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Footnote- Centre for Image and Text is an independent artist-run studio in Belgrade, Serbia. Address: Kralja Milutina 34, 11000 Belgrade

It is a space dedicated to experimentation, research and production in the field of visual arts and publishing.

16/12/2024

In November we had a beautiful opportunity to meet the students of the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, and organize a workshop around Sounds like a book publication archive. As result, students produced experimental short videos based on their selection of books from SLB collection. The process of remediation was thus continued (sound-printed page- moving image) or as professor Andrej Dolinka has put it- "Sound like a book, reads like a movie." Thank you fakultet primenjenih umetnosti for hosting us and Sounds like a book for initiating this wonderful dialogue!

06/08/2024

We are pleased to invite you to an exhibition and a workshop by our current artist-in-residence Maddie Alexander later this week.

"Slippages"
Friday August 9th, 2024 (7:30pm-10pm)

Through an autoethnographic approach, “Slippages” explores the unkempt, transient moments
of medical transition. Reflecting on the tenseness of anticipation; the works illuminate moments
of joy, disappointment, boredom, growth, and inertia.

Workshop

LGBTQ Community Cyanotype Workshop (free)
Sunday August 11th, 2024 (5pm-7pm)

Current Artist-in-residence Maddie Alexander (They/He) would like to invite local LGBTQ+ members to visit Footnote Centre for a workshop in which he will share more about their current work on exhibit, and facilitate a collaborative Cyanotype exercise. Each participant is asked to bring 1 or more items (not exceeding 8 inch x 8 inch in size) which holds importance or meaning to them as a community member. All other materials will be supplied. This workshop will be held from 5pm-7pm, at Kralja Milutina, 34.

Please DM us or email at [email protected] if you are interested in attending

Looking forward to seeing you!

03/08/2024

Warm welcome to Maddie, our last resident of the season 🌴💫🪁

Maddie Alexander (They/He) is a Canadian trans artist, arts facilitator, and archivist engaging themes of embodied q***r and trans experiences through desire, failure, connection and dissonance. Using sourced materials and personal narratives to explore history, q***r representation and analogue to digital techniques, his work undergoes a process of translation that reflects their personal experience of transness; fluctuating and creating through patchwork to make something that feels real and whole. After graduating with a BFA from OCAD University in 2016, He went on to pursue an MFA at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they currently reside.

25/07/2024

"Stories of the End of the Garden" 🌴

Artist talk/open studio with Levente Hajdu
Saturday, 27 July at 7 p.m.

We are happy to invite you to the presentation of Levente’s previous projects and a small pop-up show of his current Belgrade prepccupations and findings.

Levente Hajdu ( ) evokes a world of nostalgic street markets, workshops and pubs, and the characters of this one-time world who are immersed in their everyday lives in the shadow of great historical events. The artist uses found objects and stories, sandpaper, sand and water-glass to narrate his experiences, both real and literary, where his free interpretation of materials and forms results in conscious works and atmospheres.

On display will also be artist’s collection of plastic bags, zines, postcards and found photos.

Projects to be presented on projector:
– Spiral Award
– UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR ARTISTS
– Greeting from Hajduszoboszló
– Hi Mome
– "Falling down"
– Ready Creation

16/07/2024

Present at Footnote in August:

Welcome 🎉

Levente Hajdu ( ) is a Budapest-based multi-disciplinary artist with a background in philosophy and media design. He studied media art, art theory, film theory, philosophy at MOME (Budapest), ELTE (Budapest), BABES-BÓLYAI (Cluj), Sorbonne (Paris). He mainly works with fine arts, but also writes poems and short stories. His attention, like our time, is best described by the ADHD symptom. His exhibitions cover a wide range of subjects, from Hungarian rural nostalgia to very personal stories, from abstract animation to the precarious position of artists. He is one of the advocates of the Hungarian Cultural Basic Income.

Within the Footnote residency in Belgrade he is continuing his Polypropylene Bags Project, a collection of plastic bags from the local markets. Furthermore taking part in the residency is a great opportunity for him to tidy up his emails and downloads folder and refresh his portfolio for the next artist application.

23/06/2024

On Tuesday, 25.6. starting at 7 pm we are hosting a very special event.

"Word Games" is a performative reading event organized by our current resident Hadar Kleiman , our former resident Marianna Karava .karava and our dear friend Kelli Shay Hix who will each read fragments of their writings, word-experiments and short stories. After the reading, there will be (as usual) a small social gathering in the kitchen, with snacks and wine and a chance to chat informally with our artists :)

Looking forward to seeing you!

Artists' bios:

Hadar Kleiman is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Kleiman's mixed-media practice incorporates materials such as terrazzo, ceramics, found objects, fabric and wood. Her work explores the aesthetic interplay between high and low within consumer culture, new-ageism, and symbolic archetypes.

Marianna Karava is a multi-desciplinary artist and educator (Greece, 1982). Her artistic practice ranges from contemporary dance and performance to visual poetry and book arts. Her educational practice includes movement based classes and workshops.

Kelli Shay Hix is an archivist and artist from the United States. Her spoken word, light installations, and visual art has shown at Zeitgeist Gallery Nashville, Third Man Records Blue Room, and the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress. She is currently living in Belgrade as a Fulbright Specialist working with regional archives in Serbia.

20/06/2024

We are happy to introduce you to our June resident who will be presenting something special next week.

Hadar Kleiman is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Kleiman's mixed-media practice incorporates materials such as terrazzo, ceramics, found objects, fabric and wood. Her work explores the aesthetic interplay between high and low within consumer culture, new-ageism, and symbolic archetypes.

Kleiman has participated in various shows, residencies, and art fairs including UNTITLED San Francisco, stARTup Fair, Untitled Residency in Shanghai, China, Blue Cactus Residency in Barcelona, Spain, and Spring/Break NY Art Fair. Her art has been featured in Momus, KQED, and Dissolve.

During her residency at the Footnote Centre, Hadar is creating new sculptures as part of her series titled Scapes and working on her memoir, a novel integrating both writing and illustrations.

27/03/2024

We warmly invite you to a small farewell get-together + exhibition by our current resident Vitor Mattos at the Footnote Centre - Kralja Milutina 34 - this Friday, the 29th of March starting from 18:00. The artist will also be selling small artwork from his visual research in Belgrade- for a very reasonable price. During his stay at Footnote, Vitor also worked on a performance project on the public space of Belgrade under the title “The trouble of fitting in”, in which he collaborated with strangers as photographers and co-workers.

Vitor Mattos (1995) is a Brazilian artist currently based in Weimar, Germany, where he obtained the title of Master of Fine Arts from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies”. His work is centered on the notion of progress as the flagship of modernity, seeking constant improvement to the detriment of the obsolete. Yet, the promise of a better future reveals itself never to be fully realized, but rather, implies a relentless complexification of the world, while the past remains undigested. Mattos investigates the fissures and frictions produced along this linear process, rather than its underlying order. To do so, he often resorts to the individual experience of the body as a metaphor of the collective, navigating through performance, video, photography and drawing to materialize his creative process.
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12/03/2024

Welcome Adeline and Manuel !

Adeline & Manuel live in Dunkerque, north of France. They have been involved in residencies and
exhibitions in Canada, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, UK and Italy, participate in/contribute to exhibitions,
workshops and conferences in various locations across France.

Their collaborative practice includes sculptural installations/objects, drawing and performative
actions. Their interventions frequently involve other artists, territories and inhabitants. They use what
could be called tools of landscape practice and often appropriate the techniques of surveyors and
topographers.

09/03/2024

✨ We are delighted to introduce you to Sanem Su Avci who is currently residing at the Footnote Centre ✨ Sanem is a writer, performer, musician, historian and social entrepreneur with a wide range of interests from esotericism to macroeconomics. She was born in Izmir in 1989 and lives in Athens since 2018. She currently runs the migrant-led cooperative vegan eatery Magic Kitchen in the center of Athens of which she is the founder, while doing a PhD in Panteion University on the cultural and intellectual impact of Cold War anticommunism in Greece and Turkey, and building her series of musical lecture performances with the title Sanem’s Historical Revelations. She has studied various social sciences and used to work as a professional of politics, until some dreams and some incidents of public violence in 2015-16 convinced her to change trajectory. Since then, she engages in various methods of divination and fortune-telling, working as a freelance fortune-teller and a divination consultant among other things. She has numerous non-fiction publications in French, Greek, Turkish and English. Sanem’s current artistic work focuses on the lived experience of violence and sovereignty, interspecies and intraspecies communication, historiography, magic and religion, embodied knowledge and memory.

20/02/2024

We are happy to invite you to a workshop “Collage - telling a different story” on February 24th, led by Simone Wahli

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About the workshop

At the beginning of the 20th century, when the world was confronted with many new developments, collage was a new art form, and it is no coincidence that it is popular again today. Collages can be made with anything and on almost any surface. With images from magazines, newspapers, books, advertising posters, with thread and wool, with printed texts or texts from newspaper clippings, with handwritten notes or without.They can be moodboards or stand on their own. They can have a lot of free space or none at all.

*** Practical information ***

- Workshop is open to max 6 participants and is free of charge
- Donations are welcome
- Different kinds of image materials and types of paper and cardboards are provided, as well as scissors and glue. Feel free to bring your own printed texts, newspapers, photos, etc.
- Working language is English
-The workshop will be held at Footnote Centre and will last 2-3 hours, starting at 14h on Saturday February 24th.
- To book your space, send us a direct message on Instagram

About the workshop facilitator

Simone Wahli is a writer with a masters degree in history, German literature and language, active in education and cultural mediation/ organization, namely for the festivals «Buvette Sans Souci» and «Burgdorfer Krimitage».

She writes for the cultural magazine “ensuite” as well as fiction (poetry and drama) and makes collages – a book with poems, collages and illustrations togheter with the illustrator Sarah Lorenzi will be published in winter 2024.

Address

Kralja Milutina 34
Belgrade
11000

Telephone

+381645874110

Website

http://www.footnotecentre.org/

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