grey) (area
space for contemorary and media art
Korčula
Bill Aitchison: China Quick-Fix
Aug 1st - 31st 2024
Wi-Fi gallery grey) (area
Trg sv. Marka, Korčula, 0-24 h
Curators: Darko Fritz, Format C
In collaboration with: Gradski muzej Korčula, Format C
http://sivazona.hr/events/china-quick-fix
China Quick-Fix is principally a photographic archive that documents improvised
repairs in China. This phenomena is both ubiquotous and neglected: it is
something people do but not something that is dicussed or widely pictured. In
this sense it can be understood as an unconscious aethetic that permeates urban
space. The images offer an untypical perspective of contemporary China which
simltaneously reveal both the everyday problems people encounter and the
solutions they find to them. As such, a close reading of the images brings
together collective experience and individual creativity in often surprising
ways. The archive began in 2014 and has grown in size and depth since then to
encompass several exhibitions, videos, publications, texts and workshops.
The exhibition can be accessed through personal mobile devices at Korčula’s St.
Mark's Square.
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Sanja Latinović
Aug 3rd 2024, 21-23 h
Curator: Neva Lukić
In collaboration with: Umjetnička organizacija Maximum
http://sivazona.hr/events/sanja-latinovic
<http://sivazona.hr/events/sanja-latinovic>
On this occasion, artist from Belgrade Sanja Latinović presents her works
through different approaches – through talk, presentation of works, and a
mini-exhibition. The talk and the screening of excerpts from the video works
Aquarium (2008), Bird (2014), Movements White (2012), Do Not Cross (2016) and
Obstacle or Threshold (2022) will encompass the different phases of artistic
activity. The artist is almost always engaged in performance art; however, said
medium is free-flowing and nearly always grows into sculpture, video work, or
photography. Therefore, these works are subject to comprehensive,
interdisciplinary presentation. In some of her works – which we can also
attribute to her sculptural vocation – the artist creates new (non-)spaces,
with emphasis on the relationship between fullness and emptiness and the
individual themselves, i.e., herself at the centre.
Half of My Meal Is an Artwork (2023) will be presented in the space as a video
installation. Here, the emphasis is also put on the critique of the art system,
together with the presence of self-irony that is also characteristic of Sanja
Latinović’s approach. The performance was presented at the 50th Art Colony
Assembly on Vlasina. Specifically, over the course of one week, the artist ate
only half of the meals provided to her while attending the colony, while the
rest of the meals she documented with photographs. Hence, the emphasis here is
also put on the relationship between emptiness and fullness – the eaten and
uneaten half which becomes an artwork due to the non-existent financial support
for its production.
Supported by: Ministarstvo kulture i medija Republika Hrvatska, Ministarstvo
kulture Repubika Srbija, Aminess Hotels & Campsites, Zaklada Kultura nova,
Dubrovačko-Neretvanska županija, Grad Korčula
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