Chimneys
Why would a small place in plains of Serbia, region of Vojvodina,
called Odžaci be known in international terms? Is it perhaps because of the same title
of artistic performance made by Vojvodina's artist Szombathy Balint who
lives and works in Budapest? Szombathy participated on first International
Multimedia Art Festival - IMAF 1998. and made a concept for a performance titled
"Odžaci" which was performed on many international artistic festivals
of Europe, Asia and America.
Title "Chimneys" on English or some other language by itself gives no
possibility for Art Lovers worldwide to even think about real impulse
of the author for taking such a title. As I mentioned, six years ago,
in Odľaci was started International Multimedia Art Festival by Multimedia
Art Studio that stubbornly survives our hard conditions.
At the beginning of August this year, Odžaci was center point of a very distinguished artists from Europe and Asia. Their artistic
background is comparable with contemporary art processes of the last decades.
Future of performance art
Festival begun at "MAS" Gallery with opening of international exhibition "Future of performance art". On this exhibition participated
more than 60 artists from 21 countries. Since this is specific way of artistic
expression, presentable in many different ways, as a result we had an
exhibition made by works used in classical exhibition praxis (sketches,
drawings, photos, objects, catalogues, magazines and books) up to use
of different technological options in realization of exhibitions (audio,
video, digital photo, CDV, DVD, etc). Generally taken, artistic works
partially replied to the subject of this year`s exhibition, and it was
the future. Artist were asked by the author of the exhibition (Nenad Bogdanovic)
to send, along with works, their textual observations on the same subject.
A large number of participants used this option and, through texts, came
closer to the thoughts of the future of performance art.
Nenad Bogdanović
