REAL PRESENCE - GENERATION 2002

SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP FOR EMERGING GENERATIONS OF ARTISTS

25 - 31 August 2002

Curated by: Biljana Tomic and Dobrila Denegri

Organization: nKA / ICA

Museum of History of Yugoslavia, Museum 25. May, Belgrade

PARTICIPANTS

Academy of Fine Art Tirana Prof. Edi Muka Violeta Çarku Rudina Hyka Ilir Dupi Benet Broja Academy of Fine Art Vienna Prof. Renée Green Prof. Hubert Schmalix Rüdiger Reisenberger Ronja Vogl Gabriele Sturm Markus Dressler Academy of Fine Art Sarajevo Dennis Sinančević Jasmin Duraković Humboldt University Berlin Prof. Sarat Maharaj Christine Wolfe Dorothee Albrecht Katrin Lock Jole Wilcke Academy of Fine Art Bremen Matthias Boesche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Jelena Milo Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunste Frankfurt Pili Madriaga Tunay Alp AKI 2 Enschede Arend Roelnik Living Art Museum & Academy of Fine Art Reikyevik selector: Ósk Vilhjálmsdóttir Hildigunnur Birgisdottir Thorbjorg Jonsdottir Baldur Bjornsson Anna Run Tryggvadottir Elin Hansdottir Malin Stahl Academia delle Belle Arti Brera Prof. Garutti Prof. Gallerani Andrea Carrara Marco Chiesa Stefano Cavarra Noemi Chico Martinez Natasha Ferretti Francesco Marini Bridge Project Alfredo Conticello Academy of Fine Art Vilnus Zilvinas Landzbergas Warschau Fine Art Academy Iwona Golebiewska Kamila Szejnoch Malwina Ziemkiewicz Singapore Lasalle-Sia College of The Arts Prof. Ian Woo Dovan Ong Teng Chey Aaron Jiun Feng Kao Aleksandar Obradović Academy of Fine Art Ljubljana Prof. Matjaž Počivavšek Luiza Margan Joa Ljungberg Moderna Museet Stocholm & Konstfack Prof. Anders Widoff Andreas Mangioni Karin Dahl Dejan Antonijevic KTH School of Architecture Prof. Mikael Askergren The Drama Institute Maria Rydbrink Susanna Jacobsson Mia Alnervik Jennifer Hagberg Cluj Fine Art Academy Nicoleta Mocanu Dan Piersinaru Belgrade & Novi Sad Fine Art Academies Dragana Pešić Voislav Radovanović Jelena Martinović Danijela Ljubobratović Desimir Tanović Marijana Škoda Ljubinka Mitrović Dušan Stošić Radomir Djukanović Milan Nešić Merima Fetahović Zorica Čolić Milena Stojanović Marijana Oro Sara Oblišar Miloš Nenković Milica Živadinović Nataša Delić Iva Delić Jelena Crnčević Maja Penić Aleksandra Živković Saša Trifunović Ivan Grančer Biljana Popović Jelena Janev Vukašin Vikić Belgrade University Marko Stamenković Tijana Stojadinović Ivana Ranković Olivera Marković Predrag Miladinović Vladan Jeremić Nenad Jeremić Dušan Jeftović Art University Teorija Koja Hoda Tanja Marković Ana Vujanović.

Flashback Gasthof Miriam Lausegger Eva Beierheimer Quentin Jouret Tabore Rector Renato Ercoli Alejandro Campos García Nicoleta Mocanu Varsenik Khatlamajyan Alexandar Wolf Leopold Kessler Vadim Schäffler Gigi Scaria Paola Anziché Anny Ozturk & Sibel Ozturk Reiko Ishihara Barak Raiser Dobz o'Brien Zilvinas Landzbergas Edita Valaite Raimondas Dicius Rokas Petruskevicius Mathias Øygard Mariana Correia Ramos Dan Piersinaru Luda Konstantinova Zoran Srdic Metka Županič Michael Johansson Alexander Vaindorf Camilla Agdler Erik Jeorg Christoffer Paues.

Lise Jugert

"Coccer", outdoors installation, Frankfurt am Main

"Portfolio Room"

Städelschule

Miriam Lausegger

"Gasthof pixel"

video/postcard

REAL PRESENCE & FLASHBACK GASTHOF

Plateau 2001 in Belgrade

All started on the roof of the ex Tito’s Museum on a beautiful sunny morning of late August 2001. It wasn’t really planed to be so... the idea came to Biljana quite spontaneously the day before, watching the photo of the Museum 25^th of May, saying “look, this roof is so flat... it is just as a plateau... Let’s make really a plateau of humankind!” It was a symbolical gesture, a thanks to Harald Szeemann who inaugurated Real Presence with a lecture and homage to the idea of “Plateau of Humankind” in Venice as reflection of contemporary world on the beginning of 21. century. This collective action actually underlined basic ideas which were behind Real Presence: gathering of young artists, breaking with isolation and bridging the gap of last ten years of war and crisis in Yugoslavia. Just as the title Real Presence indicates, this project was about being really present in Belgrade: about coming, crossing the borders and facing directly reality of the place that was subject of millions of newspaper headlines and TV specials, shocking and fluid electronic images... It was about meeting people and hearing different voices... and about directness and immediacy in this times of political strategies and relationships that are becoming more and more virtual. Two weeks of the workshop with about 300 artists were filled with events, actions, performances, exhibitions in different spaces of the city… and on the last evening of the quite dynamic opening of the show that would last only one day, talking with Dirk Fleishman about this experience, or maybe better to say, this intense adventure, we thought that we should continue with development of this project…

Link to Gasthof

So the summer 2002 become the next appointment in Frankfurt with gathering at the Gasthof, which also provided us with some of the main thematic guidelines for the 2° edition of Real Presence. Gasthof’s focus on notions of hospitality, communication, food and music, and more precisely Arend Roelnik’s installation Off Gasthof gave a basic imprint to the RP2: a workshop in which the young artists and art students were asked to construct, build, compose “communicative spaces”. So again the ex-Tito’s museum became, in a quite spontaneous way, a space transformed through a sort of “creative” marathon of 48 hours, in a sort of net of production and communication sites, such as: “picnic” installation of “Un-Weather” group from Berlin, “stadium” installation by Arend Roelnik, sleeping, meditation and memory rooms by Belgrade and Milan artists, “beauty salon” by artists from Novi Sad, “meadow” by Icelandic group or “mappings” by the artists from Singapore… For a few days museum was functioning as a “production site”. And this basically underlined the main idea, or maybe just a feeling, of freedom and constructiveness. More than installations and works to be seen, all this spaces were “lived” and animated by collaborations between young artists, and later also between artists and Belgrade public.

Second part of the program of RP2 workshop was even more closely linked to the Gasthof. It actually presented through videos and photos subjective visions, records, impressions or documents by some of the artists/students - participants of Frankfurt’s event. A week of Belgrade’s workshop ended with the “Flashback Gasthof” video screening that collected and presented some of the short films edited specially for this occasion. They reminded us on some of the Gasthof’s “flavours”: colourful square Austria, Lisbon’s “saudad”, French and Italian activism or Slovenian “pop” and many more. Beside contributions on video we had great number of photo documents that become a set of “Gasthof” postcards, to be spread, just as the idea of this kind of projects and gatherings that aims on communication and collaboration should be spread round the world.

REAL PRESENCE 2

BELGRADE

Within Real Presence 2 was presented workshop Gasthof held in Frankfurt from 24^th till 31^st of July 2002, that dealt with themes of hospitality, food, cooking and music. The Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule organized special program in addition to two of the most important European contemporary art exhibitions, Manifesta 4 and Documenta 11, hosting about 200 art students from all over the world and giving them chance to experience both manifestations, as well as to get in contact with a wide range of international colleagues and artists, theorists, curators, musicians and DJs, who ware especially invited, such as: John Armleder, Joseph Backstein, Thomas Bayrle, Daniel Birnbaum, Jürgen Bock, Clementine Deliss, Dobrila Denegri, Ayse Erkmen, Charles Esche, Robert Fleck, Isabelle Graw, Søren Grammel, Carsten Höller, Dr. Ludger Hünnekens, Maria Lind, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, Tobias Rehberger, Superflex, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Biljana Tomic as well as the curators of Manifesta 4, Iara Boubnova and Stéphanie Moisdon-Trembley and Sarat Maharaj one of curators of Documenta 11. In collaboration with Gasthof in Frankfurt during the Real Presence 2 was presented documentary video contest and project Flashback Gasthof.

Gasthof

in Frankfurt /

photo by Vadim Schäffler

"Gasthof Attitude"

"Pic-nic on the Bridge"

performance

Marijana Gobeljic

Marko Stamenkovic Jelena Martinovic

Olivera Marković Andrea Cararra

Marco Chiesa

"Serbian Lunch"

"Slow Bar"

Daniel Birnbaum Thomas Byerle

"Off Gasthof"

Arend Roelnik

Boat Race

	Museum 25th of May Belgrade		"un/weather" project Christine Wolfe Dorothee Albrecht Katrin Lock Jole Wilcke
	Marko Stamenkovic "The Flag"		"un/weather" project
	Dobrila Denegri Ronja Vogl Rüdiger Reisenberger Joa Ljungberg		Edi Muka Anders Widoff
	Alexander Wolf Flashback Gasthof		Rudina Hyka video
	Anny Ozturk & Sibel Ozturk Flashback Gasthof		Ian Woo Aaron Jiun Feng Kao
	Leopold Kessler Flashback Gasthof		Aaron Jiun Feng Kao Luiza Margan
	Nicoleta Mocanu Dan Piersinaru Flashback Gasthof		"Communication Sites": "Hairdresser Salon"
	Luda Konstantinova Flashback Gasthof		"Communication Sites": "Partizan Stadium" Arend Roelink