marta.popivoda

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MARTA POPIVODA (Belgrade, 1982) is a film and video maker, and also a cultural worker from Belgrade. She is a program editor of the TkH collective of theorists and artists (TkH = Walking Theory), which deals with the problematics of performance paradigm in art, culture and theory. TkH is mostly active on the independent art scenes in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, and Paris.

In her solo projects she explores cinema as a medium of contemporary art and as a tool of knowledge production. Her most widely known work is illegal_cinema (2007-…), which has been presented in France, Turkey, Spain, Croatia and Serbia. Her stance is of an artist who prefers using already existing materials from the history of film and media in (post)producing her own work. Her work was presented at exhibitions of photography, installation art, and video. She also collaborates in theatre performances and contemporary opera as video artist. Occasionally she publishes theoretical texts and reviews.

www.martapopivoda.info
www.tkh-generator.net
http://videoclassroom.tkh-generator.net
http://escenasdiscursivas.tkh-generator.net
www.deschoolingclassroom.tkh-generator.net

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EDUCATION

DAAD scholarship holder 2011/12 for specialization in Experimental film and video art at Art and Media department, Berlin University of the Arts (UDK), Berlin

M.A. level studies of Film and TV Direction at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade

Besides official education, she participated in and co-created several self-educational programs like Self-managed educational systems in art, Knowledge Smuggling and Deschooling Classroom.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 RECYCLE BIN – Archiving the performances on the edge of the void, Magacin in Kraljevića Marka St., Belgrade

2000 ROCKING CHAIR, 19 steps Gallery, Youth centre Belgrade

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 NYBA (New York Biennale Art 2012-2013), New York / curator: Pietro Franesi / forthcoming: October 2012

2012 ACTIONS, L’atheneum and le Consortium, Dijon, France / forthcoming: February 2012

2011 KUNSTWERKSTATT-MÜNCHEN, Rathausgalerie, München / curator: Marlene Rigler, Platform3

2011 OTHER POSSIBLE WORLDS, Proposals on this Side of Utopia, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin / curators: Dorothee Albrecht, Berit Fischer, Franziska Lesak, Hubert Lobnig, Moira Zoitl

2011 FALLSTUDIE KÜNSTLERISCHE (SELBST)AUSBILDUNG, HFBK, Dresden / curator: Katharina Schlieben

2010 51^st OCTOBER SALON, side program, Museum of the city of Belgrade, Belgrade / curators: Johan Pousette and Celia Prado

2010 LECTURE PERFORMANCE, Salon of the Museum of contemporary art, Belgrade / curators: Jelena Vesić, Radmila Joksimović

2009 THE LOW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION, City Museum, Ljubljana / curators: Marina Gržinić, Sebastjan Leban

2009 LECTURE PERFORMANCE, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Koeln / curators: Kathrin Jentjens, Anja Nathan-Dorn

2009 NEW MEMBERS 2009, Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade / selection: Artistic board of ULUS

2009 NO MORE REALITY: Crowd and Performance [Demonstration, Public space, Use of body], Depo, Istanbul / curators: Claire Staebler, Jelena Vesić

2008 49^th OCTOBER SALON “Artist – citizen”, Kuća legata, Belgrade / curator: Bojana Pejić

2008 29^th SALON OF YOUNG ARTISTS “Salon of the revolution”, HDLU, Meštrović’s pavilion, Zagreb / curators: Antonia Majača, Ivana Bago

2006 NO SPACE IS INNOCENT, within Steirischerherbst, Forum Stadtpark, Graz / curators: Marina Gržinić, Margarethe Makovec, Walter Seidl (http://nospaceisinnocent.org)

2005 The critics have selected: LOSE YOURSELF, Gallery of Belgrade cultural centre / curators: Sava Ristović, Gordana Stanišić

2005 ORIENTATION BEYOND GENDER, CZKD – Pavilion Veljković, Belgrade

2005 AMAZONS, SKC Gallery, Belgrade

2000 IV BIENNIAL OF YOUNG ARTISTS, Konkordija, Vršac / curator: Slavko Timotijević

2000 MADE IN HELL, with N. Racković and N. Andrić, Gallery DOB, Belgrade

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VIDEOS AND INSTALLATION ART

2010 DESCHOOLING VIDEO CLASSROOM, video installation, Museum of the city of Belgrade, Belgrade

2009 TEMPO, video, City Museum, Ljubljana

2009 ILLEGAL_CINEMA_crowd and performance, live installation, DEPO, Istanbul

2009 for the opera ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Philip Glass), team of authors: Bojan Đorđev, Siniša Ilić, Maja Mirković, Jelena Novak, Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović, DOB, Belgrade

2008 ILLEGAL_CINEMA_revolution, HDLU, Meštrović’s pavilion, Zagreb

2008 for the opera DON GIOVANNI (Mozart), director: Bojana Cvejić, BITEF 42

2007 VIDEO KOSOV@: opinions, where are they coming from?, 5-chanel video installation, 49^th October saloon, Beograd

2006 RE-DELEGATING: archiving performances on the edge of the void, artistic research and installation, in collaboration with A. Vujanović and B. Cvejic, Forum Stadtpark, Graz

2005 for the opera ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE (Gluck) in collaboration with A. Vujanović, director: Bojana Cvejić, BEMUS 37

2005 ≈ QUEER ≠ ; 11 minutes of repolitization of personal position, video installation, in collaboration with A. Vujanović, CZKD – Pavilion Veljković, Belgrade

2005 for music theatre performance OPERRRRA (is of female gender), director: Bojan Đorđev, BELEF 05

2005 AMAZONS WITHOUT BODY: image and consequences, video installation, Gallery SKC, Belgrade

2005 for theatre performance ”OUT OF GEAR” (Maja Pelevic), director: Slađana Kilibarda, National theatre in Subotica

2004 for theatre performance ESCape (Maja Pelevic), director: Jelena Bogavac, SKC, Belgrade

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FILMS

2012 YUGOSLAVIA, HOW IDEOLOGY MOVED OUR COLLECTIVE BODY, documentary, 30 min, production: Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris (in production)

2012 CULTURAL WORKER 3 IN 1, documentary, 50 min, production: TkH (Walking Theory), Belgrade and Kontrapunkt, Skopje (in postproduction)

2011 TALK TO HIM, experimental film, 21 min, production: Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris

2011 SONIA, documentary, 30min, production: Centre for visual communications “Kvadrat” and DART film, Belgrade (working title, in production)

2011 THE GUARD, short fiction, 26 min, production: Faculty of Dramatic Arts, TkH (Walking Theory), DART film, Belgrade

2007 MONSTERS, short fiction, 7 min, production: Faculty of Dramatic Arts, TkH-centre, Belgrade

2006 SEX, LIES AND GRAMOPHONE RECORDS, documentary, 21 min, production: Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade

2005 HAPTIC IMAGE, short fiction, 15 min, production: Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade

2005 TUNNEL, short documentary, 4 min, production: Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade

2004 VENUS IN FURS, short fiction, 10 min, production: Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade

2004 VIOLET PERFECTION 458, short fiction, 6 min, production: Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade

2003 FUCKING KOLO, short documentary, 11 min, production: Centre for visual communications “Kvadrat”, Belgrade

2002 EXAMPLE, short fiction, 5 min, production: Centre for visual communications “Kvadrat”, Belgrade

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PERFORMANCES AND TEXTUAL WORKS

2010 HYPER-REAL ALLEGORY – atelier of a theoretician in the age of wide capitalism, space installation, Saloon of the Museum of Conteporary Arts, Belgrade

2009 GENERIQUE – the last theoretical performance by TkH, Jugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade

2007 ART IN THE AGE OF KNAUF – group performance, with Maska (Ljubljana) and Frakcija (Zagreb), Fridricianum, Documenta 12, Kassel

2008 WITH THIS WORK I AM KEEPING MY POSITION IN TkH JOURNAL, TkH, no. 16, Belgrade, 2008.

2007 BOXING MATCH – ready-made theatre, artistic research and performance, CZKD – Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade

2007 PRO TRANZIT OFFICE – opening of the filialle ProSFera in Pančevo, performance, with Ana Vilenica and Jelena Knežević, 36. Ex teatar fest, Pančevo

2006 ProTranzit – local office of the Problemarket Company, performance, with Igor Štromajer and Davide Grassi, as collaborator, Erste bank, Belgrade

2005 SMS Guerilla, a guerrilla TV performance, as collaborator, Belgrade

2005 PROPOSITIONS FOR THE ARTWORK X 1-10, TkH, no. 9, Belgrade, 2005.

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ARTIST IN RESIDENCY

Cultural centre Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris; 2010-2012
Center of Culture – Matadero – El Ranchito residency, April 2011

Published on September 27, 2010 14:23.
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Deschooling Video Classroom

DESCHOOLING VIDEO CLASSROOM
Deschooling Video Classroom is a research-based artistic work of a group of artists and cultural workers participating in the project Deschooling Classroom by TkH [Walking Theory] – theoretical-artistic platform.

All video interviews and other documentation you can find here: http://videoclassroom.tkh-generator.net

The work comprises a series of video-interviews that we conducted in the course of the exhibition October Salon with the artists and guests of the exhibition, as well as with the actors of the local cultural-artistic scene. However, the interviewees are here not asked to talk about their artistic work; instead, as prominent actors of the international cultural-artistic scene, they are invited to speak about this scene, and their positions and stakes in it. According to this concern, the thematic framework of the interviews includes the issues of cultural policies and independent scenes and the artivist practices, which tie art and activism, open up the questions of social critique, intellectual property, accessibility of video art, etc. Deschooling Video Classroom is at the same time a part of our research on the independent cultural-artistic scene and on collective self-education procedures, and an artwork that tries to attract public attention to the key issues of today’s art scene structuration.

So far, you can watch the following interviews:
Rosa Barba, visual artist
Tim Etchells, theatre and visual artist, artistic director of the group Forced Entertainment
Julieta Aranda, visual artist and founder of the international platform e-flux
Jelena Vesić, freelance curator, editor of the journal Prelom
Mia David, director of the KCB, editor of the magazine Kvart
Vladimir Palibrk, curator of Elektrika gallery, Pačevo

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Published on October 23, 2011 15:21.
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Talk to Him, excerpts

‘Talk to Him’, 2011
Marta Popivoda

Running time: 21’ 39’’
Director: Marta Popivoda
Choreography: Jennifer Lacey, Audrey Gaisan, Barbara Manzetti
Performers: Nicolas Couturier, Jennifer Lacey, Audrey Gaisan, Barbara Manzetti
Production: Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers

The video-work is produced within ‘I heart Lygia Clark’ project by Jennifer Lacey.

This film has unusual collaboration and copyright policy. It is a result of an accidental encounter of two artists, ungrounded on prescribed plans and expectations from the shooting. Marta Popivoda, the filmmaker ‘had received’ the dance piece “I Heart Lygia Clark” by Jennifer Lacey, and immediately after, she shot the next performance in return. Raw material from this shooting is in possession of both authors and can end in very different films.

The film “Talk to Him” by Marta Popivoda amplifies the multilayer performance – the performance for and with the spectator who doesn’t see it; the ‘backstage’ performance between the three performers who – apart from executing the tasks that produce the sensorial event for the blind / dead spectator – perform their roles for one another; and the cinematic performance constructed by the camera eye. How to locate here the spectator’s eye, the point in which the set of actions, micro-events, and audio-visual sensations become performance? Is it about trust and confidence? In the search of the missing and shifting spectator’s eye the film looses the sovereignty over its ‘object’ and becomes a fragile affective experience, thus transmitting the sensuality of the performance to the film spectators.

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Published on October 23, 2011 13:25.
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THE GUARD / ČUVAR, trailer

Bata’s understanding of life changes when from a bouncer in a nightclub he becomes guard in a museum of contemporary art. Touched by a controversial artwork, he makes excursion from his class milieu.

Batino shvatanje života menja se kad od izbacivača u noćnom klubu postaje čuvar u muzeju savremene umetnosti. Taknut kontroverznom slikom “SM Isus”, pravi izlet iz svog konteksta i klasnog miljea.

Čuvar (2011) 26′ 21”
Režija: Marta Popivoda

Scenario i adaptacija: Milena Bogavac i Marta Popivoda
Produkcija: Dragana Jovović
Direktorka fotografije: Tatjana Krstevski
Montaža: Nataša Damnjanović
Muzika: Draško Adžić
Dizajn zvuka: Jakov Munižaba

Uloge: Miloš Timotijević, Milena Moravčević, Slobodan Pavelkić , Nataša Marković, Vladislava Đorđević
Produkcija: TkH, FDU, DART film
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Srbija
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Published on October 23, 2011 13:17.
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