What’s Contemporary Belgrade 2011, ambient/video installation Magacin/Dom omladine. Cultural Center DOM OMLADINE is organization of City Council of Belgrade. Arts Programme Manager Anja Obradović. Photo by Aleksandrija Ajduković

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The video work in Magacin Belgrade is exposed in the ambient installation as the first half of gallery space is filled with still frame photos of participants in video sorted into a film strip on one wall and the opposite wall of that space is marked with the words NON PRODUCTION.
Why NON PRODUCTION? It’s a strong expression statement of the whole situation combining economical, social, political atmosphere of country and it’s capital and positions of the artist’s existential and professional needs within that atmosphere where the production is literally the water, a basic need to keep these kind of shows rolling. It’s the basic need of art.  NON PRODUCTION is a statement for rising awareness that should not be just thought about it, but take it in consideration to bringing it into action.
It says LETS DO!
NON PRODUCTION simply says LET’S DO!!! here.
I hope you can and you will enjoy the show.

More about the video here.

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Strategy DAY+NIGHT, Magacin, Belgrade 2011

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Strategy DAY+NIGHT

The exhibition includes works of different media access through a combination of traditional and digital artistic expression of ideas visualized in the immediacy of their manifestation. The principles of changes, circulation and return, these three authors are harmonizing through the Strategy DAY + NIGHT in the review of their personal experiences and inner movement. The very word to return itself is a manifestation of the principle of circulation and movement, since everything on Earth moving, Strategy DAY + NIGHT harmonize these principles through the work of “Rain rain go away” by Tanja Babić, “The Power of Self” by Milica Simonović and “Live in NY” by Isidora Fićović.

/////Tanja Babić, Milica Simonović, Isidora Fićović/////

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ISCP, NY 2010/2011 (supported by Ministry of Culture-Republic of Serbia and TMU,NY)

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Isidora Ficovic made few new works during December – January 2010/2011 in New York. RABBITS WALL, NEWS (newspaper drawing on the wall of studio which represents shooting of the movie in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Angelina Jolie), NEW YORK FUN, YOU WANT MISS ME and TOMORROW.

The shape of rabbit on “RABBITS WALL” comes from street in Berlin where the artist, Isidora Ficovic, took photo of metal sculpted rabbits on concrete slabs in 2009, which are placed on street in the area where The Wall was dividing the city on two blocks in 20th century. There is a story that only rabbits could pass from one side to the other, from East to West Berlin and vice versa, jumping through a small holes on The Wall. If we shift that symbol of a rabbit to the contemporary time of our lives, the rabbit could be a symbol of speedy globalized world characterized by mobility of people, by developing technology that allows wider communication and crossing of borders. Visually “RABBITS WALL” juxtaposes itself with the pop art tradition.

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“Coloring”, performance 2010 Salzburg, Austria

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The Performance “Coloring” is action inside of art Booth. It’s the form of expressing the transformation of body living in contemporary society. The number of products for shaping the human body almost every month increases..Are we shaping our inner being as much as we consuming the products? Does the motto of todays living “The True Beauty Comes from Outside” prevail in our minds and can we still remember saying “The True Beauty Comes from Inside” ?! Does that anything mean to us ?

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Black Rabbit/Polje Crnog Zeca 2010, DKSG, Belgrade

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Black Rabbit / Polje Crnog Zeca 2010

Raises some current issues in Serbia today, but in the wider global context. Ambient installation of video works, drawings, digital prints, and fields marked with the shapes of Black Rabbit that are made in the period 2009/2010.
Dear Mr. President I need a Yacht Please Help me, A Strong is Wrong and Stop NATO Fascism are one of the possible and the chosen option to the current socio-political and economic issues that can be seen at this event .. Welcome!
Having been raised partly in Yugoslavia, Isadora’s practice is influenced by various political, social and cultural manifestations of diverse nationalities, ethnic backgrounds and cultural transformations enabling her to understand necessity of change and vitality of thinking.

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Latitudes, New Museum, NY, The Last Newspaper 2010

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Snapshots by Isidora Ficovic. Blok 37 Kiosk/ New Belgrade 2010, for the Latitudes, The Last Newspaper 2010, a major exhibition inspired by the ways artists approach the news and respond to the stories and images that command the headlines at the New Museum, New York.

EXTRA! EXTRA!

Old news becomes new again

By Araceli Cruz

Thankfully, The Last Newspaper is not what you hold in your hands. Instead, it’s the title of a new exhibit at the New Museum that features works inspired by print media from 1967 to the present. You’ll see a restaging of William Pope.L’s Eating the Wall Street Journal (2000), in which performers walk the halls chomping on the financial newspaper, Dash Snow’s Untitled 2006, a suite of 20 works that look at how New York City’s tabloids covered the fall of Saddam Hussein, and Hans Haacke’s News, a typewriter, placed on a foldout table with a long ream of paper flowing from it. The museum will also be transformed into a newsroom of sorts, with different departments open for participation that will host programs, discussions and special guests. Other artists in the exhibit include Edith Bernstein, Andrea Bowers, Sarah Charlesworth, Thomas Hirschhorn, Luciano Fabro, Emily Jacir, Mike Kelley, and Wolfgang Tillmans. And, a free weekly newspaper will also be distributed with content about events happening within the museum. How very Village Voice of them.

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What is Contemporary?, 14′, sound & color, Belgrade 2010. Camera: Isidora Fićović Editing: Arvin Kamberi Subtitle: Nataša Bikić

link to the video

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What is Contemporary?, video 14’, Belgrade 2010
The work explores the question “What is Contemporary?” among the local art community in Belgrade, Serbia.
It have been included an increasing number of artists, art historians and curators, relevant in the creation of artistic spirit of the capital and beyond, both today and in the previous twenty and thirty years.
With Era Milivojević, Raša Todosijević, Zoran Popović, Jovan Cekić, there is also a generation, younger group of local contemporary art scene, the presence in the work of their individuality and subjective responses are given the contemporary record of a moment and immortalized digital record.
The author of this work gives the viewer a glimpse into who were members of Belgrade’s contemporary art scene and integrate them through their answers to the question “What is Contemporary? ” in the area of digital video and provides constant review of the time phenomenon-now.
One answer that appears in the work, Miroslav Karić (art historian / REMONT):
Contemporary? You want it in some time frames, do you / is that it?
For me, contemporary represents everything that was made, if we talk about art that is, in the last ten years. So, everything that is current so to speak, if we are talking about art, right, and I hope we are talking about art. So, yes, as I have already said, if we are talking about kind of art production, everything that was made in the last five to ten years is actually contemporary for me, so kind of current situation so to speak.

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Salzburg International Summer Academy (Dan/Lia Perjovschi class)/supported by Kultur Kontakt Grant 2010

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-drawing / newspaper maps/ performance
The idea is dealing with body transformation in the context of contemporary society, the culture of silicone implants, other instant as well as organic modification of products.  In some pieces/drawings is the answer to the question of actual political, social and economical outcomes of today, example the written statement A Strong is Wrong and Dear Mr. President I need a Yacht Please Help me.
The Performance “Coloring” as action inside of Booth is another form of expressing the transformations living in the contemporary society.
The starting idea for the art BOOTH 1, the motif comes from the maps of human body (with reflection to other species as well) that was coming out each weekend in the daily newspaper “BLIC “ from Belgrade.

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