NATAŠA TEPAVCEVIC (1982 Belgrade); visual multimedia artist and theoretician.
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In 2008, Graduated painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade; The same year, received a scholarship grantedby Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research for one month visit research, April 2008 Vienna. During the
same year, I was student on exchange in Slovenia and also received an award from the American foundation
“Studenica”-for the best students in Serbia.
Regularly writing for ART FAMA (http://www.arte.rs/sr/vesti/1540-Art_Fama/- Magazine for contemporary art scene in Serbia and for American newspaper Serbia Today http://www.serbiatoday.info/index8_files/Page377.htm
Engaged in cultural policy issues
Publish regularly theoretical texts on performing arts and culture in journals and collections in Serbia (Danas,
Teatron, Scena…)
Exhibiting at various one man and group exhibitions home and abroad.
Chosen exhibition: Exhibition of drawings and graphics in Pedagogical museum in Belgrade ( 2001), Group
Exhibition of short electronic form in gallery ‘REX’ ( 2006), Belgrade, 14. Biennale Student’s drawing-galleria of
‘’Student’s town’’,Belgrade-2007, “ Progressive Hope”, galleria “Magacin”, Belgrade-2007, installation on
“Summer Academy”- Salzburg, Austria, 2007, Video work on Summer Academy, Salzburg, 2008, Group exhibition, Moder galery Velenje, Slovenia, Salon of Revolution, Zagreb, Croatia, 2008, FLU galery Belgrade “Distribution of knowledge” 2009
Many theoretical-artistic works: theoretical performance, video/audio/photo/theoretical installation … (co-author,
text, performing…); and contributions at theoretical seminars, schools, conferences, workshops, labs…
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Published theoretical and critical texts and interviews:
· Theoretical text: Space-dimension of perception, in book: Zbornik of Methodological Examples, Beograd
2008, p 110-114
· Recension of theory book: Towards the Madness (and Revolution), Ivana Sajko, Teatron br 143, and also
on cite: http://www.tkh-generator.net/sr/openedsource/ivana-sajko-prema-ludilu-i-revoluciji-citanje
· Publisher and author of the newspaper +-1%, Belgrade 2007
· Publisher and author of fanzine “Knowledge distribution” (collaboration project with Croatian artist Iva
Kovac), published by 29th Youth Salon-Salon of the Revolution, Zagreb. Open work, Interviews and
conversation with artist who are coming from East, but they are already recognized by West, http://www.salonrevolucije.org/#/en/participants/iva-kovac-and-natasa-tepavcevic/
· “More or less infinity” theoretical text about society-institutional spectacle “Bitef”, Danas-magazine, and
also in Bitef Bilten, no 3, Belgrade 2008
· “Stifter’s dinge”, Scena Theatre Arts Review, December 2008
http://www.pozorje.org.rs/scena/scena408/17.htm
· Interviews and critiques of performance, 2008 Belgrade, http://walkingkkh.blogspot.com/
· Critique of performance, Bitef festival, http://bitefkkh.blogspot.com/
· Member of forum for performing arts, critique, interviews, publications, http://tkhforum.blogspot.com/, and member of KKH (Walking Critic) platform for theory and performing arts, Belgrade http://kkhgrupa.blogspot.com/ (find my critics: ŠTIFTEROVE STVARI Heiner Goebbels; BREHT – THE HARDCORE MASCHINE Andraš Urban, MANJAK PROSTORA Kristofera Martalera, CIE 111 Više-manje beskonačno MAD DOG...
Blog where you can find all published texts: http://natasa-publishedtexts.blogspot.com/
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BECOMING OTHER - NatašaTepavčević
Make distinction between learning and knowledge!
video instalation, 2009, Vienna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHROdeM_vGk
Education and knowledge ARE being commoditised, industrialised, economised and being made subject to free trade, competition, management and a host of other destructive, elitist and exclusionary bullshit.
Production of art or knowledge production has its socio-political consequences.
De-westernizing and de-colonizing of knowledge and transforming the university toward a non-capitalist horizon of life is what we all shall strive for: a democratic economy that will allow the plu-versality of communal organization in different parts of the world, allowing people to live and re-create languages, histories, religions, values, etc., that over the past five hundred years have been eroded by the belief (in the West and among elites in the non West) that Western life-style, industrialization, technology and the like was the point of arrival in the history of Human civilization. While Western civilization has made a great contribution to the history of the humanity, the achievement is not a good enough reason to expect that everybody else does the same. There is a global consensus, among de-westernizer and de-colonial that that cycle has been close, and that global futures will be decided by many and not by one (be that United States, European Union, China or a globally spread Islam.
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WORK IN PROGRESS
2008 SALZBURG
2009 BELGRADE
Distribution
of knowledge
collaborative project:
Natasa Tepavcevic
& Iva Kovac
instead-before-alongside creation and production
· recognition of art as knowledge production (art has cognitive power; and a power
to theorize)
· articulation of methodology (terms, concepts, rules, protocols, procedures of
production – representation: to overcome homology between scientific methods
and the methods of work in art; to empower artistic knowledge production)
NOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION
Publication – KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION
Participants: Gülsun Karamustafa, Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, Nataša
Tepavcevic, Iva Kovac
Download publication: http://www.scribd.com/full/12652202?access_key=key-69lezu1syihhyukfbx5 (I part, conversation from Salzburg, exhibited in Zagreb, on Salon of Revolution, 2008)
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 Kovac and Nataša Tepavcevic, which again triggered the idea for a series of interviews - or enterviews, 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.
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.)
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Theoretical performance-installation, please find more here:
http://theoreticalperformace-installation.blogspot.com/
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