From: Mobile Studios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 April 2006 11:46:35 AM
To: mobile studios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mobile Studios on the road
The Mobile Studios in Belgrade
Finally the Mobile Studios hit the road! One week ago, Public Art Lab
arrived at the first station in Belgrade and settled down at the
Republic Square in the center of the city. Together with Remont, our
co-producing partner, we built up a real live production laboratory
after three days of setting up and getting connected to electricity
and the internet. Our Serbian curator Maja Ciric developed a program
that created a lively dialogue with the Belgrade audience.
It is amazing how the people of Belgrade interact with the
experimental structure of the Mobile Studios. We had a variety of
interesting art projects, talks and web conferences up to now. And we
received livestreamings from the Mobile Webcast Studio in Gdansk,
featuring a lecture of Wilfried Hou Je Bek.
Please check our website http://www.mobile-studios.org for regular
updates, live-streams and the tour blog.
We started our opening with a flashmob event conceived by the
Hungarian artist Denis Biro. It simultaneously took place in
Bratislava, Budapest and Sofia. Despite the cold and rainy weather the
people gathered at the Republic Square and blowed soap bubbles in the
air- apparently out of the blue.
One week of public art projects, performances and talks: Votings of
stolen chairs, tickets to a lighter future, butterflies in the stomach
and skype confessions with Sarajevo.
The Mobile Studios have been used by the artists in a variety of
different ways: as tools for atmospheric investigations within the
public sphere, as mystical phone cells, discussion ground, projection
wall, auction hall, hands-on-gallery and a lot more. Here are some of
the significant highlights which emphasize the concept of the Mobile
Studios.
Photo session in the stolen chairs of Vito Acconci: Bogomir Doringer's
"Vito Acconci`s chairs“ - This interactive performance about the
re-appropriation of art raised issues about local and international
values and positions of art. Doringer had appropriated the chairs from
a performance of Vito Acconci in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and
brought them to Belgrade where hardly anybody is familiar with the
work of Vito Acconci. Doringer introduced the artist with a gossip
campaign all over the city announcing "Phantom in the Museum",
"Doringer Wanted" etc. The artist invited passers-by and celebrities
to sit on Vito Acconci`s chairs and took their photographs. Then they
had to vote whether the appropriation of the chairs was a legal act.
The local tabloids especially felt attracted by this project which
they labeled as „art theft“.
Auction in the Illegal Pastry Shop
When the Mobile Studios were turned into a public auction site by an
art group called "The Illegal Pastry Shop" everybody stopped, joined
us and Tobic Tobic, the self-proclaimed „idol of the youth“ was
surrounded by a crowd of people. The lots he offered are usually not
for sale: "talent", "official excuse for adultery", "tickets for a
lighter future", and so on. All the products are sold for the maximum
quantity of desire the passers-by bid. And there have been real
enthusiastic bidders! It was a lively, loud and very entertaining
spectacle.
What happened to the butterflies in my stomach?
Zana Poliakova who is a cyber queen, stiletto feminist and internet
pioneer conceived the installation "Saturday Night Fever" for Mobile
Studios. In her barbie style cosmetic studio she asked the audience
about love, erotic and life in an intimitate atmosphere in front of
the camera- a special format for social investigations.
I remember my Dad who died at Kosovo
There are works of art that do not need any further explanations -
like the "I remember“-project by Radmilo Petkovic. All he did was
installing a table with coloured post-its and pencils and a sign which
invited everybody to write down things that shall not be forgotten.
Then they sticked the post-its on the white walls of the Mobile
Studios. After several hours, the Talk Studio has transformed into a
public memory board which evoked recollections of people, love
affairs, political events – just everything what the people have
chosen to be worthwile to remember.
Skype-Conference between Uros Djuric, Belgrade and Sejla Kameric,
Sarajevo
Uros Djuric and Sejla Kameric used the Mobile Studios as an
interactive field for mutual confessing without mediators between
them. Uros confessed to Sejla about his feelings and points of view
regarding the reconciliation process in Ex-Yugoslavia. He touched upon
very personal issues and took the opportunity to confess everything
that he has kept to himself so far.
Public Art Lab wants to thank:
Everybody at Remont, Maja Ciric, Ana Nedeljikovic, Bogomir Doringer,
DezOrg, Sasa Markovic, Maja Josifovic & Dimitrije Tadic, Pavle Cosic &
Ivan Tobic, MobilEye, Skart artist group, Uros Djuric, Sejla Kameric,
Bob Miloshevic, Dorijan Kolundzija, Mrdjan Bajic, Radmilo Petkovic,
Nebojsa Andjelkovic-Shobaya , Zana Poliakov and the people of
Belgrade.
Mobile Studios | www.mobile-studios.org
Public Art Lab, Berlin
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