{"id":4973,"date":"2016-12-12T18:19:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T23:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2018-05-21T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T03:50:09","slug":"ivana-smiljanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/ivana-smiljanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivana Smiljani\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9401\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4973-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/IvanaSmiljanic.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/IvanaSmiljanic.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/IvanaSmiljanic.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_5174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5174\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5174\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo_MisaStojmenovic.jpg?resize=255%2C383&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"255\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo_MisaStojmenovic.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo_MisaStojmenovic.jpg?w=681&amp;ssl=1 681w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo_MisaStojmenovic.jpg?resize=624%2C938&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivana Smiljani\u0107, photo by Mi\u0161a Stojmenovi\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ivanasmiljanic.com\/\">Ivana Smiljani\u0107<\/a> is a visual and performance artist born and raised in Belgrade. She graduated and obtained her Magister Degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2009. She also attended a year long program of Women&#8217;s Studies at the Center for Women&#8217;s Studies in Belgrade.<\/p>\n<p>As a winner of the &#8220;Dimitrije Ba\u0161i\u010devi\u0107 Mangelos\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mangelosnagrada.org.rs\/eng\/about.php\">Award<\/a>\u00a0, Young <a href=\"http:\/\/yvaa.tumblr.com\/\">Visual Artists Awards<\/a> network in Serbia, she got an artist residency in the <a href=\"http:\/\/iscp-nyc.org\/\">ISCP<\/a>, New York in 2009. She was also Serbian representative for the Henkel Art Award in 2011. Ivana&#8217;s works are part of the Telenor Art Collection and the October Salon Collection of the Belgrade Cultural Center. She currently lives in Belgrade and Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p>In her work, by using various media and resources of her own body, Smiljani\u0107 is re-creating\/re-interpreting experiences and contexts that she faces as a woman, as an artist and as a citizen. In 2007 she started an on-going performance series I DANCE DANCE DANCE, which tackles various relations and instances forming the system of contemporary culture (from the role of the artist within this system to the marginalization of minority groups).<\/p>\n<p>The interview focuses on Ivana&#8217;s major activities in recent years: installations dealing with violence against women entitled &#8220;You will remember me&#8221;, one of which has been described and could be seen here (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NyqSCoq4DMI&amp;t=102s\">solo exhibition in the Contemporary Art Center of Montenegro, 2014<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Books that have been mentioned: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheilaheti.com\/how-should-a-person-be\/\">How Should a Person Be<\/a>&#8220;, by Sheila Heti \u00a0and &#8220;Language and Nationalism&#8221; by Snje\u017eana Kordi\u0107, available <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/KnjigaJezikINacionalizam\">for free download<\/a> in Croatian. And here is a short <a href=\"http:\/\/hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de\/rezensionen\/2012-2-022.pdf\">review in English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5175\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5175 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1_YouWillRememberMe_ColakovicLegacyMoCA.jpg?resize=625%2C469&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1_YouWillRememberMe_ColakovicLegacyMoCA.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1_YouWillRememberMe_ColakovicLegacyMoCA.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1_YouWillRememberMe_ColakovicLegacyMoCA.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1_YouWillRememberMe_ColakovicLegacyMoCA.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1_YouWillRememberMe_ColakovicLegacyMoCA.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1_YouWillRememberMe_ColakovicLegacyMoCA.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You Will Remember Me, installation view, 2016, Gallery-Legacy \u010colakovi\u0107, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, photo: Ivana Smiljani\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5176\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5176 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2_SensingRealities_Galerie_b_312.jpg?resize=625%2C308&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2_SensingRealities_Galerie_b_312.jpg?resize=1024%2C505&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2_SensingRealities_Galerie_b_312.jpg?resize=300%2C148&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2_SensingRealities_Galerie_b_312.jpg?resize=768%2C379&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2_SensingRealities_Galerie_b_312.jpg?resize=624%2C308&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2_SensingRealities_Galerie_b_312.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2_SensingRealities_Galerie_b_312.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sensing Realities, installation view, 2015, Galerie B-312, Montreal, photo: Isabelle Guimond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/IvanaSmiljanic.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listIvana Smiljani\u0107 is a visual and performance artist born and raised in Belgrade. 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