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Biographies Konântin Akinsha Born in i960 in Kiev, Ukraine. Lives and works in Washington, D.C., (all 2006); "FaSt Forward. Media Art de la Coleîon Goetz", Museo USA. • Konitantin Akinsha is an art hiôrian and contributing Municipal de Arte Contemporaneo de Madrid/Centro Cultural del editor to ARTnews magazine. He was deputy research director of the Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain (2005); "Documentary Fictions", Caixa- Art and Cultural Property section of the Presidential Advisory Com Forum, Barcelona, Spain (2004); Neue KunSlhalle III, KunSthalle mission on Holocau^ Assets in the United States. He is coauthor Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany; 8th International Istanbul Bien (with Nancy H. Yeide and Amy L Walsh) of The AAM Guide to Prove nial, Istanbul, Turkey; "Witness", Barbican Art Gallery, London, Eng nance Research, published by the American Association of Museums. land; "Days Like These", Tate Triennial Exhibition of British Art, Tate Britain, London, England (all 2003); Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany Sorin Antohi (2002); The Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany (2001); The 48th Venice Born in 1957 in Targu-Ocna, Romania. Lives and works in Buda- Biennale, Venice, Italy (1999). pe^. • Sorin Antohi is a hiôrian of ideas and hiôrical theori^. He teaches at the Central European University, Budape^, Mate! Bejenaru where he is also Head of the School of Hiôry and Interdisciplin Born in 1963 in Suceava, Romania. Lives and works in lasi, Roma ary Hiftorical Studies. He is Secretary General of the International nia. • Matei Bejenaru Studied at the Politechnical Institute Commission for the Theory and Hiôry of Hiôriography, and a and at the Arts Academy, both in lasi, Romania. Since 1997, he is pro member of the Board of the International Committee of Hiôrical fessor of photography and video at the Art University of lasi, direc Sciences. • His major fields of research are intellectual hiôry, tor of the "Periferic" Biennial, lasi, and, since 2003, of the Vector modern and recent Romanian hiôry in Central and Eaftern Euro Gallery in the same city. As an artiSt and curator living in lasi, he pean contexts, hiôrical theory and thehiôry of hiôriography. His operates to construct a climate where contemporary art can be pro many books deal, among others, with: Utopianism {Utopica. Studii duced, experienced and sustained, in a city that he says loSt every asupra imaginarului social, 1991); modern Romanian intellectual his thing in the laSt century. Bejenaru works tirelessly to deliver con tory, focusing on Romanian-Weftern linkages and transfers {Civitas temporary art on this local Stage as well as internationally. • imoginalis. lôrie si utopie in cultura ronnana, 1994); theories and meth Selected solo exhibitions: "INTER", ROOM Gallery BriStol and Vec ods in the humanities and the social sciences {Exercitiul diântei. Dis- tor Gallery lasi; "Strawberry Fields Forever", Galeria Noua, Bucha cursuri, societati, metode, 1997); modern Romania's culture and politics rest (both 2005); "Salut/Ave Bachtalo", OfPspace Gallery, Vienna {Imaginaire culture! et realite politique dons la Roumonie moderne, 1999); (2003); "Mehr Chancen fur unsere Jugend", Kulturkontakt GaState- "the third discourse" {Al treileo discurs. Cultura, ideologic si politica in lier, Vienna (2002). • Selected group exhibitions: "Situated Romania, with Adrian Marino, 2001), Romanian visions of the future Self", Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, and Helsinki City {Mai avem un viitor? Rorvonia la inceput de mileniu, with Mihai Sora, Art Museum (2005); "We are what we are - Aspects of Roma Life in 2001), memory and hiôry in Romania {Oglinzi retrovizoore. lôrie, Contemporary Art", Minoriten Gallery Graz, Jana Koniarka Gallery memorie si morala in Romania, with Alexandru Zub, 2002). Trnava, and Skuc Gallery Ljubljana (2004/05); "Ich bin hier und du biStdort ...",GFZK Leipzig, Germany (2004); "U-Topos",Tirana Bien nial 2, Albania (2003); 49th Venice Biennial; "Never Stop the Action", Kutlug Ataman ROTOR Association, Graz, AuStria (2001). Born in 1961 in lânbul, Turkey. Lives and works in Buenos Aires and lânbul. • Kutlug Ataman ûdied film at UCLA, where lara Boubnova he graduated with the short La Fuga. He has pursued a career both Born in Moscow, Russia. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria. • as a film-maker and as an artift, continually crossing the border Curator and art critic lara Boubnova graduated from the State Uni between the cinema and the museum, the pa^ and the present, the versity in Moscow in 1986. She was junior Editor at the "Soviet Art virtual and the politically relevant and, finally, between reality and iSt" Publishing House, Moscow, and, as of 1984, is working at the fiction. In 2004, Ataman was short-liêd for the Turner Prize at the National Gallery for Foreign Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. Since 2003, she Tate Britain, London, and he participated in the 54th Carnegie Inter is head of the Visual Seminar multidisciplinary project dedicated to national at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, where he was the urban environment of neo-capitalism. lara Boubnova is found awarded its prestigious Carnegie Prize for his project Kiiba. • ing Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art Sofia. She curated Selected solo exhibitions: "De-Regulation with the work of Kut and organized Bulgarian national participations atthe 48th Biennale lug Ataman", Museum van Hedendaagse Kunft Antwerp, Belgium diVenezia (1999), the 3rd Biennial in Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia (2006); "Perfect Strangers", Museum of Contemporary Art, Syd (1997), the 4th St. Petersburg Biennial (1996), the 4th Istanbul Bien ney, Australia; "The Four Seasons of Veronica Read", Pinakothek der nial (1995) and the 22nd Sao Paulo Biennial (1994). * Selected Moderne, Munich, Germany (2005); "Long Streams", Serpentine Gal projects as independent curator: "Joy", Casino Luxembourg; iSt Mos lery, London, England, and GEM, Museum Voor Actuele KunSf, The cow Biennial of Contemporary Art (both 2005); ManifeSta 4, Frankfurt Hague, Netherlands (both 2003); "Long Streams", Nikolaj, Copen am Main (2002)-all in teams; "Talk with the Man on the Street", 4th hagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; "Women Biennial in Cetinje, Montenegro; "Double-Bind" (co-curator, 2003); WhoWearWigs", Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul,Tur "Locally Interested"(1999), both in Sofia. key; "A Rose Blooms in the Garden of Sorrow", BAWAG Founda tion, Vienna, Austria (all 2002). • Selected group exhibitions: "Without Boundaries. Seventeen Ways of Looking", MOMA, New York, NY, USA; "Nature Attitudes", T-B A21, Vienna, Austria; "SNAFU - Medien, Mythen, Mind Control", KunSthalle, Hamburg, Germany

171 Sezgin Boynik Emanuel Danesch Born in 1977 in Prizren, Kosovo. Lives and works in Kosovo. • Born in 1976 in Innsbruck, Au^ria. Lives and works in Vienna. * Sezgin Boynik graduated from the Mimar Sinan Univesity in lânbul. Emanuel Danesch ûdied at the University of Applied Arts and He is writer and editor for contemporary art magazines like art-iî at the Academy of Fine Arts, both in Vienna. As a poly-media art- and Siyahi{both lânbul), Arta (Prishtina) and Pre/om (Belgrade), his i^ in the broade^ sense, his projects and documentary films cover topics focusing on the avant-garde, radical political movements, and issues of cultural, economical and political transformation. He col subversive thinking. Recently, he has been concentrating on nation laborates with David Rych in many projects, but also works indepen alism and its connection with kitsch and aefthetics. He is preparing dently and with other artists. In 2004, Danesch received the Austrian his doctoral thesis entitled "Modernization and Nationalization of National Grant for Art. • Selected solo exhibitions (all with Yugoslav Turks during the Socialist Period". Boynik teaches Sociology David Rych): "Alterity Displays", Lawrence O' Hanna Gallery, Lon at the Department of Turkology and Orientaliîc Studies at Prishtina don (2004); "Beyond the Map - Con^ructing Narratives", Gallery La University and works at the "Gani Bobi" Inîtute for Humanitarian Box, Bourges, France (2003); "Utopia Travel" (award-winning inter Studies, also in Prishtina. national project, 2000-2004); "Das Experiment 3 - Utopia Travel", Vienna Secession (2001). • Selected group exhibitions: "It Boris Buden is hard to touch the real", Grazer Kun^verein, Graz; "ECONOMY Born in 1958 in Croatia. Lives and works in Zagreb and Vienna. • CLASS", Alliance Franâise, Nairobi, Kenya (both 2006); "Utopie Frei- Boris Buden is a writer and cultural critic. He received his PhD in cul heit", Kun^halle Exnergasse, Vienna (2005); "DEAF04 V2", Dutch tural theory from Humboldt University in Berlin. In the 1990s, he was Electronic Art Feîval, Rotterdam; "Hilchot Shchenim", The Israeli editor of the magazine Arkzin, Zagreb. He has contributed regularly Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel; "It is Hard to Touch the Real", to a variety of newspapers, magazines and cultural journals in for film feîval, Kun^verein Munich; "Fly Utopia", Transmediale, Berlin mer Yugoslavia, Europe and in the USA. His essays and articles cover (all 2004). • Film Screenings: Documentary film CSR Promise topics of philosophy, politics, cultural and art criticism. Among his Responsibility at GREEN WAVE - 21ST CENTURY EUROPEAN ENVI translations into Croatian are two books by Sigmund Freud. He has RONMENT FESTIVAL, Dolna Banya, Sofia City Region, Bulgaria, and participated in various conferences and art exhibitions in Weêrn Normale 06 (a)Enlazando Alternativas 2, Vienna (all 2006). and Eastern Europe, Asia and the USA, such as Documenta XI, Kassel, and Wiener Fe^wochen, Vienna. Recently, he took part in the proj Branislav Dimitrijevic ect "The Po^-Communi^ Condition", organized byZKM, Karlsruhe. Born in 1967 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. Lives and works Buden is author of "Barikade", Zagreb 1996/1997; "Kaptolski Kolod- in Belgrade. * Branislav Dimitrijevic is art hiôrian, writer vor", Belgrade 2001; "Der Schacht von Babel", Berlin 2004. and curator. He is Senior Lecturer at the School for Art and Design (VSLPUb) in Belgrade and the Associate Curator at the Museum of Gabrielle Cram Contemporary Art, Belgrade. In 1999, he co-founded the School for Born in 1978 in Falkirk, Great Britain. Lives and works in Vienna, Hiôry and Theory of Images, an independent educational proj Au^ria. • Gabrielle Cram ftudied semiotics and film theory ect in Belgrade. He has been publishing essays on contemporary with a focus on po^colonial queîons, popular culture as well as art and theory of art, film and visual culture. Mo^ recent publica sex-gender related issues at Vienna University, graduating in 2001. tions include International Exhibition of Modern Art feat. A. Barr's In 2005, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Museum of Modern Art (ed.; Belgrade, MOCAb 2003); On Normality: where she ûdied conceptual art practice. • Working on Art in Serbia 1989-2001 (ed.; Belgrade, MOCAb 2005). Mo^ recent several theatre and performance productions, as dramaturge in curatorial projects include "Situated Self: Confused Compassion dietheater in Vienna, as arti^ on photographic works and documen ate, Conflictual", Tennis Art Museum, Helsinki (with M. Hannula, tary essays such as Kung Fu Fighting (2000), The Distant Island {2001) 2005/06) and the Yugoslavian Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia and X; Memory 1055(2003), exploring modes of display and represen (with B. Andjelkovic and D. Sretenovic, 2003). He has been working tations, she seeks to combine article and cultural practice with the on a PhD thesis on "Consumer Culture in Sociali^ Yugoslavia" with oretic approaches. She is currently working at Thyssen-Bornemisza Professor Milena Dragicevic Sesic at the University of Arts in Bel Art Contemporary. grade, and collaborated on the research project "Po^-Communi^ Condition" with Boris Groys. Laszio Csaki Born in 1977 in Mosonmagyarovar, Hungary. Lives and works in Ivaylo Ditchev Budapest. • Laszio Csaki graduated from the Hungarian Born 1955 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia. • Ivaylo Academy of Applied Arts in Budape^, Department of Visual Commu Ditchev is professor of Anthropology at Sofia University. He also has nication, in 2002. He is member of the Hungarian Independent Film appointments abroad, moi^ly in France and in the USA. • and Video Association and ofthe Young Arties'Association. He won He is writer and columni^: for Sega, Sofia, and lettre international, several national as well as international awards. • Selected Berlin. His recent research fields focus on Balkan cities in transition, works: Egersza/dk(documentary 2006); Fluxus-Tainer; Wasps, Gees and the impact of the EU enlargement on national political cultures, the Pear (both 2004); Day5 that Were Filled with Sense by Fear / Nopok, (re-)invention of identities in the global world and on communism melyeknek ertelmet adott afelelem; Hubertus Card; Tee / Tea (all 2003); and after: symbols, rituals, propaganda, power. He has published Deathimitator / Holottimitator {2002); The Youth Eases / Az ijjusog meg- extensively, his late^ book being Spaces of Desire, Desires of Space. nyugtat; Captain Vrungel / Vrungel kapitany (both 2001). Studies in Urban Anthropology {Sof\a, LIK 2005). www.ivayloditchev.cult.bg

172 Marina Griinic Kriîan Lukic Born in 1958 in Rijeka, Croatia. Lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and vôrks Lives and works in Novi Sad. • Writer, computer game in Ljubljana and Vienna. • Marina Grzinic is researcher at the researcher, new media arti^ and curator Kriîan Lukic is working Inîtute of Philosophy at the Scientific and Research Center of the as program manager in the New Media Center kuda.org in Novi Slovenian Academy of Science and Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Sad. He is gue^ lecturer at Academy of Fine Arts, Audio-visual Media professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She also v^/orks as Department, also in Novi Sad. Within kuda.org, he was co-curat- freelance media theori^, art critic and curator. Since 1982, Grzinic ing exhibitions and managed numerous projects such as the World- has been involved with video art. Porno codes, thriller situations Information.Org, exhibitions in collaboration with Public Netbase in and overtly formulated political cata^rophes are the basic elements Novi Sad and Belgrade in 2003. • He is founder of Ea^wood of her work. • Recent publications: "Une fiction recon^ru- - Real Time Strategy Group with whom he has been exhibiting from ite. Europe de I'Eft, po^-socialisme et retro-avant-garde [Fiction 2002 onwards. Ea^wood group creates and uses computer games as Recon^ructed. Eaêrn Europe, Po^-Socialism and the Retro-Avant- a tool for new visions of art and cultural practice. Exhibitions and pre Garde], L'Harmattan, Paris; "AVANGARDA I POLITIKA: iftocnoevrop- sentations of Ea^wood include: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San ska paradigma i rat na Balkanu" [Avant-Garde and Politics: The Ea^- Francisco; Ars Electronica Linz, Austria; International Film Feîval ern European Paradigm and the War in the Balkans], Beogradski Rotterdam, Netherlands; Foundation for Art and Creative Technol krug, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro; "Eêtika kibersvijeta i ucinci ogy, Liverpool, UK; ISEA2004 Helsinki, Finland; Free Cultures Vienna, derealizacije" [Ae^hetics of Cyberspace and the Effects of De-Realiza Au^ria; Werkleitz Biennial, Halle an der Saale, Germany. tion], Multimedijalni inftitut mi - MaMa, Zagreb, Croatia and Kos- nica - centar za komunikaciju i kulturu, Sarajevo, Bih (all 2005). Anetta Mona Chisa Born in 1975 in Nadlac, Romania. Lives and works in Prague and Francesca von Habsburg Bratislava. • Anetta Mona Chisa ûdied at the Academy of Born in 1958 in Lugano, Switzerland. Lives and works in Vienna. • Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2001/2002, she was Francesca von Habsburg was born in Switzerland and began her curator at the Synagoge - Center of Contemporary Arts Trnava. Since ûdies there. Later, in London, she ûdied at St. Martin's School of 2002, she has been working as assiânt teacher at the Academy of Art and ICA, where she read Hiôry of Modern Art. After working in Fine Arts Prague, New Media Department. Her recent article works, London, New York and Los Angeles, in 1989 von Habsburg became based on personal Tories, play with the concept of access to dif Chief Curator of special exhibitions of theThyssen-Bornemisza col ferent forms of power: professional, political, ideological, and geo lection at the Villa Favorita in Lugano. In 1995, she founded ARCH graphical. • Selected solo exhibitions (all with Lucia Tkacova): Foundation, which is dedicated to the preservation and reôration of "Ortografio de Potenco", Futura Gallery, Prague (2006); "Nonftra- cultural heritage. In 2002, she also founded T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bor- tegic Scenarios: The Red Library", Jeleni Gallery, Prague (2005); "A nemisza Art Contemporary foundation in Vienna, Au^ria. Room on Their Own", Medium Gallery, Bratislava (2003). • Selected group exhibitions: "Office art", C2C Gallery, Prague; "Shad Natasa liic ows of Humor", BWA Awangarda, Wroclaw (2006); "The Arti^ With Born in 1970 in Zagreb, Croatia. Lives and works in Zagreb. * Two Brains", NAB Birmingham; "Kaleidoskop. Fiktionen von Kun^ Natasa Ilic is a free-lance critic and curator. She is a founding mem und Wissenschaft", Oktogon, Dresden; Prague Biennale 2, IBCA, ber of "What, How 8( for Whom / WHW", an independent curato National gallery Prague; "Iconoclash", Spitz Gallery, London (2005); rial collective that organizes different production, exhibition and "E.U. positive", Akademie der Kunê Berlin (2004); "The La^ Ea^ publishing projects and also directs Galerija Nova, Zagreb. She co- European Show", Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade; "Stadt in curated a number of international exhibitions in Zagreb and abroad, Sicht. Neue Kun^ aus Bratislava", Kun^lerhaus, Vienna (2003). including "Collective Creativity", Kun^halle Fridericianum, Kassel (2005), Cetinje Biennial 5, Montenegro (2004), "Looking Awry", apex- Boris Ondreicka art. New York (2003), "Project: Broadcafting",TheTechnical Museum, Born in 1969 in Zlate Moravce, Slovakia. Lives and works in Bratislava Zagreb (2002). As an art critic, she contributed to numerous catalogs and Bernolakovo, Slovakia. * Boris Ondreicka is arti^ and and magazines. leader of the art-initiative tranzit.sk. His works were exhibited at Manifeâ 2 in Luxembourg and the Venice Biennale, at PSi NYC, Kolnischer Kun^verein, Magazin4 Bregenz, MUMOK and Secession Vienna, BAK Utrecht, W139 and De Appel Amêrdam, Kiasma Hel sinki, Transmission Glasgow, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin. He also participated in thee-flux project "Next Director of Doc- umenta should be an Arti^". Since 2002, tranzit.sk has organized lec tures and projects of/with Rene Block, Catherine David, Maria Hla- vajova, Robert Fleck, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jun Yang, Franz PomassI, Kathrin Rhomberg, Igor Zabel, Clemetine Deliss, Julius Koller, Stano Filko, Martin Creed, Johanna Billing, Lise Harlev, Allan Curall, Radek Community, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and many others.

173 Szabolcs Palfi Irit Rogoff Born in 1974 in Budape^, Hungary. Lives and works in Buda- Irit Rogofl^ holds a university chair in Visual Culture at Goldsmiths pe^. • Szabolcs Palfi ûdied animation film at the Hun College, London University, and is directorof an AHRB-funded inter garian University of Crafiis and Design in Budape^, Department of national research project "Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts". She Visual Communication. With his diploma film The Bus he won several writes extensively on conjunctions of critical theory and contempo national prizes and thejameson Short Film Award in 2004. Underthe rary arts with particular intere^ in issues of geography, location, per- name of Hipokaloric Group, he has been working with Laszio Csaki formativity and cultural diflPerence. Rogoff is the author of "Terra on several projects. • Selected works: Egerszo/olc (documen Infirma - Geography's Visual Culture" (2001) and is presently work tary, 2006); The Bus (animation, 2004); Stone; Hubertus Core/(anima ing on a ûdy of the participatory entitled "Looking Away - Partici tion, all 2003); Sport; Tea (animation, all 2002); Madaîascar (wildlife pating Singularities and Ontological Communities". She is currently documentary, 1998). curating "De-Regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman" (Antwerp, Herzylia, Berlin 2006/7) ^nd "Academy - Learning and Teaching" Zoran Pantelic (Hamburg, Eindhoven, Antwerp 2005/6). Born in 1966 in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro. Lives and works in Novi Sad. • Zoran Pantelic studied at the Academy of David Rych Fine Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, and at the School Born in 1975 in Innsbruck, Austria. Lives and works in Berlin. • of Media Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, in Ljubljana, Slove David Rych fludied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As a poly- nia. He teaches Media Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts, media arti^ in the broade^ sense, his projects and documentary Novi Sad, and is director of the New Media Center kuda.org, also in films cover issues of cultural, economical and political transforma Novi Sad, which he founded in 2000—a content providing platform tion. He collaborates with Emanuel Danesch in many projects, but for new cultural practices, media art production and social layout, also works independently and with other arti^s. • Selected exploring critical approaches towards (mis-)using ICT and empha solo exhibitions: "The War Room", Galerie 35, Berlin (2005); "Alter- sizing creative rethinking in the network society. In 1993, Pantelic ity Displays", Lawrence O'Hanna Gallery, London (with Emanuel founded the association APSOLUTNO in Novi Sad, a collective deal Danesch, 2004); "Beyond the Map - Con^ructing Narratives", Gal ing with interdisciplinary artwork and media pluralism. •His lery La Box, Bourges, France (with Emanuel Danesch, 2003); "Utopia work has been featured, among other places, at feîvals and galler Travel"(with Emanuel Danesch, award-winning international project, ies in Berlin, Paris, Budape^, Vienna, Frankfurt, Wroclaw, Hiroshima, 2000-2004); "Das Experiment 3 - Utopia Travel", Vienna Secession and San Francisco. In 2001, he curated the New Media Section of the (with Emanuel Danesch, 2001). * Selected group exhibi Belgrade October Exhibition, and mo^ recently co-curated the New tions: "e-flux Rental", KW Inftitute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; "ID Media Festival in Belgrade. In 2003, he co-produced the World-Infor Troubles - US Visit", NURTUREart Gallery, New York (both 2005); mation.Org exhibition, an international project by Public Netbase, "DEAF04" V2, Dutch Electronic Art Feîval, Rotterdam; "Hilchot Vienna, in Novi Sad and Belgrade. Shchenim", The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon; "It is Hard to Touch the Real", film feîval, Kun^verein Munich; "Fly Utopia"Trans- Renata Poljak mediale, Berlin (all 2004). Born in 1974 in Split, Croatia. Lives and works between France, Vienna and Split. • Renata Poljak ûdied at the Academy of Fine Arts Zoltan Sebok in Split and absolved a po^graduate program in Nantes, France. In Born in 1958 in Subotica, Serbia and Montenegro. Lives and works in 2002, she was visiting arti^ at the San Francisco Art Inîtute and in Budapest, Hungary. • Zoltan Sebok studied literature in Novi 2004 artift in residence at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna. • With Sad and art hiôry and philosophy in Belgrade. In 1991, he emigrated a very personal approach to queflions that the artift is concerned to Hungary, where, as from 1997, he is professor at the Academy of with, Poljak is using a fragmented poetic filmic language that is deal Fine Arts Budapest. Since 1976, he has worked as an editor for mag ing with essayiîc documentari^ elements. The artift as a subject azines such as Uj Symposion, Novi Sad, Magyar Muhely, Vienna/Paris, takes an important role as a narrator within the films. The works and Balkon, Budapest, for the publishing company Kijarat, Buda- are translated via media mo^ly through video and recently also in pe^, as well as for Radio Novi Sad and Radio Free Europe. Besides, 16 mm. They can be seen on film feîvals as well as in gallery spaces he has written extensively in the field of modern and contempo as photographic,or inâllation works. • Selected solo exhi rary art. His publications include "A memek titokzatos elete. Nemeth bitions: "The View", Galery SC, Zagreb, Croatia (2005); "Emergency Gabor es Sebok Zoltan beszelgetese", Bratislava, 2004; "Eloskodo Tensions", Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida (with D.Figarella, kultura" [Parasitic Culture], Bratislava, 2003; "Az uj muveszet foga- 2003); Wonderland, Galerie Soardi, Nice, France (2002). • lomtara i945-t6l napjainkig" [Dictionary of New Art from 1945 to Selected group exhibitions: "Normalization", Rooseum Center for Today], Budapest, 1996. Also, he translated books by authors such as Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden; "Insert", Museum of Contem Vilem Fiusser and Boris Groys. porary Art, Rijeka, Croatia (both 2006); "Landscape in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture Between Fetishes and Ideology", 34th Split Salon, Split, Croatia; "Binder, Milunovic, Poljak", Gallery Ernft Hil- ger, Vienna (both 2005); "Passage d'Europe", Musee d'Art Moderne de St-Etienne, France (2004).

174 Nedko Solakov Zelimir Zilnik Born in 1957 in Tcherven Briag, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia, Born in 1942 in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro. Based in Novi Bulgaria. • Since the beginning of the 1990s, Nedko Solakov Sad. • From the late 1960s, his socially engaged films and doc has exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States. His v^/ork umentaries in former Yugoslavia and his unique visual ^yle earned was featured in Aperto 93 (Venice Biennial); the 48th, 49th and 50th him critical accolade (The Unemployed, i^SS,, Be^ Documentary at the Venice Biennial; the 3rd, 4th and 9th lânbul Biennial; Sao Paulo 94; Oberhausen feîval, 1968; Early Works, 1969, Be^ Film at Berlin Film Manifeâ 1, Rotterdam; the 2nd and 4th Gwangju Biennial; the 5th Feîval), but also censorship in the 1970s for his unflinching criticism Lyon Biennial, Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, the 4th and 5th Cetinje Biennial, of the government apparatus. Low budget filmmaking and challeng the 1^ Lodz Biennial; the 7th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates; ing political themes markZilnik's prolific career that includes over 40 and the 3rd Tirana Biennial. Recently, he had solo shows at Museu feature and documentary films and shorts. Since the 1980s, he has do Chiado, Lisbon; Stichting De Appel, Amfterdam; CCA Kitakyushu, been developing his unique docu-drama language, which he used Japan; Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; The throughout 1990s to reflect on political tensions, including EU sanc Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona tions, the NATO bombings, and Milosevic's regime. His power to and Kun^haus Zurich. In 2003-2005 an extensive mid-career "A 12 observe and unleash compelling narratives out of the lives of ordi 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey" was presented at Casino Luxem nary people is the common thread throughout his documentary and bourg, Rooseum Malmoe and O.K Centrum Linz. docu-drama work, including 1994's Tito's Second Time Among^ the Serbs. More recently, his focus has shifted beyond the divided Balkans Lucia Tkacova to queîon its relationship with the tightening controls of European Born in 1977 in Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia. Lives and works in borders, delving into the heart of issues of refugees and migrants in Bratislava, Slovakia. * Lucia Tkacova ftudied at the Academy Fortress Europe (2000), and Kenedi Goes back Home (2003) and Kenedi: of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia, where, as from 2005, Loil and Found (2005). she is assiânt teacher at the Department of Painting. In 2003 she For more information, visit www.zelimirzilnik.com founded Gallery HIT in Bratislava, a space focused on the young generation of contemporary artifts, and worked as its director for Daniela Zyman three years. Her recent artiîc works, based on personal Tories, play Born in 1964 in Vienna, Au^ria. Lives and works in Vienna. * with the concept of access to different forms of power: professional, Daniela Zyman is currently curator of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art political, ideological, and geographical. • Selected solo exhi Contemporary, Vienna - a foundation established in 2002 by bitions: "Magical recipies for love, happiness and health". Open Gal Francesca von Habsburg. She has been chief curator at the MAK- lery, Bratislava; "Ortografio de Potenco", Futura Gallery, Prague (both Auftrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna 2006, with A. M. Chisa); "Non^rategic Scenarios: The Red Library", between 1995 and 2001 and was fundamental in the creation of the Jeleni Gallery, Prague; "Videosomic: We Would Prefer to Sleep With MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in Los Roman Ondak", Space Gallery, Bratislava (both 2005, with A. M. Angeles, which she has directed for some years. Zyman has earned Chisa); "Casing", Space Gallery, Bratislava (2004); "A Room of Their her MA in art hiitory atthe University of Vienna and her MFAat New Own", Medium Gallery, Bratislava (with A. M. Chisa); "Pretty guys". York's Columbia University. She held teaching positions at the Uni Gallery HIT, Bratislava (2003). • Selected group exhibitions: versity of Applied Arts, Vienna, and has authored numerous essays "Re-shufFle: Notions of an Itinerant Museum", Art in General, New for catalogs and international magazines. York; "Les Beaux Ideals", Synagogue Centre for Contemporary Art, Trnava; "Innenansicht Prag 06", Kun^raum NOE, Vienna; "Shades of Humor", BWA Awangarda, Wroclaw; "My Love is Dead", Galerie Oelfrueh, Hamburg (all 2006); "The Arti^ With Two Brains", NAB - Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham; "Iconoclash", Spitz Gallery, London; Prague Biennale 2 (all 2005).

175 Li^ of Works

Kutlug Ataman Kuba, 2004 40-channel video in^allation each video approx. 50 min, color, sound Nedko Solakov Edition 2/5 A BG Bar, 2006 In^allation Commissioned by Artangel, London, co-produced by Carnegie Metal, paint, oak wood, refrigerator, glasses, non-alcoholic bever Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; ages, white permanent felt-tip pen, texts and drawings over black Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; Theater der Welt, painted metal Stuttgart; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 121 X 443 X 295,5 cm

Film production by Yalan Dunya, Istanbul Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna Producer: Gulen Guler Assi^ant editors: Can Deniz Sahin, Burcu Baki III. pp. 58/59, 60, 61, 64, 65 Translations: Brendan Freely, Irfan Oksuz © Nedko Solakov, Jasper Sharp (p. 64) Subtitling: Altan Sebuktekin OfiRce coordinator: Nukhet Karvanli Runner: Emre Guler Zelimir Zilnik Yalan Diinya would like to thank: Dogan Albayrak, Nihal Soap in Danube Opera, 2006 Basibuyuk, Gurel Guler, GiJray Guler, Martin Fryer, Juliet Gray, Workshops and single-channel video projection (^igdem Goymen, Ozkan CangiJven, Bilkom approx. 45 min., color, sound

III. pp. 22, 24, 25, 32, 33 Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (c) Artangel, London (exhibition view the Sorting Office, London); Michael Strasser/T-B A 21 (in^allation view Negrelli barge) Workshops held by Zelimir Zilnik in Novi Sad, January to June 2006, with the final result of the 45-min. video Soap in Danube Opera

Matei Bejenaru Concept and artiftic director: Zelimir Zilnik Travelling Guide, 2005/06 Workshop assiftance lecturing editing: Marin Malesevic and Public art project, brochures and billboards Branislav Klasnja Workshop assiânce lecturing camera: Bojan Djurisic and Brochures di^ributed throughout Romania Pedja Radosavljevic Poêr 50 X 70 cm, folded Camera, editing, sound: Ljiija Dinic, Sofija Petakovic, Zdravko Billboards in Conânta and Vienna Pranjic, Ljubisa Stepanovic, Muhamed Eljsani, Vitomir Pucar, Saiji Hasani.Zoran Borovac, Fjurim Eljsani, Vladimir Savcic, Commissioned and published by IDEA arts+society magazine, Aljus Heljsani, Muhamed Maroti, Bojan Grcic, Senad Mutapi, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2005 Milan Janic Commissioned as a public art project by Thyssen-Bornemisza Production manager: PetarCehov Art Contemporary, Vienna, in 2006 Assiânt production manager: Robert Radic Production: Terra Film, Novi Sad III. pp. 40-51 © Matei Bejenaru III. pp. 70-74, 85 © Zelimir Zilnik

176 Renata Poljak All One Knows, 2006 2-channel film and sound in^allation filmed on 16 mm and DV-cam, transferred to DVD Part 1: 10 min., part 2: 9 min., color, sound soundscape by Ramuntcho Matta Anetta Mona Chisa 8^ Lucia Tkacova Edition 1/3 After the Order, 2006 Performance, photograph Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna Freedom Square, Nameftie Slobody, Bratislava, May 14, 2006

Writer/director: Renata Poljak Ca. 100 participants forming a human pyramid

Parti Commissioned as a public art project by Thyssen-Bornemisza Director of photography: Paul Brettschuh Art Contemporary, Vienna Voice-over: Renata Poljak, Paul Brettschuh Voice recordings: Frederic Cousan Developed and digitalized at Synchro Film 8(Video, Vienna Emanuel Danesch 8?; David Rych Part 2 Minority Logbox: multiple degrees of representation Ca^: Sanja Vejnovic and Darko Milas logged 0106-0506: TR-RO-BG-YU-HR-H-SK-A, 2006 Director of photography: Goran Mecava Video inâllation in "Nagetusch Brillant" caravan Dresden Editor: Vesna Biljan (built i960) Assiftant cameraman: Mario Vargovic Digitalized video archive in self-service video jukebox (metal) / Gaffer: Dejan Brkic variable site specific setting with one or several monitors Sound engineer: Ivica Slivalic Color grading: Goran Rukavina, ûdio Guberovic, Zagreb Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna English translation: Susan Jakopec III. pp. 150,151,156,157 Special thanks: Mercy Bona Pavelic, ûdio Guberovic, Zagreb © Emanuel Danesch 8( David Rych Thanks to: Vanja Hraê, Mato llijic

III. pp. 92-95, 98 © Renata Poljak

Laszio Csaki 8^ Szabolcs Palfi Agar-The Hungarian Greyhound Project, 2006 30-channel video installation 6o-min. loop, color, sound Edition 1/3

Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

III. pp. 116-119,123,124,130 (c) Laszio Csaki 8^ Szabolcs Palfi

177 Schedule and Venues

May 1-7, 2006: Con^anta, Romania* Mate! Bejenaru: Travelling Guide Tomis Touri^ Harbor, Conftanta / Public space, Buchare^

May 13 - 18, 2006: Rousse, Bulgaria Nedko Solakov: A BG Bar Curator: lara Boubnova Negrelli barge / Canetti House, Slavyanska Street 12, Rousse www.ica.cult.bg

May 23 - 26, 2006: Novi Sad, Serbia 8^ Montenegro Zelimir Zilnik: Soap in Danube Opera Curator: Zoran Pantelic Negrelli barge / Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Dunavska 37, Novi Sad www.kuda.org

May 27 - 30, 2006: Vukovar, Croatia Renata Poljak: All One Knows Curator: Branko Franceschi Negrelli barge /Vukovar City Museum, Eltz Ca^le, Zupanijska 2, Vukovar www.mmsu.hr

June 2 - 11, 2006: Budape^, Hungary Laszio Czaki 8(Szabolcs Palfi: Agar-The Hungarian Greyhound Project Curator: Janos Szoboszlai Negrelli barge / Ethnographic Museum, Kossuth Lajos ter 12, Budapest www.acbgaleria.hu

June 14 - 20, 2006: Bratislava, Slovakia Anetta Mona Chisa 8^ Lucia Tkacova: After the Order Curator: Boris Ondreicka Negrelli barge / Freedom Square, Nameftie Slobody, Bratislava www.tranzit.org

June 21, 2006: Kuba arrives in Vienna, Au^ria

June 24 - Sept 9, 2006: Exhibition in Vienna Ne^royhof, Ne^royplatz 2, and T-B A21, Himmelpfortgasse 13, Vienna www.tba21.org

* Due to the flooding of the lower Danube region and its ensuing humanitarian crisis, the opening launch and the presentation of Kiiba:Journey Again^ the Current had to be pofi:poned to May 13 in Rousse, Bulgaria. I78 Kiiba: Journey Again^ the Current Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

Project director: Francesca von Habsburg

T-B A21 curatorial team: Danieia Zyman, Gabrielle Cram, Jasper Sharp

Project architect, technical coordination: Philipp Krummel

T-B A21 project team: Samaela Bilic-Eric, Eva Ebersberger, Barbara Horvath, Alexandra Hennig, Mischi Pakesch, Gioia Zwack, Catharina Coreth, Carola Annoni

Press and PR: A^rid Bader / BSX - Bader 8^ Schmolzer GmbH, Vienna Ben Rawlingson Plant/ Brunswick Arts Consulting, London Sara Fitzmaurice / Fitz 8^ Co, New York

Our special thanks go to: Kutlug Ataman, the people of Kiiba, Penka Angelova, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Emil Brix, Matei Caltia, Cosmina Chituc, Peter Forgacs, Martin Gabriel, Gulen Guler, Nathalie Hoyos, Klaus Hundsbichler, ICA- Sofia, Andreas Kieninger,Timo Koe^er,James Lingwood, Boris Marte, Sarita Matijevic, Biljana Mickov, Ruza Marie, Vladiya Mihaylova, Michael Morris, Kiril Prashkov, Elsa Prochazka, Walter SeidI, Manfred Seitz, Kalin Serapionov, Sava Stepanov, Attila Tordai-S. and IDEA magazine, Elena Velikova, and to all those silent helpers and voices who helped to realize this voyage.

179 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

The language that Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary has cho sen to use in contextualizing the Kiiba project has a great deal in common with the effort being made to change things for the better. Kiiba has itself overcome the categorization of "breaking boundaries" with the resonance of its hone^y, the infinite richness and lyricism, which is Kutlug Ataman's signature. It is Kiiba itself that led to the enlargement of this project from being a simple one-wayjourney up the Danube to Vienna, to it becoming a cataly^ of parallel positions from the whole Danube region. As enlargement of the EU is the sub ject of great debate among^ member nations, it is all the more rel evant that we remind ourselves of our common humanity. (Francesca von Habsburg)

A new foundation for contemporary art, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary - T-B A21 was founded by Francesca von Habsburg in Vienna, Au^ria. Its mission is to support through co-productions and unique commissions the creation of new works from arti^s that contribute important positions to the contemporary art prac tice. T-B A21 seeks to achieve this through multi-disciplinary projects that break down the traditional boundaries that define and catego rize arti^ic expression in its different forms, whil^ at the same time empowering the audiences with a living experience of contemporary arti^ic expression. The work of the foundation brings innovation to the core of theThyssen-Bornemisza fourth generation's approach to collecting and patronizing the arts.

Chairman Francesca von Habsburg, Vienna

Truftees Norman Rosenthal, Royal Academy, London Peter Pakesch, Kun^haus, Graz

Advisory board Peter Weibel, ZKM, Karlsruhe Olafur Eliasson, arti^, Denmark/Iceland Diana Thater, arti^, California Simon de Pury, Phillips de Pury S^ Company, New York, Zurich

Curator Daniela Zyman, Vienna

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Thyssen-Bornemisza TB Art Contemporary 180 This catalog was published on occasion of the project Kuba: Journey Again^ the Current, May 1 -June 21, 2006, and the exhibition of the same title, June 25- September 9, 2006, Ne^roynof, Ne^lroyplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, and T-B A21, Himmelpfortgasse 13, iO]o Vienna

Published by: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

Concept and editors: Gabrielle Cram, Daniela Zyman /T-B A21, Vienna

Graphic design: Thees Dohrn, Philipp von Rohden / Zitromat, Berlin

Typesetting: Chriftian Schienerl / PixelPan Media Design, Vienna

Copyediting: Sonja Illa-Paschen

Proofreading: Elio Karamatic, Duncan Larkin, Andrew Horsfield

Translations: Ida Cerne (pp. 75, 80-84), Gabor Csillag (pp. 120-125), f~'lip Hochel (pp. 144-1.47), Andrew Horsfield (pp. 76-78,160-169), Alex Moldovan (pp. 40-51), Goran Vujasinovic (pp. 96-101)

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