Anticipating You - Предчувствую Тебя

Begin May 2017 I finish and edited the first part of my video project Anticipating You. I created the video in collaboration with the theater group STAGE DFT in St. Petersburg, Russia. Finally the project will include three parts all based on poems by Aleksandr Blok and Anna Akhmatova

Based on the poem > Anticipating You < by the Russian poet Aleksandr Blok (St.Petersburg, 1880-1921). The video work is simultaneity a metaphoric investigation and interpretation of the poem , as well about the city of St. Petersburg. The work approach the interpretation and investigation in two ways at the same time> Through performance and visual images about the city. Influenced by Solovyov's doctrines, Blok had vague apocalyptic apprehensions and often vacillated between hope and despair.

Link to see video 

https://vimeo.com/216280192

The heavy dream of simple wordly conscience 

You will shake off with pangs of love and rue.
V. Solovyov

Anticipating you, as years go by, so drear,
I see the same old image anticipating you.

The skyline is on fire, and it’s extremely clear.
I wait for you in silence with pangs of love and rue.

The skyline is on fire - your vision is so near,
I am afraid you’ll change and will not look the same,

You will arouse suspicion incurring wrath, my dear,
By changing your appearance, the features and the frame.

I will break down in grief, frustrated and austere,
Unable to subdue the mortal dreams again!

The skyline is so lucid. The lustre is so near.
I am afraid you’ll change and will not look the same.

FILMIDEO 2017

Screenings: 6 - 10 pm Index Art Center: Saturday April 22, 2017

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                  1 - 10 pm Index Art Center: Saturday April 29, 2017

Index Art Center 237 Washington Street  Newark, NJ 07102, USA

FILMIDEO 2017 12th Annual Film and Video Screenings. Filmideo is a yearly event, that celebrates the great diversity and work of independent lmmakers and video artists from around the globe. Since 2006, “Filmideo” has been organized as an annual event to promote video and lm formats in a ne arts exhibition environment. For twelve consecutive years, over 10,000 attendees have been given the opportunity to view a variety of digital media expressing many different narratives and socio-political currencies. “Filmideo” is an open-ended discourse that educates visitors via the multiplicity of narratives as illuminated in the video and lm selections presented each year.

 The Installation monitor will be playing selected works including my video Sorrow starting at 1pm on Saturday, April 29 continuously throughout the day and evening.

https://vimeo.com/144782414

3rd International Printmaking Triennial

3^rd International Printmaking Triennial

27 April - 22 May 2017

Opening 27 April 2017 at 18.30 h

Open Mon-Sat 10.00 – 20.00 , Sun 10 – 14 h

Art Pavillon (Umetnicki paviljon) Cijveta Zuzoric

Mali Kalimegdan 1

11000 Belgrade

Third International Print Triennial, as well as the previous two, held in 2011 and 2014, aims to promote graphics and establish, strengthen cooperation with both domestic and international institutions of cultural significance that foster this artistic discipline. This representative event provides insight into the current world scene and graphic displays not only its diversity and richness but also the direction of contemporary art.

In the central exhibition from 27 April to 22 May in the Art pavilion  will be presented 286 works by authors from 56 countries.

My print Mosquito with Fish will be presented at the Triennial

7th International Video Art Festival of Camagüey

7th International Video Art Festival 
4th of April to 9th of April, 2017
Camagüey, Cuba 

Different venues inside Camagüey

This is the only international Video Festival in Cuba. The festival takes place every two years. 
Beside the screening of video works from all over the world, at the same time lectures and workshops take place. 
I have the honor for to participate  the second time after 2015 with one of my videos. The video selected for the festival is  Sorrow , which shows a performance about the subject sorrow with solo dancer Tsai Hsin-Ying.

Link to video 

https://vimeo.com/144782414

Social Sculpture Workshop

15.03.2017 

Pushkinskaya-10 Art Centre (Large hall) 

Entrance from Ligovsky prospect, 53 ( bld. C, 3rd fl.), 

St.Petersburg, Russia

On 15th of March 2017 I gave a workhop  with was based on the concept of Social Sculpture.  The term and original concept of Social Sculpture  was created by the German Artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) in the 70th of the last century

Social Sculpture revolved around four main axes:

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body awareness

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spatial awareness

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creative awareness

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collaboration

The focus of the seminar was to study and the formation of the linkages between the body and space. Through the experiments with the movement, the space, the material, the reversal of the roles and lively debate participants created the event, which was documented by video and photos.

With thanks to my assistant Vlaha Lodesk and Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands

Transposition II

11.03.2017 - 09.04.2017

opening on March 11th at 17:00

opening hours are WED-FR 4-8 PM, SA-SU 12-8 PM

Museum of Nonconformist Art (Large hall) 

Entrance from Ligovsky prospect, 53 (Pushkinskaya-10 art centre, bld. C, 3rd fl.), 

St.Petersburg Russia

From March 11th to April 9th 2017 the second edition of “Transpositions" —  a group exhibition uniting participants of the St. Petersburg Art Residency program (SPAR) —  will take place at the Large hall of the Museum of Nonconformist Art (St. Petersburg, Russia). Through installations, photography, video works and performances artists from different countries will share their visions of what “home” means in today’s world. 

The project is carried out with the kind support of The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny College) of St. Petersburg State University, the Pushkinskaya-10 art centre and the St. Petersburg Art Residency.

Curated by Anastasia Patsey

Participants: Dorna Aslanzadeh (Sweden) / Johannes Gérard (Germany/The Netherlands) / Grace Euna Kim (USA) / Nobushige Kono (Japan) / Margarita Marx (Germany) / Kishan Munroe (The Bahamas) / Lada Neoberdina (France) / Ina Otzko (Norway) / Agathe Simon (France) / Andréa Stanislav & Dean Lozow (USA) / Leyya Mona Tawil (USA)

Poster & still images from my video Neither Here - Nor There which I created especially for the show.
Link to full lenght video : https://vimeo.com/203705795

Reel on Hai Project / Installation Connection

Ongoing project since 16th of July 2016 until the start of the first Karachi Biennial, Pakistan, 22nd of October 2017

The Karachi Biennial Trust is an art platform that will host the largest international art event Karachi Biennial in Pakistan’s largest city in 2017. The primary aim of the Karachi Biennial is to take art out of the traditional gallery space and to celebrate the extraordinary talent of local and international artists with a larger public audience.

For this, the Public Outreach Committee of the Karachi Biennial has invited artists, designers and architects to transform around 100 empty cable reels into art pieces. These projects will be installed in schools, parks, hospitals and universities all over Karachi where artists will work on site to engage the local community.

The project Reel on Hai has been in full swing since July 2016 and will run until the Karachi Biennial which will take place between 22.10.2017 and 05.11.2017

Installation Connection

About my installation for the project, which I created in the week of 27.02.2017 / 03.03.2017

In general my installations work has a tendency towards conceptual and minimal art but at the same time using often metaphoric symbols as well.. If it´s a outdoor construction the surrounding environment has lot of influence of the final outcome and design. Specially this installation differents at the end quiet a lot from the original plans.

The reels itself, the rope, the colours and the trees are metaphoric symbols for stability, preserve, connected and interwoven into environment, industry and society and the cable industry which laid one important base for Karachi's wealth

Location, Small Sculpture Park beside Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture ST-33, Block 2, Scheme 5, Clifton, Karachi 75600, Pakistan