DIVA Station
DIVA Station at the Salon MSU
in Belgrade

June 8, 2013, at 5pm
Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Pariska ul. 12, Belgrade

At the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade the exhibition entitled Video, Televison, Anticipation will be on view from June 7 until July 14. The exhibition is curated by Branka Benčić and Aleksandra Sekulić.

The exhibition presents as well the video So Young included into the DIVA Station archive. A compilation of the Borghesia video clips (So Young, The Wild Bunch, He, Too Much Tension, Cindy, A.R., ZMR) was issued in 1985 as the first video cassette by the FV Label. These are short, almost "film-like" stories focused primarily on the iconography of the body in urban surroundings. One of the clips presents a pioneer use of computer graphics.” (Videodokument)

So Young (Neven Korda, Zemira Alajbegović)

DISCUSSIONS AND SCREENINGS

On June 8 at 5 pm Barbara Borčić, head of SCCA video programs and the DIVA Station archive, will join the discussion with Gordana Nikolić (curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina), Branka Benčić and Aleksandra Sekulić.

Barbara Borčić will talk about the DIVA Station archive and screen the video essay by Nika Grabar DIVA at Škuc Gallery in 2009. In the video essay the author says: “Archiving is really keeping some kind of memory alive. DIVA is trying to find memory for images and enable us to think the space of art. Without it we are caught in the image of a world that is reproducing us in a mechanical way.”

Photo: Dejan Habicht

www.e-arhiv.org/diva

Diva at Škuc Gallery (Nika Grabar)

On June 15 Neven Korda will be the guest at the Salon presenting the project Bodočniki. Bodočniki - an underground video from the FV Video production is divided into two (sub)periods 1982-1985 and 1985-1989. The dividing line is defined with the perception of the video as an important creative medium and life choice. The difference between both (sub)periods can also be found in the technology of making the video. The two boarders are defined by two cassettes - So young and Search for the Lost Time.

Bodočniki (Neven Korda)

www.zavod-zank.si/korda/aprilski

LINKS:

• Video, Television, Anticipation – program (pdf)
• Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade

[Published June 6, 2013]