Вас Ист АРКзин (Was Ist ARKzin) - public discussion and exhibition organized by kuda.org & mi2
Public discussion and presentation of the exhibition about ARKzin magazine
Monday, November 25, 2013, at 6 pm
NDNV - Independent Association of Journalists of Vojvodina, Zmaj Jovina 3 / I, Novi Sad
Discussion participants: Dejan Kršić, designer and editor of ARKzin, Zagreb Vesna Janković, main editor of ARKzin, Zagreb Boris Buden, philosopher and member of the editorial board of ARKzin, Berlin Tomislav Medak, Multimedia Institute mi2, Zagreb members of NDNV and Centra_kuda.org, Novi Sad
Exhibition Вас Ист АРКзин (Was Ist ARKzin)
November 25 - December 6, 2013
opening of the exhibition: Monday, November 25 at 8 pm SULUV Gallery, Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 9, Novi Sad
Production of the exhibition and catalog: kuda.org, Novi Sad and Multimedia Institute, Zagreb Exhibition
setting: kuda.org, Novi Sad
Design and technical preparation of the exhibition catalog: Dejan Dragosavac Ruta and Dejan Kršić
Catalog/newspaper editor: Petar Milat
The exhibition Was Ist Arkzin in Novi Sad arose from the projects and the exhibition LAYOUTS OF ARKZIN presented in Zagreb (from 28.05. - 12.06.2013.), and then from media g of the PUBLIC INSTALLATION project (Zagreb, November-December 2013), produced by the Multimedia Institute mi2 and associates. Arkzin magazine was launched in September 1991 as a fanzine of the anti-war campaign in Croatia and in the wider area of the former Yugoslavia. As an independent, alternative, critical magazine that opened up space for discussion, Arkzin combined radical themes with the radical design and thus tried to expand the reach of visual perception. From the catalog of the exhibition, part of the text by kuda.org: [...] Why did we miss the anti-war actions today about Arkzin, now a magazine or a fanzine? Not only because it is one thing to ask that today, thirteen years after the war (which lasted for Serbia), but another to ask that question once. Nor solely because it is one thing to stand on the line in Croatia, and quite another to stand up against the war in Serbia. It is clear to us that it was not the same to be an anti-war activist in a country that says to defend itself and to be that in a country that says not to attack. We call on Arkzin because we know that war does not require rights and that their legal regulation is the policy of the state, and that is why we claim that we are at war today - in a war, we can and do not have to admit, but it will depend on whether we understand that the struggle and war is a political category that the state tries to monopolize and direct against us. [...] The exhibition and public discussion in Novi Sad are organized by kuda.org and the Multimedia Institute within the project Aesthetic Education Expanded [http: //www.aestheticeducation.net /].
The project is being implemented in cooperation with the following organizations: Berliner Gazette from Berlin, Mute from London, Kontrapunkt from Skopje, Multimedia Institute from Zagreb, and kuda.org from Novi Sad, with the support of the Culture Program 2007-2013 of the European Commission. The exhibition and public discussion in Novi Sad were also supported by: Institute for Culture of Vojvodina // Provincial Secretariat for Culture and Public Information // Open Society Foundation, Serbia // European Cultural Foundation // SULUV Gallery