Working Encounters First Edition:
PLANETARY SUPER-HEROISMS
On Villains, Aliens and Superheroes. On Other Stories
On Villains, Aliens and Superheroes. On Other Stories is an experimental artistic online project that gathers fifteen international artists from around the globe, who are invited to respond to the topic.
As part of their shared research process and inputs, three renowned artists who have dealt with the topic in their practice are invited to present their work in public. They will be interviewed by the editors of the project.
Working Encounters Premieres: PROGRAM
October 2
12:00 Cristina Gagiu: SUPERHEROES, VILLAINS AND ALIENS of our times
15:00 James Jordan Johnson: Negotiations of Obeah Material Memory – The Denigration of Material Belief Systems
18:00 Mohamed Yusuf Boss: People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them
21:00 Ariadna Rubio Lleó / a company: Here I come to save my day
23:00 Rodrigo Batista: THE B-SIDE (video-propaganda-art)
October 3
12:00 Vanda Velagić: My supermom and her superhero friends
14:00 Lea Kukovičič: What would happen if we found them
16:00 Nicola Gunn: Say you host a late-night talk show
18:00 Zuzana Sceranková: Does the machine that Anton lost his hand in still work?
20:00 Rita Natálio: Water Carriers and Spillovers
22:00 Jovana Kocić & Marija Marjanović: HOLE IN THE WALL – Young Olga and the Women’s Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia
00:00 Tanja Šljivar & Tamara Antonijević: The Hag Theory & How to Spin an Endometrium
THE FIRST THREE PUBLIC EVENTS:
September 15, 2020, 19:00 Bojan Đorđev, a theater-maker from Belgrade, will moderate the talk with Rabih Mroué, a theatre-maker and visual artist from Beirut, author of performances, videos, installations and performative “non-academic lectures”, some of them dealing with issues related to the Lebanese civil war and other conflicts in the Middle East.
September 17, 2020, 19:00 Set up as an everyday chat, the talk between the writer Barbi Marković and the artist and curator Nataša Mačkuljak will be a stroll through Barbi’s novel Superheldinnen [Superheroines] and an analysis of their super powers as migrants in the city of Vienna. Mačkuljak and Marković are both currently living in Vienna and come from former Yugoslavia. WATCH THE TALK HERE
September 19, 2020, 18:00 Ivana Marjanović, a curator from Belgrade, currently director of Kunstraum Innsbruck, will interview Želimir Žilnik, a filmmaker from Novi Sad. Žilnik has been active since the 1960s, from the Yugoslav Black Wave cinema movement on. Three of his films, featuring retiring female textile industry workers (Vera and Eržika), a Roma man deported from the EU to Serbia (Kenedi Trilogy), and a hundred-years-old World War II resistance veteran (One Woman – One Century) will form the point of departure for a talk about heroism. WATCH THE INTERVIEW HERE
Join us in our process of searching for and creating other stories On Villains, Aliens and Superheroes!
Welcome to Working Encounters!
On Villains, Aliens and Superheroes. On Other Stories.
Online public programs with Rabih Mroué, Barbi Marković and Želimir Žilnik
Organized by the Create to Connect -> Create to Impact network in the form of Working Encounters
September 15, 2020, 19:00.; September 17, 2020, 19:00. and September 19, 2020, 18:00.
Cultural and media space is a terrain of proliferation as well as dispute and struggle regarding these topics: heroes and superheroes are everywhere, but whose heroes are they and for whom? From mythology, to antifascist and anti-colonial struggles and all the way to pop culture and media celebrities, the notions of hero and heroine carry many references and possible readings. But who gets to be seen as a “villain”, who as a “hero” and why? …
