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All posts by Isidora
Strategy DAY+NIGHT, Magacin, Belgrade 2011
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Strategy DAY+NIGHT
The exhibition includes works of different media access through a combination of traditional and digital artistic expression of ideas visualized in the immediacy of their manifestation. The principles of changes, circulation and return, these three authors are harmonizing through the Strategy DAY + NIGHT in the review of their personal experiences and inner movement. The very word to return itself is a manifestation of the principle of circulation and movement, since everything on Earth moving, Strategy DAY + NIGHT harmonize these principles through the work of “Rain rain go away” by Tanja Babić, “The Power of Self” by Milica Simonović and “Live in NY” by Isidora Fićović.
/////Tanja Babić, Milica Simonović, Isidora Fićović/////
ISCP, NY 2010/2011 (supported by Ministry of Culture-Republic of Serbia and TMU,NY)
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Isidora Ficovic made few new works during December – January 2010/2011 in New York. RABBITS WALL, NEWS (newspaper drawing on the wall of studio which represents shooting of the movie in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Angelina Jolie), NEW YORK FUN, YOU WANT MISS ME and TOMORROW.
The shape of rabbit on “RABBITS WALL” comes from street in Berlin where the artist, Isidora Ficovic, took photo of metal sculpted rabbits on concrete slabs in 2009, which are placed on street in the area where The Wall was dividing the city on two blocks in 20th century. There is a story that only rabbits could pass from one side to the other, from East to West Berlin and vice versa, jumping through a small holes on The Wall. If we shift that symbol of a rabbit to the contemporary time of our lives, the rabbit could be a symbol of speedy globalized world characterized by mobility of people, by developing technology that allows wider communication and crossing of borders. Visually “RABBITS WALL” juxtaposes itself with the pop art tradition.
“Coloring”, performance 2010 Salzburg, Austria
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The Performance “Coloring” is action inside of art Booth. It’s the form of expressing the transformation of body living in contemporary society. The number of products for shaping the human body almost every month increases..Are we shaping our inner being as much as we consuming the products? Does the motto of todays living “The True Beauty Comes from Outside” prevail in our minds and can we still remember saying “The True Beauty Comes from Inside” ?! Does that anything mean to us ?
Black Rabbit/Polje Crnog Zeca 2010, DKSG, Belgrade
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Black Rabbit / Polje Crnog Zeca 2010
Raises some current issues in Serbia today, but in the wider global context. Ambient installation of video works, drawings, digital prints, and fields marked with the shapes of Black Rabbit that are made in the period 2009/2010.
Dear Mr. President I need a Yacht Please Help me, A Strong is Wrong and Stop NATO Fascism are one of the possible and the chosen option to the current socio-political and economic issues that can be seen at this event .. Welcome!
Having been raised partly in Yugoslavia, Isadora’s practice is influenced by various political, social and cultural manifestations of diverse nationalities, ethnic backgrounds and cultural transformations enabling her to understand necessity of change and vitality of thinking.
Latitudes, New Museum, NY, The Last Newspaper 2010
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Snapshots by Isidora Ficovic. Blok 37 Kiosk/ New Belgrade 2010, for the Latitudes, The Last Newspaper 2010, a major exhibition inspired by the ways artists approach the news and respond to the stories and images that command the headlines at the New Museum, New York.
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Old news becomes new again
By Araceli Cruz
Thankfully, The Last Newspaper is not what you hold in your hands. Instead, it’s the title of a new exhibit at the New Museum that features works inspired by print media from 1967 to the present. You’ll see a restaging of William Pope.L’s Eating the Wall Street Journal (2000), in which performers walk the halls chomping on the financial newspaper, Dash Snow’s Untitled 2006, a suite of 20 works that look at how New York City’s tabloids covered the fall of Saddam Hussein, and Hans Haacke’s News, a typewriter, placed on a foldout table with a long ream of paper flowing from it. The museum will also be transformed into a newsroom of sorts, with different departments open for participation that will host programs, discussions and special guests. Other artists in the exhibit include Edith Bernstein, Andrea Bowers, Sarah Charlesworth, Thomas Hirschhorn, Luciano Fabro, Emily Jacir, Mike Kelley, and Wolfgang Tillmans. And, a free weekly newspaper will also be distributed with content about events happening within the museum. How very Village Voice of them.
What is Contemporary?, 14′, sound & color, Belgrade 2010. Camera: Isidora Fićović Editing: Arvin Kamberi Subtitle: Nataša Bikić
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What is Contemporary?, video 14’, Belgrade 2010
The work explores the question “What is Contemporary?” among the local art community in Belgrade, Serbia.
It have been included an increasing number of artists, art historians and curators, relevant in the creation of artistic spirit of the capital and beyond, both today and in the previous twenty and thirty years.
With Era Milivojević, Raša Todosijević, Zoran Popović, Jovan Cekić, there is also a generation, younger group of local contemporary art scene, the presence in the work of their individuality and subjective responses are given the contemporary record of a moment and immortalized digital record.
The author of this work gives the viewer a glimpse into who were members of Belgrade’s contemporary art scene and integrate them through their answers to the question “What is Contemporary? ” in the area of digital video and provides constant review of the time phenomenon-now.
One answer that appears in the work, Miroslav Karić (art historian / REMONT):
Contemporary? You want it in some time frames, do you / is that it?
For me, contemporary represents everything that was made, if we talk about art that is, in the last ten years. So, everything that is current so to speak, if we are talking about art, right, and I hope we are talking about art. So, yes, as I have already said, if we are talking about kind of art production, everything that was made in the last five to ten years is actually contemporary for me, so kind of current situation so to speak.
Salzburg International Summer Academy (Dan/Lia Perjovschi class)/supported by Kultur Kontakt Grant 2010
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-drawing / newspaper maps/ performance
The idea is dealing with body transformation in the context of contemporary society, the culture of silicone implants, other instant as well as organic modification of products. In some pieces/drawings is the answer to the question of actual political, social and economical outcomes of today, example the written statement A Strong is Wrong and Dear Mr. President I need a Yacht Please Help me.
The Performance “Coloring” as action inside of Booth is another form of expressing the transformations living in the contemporary society.
The starting idea for the art BOOTH 1, the motif comes from the maps of human body (with reflection to other species as well) that was coming out each weekend in the daily newspaper “BLIC “ from Belgrade.
Polizei/Police / e-mail correspondence by Zoran Erić 2008
Eins, Zwei, Polizei…
Dear Isidora,
After browsing through the photos you have sent me, I have to ask you several questions. At the first moment „connotations“ of the set pieces are more than obvious: sex games, cigar as Phallic symbol, inversion of Power, playing with rules (taking photos, smoking, crossing the yellow line) in the midst of the “State Repressive Apparatus” and the place of power.
We could still include elements like position of foreigners from the countries that are not part of the EU and that need Visa travel permits to enter Austria, human trafficking, etc
But, what I find the most intriguing is that this whole situation has arisen spontaneously, as a part, of your, as you described it, breaking into a Police station.
I feel that this moment is the key element for understanding of this story.
How your communication did go? What did you exactly asked him to do and how did he react to that?
I am interested in which way representative of the Law has reacted on an artistic performance and what was his understanding of the Art?
Did he think of himself at that moment as of representative of the Law, or did his private inclination to perversion or even to S/M games come to the fore?
Is this his personal position or maybe part of the new police training procedural where identifying with the ‘oppressed’ is important for the official to stop him from crossing the boundaries of his position in similar, real life, situation?
I find this part the most interesting, and for me personally photos arranged in a line, there just to document your artistic action, are the most convincing and juxtaposed with the aesthetization of the situation and fragmented scenery, that as I mentioned earlier, could be understood as a set situation chock full with stereotypes and common place situations.
I am eagerly awaiting your response and further details of your actions.
Zoran Erić
What is Contemporary?, Here..There..Abroad..project, Rum 46, Aarhus, Denmark 2008
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HERE..THERE..ABROAD..
reference point : Turkey
29.09 – 05.10.2008 rum46 Aarhus, Denmark
Curator: Fatos Ustek
Artists: Asli Sungu, Canan Senol,Erinc Seymen,
Esra Ersen, Isil Egrikavuk, Isidora Ficovic,
Nevin Aladag, Sefer Memisoglu, Solmaz Shahbazi
rum46
Studsgade 46, st. tv.
8000 Århus C Denmark
Phone: +45 86208625
[email protected]
www.rum46.dk
Here..There..Abroad.. has been realised as video days in Germany – Stuttgart and Berlin- by the invitation of ifa (Institut Fur Auslandbeziehungen) and have hosted 11 video screenings and a performance by Turkish artists. In Rum 46, Here..There..Abroad.. will be realised as an exhibition hosting nine positions which relate to each other and to the concept of the exhibition on various levels. Rum 46 will be hosting six video screenings, an installation, an artist talk and a performance by artists who are related to Turkey. (i.e. have born in Turkey or have produced in Turkey, have lived or living in Turkey…)
Moreover Here..There..Abroad will be hosting special projects that will be realised for rum46. Nevin Aladag will realise a special performance, Isidora Ficovic will be realising a publication for take away for the audience which is related to her video piece positioned as an installation.
The booklet What is Contemporary? has been realized specially for the occasion of the exhibition Here..There..Abroad..and it has been realized in line with the video project ‘What is Contemporary?’ which consists of immediate answers by artists, curators whom Isidora Ficovic met in Istanbul during her residency at Platform Contemporary Art Center. The booklet is a furthering of the video project on a written basis where the former contributors were asked to reply the same question vie e-mail.