Pourquoi la culture

Why culture is a little video, made in cooperation with writers, actors, visual artists, musicians, directors and critics. They all try to find an answer , why is culture so important in Serbia.

http://vimeo.com/62597904

...SHE

She enjoys asking herself silly questions about this world or the landscape that spreads under her eyes......

Like to look for things that no one else catches......

Looking back at the audience in a dark theater.....

Dipping fingers into a sack of grain......

Cracking the top of creme brulee......

She is taken by a strange feeling of  complete harmony with herself. All is perfect in that instant, the softness of the light, this little perfume in the air, the quiet noise of the town.Life seems then so simple and clear like an impulse of love.......A perfect moment

Le Balcon

Le Balcon is a little concept store in Belfort. It is a place for everyone. 

Prêt à portes, accessoires, deco, curiosities, space for kids.... cd, books, salon of tea....

Here yu can find creations of young french designers, but also an international. Isabel Marant, Jérôme Dreufuss, American Vintage, Paul and Joe sister, OPI, Mars by Marc Jacobs, Kusmi tea......

Biddy, little hedghog

Little Biddy is a new attraction on internet. He has two years and he travels with his owners all around the world. Like that he visited cities, villages, mountains, rivers, lakes, but also different manifestations.

Grimoire du futur

During the next five  months Espace Multimedia Gantner has a privilege to host British artist Suzanne Treister with her exhibition which title is Grimoir du future.

   Suzanne Treister is a British artist. She was born 1958, in London. She studied at St. Martin's School of Art, London ( 1978 - 1981 ) and Chelsea College of Art and Design London ( 1981 - 1982 ). Now , she is based in London but she lived in Australia, New York and Berlin. Suzanne is primarily painter during the 1980's, but she is also a digital artist. She became a pioneer in the digital art , new media and web based field from the beginning of 1990's. She creates fictional worlds and international organizations, making work about  emerging technologies, by using a video, Internet, photography, drawing and water color.  Her work deals with history, power, hallucinatory and also with identity.

Here are some of her works :

NATO  watercolor project 2004-2008 , where she use NATO's codification system  and in that way describe and classify large parts of the world around us. In the book she presents items like animals, battleships, perfume, musical instruments which are represented in a way so that they can be used by the Military.

The Alchemy series , takes information’s from front covers of daily newspapers, The Financial Times, Al-Ahram, Dziennik Polski, The Guardian, Le Figaro, The New York Times and Jüdische Allgemeine and presents that covers like alchemical drawings. World is here a place which is animated by strange forces, powers and beliefs. As a part of this, she made a wall drawing A Timeline of Science From Fiction Inventions: Weapons, Warfare and Security.  Draws up a history documenting of imaginary and fantastic military technology. She draws schemes of the connected circles of the tree of life from the Jewish mystical traditions of the Kabala.

Correspondence: From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, letter headed paper from governments, presidential offices, embassies, arms companies and corporations.

War Artists , includes 12 portrait drawings which refers to the Second World War and the Iraq war.

Emeyefive, about Stella Rimington, director of MI5

Time travelling with Rosalind Brodsky, artist and film maker, who suffers from delusions. In one of them she believed that she works in the 21th century as a researcher at the Institute of Milltronics and Advanced Time Interventionality.  In 2058 she dies and leaves her costumes, time travelling diary , her home in Bavaria and much of her research to Institute, which , in gratitude make a virtual tour about Rosalind.

The most recent work is HEXEN 2.0.  This work is presented in the exhibition Grimoire du future. The work is made like a set of tarot cards which picture people, companies, agencies, concepts. Like inspirations  for the cards she used conventional Tarot Marseille. But here the subject is historical. Every card present the most significant historical moments which changed the course of 20th century. That can be a person, idea or event. Her thinking are illustrated like cartoon drawing and she used also a handwritten text.

In this cards You can find John von Neuman- mathematician, Margaret Mead - anthropologist, Theodore Kaczynski ( Unabomber ) , Timothy Leary - psychologist, Nikola Tesla - scientist, Richard Stallman  - software freedom activist and programmer, Hannah Arendt - political theorist. Other cards present intelligence agencies, drugs, LSD, hippie community, develop of Internet, movements, important historical events like Macy Conferences.

She also made five maps, historical diagrams which function as the key to the project and which show how we can fit cards into a bigger picture.

The body of she's art is developing of cybernetics, history of Internet, interconnected histories of the counterculture. Main theme of her work is control - social, technological, medial. The way in which she has developed and still do that through new stuffs like electronic ID cards or biometric passport. We are like in a some closed place and Big Brother watch us and make the moves.

Within the exhibition, the cards are presented in a big form. You can play with them and travel through the past, present and future, learn about different thinking, events, movements, persons. In that way you can make bigger picture about the world.

Do a reading with the cards, deal them and open your mind to what emerges.

Suzanne Treister

Tarot

Participants in the cards

My working place

Well...let's say something about a place where I will spend one year.  My working place is settled in Bourogne, little village in the northeast of France. This is a kind of artistic center and its name is Espace Multimedia Gantner.  This place was created in 1998 as a part of General Council of territory of Belfort. Its imagine like a place where people can meet different kind of contemporary art and to learn something about new technologies.

Although is settled in small  village, this place is very lively, with lot events and everyday activity.

Here you can visit a lot of exhibitions , concerts and performances  which are performed by artist who use multimedia as a source for their work, meet different styles.

Also you can be a participant of different workshops and trainings. They are prepared for children but also for adults. In that way you can find information’s how to learn or master use of computer, network or how to use multimedia to be creative. Professors can get here some good information’s  how to use different resources in their work with children. Children can learn here how to make a sound, film, design a photo and also can see some applications which could be helpful for their studying.

These place has well equipped library, with photo and video documentation. Here you can find information’s about film, music, contemporary art...but also magazines, strip and lot of other things.

Here works great group of people who are very creative, friendly with a lot of good information’s and they will help you with every problem. Here are  Valérie - director, Clemence - work with public, Fabien - in charge for library,  Joel - multimedia reception, Emeline - secretary and researcher, Marie-Pierre - administration and  Vincent - technical stuffs.

This is a place with  great creativity, place for culture and knowledge. So if you are somewhere near it is necessarily that you come.

So...... Bienvenu !

Bourogne

Espace Multimedia Gantner

our visitor

Workshop

Belfort, city of lion and Belfortains

Well for this  year this will be my living town. It is situated in the north-east France in doorstep of Switzerland and Germany. Because of his position here you can find different influences witch are very well mixed. You can injoy in a Belfort surrounding, but also you can visite landskapes of Switzerland, city of Porrentruy. And on the other hand you can visite Black Forest in Germany and lake Titisee which is famous for his crystal- clear colour of the water.

Location

Belfort is a home of Lion of Belfort, which was constructed by famous architect Bartholdi. Home of citadel, masive red castle which look a little like citadel of Novi Sad. Home of Porte de Brisach and sleeping bridge.

Citadel of Belfort

Porte de Brisach

Lion of Belfort

Belfort is a home of two big festivals. In may, every year, there is a International Festival of Music, FIMU, which last three days. More than 250 concerts for three days. Here you can listen different styles of music like jazz, rock, reggae, pop, experimental... There are musicians from different countries. In 2009 serbian groop Vrooom also participate here. And good thing is that that the festival is free.

Other festival, more bigger is Eurockeennes. This festival last for 25 years now and its happening every year in the first week of july. It is one of the largest festivals in France and it happends in lake Malsaucy which is located 6km from Belfort.

Belfort is also home of oldest tattoo convention in France.

Other symbols of Belfort are also Brimbul, a kind of drink concocted from sparkling wine with splash of gin and blueberry. 

The Belfore is a type of cake with raspberries, meringue-topped almonds and hazelnuts.

And of corse, nothing without french chocolate. 

 Brimbul

The Belfore

 Chocolate, like a little postcards

Sommiers.... Nîmes.....Lyon

Arrival seminar. Thing that make a very important part of every EVS. This is a week of real work, but also a week of fun. There you meet other volunteers, exchange experience, have the same difficultes with a foreign language, meet a new friends.

My arrival seminar was at Sommiers, small ville in southern France. It is a little touristic place, known for his Roman bridge, a medieval centre, a fortified gate and the ruins of castle...and of course famous for his little artisants. Just a place that you imagine when you read some romantic novel.

Mushrooms in our hostel

River Vidourle

Little square in old town

Graffiti

Irma talks with a little ducks

Coming back and we stop at Nîmes with his famous arena

A little stop in Lyon, second city in France...floral tree

and in the end I need to stop here.

"About dance " Antoine de Saint Exupéry

There is a kind  of pride which is a love toward a good dance. Dance is a fate and step up through life. But love for dance isn’t love for your dance, nor act, to which you are proud of, but you take a meaning from yours acts.  Only in that way you’ll never end.  Just pretentious person is satisfied and break her stride to imagining herself and deal with the worship of her same. From the others she can’t get anything exept their applause. But, we, eternal vagrants striding toward God, we despise such because nothing ours can’t satisfy us. Danse is, remember, war, seduction, murder and remorse….because….

If you want to get away a flood, and she opposes her movement – then you dance. If you are flirting and your rival resist your love – and then you dance. Dance needed an enemy. But, who’s enemy will honors you with a dance of his sword, if there is nobody in you ? What you’ll learn about dancer if she is empty ? Where country is scarce, where the ploughshare steam stones, where cruel summer burns harvest, where man resists to barbarians and where barbarian kills weaker, there dance is born, in the meaning of every step.

In the making of every creation, the main point is to absorb contradictions, but for that exist a key. Key of exchange. Some call it humility. Humility of heart does not mean that you need to humble – but to open yourseld. It is not subordination to the people – but to God ! When you serve – you serve to creation ! Stone is subordinate to the church, not the other stone. Mother is humble to the child and gardener to the rose.

I want to start and awake to something that would excite the world with your moving, but for you I will be a mere coincidence by which you discovered this need in you, because the need is it yours.

Sometimes is pleasure for me, that dancer meets opposing forces or to rein her movement here and untie there. I also like to hit on something, or to gloat, or to die. I like when she is in area that was built against her and that there are those thoughts which are possible and others impossible.

I don’t like at all that she is in all direction similar, like jelly, but to be directed structure as a living tree that spreads to his seeds. My power isn’t in presenting anything or to take a point on the fallacy of your tongue, because it is not false, but, unfit. Mine is simply to take you in a walk in which steps follow one another. That I planted you on the mountain where your disputes are resolved, and to leave you that alone make your truth !

.....

Extérieurement trompé avec les épines, mais dans l'intérieur est subtile comme une hérisson..... créature fausse indifférent, sévère antisocial et terriblement chic.

Elle voulait à vivre, danser, voyager, pour rassembler les gens autour, à montrer comment est sage, de mettre en évidence leur capacités........... mais elle ne pouvait pas être contrôle...

LOST IN TRANSLATION

Many of us are lost......we don't even know it

She start her voyage. She went to the plain, frightened....she doesn't know what to expect. In one hand, she doesn't know what to expect from flight, because this is her first time and on the other hand she doesn't know what will wait her abroad.

The first impression.... big airport ...... lot of people..... thermal shock..... cultural shock.... and two very gentil and smiling girls.

She arrived in a new country, new town, new apartment.

In all that she had lost herself a little, somewhere along the frontier.... between her fantasies and herself. In that moment the boundaries had become erased. She had walked into pure chaos....

She doesn't know language.....

She feels lostness, estranged, isolated.

But then she realised that the loneliness is something the most precious in the world if you knew to use it. 

It contributes to build endurance.

Allows man to watch himself with coldness, with all his flaws and virtues. 

Allows him to get a picture of the things.

Allows him to confront and to submit a lot of things that otherwise would be intolerable.

 And, in fact.......her journey just started.....

About dance

...We dance for tears......We dance for laughter......We dance for madness......We dance for fears......We dance for hopes.....We dance for screams.....We are the dancers.... 
We create the dreams.....

                

“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”    ( Martha Graham )