DICTIONARY OF WAR, Novi Sad edition: January 25 and 26, 2008
After a one year break the DICTIONARY OF WAR continues with a fifth edition on January 25th and 26th, 2008 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Again 25 new concepts on the topic
of war will be presented in alphabetical order by artists, theorists, filmmakers,
scientists, researchers. Loosely based on the slogan: "At least, when we create
concepts, we are doing something" DICTIONARY OF WAR is a collaborative platform for
creating concepts.
The Novi Sad edition of DICTIONARY OF WAR will feature contributions by: Verica
Barac, chairwoman of the Anti-Corruption Committee in Serbia; artist Hans Bernhard
from Austria; Novi Sad based artist Slavko Bogdanovic; Thomas Campbell, union activist and writer from US and St. Petersburg; Jovan Divjak, former general in
Yugoslav army who defended Sarajevo; Bojan Djordjev, theater director from Belgrade;
political scientist Volker Eick from Berlin; Galit Eilat, curator and theorist from
Israel; artist from Kosovo, Albert Heta; IRWIN group from Ljubljana; Vesna Kesic,
feminist and journalist from Zagreb; Erden Kosova, critic and theorist from Istanbul; artist from Zagreb Andreja Kuluncic; Geert Lovink, media theorist from
Amsterdam; London based artist an filmmaker Jean Mathee; sound artist from Berlin
Sebastian Meissner; Metahaven, design group rom Amsterdam and Bruxelles; visual art
theorist from Skopje Suzana Milevska; Nebojsa Milikic, artist and activist from
Belgrade; theater theorist and performing artist Gini Mueller; Martha Rosler, artist
from New York; Paris based theater playwriter Biljana Srbljanovic; Teofil Pancic,
journalist and writer from Belgrade; Zelimir Zilnik, filmmaker from Novi Sad, Florian Schneider(DE) , writer, filmmaker and net activist.
This winter, DICTIONARY OF WAR event will take place in Serbia where notion of war
has a special meaning as a symbol of unresolved past, which in many ways determines
the future of the territory of former Yugoslavia and its neighborhood € ¦’¶ it is
constituting form of a new order. To question different approaches to the subject of
a war in this special edition of DICTIONARY OF WAR in Novi Sad has significant roll
in analyzing present € ¦’³power relations€ ¦’´ in this specific region and wider. € ¦’³Is genocidal war necessary for the organization of human society?€ ¦’´ still reverberates through this region.
100 concepts on the issue of a war, have had already been invented, arranged and
presented at the first four public, two-day events in Frankfurt, Munich, Graz and
Berlin. The entire video recordings (live mixed from four cameras and additional
sources) of the first four editions of the DICTIONARY OF WAR are available for free
download from the website: http://dictionaryof war.org/en- dict/v2v Besides that, in the lobby of the location of Novi Sad event, there will be TV sets installed offering to the audience the opportunity to browse through this unique topic-based multimedia archive that encompasses more than 50 hours of video material. Even by now the video files of the DICTIONARY OF WAR are shared by thousands of users worldwide who download the material for educational or research purposes and remix it in various new contexts. The next 25 concepts that are going to be presented at the Novi Sad edition will be ready for download near on real time - published under a creative commons share-alike license.
The Novi Sad edition of the DICTIONARY OF WAR starts on Friday, January 25, at 5 pm
in Studio M, Radio Novi Sad, Ignjata Pavlasa 3. It will be continued on January 26,
at 2 pm. The concepts will be introduced in alphabetical order by their concept
persons in half-hour long presentations or performances. Entrance to the event is
free of charge.
More informations at: http://dictionaryof war.org or
info[at]dictionaryo fwar.org and
office[at]kuda. org
DICTIONARY OF WAR is project by Multitude e.V. Berlin and Unfriendly Takeover Frankfurt am Main, and it is locally organized by New Media Center_kuda. org Novi Sad
(www.kuda.org) in collaboration with € ¦’³Zavod za kulturu Vojvodine€ ¦’´ and
Radio Novi Sad. The project in Serbia is supported by Ministry of Culture and Education of Province Vojvodina, Fond for Open Society, Goethe Institute Belgrad,
Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade and The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Belgrade.
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