Stefanović, Sonja Stojić, Dejan Pajović, Sara Santini, Miloš Rusimović, Anja Dimitrijević, (Petar Jovanović)
Directed by Tatjana Pajović
Dramaturge: Jelena Vuksanović
Stage: Una Stević
Design: Sanja Drakulić
When - in the near future. Where - a religious cult. He who believes exists, he who believes that he believes, he who asks no questions, he who wants to be God, he who has no doubts, he who seeks consolation, he who searches for meaning, he who always goes all the way.
Inspiration: Albert Camus - "Caligula", Mark Twain "Satan's Letter"
Albert Camus - "Caligula": precisely because no one goes all the way, nothing is achieved. That truth is so simple and pure, slightly crazy, but painful when discovered and hard to carry. "Men die and are not happy".
Mark Twain: "By the Law of Periodical Repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again and again - and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's, and each obeying its own law."
* The BIBLIOTOK project aims to introduce the wider public to the publications focusing on contemporary art, theory of culture, literature, comics, gender studies and minority groups. The library at REX has many such publications that appeared in the volatile conditions in the 1990s and after 2000. How does the general public perceive and understand the content of these magazines, studies and collections of articles about the still topical issues from the worlds of culture and politics? This is the question we aim to find an answer to together with the people living in three buildings in the vicinity of the REX cultural centre. The people in each building have been given a dozen publications, among which the issues of magazines Arkzin, Reč, Profemina, Stripburger, Prelom, Remont, etc. This project is still open to other groups and individuals as part of the project FLUX AROUND US. www.rex.b92.net/fluxokonas
* Over the next few weeks, the audience attending events at REX will be given the opportunity to see the photographs documenting the performances of the American artist Nancy Popp as part of the programme Checking Point. Untitled (Street Performances), 2005-2008, documents a series of actions which find artist Nancy Popp escaping the norms and boundaries of urban space. In various cities, she climbs street poles and signposts, temporarily positioning herself above the street, stores, and citizens. This gesture of empowerment and elevation questions notions of regulated public space and private desire, while conjuring the history of protest and activism, publicity stunts, and endurance events. Popp wrote: "The body becomes a temporary marker signifying transgression, an attempt to top the hierarchies inherent in the vertical landscape. But climbing a street pole is a seemingly ridiculous and pointless act. Its motivation is unclear, private or idiosyncratic." Popp has performed her climbs across America and internationally, including London, Tijuana, and Berlin.
While her actions and experiences are influenced by their changed context and local mores, in each location she instrumentalizes her body to challenge the hierarchal patterns of movement in public space and literally interrupt the rhythm of everyday life. /"...to observe the flow of the street and seek out new sightlines."/
In conjunction with her travels in Croatia, Serbia and England during the summer of 2009 and her presentation at the Performance Studies international conference in Zagreb, she performed climbs at Zrinjevac Park, Zagreb, Terazije Square, Belgrade, and Trafalgar Square, London. These live actions highlight the physical and legal risks that can occur when an artist decides to empower herself in real time and place. Nancy Popp lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She has participated in exhibitions including Project Enduring Look at the Art Institute of Chicago; Draw a Line and Follow It at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and Movement and the Visual Arts at the Getty Center, Los Angeles.
REX hosts:
- meetings of the Mirabela club
The club brings together people who love vegetation and other forms of life on this planet. Its members enjoy roaming in nature and listening to its rhythms. They are mainly students and graduates of biology, biochemistry, ethnomusicology and other disciplines, but the club equally welcomes all other people who respect nature. Mirabela was founded as a result of an informal activity aimed at discovering the surroundings of Belgrade on foot. The inaugural meeting of the Mirabela club, Belgrade-based non-profit organization promoting environmental projection was held on 22 November, 2008. http://www.mirabela.org/
- meetings of the U PRAVU SI (YOU ARE RIGHT) On-line project team
UPS! Online is an web-based guide through the legal system of the Republic of Serbia intended for all those who did not happen to earn a PhD degree in law and do not browse the Official Gazette while sipping their morning coffee. These are the people who do not tell jokes that have the word "subsidiary" in them and yet sometimes feel the need to find out whether they are allowed to do this, what will happen if they do not do that and who to complain to if someone does something to them. Carried out with the support of the Ministry of Youth and Sport of the Republic of Serbia http://upravusi.rs