EXTRAVAGANT BODIES: Crime and punishment

Extravagant bodies is an international trans-disciplinary art festival initiated in 2007 as a triennial project that deals with societal demarcations of normal and pathological physicality, appearance, behaviour, sexuality and/or life style. Fourth edition of Extravagant bodies subtitled Crime and Punishment takes as its topic the social, legislative, scientific and ideological constructions of criminality and social norms that delineate criminal from non-criminal behavior. The project views crime as indexical of all the cracks of repression hence criminals are the people who — by their own choice or by social and economical circumstance — have stepped beyond the boundaries of the existing system.
Compared to its previous editions, Extravagant bodies - Crime and Punishment is on the one hand shifting the focus from corporeal and psychological inscriptions of otherness to a broader view on socially proscribed morality and acceptable vs. non-acceptable lifestyles. Once again the key question remains: what is outside the norm? How are the boundaries between the criminalized and the non-criminalized regulated and safeguarded? Does law equal justice, or is there also violence and injustice produced in the name of law? What are the ideological presuppositions behind the social and legal regulations of criminality? Are there socially desired crimes, and to whose benefit are their committed?
What in the cases of criminal privatization of public properties and expulsion of the poor, abuse of commons and occupation is happening on everyday level? Are the laws enough to protect public interest? What about the increasing radicalization of the ideological opposition between the liberal, democratic and secular concept of the law, and the law grounded in religion, which does not merely concern the Islamic states of the Middle East? What about Western democratic societies whose liberal legislations are constantly challenged by pressures of religious (mostly Christian) groups? Key issues here still pertain to the body and sexuality: abortion, sex work, homosexuality...
The final set of questions is linked to the new developments in science and technology. From recent scientific attempts to find neurological grounding of criminality, to the bio-ethical issues of the cloning of humans, and the stealing of identities. The question of how society deals with information that gets free will also be examined as one of the key questions of the post-Snowden era.

Contact

kontejner@kontejner.org

exhibition, performances, workshops, theatre, lectures, films
November 18th to 25th 2016, Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb (HR) and Academy of fine arts, Jabukovac 10, Zagreb (HR)
November 20th to 21st 2016, Dom omladine Beograda, Makedonska 22/IV, Beograd (RS)

Working hours: 2 to 8 PM
Guidance through exhibition: 6 to 8 PM
Entrance: 0 kn

Impressum

project concept: KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis, Zagreb
project realization: KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis, Zagreb; Kiosk – Platform for contemporary Art, Belgrade; Kontrapunkt, Skopje
curatorial team: Olga Majcen Linn, Jelena Matičić, Tereza Teklić | KONTEJNER; Milica Pekić | KIOSK: Lois Keidan | LADA – Live Art Development Agency; Colin Siyuan Chinnery
partner organizations: Kiosk – Platform for contemporary Art, Belgrade; Kontrapunkt, Skopje; POGON – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth, Zagreb; Belgrade Youth Center; Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb
program collaboration: Janez Janša (Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary art, Ljubljana), Simona Ognjanović, Stevan Vuković, Gallery 12HUB, Belgrade Youth Center
symposium program: Iskra Geshoska, Slavčo Dimitrov
project coordination: Olga Majcen Linn, Milica Pekić, Iskra Geshoska
organizational team: Ana Adamović, Slavčo Dimitrov, Iskra Geshoska, Ena Hodžić, Olga Majcen Linn, Marta Marković (DOB), Jelena Matičić, Milica Pekić, Klara Petrović, Luja Šimunović, Tereza Teklić, Mladen Tomić
production team: Ena Hodžić, Marta Marković (DOB), Milica Pekić, Klara Petrović, Luja Šimunović, Mladen Tomić
technical team: William Linn, Marko Matošić, Mladen Tomić (Zagreb), Igor Blagojević, Ivan Ćopić, Katarina Koler, Nebojša Marinković, Miodrag Nikolić, Milan Trifunović, Miloš Vasić (DOB, Beograd)
exhibition set-up design: William Linn, Marko Matošić
visual identity design: Ruta
public relations: Jelena Matičić (Zagreb), Milica Ševarlić (DOB, Beograd)
volunteer coordination: Klara Petrović, Luja Šimunović (Zagreb), Milica Pekić (Beograd)
tour-guide coordination: Klara Petrović, Luja Šimunović (Zagreb)

catalogue publisher: KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis, Zagreb
catalogue editor: Tereza Teklić
editorial board: Olga Majcen Linn, Milica Pekić
translation: Ida Jagar, Marina Laszlo, Graham McMaster, Marina Miladinov
proof-editing: Marina Laszlo, Graham McMaster, Marina Miladinov
print: Tiskara Zelina
design: Ruta

supported by: City of Zagreb – Municipal Office for Education, Culture and Sport, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Kooperativa – Regional Platform for Culture, FACE Croatia, Kulutra Nova foundation, National Foundation for civil society development

media partners: H-Alter, Kulturflux, Kulturpunkt, SeeCult, Transmeet.Tv, Vizkultura

thanks to: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary art, Branka Prša, Ružica Šimunović, Ivana Bago, Sunčica Ostoić, Galerija VN, Klub Močvara, Kornel Šeper, Mario Kovač, Maja Gujinović, Sonja Grdina, Dom omladine Beograda / Belgrade Youth Center, Galerija 12HUB, Umetnička galerija “Nadežda Petrović” Čačak, Muzej istorije Jugoslavije, Beograd, Galerija ŠKUC, Toma Bačić, Corrine Enquisteand all the others who contributed to the project.

Visual: Igor Grubić "Velvet Underground", photo Mare Milin
Design: Dejan Dragosavac RUTA