Our artist-portraits about Michel de Broin und Shary Boyle are presented at the Reel Artists Film Festival Toronto 2012 and at the Canadian Art Reel Film Festival in Calgary 2012. For all of you who can't be there, watch the artist-portraits on our website: Michel de Broin - Matters of Circulation und Shary Boyle - Heartburnt Porcelain.
Panta rhei – On Transition and a Museum in Serbia’s Novi Sad.
18. July 2008, 12:15:40 unter Audio, English, Museum for Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Museums, Novi Sad, Podcasts, Serbia“Contemporary art as a field for human freedom, as a possibility to understand a modern individual’s view of society.” The field of freedom is much broader than it would be without contemporary art, according to Slavko Bogdanovic, lawyer and chairman of the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vojvodina. Therefore, it is already in the interest of all to maintain its existence.
Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad, Vojvodina. Part 1
Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad, Vojvodina. Part 2
Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad, Vojvodina. Part 3
The basic conditions for contemporary art are undergoing a radical change in Vojvodina, as in other parts of Serbia and the Southeast-European world. The pre-war structures of production, mediation, theory formation, and marketing have been destroyed or taken over; missing resources have been preventing and making the new conditions for advancement more difficult for a long time up until today. But the attitudes of many people in the art enterprise have changed. Instead of commiserating over existing adversities, they are taking action. more »
Marten Spangberg - Slow Fall
30. April 2008, 10:51:11 unter Art Spaces, Artworks, Austria, English, Podcasts, Tanzquartier Wien, Video, ViennaThe job description for Marten Spangberg encompasses many terms. He got his start as a dance critic, writes on theory, is active as a performer, dance dramaturge, a curator, and a choreographer, and is considered a stage producer in quite a positive sense. Spangberg has been collaborating with the Swedish architect, Lindstrand Tor, since 2004 under the name International Festival.

Their collaborative work explores perceptions of concepts related to body and space, and has gained international attention. At the present and in the last year, they have been invited to the European Arts Center in Cologne, the PERFORMA 07 in New York, and the Steirischen Herbst 07. For the festival in Graz, they developed “The Theater”, a multi-faceted enterprise which simultaneously describes a venue for stories, characters, and illusions, the performances that take place there, and the actual spatially-adaptable theater that was constructed from freight containers. more »




