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

OPEN MIC

ART OR PACT: PERFORMANCE, PERFORMATIVITY AND DOCUMENT
SULUV GALLERY
NOVI SAD, 2018

Femkanje Open Mic is a media intervention, an invitation to participate and an ongoing live stream. Based on the idea of unlimited trust (up to 5Gb and 30 min free talk) and equality (no discrimination!), our work aims to once more (and now even more inclusively) open the space for free speech and artistic agency while keeping the participant’s anonymity. At the times of saturation and media darkness, fake news and information bubbles, Femkanje reacts by enabling a safe zone for expression. Pushing the borders of radio and (artistic) space, the installation effectively surveills the soundscape of a gallery. 
We invite multiple outlooks, contrasted perspectives and various concerns to be spoken out. 
Come to SULUV and share your voice!

OPEN MIC

24th International Festival of Computer Art MFRU

UGM STUDIO, Maribor
12 – 19. 10. 2018

24th edition of the International Festival of Computer Art MFRU, which was organized around the topic of Trust . 3, took place at numerous locations in Maribor. This time focused on female authors, festival gathered many artists, theoreticians and art collectives from the ex-YU region and world-wide. In the art space UGM STUDIO Femkanje presentet a new artwork, a media intervention with the title Femkanje Open Mic.

Femkanje Open Mic is a media intervention, an invitation to participate and an ongoing live stream. Based on the idea of unlimited trust and equality, our work aims to once more (and now even more inclusively) open the space for free speech and artistic agency while keeping the participant’s anonymity. At the times of saturation and media darkness, fake news and information bubbles, Femkanje reacts by enabling a safe zone for expression. Pushing the borders of radio and (artistic) space, the installation effectively surveills the soundscape of a gallery. We invite multiple outlooks, contrasted perspectives and various concerns to be spoken out.

Curator: Miha Horvat
More about the exhibition here.

RADIO MAPPING THE INDEPENDENT SCENE

Photo credit: Miroslav Dajč
Photo credit: Miroslav Dajč
Photo credit: Dejan Habicht
Photo credit: Dejan Habicht
Photo credit: Matija Pavlovec
Photo credit: Miroslav Dajč

8th Triennial of Contemporary Art – U3 | Beyond the Globe
Moderna galerija (MG+), Ljubljana
03.06 – 18.09.2016

The 8th Triennial of contemporary art – U3 was open from 3rd of June till 18th of September in the space of Moderna gallery (MG+), Museum of Contemporary Arts Metelkova (+MSUM) and Reaktor centre Podgorica in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The exhibition under the curatorial framework of Boris Groys was titled Beyond the Globe and it gathered both Slovenian and international artists. More about the Triennial can be viewed here.

Femkanje presented the work Radio Mapping the Independent Scene, a 16-channel audio installation consisting of the shows produced in the first season of the radio show. The total of 64 shows, broadcasted on NOFM radio from March 2013 to June 2014, are mapped onto 16 separate speakers representing 16 months of work. All of the shows are played simultaneously giving rise for more then 70 independent actors, of disunited and poorly organised scene, to finally be heard in one voice. The installation is followed by a chronologically ordered and detailed list of all of the speakers and as well by a booth where you can listen to a selected episode in full.

On the topic of Cosmos / Accompanying text, a commentary to the curatorial framework of Boris Groys and the topic of Cosmos and Cosmic Anxiety.

The installation Radio Mapping the Independent Scene has been previously presented at the exhibition Zig-Zag, curated by Lenka Djorojevic at the 21st City of Women festival of conemporary art in Ljubljana in 2015.

Supported by: MG+MSUM Ljubljana
Technical support: Martin Lovšin Schintr
Photographs: Matija Pavlovec and Dejan Habicht © Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
Photo archive of the Triennial can be viewed here.

RADIO MAPPING THE INDEPENDENT SCENE

Mednarodne skupinske razstave Cik Cak, kuratorica Lenka Đorojević / International group Exhibition Zig Zag, curated by Lenka Đorojević, Galerija Škuc, 5.10.2015, Festival Mesto žensk / Festival City of Women http://www.cityofwomen.org/sl/content/2015/projekt/cik-cak
Mednarodne skupinske razstave Cik Cak, kuratorica Lenka Đorojević / International group Exhibition Zig Zag, curated by Lenka Đorojević, Galerija Škuc, 5.10.2015, Festival Mesto žensk / Festival City of Women http://www.cityofwomen.org/sl/content/2015/projekt/cik-cak
Mednarodne skupinske razstave Cik Cak, kuratorica Lenka Đorojević / International group Exhibition Zig Zag, curated by Lenka Đorojević, Galerija Škuc, 5.10.2015, Festival Mesto žensk / Festival City of Women http://www.cityofwomen.org/sl/content/2015/projekt/cik-cak

Izložba Zig Zag
ŠKUC galerija, Ljubljana
5 – 25. 10. 2015

Radio show and platform Femkanje was invited to take part in the 21st City of Women Festival and the accompanying exhibition titled Zig Zag, curated by Lenka Djorojević. This interdisciplinary exhibition has a focus on displaying multi-layered relations between feminism and autonomously formed socially relevant discourses from the territories of former Yugoslavia.

Radio Mapping the Independent Scene is an audio-visual installation presenting the first season of the radio show. Total of 64 shows, broadcasted on NOFM radio from March 2013 to June 2014, are mapped onto 16 separate speakers representing 16 months of work. All of the shows are played simultaneously giving rise for more then 70 independent actors, of disunited and poorly organised scene, to finally be heard in one voice. The installation is followed by a chronologically ordered and detailed list of all of the speakers and as well by a booth where you can listen to a selected episode in full.

Curator: Lenka Đorojević
More about the exhibition here.

Technical support: Martin Lovšin
Organisation: Mesto Žensk festival and gallery ŠKUC
Supported by: Mesto Žensk, Zaklada Kultura nova and CONA Institut za procesuiranje savremene umetnosti