Author of the concept: Vladimir Bjeličić
The city became an obstacle. Every corner can be a new surprise and potential danger. Fences, building materials, mobile toilets, tents, directions, surveillance cameras, and the threat of punishment.
Physical and mental barriers intertwine.
Injury at work, neck injury, violation of rights.
The obstacles are multiple and are multiplying daily, while the algorithms of social networks and artificial intelligence dictate the pace of most people’s activities. Public space has, without exaggeration, become like a computer game in which overcoming levels means sustaining life. Falling ceilings and parts of facades, detached parts of highways, holes in the asphalt, and congestion of the sewage network are just some of the consequences of the action of an extremely repressive social mechanism. In such a gamified reality, the frequent multiplication of obstacles makes the possibility of resistance or change impossible.
However, dashing over a physical or mental obstacle can signify revolt and a potential statement/expression of disobedience. Thus, this program unit was created with the idea of presenting a different and socially current, disobedient approach to passivated institutional exhibition practices. Since there is less and less meaning in the local and global context colored by the frequent growth of authoritative social practices, one gets the impression that art can only be coherent if it is in agreement with real circumstances.
Through multiple media, stylistically and aesthetically diverse programs (a selection of video, photographic, and in situ works by young artists; performance/happening; lecture/performance; concert), PREPREKE implies the activation of the gallery space with one-night events that will rotate every week. The focus will be on the creativity of younger artists, in order not to underline the mental landscapes of those who most actively participate in the implementation of social transformation prompted by student protests but also in all other forms of civil disobedience and expression of a critical attitude.
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PROGRAM:
We are your future. A selection of works by young artists: Isidora Branković, Angelina Pajković, Đorđe Tufegdžić, Danilo Bursać, Aleks Jovanović, and Danilo Bursać
Thursday, January 29, 8 p.m.–10 p.m.
Teodora Arsić: Incest, performance
Thursday, January 12, 8 p.m.–10 p.m.
Lecture-performance: Threepenny, a group of young theater professionals
Thursday, January 26, 8 p.m.–10 p.m.
Cooperation of Podroom Gallery and Stanica, service for contemporary dance
Thursday, March 5, 8 p.m.–10 p.m.
Concert: Laptop Ensemble Novi Sad (LENS)
Thursday, March 7, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Games without borders: action/performance/participatory quiz on the theme of the October Salon