Afterimage articles from January 2001

Afterimage archives from January 2001

LETTER.
January 1, 2001... To the editor: I was most surprised to read in Stephen Longmire's "Callahan's Children," in the September/October 2000 issue of Afterimage, that Hugh Edwards gave Ken Josephson a solo how in 1971. As Assistant Curator of Photography at the...

Exit Art.("Body and the East" exhibition)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Exit Art in New York City, a non-profit interdisciplinary laboratory for contemporary culture, is presenting "Body and the East," a survey of the history of body art performances in the Soviet Union and former Eastern Bloc from the 1960s to the...

ArtsLink 2001.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ArtsLink 2001 will award $2500 to $10,000 in grant money to U.S. artists, curators and arts organizations. ArtsLink is a public-private partnership of CEC International Partners, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Trust for Mutual...

The International Fellowship Programme.(residency opportunity)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A new residency opportunity, The International Fellowship Programme, has been launched by the Visiting Arts Office of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as part of the UK's Year of the Artist 2000. Visiting Arts promotes cultural awareness and...

MEDIA ART IN THE BALKANS.(history of Balkan region)(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... An introduction The Balkans region of Eastern Europe has been beset in the last decade by a civil war that has generally been claimed by international governments to be grounded in "ethnic hatred." The reality is of course much more...

THE BALKAN MELTING POT.(Balkan Films Program of the 41st International Thessaloniki Film Festival)
January 1, 2001... The Balkan Films Program of the 41st International Thessaloniki Film Festival Thessaloniki, Greece November 10-19, 2000 The Balkan Survey of the 41st International Thessaloniki Film Festival was comprised of 12 films, most of which were...

THE NEED FOR FILM.(Sixth Sarajevo Film Festival)
January 1, 2001... Sixth Sarajevo Film Festival Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina August 18-26, 2000 The story of the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) goes back to the year 1995, a time so different from ours. The festival started in unimaginable...

PERFORMATIVE LIBERTY.(Usvajanje Slobode/Taking Liberty - Croatian artists in Boston)
January 1, 2001... Usvajanje Slobode/Taking Liberty Fort Point District Boston, Massachusetts March 31-April 14, 2000 Completing the cultural exchange, "Usvajanje Slobode/Taking Liberty," that began with Boston's Mobius Artists Group traveling...

PARALLEL REALITIES.(films of Dusan Makavejev)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Once upon the time I was officially made invisible. A fourth feature film of mine was banned in my native Yugoslavia, then wiped from the official Register of produced films. The attached decision stated: "Film was not finished and will never...

STAYING ALIVE.(Soba, Nobojsa Seric)
January 1, 2001... Being an artist on the front line (what an absurd thing) allowed me to maintain a certain equilibrium. I was a third year student at Sarajevo's Academy of Fine Arts when the chaos-war--began. I spent the next four years alternately fighting to...

REPEAT OF HISTORY.(massacre of Albanian Kosovars)
January 1, 2001... I firmly believe that images have the power to influence change, however cliche it might sound. If an image is strong enough, it will move those who have the power to change things, to do so. As an artist and photojournalist I see change as a...

BEING AWAY.(Yane Calovski)
January 1, 2001... In 1997, I started "The House and its Imperfections," a series of drawings referring to the structural and speculative logic of the home designed and built by my parents in Skopje, Macedonia. It was during this time that I first began to...

THE SEMIOTICS OF CONFUSION.(Absolutno)
January 1, 2001... APSOLUTNO The independent association APSOLUTNO was founded in 1993 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia through a collaboration of its four members: two currently living in Yugoslavia, one in Hungary and one in the United States. Since 1995 the...

LOOKING AT THE INVISIBLE.(Hammer Creative Agency)(Company Profile)
January 1, 2001... The HAMMER CREATIVE agency and studio is a workshop for the production of words, pictures and sound. It was founded in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia in 1990. Our chief aim is to improve communication between people. The manner of our speech is what...

ART WAR.(anti-war art exhibition)
January 1, 2001... Art Rat (Serbian for Art War) was initiated in the spring of 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as a series of exhibitions by a group of students and professors of the Applied Arts and Design Academy of Belgrade at the gallery of the...

WHICH MAN RUNS, WHICH MAN SITS STILL AT HOME?(Jeanne C. Finley and Marina Grzinic)
January 1, 2001... Jeanne C. Finley and Marina Grzinic (in collaboration with Aina Smid) have spent the last 11 years in dialogue about the art produced in and around the Balkans. Grzinic, a resident of Slovenia, and Finley, a resident of the United States, have...

DOCUMENTARIES FROM POST-YUGOSLAVIA: SERBIAN WAR DISCOURSE, 1999.
January 1, 2001... The turbulent recent history of Yugoslavia--13 years of raging wars, secessions, hyperinflation, bombing and pseudo-"transitional and democratic processes"--is carefully chronicled in the national documentary film production. Thus, in spite of...

HOME TRUTHS AND OTHER FICTIONS: GEOPOLITICS AT THE FILM FESTIVAL.
January 1, 2001... Vanishing Horizons and the Emergent Planet For the pathological cinephile such as myself, the annual Toronto International Film Festival is a veritable feast. For nine days each September I immerse myself in the latest celluloid offerings...

"HELLO. MY NAME IS ...": ARTICULATING LONELINESS IN A DIGITAL DIASPORA.
January 1, 2001... In this new age of extremes, squeezed between globalization and nationalism, mobile capital and immobile labor, corporate media and DVD art, digital diasporas have come to signify a challenge to state boundaries, closed communities, fixed...

WHY PINHOLE?(photographers experiences with pinhole)
January 1, 2001... Visual Studies Workshop, February 2-April 7, 2001, Curated by Stephen Eckel AS CAMERAS BECOME MORE SOPHISTICATED and the advent of digital photography greatly increases our ability to manipulate visual reality, an increasing number of...

BALKAN CINEMA in the 90s: AN OVERVIEW.
January 1, 2001... While other lesser-known national cinemas are moving from obscurity into the international spotlight, the treasures of Balkan cinema remain unknown even to cineastes. With the exception of the systematic work on Yugoslavian film by such critics...

THE READY-MADE AND THE QUESTION OF THE FABRICATION OF OBJECTS AND SUBJECTS.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. Marcel Duchamp [1] I want to be a machine. Andy Warhol [2] The phenomenon of the ready-made and its usage as an art object (and...

MATRIXES OF WAR.
January 1, 2001... Sorties The 78-day United States-led NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo in the Spring of 1999 produced over 3000 bombing sorties and 650,000 refugees. The Old World "moral order" envisioned the bombing as destructive of life and its environs,...

HOMEWARD BOUND.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Journey to the Sun (Gunese Yolculuk) by Yesim Ustaoglu, 1999 A Time for Drunken Horses by Bahman Ghobadi, 2000 Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains by Kevin McKiernan, 2000 "Do you know the way to Kurdistan? Although...

REFLECTIONS OF WAR.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Sarajevo Self-portrait: The View from Inside The Dayton Art Institute Dayton, Ohio November 4, 2000-January 1, 2001 Sarajevo Self-portrait: The View from Inside Museet for Fotokunst Odense, Denmark January...

EXILES AND COSMOPOLITANS.(Carnival in the Eye of the Storm: War/Art)
January 1, 2001... Carnival in the Eye of the Storm: War/Art New Technologies: Kosov@ Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, Oregon April 6-9, 2000 The Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), the Oregon Humanities Council, the Oregon...

MORE SOUR THAN SWEET.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal By Ron Haviv SARA Gallery New York, New York December 7, 2000-January 19, 2001 National Gallery of Bosnia Sarejevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina December 13-January 8, 2001 Blood...