Framing the city _ B1 Presentation

Keyword: Frame

Video work: Framing the city
Link: http://vimeo.com/29810560 

Fragments of the city

ABSENT BODY and DELAYED AUDIENCE

It began with pots and ended in art. A wealthy woman boiling coins. An artist drinking the liquid gold she supplies. A name etched in virtue and good acts. A brush dipped in pastels, oils, and prostitution. Between and betwixt. The total cost: 35,300 euro. 
 

SURFACE

Every night the red light comes on. The room is never empty. There is a chair in the room. And a bed. Pair of legs, pair of knees and a few words written on the screen. I have never seen his face.  Every night the red light comes on. The room is never empty. There is a chair in the room. And a bed. Pair of legs, pair of knees and few more words written on the screen. 
I love to watch him sleep.

THE PLAY

Do you understand the essence of the city in which you live?  

It all appears over night. And disappear in the same quick and unexpected way : A shooting gallery, rows of counters and a huge mass of people.  

This is not by any means a dilettante’s playground. Its inexhaustible energy and vitality. I went there to find something for you. And after a long search I found this inexhaustible theme.

THE AGE OF TIME

Come here. We will find a better place for us. 
Not there. Move a bit to the left. No, no, right. A bit forward. Stop! 
Yes, that’s it. Now stand. 
We’ll wait for a while and we’ll get where we are.

EPHEMERAILTY

in silence..on an Autumn morning...

ANALYTICAL APPROACH

"I want one bio-mechanically engineered ice cream  with the raspberry in the middle and hybrid cream on the sides. "

"Me, I want the one with the raspberries on the top!

…mmmm…how do u call this…it looks a bit like a cheese cake …the raspberries on the top please ehhhh, molim…

"Hvala"

"I really like being in Belgrade I just feel so multicultural and global and so multilingual and stuff…Kind of like glocal and liminal at the same time."

"Yeah that’s totally multifaceted…"

"Ohhh look at this chandelier…ohh so royal"

"Lets go up and down"

"It’s so good they have Zara here and Monsoon…but no H&M well it’s ok I guess…I may find something in the second hand market…"

"But they say it’s  full of gypsies…"

OUT OF THE WINDOW THROUGH WHICH I LOOK

I am the participant of unique architectural encounter. 

MEMORY of Papić

The ugliest plate in the world is hanging on his wall. I remember the story he told me.. I can hear the sound of his voice. His desire for what lies beyond the boarder is just as great as his love for his own neighborhood and the streets where he grew up. 

“Identity”  

“Culture” 

“Remembrance” 

His words are filling up the room. I remember the sound of his voice. Now it’s just an echo, hidden within these walls. 

THE BODY of Papić

His lived experience, his embodied action is a twice behaved behavior. His theoretical theatricality restored my behavior. It's time for me to go home.

MIMESIS

 

 

B1 annotation on Oncurating.org (by G.E. Morland and H.B. Amudson) and Performance Studies: An Introduction (by R. Schechner)

ONCURATING.org Issue 04/10 (interviews conducted by G.E. Morland and H.B. Amudson)

This issue of ONCURATING.org, entitled The Political Potential of Curatorial Practice, is a collection of interviews with four curators based in Turin, London, Berlin and New York. The underlying theme of each of the interviews is politics and curation as the role of curator moves from the marginal to the central. The significance of this change has political potential in that it has become the one type of media that contributes to both public discourses and public domain. The task of the curator now overpasses the exhibit space and reframes cultural practice through community engagement. This period of transition has left the role of the curator as somewhat undefined. Keeping that in mind, these interviews serve us as an incentive to engage with, and possibly shape, what will emerge as the new curatorial role. 

Performance studies: an introduction (by Richard Schechner)

In Richard Schechner’s Performance Studies: An Introduction, Schechner argues that all framed, highlighted, and displayed actions are performances. In support of his argument, he supplies eight kinds of performances: in everyday life- cooking, socializing, just living; in the arts; in sports and other popular entertainments; in business; in technology; in sex; in ritual- sacred and secular; and in play.  Schechner further supports his text with input from other experts in the field; including Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, Peggy Phelan, and Erving Goffman. As a practice, Schechner stresses that Performance Studies does not incorporate any canonical texts or practices in an attempt to avoid limitations or fixed definitions in the field. However, the field does draw from texts and practices related to cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, queer studies, Post-Colonial studies, etc. While the lack of specificity is freeing, it can be also be limiting in that there are no constant points of references in the dynamic field.

B1 response on keyword GLOCAL (a smaller mind map)

As Belgrade is the smallest cohort and each group was assigned to make two mind maps, we decided to put more effort into the one word which was the most inspirational.
These were "ephemerality" and "dissemination", while "glocal" and "shadow theatre" received less attention.

B1 mind map for the word Ephemerality (W1a)

Push your limits!

Feel! Live passionately!

React! Take action!

Make an effort, and capture the present..the moment...and life....