Deadlines:

15 March 2010, for artists/researchers
1 May 2010, for Media Archives

Address: callthewitness@gmail.com

The curatorial team of The 2nd Roma Pavilion – Call the Witness announces its open call for artists, researchers and media archive.

This project, which will be presented in Venice in 2011, is conceptualised and curated by the interdisciplinary collaborative curatorial team: Suzana Milevska, Vladan Jeremic, Rena Raedle and Enisa Eminovska.

The 2nd Roma Pavilion - Call the Witness is an interdisciplinary collaboration that aims at fostering, producing and presenting contemporary and new media art by Roma artists from different regions and cultures. At the core of the project lies the concept of the contemporary artist as an instantaneous witness of his/her time who is not a passive viewer but rather acts as an active participant in solidarity with the events and people that provoked his/her art work. Such a phenomenon, wherein art becomes a potential agent of social makeover, acquires a completely new prospect in this period of digitalisation and globalisation, and may greatly affect Roma communities.

We issue a “Call for Witnesses” to bring to light testimonies and statements from artists and researchers that will address the different situations of Roma communities throughout the world. The question: who has control over the means of representation and has the power to promote the dominant cultural and moral values concerning Roma communities provoked us to put emphasis on new media art as an available means for self-presentation and self-reflection.

We invite artists and researchers to submit proposals that address these issues in a way that will allow further collaborative development, both of content and
media-wise. The selected contributors will be invited to present and discuss their proposals at a working meeting to take place in Belgrade (April 2010) where we will discuss the possibilities of eventual further productions of individual works or collaborative projects. The conditions for production will be agreed for the most promising concepts to be realised in 2010 and presented at the 2nd Roma Pavilion in Venice (2011).

The project 2nd Roma Pavilion - Call the Witness is organised by the Roma Media Base – A Skopje based organisation for archiving, producing and presenting contemporary and new media art by Roma artists and communities, and the Biro  for Culture and Communication from Belgrade. The project is supported by the Open Society Institute and other organisations and sponsors.

The First Roma Pavilion took place in 2007 as a collateral exhibition at the 52nd Venice Biennale and was initiated by the Open Society Institute.

HOW TO APPLY?
1. Call for artists/researchers
Deadline: 15 March 2010

The applications should consist of:

1. comprehensive narrative CV (up to 500 words),
2. motivational letter and draft (up to 500 words) that  will draw on your interests and the main issues addressed in this project
3. your e-mail/phone contacts

Optional:

1. visual materials (screenshots, links to videos, pdfs, links to websites, etc) from existing works or works in progress and proposals for new research, photographs, video, animation, performance, comic strips, sound art and other new media projects.

Who can apply: all Roma artists and other emerging Roma professionals (art researchers, theorists, curators, activists, etc.), working individually or in groups in the fields of contemporary art and culture from any country and region.

2. Call the Witness Media Archive
Deadline: 1 May 2010

We invite Roma cultural centers, archives, festivals and other organisations and producers to submit existing new media productions (photo archives, video research projects, etc.) to the Call the Witness Media Archive that will be presented at the 2nd Roma Pavilion in Venice.  

At this stage please submit only a description of the media production(s) or the content of your archive, the address of your organisation and samples (texts, images jpgs, links to video excerpts, existing online archives, etc.)

Please submit your material (max. 5MB) to: callthewitness@gmail.com

You can download the call in additional languages at http://birobeograd.info/callthewitness/

Adresa: callthewitness@gmail.com

Kuratorski timi Dujto romano paviljoni – Call the Witness dela putardo akharibe vaš artistja, rodutne thaj mediake arhive.

Akava projekti, savo ka ovol prezentuimo ani Venecia 2011., koncepirimo sito thaj organizuimo naisariba maškaribaske interdisciplinarno kuratorsko timi savo kerena ole: Suzana Milevska, Vladan Jeremić, Rena Redle i Enisa Eminovska.

Dujto romano paviljoni – Call the Witness prezentuinela interdisciplinarno maškaribe kasko reso sito barjaripe, produktiribe thaj prezentuibe moderno artistipasko thaj artistipe neve mediengo romane artistjengo thaj artisjengi kotar but regionia thaj kulture. Ano reso projektesko sito ini koncepti moderno artistjengo thaj moderno artistjengi sar direktne ispatja pere vakteske, savo nane pasivno dikhavno, već maj angle sar aktivno džene ano jekhipe e situacia thaj dženenca save barjarde olengi buti. Adjahar jekh buti, kote artistipe ovela potencialno legardutno amalipaske prmibasko, lela ini nevi perspektiva ano akava vakti digitalizaciako thaj globalizaciako, thaj šaj but te prminol forme djivdipaske e romana khupatnake.

Odoleske da «Akaharibe vaš ispatja» sebepi te sikavenpe ispatibe thaj phenibe e artistjengo thaj rodutnengo save ka vazden džanibe kotar but forme situacienge romana khupatnake ani bufljardi lumia. Pučipe «ko kerela direkcia e vastušea prezentuibaske thaj ko siole šajipe te kerol promocia dominantno kulturako thaj moralno barvalipasko ani relacia e romana khupatna?», legargja amen te adikarape e artistipa neve mediengo sar legarde vastušea vaš prezentuibe pesko thaj kokorepaćavibasko.

Akhara artistja thaj artistjen, rodutne te den bahamia save siton phande akale pučipa ano forme save ka den šajipe vaš dur khupatno anglalipe, sar saikeriba adjahar ini ano dikhipe mediengo. Alosarde bahamia e artistenge ka oven akharde te prezentuinen pere bahamia thaj te diskutuinen kotar on ano butikerdutno bešipe savo ka adikarolpe ano Beogradi (ano aprili 2010), kote ka vakara kotar šajipe eventualno dur produkciako ulavde bukengi jase khupatne projektengi. Čhinadipe vaš produkcia ka oven mothavde majšukar konceptea, save ka oven realizuime ano 2010. thaj prezentuime ano Dujto romano paviljoni ani Venecia (2011.).

Organizatori projektesko 2nd Roma Pavilion – Call the Witness siton Roma Media Base – organizacia e bešipa ano Skoplje savi adikarelape arhiviriba, produkcia thaj prezentuiba moderno artistipe thaj artistipe neve mediengo e romane artistjengo thaj khupatnengo, thaj Biroi vaš kultura thaj komunikacia kotar Beogradi. Projekateske dena dumo Instituti vaš putardo amalipe thaj aver organizacie thaj patronatja.

Angluno romano paviljoni sine 2007. ano jekhipe e ekspozita ano 52. Bijenale ani Venecia thaj legargja ole Instituti vaš putardo amalipe.

SAR TE REGISTRUINEN TUMEN?

1. Akharibe vaš artistja thaj rodutne
Rok: 15. marti 2010.

Registruibe manglape te ovol ole:
- Hramindo narativno CV (dži 500 lafja),
- motivaciono lil thaj skica (dži 500 lafja) savo ka sikavol tumaro interesuibe thaj anglune pučipe savea o projekti adikarealpe, tumaro kontakt mejl/telefoni

Te sine kaj manegena šaj te den:
- vizuelno materijalja (kadrja kotar video, link vaš video-bukja, pdf-hramibe, link vaš veb-sajt, thaj pana) kotar tumare bukja jase bukja save manglape te keren thaj bahamia vaš neve rodipe, fotografie, video-bukja, animacie, performansja, stripja, audio artistikane bukja thaj aver projektia neve mediengo.

Ko šaj te registruinolpe: sa romane artistja thaj aver romane profesinalcja (rodutne artistipaske, teoretičarja, kuratorja, aktivistja, thaj pana), save kerena buti kokore jase ano grupe ano umal moderno artistipe thaj kultura, kotar sa phuvja thaj regionia.

2. Akharibe vaš mediake arhive
Roki: 1. maji 2010.

Akhara romane kulturake centrja, arhive, festivalja thaj aver organizacie thaj producentja te den pere produkcie neve medienge (foto arhive, rodutne video-projektia, thaj pana) ani mediaki arhiva Call the Witness save ka oven prezentuime ano Dujto romano paviljoni ani Venecia.

Rudjisara tumen vaš akana te den numa bahamja e medisko produkcienge, jase saikeribe tumara arhivako, adresa tumara organizaciaki thaj misalja (tekstja, pilte jpg, linkja vaš video-insertja, tumare onjaljn arhiva, thaj pana).

Rudjisara tumen te bičhalen tumare materijalia (maksimalno 5MB) pi adresa: callthewitness@gmail.com

Courtyard Project at SUPERMARKET 2010 in Stockholm

A picture credits: Selena Savic YES TO ALL
Replacement for a street pavement tile, intervention in the public space
2008. Exhibited: Blaak 10 gallery, Rotterdam, January 2008

The "Courtyard" project was initiated by the artists Ivan Petrović, Vukašin Nedeljković, Nenad Jeremić, Oliver Veljković, Dušan Jevtović, Vladan Jeremić and Selena Savić. Although never formally declared as a group, since 2000 they have collaborated on many joint projects and actions, often acting outside the institutional framework. Happenings and events in private houses, courtyards around residential buildings, ad-hoc exhibitions, theatre play productions and publication of works on the Internet are some of many activities carried out by these artists in the years past. 

At the SUPERMARKET 2010 art fair, a series of photographs, installation, assemblages and videos will be presented together with documentation and artefacts from selected events, with the intention to illustrate and cast light on the artistic strategies, behavior and atitudes of part of the artistic scene in Belgrade. Besides these works, also presented will be publications from "Biro for Culture and Communication", Belgrade and G.L.O.R.I.A. as well as other independent organizations from Serbia. Within the discussion programme "Supermarket Talks" on the theme "Documentation and non-documentation", Vladan Jeremić will give a talk on "Erasing of context through hyper-production" on 20th of February 17:00h
http://www.supermarketartfair.com/content/supermarket-talks

Each year the fair has been held at a different location in the city. The stage for this year's SUPERMARKET is Kulturhuset (Centre for Culture) in the centre of Stockholm.

The participation of exhibitors from Serbia is supported by the Swedish Institute, and the Supermarket Art Fair Economic Association.
Production and organization: Biro for Culture and Communication, Belgrade
Artists: Selena Savic, Nenad Jeremic, Vladan Jeremic, Oliver Veljkovic, Ivan Petrovic
Curator: Marija Djorgovic