55th October Salon
dal 17/9/2014 al 1/11/2014
Segnalato da
17/9/2014
55th October Salon
Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade
Disappearing Things. The concept suggested by the curators is dedicated to the role of collective and individual forms of remembrance. The Salon will exhibit the works of 32 artists from Serbia and abroad.
Artists: Federico Acal, Ana Adamović, Darko Aleksovski, Jelena Bokić, Igor Bošnjak, Edith Dekyndt, Simon Denny, Doplgenger – Isidora Ilić & Boško Prostran, Dušica Dražić, Dušan Đorđević, Sandra Đukić, Liam Gillick, Jelena Marta Glišić, Ibro Hasanović, Informal Curatorial & Art Group – Nikola Đorđević, Marko Đorđević, Sonja Vrkatić, Leon Kahane, Dejan Kaludjerović, Luka Knežević- Strika, Susanne Kriemann, Boris Lukić, Marko Lulić, Nikola Marković, Milorad Mladenović, Andrea Palašti, Goran Petrović, Danilo Prnjat, Mileta Prodanović, David Pujado, Leonard Qylafi, Meggy Rustamova, Predrag Terzić, Dragana Žarevac
Curators: Nicolaus Schafhausen and Vanessa Joan Müller
This year's 55th October Salon will be held from September 19th to November 2nd in the Belgrade City Museum in Resavska Street 40b. The Salon will exhibit the works of 32 artists from Serbia and abroad. For the second time in the history of international Salons, local artists have been chosen through public open call. Over 270 artists applied and 18 were selected by the curators of the 55th October Salon, Nicolaus Schafhausen, director of Kunsthalle Wien, and Vanessa Joan Müller, Head of Dramaturgy at Kunsthalle Wien.
The concept suggested by the curators under the title Disappearing Things is dedicated to the role of collective and individual forms of remembrance in the digital era. On the one hand, the Internet does not forget anything of what has been stored in it once; on the other hand, such a large number of images and snap-shots are taken that each event seems to be
replaced by the successive one. Smartphone applications such as Snap Chat which delete each message within a few seconds illustrate this paradox and promote a life in t
he here and now. It is against this background that Disappearing Things asks for the changed function of the cultural memory and the status of the image as a representative of reality.
Memory is retrospective per se. It does not commence before the experience it recollects has concluded. As the past's presence in today's present it shapes our understanding of history. Yet over time, memory based on experience is transmuted into a past that eludes such experience. This transformation is as much one of distance as of quality: experience becomes fact, and what we have witnessed turns into an objective matter. The living memory makes way for a collective one. This collective memory resorts to material supports in which it becomes manifest: files and archives, films and photographs. Thus, despite all efforts to objectify history there is no singular memory, only a plural understanding of history shaped by the interests of our present.
Yet there are apparent images of historical events in which complex issues are iconographically compressed. But the constant repetition of these same images reduces their semantic impact until they are but a retrievable icon of a past event. The digital world of images accelerates this process. On the one hand, the Internet doesn't forget anything that has been stored in it once, on the other hand, such a large number of images and snap-shots are taken that each event seems to be replaced immediately by the successive one. Smartphone applications such as Snapchat that delete each message within a few seconds illustrate the paradox of conservation and forgetting, and promote a life in the here and now.
How does this massive image production—as opposed to oral history, books, letters, even emails—change our collective recollection?
Berlin based architect Roger Bundschuh will design the exhibition display. In addition to the exhibition, Brussels based curator Goran Petrović, director of Kran Film Collective (Brussels / Copenhagen), will compile a parallel film program.
October Salon is organised and produced by the Cultural Center of Belgrade, financed by the city of Belgrade and supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia. This year’s 55th October Salon is developed in cooperation with Kunsthalle Wien.
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