Over the past 10 years, Femkanje podcast and art/media platform has built an extensive archive of sound documents and conversations with many different actors of the cultural scene of Serbia, ex-YU region and Europe. In this talk we’ll share how the project developed and deepened over the years, highlighting speakers and practices that deal with the topic of togetherness through art, feminism, socialism and Yugoslavia.
Bojana S. Knežević is a media artist, producer and journalist, working in the fields of performance, video, audio-visual installation, sound and radio art and art education. She is co-author of an art/media project and podcast Femkanje, founding member of an international sound art collective Audio Leakage Community and initiator of an independent educational platform Wandering cathedra for para-academic activities. In her socially engaged and participatory art projects, she deconstructs various social stereotypes, with a focus on voices of marginalized or hidden individual and collective identities. bojanaknezevic.com
Katarina Petrović is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and humanities. Her work focuses on creative processes, from meaning-making, poiesis and organizational systems to physics of sound, light and vacuum. She makes process works using media of text, sound, software and performance. Katarina holds a MMus degree from ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague and an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade. In 2019 she was the winner of D.B. Mangelos award.www.katarinapetrovic.net
Lectures are part of the Belgrade micro-residency of the project Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem, supported by the European Union, developed and conducted by Kurziv, Krytyka Polityczna and Maska Ljubljana.