Femkanje ¬ Spaces of Togetherness

contribution for the 

>>> SPACES OF TOGETHERNESS <<<

EXHIBITION @ CULTURAL CENTER OF BELGRADE

28.01 – 04.03.2021.

curated by Femkanje collective

SOUND DATABASE

This invitation to exhibit and the current situation of the pandemic, allowed us to work on a new archive – reaching out to all former guests to contribute from their homes. The sound database presents a special collection of sound documents from the field of contemporary art and culture, primarily Serbian artists, former guests of Femkanje, artists from the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Europe, and beyond. The archive consists of sound works, compositions, sounds from works (videos, performances, installations), as well as audio recordings of plays, readings of dramatic texts and other materials, sound messages of various contents, and field recordings. 

Requiem for the undersea

Review by Nina Čalopek on kulturpunkt.hr >>> here <<< 

Requiem for the undersea is a collection of works based on noise pollution observed at the heart of Korčula town in South Adriatic. Hydrophone recording sites are urban reconstruction sites, that comprehend undersea digging with heavy machinery, such as reconstruction of the West port as well as ACI marina docks. The recording of a forklift scrapping the sea bed, recording of a large pneumatic drill, the sound of pouring a large amount of concrete into the sea bed – are foundations of electro-acoustic constructs, which are further de-contextualized with musical appropriations of several objects treated as instruments: metal laundry dryer, cardboard tube, AM radio signals, electromagnetic waves from electrical outlets, etc. With additional field and hydrophone recordings from the sites: island of Vrnik, Ražnjić Lighthouse, Lenga open quarry, St. Nikola’s Monastery, as well as improvisational sequences on cello – the intention to capture the moments of anthropogenic impact evolves into anxious necrologies for the undersea. 

Framework Radio #740

 

Sounds in this edition from both new discoveries (Hayley Suviste & Lewis Ashton) and old favorites (Manja Ristić & Francisco Meirino), along with sounds from the aporee maps from the US, Austria, Portugal, Spain, and Greece, and a framework introduction recorded for us by regular contributor Barry Cullen. Listen episode >>> here <<< >>> broadcasts schedule <<< >>>

Do Not Go Gentle

release for 20x20 project curated by Neil Stringfellow 

>>> 20 pieces 20 seconds long <<< 

[...] as a starting point, I decomposed the poem by Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night" using his own voice as a unique sonic imprint / verses are scattered to reflect the chaotic or rather syncopated apprehension of reality / verses are also moved away from each other with compositions in between as a metaphor of days that stand between impulses, realization, and integration of an experience as such / on the far end, I am yearning for a dramaturgical balance in the poetry fragments from the Bell Jar by beloved Sylvia Plath / the final poetical narrative is in my mother tongue and speaks about the struggle of a woman in an oppressive and discriminatory society.

Starfish & the sonic tonalities

The storytelling starts with an old vinyl crackling of the Wind Quintet by Ljubica Marić, and develops into anthropogenic anarchy of below and above Adriatic sea noise pollution. Many of the hydrophone sounds should be credited to shrimps, crabs, and fish from the Korčula archipelago. 

The fabulous cover is made by Vukadinn Filipović, it is a portrait of Janja Bilbija.

The last track is the filed recording of a small rock barrier at the St. Nikola's Monastery, which is situated at the edge of the Korčula town. The Monastery was built around 1505, with additional buildings added in the reconstruction effort in 1665. Monastery has one of the oldest libraries in Europe.

((( headphones listening )))

Inferno ~ Cities and Memory

To mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s masterpiece The Divine Comedy, more than 80 artists from all over the world have created his vision of Hell through sound – this is the Cities and Memory Inferno.

Facing the architecture of darkness, I chose the realm of Phlegethon, or did it chose me? The Phlegethon is the boiling river of blood that comprised the first part of the Seventh Circle of Hell.

“Within this river are those tyrants so aptly punished in a boiling blood.” — Virgil.

Composition Souls on Fire is conceptualized around the realm of darkness deeply seeded in the human soul, which reflects in extreme actions such as murder, tyranny, and violence, and fuels the deepest fears we struggle to comprehend or even only to look at.

Sonic Ontology of Negligence

Sonic Ontology of Negligence ~ Sonična ontologija malomarnosti ~ Sonična ontologija nemara

7 Nov 2020 – 8 Jan 2021

FM exhibition

exhibition of 8-channel sound installation

in-situ FM walks

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7 Nov 2020 at 12.00 (noon) on FM 88.8 MHz – in-situ FM walk (at Park Tivoli)
10 Nov 2020 at 18.00 p.m. on FM 88.8 MHz – in-situ FM walk (at Park Tivoli)
18 Nov 2020 at 20.00 p.m. on program Ars – radio exhibition opening

Production Zavod Cona, Galerija za zvok, bioakustiko in umetnost / Gallery for sound, bioacoustics and art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

About conceptualization of work pdf notebook Sonic Ontology of Negligence

Review ~ Radio Student

Polyphonic Echoes ~ Orango

Orango is a multilingual spoken-word and sound art piece composed by Manja Ristić with a poem by Cosmina Moroșan in the frame of POLYPHONIC ECHOES, a project organized by Jumătatea plină for SEMI SILENT. Poetry curatorial by Vasile Leac, sound art and overall curatorial by Anamaria Pravicencu. Partners: Czech Center and the National Museum of Romanian Literature. With the support of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. 

Strelice >>> Arrows <<< exhibition by Simonida Rajčević

 

exhibition by Simonida Rajčević >>> STRELICE <<< DOB Gallery Belgrade October 13th <<< excerpt from the sound installation made for this occasion is decomposition of the track Blue by R.E.M. feat Patti Smith, with fragments from The Bell Jar by beloved Sylvia Plath.

sonoAdriatic tales ~ ArsElectronica 2020

 

 

sonoAdriatic tales full preview 

the compositional study that I am developing in continuity is shifting through the disciplines of sound & listening, instrumental improv, anthropology, culture of memory, site-specific intervention, phenomenology, neuroscience and beyond.

collection ~ the naked flame trembles in an empty room

 

gentle blend of soundscapes and poetry, sonic textures, dreamlike drones and object improvisation. in the collection - the naked flame trembles in an empty room - I am transcending the context of memory field strained within the stratum of subjective emotional growth, that tackles the question of our strengths and availabilities to comprehend the paradigm shift of a safe space, while burdened with the uncertainty of the galloping recession and menace of the pandemic, caught in the labyrinth of both intimate and collective fears.

August 2020, Korčula island.

ArsElectronica 2020, Adriatic Garden

 

ArsElectronica - In Keplers Gardens - segment Adriatic >>> The program of an on-line platform in making co-curated by Robertina Šebjanič and myself, following the support by Gjino Šutić and Marko Vivoda. Made possible by: UR Institute (HR), PiNA (SI), Ars Electronica (AT). 

With the field recording collection 11 days, we are slowly unraveling the depths of beloved Adriatic complexities, through the acts of listening, compassion and responsible attitudes toward the ecological system that sustains and defines our socio-cultural as well as economic and existential development.

"Invisible chambers of the microenvironments that I am revealing in the field recording collection 11 days are a creative imprint of infrapsychic symbolism, which emerges from subtle morphologies hidden in the palimpsest of memory of the places once heavily exploited in the name of urbanisation and industrial progress, but now recovered and taken over by nature."

Released August 9th, 2020.

Lažni bol ~ audio works for exhibition of objects & paintings by Simonida Rajčević

  

Belgrade Cultural Centre, August 6th 2020.  >>> virtual tour of the gallery space <<<<<< sound works >>>

Manja Ristic · Lažni bol - exhibition of paintings & objects by Simonida Rajčević

Manja Ristic · Lažni bol - exhibition of paintings & objects by Simonida Rajčević