Artemis Projects

In this episode of DANCE CINEMA we speak to Anja Dimitrijevic, Belgrade-born and Venice-based theatre and film maker whose dance video VALLE DELLE SFINGI was inspired by the mystical zoomorphic rocks discovered in the northern part of Italy. In this podcast Anja speaks about how these zoomorphic rocks inspired the choreography, how the choice of sound communicated the idea of extension of time and...

In this episode of DANCE CINEMA we speak to Laura Cappellesso, editor of dance film MARMO, shot in Tuscany and inspired by the vision of Italian sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti. Envisioned and directed by Nancy Allison and with choreography of Laura Boato, MARMO contemplates the emergence of a work of art out of a raw material such as a block of stone, or in the case of a film, out of many hours...

An interview on the run… recorded straight after Mila's Fotopub festival performance Rocking Chairs, in a 15 minutes gap before her transport from Novo Mesto back to Berlin. We briefly speak about the key aspects of her practice through which she explores status symbols and aspirations for ‘better life’ with the focus on diaspora and issue of integration. We speak about her work We have a wonderfu...

In this episode of DANCE CINEMA we speak to Sandra Sterle, a Croatian artist, filmmaker, and university lecturer whose dance video THE FORTRESS OF UTOPIA sits somewhere in between the nostalgia for socialist past and perspectives of future. In this podcast, Sandra talks about her experimental approach to filmmaking, interest in variety of performative expressions, the function of absurdism in her...

In this episode of DANCE CINEMA we speak to Ana Marija Marinov, Croatia-born and Berlin-based filmmaker whose dance film Cycle RE was made during a two-week Summer Media Studio in Lithuania. A tribute to Maya Deren, Cycle RE is led by the idea that nothing is truly original and everything is a part of a growing spiral of adaptation. In this podcast, Ana Marija takes us through the journey of the f...

In this episode of DANCE CINEMA we speak to Gemma Riggs, a London-based artist and filmmaker whose dance video YOU MOVE ME is "a call to observe and examine our everyday movements with a detailed eye". In this podcast, Gemma talks about the origins of the idea behind YOU MOVE ME, how she went about finding and rehearsing with the participants, and what function does the multi-screen grid form play...

Recorded in Zagreb, Croatia 5 June 2019

Recorded in Zagreb, Croatia 4 June 2019.

Conversation with Swedish artist Fanny Hellgren whose works explore the properties and agencies of materials - be it paper, concrete, cloth, or water - and the way they transform when exposed to the elements such as sun or time. In this podcast recorded in Belgrade, Serbia where Fanny was on an artist residency, we delve deeper into Fanny’s interest in materiality and in-between spaces, the proces...

In this episode of DANCE CINEMA we speak to dancer and filmmaker Sarah Pini. Sarah talks about her phenomenological approach and auto-ethnographic analysis of the experience of cancer. Her dance film ABISSO acts as a visual metaphor of Sarah’s inner landscape during her medical journey. In this podcast, Sarah talks about: The subject of ‘Healing’ The concept of ‘Other’: the merging of ‘two bodies’...

Recorded in Zagreb, Croatia 26 May 2019

Recorded in Belgrade, Serbia, 17 May 2019.

Goran Rister was one of the group of young artists who in June 2015 came across an abandoned building in the central Belgrade. It turned out that the building was a former workshop for the repairing of the music instruments of SFRJ army orchestra. Left to rot, the building was a treasure trove of historical objects and documents, an archive that Rister turned into a Kvaka museum, a place for refle...

Recorded in Belgrade, Serbia, 13 May 2019.

Recorded in Belgrade, Serbia, 13 May 2019.

Gordana Zikic, founder and director of Belgrade Artist in Residence interviews Ira during her residency there. Recorded on 11 May 2019. Written version: tinyurl.com/y5njn7m6 Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q88j9kO12IE&t=1166s Music used in this Soundcloud clip: Dubioza Kolektiv feat. Benjamin Zephaniah

UK artist Genevieve Leavold paints fluid, abstract forms inspired by microbiological and mycological shapes and colours. In this podcast, recorded in her studio in Belgrade, she tells me how she learned to value essence over perfection, why she thinks we should celebrate trees more than old paintings, and what role trust plays in her work. Check her work here: https://www.genevieveleavold.com On F...

Marija Bjekic's work explores and references the 20th century utopias, the position of working class, and the architectural structures that govern the behaviour, until they collapse. We met to discuss her hyperrealist drawings combined with the geometric, almost grid like forms inspired by Russian Constructivism and Bauhaus. "This forms are in very sensitive fragile uncertain balance. Human figure...

Recorded in Belgrade, Serbia, 11 May 2019.

Recorded in Belgrade, Serbia, 9 May 2019.

Recorded in Belgrade, Serbia, 8 May 2019. Part of: https://soundcloud.com/artemis-projects/sets/what-is-your-natural-sleeping-rhythm And: https://www.artemisprojects.com.au/sleeping-residency

David Pujado is from Barcelona but fell in love with Belgrade, its brutalist architecture and creative vibe, and made it his home. Here he opened a small photography dedicated gallery, then started the Serbia's first international photography festival, Belgrade Photo Month. I set with him at KC Magacin to talk about how it all started, what type of photography he personally likes, what other art f...

Gordana Zikic is founder and facilitator of Belgrade artist in residency program, and a multi-media artist exploring shamanism, ancient traditions, rituals, red colour, and role of the artist in the society. We met in a little (and very echo-ie) apartment in the heart of Belgrade to talk about how and why she initiated the Belgrade AIR, how the program works, and what does she like the most about...

Met in Belgrade with Dejan Golic, one of the members of Belgrade RAW to talk about the beginnings of the collective as they celebrate ten years of their existence. The collective was founded in 2009 by five photographers who found each other on Flicker and agreed that there was a lack of real, raw footage of their city. Now in their 10th year, they count eleven members and have two books under the...

In this episode we speak with Japanese dancer and filmmaker Ayumi Toyabe whose dance video SATO was filmed in Tokyo in 2018. In this podcast, Ayumi talks about: The significance of dancing in nature How she went about finding the right music track What are the differences between dancing on stage and dancing for camera Whether the experience of former effects the later. SATO will be screened on da...