RESEARCH PROJECT IN 2019, COOPERATION WITH DRAGAN VOJVODIĆ
MEANING OF HOME IN JAPANESE CULTURE June/ July 2019, Japan collaboration with Dragan Vojvodić Texts published by Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić in Serbian newspapers and blogs concerning the project: 28-29_PDF_TVmagazin 24 08 2019 Ljiljana Maletin, Museum of contemporary art in Tokyo “Muzeji savremene umetnosti u Tokiju” https://pulse.rs/muzeji-savremene-umetnosti-u-tokiju/ Ljiljana Maletin, Museum of contemporary art in Tokyo “Muzeji savremene umetnosti u Tokiju” http://plezirmagazin.net/plezir-magazin-jul-avgust-2019/ Mori umetnički muzej u Tokiju – Život – Dnevni list Danas” Preview of “Japan (2)- Muzej Jajoi Kusame – Život – Dnevni list Danas”Preview of “Japan- Preview of “Japan (3)- Muzej savremene umetnosti u Tokiju – Život – Dnevni list Danas”
Meeting at EU Japan Fest office in Tokyo, 1th of July 2019.
Also, we interviewed Japanese artists interested in AiR Artbox in Novi Sad during 2019.
Ljiljana and Dragan with Japanese artists and Ms. Minami from EU Japan Fest
‘In our contemporary word, the concept of ‘home’ has a variety of connotations (‘belonging’, ‘mother country’, ‘language’, ‘migration’). So, the project pose questions: How does the idea of ‘home’ relate to personal and national identity? What is the meaning of ‘home’ to the one who has lost everything? How natural disasters, Internet and globalization affected our concept of ‘home’? Can art help us to find ourselves?
For this purpose, we had created a online Questionnaire in English language, consisting of three questions. We are so happy that 30 Japanese artists and members of local community participated in.
The online questionnaire is available at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZojtSLgZ-OFKfg6I7e7b8zGe-nbEYP4JyBcvvzCtJyhbSJg/viewform
We highly value every opinion and every feedback because it will directly impact to our art-related research project.
If you need further details concerning the project you can contact us at: lilydrag@gmail.com
We also spend great time with Japanese people interested in Serbian-Japanese connections.
And we also made great reseach, thanks to MOT, Mori museum and Yajoi Kusama museum.
The Fifth Evaluation for the ‘Kizuna’ Exchange Programme Has Been Carried Out
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The ‘Novi Sad 2021’ Foundation has carried out the fifth evaluation within the public call for financial support to local artists and cultural workers for realisation of a study or research trip to Japan within the ‘Kizuna’ exchange programme.
This project is implemented in cooperation with the ‘EU-Japan Fest’ organisation and it encourages mobility of members of Novi Sad cultural scene and establishes cooperation with Japanese cultural organisations and artists.
The fifth phase of the evaluation of the proposed projects has been done by the selection panel. The suggested project is sent to the EU-Japan Fest for review, which will be followed by the final decision on selection of candidates. The total amount of the financial grant for realisation of the study trip for applicants is 100,000 yen.
The selection panel has decided to recommend the following candidates and their project ideas:
Luka Kulić, Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić, Dragan Vojvodić
KIZUNA RESEARCH& ART PRODUCTION project in Japan consisting on: collaborative Questionnaire, art research, photographs, video, Art Book and blog. In our contemporary word, the concept of ‘place’ have become complex and problematic and has a variety of connotations (‘home’, ‘building’, ‘dwelling’, ‘belonging’, ‘mother country’, ‘fatherland’). The ongoing project, made by writer Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić and multimedia artist Dragan Vojvodić, started at Creative Zone Depo 2015 at Pilsen (2017) as well as Blik Blik Festival in Pilsen (2018) https://www.depo2015.cz/program-depo-ag14/festival-svetla-blik-blik-2018-a2138, The Regional Art Museum of Southern Ostrobothnia in Finland (2016), also during their artist in-residency project in National centre for contemporary arts Kronstadt (2018), thanks to the Ministry of culture of Russian Federation and State Museum and exhibition center «Rosizo”, pose many questions concerning individual and cultural identity also alienation, natural disasters, migrations, isolation like: How does the idea of ‘home’ relate to personal and national identity? What is a ‘home country’? When do we truly feel ‘at home’? What connects us to places and other people in a way which makes us feel as we have ‘come home’?
Questionnaire link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZojtSLgZ-OFKfg6I7e7b8zGe-nbEYP4JyBcvvzCtJyhbSJg/viewform
OPEN CALL FOR JAPANESE ARTISTS IN SERBIA AR AIR ARTBOX
Residential Programme ARTBOX for Japanese artists and curators in SerbiaAfter research trip in Tokyo in mid-January 2018, within the ‘Kizuna’ exchange programme organized by the ‘Novi Sad 2021’ Foundation in cooperation with ‘EU-Japan Fest Committee’ from Tokyo, Artist-in-residence ‘ARTBOX’, launches:OPEN CALLfor selection of Japanese artists and curators for artistic residential programme in Petrovaradin/Novi Sad – 2021 European Capital of Culture and European Youth Capital 2019..The residence will last approximately one month in the period from 01.09.2019. until 30.11. 2019.Disciplines: creators in various fields including visual art, multimedia art, music, drama, architecture, literature, performance, fashion and design, also for curators, and researchers.
Number of residents: 1-4
we can host up to 1 artist/researcher or 1 artist couple at a time.
Location:
7 km from Centre of Novi Sad.
The following is covered for the selected resident:
- accommodation with studio;
- assistance;
- participation in cultural events (presentation, performance, demonstration, lecture or workshop).
Expenses such as living costs, travel, materials, insurance and transport must be covered by another sources.
Accommodation Information:
Studio at the modern house with big garden, common veranda, kitchen, a bathroom (on the ground floor) and living & working studio (on the first floor).
Studio Information:
Studio 36 m2, nature environment, countryside, cat friendly.
Technical Information:
There is no equipment in the studios, except a computer.
The candidates should meet the following criteria:
- they are of legal age and are nationals of The State of Japan;
- they speak English fluently;
- the program emphasizes support for emerging and mid-career artists, but is open to established artists as well.
All interested candidates should send the following documents:
- CV in English, which mustn’t be longer than 2 pages (listing professional experience in art work, the most important exhibitions, collaborations, previous residences in similar programmes etc.);
- accompanying letter in English between 150-250 words (in which he/she suggests the idea for the project that will be implemented during the residential programme in Novi Sad);
- portfolio of 3-5 selected works collected in one PFD file with size no larger than 5 MB;
It is necessary to send the above-mentioned documents to the following e-mail: lilydrag@gmail.com marked as ‘Residential Programme Artbox 2019’ no later than 30. June 2019. at midnight.
Obligations of the resident during the residence, will be agreed in cooperation with the host organization.
Potential candidates should be open to work with local artists and communities.
Candidates will be assessed based on the following criteria:
- previous art work in the field of visual art (biography);
- project/idea proposal (motivational letter);
- portfolio.
For additional questions related to the call, write to: lilydrag@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/ArtBox-NGO-and-artist-in-residence-252307461837724/?ref=bookmarks
https://tokyonovisad20182021.wordpress.com/author/artistinresidenceserbiaartbox/
KIZUNA RESEARCH PROJECT IN 2018, COOPERATION WITH DRAGAN VOJVODIĆ
https://tokyonovisad20182021.wordpress.com/author/artistinresidenceserbiaartbox/
Communication/ Dialogue/ Mobility#2018_Tokyo
Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić and Dragan Vojvodić are artists from Novi Sad who visited Tokyo in mid-January within the ‘Kizuna’ exchange programme organised by the ‘Novi Sad 2021’ Foundation in cooperation with ‘EU-Japan Fest’ from Tokyo.
By creating bonds (‘kizuna’ = ‘bond’) in the form of cooperation, the Foundation encourages mobility of artists from Novi Sad in order to make city cultural scene more international and to connect local cultural workers and artists with partners from Japan, so that the end result of this type of exchange would create joint cultural and artistic projects.
Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić discussed what residential programmes mean to her, why she recommends them to young artists and what are her impressions of Japan:
‘International residential programmes in Spain, Portugal, France, Latvia, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Greenland, in which I have participated since 2006, are integral and unavoidable part of my creation. The possibility to know the ‘Other’ and the ‘Different’ has enabled me to write dozen books, each of them being inspired by the culture of a country I visited thanks to artistic residences. This enabled me to prepare cultural guides to Finland and Sweden, anthology of Norwegian literature, novels that take place in Greenland and Reykjavik, travelogues about Portugal and Catalonia, imagaologial essays about Paris, and numerous articles and blogs about contemporary art. In addition to this, residences have provided opportunities for personal growth, cooperation and friendship with many talented artists, from Island to Japan. This is why I hope, after our visit to Tokyo within the ‘Kizuna’ programme, I will write a book that will motivate young people, especially artists from Novi Sad, to travel; to isolate themselves from everyday life and to get to know an unusual country of developed technology, long tradition and pleasant and gentle people with whom I had a joy to cooperate in this project.’
Ljiljana’s husband, Dragan Vojvodić, is a visual artist who also carries positive impressions from this residence, and he conveys the following message to young artists: it is important to move.
‘Exchange projects in the USA and Japan (‘Kizuna’) and residential programmes in Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, France, Spain, Portugal, Croatia and Czechia (‘Plants AiR’) have had a great impact on my development, both as an artist and personally; they fundamentally transformed my artistic practice and made me recognisable on the art scene as an artist that creates in-situ using his rich existential experience. It is impossible to create art today without communicating with artists and institutions outside our borders because art becomes more universal and erases attributes that make it local. Mobility is unavoidable in modern age; by travelling and facing the Other, we can get know ourselves and our position in the world more clearly.’
NS 2021, Blic, 2018.
LJILJANA MALETIN VOJVODIC 