AGORA8 :: ISSUE # 2

Ivana Keser approaches the economies of Art from an information perspective by producing newspapers around a particular thematic – borders, migration, community, socialisation – that are filled with a generosity of humour hinting at the porosity of the deeper subject matter. In Ivana Keser's case the seemingly endless (re)cycle that newspapers report are replaced with vignettes of a more personal experience of the world.

agora8 has a .pdf download of the front pages from her newspapers and a second page with installations.

In a 1967 text 'Art, Insanity and Crime' the Czech theorist Jindrich Chalupecky (1910-90) traces a historical legacy of Happsoc and other groundbreaking events against a pervailing intolerance and demonising of the avant-garde by both art institutions and the law. He focuses on Bratislav artist Alex Mlynarcik's "Second Permanent Manifestation", set in a pissoir.

Rolf Langebartels makes Performance, Installation, and Audio art. 'Table Concert' is a particpatory work that involves a number of players operting within set parameters to experience encounter through sound.

'Weekend Art: Hallelujah The Hill' was a 10-year Performance project of Aleksandar Ilic and with the participation of Ivana Keser and Tomislav Gotovac. It started during the recent Balkan wars, as much as aesthetic resistance as a hymn to nature. The work is located in a series of weekend walks up Medvednica mountain outside Zagreb and also in the performing of the slide documentation.

The association APSOLUTNO was founded in 1993 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. The production of the association is created through collaboration of its four members. APSOLUTNO started in the field of fine arts and gradually developed to include not only aesthetic but also cultural, social, and political aspects. The work of APSOLUTNO is based on an interdisciplinary research into reality, with the aim to make it open to new readings.

Darko Fritz is a media artist, curator and graphic designer. He seeks to fill the gap between two worlds: contemporary art practice and media art culture. His artworks make use of various materials and mediums: architectonic, organic [horticulture], public transport, electronic, traditional art mediums, communication [TV, radio, newspapers, internet, fax] ...