Author: kataboa

SPACES OF TOGETHERNESS

GALLERY PODROOM, CULTURAL CENTER OF BELGRADE
28.01 – 04.03.2021


The exhibition Femkanje – Spaces of Togetherness consists of two parts: a sound installation in the gallery space and a new online sound database. The sound installation consists of all the 88 realized Femkanje shows that are mapped onto 18 speakers. The entire installation is accompanied with the list of all the shows and guests, starting from the most recent. Femkanje episodes were previously broadcasted on NOFM radio and published online in the period from March 2013 to February 2018.

Femkanje is a podcast, art and media project, dedicated to contemporary art and culture in Serbia, the former Yugoslavian region and Europe. Focus is on the models of independent production and self-organization in contemporary culture, as well as on media visibility and gender equality in the representation of its actors. Its founders, Bojana S. Knežević and Katarina Petrović, realized numerous shows presenting comprehensive overviews of practices by individual authors or collectives through longer intimate conversations. Guests come from different fields: visual and sound arts, (experimental) music, dramatic and applied arts, activism, education and science. Therefore, Femkanje becomes a network of contemporary, independent cultural and artistic scenes, following the movements of its two authors.

Authors in the archive:

Lukas van der Velden, Annemarie Turk, Doma Art fondacija, Dante Buu, Vitja Gluščhenko, Alexandra Karter, Nika Šaravanja, Jef Guess, Gwenola Wagon, Šu Lea Čeang, Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina, Karen Finley, Nora Turato, Olof van Winden, Mihaël Roumen, Margriet Schavemaker, Johan Gustavsson, Iva Čukić, Tao Vrhovec Sambolec, Sandra Tomić i Bojana Milašinović, Jasna Veličković, Manja Ristić, Galerija G12 HUB (Jelena Piljić, Milica Pekić), Mirko Lazović, Luka Tojboj, Robert Pravda, Nataša Kadin, Bogomir Doringer, Branko Milisković, Mesto Žensk (Mara Vujić, Tea Reba, Milija Babić), Lenka Đorojević, Nikola Knežević, TIIIIT! INC (Kristina Lelovac, Jana Stardelova, Jana Kočevska), Isidora Todorović, Vahida Ramujkić, Iva Bekić i Irena Gajić, Svetlana Maraš, U10 Umetnički prostor (Marija Šević, Nina Ivanović, Nemanja Nikolić, Iva Kuzmanović), Ilija Milošević i Vladimir Bjeličić, Jelena Drobac, Tatjana Vukelić, Milan Nenezić, Tina Kaplani, Suna Kažić, Milica Prelić, Maja Uzelac, Vladimir Radinović, Ivana Smiljanić, Milica Popović, Dunja Dačić Dojo i Verglšpil (Nevena Paunović), Ana Nedeljković, Sara Radojković, Dejana Stanojević / Rumenka Super, Bojana Petković, Bojana Bauer, Ksenija Đorđević, Marijana Arađanski, Gabrijela Ivanov Gabe, Zoe Gudović, Galerija 1250 (Iva Brkić, Bojana Jokmanović), Femix (Tatjana Nikolić, Aleksandar Gubaš), Margareta Jelić, Simonida Rajčević, Emma Szabo, Ana Novaković, Ivana Todorović, Milana Zarić, Olga Dimitrijević, Grupa Rouge (Jelena Fužinato, Bojana Stamenković), Andrea Palašti, Biljana Cincarević, Nevena Prijić, Nana Radenković, Marija Ratković, Milica Mešterović, Marčela Zanki, Nuša Đak i Novosadska ženska umetnička banda (Nevena Popović, Ibis Čerimagić, Marija Mandić), Maja Pelević, Maja Atanasijević Zipa Yoma, Marina Marković i Anoreksija.rs (Sonja Milošević, Nevena Paunović i Marija Kulović), TEYOSH, Ana Ćurčin, Žene sa interneta, TKV, Irena Fabri, Lazara Marinković, Ana Seferović, Le Zbor, Marta Popivoda i Nataša Damnjanović, Magdalena Klašnja, Ana Jovanović Vajana, Ida Prester, Tatjana Tatalović Tata, Tijana Todorović, Vanja Bursać, Marko Jevtić, Katarina A. Petrović, Irena Tomažin, Dragana Dobrić, Darija Medić.

video documentation by Milan Kralj

FEMKANJE: Spaces of Togetherness

Fushë Kosova

“Fushë Kosova” is an audio-visual work based on the Albanian translation of the poem “Kosovo Polje” by the famous Serbian poet M. Beckovic. Emotionally charged this poem sings about identity, about its exclusivity and vulnerability. It sings about a mythical land in one color, looking at it with the one eye, playing a tune in a single string… I am not aware that the poem “Kosovo Polje” was previously published in Albanian, so I’m offering this translation as a contribution to establishing communication; the invitation to convey thoughts and ideas to the other party, however conflicting in intention and incongruous in expression they might be.

Darija is a Bosnian born, Calgary based, internationally recognized artist whose work is predominantly conceptual, whether it is a performance, ready-made, sculpture, textual work, minimalist painting, assemblage, or a large scale installation. The common denominator of her artistic practice is her honest confrontation with the issues that trigger her attention and exposing that confrontation to the audience.
Since she experienced being a refugee in the 90’s, then being an immigrant two decades later, her art is questioning issues of identity, equality, social conflict, and freedom of expression.
http://radakovic.darija.ca/

Where the police are

Work „Where the police are“ is a sound collage criticizing the politics of European Union and  dedicated to all the migrant victims. The sound fragments come from many different sources– field recordings, found sounds, news reports and Frontex commercials, as well as music samples and own compositions. The work wants to recreate the war-like atmosphere on the guarded borders of European Union and point out to institutionalized violence and discrimination which contradicts the foundations of EU itself.

Born in Dubrovnik, based in Berlin. Thinking and writing about arts, culture and politics.

Dirt and Class

Collaboration with Niels Shoe Meulman and Koen Tossijn. (2019)

Dirt and Class

For the occasion of the solo exhibition Unstallation by Niels Shoe Meulman at Ghost Galerie (ghostgalerie.com)
Filmed and edited by Zane Meyer, Chop ’em Down Films (chopemdownfilms.com)
Sound installation for video and cloak installation by Natalia Domínguez Rangel 
Cloak design by Koen Tossijn (tossijn.com)
Shoe assistance by Qi Webster
Moral support by Carlo McCormick
Special thanks to Caroline Pozzo di Borgo, Stéphane Miquel, Simon Veres and Patta.

Natalia Domínguez Rangel (NL/CO) composer/sound artist living and working between Vienna and Amsterdam.
Domínguez Rangel’s work connects closely to critical listening, anything related to the characteristics of sound and all physical qualities that articulates space. She is interested in how sound affects and resonates with an audience physiologically and psychologically, and how space and specifically acoustic space make one think of time, ecology, technology and architecture.
Sound is power, it can be a source of both pain and pleasure.

Étude 2 – between the artificial and the natural

Throughout the first lockdown due to COVID-19 I started a series: “Études”

This study was inspired by the thought of listening to digital produce big room acoustics intertwined with natural church acoustics. How do we perceive and listen to these two realities?

The piece consists of field recordings of diverse churches done throughout the day when they are empty to visit. Church St James in Brno (CZ), Stevens Kerk in Nijmegen (NL) and Mariazell Basilica (AT) orchestrated with my voice and movement in different digital acoustic rooms.

These digital mimicries display an alternative way of listening and association. A natural digital cacophony in counterpoint with an acoustic cluster.

Natalia Domínguez Rangel (NL/CO) composer/sound artist living and working between Vienna and Amsterdam.
Domínguez Rangel’s work connects closely to critical listening, anything related to the characteristics of sound and all physical qualities that articulates space. She is interested in how sound affects and resonates with an audience physiologically and psychologically, and how space and specifically acoustic space make one think of time, ecology, technology and architecture.
Sound is power, it can be a source of both pain and pleasure.

I Feel You

Sound Sculpture (2020)
“I Feel You” is a sounds sculpture that echoes on the idea of embodying technology.

“I am the center.
I exceed boundaries in every direction.
I’m inside of what I make, and it’s inside me.
I feel uneasy.
Why do my body end at the skin?
Why I encapsulate technology with skin?
I resonate.
I feel you.
Do you feel me?
My machine is disturbingly lively”

Natalia Domínguez Rangel (NL/CO) composer/sound artist living and working between Vienna and Amsterdam. Domínguez Rangel’s work connects closely to critical listening, anything related to the characteristics of sound and all physical qualities that articulates space. She is interested in how sound affects and resonates with an audience physiologically and psychologically, and how space and specifically acoustic space make one think of time, ecology, technology and architecture.
Sound is power, it can be a source of both pain and pleasure.

Artist talk | Femkanje @ MSUV

Konferencija Politike tela u savremenoj umetnosti II
Muzej Savremene Umetnosti Vojvodine
24 Nov 2018 | 17:30h

Ove subote 24. novembra u 17:30, u okviru Izložbe ART ili PAKT – Performans, performativnost i dokument i drugog dela konferencije Politike tela u savremenoj umetnosti u MSUV- Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine razgovaraćemo o Femkanju, našim počecima i razvitku kao i o agenciji glasa, umetnosti i radija.
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