Touring / art residency in Maribor: diSTRUKTURA
12. 11. – 22. 11. 2017
Producer: MSUV / Host: ACE KIBLA

Touring Residence Risk Change part 3;
hosting: diSTRUKTURA (MSUV, Novi Sad, Serbia)

 

As part of the international project Risk Change, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (MSUV, Novi Sad, Serbia) and ACE KIBLA from Maribor, an art residency took place in Maribor between 12 and 22 November 2017, hosting the artistic collective diSTRUKTURA.

During the time of the residency, the annual KIBLIX 2017 festival and the opening of the exhibition Shelters of Babylon were held in Maribor. The program featured a series of events, including artist talks with artists like Petra Kapš, Simon Macuh, Borut Popenko, and others, and discussions with curators from Maribor and Ljubljana (Miha Colner, Nina Jeza, Aleksandra Kostič).

The residency also included a visit to Ljubljana and Graz, with the aim of collecting materials for a project on the topic of emigrants, which has been developed by diSTRUKTURA since 2013. The created wall mural installation is dedicated to the daily migrants traveling between Maribor and Graz, and will be set up in Serbia.

Our research has been, for many years now, connected to the long-term project called We are living in a beautiful wOURld, which deals with issues of migration, brain drain and human capital, introducing also new, redefined theories of “home”. We started with a massive brain drain in post-Yugoslav regions during the war and after from a personal perspective, questioning the impact on identity and future of these people, as well as creation of space and new psychogeographical currents of the destination cities. The project started in 2013 and it involved works in different media, photography, prints, drawings, installations and in situ installations with video based interviews as main medium. The most recent project involved Latino- American migration in Spain and their contribution to the social landscape of Barcelona and Madrid.
– link to RC Touring Residencies blog published by diSTRUKTURA

 

diSTRUKTURA –  www.distruktura.com

Milica Milićević (1979) and Milan Bosnić (1969) both hold MA degrees from the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade. Since 2005 they have been working on joint projects under the name diSTRUKTURA. They live and work in Belgrade.

diSTRUKTURA, photo by Lupi Spuma