[artinfo] fw: The Renaming Machine in Zagreb

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g - mk | galerija miroslav kraljevic
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  May 20 - July 3, 2009


  THE RENAMING MACHINE

  - exhibition, conference & video archive




Dan Perjovschi, Romania (documents), 1993-2003


  Curatoress:
  SUZANA MILEVSKA

  In collaboration with:
  Ivana Bago & Antonia Majaca


  Participants:
  Ivana Bago/Antonia Majaca, Magnus Bärtås | Zdenko Buıek | Liljana 
Gjuzelova | Igor Grubić | Dejan Habicht/Tanja Laıetić | Kalle Hamm | 
Albert Heta | Sasha Huber | IRWIN | Hristina Ivanoska | Sanja Iveković | 
Suzana Milevska | MONUMENT Group | Oliver Musoviќ | Tanja Ostojić/David 
Rych | Dan Perjovschi | Lia Perjovschi | Tadej Pogačar | Georg 
Schöllhammer | Dejan Spasoviќ | Sao Stanojkoviќ | Mladen Stilinović, 
Alexander Vaindorf, ⁄aneta Vangeli

  Conference & exhibition opening:
  20.05. 2009
  4.00-7.30 pm / 8.00 pm
  @
  g-mk | galerija miroslav kraljevic
  Subiceva 29, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

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  Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic is proud to present The Renaming Machine - 
the ongoing, two-year project by cutaroress Suzana Milevska, whose 
Zagreb edition is curated in collaboration with Ivana Bago and Antonia 
Majača. The Renaming Machine looks at the complex entanglements involved 
in the political and cultural processes of renaming. Its main concept 
reflects the crucial need to question the way these processes have 
influenced the construction and destabilization of the memory of 
national, cultural and personal identities in the former Yugoslavia and 
South-Eastern Europe over the past two decades. The project examines 
various artistic and cultural phenomena and strategies associated with 
the notion of “renaming” in order to determine the extent to which 
renaming affects visual culture and shapes the cultural identities and 
cultural politics in the region and elsewhere.

  The Renaming Machine underscores the arbitrary and contingent nature 
of names. Alongside the philosophical and theoretical implications of 
the “mystic writing pad” of historic renaming, the project examines 
clandestine ideological patterns of the “desiring renaming machine” at 
work behind the dominant and visible social machines. As a region 
overburdened with changes in its state borders, the Balkans, for 
example, possess a history that abounds with the politics of renaming. 
With the break-up of Yugoslavia, the renaming “apparatus” erased and 
overwrote most traces from the Tito era, including the Yugoslav leader’s 
own name, which had been attached to many places in the former country. 
The region itself has been called by different names: the Balkans, the 
Western Balkans, SouthEastern Europe, etc., depending on the 
geopolitical interests and attitudes regarding its integrity or 
dismemberment. The “renaming machine rdquo; has also important 
implications for gender politics in the way the patriarchal marriage 
contract has traditionally dictated that a woman assumes her husband’s 
family name, thus overwriting her premarital identity.

  Changes in the names of institutions, people, ethnicities, languages, 
toponyms and even states are usually viewed as the first step in the 
process of appropriation, or erasure, of national, cultural, and 
personal identities, as well as a way to protect long-term political 
interests and ensure the domination over a territory. For example, the 
on-going conceptual “war of names” between Greece and Macedonia (that in 
1993 was forced by UNO to start using the description “The Former 
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”) resulted in an international outwitting 
game that is the best example of ideology of renaming: how the endlessly 
postponed event of renaming can enable a “state of exception” whereby 
the power of the “renaming machine” is either underappreciated or overrated.

The Renaming Machine is imagined as a two-year umbrella project 
comprising a series of events: conferences, exhibitions, debates, video 
programmes, bloggers’ posts, etc. that take place in Ljubljana, Skopje, 
Prishtina, Zagreb and Vienna. A comprehensive publication edited by the 
Skopje-based curator and theorist Prof. Dr. Suzana Milevska and 
published by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute is planned as the 
culminating segment of the project to be launched in autumn 2009.

  The Zagreb exhibition includes new commissions by: Albert Heta, Sanja 
Iveković, Tanja Ostojić/David Rych, Tadej Pogačar, Dejan Spasoviќ and 
Alexander Vaindorf

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PROGRAM, MAY 20, 2009

  4.00 - 7.30 pm
  Conference / Panel discussions with:
  Ivana Bago/Antonia Majaca, Magnus Bärtås, Igor Grubić, Dejan 
Habicht/Tanja Laıetić, Albert Heta, Sasha Huber, Suzana Milevska, Georg 
Schöllhammer, Alexander Vaindorf

  8.00 pm
  Performance:
  Dejan Spasoviќ, Renaming Paradox, storytelling performance


  VIDEO ARCHIVE / 3 SHIFTS:

  20.05.- 03.06.2009
  Video archive: Rewriting History
Dan Perjovschi, Dejan Habicht/Tanja Laıetić, Sasha Huber, Lia 
Perjovschi, Kalle Hamm

  03.-16.06.2009
  Video Archive: Renaming Troubles: Gender/Kinship/Culture: Liljana 
Gjuzelova, Hristina Ivanoska, Tadej Pogačar, Oliver Musoviќ

  17.06.- 03.07. 2009
  Video Archive: Renaming the Self: Pseudonyms/ Appropriations/Misnomers
Magnus Bärtås, Igor Grubić, Albert Heta, Sao Stanojkoviќ,


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The main organiser of the project:

  P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, www.zavod-parasite.si 
<http://www.zavod-parasite.si/>

  Partners:
  g-mk | galerija miroslav kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia, www.g-mk.hr 
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  Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political 
Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, www.mirovni-institut.si 
<http://www.mirovni-institut.si/>
  Press to exit project space, Skopje, Macedonia, www.presstoexit.org.mk 
<http://www.presstoexit.org.mk/>
  Cultural Centre “Točka”/Kontrapunkt, Skopje, Macedonia, 
www.kontrapunkt-mk.mk <http://www.kontrapunkt-mk.mk/>
  Stacion Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina, Kosovo, 
www.stacion.org <http://www.stacion.org/>
 

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  The project is supported by:

  Erste Foundation
  European Cultural Foundation-ECF
  Swiss Cultural Programme Macedonia
  Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia
  Municipality of Ljubljana
  FRAME - Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
  Majaoja Säätiö (Majaoja Foundation)
  IASPIS - International Artists Studio Program in Sweden
  City of Zagreb - City Office for education, culture and sport

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  www.renamingmachine.blogspot.com 
<http://www.renamingmachine.blogspot.com/>

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  GALLERY HOURS:
  Tue-Fri: 12.00 - 7.00 PM
  Sat: 11.00 – 1.00 PM
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  g-mk | galerija miroslav kraljevic
  subiceva 29 | 10 000 Zagreb
  t. +385 1 45 92 696
  e. info at g-mk.hr
  url. www.g-mk.hr <../../>

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