EXHIBITION CONCEPT
A revolution on hold or a Journey through the unrest
Dear all, dozens of artists are searching for additional explanations and concretization of the topics we offered in the open competition for the first Max Art Fest.
As much as such a big interest makes us happy, at the same time it forces us to explain the topic in more details. Somewhat general title "A journey through the unrest" has achieved its goal, which is the openness towards all artists who have some good idea. We think that the majority of contemporary art competitions in fact eliminate interesting artists with the requirements such as age limit or the discipline of expression.
Even though we are not extending the deadline for the competition, we are offering a few theses to be considered, in order to inspire interested artist on a more direct, more active and bolder breakthrough and also to make the process of selection easier for us.
A REVOLUTION ON HOLD
Just like former anniversaries of big revolutions or mass-media capitalistic reproductions of the Che Guevara's figure, today we also commemorate revolutionary events from the past.
When the children of the socialism sang hymns in the honor of the revolution, it went without saying that they were only celebrating. A new revolution was no longer necessary; what is more, it was unwelcome. With celebrations and rallies, the children only followed their social duties and every possible engagement from their side had to end there.
Does our today remembering of former revolutions mean we admit we don't have any potential for a new revolution, in any sense?
Does the control of every revolutionary energy that a society exerts inevitably lead to catharsis and war?
ROCK AND ROLL
The generation of rockers in the late eighties was on the edge to change everything in its country.
Rejection of the primitive bureaucratic crypto fascism, which was euphemistically called "self-management socialistic order", started with the first vibrations of the acoustic guitar (that was not the time of the internet, mass media, and freedom of speech).
Why did big-time capitalists in the first half of the last century publicly support the new art movement cubism, and with the comment that only in that way they can channel and pacify every social and political engagement of the artists of that era?
Who silenced the rockers with mass proclamations of paroles?
How did the crypto fascism win and where did rock and roll go?
THE CAPITALISM OF ABANDONED SHOPS
The inspiration can be found in the work of Sanja Iveković "Nada Dimić". Production space which loses its purpose with the arrival of new social relations. Spaces which wait for someone or something to include them into the new system. Spaces which stay empty mostly for years and decades.
Beside the metaphorical interpretation of the space devastation as the condition of the society, we try to concretely keep such spaces for artists' work and stopover.
A REGION OR A REGION
Ten years ago completely serious politicians publicly said that it was necessary to build a wall towards the eastern republics of the ex Yugoslavia. Today the situation is different, in politics, economy, sport and formal culture. Is it by accident that the communication in culture is the weakest in the field of the contemporary art, an area which does not hesitate to dig deeply into the current topics?
AN ARTIST NOT A CRIMINAL
Recently information leaked into public that one of the most known Croatian prisoners makes his prison days shorter with painting. Art as deep calming down, work therapy, confrontation with personal truth or maybe just art.
How many artists live today in Croatia, who were imprisoned by the new social system of a shameless exploitation which captivated them into their small destiny of nothingness? How many people in their personal suffering turn to art as to an area of a guaranteed freedom? Can small, personal arts communicate and start creating a cluster of resistance?
WHAT WE FORCE OURSELVES TO FORGET IN ORDER TO LIVE NORMALLY
How would it be possible to live, work and enjoy if in every second we would be aware of the true truth about the time and space we live in?
How many ex detainees do we graze in a tram, and how many ex concentrations camps guards work in public services or in the culture? Is the ultimate pain of a man ready to commit suicide (recently one of 2000 veterans who committed suicide killed himself by starving to death, slowly and thoroughly) eraser of all our joyful nights and fun ignoring? Who lives in the illusion? Terminal patient confronted with the finality or a TV hostess who every night serves ultimate stupidity as the purpose of our lives?
Leo Katunarić
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
friday 3. 10. 2008.
10h Art Tram, ride
Remiza - Maksimir Stadium
11h Maksimir Stadium
ARTIST, NOT A STADIUM!
17h Launch of Mystery of futility: ARTIST, NOT A CRIMINAL! Kvaternik square KADELEGRUPA
17h Opening of provisional women's local community
Šrapčeva 12
SANJA IVEKOVIĆ i ŽUC ELEKTRA
Special guests: LE ZBOR
19h Art tram - Kvaternik square ARTIST, NOT A TRAM!
19,30h FILM Kristina Kumrić
WELCOME TO IGRANE Pothodnik Kvaternikov trg
20h Exhibition opening
REVOLUTION ON HOLD
EDO MURTIĆ, VLADO MARTEK, BORIS LJUBIČIĆ, MATKO VEKIĆ, ROBERT ŠIMRAK, BOŽENA KONČIĆ BADURINA, ŽELJKO BADURINA, DANIEL KOVAČ, IVICA MALČIĆ, GORDANA BAKIĆ, IVAN FIJOLIĆ, MARIJAN CRTALIĆ, SINIŠA MAJKUS, MIJO VESOVIĆ, PETAR DABAC, IVAN POSAVEC, DARIJE PETKOVIĆ, KRITOVAC/RATKOVČIĆ, KADELEGRUPA, BERISLAVA PICEK, MARIO KUČERA Garaža Kvaternikov trg Nivo -2
Project OUTSIDERS: Nada Vrkljan: Margareta Vidmar, Jasenka Vukelić, Božidar Štef Golub, Igor Lasić, Krešimir Hlup, Goran Krstić
21h Exhibition opening
SUBVERSIVE PHOTOGRAPHY AND
ART PROJECT Božena Končić Badurina
Pedestrian underpass Kvaternikov trg 19h - 22h
22h IVAN KOŽARIĆ Project STUDIO
Ulica J. Gotovca 9
saturday 4. 10. 2008.
10h - 22h All exhibitions and projects are open for visitors, garage, elevator, underpass Kvaternikov trg
11h OUTSIDERS
12h FILMS: Kristina Kumrić
WELCOME TO IGRANE
Pedestrian underpass Kvaternikov trg
Film BERNADETTE CORPORATION
TVTV - Looks at the Oscars
BRUCE AND NORMAN YONEMOTO - Green Card
14h ACROBATS Kvaternikov trg
15h Choir Kvaternikov trg
17h - 20h performance Božena Končić Badurina
17h - 19,30h Rock concert Kvaternikov trg
17h - ZLI BUBNJARI
17h - 20h
Provisional women's local community Šrapčeva 12
SANJA IVEKOVIĆ i ŽUC ELEKTRA
Special guests: LE ZBOR
19h ART TRAM
19h - 20h IVAN KOŽARIĆ
GREAT ROCK SPECTACLE 4.10.2008.
VATRA <21 sat RAMIREZ <20 sati
GATUZO19,10 sati ROCKHEADS18,30 IZOLIER BAND17,50 sati STUDENI NOVEMBAR17,10 sati
sunday 5. 10. 2008.
10h - 21h All exhibitions and projects are open for visitors, garage, elevator, underpass Kvaternikov trg
REVOLUTION ON HOLD
EDO MURTIĆ, VLADO MARTEK, BORIS LJUBIČIĆ, MATKO VEKIĆ, ROBERT ŠIMRAK, BOŽENA KONČIĆ BADURINA, ŽELJKO BADURINA, DANIEL KOVAČ, IVICA MALČIĆ, GORDANA BAKIĆ, IVAN FIJOLIĆ, MARIJAN CRTALIĆ, SINIŠA MAJKUS, MIJO VESOVIĆ, PETAR DABAC,
IVAN POSAVEC, DARIJE PETKOVIĆ, KRITOVAC/RATKOVČIĆ, KADELEGRUPA, BERISLAVA PICEK, MARIO KUČERA (garaža-2)
17h - 20h FILMS: Kristina Kumrić
WELCOME TO IGRANE
Underpass Kvaternikov trg
Film BERNADETTE CORPORATION - Get Rid of Yourself
TVTV - Looks at the Oscars
BRUCE AND NORMAN YONEMOTO - Green Card
17h - 20h
Provisional women's local community Šrapčeva 12
SANJA IVEKOVIĆ i ŽUC ELEKTRA
Special guests: LE ZBOR
19h - 21h performance Božena Končić Badurina
19h - 22h IVAN KOŽARIĆ
19h ART TRAMVAJ
Provisional women's local community ELEKTRA
Present the program
Good, brave, famous
chosen by Sanja Iveković
Šrapčeva 12
Friday, 3.10.
17h
PROJECT PRESENTATION:
Barbara Blasin - Female guide through Zagreb
18h
FILM PROGRAM:
Sanja Iveković - Sweet violence
Claudia von Alemann - Ce n'est qu'un début, continuons le combat (This is just the beginning, let's continue to fight)
Renata Poljak - Great expectations
Katarina Zdjelar - Everything is Gonna Be
Saturday, 4.10.
17h
PROJECT PRESENTATION:
Sandra Sterle - Nausea
18h
FILM PROGRAM:
Jane Campion - Peel, A Girl's Own Story, Passionless Moments
Barbara Blasin - Lunch with granny
Sadra Sterle - Decathlon
Ana Hušman - Lunch
Sunday, 5.10.
17h
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS:
Members ŽUC ELEKTRA Females, co.operation and other projects...
Sanja Iveković i Sonja Pregrad Praksa čini mastora
Irena Bekić i Marijana Stanić Majke i kćeri
18h
FILM PROGRAM:
Babette Mangolte - La Camera: Je (Kamera: I)
Contacts:
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Leo Katunarić
M +385993130205
E info@maxartfest.com
PRODUCTION: Leo Katunarić i
Tomislav Vuković M +385959044290
Welcome to Igrane
Croatia, 2007, 24 min.
Direction: Kristina Kumrić
In contrast to the idealized presentations of "a small country for a big vacation" from the official tourist promotional videos, in which locals present an addition to "the Mediterranean as it once was" with a smile on their face, the film shows how "the natives" from Igrane experience and survive the tourism phenomenon, from the battle for each guest to the first-hand testimony on seduction of tourists.
Kristima Kumrić was born in 1975 in Split. She graduated from the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb, her majors were planning and design. Moviemaking was a hobby at first, and then she started the study of film and TV direction at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. She is now in her fourth year.
Get Rid of Yourself
Bernadette Corporation
2003, 61 min, color, sound
This complex, multi-layered work, called an "anti-documentary" by its authors, combines footage of rioting at the 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa with performances by Chloe Sevigny, Werner von Delmont and members of the Black Bloc anarchist group. These elements yield a disorienting and critical video that ultimately questions its own status and role as much as that of its subjects. The artists write that Get Rid of Yourself functions as "a cine-tract that aligns itself with nascent forms of political resistance within the anti-globalization movement... a filmed essay that works by betraying its own form."
Made with the support of The French Ministry of Culture, Delegation aux Arts Plastiques (Image/Movement); Colin De Land, American Fine Arts, Co; MASSPOP.
Green Card: An American Romance
Bruce and Norman Yonemoto
1982, 79:15 min, color, sound
The final installment of the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series uses the deadpan syntax of television melodrama to tell the story of Sumie, a young Japanese woman who marries an American surfer/filmmaker for the green card that will allow her to pursue her artistic career. Falling prey to the seductive Hollywood fantasy of romantic love, she loses her "American Dream" of independence. Casting an ironic eye on the Los Angeles lifestyle and art scene of the early 1980s, this stylized narrative asserts that the delirium of Hollywood "reality" -- the collective memory of the media -- has a manipulative impact on the "truth" of our personal lives. As Sumie says, "The way we see family, friends, relationships -- even love -- is mass media propaganda."
Videoplay: Bruce and Norman Yonemoto. Producer: Bruce Yonemoto. Director: Norman Yonemoto. Camera: Norman Yonemoto, Nikolai Ursin. Story: Sumie Nobuhara. Performers: Sumie Nobuhara, Jay Struthers, Kyoko Watanabe, Nobi Tanaka, Francis Washington, Wenden Baldwin, Gary Lloyd, Lin Hixson. A KYO-DAI production.
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
TVTV
1976, 59 min, color, sound
TVTV's look at Hollywood's annual awards ritual mixes irreverent documentary with deadpan comedy. Lily Tomlin stars as a fictional Middle-American woman watching the televised Oscar ceremony at home. Tomlin, nominated for best supporting actress in Robert Altman's Nashville in 1975, is also seen as she attends the actual awards ceremony. With Tomlin serving as a fulcrum between insiders and outsiders, TVTV records the lead up to and letdown after the ceremony, revealing the vagaries of fame and stardom.
Produced by TVTV, in association with KCET. For TVTV: Wendy Apple, David Axelrod, Paul Goldsmith, Hudson Marquez. With: Lily Tomlin as Judy Beasley. Production: Rich Rosen, Wendy Apple, Calli Cerami, Megan Williams, Susan Martin, Allen Rucker, Paul Goldsmith, Hudson Marquez, Michael Shamberg, Steve Conant, Alison Geballe, Karen Murphy, Ceil Gruessing, Jody Sibert, Michael Weselblatt, Cathy Brickley, Peter Kirby, Howard Campbell, Will Hoover, Mark Brown, Tom Baker, Tom Morey, Lisa Van Der Sluis, Mark Rosner, Eleanor Bingham, Bette Cohen, Harold Ramis, Billy Murray, David Axelrod, L.A. Johnson, Alida Davison, Elon Soltes. Camera: Wendy Apple, Baird Bryant, Steve Christiansen, Steve Conant, Tim Greenfield, Paul Goldsmith, Rich Rosen, Allen Rucker, David Sanderson, Elon Soltes. Sound: Bill Bradbury, Kent Gibson, L.A. Johnson, Hudson Marquez, Susan Martin. Editing: Wendy Apple, Petur Hliddal, Calli Cerami, Michael Shamberg.