SobaZaGosteMaribor 2021

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SobaZaGosteMaribor I 10. 12. 2021

V okviru programa SobaZaGosteMaribor sta Hana Ćurak in Bojan Stojčić sodelovala kot velikokrat prej, na način, da se nujne individualne prakse ujemajo in dopolnjujejo. Tekom kratkega rezidenčnega bivanju sta na fasado Galerije K18 namestila prepoznavno Stojčićevo umetniško delo »Iščem osebo« in posnela podcast epizodo »To so same čarovnice« s Svetlano Slapšak. Oboje je povezano skozi tematiziranje vloge ter načinov žaljivk in pogovora v postjugoslovanskem javnem prostoru.

»Iščem osebo«
instalacija
od 2013 naprej

Velik oglas, ki pokriva fasado Galerije K18, je najaktualnejša postavitev Bojanove stalne instalacije in performansa »Iščem osebo«. V angleškem in slovenskem jeziku je zapisano »Mladi moški (33) iz Sarajeva, BiH, išče osebo s katero bi se pogovarjal o umetnosti«, dodana pa je umetnikova osebna telefonska številka.

GuestRoomMaribor I 9. 12. 2021

An oversized ad covering the facade of the Gallery K18 is one of the latest displays of Bojan Stojčić’s ongoing performance and installation »Seeking for a Person«. The ad reads »Young man (33) from Sarajevo,BiH, seeks a person to discuss art with«, in Slovene and English language, with Bojan’s personal phone number attached to it. The Gallery is only one of the places where this ad appeared: over time, Stojčić have been posting it in the ad sections of various daily newspapers or specialised ad papers throughout the region, as well as in the exhibiting spaces in Bosnia, Serbia and France. Most notable was displayed in the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. This intervention in public space conveys the basic communicative function of art itself, as well as one of the basic characteristics of a civic, democratic society. With this ad, in addition, the artist positions himself as a citizen, an artist, and a human within an environment in which such categories are frequently met with misunderstanding, rejection or reduction. The ad subverts and questions the possible (non)existence of those categories in our nearest surroundings.

Reduced to the form of an ad, this work does not necessarily immediately communicate its artistic intention to the public, opening it to everybody – even those people who are less likely to respond to the artistic event. The materials gathered after the ad has been placed become parts of the documentation – each conversation, call, each message, social and traditional media reactions, each lack of any reaction at all. The topics discussed or avoided in calls and reactions become a transcript of characteristics, longings, ideologies, wishes, fears, prejudice, traumas as well as the language and slang permeating a community or the intimacy of its members. Set in different contexts, the ad questions the borders, confinements of conversations, thus questioning different social imaginaries. In the context of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the countries surrounding it, this ad acquires one more intimate-political dimension bound by the axes of loneliness, lack of information, pain, as well as, frequently, longing for the Other.
Preview of the phone conversations BCSM / ENG

SobaZaGosteMaribor I 8. 12. 2021

Aktualna rezidenta programa SobaZaGosteMaribor Hano in Bojana spoznaj skozi kratek posnetek s katerim se javljata iz Sarajeva pred odhodom v Maribor!

je medijska producentka z izobrazbo s področja sociologije in političnega zagovorništva. Kot ena najbolj pronicljivih feministk mlajše generacije na območju bivše Jugoslavije, je znana po svoji zbirki memov »Sve su to Vještice« (To so same čarovnice). Skozi svoje delo se referira na znane umetnice kot je Barbara Kruger in z znanjem in izkušnjami na področju sodobnega zagovorništva, razvoja civilne družbe in politične teorije, usmerja digitalni in analogni svet ter s tem ustvarja množično gibanje z obsežnim občinstvom. Kot asistentka kuratorke pri samostojni razstavi Bojana Stojčića v Narodni galeriji BiH in pri razstavi umetnice Selme Selman, Hana s svojim eklektičnim strokovnim znanjem uvaja antikolonialne in miroljubne feministične ideje v mainstream diskurz. Ćurak je med drugim članica odbora pri CRVENA - Association for Arts and Culture, sodelavka na projektu pri Centru za razvoj medijev in civilne družbe. Izobraževala se je na Freie Universitat Berlin (magisterij iz Severno-ameriških študij, 2021), New school for Social Research (2019) in na Univerzi v Buckinghamu (diploma iz političnih znanosti).
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je bosanski umetnik. Bojan raziskuje dediščine, poetiko, sledi in prehode sedanjosti ter njene politične modalitete, zajema in preučuje njene postideološke performativnosti. Pogosto ustvarja tako, da elegantno posega v kontekstualiziran vsakdan, osvobaja podobo njenih grafičnih pojavov, hkrati pa dopolnjuje njeno obliko s pripovedmi iz okolice. Neposredna izkušnja vojne v Bosni in novonastala realnost evropske periferije je Bojana na najbolj javne in najbolj intimne načine izpostavila vseprisotni izgubi, razseljenosti in tranziciji. Njegova dela so predstavljena v večih zbirkah, med drugim v fundaciji agnès b. in zbirki Deutsche Telekom Digital. Živi v Sarajevu, kjer vodi umetniški atelje, poučuje in svetuje. Je kreativni producent »To so same čarovnice« in član feminističnega kolektiva »Zveza za kulturo in umetnost CRVENA«.
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To so same čarovnice je interdisciplinarna platforma, ki se osredotoča na feministično zagovarjanje z uporabo digitalnih in analognih orodij. Poseben poudarek je na krepitvi organizacijskih in tematskih zmogljivosti platforme za ustrezno in inovativno tematiziranje, prednostno razvrščanje in obravnavanje perečega vprašanja nasilja na podlagi spola v Bosni in Hercegovini. Glavne teme, ki jih Čarovnice obravnavajo v svoji produkciji, so: militarizacija kot feministično varnostno vprašanje spol in moč v jezik in politike mikrosocialne performativnosti spola, solidarnost kot feministično varnostno orodje, feminizem in regionalna izgradnja miru, reproduktivno delo (razdelitev gospodinjskih opravil, povezanih s spolom, čustveno delo, skrb) ekonomsko opolnomočenje žensk (poudarek na mladih brezposelnih ženskah), emancipacija in skozi vizualne umetnosti, feministična dediščina zahodnega Balkana in zgodovina kot orodje opolnomočenja, geopolitika spola. Vsa ta vprašanja se med seboj navezujejo na podlagi feminističnih varnostnih in mirovnih študij ter teorije radikalne demokracije, ki predlagajo pristop od spodaj navzgor k vzpostavitvi trajnostne feministične socialne kohezije. Poleg tega so Čarovnice družbeni podvig - ponujajo zagovorništvo, komunikacijsko svetovanje in storitve upravljanja projektov, ki jih uporabljajo v poskusu ustvarjanja samovzdržne platforme. Podcast Vse to so čarovnice obravnava revolucionarni vsakdan postjugoslovanskega intelektualnega prostora.

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GuestRoomMaribor I 8. 12. 2021

Meet GuestRoomMaribor Residents Hana and Bojan through a short video they filmed in Sarajevo, just before embarking on a long and cold trip towards Maribor.

is a strategic communications expert and advocacy specialist with over seven years of experience addressing open society issues. Her areas of expertise are democratic resilience and arts&culture. She is the founder and executive of »Sve su to Vještice« (It's all Witches), a social venture aimed at subversion of patriarchal culture through visual arts, digital advocacy and analog training. She has worked in the German Parliament, Hertie School and the OSCE, while also developing her artistic and curatorial endeavors. Based in Berlin and Sarajevo.

is a Bosnian artist. Through his practice, Bojan explores lineages, poetics, traces and transitions of the present as well as its political modalities, embracing and examining its post-ideological performativities. Bojan often creates by elegantly intervening into a contextualized everyday, liberating the image of its graphic manifestations while complimenting its form and surrounding narratives. The lived experience of the Bosnian war and the country’s newly formed reality of the European periphery brought Bojan close to extensive states of loss, displacement and transition in the most public and the most intimate ways. Stojčić is featured in several collections, including the agnès b. foundation and the Deutsche Telekom Digital collection. He lives in Sarajevo, where he runs his art studio, teaches and consults. He is a creative producer of »Sve su to Vještice« (It's all Witches) and a member of feminist collective CRVENA Association for Culture and Arts.

It's all Witches is an interdisciplinary platform which focuses on feminist advocacy using digital and analog tools. Specific focus is on enhancing the platform’s organizational and thematic capacities to adequately and innovatively thematize, prioritize and address the pressing issue of gender-based violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The main topics which Witches have treated through their production are: militarization as a feminist security issue gender and power in
language and policies micro-social performativities of gender, solidarity as a feminist security tool, feminism and regional peacebuilding, reproductive labor (gendered domestic housework division, emotional labor, care) economic empowerment of women
(focus on young unemployed women). emancipation of and through visual arts, western balkans’ feminist legacy and history as a tool of empowerment, gendered geopolitics
These issues all relate to each other informed by the feminist security and peace studies and radical democracy theory, proposing a bottom-up approach towards establishing a
sustainable feminist social cohesion.
In addition, Witches are a social venture - offering advocacy, communication consulting and
project management services, using these in an attempt to create a self-sustainable
platform.
It's all Witches podcast deals with the revolutionary everyday of the post-Yugoslavian intellectual space.