June 2 , 2012 / TROUBLE #8 @ Les Halles , BXL
May 24, 2012
Isabelle Bats (BE), Denys Blacker (ES), Alastair MacLennan(UK), Pierre Megos (BE), Branko Miliskovic (RS), Áine Phillips (IE), Gaëtan Rusquet (BE), Adva Zakai (IL)
Curated by Antoine Pickels
The Great Gallery of Living Sculpture
Performance
EN
Eight performers share the Grande Halle, responding to the same invitation: producing a three hour durational performance, in daylight, with no sound amplification. You move, as in a museum, from one work to another …
FR
Huit performeurs se partagent la Grande Halle, répondant à la même invitation : réaliser une performance durative de trois heures, en lumière naturelle, sans possibilité d’amplification sonore. A vous d’errer dans cette «grande galerie des sculptures», tel un visiteur de musée, d’une œuvre à l’autre… pour revenir à la précédente, ou passer à la suivante.
Branko Miliskovic (SR/DE)
Ceci n’est pas un Garçon à la pipe
Performance
Inspirée de la célèbre toile de Picasso (période rose), dont on ignore aujourd’hui où elle se trouve, et de la Trahison des images de Magritte, une rêverie sculpturale où la chenille bleue d’Alice croise la fin de l’adolescence et le marché de l’art…
02/06/2012 , 15-18h
Halles de Schaerbeek a.s.b.l.
Centre Culturel Européen
20 rue de la Constitution
B-1030 Bruxelles
+32 2 227 59 55
halles.be
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From Seecult.org ( in Serbian )
http://www.seecult.org/vest/miliskovic-na-trouble-8
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Theatre of Life @ CSW , Torun / Poland
April 14, 2012
Branko Miliskovic will be performing his durational piece ” The Song of a Soldier on Watch ” ( WW3 Lili Marlene )
Exhibition opening: Friday, 18th May, 7 PM
Saturday 19th May, from 12 AM to 12 PM for European Night of Museums, free entrance for intense program of performances, lectures and screenings
19th May at 6.30 PM: lecture Art Tribes by Achille Bonito Oliva
Artists: John Cage, Yoko Ono, Marina Abramović, Valie Export, Natalia LL, John Baldessari, Neša Paripović, Ulay, Marek Sobczyk, Katarzyna Kozyra, Maurizio Cattelan, David Michalek, Pierre Bismuth, Jonathan Monk, Vanessa Beecroft, João Onofre, Francesco Vezzoli, Gil Kuno, Partick Tuttofuoco, Nezaket Ekici, Pilvi Takala, Marlene Haring, Ana Prvački, Mihoko Ogaki, Malin Ståhl, Branko Milisković, Francesco Fonassi, Nicola Ruben Montini, Lerato Shadi, Maks Cieślak.
Curated by: Dobrila Denegri
Life, life itself… is the absolute art!
When Yves Klein pronounced this words for the first time they were highly provocative. Not only they undermined conventional notions of art, they also anticipated all those artistic strategies which, on the turn of ‘60s to ‘70s, expanded to the highest extent boundaries of art, seeking to merge it with all other expressive languages.
Theatre of Life: One and Many Actions is exhibitive project dedicated to this artistic practices which looked for confluence between art, experimental music, new dance and theatre. It aim to highlight those practices that, not only blew boundaries between mentioned disciplines, but most of all challenged social conventions in search for alternative models of art and life, announcing and propelling liberating energies that shook the world in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.
Fluxus, performance, body art and all those tendencies that put the focus on the action and on the body (of the artist) as the subject and the object of an artwork should be a point of departure for the exhibition which aims to explore ways in which younger generations are addressing the same topics. Anarchic, freeing and even heroic gestures of the art of ‘60s and ‘70s, their’s theatricality and subversiveness still echo in the practices of the younger generations, even though the emphasis today seems to be more on repetition than on uniqueness, as well as on the re-enactment as the strategy for expressing the new.
Why redo? Why re-perform? What are the motivations that drives artists, especially those of the younger generations, to re-visit works/actions done decades ago? This would be the one, but not the only focal point of the exhibition. Another would explore dichotomies action/inactivity; motion/stillness, presence/absence. Silence, slowness, minimal gestures are common features recognisable in the works of younger performers, and this show would like to investigate how reduced expressive language is capable of producing intense and involving artistic statements.
Departing from some of the topical works by Yoko Ono, Valie Export, Marina Abramovic or Natalia LL, this show should be like a voyage through the multiplicity of “bodyscapes”, which might be static or in motion, live or on film.
Theatre of Life will be also a journey through challenging and provocative statements through which contemporary artists (Cattelan, Beecroft, Vezzoli, Kozyra, Montini, Haring) addressed conventions of patriarchal society, political or religious authorities, sexual freedoms as well as art-taboos. The show will be enriched by monumental work from Unicredit art collection, Partrick Tuttofuoco’s “Chinese Theatre”: an auditorium in which will be screened selection of interconnected works by John Baldessari, Joao Onofre, Jonathan Monk and Pierre Bismuth, which will function as exhibition within an exhibition.
For the evening of opening, on 18th of May, and for the whole next day, Saturday, 19th of May, exhibitive spaces of CoCA will be animated by numerous live performances which will turn the museum and exhibition in a “total performative event” which will include artists as well as the public.
Theatre of Life is a second in a series of exhibitions started in 2011 with Spaceship Earth and it will be accompanied by a catalogue with essays by the curator Dobrila Denegri, historian of art and philosophy Thomas McEvilley, art-historians and curators Cristiana Perrella and Piotr Lisowski.
Exhibition will be accompanied by series of lectures and presentations by younger artists who are taking part in the show: Gil Kuno, Nezaket Ekici, Marlene Haring, Malin Ståhl, Branko Milisković, Francesco Fonassi, Nicola Ruben Montini and on 19th of May at 6.30 pm, as a special event open to the large public, will be the lecture by one of the most famous Italian art critics, father of Transavanguardia, Achille Bonito Oliva.
http://csw.torun.pl/exhibitions/exhibitions-db/theatre-of-life
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Submissive future
April 10, 2012
This is a letter to all artists who may be concerned about their future status, position in contemporary art nowadays, financial incomes and outcomes , contributions and non-refundable efforts. As in every profession, there are always certain subjects that would try to benefit over you, taking you and your work for a grant and rather more just as an element to make a proper soup that would satisfy their inner hunger and of course support their already established positions. I shall be talking about the curators or artistic directors that got more dignities and attentions in medias then ever before. They would be the first on the list wrapped in the foil of special importance usually declared as international selectors, critics and so on… They would usually appear at the opening suited in some new feathers, they would be fragrant and sparkling on the lights, while an artist will be late for the opening trying to take a rest or wash the dirtiness and sweat collected while desperately trying to prove something that curator,critic or curo-manager may have taken wrong on it’s own account. However they ( the dignitaries ) may withdrawn you from the plain list, if you dared to be defensive. But sometimes the things may become much serious and if one is unable to recognize the crime in advance , they will continue their dreadful plan and finally benefit from your work and your blindness.
You are not going to get anything , and it would be the most benign situation that might occur out of everything. Why I am writing this report, not because I am jobless and have no idea what to do with my bloody fingers at the moment, but rather more that I have been recently and frequently irritated by some new pitiful information regarding the residence programs, art festivals, film festivals, galleries, art venues and so forth. Yesterday while browsing the internet, I found a intriguing announcement ( open call ) from some residence program in NY. They have stated that it will take a place from July-September and that an artist shall pay : $ 10,000.00 , that would be, they claim, the official costs for the space rental and some other costs. As a reward, they said, the residence will be frequently visited by prestige personalities from the art world, curators, collectors and so on and so fort. They stated also that amount would exclude living costs, accommodation, transportation… Then, I shall ask the question, am I responsible for donating $ 10.000,00 as a salary for established dignitaries from the art world ? What kind of costs I must pay according to the statement to exceed $ 10.000,00 ? Even for America , it smells on suspiciously killed cat. When you ask them , so what do you think how I am going to obtain that amount of money in order to support just a working space , they would always give you a typical answer : You must look for it in your country of origin. So, what for instance if someone’s country of accidental origin do not give a shit for any financial support ? Then you should ask someone else, preferably sponsors. The potential sponsor is asking, ‘’what kind of benefits I shall count on?’’ and the circle of hopes is becoming tighter and tighter until you might get strangled by that rope.
But to come back to the essence that forced me to write this article. Somewhere in early 2011 I have applied for an open call. It was about the biennial of art in NYC entitled NYBA 2012/13 . Of course, from the very beginning my sense for smell has never been crossing me, so I found several elements very disordered , slightly suspicious but nevertheless I have decided to continue on. So I sent them my formalities, photos, videos, digital portfolio, statement and so forth…and few months later somewhere in June 2011 I heard from friend of mine that my name popped up somewhere announcing that I am on the list. Soon afterwards , after trying to detect from which source I may occur , I figured out that the main source is Facebook account of an artistic director Pietro Franesi. So, anyway, my name was incorrect , I started googling his name and I found several blogs and forums in which some artists complained enormously. Here is one of them :
The organisation, N Y Bienniale Art (NYBA), is promoting and event that is supposed to occur in New York City September 27 through October 25, 2009, called the NY Biennale 2009, and they are putting out a call-for-artists for a show called Free Zone Area. the director’s name is Pietro Franesi. I have been dealing with them for almost 9 months via email, because they were supposed to give me a solo show for this event in 2008. They first advertised on Craig’s list looking for artists for solo show and I responded and they told me that I was chosen, via several confirmations emails that I received. It was then canceled after I got an e-mail from his organisation saying that Pietro Franesi was hit by a cab. They informed artists that they would do the same NY Biennale art show for 2009, which was supposed to occur in many different locations throughout the city, but then six months later I received an e-mail to apply for a new show called Free Zone Area, and it said that all of the solo shows had been canceled.
More complaints following the link down below:
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/ny-biennale-art-new-york-new-york-c120356.html
So , however , being hard enough I decided to go on and to see how far we can go like that. Now, there was a period of silence. No single infos from their side. Suddenly few months later I activated my FB account again and I found out that all selected artists shall send this and that as soon as possible, and the period was 3 days. I have decided to send them all infos and docs, as I already have them prepared in my folder. I sent them 3 emails on every possible address I could find, just to correct my first name. They did so. A month later when I asked one of the assistants , whose name is Sarah Bloomberg , why they are so rigid into sudden deadlines and it was in the middle of a summer , she replied : Not your busyness ! Ok, I decided to be a submissive bitch and to go further but keeping them on my chain. At one point , they added our pictures on their website , but to confirm that I have received more then 3 times the same email asking for my pictures. I already sent them , but they kindly encouraged me to send them once more claiming that their hard disc got infected my some malicious viruses and that they lost all our data during the New Year Eve. In the meantime, they withdrawn 6-7 artists from the list. All was messy and still is. Such a great number of artists were published with incorrect names or surnames. Lot of mistakes, lot of absurd details. Through all the time, I have never succeeded to find out their physical address in NYC and the telephone numbers. On their website there was no information when exactly the Biennial is going to take place , what are the venues for exhibiting and so on… Whenever I asked , would you send me a letter of invitation, or no-one responded or I would receive some wishy-washy answers..
Now to cut the long description and to come back to the final point. In due time, some new names within the organisation had come to the light. Day by day, some new emails, info, invitations, curatorial openings that I have nothing to do with. At one point , I have got an email being asked if I would like to take a participation in the exhibition during the Olympic Games in London. Once I responded, they informed me about sudden cancelation due to ‘’high expenses that the gallery in London shall charge them’’.
Yesterday , April 9, I have got an email from NYBA containing Exel file with dates, names of artists and the chosen location for a Biennial. The selection of venues were:
Times Square, Nike Square, 5th Av , Central Park, NYC Subway, Harlem…
I mean, what the fuck is this. Public venues ? Streets, Parks, Fields, Rivers, Gaps, City walls … ? Ok, I decided to forget about all these details and to ask finally for the essence: A letter of Invitation , to be able to apply for the bloody Visa.
This is an answer I have received this morning, before I started furiously to write this already long report:
Dear Branko we know very well your incredible situation but we cannot invite you as you ask we are not american citizen and in the past we have had many problems with Usa Government we can host you in ny but to arrive in ny is your problem we can put online your performance in streaming the same day of the programme and you will make the performance where you live let me know David S …
I believe this is the drop that fulfilled the glass , so I WONT be going further , but rather more, intending to stop this and other nonsenses of a mutual orgasm with only one beneficiary.
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Branko Miliskovic 10/04/2012
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March 18, 2010 , 8 h long walk / 32 km
March 19, 2010
Duration : 8 hours 30 minutes (13:00- 20:30) / 1 PM – 8:30 PM
Distance: approximately : 32 km ( two ways) March 18th , 2010 2010©Branko Miliskovic
Personally, perhaps the most extraordinary vocal of Lady Macbeth ever. Callas at her best.
An interview for Arterview TLV
January 16, 2010
2010
December 30, 2009
DEAR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
I WISH U , AS USUALLY , ALL THE BEST IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR 2010 !
LETS MAKE THE FOLLOWING YEAR MORE FRUITFUL, DESIRABLE, EROTIC AND CREATIVE ,LOVABLE, LESS DESTRUCTIVE BUT A LITTLE BIT DRAMATIC FROM TIME TO TIME, DRAMA IS GOOD FRIEND OF ACTIVITY AND GREAT ENEMY OF LAZINESS AND DRONE BEES. I WISH TO SEE ALL OF U IN 2010 NOT MATTER WHERE. KEEP ON ROCKIN AND GOOD VIBES!SINCERE REGARDS
BRANKO MILISKOVIC
RED DAMNATION -Artis Den Bosch, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
December 21, 2009
Photo booth
RED DAMNATION
2009©brankomiliskovic
AN INTERVIEW WITH BRANKO MILISKOVIC
November 18, 2009
GIGUK, the VideoArt-Festival in Gießen
October 8, 2009
CLIPS COMPETITION
01 Am I Back? -:- Joo-Mee Paik -:- South Korea
02 Ayler-:- Sean Burn -:- United Kingdom
03 Border Town -:- Hans Gindlesberger -:- USA
04 Chatarra -:- Barbara Bañuelos -:- Spain
05 Chinese Wedding Dancer -:-Neil Ira Needleman -:- USA
06 CROW – Studio Version -:- Jackdaw With Crowbar -:- United Kingdom
07 Detention Paradise -:- Branko Miliskovic -:- The Netherlands
