Bio
Isidora Ilic (Novi Sad, 1978) is a film/video artist, based in Belgrade. She studied Comparative literature and literary theory at University of Belgrade, and Women and gender studies at Belgrade Women`s Studies and Gender Research Center. Ilic occasionally works interdisciplinary across performance, installation and text.
Bosko Prostran (Belgrade, 1979) is an independent filmmaker, based in Belgrade. He graduated from Faculty of Political Sciences at Belgrade University and received a MA degree in Media and Communications. Prostran works as video editor and teaches as assistant professor at Faculty of Media and Communication in Belgrade.
Residencies
2015 AIR Krems, Kunstmeile Krems & Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria 2011 KulturKontakt Austria Artists-in-Residence Programme, Vienna, Austria 2010 FringeMK Artist in Residence, Milton Keynes, UK 2009 FringeMK Artist in Residence, Milton Keynes, UK 2009 International Fellowship Programme for Visual Arts and Theory, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria 2006 Association Ciel Ouvert La Brousse/Center Intermondes La Rochelle, France
Grants/ Awards
2015 Artist-In-Residence Krems Grant 2012 Roberto Cimetta Fund Travel Grant 2011 ECF STEP Beyond Travel Grant 2011 KulturKontakt Austria AIR Programme 2010 Arts Council of England & MK Fringe R&D Project Grant 2009 Arts Council of England & MK Fringe R&D Project Grant 2009 Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Artist in Residence Grant – International Fellowship Programme for Visual Arts and Theory 2008 Secretary for Culture of City of Belgrade Production Grant
Lectures / Talks / Presentations / Discussions
2015 The Images of Past as Images for the Future | Lecture Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia 2014 Artist Talk, 55 October Salon, Belgrade City Museum 2014 Artist Talk and Screening, Voralberg Museum, Bregenz 2014 Film and Politics | Discussion, serbi.arte, Austria 2013 Doplgenger Artist Talk and Screening, Filmforum, Students Cultural Center, Belgrade 2013 The War Veteran in Film – Serial of lectures and film screenings | Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade (Lecturer, Editor & Moderator) 2012 The best days of our lives – representation of war veterans on film | 6th KRAF – Antiwar and Engaged Films Festival of Kragujevac, SRB (Lecturer) 2012 Subversive strategies of Yugoslav amateur film | Lecture Performance, Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, FR 2011 Is it art or 21st century post-digital folklore? | Panel discussion, KC Grad, Belgrade 2011 school is over | Discussion, platforma11, Leipzig 2011 Doplgenger Artist Talk and Screening, Kino klub Split, Croatia 2009 Write she says – Nathalie Granger | Lecture, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria 2009 Pandora’s box – Inverted narratives and pleasures | Lecture, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Austria 2009 Who is I.I.? | Artist talk, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria 2008 About Mirage| Artist talk, SCCC, Belgrade, Serbia 2007 Artist talk, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK 2007 Artist talk, Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire, England
Published Articles
Not Reconciled, in: Ignorant Schoolmaster Bulletin for self-education and social issues, no 20/2013, June 2013. Images and/of War, in: Ignorant Schoolmaster Bulletin for self-education and social issues, no 20/2013, June 2013. Art (and) Politics, in The Occupied Times of London, issue 21, May 2013. Odyssey’s coming home, in: Ignorant Schoolmaster Bulletin for self-education and social issues, no.16/5.12.2012, January 2013. Politics of invisibility, in BETON Cultural-propaganda community, No.117, November 2011. Mirage looks for the viewer/reader, in ProFemina, Journal for Women’s Literature and Culture. no. 51/52, Ed. Svetlana Slapšak and Dubravka Đurić (2008):28-32 Writing of women’s film, in ProFemina, Journal for Women’s Literature and Culture. no. 35/36, Ed. Svetlana Slapšak and Dubravka Đurić (2004):176-187
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Fragments untitled (III), City Gallery of Požega 2015 Fragments untitled (II), Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Pančevo 2014 Fragments untitled (I), Gallery of Belgrade Youth Center, Serbia 2009 Voices_Gazes_Traces, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia 2009 Youtopia, Alkatraz Gallery, Metelkova Mesto, Ljubljana, SLO 2008 Youtopia, O3one Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia 2007 Youtopia, Westbury Arts Center, Milton Keynes, UK
Group Exhibitions 2015 South by Southeast, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong | Curators: Anca Verona Mihuleţ and Patrick Flores 2014 “Disappearing Things”- 55th OCTOBER SALON, Belgrade City Museum | Curators: Nicolaus Schafhausen and Vanessa Joan Müller 2014 BelgradeNow, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns, Austria |curated by Branislav Mihajlović 2014 La Bande Video, Centre de création en arts médiatiques, Québec 2014 STATE ABED / DRŽAVA U KREVETU, Gallery of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia | Curated by Nataša Kadin 2014 Open Systems 1-01-04/13, GPL Contemporary, Vienna, Austria | Curated by: Gülsen Bal, Isin Önol, Walter Seidl, Aneta Stojnić, Nikola Dedić, Federica Bueti | 2013 SALON VIDEO 4, Iasi, Romania | curated by Luminița Apostu 2013 ARTSLAB 3, Open Systems, Vienna, Austria | curated by Aneta Stojnić & Nikola Dedić 2012 15th Art Biennale Pančevo (de/re/construction: space/time/memories), Galerija savremene umetnosti, Pančevo, SRB | curated by Aneta Stojnić & Nikola Dedić | 2012 Video in progress 3, Koroska galerija likovnih umetnosti, Slovenj Gradec, SLO | curated by KOLEKTIVA 2011 TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague (CZ) 2011 Wir arbeiten dran Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, Germany | curated by Andrea Günther 2011 Gallery ArtPoint, Vienna (AT) 2009 This Is Not A Gateway, London, UK 2009 Video in progress 3, Photon gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia | curated by KOLEKTIVA 2009 performIC, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria 2009 Am I That Name?, Gallery SC, Zagreb Croatia | selected by WO kolektiv 2008 namaTRE.ba, Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina | curated by Igor Bošnjak 2008 Filmplatform, Copenhagen, DK |curated by Larissa Sansour 2007 Braziers International Artists Workshop Open Day, Oksforshire, UK 2005 Mapping Rightwing Extremism | video selection by kuda.org 2004 1st September’s Art Gallery, Students’ Cultural Center, Belgrade, SRB 2004 April’s Meetings, Students’ Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia
Festivals / Screenings
2015 In A Nutshell, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt 2015 Absolutely now / Association Apsolutno 1993-2005, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina | Curated by Inke Arns and Gordana Nikolić 2015 Film screening and discussion, Novi bioskop Zvezda / New Star Cinema Belgrade, Serbia 2014 Pleasure Dome, CineCycle, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2014 Cairo Video Festival, Egypt 2014 Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris 2014 serbi.arte, Voralberg, Austria 2013 Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris 2013 Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France 2013 VIDEOEX – International Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich, Switzerland 2013 VIDEFORMES – Art vidéo et cultures numériques, Clermont-Ferrand, FR 2012 Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris 2011 DONUMENTA, Regensburg, Germany 2011 Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France 2011 Facing the Artwork – Video Art and Short Film Fest, Halle (Saale), Germany 2010 7th Naoussa International Film Festival, Naoussa, Greece 2010 Fundada Artists’ Film Festival, Halifax, UK 2010 Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France 2009 VIII International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk, Russia/Siberia 2009 Swan Day Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2008 Videologia International festival of audio-visual arts, Volgograd, Russia 2008 CologneOFF IV LAB, Cologne Online Film Festival, Cologne, Germany 2008 Videomedeja International Video Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia 2008 Alternative Film-Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia 2008 AZA Digital Cinema Festival, Thessaloníki, Greece 2007 International Belgrade Documentary & Short Film Festival 2006 International Film Festival OSFAF, Skoplje, Macedonia 2005 L’Alternative Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain 2005 BELEF (Belgrade Summer Festival), Belgrade, Serbia 2005 International Film Festival Golden Knight, Russia 2005 April’s Meetings, Students’ Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia 2004 Festival of short film, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2003 V.I.P. Art Gallery, Students’ Cultural Center, Belgrade
Festival Awards
2008 Alternative FilmVideo Festival Belgrade: Significant Achievement Award & Audience Award 2006 Significant Achievement Award, Alternative FilmVideo Festival, Belgrade 2006 Best Actress Award, International Film Festival OSFAF, Skopje 2004 Significant Achievement Award, Alternative FilmVideo Festival, Belgrade