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Talk between: Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol (NL) with Leila Topi\u0107 (HR)<\/strong><\/p>\n

in cooperation with the discursive program of the doctoral study of Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 7, 2024 u 7:30 pm<\/strong>
\nPutolovac Gallery<\/strong><\/div>\n
Ilica 112<\/strong><\/div>\n
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In conversation with Leila Topi\u0107 from MSU Zagreb<\/strong>, Bik Van der Pol<\/strong> will try to touch on the most important topics that have marked their artistic practice so far. Through their practice, they strive to articulate and understand how art can create space for speculation and imagination within the public space. This includes forms of mediation through which the public is not only defined, but also created. By establishing the conditions for the encounter, Bik Van der Pol’s work process enables the continuous reconfiguration of place, history and public. Their practice is site-specific and collaborative and includes publishing, writing and curating. They consider dialogue as a mode of transmission, where the element of “passing through” is vital, because it is temporal and implies action and the development of new forms of discourse. Their practice is both the initiator and the result of this approach. Bik Van der Pol investigate the ways in which human activity in the globalized age has a direct impact on (ecological) systems. They are interested in the potential of the choir in the present. It is important to note that the Greek chorus was not composed of actors – instead, (male) citizens were chosen to represent the city. Their role was to speak on behalf of past and future generations of the city; “When they spoke about what the public already recognized, they were grandfathers. When they expressed what the public felt but could not articulate, they were unborn.”<\/p>\n

Artists Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol (NL) work <\/strong>together as\u00a0Bik Van der Pol<\/strong> since 1995, they have been working. They live and work in Rotterdam, Netherlands (www.bikvanderpol.net<\/strong><\/a>). Through their practice Bik Van der Pol aim to articulate and understand how art can produce a public sphere and space for speculation and imagination. This includes forms of mediation through which publicness is not only defined but also created. Their work follows from research of how to activate situations to create a platform for exchange and experience of different knowledges. Bik Van der Pol\u2019s mode of working consists of setting up the conditions for encounter, where they develop a process of working that allows for continuous reconfigurations of places, histories, and publics. Their practice is site-specific and collaborative, with dialogue as a mode of transfer; a \u201cpassing through\u201d, understood in its etymological meaning of \u201ca speech across or between two or more people, out of which may emerge new understandings\u201d. In fact, they consider the element of \u201cpassing through\u201d as vital. It is temporal and implies action and the development of new forms of discourse. Their practice is both instigator and result of this method. They have exhibited their work at numerous venues, as well as participated in biennials such as Gwangju, Istanbul, Jakarta, and Sao Paulo Biennale. Recent and current projects include Paad Bienal 2024 Abi Dabhi (UAE), a research residency project at School of Casablanca (2021\u201323), Casablanca (Marocco), a project in collaboration with Volt, Bergen (Norway), Take Part (2018\u201320), at SFMOMA and Public Libraries, San Francisco (USA), and Far Too Many Stories To Fit Into So Small A Box, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (Poland) (2019-20). Bik Van der Pol were co-initiators of artist-run space Duende existing from 1984-2013, where they organised many activities such as artist in residence programs, talks, screenings and exhibition projects, they were course directors of The School of Missing Studies \u2013 a temporary masters programme at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (2013\u201315), and they are advisors at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Liesbeth is a core-tutor at Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam), and a member, and currently chair, of the Akademie van Kunsten\/Academy of Arts, that is part of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science (KNAW).<\/p>\n

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Leila Topi\u0107<\/strong> is professor of art history and comparative studies and senior curator at Zagreb MSU. She realized numerous solo and group exhibitions during her work as a freelance curator and as an employee of MSU since 2006 (57th Zagreb Salon \u201eStvari druga\u010dije\u201c, \u201eKrivo srastanje\u201c, \u201e5,5 na Richterovoj ljestvici\u201c, \u201eUnutar strukture- dijalog s Ivanom Piceljom\u201c, \u201eKradljivci vremena\u201c (with Jasminka Babi\u0107), 60th Pore\u010d Annales, and numerous solo exhibitions such as those of Zlatan Vehabovi\u0107, Renata Poljak, Damir \u017di\u017ei\u0107 and Kristijan Ko\u017eul, Olivier Menanteau, \u017darko Vijatovi\u0107, Bojan Gagi\u0107, Ana Opali\u0107 , Roger Ballen, Sofija Silvija, Javier Arce, Oliver Kosack, Loren \u017divkovi\u0107 Kulji\u0161, Vida Mei\u0107 or \u017deljko Kipke.) She initiated the multi-year multimedia exhibition project “Cinematography of Resistance” in collaboration with the Subversive Film Festival and film programmer Dina Pokrajac. Among the more organizationally demanding exhibitions, she curated and presented the group problem exhibition “Lighting out for the territories” in the Vienna Kunsthalle and the Budapest Contemporary Art Center “Trafo”. She also organized and co-curated the group exhibition “L’amour d’risque”, as well as the media-demanding and complex solo exhibitions of Dalibor Martinis (awarded with the Nazor Prize) and Zlatko Kopljar \u200b\u200bat MSU. She won the V. Nazor Award in 2017 for Dalibor Martinis’ solo exhibition “Data Recovery” at MSU. In addition to editing and writing texts for exhibition publications, Leila Topi\u0107 edited the translations of Nicolas Bouriaud’s “Relational Aesthetics” and Donald Kuspit’s “The End of Art” in the MSU library “Refleksije”. She is the co-author of the publication “60 Years of Gallery SC” in collaboration with Darko Glavan. She trained as a scholarship holder of the Goethe Institute in Berlin, in the Vienna Museum Quarter on a curatorial scholarship, and at numerous other international curatorial workshops (workshop on mediation in contemporary art “Fall of the Ivory Tower”, Vilnius, Lithuania, workshop “Contemporary phenomena in museums” Bordoaux\/ Paris, France, two-month scholarship for cultural management Paris, France, Curators’ network in Madrid, Spain.) She has been an active member and lecturer at the Center for Women’s Studies since 2002. She is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Media and Communication in Belgrade. She lives and works in Zagreb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Artists for Artists Residency Network<\/strong>, a two-year project (2023-2024),\u00a0aims to improve the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators, while creating greater opportunities for women in the arts.<\/strong>\u00a0The project takes place in four European partner countries \u2013 Romania, Germany, Croatia and Austria. The project focuses on the development of new international exchanges and transcultural dialogue and provides a number of new opportunities for art practitioners of all ages, in different artistic media, with a special emphasis on women in art and gender equality. The result of the project will be increased awareness of the importance of cultural mobility at local legislative levels, but also in the general public, especially in the current (post)crisis European context, strengthening EU affiliation and connection with contemporary visual art.<\/p>\n

The project includes:\u00a012 artist residencies<\/strong>\u00a0in Zagreb (HR), Mulhouse (FR), Bucharest (RO) and in S\u0103cel, Maramure\u0219 (RO),\u00a04 curatorial residencies<\/strong>\u00a0in Zagreb and Bucharest,\u00a012 conferences<\/strong>\u00a0in Zagreb, Bucharest and Vienna and\u00a01 traveling international exhibition<\/strong>, which will first be shown to the public in Zagreb (HR), and then in Vienna (AT) and Bucharest (RO).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Co-funded by the European Union \u2013 CREA-CULT-2022-COOP. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. [Project number: 101100309 ]<\/p>\n

Project is co-financed by the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.<\/p>\n

The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Talk between: Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol (NL) with Leila Topi\u0107 (HR)<\/p>\n

in cooperation with the discursive program of the doctoral study of Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb<\/p>\n

May 7, 2024 u 7:30 pm
Putolovac Gallery Ilica 112 <\/p>\n

In conversation with Leila Topi\u0107 from MSU Zagreb, Bik Van der […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1013,1020,1001,1055,1014,741],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}