BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA VIDEO ART
July 29 – August 20, 2010
namaTRE.ba Project
Participating artists: Dragana Andjelić, Igor Bošnjak, Mladen Bundalo, Lana Cmajčanin, Nela Hasanbegović, Nenad Malešević, Miodrag Manojlović, Mladen Miljanović, Borjana Mrdja, Daniel Premec, Dajan Špirić, Bojana Tamindžija
Curated by: Igor Bošnjak
Contemporary art scene (especially video art) in Bosnia & Herzegovina is very interesting because it presents and deals with some issues, problems and relations between the past – in terms of politics, ideology and history – and nowadays, the present. Bosnian video art is represented by three different varieties: firstly, there are works that refer to the recent war and posttraumatic elements in society, next, there are works that refer to some universal problems and ideas of media and art, and finally, there are works that refer to questions of personal and social identity. This selection (compilation) of video art is a part of namaTRE.ba 3 video project which is a kind of “other” independent video art scene inside Bosnia & Herzegovina which represents (un)institutional art. Those works that are trying to open the problems and questions of memory have been influenced by war and postwar atmosphere, whereas those works that refer to collective identities and ontological problems have been influenced by artistic and personal trauma. This compilation is trying eclectically to connect some works that cannot refer together as a similar concept. Instead of some kind of curatorial concept, this overview offers some meanings and zeitgeist which can be valuable as a work of art or political situation in a very complicated country such as Bosnia. By this “situation in art” in Bosnia namaTRE.ba project becomes a video project/exhibition which presents video, film and performance as well as experimental-collage mix new media works dealing with the eternal civilisation issues and problems, only this time within the given circumstances of contemporary social paradigms. The video project namaTRE.ba does not aim to become a large-scale international exhibition of significance, but to present annually the works of artists from the region and from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, as well as from the European and a wider global context which deal with the exploration of the art media and the field where this media exists.
Co-production: http://www.kolektiva.org
