Статьи
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Uroš Djurić
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profiles
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01.03.2003
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MIKROB
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| There’s 130 kilos of fat, muscles, brain & raw power on the Serbian contemporary art scene, all molded together into a 175-cm tall, 44-year-old body. It’s owner is known by a countless number of different names, including Bamboo, Mexican, Groom, Big Pain in the Ass, but most of all he’s known as MICROBE!… Hero of the losers, fighter for the rights of the dispossessed, folk artist, entertainer… |
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Ivan Mečl
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profile
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01.03.2003
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UNITS OF SPEAKERS THREATEN THE PEACE
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| “And by Wednesday I’ve got to have everything ready. But now if I think about it, there’s still a chance to postpone it, yeah, that would be good, because then I could get done what I haven’t done yet, but then again it’s not like it can wait, and what’s got to get done gets done. But then, what if I just don’t even do it? Anyway, nothing would even happen if I never even did it. Maybe what would… |
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Sezgin Boynik
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focus
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01.03.2003
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QUESTIONS FOR ARTIST SOKOL BEQIRI
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| "Mr. Beqiri, could you briefly explain the current political situation in Kosovo, its future and role of UNMIK? The shortest way to describe the current political situation is unclear. Unclear, because of the undefined status of Kosovo. I feel that the UNMIK is a part of the former Yugoslav system, a bureaucratic, autocratic, ineffective and expensive administration. I see the future of Kosovo as… |
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Shkelzen Maliqi
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focus
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01.03.2003
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BEYOND THE NEW ART OF KOSOVO
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| "Experimentation and great about-faces in the international art scene are responsible for the spread of Kosovar fine arts. There is not a long tradition here in the fine arts — until recently there were only two pioneering generations of modern artists — and self-content, non-conflict academicism is dominant. The first generations of Kosovar artists (with the exception of Xhevdet Xhafa, who… |
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Sezgin Boynik
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01.03.2003
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IS THERE ANY CONTEMPORARY CULTURE IN KOSOVO?
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| "Since 1999, the international force of
NATO and UNMIK (United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo) has
created partial freedom for people who live in Kosovo. For over ten years Yugoslavia had taken from Albanians all their basic rights to education, work, health and culture. So the 1999 “Turning Point” was considered a wave of freedom among the international public.
Albanians… |
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Zoran Erić
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focus
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01.03.2003
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RECYCLING OF NATIONAL MYTHS IN SERBIAN ART OF THE NINETIES
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| "Production of social space in FRY It could be argued that the specific socio-political framework and context in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was in many ways unique in Europe. The way social space was produced, starting from the end of the 1980s in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and later in the new Republics that were formed after its disintegration, was extremely… |
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Sezgin Boynik
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focus
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01.03.2003
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POWER TO THE ARTIST (INTERVIEW WITH SISLEJ XHAFA)
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| "Sislej Xhafa, an Albanian from Kosovo, travels widely, experiencing various world cultures firsthand, and from this basis he makes his work, touching on illegality, immigration, and authority. He first became known at the 1997 Venice Biennale for his performance Unofficial Albanian Pavilion in which he strolled through the various national pavilions bouncing a soccer ball and blaring a recording… |
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Petrit Hoxha
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01.03.2003
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PROVOKE ME, SISLEJ
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| "Horses like sugar, its taste. Making use of the pleasure that this powerful animal takes in sweet things, artist Sislej Xhafa, in the middle of the empty gallery space, placed a 162-centimeter-high terracotta sculpture of the legendary Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi with a few crystals of sugar in one hand, and a plastic blue bag full of sugar in the other hand. But the horse — the ubiquitous… |
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Paul Polansky
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focus
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01.03.2003
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KOSOVO GYPSY ART: A MEDIUM FOR SURVIVAL
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| "Paul Polansky is the author of 14 books, of which eight are about the Roma. Since 1991 he has lived with the Roma in the Czech Republic and Kosovo. He is co-founder of the Kosovo Roma Refugee Foundation and he is currently living in Pristina, Kosovo. His last book about the Kosovo Gypsies, TO UNHCR, WITH LOVE, was published by Divus and Jejune Ultima in September 2003. For 12 weeks this past… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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new faces
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01.03.2003
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INDIE TWINS
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| Born in 1979 in Prague, Jakub Hošek has studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts since 1998 (atelier of Vladimír Skrepl)
Born in 1982 in Prague, Anežka Hošková has studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno since 2001 (ateliers of Václav Stratil and Petr Kvíčala).
The various activities of the siblings Hošek, now known as the Indie Twins, are in many ways a solid leap beyond the local… |
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