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Subject: [artbox] GOOD LIFE the 53rd October Salon BELGRADE
From:    "Samuil Stoyanov" <samuil100 at abv.bg>
Date:    Tue, September 18, 2012 8:57 pm
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 Vlatka Horvat, 2012.



 GOOD LIFE
the 53rd October Salon


 Physical narratives and spatial imaginations
 The 53rd October Salon
 September 22–November 4, 2012

 Press preview:  Friday,   September 21, noon
 Opening:  Saturday, September 22, 1pm

The former building of the Geodetic Institute
Karađorđeva 48, Belgrade
Organizer: The Cultural Centre of Belgrade

 www.oktobarskisalon.org


 Participants:  Vladimir Arsenijević, Mladen Bizumić,
Biljana Đurđević, Mirjana Đurđević, Expodium – Bart Witte & Nikos
Doulos, Annika von Hausswolff, Vlatka Horvat, Ana Hušman, Villu
Jaanisoo, Aleksandar Jestrović Jamesdin, Anssi Kasitonni, Karsten
Konrad, Jukka Korkeila, Wolfgang Krause & Silvia Lorenz, Ana Krstić,
 Svebor Midžić, China Mieville, Vladimir Miladinović, Nebojša Milikić,
Ahmet Ogut, Slobodan D. Pešić and Vladan Caričić, Saša Rakezić –
Zograf,
 Dubravka Sekulić,
Branislava Stefanović, Mladen Stilinović, Branimir
Stojanović / Slobodan Šijan / Milica Tomić, Dubravka Stojanović, Samuil
Stoyanov, Annika Strom, Pilvi Takala, Berit Talpsepp, Raša Todosijević,
Miloš Tomić, Sreten Ugričić, XYZ – Matei Gavula & Milan Tittel,
Marko Živković

Curated by  Branislav Dimitrijević  &  Mika Hannula

This year’s October Salon will be located at the building of the
former Geodetic Institute, built in 1905–1907 as the Belgrade
Shareholders’ Association, one of the most beautiful but also one of the
 most neglected monumental edifices in Belgrade. This inspirational
location will be used as a space of  ad hoc  transformation,
where the works will be “implanted” in its present condition and in its
existing historical narrative and architectural design.

The exhibition  GOOD LIFE / ГУД ЛАЈФ – Physical narratives and
spatial imaginations
 confronts the changes and challenges of the past 20 years, and running,
 of course. It is a collection of site-specific works that faces the
dilemmas of our contemporary lives, the mess we are in, and the hopes we
 try to hold on to or to re-generate.

And yes, Belgrade is where it is at. This is where it begins, and
this is where it returns—while using this particular building, the city,
 as a trampoline, as a catapult. It is localized and particular, but not
 empty or closed up, actively connecting the dots between here and
there, then and now.

The artworks provide a situated and motivated visual and conceptual
commentary on its physical, perceptual and narrative properties  vis-Ã -vis
 the context of the current social, political and economic crisis. It is
 a crisis that we are confronted with in all parts of the world, and
through all areas of our everyday experiences. It is not only a crisis
in the political, economic and social spheres, but also a crisis of
social imagination. It is a crisis of confidence, of where and how to
address the issues of social hope and a good, good life. Not as a
cynical enterprise, but as a way of feeling for the other, in the sense
of both laughing at and with someone.

The intention of this exhibition is to seek modes of translation and
transformation of space (both physical and social), as pre-given and
static, into place as provisional and transitional. The openness of this
 exchange allows circumventing a mere spectacularization,
instrumentalization or commodification of the artworks, but also the
one-dimensionality of a social (or political) objective, consensus, or
destination of an artistic act defined and decided on in advance.

This year’s October Salon is the result of the collaboration between
two curators known for their previous joint projects (such as the
exhibition  Situated Self – Confused, Compassionate, Conflictual ,
 in Belgrade and Helsinki in 2005). Joining them for the production of a
 book on the exhibition are Svebor Midžić, editor, and Andrej Dolinka,
visuals.

 Branislav Dimitrijević  is a curator, writer and lecturer in art history
and visual culture based in Belgrade.
 Mika Hannula  is a professor, writer, curator and critic, born in
Finland, based in Berlin.

For more information, please contact Ana Đokić, PR & Marketing
Manager:  ana.djokic at kcb.org.rs

The founder and patron of the October Salon is the City of Belgrade.
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Serbia.
Municipality Old Town Belgrade,
FRAME Foundation, Mondrian Foundation, SAHA Association, Swedish Embassy
in Belgrade,  Embassy   of Finland, Heartefact Fund .



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