Dec 1 2009

Textiles Don’t Burn – Ivana Podnar

Ivana Podnar is a ready made textile artist who plays with textile and fibre practically her whole life. Although many girls sew clothes for their dolls during the childhood (I have to admit, it’s a rather rare phenomenon nowadays), only few of them stick to sewing for the whole life.

ivana_podnar_1.jpgReady made shirt made of old stockings by Ivana Podnar

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Nov 25 2009

Interview with Mika Fukumori: On Ototenji and IAMAS

Before I’m going to start with individual presentations from this year’s edition of Device_art 3.009, held last month in Zagreb, I owe you few wordz on the concept and origins from the organizers of the festival, Kontejner – bureau of contemporary art praxis.

mika_fukumori_ototenji.jpgMika Fukumori: Ototenji

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Nov 6 2009

Remade – Artservis #2

Artservis workshops were initiated as the idea of socially engaged art that stepped out of the white box. To be precise, workshop did not completely abandoned art institutions cause they were taking place in museum or gallery space, but they absorbed street public within its frame. All of a sudden you had sacred art rooms filled with crowd that brought old clothes yearning after an art touch.

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Oct 16 2009

Milos Tomic – fanatic, aesthetic, fantastic+

Fabrics, skirts, dresses, fashion magazines, cut, embroidered, animated, recomposed, combined with most unusual objects and given a completely new meaning are one of the many ways Milos Tomic is going to provoke you.

milo___tomi__1.jpgBurdacut by Milos Tomic (c)

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Aug 1 2009

Clothes Do Not Make A Man

Posters designed by Ljubica Marcetic Marinovic with co-author Vlado Zrnic, for last year’s dance piece choreographed by Irma Omerzo, ‘Clothes Do Not Make A Man’ I find interesting  for several reasons.

Ljubica_Marcetic_Marinovic1.jpgClothes Do Not Make A Man by Ljubica Marcetic Marinovic (c)

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