grey) (area
space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia
presents series of temporarily interventions in public spaces of Korcula
Goran Trbuljak: OLD IS NICE
Eastern facade of Korcula City Museum . Trg Sv. Marka
anonymous (BTF): Miso 2.0 (working title)
01 . 06 - 20 . 09 . 2008
entrance doors of the grey) (area gallery . Put sv. Nikole 7
KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis (Zagreb) presents: Saso
Sedlacek (Ljubljana): Beggar 2.0 - a robot for the materially deprived
14. - 16 . 08.
Drazen Vitolovic (Sovinjak / Rijeka): Satelite
16 . 08 - 20 . 09
Northern facade of Korcula City Museum . Trg Sv. Marka
Last years' (2007) exhibition summer season ended with then anonymous
action in the pubic space of printed communication of city of
Korcula. For this event a poster of Goran Trbuljak was displayed
that reads: ‘Old and depressive anonymous is looking for a permanent
display place in some nice new art museum space’. Cutting off words
from the text an additional series of seven posters are made that
reads: 'OLD IS NICE', 'DEPRESSIVE MUSEUM', 'ANONYMOUS PERMANENT', AND
FOR A', 'LOOKING IN ART', 'DISPLAY SOME' and 'PLACE NEW SPACE'. All
eight posters were displayed around the city of Korcula, at both at
the legal public billboards and illegal advertising places where
different kind of posters are usually shown in the public spaces
(because of lack of advertising spaces in Korcula). End of the action
is when posters will be covered with new ones, and today only one
reminds: 'OLD IS NICE' at the facade of Korcula City Museum.
Documentation of entire action is available at http://darkofritz.net/
korcula/Old_and_depressive.pdf
In between exhibition summer seasons 2006 and 2007 anonymous graffiti
was made at the entrance doors of the grey) (area gallery, showing
the portrait of the popular singer form Croatia Miso Kovac, and lyric
form his song. The doors were repainted in silver as the graffiti
colors of the side doors were too dominant and disturbing the view to
the gallery, often views from the outside. Year after, In between
exhibition summer seasons 2007 and 2008 a new graffiti with the same
subject appeared, but this time not disturbing the gallery view form
outside, when gallery doors are opened. The decision is made to keep
the graffiti because of its interesting graphic qualities and
consistence in the treatment of the subject and location, and even to
include it to this year's program of public installations. At local
radio the call for the contact of the author was broadcasted, but
nobody reacted.
As part of its programmig sceheme the grey) (area inviting guest
curators. In previous programs Stefan Rusu (Moldavia) presented
video art from Central Asija, Ana Peraica (Split) presented work of
Alban Muja (Pristina) and Dunja Blazevic video production of the
PRO.BA (Sarajevo).
This year as curators the KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art
praxis presenting Beggar 2.0 - a robot for the materially deprived by
Slovene artist Saso Sedlacek. The Beggar robot is above all the
messenger of the news that too much of the world is getting poorer
not richer and that's unfortunately bad news for us all. Beggar 2.0
is a robot for the materially deprived which is made of old
electronics and computer spare parts. The original 1.0 was tested in
Slovenian shopping malls where it is forbidden to beg, but no such
rule was made for robots. The experiment showed that richer part of
society shows more sympathy towards the marginalized groups if they
communicate from a safe distance and via technological interface. The
new upgrade version of Beggar robot made at IAMAS institute in Japan
was tested in the beginning of July on Tokyo streets where begging
isn't really a frequent phenomena and where interface communication
is ubiquitous. The new version runs on Linux (written by Yu Fukui)
and will be soon available on this web site for anyone to download
the program and copy the robot. BAGGAR 2.0 version was made at IAMAS
( Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Science)
More info:
BAGGAR 2.0 . http://www.sasosedlacek.com/anglesko/projects_beggar.htm
KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis . http://
www.kontejner.org
Drazen Vitolovic's work entitled Satellite consists of the the ready-
made satellite dish of 95 cm diameter, which concave side is entirely
covered with small hand-made terracotta balls in its natural reddish
color. Satellite dish is not in its technical function, i.e. it is
not connected to further hardware. As such the communication is
propelled toward the visual and absurd and poetic-imaginative
sphere. The installation is setup at the facade of the historic
building in the old town of Korcula, over the eye-level, almost
unnoticeable to the passers-by.
grey) (area will continue the gallery program from 7th September 2008.
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