7th International Multimedia Art Festival IMAF 2005

         05. August - 30. September 2005. "MAS" Gallery , Odžaci , Serbia

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05. August - 30. September 2005. "MAS" Gallery , Odžaci , Serbia small logo

Nenad Bogdanovic :

 From 5 th to 7 th of August in Odzaci was held, now traditional, International Multimedial Art Festival. In MAS Gallery (Multimedial Art Studio) in Odzaci an International exhibition called AB OVO was opened od August 5 th and lasted until September 30 th 2005. Author of this international art project is Nenad Bogdanovic. Documentation works of 65 artists from 25 countries were posted on this exhibition. Sponsors of this year`s IMAF are Ministry of culture of  Serbia, Swiss programme for culture of SCG and City Council of Odzaci.At the opening of the Festival, Kenny McBride from Scotland, an artist, director of  Performance art in context (PAC) among else said: “... Now in its 7 th manifestation IMAF offers a place where artists from different corners of the world converge for a few days and, in simultaneity and solidarity with local citizens, set about the creation of a temporary society ... It’s objective is to assist in looking beyond the routines and terrors of everyday life to engage each others culture and individual consciousness in celebration and tolerance of distinct particularities, doubts, questions, robust or incorrigible theories on morality, existence, flux, and human bondage....”Also within the Festival a five days of programme was prepared realising numerous art presentations, at MAS Gallery, Odzaci market, streets, nearby field from 5 th to 7 th of August and at VIP Gallery of Students Cultural Centre in Belgrade on August 8 th and 9 th.A certain number of artists invited from our country and abroad realised live their art works, performances, artistic actions and installations on the subject of Earth. Phil Babot from Wales, United Kingdom realised in Odzaci and Belgrade performances titled Grounded and Atonement. Scotish artist Kenny McBride drew great attention with durational performances on Odzaci market and at SCC Belgrade from the cycle I want to experience what I understand. Adina Bar-On from Israel realised three performances on this Festival, two at MAS Gallery titled About love and Dreamy and in Belgrade About love. For three days lasted research installation of two artists from Belgrade Zorica Jovanovic and Dragan Ignjatov titled Earth collector. Milan Grahovac from Zrenjanin performed on the street his work titled Line. On a nearby field Nenad Bogdanovic performed Marking of a territory – Ground. Performance Time for entertainment was realised by artist from Odzaci Radoslav B. Chugaly. A guest from Germany, Peter Kuestermann made performance at MAS Gallery singing a song by Marlene Dietrich. On the last day of the Festival also worked Jozsef R. Juhasz from Slovakia with performance His masters voice at MAS Gallery and Smoking place in Belgrade; Vassya Vassileva from Bulgaria with artistic action Ground? – Ground has to lie fallow for a while; Marilyn Arsem from USA with performance Groundless; a young artist from Odzaci Nikola Vukobratovic with Chapter II and Gabrijel Savic from Belgrade with Four elements – burning the fifth. In Belgrade also performed with joint performance Ground Nenad Bogdanovic and Radoslav B. Chugaly, and also Vassya Vassileva and Nikola Vukobratovic with Reliving the banal. Along with live works the organiser Multimedial Art Studio also presented audio and video works, computer animations and web art.

 

Nenad Bogdanović:

 U periodu od 05. do 07. avgusta u Odžacima je održan sada već tradicionalni Međunarodni festival multimedijalne umetnosti. U odžačkoj Galeriji MAS (Studio za multimedijalnu umetnost) 05. avgusta je otvorena međunarodna izložba pod nazivom AB OVO koja će biti otvorena do 30. septembra ove godine. Autor ovog međunarodnog projekta je Nenad Bogdanović. Na izložbi su zastupljeni dokumentacioni radovi 65 umetnika iz 25 zemalja.Pokrovitelji ovogodišnjeg fesivala su Ministarstvo kulture, Švajcarski program za kulturu SCG i Skupština opštine Odžaci.Na otvaranju festivala, Keni Mekbrajd iz Škotske, inače umetnik, direktor istraživačkog umetničkog centra (PAC) i magistar vizuelnog performansa je između ostalog rekao sledeće: “... Sada u svom sedmom izdanju IMAF nudi mesto gde se umetnici iz različitih delova sveta susreću na nekoliko dana i, u simultanosti i solidarnosti sa lokalnim stanovništvom, postavljaju kreaciju privremenog društva. ... Njihov cilj je pomoć u gledanju izvan rutina i problema svakodnevnog života u aktiviranju međusobnih kultura i individualne svesnosti u slavljenju i toleranciji različitih specifičnosti, sumnji, pitanja, čvrstih i nepopravljivih teorija o moralu, opstanku, toku, i ljudskoj vezanosti...”U okviru festivala priređen je i petodnevni program na kojem su realizovane brojne umetničke prezentacije, u Galeriji MAS, na odžačkoj pijaci, ulicama, na obližnjoj njivi od 05. do o7. avgusta i u VIP-Art galeriji Studentskog kulturnog centra u Beogradu 08. i 09. avgusta.  Određeni broj pozvanih umetnika iz naše zemlje i inostranstva realizovao je uživo svoje umetničke radove, performanse, umetničke akcije i instalacije na temu Zemlja. Fil Babot iz Velike Britanije je u Odžacima i Beogradu izveo performanse pod nazivom Prizemljen i Ispaštanje. Škotski umetnik Keni Mekbrajd je izazvao veliku pažnju gledalaca izvevši celodnevni umetnički   performans na odžačkoj pijaci i u Galeriji Studentskog kulturnog centra radove iz ciklusa Hoću da iskusim šta mogu da razumem. Adina Baron iz Izraela je realizovala tri performansa na ovom festivalu, dva u Galeriji MAS pod nazivom Sanjiva i O ljubavi i u Beogradu O ljubavi. Tri dana je trajala ulična istraživačka umetnička instalacija Zemljani kolektor dvoje beogradskih umetnika Zorice Jovanović i Dragana Ignjatova. Milan Grahovac iz Zrenjanina je na ulici izveo performans Linija. Na obližnjoj njivi Nenad Bogdanović se predstavio performansom Obeležavanje teritorije – zemlja. Performans Vreme zabave je realizovao odžački umetnik Radoslav B. Čugalj. Gost iz Nemačke Peter Kisterman u Galeriji MAS izvodi performans pevajući pesmu Marlene Ditrih. Poslednjeg dana festivala nastupili su još: Jozef Juhas iz Slovačke sa performansom Gospodarev glas, a u Beogradu performansom Mesto pušenja; Vasja Vasiljeva iz Bugarske sa umetničkom akcijom Zemlja? – Zemlja mora da stoji neko vreme neobrađena; Merilin Arsem iz Sjedinjenih Američkih Država sa performansom Bez korena; mladi odžački umetnik Nikola Vukobratović sa performansom Poglavlje 2 i Gabrijel Savić iz Beograda sa performansom Četiri elementa – paleći peti. U Beogradu su još nastupili zajedničkim performansom Zemlja Nenad Bogdanović i Radoslav B. Čugalj, a takođe i Vasja Vasiljeva i Nikola Vukobratović performansom Preživljavanje banalnog.Pored radova izvedenih uživo organizator Studio za multimedijalnu umetnost iz Odžaka je priredio i prezentaciju zvučnih i video radova, kompjuterskih animacija i veb umetnosti.

 

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