Syndicate: co.operation

["Rosana" <rosana.ratkovcic@zg.tel.hr>]

co.operation
International 
Forum for Feminist Art and Theory
 
 
organized 
by:
ELEKTRA - Women's 
Art Center
Savska 1, 10000 Zagreb, 
Hrvatska
Tel/Fax + 385 (0) 1 
48.29.415
HomePage. http://mama.mi2.hr/cooperation
 
coorganized 
by:
Art Workshop 
Lazareti
Pobijana 8, 20000 
Dubrovnik
Tel. + 385 20 423 
497
 
curator of the 
project:
Sanja 
Ivekovic
 
coordinator:
Rosana 
Ratkovcic
 
accountant:
Ruzica 
Guljasevic
 
moderator of 
Round Table:
Bojana 
Pejic
 
 
co.operation
is initiated by Women's Art Center â?? ELEKTRA an 
interdisciplinary art center founded in 1996 by a group of women artists, 
scholars and activists. ELEKTRA's main goal is to support art practice by women 
which challenges, explores and blurs the boundaries and hierarchies 
traditionally defining culture as represented by those in 
power.
The need to initiate The International Forum for 
Feminist Art and Theory is a result of the fact that in spite of the long 
history of feminism in Croatia there is no place which act as a permanent 
platform where women artists, theorists, activists and general public could 
meet, share their experiences, show their work and produce new 
ones.
co.operation would like to fill this gap with the 
intention of becoming a regular annual event that will provide more vivid 
connections and co-operations between women artists, art critics, curators, 
theorists and activists in the region.
Attempting to cover different fields of contemporary 
art theory and praxis co.operation is conceived as a program of 
several related segments.
 
ART 
PRODUCTIONS
The important feature of co.operation is the art residency program 
offering to invited artists the opportunity to produce new art works on site. 
This year the art productions will be organized in the medium of 
video.
Invited artists: Ksenija Turcic (Zagreb), 
Renata Poljak (Split), Kai Kaljo (Tallinn), Marilena Preda 
Sanc (Bucharest).
Date: 
September 16 â?? 23
  
EXHIBITION
Exhibition consists of a number of video and audio 
installations which will be shown in the old city center of Dubrovnik. Each day 
a new installation will be put up in a public space chosen by the 
artist.
Invited artists: Ivana Jelavic (Dubrovnik), 
Renata Poljak, Sandra Sterle (Split), Ksenija Turcic, Sanja 
Ivekovic (Zagreb), Danica Dakic, Maja Bajevic (Sarajevo), 
Milica Tomic (Belgrade).
Date: September 16 â?? 23
Venue: city streets of 
Dubrovnik
 
WORKSHOP
A 
three day video workshop will be run by artist, curator and critic Martha 
Wilson (New York). The workshop will be offered to young Croatian artists, 
independent producers or interested individuals.
Date: 
September 21 â?? 23
Place: 
Lazareti
  
LECTURES 
/ PRESENTATIONS
The aim of the Presentations is to bring feminist 
theory and feminist art/media practice together in a number of 
lectures/presentations by women artists, art critics and curators. The 
presentations will give a more complex insight on a specific art scene, the 
women's art production, local working conditions, access to the public sphere, 
the history of feminism, etc.
The presentations will be held by: Natasa Ilic 
(Croatia), Lejla Hodzic (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Agata Smalzerz 
(Poland), Iara Boubnova (Bulgaria), Katrin Kivimaa (Estonia), 
Marilena Preda Sanc (Romania), Vera Kopicl (SR 
Yugoslavia).
Date: September 16 â?? 23
Place: Gallery Otok
 
ARTIST'S PRESENTATIONS
The artistâ??s presentations will offer more 
information on the work of invited artists: 
Ksenija Turcic, Sandra Sterle, Danica Dakic, Maja 
Bajevic, Renata Poljak, Sanja Ivekovic, Milica Tomic, Marina Grzinic, Kai Kaljo, 
Martha Rosler, Andrea Fraser, Varsha Nair.
Date: September 16 â?? 22
Place: 
Gallery Otok
 
ROUND 
TABLE
The basic aim of the Round Table is to take a close 
look at feminist cultural production in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe 
and open the discussion about feminist strategies that will strengthen cultural 
co-operative work in the region. Participants of the Round Table will be 
encouraged to re-question the correlations between contemporary feminist theory 
and local/global politics, art practice and art history. co.operation has also invited prominent 
feminists from other parts of the world with whom weâ??d like to share their 
experiences and visions. The title of the Round Table is of(f) home. Within this 
theme different topics will be discussed such as identity, representation and 
re/definition of politics and gender, conditions of cultural production and 
forms of distribution, etc. 
The speakers at the Round Table will be: Bojana 
Pejic (Berlin/Belgrade) Biljana Kasic, Leonida Kovac (Zagreb), 
Svetlana Slapsak (Ljubljana), Dunja Blazevic (Sarajevo), Suzana 
Milevska (Skopje), Branislava Andelkovic (Beograd), Silvia 
Eiblmayr (Innsbruck), Hedwig Saxenhuber (Vienna), Iara 
Boubnova (Sofia), Edit Andras (Budapest), Agata Jakubowska 
(Poznan), Antonia Ulrich (Berlin), Hilary Robinson (Belfast) 
Katy Deepwell (London) Orly Lubin (Tel Aviv), Varsha Nair 
(Bangkok) Martha Rosler, Andrea Fraser, Martha Wilson (New York). 

Dates: September 22 â?? 24
Place: Lazareti, Dubrovnik
 
VIDEO 
GALLERY
Due to the limited cultural exchange in recent years 
regional projects promoting the art by women have been poorly presented in 
Croatia. 
Therefore this year co.operation will present VIDEOMEDEJA, 
The International Womenâ??s Video Festival (Novi Sad). The presentation of this 
project will be organized in a form of a video gallery where the selection of 
video tapes from the festival will be offered to the public. 
Curator: Vera Kopicl
Place: Lazareti, Dubrovnik
Date: September 17 â?? 21
  
FILM/VIDEO PROGRAM
The co.operation film/video program 
represents new documentary films and video works questioning our assumptions 
about gender, politics and culture.
Invited directors: Tatjana Bozic (Zagreb), 
Jasmila Zbanic (Sarajevo), Zemira Alajbegovic (Ljubljana), Hito 
Steyerl (Berlin), Marilena Preda Sanc (Bucharest), Pimpaka 
Towira (Bangkok), Ariella Azoulay (Tel Aviv), Galina Evtushenko 
(Moscow).
Dates: September 16 â?? 22
Time: 11.00 p.m.
Venue: Cinema Jadran
 
SPECIAL EVENTS
1. Presentation of the book The Body Caught in the 
Intestines of the Computer and Beyond/Womenâ??s Strategies and/or Strategies 
by Women in Media, Art and Theory, edited by Marina Grzinic (Ljubljana), 
in collaboration with Adele Eisenstein (Budapest/New 
York/Cologne)
2. Presentation of the project go_HOME, 
designed to explore strategies, both personal and political for renewing 
communities broken by war and ethnic conflict. The project is a collaboration of 
three artists; Sandra Sterle (Croatia), Danica Dakic and Maja Bajevic (Bosnia 
& Herzegovina).
3. Presentation of the project TEXT & 
SUBTEXT, the exhibition of contemporary Asian womenâ??s  art, launched in Singapore on 
14th June 2000, curated by Binghui Huangfu and organized by Earl Lu 
Gallery.
Date: September 16, 20, 21
Venue: Gallery Otok
 
co.operation is supported by
Hrvatski filmski savez, FACE Croatia, OSI â?? Cultural 
Link Program, KulturKontakt Austria, Trust for Mutual Understanding, European 
Cultural Foundation, Mama Cash, British Council, Austrian Cultural Institute, 
Embassy of the State of Israel.
big thanks toCenter 
for Women's Studes, MAMA, sanja&mario, Russian Embassy, Andreja, City of 
Women, B.a.B.e., ARKZIN, Damir, Radmila, Ksenija, Sabina, Sanja, Anja, Natasa, 
Dubravka, Mira, Iva, Barbara, Tomislav & many 
othersâ?¦