Saturday, 4 October, 7 pm ACTION No. 8
>>action No. 8<< is a touring event consisting of 12 performances carried out in different locations in the region. It is part of a series of audio-video works created by son:DA and used in the last four years in various performances that featured guests. >>action No. 8<< is based on a simple analogue audio-video interface and an object built and placed in a new space, at a new time in a new context. Public rehearsal become part of the performance and the tour develops and shapes the audio-video production. son:DA belongs to an art form characterised by combining various technologies and media, as well as a new approach to group work. son:DA creates art with partners chosen to fit individual projects, replacing traditional authorship with various forms of participation. Zdenka Badovinec, 2006
Additional information available at: http://sonda.kibla.org/performances.html
>>action No. 8<< crew:
son:DA (video and sound)
Samo Pečar (bass)
djSplinter (turntables and computer)
Marko Kocjan (vocal)
Monday 6 October, 7 pm DIS-PATCH promo concert! ERRUPTION: Ivana Grahovac (violoncello), Manja Ristić (violin), Rastko Lazić (electronic instruments)
ERRUPTION is a band founded by two highly educated performers of classical music inspired by the idea of experimental improvisation using electronic musical devices and acoustic instruments. Since 1998, the duo collaborated with a large number of underground musicians, university-educated musicians, multimedia artists and theatre and film directors from all over Europe. Following the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla in 2006, when ERRUPTION composed, produced and performed a multimedia piece for a cello, violin, string quartet, two Tesla's coils and a computer (in collaboration with Gallery 12+), the duo began a permanent collaboration with Rastko Lazić, thus becoming a trio.
ERRUPTION is focused on experimental, intuitive improvisation exploring the limits of instrumental acoustics, searching for an organic fusion of electronic and acoustic audio effects. The performers' original sensibility builds a progressive sound dimension. Ivana Grahovac and Manja Ristić are among the five founding members of the Association of Multimedia Artists AUROPOLIS. www.rastko.info, www.myspace.com/eruptionstrings
Tuesday, 7 October, 9 pm Belgrade Noise Society presents: Talibam! (New York) & Belgrade Noise Society (Serbia)
Talibam! is a New York-based duo whose members are Matt Mottel (synthesizer) and Kevin Shea (drums). These two musicians are active on the New York scene. Matt Mottel's intriguing presence has been felt among the New York club audience since he was 16 thanks to the unusual sounds he makes on the synthesizer. He performed with Awesome Color, Deerhunter, Akron/Family, Chris Corsano, Ras Moshe, Sean Meehan and many others and has a band named Shadow Maps. Kevin Shea is known to the fans of alternative, experimental and rock music as the drummer in the bands Storm & Stress, Coptic Light, Peter Evans Quartet, Mostly Other People Do The Killing, Sexy Thoughts...
Their music is an explosive free jazz/free rock ecstasy in which different people can recognize different influences: Sun Ra, punk, Sonic Youth... Talibam!'s albums have been released on the labels Azul Discographica, Blackest Rainbow, Gaffer Records and others and their songs are featured on numerous compilations including Less Self Is More Self released in 2006 by Ecstatic Peace, the label run by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. Their albums usually receive glowing reviews in prominent magazines like The Wire, Dusted Magazine, Flavorpill NYC and others. www.belgradenoise.com, www.myspace.com/belgradenoise, www.myspace.com/talibam
The tickets will be sold one hour before the concert.
Ticket price: 350 dinars
Wednesday, 8 October, 7 pm WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING Guests: Creative Commons team
The Creative Commons team from Serbia (Vladimir Jerić Vlidi, Nevenka Antić and Vladan Jeremić) had the opportunity to visit Japan and hold an official presentation of the local Creative Commons production in the field of music and other areas at the global iCommons summit in Sapporo.
iCommons Summit 2008 was held from 29 July to 2 August in Sapporo, the capital of Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido and the chief city of the Sapporo prefecture. The city is remembered by many as the host of the 1972 Winter Olympics. The support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, Open Society Fund and iCommons International made it possible for a three-member team from Serbia to participate in the world's largest summit focusing on the Internet, new technologies and concepts of global networking and exchange of culture-related information facilitated by information technologies. For the participants from Belgrade who presented the Ccbit compilation and printed material from the domain of free cultural production, the question remains of whether these and other aspects of the Creative Commons movement can be applied or adapted in Europe or in a country like Serbia where the market is small, educational levels of the population low and the culture of handling digital content underdeveloped.
Useful links: http://icommons.org, http://creativecommons.org.yu
iCommons Summit 2008 photo documentation: http://picasaweb.google.com/biroizbeograda/ICommonsSummit2008# The series of presentations WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN, WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING focuses on the work of artists and cultural workers who went on guest visits or spent longer periods of time working abroad on different occasions. They talk about the aspects of their decision to leave the country and work abroad and their reasons for doing that. They also describe the conditions in which they are taking part in international projects and give a detailed account of their life and work abroad. All presentations feature photographs and video material that the guest recorded during his/her journey or stay in foreign countries.
DIS-PATCH 7 - Festival of cutting-edge music and related art www.dis-patch.com Saturday, 11 October, 8 pm
iT (SLO)
Rashim (Mosz / AT) Wednesday, 15 October, 8 pm - world premiere!
TERRAIN VAGUE
Thomas Köner (DE) Thursday, 16 October, 8 pm
RHYTHM SPACE
Nemeth plays FILM
featuring Steven Hess & Martin Siewert (Mosz / AT/US)
Martin Brandlmayr (Mosz/Thrill Jockey / AT)
Pan American (Kranky / US) Friday, 17 October, 8 pm
CINEMATICS
Feedback Society (NL)
Optical Machines (NL)
Telcosystems (NL) Monday, 20 October, 8 pm
Morgan Packard (Anticipate / US)
Autistic Daughters (Thrill Jockey / NZ/AT) 11 - 20 October ARTIST IN RESIDENCE programme at REX
guest: Martin Brandlmayr (AT)
Additional information about the festival and the participants available at: www.youtube.com/user/dispatchfestival, www.flickr.com/photos/dis_patch, dis-patch facebook
group, www.twitter.com/dis_patch, www.last.fm/user/dis-patch, www.vimeo.com/dispatchfest/videos
Monday, 13 October, 7 pm MY FAVOURITE ARTIST
REX continues the series of discussions / presentations revolving around the theme "My Favourite Artist". The one to answer this very personal question this time will be Aleksandar S. Janković, PhD, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, dramaturge and film and music critic. The identity of the favourite artist will remain a secret until the very beginning of the event.
The presentation will feature selected visual material.
The presentations and discussions are hosted by art historian Marina Martić.
Wednesday, 22 October, 7 pm
presentation of project IMMORTALIZATION PROJECT by Lexa Walsh
Lexa Walsh's THE IMMORTALIZATION PROJECT is based on the history of objects, nostalgia, creation and their transformation - the interrelation between objects and the stories of their owners. The project that started during the artist's one-month stay in Belgrade in September 2003 was continued in Taiwanese cities of Taipei and Kio-A-Thau and in Jyderup in Denmark. THE IMMORTALIZATION PROJECT begins by inviting local community members to offer their favourite but no longer usable, worn out pieces of clothing or some other objects to which they are deeply attached that thus become part of this process. The artist then documents these objects, namely, the objects and their stories are "captured" in wax and transformed into small monuments. The objects themselves and the comments of their owners tell the story of life. The kinds of objects given to the artist, as well as those that are not given to her reveal an aspect of the story as well. The owners of these objects/project participants are invited to write or talk about the history of the objects they submitted, giving their reasons for keeping these things, specifying when and where they got damaged and stating the nature of their attachment to the objects in question. The story of all these objects is, thus, told. Five years after Belgrade's launch of the project, Lexa Walsh returns to Belgrade as a member of the all-women band KAČKALA and this is a unique opportunity to come one hour before the concert, discover the ways in which THE IMMORTALIZATION PROJECT developed and hear about the author's experiences in other cities where it was carried out.
Lexa Walsh is an artist staging interactive public art projects and performances bringing together the participating members of local communities. Her projects focusing on social interaction, observations and interpretations are part of a site specific effort - an attempt to reinvent the ideas of our perception of space and create new monuments and souvenirs by celebrating the individual and the community through different media. She has been working internationally, making it possible for the participants in this project and the viewers to take part in a comparative, anthropological exploration. Alluding to narratives and memories (personal, collective and unfamiliar), the work navigates a space between nostalgia and invention investigating archetypal patterns of thought and emotion. Lexa Walsh has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area, Europe, and Asia. She has recently returned from a residency at the Solyst AIR centre in Denmark having been a resident artist at Kio-A-Thau Sugar Refinery Residence, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan and REX Cultural Centre in Belgrade. This year, in Palo Alto Art Center, Lexa has held a youth-oriented workshop about art in public spaces. Her work is complemented and enriched by her travels, community work and experimental music projects. She is a contributing editor of the Oakland arts magazine Swee(t)art, and currently curates Oakland's Cricket Engine Gallery, while continuing to play a role at the Czech art centre CESTA where she lived and worked for 8 years. She is a founding member of the all-women Toychestra band, and the Czech-based all-women a cappella group Kačkala. http://www.lexawalsh.com/immortalization.htm http://www.lexawalsh.com
Wednesday, 22 October, 8 pm KAČKALA in concert
KAČKALA is a Czech-American women's a cappella quintet led by the drummer of the band SABOT, Hillary Binder. The band was put together in haste in just a couple of days with the aim of performing at the Theatre 7 festival in the Czech town of Tabor where Hillary runs the CESTA cultural centre (www.cesta.cz) together with Chris Rankin. Their self-confidence, unusual performance, a combination of punk and sophisticated melodies, but above all the naughty charm of band members captivated the audience at the festival, which motivated them to continue writing songs. They have had around a dozen European tours. Five naughty band members: Backdoor Bobbi, Blackbelt Betty, Luscious Lucile, Pretty Pink Pussy, and Rawcuss Ruby sing their verses with passion and incredible amounts of humour and free spirit. Their singing, without any accompanying instruments - a mixture of original pieces, alternative jazz, children's melodies and punk is combined with an original stage performance and playing with the different facets of being a woman. The Kačkala girls stage a dynamic, entertaining and enlightening performance consisting of songs speaking of freedom, as well as those filled with gallows humour and irony. Thus they maintain the equilibrium of a cabaret-like atmosphere. Their audiences are very diverse and included parents and children at an afternoon matinee in Geneva and bikers at a motorcycle festival in France. You cannot afford to miss these saucy and above all talented girls in action!
The tickets will be sold one hour before the concert.
Ticket price: 200 dinars www.kackala.cz
25-26 October 10 am - 5 pm TAKING CARE OF OURSELVES FIRST
Martial arts workshop 1989/2000 (Philippine martial arts, boxing, kick boxing, ving cun) led by Irmgard Deschler.
Since 1993, Irmgard has been mostly working as a martial arts instructor for women and girls in the association Wildwasser Munich - a feminist initiative against sexual abuse that provides support for women and girls who experienced sexual abuse. The association helps victims of violence regardless of their sexual orientation, nationality, skin colour, physical abilities, social status or religious affiliation.
TAKING CARE OF OURSELVES FIRST is a series of burn-out syndrome prevention workshops intended for women's group activists working on SOS helplines, in women's centres, counselling centres and shelters helping women, girls and children victims of different forms of violence.
The project is carried out with the support of the Swedish feminist organization Kvinna till Kvinna.
Organized by: Žene na delu www.zenergija.org
Saturday, 25 October, 8 pm SEX WORKER ACTIVISM - THE SAN FRANCISCO EXPERIENCE
Presentation hosted by Wendy Vinaigrette, sex worker and San Francisco-based activist who travels around the world initiating dialogue about different issues related to her profession. In Belgrade she will be talking about her work experiences, organizing female and male sex workers in San Francisco and the successful and not so successful models of organization. Wendy works at St. James Infirmary specializing in providing healthcare services for female and male sex workers. The majority of people working at St. James Infirmary, established ten years ago, are still working or used to work in the sex industry. Her presentation will feature different materials and toolkits that she will use to illustrate the model on which this infirmary is based. "Coming from San Francisco, I realize that my experience of sex work and organizing is one of many. I do not expect that, my experience will always relate to the experiences of women in other countries and other cultures, I would also be happyto hear all the questions and even happier to manage to provide answers". Wendy also collaborates with numerous other organizations focusing on the rights of sex workers of both sexes and the fight against their discrimination.www.stjamesinfirmary.org
Sunday, 26 October, 6:30 - 10 pm RHYTHM DANCE -WAVES workshop
Dance workshop led by the special guest from England, Kay Chambers.
Gabrielle Roth's Five Rhythms method is simple, aimed at freeing the bodies of dancers regardless of their shape, size, age, physical limitations or experience. This dancing pathway is very accessible, everyone can participate fully, no dance background or special skills are required, rather the courage and willingness to step onto the dance floor and move with who and what you are, movement by movement. The Five Rhythms method provides the following benefits: body awareness, improved physical fitness, self-confidence, liberation and the development of your creative potential, exploration of the relationship to the self and to others. Everyone is welcome - no previous dancing experience necessary!
Apply now, don't be late!
Get additional information and apply for the workshop at:5ritmova.beograd@gmail.com, http://www.plesritmova.net , www.gabrielleroth.com
Monday, 27 October, 7 pm LIFE IN THE ROMA VILAGE OF PREOCE IN KOSOVO Presentation held by Marko Muir
Marko Muir is a prison activist (Buidingbloc Arts Collective), direct action legal adviser (National Lawyers Guild), fighter against authority and plumber from San Francisco. He is currently working in a small Roma village of Preoce in Kosovo, located about 10 km north of Priština, where he teaches English and basic computer skills. His activities are part of the project carried out by Voice of Roma, a non-profit organization based in California. He will present the work that Voice of Roma is doing in Kosovo and show the photos and stories that he collected about the everyday life of the local people. What kind of relationship exists between the Roma and their Serbian and Albanian neighbours, and above all what is the everyday life of the Roma children in Kosovo like?
"As a person coming from San Francisco, I cannot and will not speak for the Roma of Kosovo. My wish is to share a little bit of what I have learned in all its confusing complexity". Roma activists will be taking part in the presentation together with Marko Muir. www.suffled.wordpress.com, www.voiceofroma.org
Tuesday, 28 October, 7 pm MISSION BARELY POSSIBLE The cARTier project
Over the last couple of years the Vector association based in Iasi (Romania) has been working on a project consisting of a survey of cultural needs and raising the awareness of cultural and artistic events among the inhabitants of Tatarasi, one of the towns less than reputable quarters. That quarter was conceived and built in accordance with the contemporary standards that did not differ much from those present in western Europe at the time. The initiators of the project assumed that the people living in this neighbourhood had everyday problems, unfulfilled expectations and cultural needs that can be recognized and articulated through working with artists and cultural workers specializing in different areas of culture. How did the project progress? What is its outcome? The cARTier project was presented at this year's Periferic 8 biennale in Iasi.
Presentation and discussion hosted by Alexandru Bounegru, cultural worker and project coordinator and Vlad Moriaru, theoretician collaborating with Vector.
The project is carried out with the support of the European Cultural Foundation and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia http://www.rex.b92.net/mvm
29 - 30 October, 2 - 7 pm JavaSvet (JavaWorld) meeting: lecture, presentations and Java technology training
JavaSvet is an open Java community bringing together open-minded Java people. It was founded and is being developed with the aim of creating an active organization of Java programmers and Java-oriented companies ready to exchange knowledge, ideas and valuable experiences. JavaSvet is dedicated to collecting high-quality, modern and reliable Java-based solutions and projects. Its activities aimed at popularizing Java, training IT professionals and informing clients who need modern solutions receive the same level of attention. One of the goals of the JavaSvet association is holding regular meetings providing an opportunity for an exchange of experiences and further Java developer training, as well as for the training of beginners, the popularization of the Java programming language and modern Java technologies. Lectures are to be delivered by professional Java application developers. The JavaSvet community officially launched its activities on 19 May 2004. JavaSvet is a non-profit non-governmental organization (citizens' association). It is an official Java User Group (JUG) registered on the Sun Corporation web site.
Additional info: igor.spasic@gmail.com http://www.javasvet.net
Friday, 31 October, 9 pm Lajko Felix in concert !!!Musical warm-up for the FREE ZONE film festival!!!
The virtuoso violinist from northern Vojvodina made the first musical steps playing the zither, the traditional string instrument of Pannonian peoples, primarily Hungarians. Having won all the prizes in his age group in Yugoslavia and Hungary, at the age of twelve, Lajko started playing the violin. He completed six grades of the music school in just three years. In the course of his musical studies, Lajko Felix realized that the approach to music promoted at schools inevitably leads to clichés and inflexibility in musical expression, so he created his own style based on the equal treatment of classical and folk music, rock, blues and jazz combined with constant improvisation and a remarkable mastery of performing on the four-string instrument. Although he had been recording and releasing music before, he proclaimed the 1997 record "Lajko Felix es Zenekara" his first official release. On that record he demonstrated both his outstanding potential as an author of music with powerful melodic qualities and his deep knowledge and understanding of the traditional music of the Balkans. The following year, "Live at Academy", the recording of his live concert performance in Budapest was released. Later on, he guest starred on the album "Gypsy Heart" of the already world renowned Boban Marković's brass band. The 2001 album "Félix Lajkó and his Band Plays" set new audio standards, as the recordings were made in the natural outdoor environment of a forest. He performed in many countries in Europe and around the world, even in Japan where his work is particularly appreciated. He played jazz with the Dresch Quartet, contemporary music with the Hungarian composer Szabados Győrgy and was a member of Boris Kovač's Ritual Nova Ensemble. He also performed with the famous London-based musician of Romanian descent Alexander Balanescu, Japan's Min Tanaka and Noir Désir (France). The concerts where he played together with Boban Marković are among Lajko Felix's most successful collaborations. He performed in Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Belgrade, Paris, Tokyo, Bordeaux, Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Bratislava, Venice, Verona, Vupertal, and Monte Carlo. He toured Romania twice in a year. In 2001, he played at the world famous theatre festival in Avignon and the prestigious Theatre de la ville in Paris. His performance at the Pina Bausch Festival in Vupertal was very well received. Lajko Felix wrote the score for a number of theatre plays and films in Serbia and Hungary. In 1999, the well-known Hungarian Jancsó Miklós, made a film about Lajko Felix who won the Young Artist award in Hungary and the Pro Urbe prize awarded by his hometown of Subotica in 2000.
www.freezonebelgrade.org
* This month's Women's Day has been postponed and will be held on Saturday 1 November from 3-6 pm as usual. Additional information at: www.zenergija.org
* 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 open to other groups and individuals as part of the project FLUX AROUND US. www.rex.b92.net/fluxokonas
* REX hosts the rehearsals of the HORKESTAR choir and PROBA collective.
*Open call for SHORT ELECTRONIC FORM FAIR 9 As before, the Short Electronic Form Fair offers a vaccine against the fast-mood civilization!!!
This year's topic is STASH. Who stashes what, how, where and why? As you know, you have only thirty seconds!
All the submissions that meet the basic requirements of the open call (relatedness to the topic, duration of up to 30 seconds, electronic form, innovativeness, media appeal) received not later than 15 November, will be shown at exhibitions simultaneously held in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš from 29 November to 1 December, 2008. Recommended formats for submissions are wav, ogg, mpeg, avi, html, swf, gif. The instructions regarding the formats and ways of submitting works can be obtained by sending an e-mail to kef@rex.b92.
The call is open to all interested individuals.
The most successful participants will be awarded three PRIZES of the REX jury at the opening of the exhibition. The prizes consist of TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT.
First prize - 50000 dinar worth of equipment
Second prize - 40000 dinar worth of equipment
Third prize - 30000 dinar worth of equipment
The audience award will be given after the closing of the exhibition. It consists of the total amount of money collected from the donations that audience members give and receive ballot tickets in return.
The SHORT ELECTRONIC FORM FAIR 9 is carried out with the support of the City Secretariat for Culture, Belgrade and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia.
The Short Electronic Form Fair is an exhibition of electronic art works that last not longer than 30 seconds or can be viewed during that time. Authors are expected to create within the time frame ruled by the advertising industry and mass communications. A short video or audio recording, spoof ad, scroll text message, slogan, jingle, web banner or a web site, screen saver, a series of photographs made in 30 seconds, flash or 3D animation or any other media product can reflect your vision, become a vehicle for a critical appraisal of the world we live in, alternative form of entertainment or echo your need to find your way around the media jungle. SEF is open not only to artists, but also to all consumers of media culture. www.rex.b92.net/kef
- REX reserves the right to make changes in the programme -