Was it the beginning or the end of an era? Are we going to long remember it or try to forget it fast? Was its bigness and iconic flamboyance inspiring or discouraging? Was its main virtue welfare or crisis, progressive inventiveness or decadent proliferation? Was it mostly good or bad, nice or sad? MORE…
From May 25 to 29 Belgrade hosted 2nd Mikser, regional festival of creativity and innovation. Belgrade’s industrial zone of Dorcol, at the Žitomlin warehouse by the Danube river was transformed into a place of creativity, where works of designers and artists from all around the Balkans were shown. MORE…
See you tonight at Trg Ajdovscina, for the first City Blog opening in the world!
Zavod Big presents a very new iniciative – CITY BLOG; a platform to express new ideas and social comments of designers, architects, artists and all inovative people with bold ideas from around the region. The title of the first CITY BLOG is »Architecture meets people, People meet architecture«. Authors present a patchwork of experiences of the space, by one painter, one designer and one architect.
authors of the first City Blog’s display: CYP2C9
New benches for Municipality of Ljubljana were selected at the project competition. The winners proposed integrated bench system that provides many opportunities for diverse ways of seating.
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The famous design epicenter in Milan, Superstudio Piu, will be spiced up again with gently rebellious tunes as Nika Zupanc enters the newest take of the Salone del mobile with her own universe of objects and statements.
“FOOD AND SMOKE” is an artistic performance, an independent project on the topic of food presented by The Golden Thigh art collective (Katja and Nataša Skušek, Mladen Stropnik). MORE…
Ivana Tasev is a journalist by profession and vocation. For more than 12 years she works in the printed media, and in the last 6 years she is employed in the highest circulation weekly in Macedonia, “Tea Moderna”. She writes articles and interviews related to the art and cultural life in her country and the world. Sometimes she feels that the language is too constrained or limited to express certain delicate emotion. Therefore, where her words end, she continues her expression through photography.
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Water of life, Adam Balogh
Adam Balogh (painter-photographer) was born in Budapest in 1971. He has been displaying his works in individual and joint exhibitions since 2000. His receptive, open personality and exotic journeys as well as the influence of Central and South America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East are reflected in his art.
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Aleksandar Georgiev is interested in the sensation of sending and receiving pain. In his latest piece named THRESHOL(in process “D”) he is using the pain threshold and pain tolerance as resources for movement and as well as tools for creating different states and images within duration of the movement action. The intention is to play with perception of sending and receiving the inputs of physical touch/pain. He started from the opinion that we lose the possibilities of pure touch/pain after certain year of our life. As the time is passing and we receive more information we over do it. As this becomes a routine and our brain is just operating from memory without letting us feel it another way.
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‘From Stone Age to Roling Stones in one hour‘
Music comedy From silence to music is a very succesful stage play, which has been performed over 100 times in different theatres all around Slovenia since 2006.
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Grand opening of theater, grand opening of gallery of visual arts Mini teater; opening »mini posters« by Arnoldvuga; MORE…
The designer’s bag or the object of desire. / The multiple-use, (permanent-use) bag. / The bag which can be a lady’s hand, bag (accessory) if it is given enough attention. / MORE…
Rok Predin in the field of Slovenian popular music, original music is not often referred to as an individual genre. But individuality is the very element which defines music most thoroughly. Just as we know where people come from simply by the dialect they speak, we recognise some musicians from the language of their music, which is, in such a case, hard to define in the context of ordinary popular music genres or even trends.
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Tomislav Brajnović is a participant in “The Artic circle” project with his work called »Egotrip«. He was born in Zagreb 1965. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb 1993 and went on to complete his Masters Degree at St. Martins College of Art London 2003.
Recognition and reaction to the context, location of the neuralgic points, use of the local visual, symbolic and other ‘languages’, exploration of the art scene and its critical frame are the main determinants of his artistic activity. At the same time it is the search for a human dimension and ‘spiritual gravity’, natural speed of life and balance between the human, the nature and God.
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At twenty-eight years of age and no previous formal training whatsoever, one could say Bor Pungerčič is a bit of a late-comer to dance. But having passed through physics, philosophy, literature and architecture on his way here, he believes the experience he brings along is that much the richer.
Since his enrollment at the Faculty of architecture, which in a way marks the beginning of his involvement with the arts in a formal way, he has been consciously and intuitively expanding his realm of action. Starting with art projects, such as the network of multi-sensory installations developed for the ‘’Sensing Mobility’’ workshop in Rotterdam; or arch./urban interventions, like the project for Trg republike in Ljubljana for the ‘’Realizing your potential’’ competition, he slowly moved toward the performing arts.
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Simona-Grazia Dima was born in Timişoara, in a family of writers. When she was eight years old she won a prize for a theatrical sketch, Lica’s Mask, which was staged by the State Puppet Theatre in Timişoara, as well as on tours throughout Romania and abroad (Modena, Italy).
This month the tenth collection of the Romanian poet Simona-Grazia Dima, entitled La ora fulgerului (When the Lightnings Start Flaring), will be out.
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URBANITY Project reacts to radical changes in city landscape. Architects, cultural managers, sociologists and artists from 7 European capitals such as – Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljublana, Warszaw, Prague and Vienna react criticaly to globalization of environment as a form of new European totality. MORE…
Anđa Marić is the singer of Kisha project, which has just released their debut album called The Summer (A nyar). “To me at the beginning Kisha was something very private. A project we all did for our souls, for fun, letting go in a musical direction we never went before. The lyrics are deeply inspired by my grandma and her mother, my life during summers I spent in Hungary, at the same spot like Ady Endre (Hungarian poet) who’s lyrics I borrowed”, says Anđa.
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ŠKUC is one of the leading non-governmental organisations promoting non-profit cultural and artistic activity in Slovenia. And this year from 17.7. till 26.7. is once again representing various young slovenian artist in festival Dobimo se pred Škucem / Let’s Meet in Front of ŠKUC .
Festival Dobimo se pred Škucem / Let’s Meet in Front of ŠKUC introduces a number of cultural events with free admission, every year in July at Stari trg square in Ljubljana.
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Plavo pozorište will represent their performance Dancing with Father on 29th June, theatrical experiment Bizarre Coincidence on 4th July and from July 20 – August 1 realize its international educational program Two Open Weeks.
Plavo pozorište is a theatre laboratory founded in 1995 in Belgrade. Plavo pozorište is a contemporary theatre, we are the group of people who, cherishing a seed of anarchism in ourselves, use theatre as the place which has credibility and in which some serious things about the world that surrounds us could be said.
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The Ana Monro Theatre is representing their 12th Ana Desetnica street festival. Ana Monro Theatre was founded in 1982 and during the 80s and the 90s it was the only organization in Slovenia practicing street theatre in all its glory. Street theatre in Slovenia first took off when the Ljubljana Ana Monro Theatre met the Maribor National House.
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Szimpla Kert is spot where every day throughout the year on the courtyard of an old residential building several musicians, comediants and other artist represent their work. Who ever wants to endure culture free of payment and free in spirit, can visit one of the oldest kerts in Hungary. MORE…
Short Cuts #2 by NOMAD Dance Academy are representing the final step on their long journey. Short Cuts #2 is an international contemporary dance staging of ideas of thirteen travelling choreographers and dancers from six South-Slavic, or so-called Balkan countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Bulgaria), as well as other countries (Latvia, France and U.S.A), who had been living, travelling and creating in the framework of the NOMAD Dance Academy programme between 24 February and 22 June 2009.
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Block – the collection of poetry by Aggressive Theatre opened the festival of Mlade rime (Young rhymes) at Menza pri Koritu. Aggressive Theatre, the Association for Contemporary Art, is a group of seven young artists who share the idea that art can happen anywhere and at any time and thus can have a great impact on the individual.
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MLADE RIME (YOUNG RHYMES) by Menza pri Koritu at Metelkova mesto are opened. 15.6.2009 was the opening night of the »MLADE RIME« poetry fiesta at the »Menza Pri Koritu« venue. For poets and poetry afficionados alike, Mlade Rime is a household name. For all those not yet in the know, Mlade Rime is a series of poetry readings featuring young and new poets.
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The revolutionaries have only changed the world; the point, however, is to analyse it.
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Radio Student and community radio across the region: out of touch or stuck, impossibly, in place?
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In the title role, Matjaž Berger, one of Slovenia’s most important theatre directors in recent decades years, an innovative, erudite individual, with a vision – and a degree in dramaturgy as well.
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Wolves in shepherds’ clothing: ‘low culture’ rockers Laibach continue to blast away in the ‘high culture’ art ghetto.
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SHEEP dogschool; Original, Ljubljana; for Kinološko društvo
Filip is a rising star in advertising. Though he is (biologically) a pig, he’s an all-round creative of refined taste – with a cosmopolitan touch. And he feels – and talks, with Suna Tancig & Benjamin Ivančič of the Ljubljana-based Original agency – passionately about potential, dedication and drive.
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Constantine Teshea, premier dancer of the National Theatre in Belgrade, fled from Ceausescu’s Romania only to face Slobodan Milosevic’s totalitarian regime at the height of the country’s political turmoil; this year he celebrates 28 years of an inspiring ballet career in “Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, in Belgrade.
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For decades Eastern European artists were treated as artists lacking their own originality, as tardy followers of Western styles. Contemporary artists from post-communist countries now want to prove, via their works, that they have always had their own avant-garde traditions.
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8.4.2006, Kamenci, Slovenia
Romeo Horvat-Popo holding baby Stefan. The baby was born a month previous, to his relative Cvetka in the Roma settlement of Kamenci.
Photojournalist Manca Juvan reveals a compelling view of Slovenia’s Roma
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Goran Bregovic’s “Karmen with a Happy End” twists traditional notions of opera, tragedy and the wedding band.
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Steven Hawking entitled his last book ‘On the Shoulders of Giants’. He borrowed the title from Issac Newton, who once said that if he had been able to see farther, it was only because he stood on the shoulders of giants. The same goes for philosopher Slavoj Žižek, who laid the foundations of his studies on the shoulders of Jacques Lacan. MORE…
The controversial Serbian TV Pink continues to gain ground – and airspace – filling what is, in many respects, an irregularly regulated transitional post-war media void. Now showing (everything) on a screen near you.
New media creative subversive Vuk Ćosić refuses to be an employee of his own ideas When Mitja Doma showed Vuk Ćosić email and Yahoo! at the Soros Foundation back in 1994, Vuk knew that was it. That same day he sat down in front of a PC and wouldn’t budge for the next 18 hours, surfing through the entire Yahoo! site of the time in just a couple of sessions. MORE…
Sunny Day by Stockholm-based lighting artist Aleksandra Stratimirovic is an installation made of over four thousand glass medical phials filled with coloured liquids, which combine to produce the image of a girl beside a lake. MORE…
