Critical Tourism: Spatial Remembrance (2)
Film program Critical Tourism: Spatial Remembrance is named after the film program How a Space remembers? from 2010., with which the grey) (area presented the films by Mihovil Pansini (1926-2015), for the first time in his home town, where all the films were shot.
On August 15 the program starts in the City of Korčula Summer Cinema with three new films by the member of grey) (area, the film director Ivan Ramljak. Program continues on August 17 with the films of three authors: Ana Hušman, Davor Sanvicenti and igor Grubić. Films by Hušman and Sanvicenti were shot on the island of Korčula, within the project that refers to the work by the French composer Luc Ferrari, created in Vela Luka on the island of Korčula in 1968. Project will be presented by its initiator Petar Milat. Film by the artist Igor Grubić Monument deals with the period of the 1990s, when Croatia, among other horrid circumstances, suffered systematic violation and destruction of its anti-fascist monuments. By combining the images of these impressive works of abstract sculpture with the potent nature surrounding them, the film Monument creates a visual metaphor to reflect on their purpose nowadays.
Ana Hušman: Almost Nothing
2016. 15’ 00’’
J.L. Nancy says that pleasure in views, fragrances and sounds has been a political question since the birth of Europe. The idea of a landscape has nothing in common with the idea of unspoiled nature. Landscapes are formed in planned processes of afforestation, controlled and planned planting influenced by economic, health and other policies documented in the systematic and taxonomic languages of the land registry. Mapping the flora of the island, recording the resistance of the vegetation to the wind, and recording the sounds of friction I document the sound signals that reflect the changes, fashions or economic conditions of a particular location. These cultivation policies return to our houses and apartments like the wind, producing a complex feedback loop between interior and exterior space.
Davor Sanvincenti: Almost Nothing: So Continues the Night
2017, 12'
Film revolves around a light bulb like the Earth around the Sun. Light makes the film visible. In the orbit of the film tragedy and our reality, the image resists the cruelty of the experiment.
Igor Grubić: Monument
2015. 50'
During the 1990s, Croatia suffered systematic violation and destruction of its anti-fascist monuments. By combining the images of these impressive works of abstract sculpture with the potent nature surrounding them, Monument creates a visual metaphor to reflect on their purpose nowadays.
About authors
Igor Grubić (Zagreb 1969) lives and works in Zagreb. Igor Grubic believes art to be a form of moral and political activism and many of his activities are undertaken in public spaces. Igor Grubić has exhibited his works at Manifesta 9 in Genk, MoMA PS1 in New York, Gwangju Biennale 20th Anniversary Special Project, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Motorenhalle in Dresden, the New Society for Visual Arts in Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, the 11th Istanbul Biennial, and Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt. His works are held in numerous public and private collections: Tate Modern Gallery, London; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; ART Collection Deutsche Telekom ACT, Berlin; Kontakt The Art Collection of Erste Group, Vienna; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka; Art Gallery, Split; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz.
Ana Hušman’s practice disassembles the structures and textures of cinematic elements through film, installation, books, sound, image and text. Hušman experiments with the possibilities of animation, documentary and fictional cinematic methods, and the possibilities of the recorded voice and its articulation. Her working process questions and plays with the positions of the amateur and the professional subject of performativity, the medium itself, and the structures that dictate and produce patterns of behavior. She is a lecturer at the Department of Animation and New Media at the Academy of Fine Art in Zagreb, cofounder of the documentary film organization RESTART.
Her works has been shown at festivals and exhibitions including: 9th Gwangju Biennale; 53 Oktobarski Salon, Beograd; Medienturm Gallery, Graz; On the Eastern Front, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Arts, Budapest; “lucy” bodig & ART ON STAGE, URA, Istanbul; Stuttgarter Filmwinter; International Film Festival Rotterdam; 25 fps, Zagreb; DOK, Leipzig.
Petar Milat is a former philosopher and the chief coordinator at Multimedia Institute/MaMa [Zagreb, Croatia], in charge of publishing, experimental music and film programmes. Since 2008 he is the director of Human Rights Film Festival, a festival of cinéma d'auteur engagé. The nexus of normative social and aesthetic theory is the main focus of his research. Personal website: www.zoeforward.org
Davor Sanvincenti (1979) is a multimedia artist specifically interested in audiovisual phenomenology and anthropology of visual culture, particularly focused on the conditions and forms of human senses and perceptions. His artistic practice takes shape in the variety of media.
His work plays with the concept of illusion, exploring the possible boundaries of perception and the construction of experience. Sanvincenti explores aesthetical and qualitative capabilities of different media as direct communication with the spectator which becomes an inevitable part of the work, the reflecting contemplative-physical structure. His work has been exhibited and presented internationally, including festivals 28th Music Biennale -Zagreb, Rencontres Internationales - Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Device_Art Triennale - Montreal, LOOP - Barcelona, World Film Festival - Bangkok, 25FPS - Zagreb, VideoEX - Zurich, CineMed - Montpellier and venues including Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; HfG/ZKM, Karlsruhe; UniversalMuseum Joanneum, Graz; Lincoln Center, New York; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Oaxaca; FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou; Camera Austria, Graz; MoCA, Zagreb; La Triennale, Milano; NIU, Barcelona; MoCA Vojvodina, Novi Sad; Filmoteca Española, Madrid; Art Pavilion, Zagreb; Glassbox, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
