[ISEA2011] Curator Statement: Tihomir Milovac – Dislocations

Curator Statement

Re-interpretations, mis-interpretations and unrelated contexts create new modalities of perception and understanding, leading to the rediscovery of the self and human commonalities beyond local realities and globalized stereotypes. Dislocations presents artworks that are
inspired by or reference acts of war and the dislocated realities that we live in.

ISEA2011 Istanbul and the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia, present DISLOCATIONS, an art program of recontextualizations and transmediations, which sees the participation of Songül Boyraz, David Cotterrell, Charles Csuri, Mathias Fuchs, Danielle Roney and Jeff Conefry. The event is in collaboration with Kasa Gallery and sponsored by Borusan Müzik Evi. For its world premier Dislocations will also introduce to the world audience Random War, the new transmediated artwork on Facebook by the digital pioneer Charles Csuri, inspired by a 1967 plotted drawing by the same title. Re-interpretations, mis-interpretations and un-related contexts create new modalities of perception and understanding, leading to the rediscovery of the self and human commonalities beyond local realities and globalized stereotypes. Dislocations presents artworks that are inspired by or reference acts of war and the dislocated realities that we live in. Dislocations is part of the Official Parallel Program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial.

  • Tihomir Milovac is an art historian, currently Museum Advisor and Head of the Experimental and Research Department at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia. Since 1984 as a museum curator he has curated numerous of solo, group and thematic exhibitions with Croatian and artists abroad (with a preference for the former East Europe). His focus is engaged in new, contemporary phenomena in visual arts, especially in new media and at defining the role of art in contemporary societies. In the museum praxis he develops curatorial role as a producer, working with the artists on their new productions.
    In 2006 he was co-author of the Museological conception for the MCA Zagreb Collection permanent display. He is a member of CıMAM (Executive Board member 2007 – 2010).

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