Aug 16 2010

Interview with Ivana Jozic, part 2: Opening the channels of nonconformity…

This is the second part of the interview with Ivana Jozic. Read the first part titled Opening the channels of expressiveness…

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Photo: Theatre Troubleyn (c)

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Aug 16 2010

Interview with Ivana Jozic, part 1: Opening the channels of expressiveness…

Back in May this year, performer Ivana Jozic led a workshop titled Imagination / Transformation at the Tala Dance Centre in Zagreb. Ivana graciously found some time to give me an interview about her carrier and artwork. This talk was also possible thanks to choreographer and one of the founders of  Tala Dance Centre – Tamara Curic.

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Ivana Jozic in the Angel of Death, photo by Jorge Molder (c)

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Jul 26 2010

Judy Chicago – When Women Rule the World

Last summer Textile Museum of Canada presented Judy Chicago’s When Women Ruled the World, an exhibition covering 40 years of her art practice. Judy Chicago is shown as pioneer in many senses, resolving the stereotypes of female art, textile art, community art…., assaulting century-long models of aesthetics, patriarchal society and men-assigned monumentality.

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Would God be Female? by  Judy Chicago

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Jul 22 2010

Ernesto Neto – the art of dream, the art of life

It’s been a while since I was writing about textile art – but recently Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto took me to some new horizons of art that simultaneously goes for aesthetic and engaged. His latest exhibition ‘The Edges of the World’ has just been opened in Hayward Gallery in Southbank Centre in London, and created specifically for this occasion.

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Ernesto Neto, Horizon of events III, detail

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Apr 18 2010

Textile sculptures by Josipa Stefanec – gallery

While I was browsing through Croatian contemporary textile art, I came to work by young artist Josipa Stefanec… I like the way her dresses and garments look like installations, whilst her installations look like dresses in the space…

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Photo: Vulic (c), taken from ULUPUH

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