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[illegal_cinema]

Marta Popivoda


[illegal_cinema] is conceived as an open (self-) educational project of exchange and contextualization of the auteur, refractionist documentary, artificial political, price activist, queer, anarchist, censored and other marginalized and in the local context hardly accessible films. The project is open to everyone interested to propose films, with obligation to speak about them, to open up discussion, or to invite guests – wherewith we try to erase the boundaries between the editor (curator) and audience and to perform a long-term process of (collective) self-education. During its realization the project is constantly developing and expanding its original framework, generating different program-lines and trying to explore new modes of facilitating art and culture as a space for diverse knowledge production.

As we consider continuity and regularity crucial for sustaining an influence on a context, the project is being realized since June 2007, every Sunday at the same time (6 p.m.), without any break during the year. The project is taking place in the new venue hosting the independent scene in Belgrade (Magacin u Kraljevića Marka), and is organized by TkH-platform (www.tkh-generator.net), in collaboration with the platform of the Belgrade independent scene Druga scena (Other Scene) (www.drugascena.org).

In collaboration with ‘No More Reality: Crowd and Performance’ the project [illegal_cinema] appears as new edition of thematic cinema which gathers a number of films related to the topics of crowd, demonstration, micro and macro revolutions. Basic idea of the [illegal_cinema] in context of this exhibition is to be a platform for further discussion and consideration of the topics. Also, one of the aims of bringing this kind of community based projects in the context of art institutions is to legitimize socio-cultural engagement as artistic practice itself. I would like to make a shift from the concept of “art as cultural practice” which is quite popular in recent years, toward the concept of “cultural practice as art”, which I consider more problematic and problematizing.

All participating artists, curators, staff of the exhibition and its audience are invited to propose film/s for the programme of Istanbul edition of the [illegal_cinema] project.