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Ljiljana Radošević

Ljiljana Radošević was born in Belgrade (Serbia) in 1978. She got MA in Art History at the University of Belgrade by defending thesis about appearance and development of graffiti in Belgrade 1996-2005. She started her research in the year 2000 and continued to document art works and interview graffiti and street artists until present day. During her second MA studies in Management in Culture she had an opportunity to do her internship at the most important comics festival in Europe FIBD Angouleme and consequently wrote her thesis about it. After working in the field for several years she started her PH.D. studies at the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) with the thesis under the title Understanding Street Art; A Study of European Street Art. At the moment she is in the final stages of writing but has managed to initiate in collaboration with her colleagues projects such as www.streetartwalksbelgrade.com and www.urbanheritagehub.com (not active yet).

The books mentioned in the interview are The Dresden Files, and the authors Ursula K. LaGuin and Andrzej Sapkowski. As well as the series called Urban Shaman.

Katarina Radovic

Katarina Radovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She studied History of Art at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK in the 1990’s and acquired the BA Degree in Photography from the Academy of Arts ‘BK’ in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2006.

As a free-lance artist she has participated in a number of solo and collective exhibitions and festivals in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Spain, The Netherlands, France, Egypt, Japan, Senegal, USA, Israel, etc.

She received the Kultur Kontakt artist-in-residence grant in Vienna, Austria, in 2007; the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) grant in 2009 for the project Until Death Do Us Part; and the artist-in-residence grant in Malta by the Fondazzjoni Kreattività in 2019 for the project Palettes.

Her works are in: the Photography Collection EROSION (Lithuania), the TELENOR Collection of Contemporary Art (Serbia), the Museum of the City of Belgrade, the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb (Croatia), the Museum of African Art in Belgrade and the Imago Mundi BENETTON Collection (Italy).

She moves fluidly across photographic fields, trying to trace the link between reality and fiction, the real world and the socially and culturally originated visions of reality. Her photographic work consists of unique researches into identity, (self)-presentation, human relationships and communication, as well as cultural differences, and is often permeated with theatre and humour. She is also interested in design, publishing, translation and curatorial work.

The two major publications of her works are: Until Death Do Us Part, self-published monograph, Belgrade, 2011 and When You’ve Stopped Combing Me, I’ll Stop Hating You, Museum of African Art, Belgrade, 2016.

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Elise Ferguson

Influenced by color theory, design history and international traditions in geometric abstraction, I grew up in a household where my mother was a women’s clothing designer and my stepfather was an architect. These two very personal visions – my mother’s love of textiles and construction and my stepfather’s introduction to the classics of modernism – had a deep impact on my development. Their influences percolated up in intriguing ways. A key point in my work is color as communication – an associative, subjective relationship, based on a lifetime of visual memories. Rejecting the notion of abstract art as a “universal language” – my work hints at pictographic signs, logo-grams, alphabetic scripts and cuneiform writing. I am interested in the highly subjective responses to composition and color.

During the past two years, I have begun to expand the parameters of my work to include hand-printed textile installations, outdoor projects and sculptural works. Having long employed printmaking techniques in my paintings and frequently making reference to textiles and textile design, my linen installations bring together several of the themes in my work into a single piece. With the sculptural work, I have begun working with vitreous enamel on steel. This particular material combination is fantastic for its luminous glass-like quality, intense colors and its extreme durability.

Elise Ferguson lives in Brooklyn and works in Queens, NY.

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Fernando Martín Velazco

Fernando Martín Velazco is a Mexican writer, theorist, and multidisciplinary researcher. His work focuses on the field of expanded arts and performative literature. Since 2015, he is the captain and founder of the Stultifera Navis Institutom, an organization dedicated to the artistic, scientific, and humanistic research through creative expeditions. In 2017 he started the cycle “The Leviathan Games” (2017-2020) carrying out multidisciplinary research with grey whales, a project later supported by the grants program Art, Science & Technology 2018 from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was curator of the art exhibition “Joy of the Whale”, presented in LA Film Boutique in Los Angeles, California (2019), and coordinator of “Fusion/Fision. Intensive poetic-body research workshop with gray whales” in Baja, Mexico (2020). He is part of the 2020 Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

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Reading of the “Maritime ode” (2019) Site-specific intervention part of “The Leviathan Games”


“Meyihél” (2020) Photography, part of “The Leviathan Games”

Phil Smith

Phil Smith is a performance-maker, writer and academic researcher, specialising in work around walking, site-specificity, mythogeographies and counter-tourism. With artist Helen Billinghurst, he is one half of Crab & Bee, who have recently completed an exhibition and walking project called ‘Plymouth Labyrinth (funded by Arts Council England), a short walking project in the Isles of Scilly and a residency at Teats Hill slipway. They are currently engaged in a series of walks across the UK researching their forthcoming book, ‘The Pattern’ (2020). With Tony Whitehead and photographer John Schott, Phil recently published ‘Guidebook For An Armchair Pilgrimage’ with Triarchy Press.

He is currently developing a ‘subjectivity-protective movement practice’ with Canada-based choreographer Melanie Kloetzel. As a dancer he toured with Jane Mason in ‘Life Forces’ (2014-15). With Claire Hind and Helen Billinghurst, he co-organised the recent ‘Walking’s New Movements’ conference at the University of Plymouth. As company dramaturg and co-writer for TNT Theatre (Munich), he most recently premiered ‘Free Mandela’, co-authored with TNT’s artistic director Paul Stebbings, about the end of apartheid in South Africa.

Phil is a member of site-based arts collective Wrights & Sites, who recently published ‘The Architect-Walker’ (2018). As well as ‘Walking Stumbling Limping Falling’ (Triarchy Press, 2017) with poet Alyson Hallett, Phil’s publications include ‘Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance’ (Red Globe/Macmillan, 2018), ‘Rethinking Mythogeography in Northfield, Minnesota’ (2018) (with US photographer John Schott), ‘Anywhere’ (2017), ‘A Footbook of Zombie Walking’ and ‘Walking’s New Movement’ (2015), ‘On Walking’ and ‘Enchanted Things’ (2014), ‘Counter-Tourism: The Handbook’ (2012) and ‘Mythogeography’ (2010). He is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Plymouth.

The book mentioned in the interview that Phil was reading is Embodying the Dead.

‘The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (written by Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith) performed by the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Theatre’.
‘TNT: The New Theatre’ by Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith (Triarchy Press)

VLM

VLM (Virginia Lee Montgomery) is an artist working between Texas and New York, primarily in video, performance, sound, and sculpture. She received her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture in 2016. VLM deploys an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary of repeating gestures like drilling, dousing, or reaching and recursive symbols like circles, holes and spheres as she interrogates the complex relationship between physical and psychic structures.

VLM also works as a professional mind-map scribe, a Graphic Facilitator. Recent exhibitions include: “SKY LOOP,” Lawndale Art Center, TX (2020), “SCREENS SERIES: VLM,” New Museum, NY (2019), “HONEY MOON,” Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, NY (2019); “PONY COCOON,” False Flag, NY (2019); “The Socrates Annual,” Socrates Sculpture Park, NY (2018); “CRASH TEST: The Molecular Turn,” La Panacée-MoCo, Montpellier, France (2018); “An unbound knot in the wind,” CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, NY (2018); “Material Deviance,” SculptureCenter, NY (2017); and “The Particle Accelerator Memorial Project,” Physics Department, Yale University, CT (2015). 

BUTTERFLY BIRTH BED from VIRGINIA LEE MONTGOMERY on Vimeo.

Still from BUTTERFLY BIRTH BED, 2020, 4K Digital Video, 5:35
MARBLE PONYTAIL I, 2019, Sculpture,  Marble, string, 20″ x 4″ x 20″

Maria Liebana

Maria Liebana is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in New York City. Her practice involves collects pop-culture images and thrift-store finds to reassemble them with organic and abstract forms. Maria received her BFA from Pratt Institute and MFA from Maine College of Art.

She is a recipient of 2018 and 2020 Queens Council on the Arts New Work Artist Grant. Her work has been exhibited at Field Projects (NY), Trestle Gallery (NY), ICA (Portland, ME), and Local Project Art Space (NY).

Liebana’s solo show ¿Tres Marias, Donde Esta Mi Felicidada?, was exhibited at Local Project Art Space. Her work has been featured in Hole History: The Origins of the American-Style from Little Leg Press, Studio Visit + Interview with Gallery Gurls, Queens Courier and About Themselves. In 2019, she was part of the Every Woman Biennial (New York).

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Caren Beilin

Caren Beilin is the author of a nonfiction book on gendered medical gaslighting, Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman Books, 2019), a memoir, SPAIN (Rescue Press, 2018), and a novel, The University of Pennsylvania (Noemi Press, 2014).

Her writing can be found in Fence, LA Review of Books, Territory, and New Life Quarterly. She teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in the Berkshires.

Erik Beehn

Erik Beehn is an artist and educator working out of Las Vegas. Beehn received his MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (’15) and is currently adjunct faculty at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Beehn’s work employs painting, photography, printmaking and installation to investigate an arc of mark making techniques throughout the 20th century, and the evolution of observational painting into abstraction.

Beehn is the founder and director of Test Site Projects, a fine art publishing house located in Las Vegas.

The book mentioned in the interview is titled Composition in Retrospect by John Cage.


Beehn_FTG2020 For the Gram 2020 Acrylic, Ink and Solvents on Archival Inkjet Print 28″ x 22″


Beehn_GBSIII #Getbettersoon_III 2019 Acrylic, Solvents, Graphite and Pigmented Ink On Photo Paper 44″ x 60″

Andrej Bereta

Andrej Bereta (1970) is a curator, art historian and cultural entrepreneur.

He is the Co-founder of ARTIKAL, Belgrade, since 2008. Since 2011 he is investing his strengths on the Project About and around curating/Kustosiranje (co-author with Srdjan Tunic), an educative and research curatorial project, based on the idea of lifelong learning, designed for professionals and students from the fields of arts and culture and open for general public. The mission of the project includes: developing toolbox and required skills, working on curatorial practices and on the technologies of preparation and realisation of independent exhibition project, education and supporting proactive attitude of young and future art curators, team work, developing entrepreneurship in the field of culture, spreading share culture.

Developed as a public program, it is strongly oriented on regional cooperation. This is an academic course for master studies at University of Belgrade in partnership with University of Vilnius and in cooperation with European Universities.

Since 2014 he is curator of Arts Kozara: international AiR, Art Laboratory in nature on mountain Kozara (BiH). In 2013

he was the director (with Srdjan Tunic) of Mikser Festival 2013 for Visual arts. In 2008 he co-created the Project ARTUR- Cultural tour for disabled persons. Andrej is co-creator and participant of Creative Mentorship. Finally, he is a lecturer on Visual Arts at Independent University of Banjaluka (BiH).