IVA KOVAČ & NATAŠA TEPAVČEVIĆ
KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION
2008
Publication - fanzin
Participants: Gülsun Karamustafa, Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, Nataša Tepavčević, Iva Kovač
The collaborative project Knowledge Distribution is a work in progress that changes depending on the context in which it develops or into which it is shifted. It began as a conversation between its authors, Iva Kovač and Nataša Tepavčević, which again triggered the idea for a series of interviews - or enter-views, with artists Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi and Gülsun Karamustafa. From the 8h30min-long audio material, fragments were selected and presented here in the form of a publication - a fanzin, including also comments by the authors.
«All artists that we had interviewed are from Eastern Europe, or the «East». Initial points of our conversations were problematising transparent strategies of insertion of artists from the «East» into the art market of the «West». Responses that we received from the artists initiated another series of conversations between ourselves, as well as some thoughts on future self-regulation, self-organization and self-education. The chance to have discussions with these particular artists motivated us in our decision for this particular methos of production/work. The content of Knowledge Distribution is an intervention into the conversation-as-material, which serves us not in order to «educate the audience» but search for new strategies of functioning in contemporary art, which differ from existing ones.» (I.K. & N.T.)
IVA KOVAČ (1983, Split, HR) graduated at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Art in 2008. During her studies she participated at the student exchange program at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (USA), an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, as well as a workshop led by Dan Perjovschi at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg. She currently participates in the workshop Curatorial platform at the Student Center in Zagreb. Her work has been shown on several solo and group exhibitions, including 4th Triennial of Graphic Art, 7th Days of Performance in Croatia, Under Construction (Staging the Future) - with the SprRoUt collective… She is the author of the poster project and the related website citati.plakate.googlepages.com, as well as a gallery-based project (re)production.
“In my work I use different strategies that enable me to establich communication. I try to see consider society as a whole, art and art criticism with a critical distance. I see art production as a potentially subversive act and as a critical apparatus.”
NATAŠA TEPAVČEVIĆ (1982, Beograd, RS) graduated at the Faculty of Visual Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting. During the final year of her studies she was a visiting student at the Art Academy in Ljubljana and Vienna, class of Marina Gržinić. She has taken part in numerous exhibitions, in Serbia and abroad. In the locas scene she is engaged around the workshop programs of the platform TkH (Walking Theory) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.
«My recent art practice implies inserting text in visual works. My basic research evolves around questioning the institutional theory of art. The combination points not only to a need for a theoretical frame, but also the very production of it, within the discourse of contemporary practices.»
