DISLOCATION: VR experience

Dislocation VR experience consists of a refugee tent installation and a VR headset placed inside the tent.  The VR experience explores an absurd moment of disbelief and fear. It examines the internal processes that develop and offers a visual depiction of a person forced into extreme circumstances- A moment of dislocation. Prime render studios continue to explore what makes us human, and what constitutes our individuality and identity in this VR installation.

Also presented is a series of 3D-printed sculptures. The sculptures are created using 3d modelling software, 3d printed and hand painted and represent an exploration of the digital sculpting medium in figurative character sculpting. Visitors can also watch some of the award-winning short animated films created by the studio in the last 15 years.

Veljko Popović (1979) graduated in 2003 from the Department of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Since 1998 he has been professionally working in computer graphics. A co-founder of the 2D/3D graphics and animation studio Lemonade3d, which later became Prime Render Studios. Since 2012 a full-time employee of the Academy of Fine Arts in Split, teaching animation. Popović’s films have been screened and awarded at many international festivals, including Annecy, Animafest, Clermont-Ferrand, Aspen, Hiroshima, Leeds, Stuttgart etc.

Milivoj Popović is the co-founder, director and producer at Prime Render Studios situated in Split/Croatia. He holds an MA in Sculpting and teaches at the Arts Academy in Split. He worked on short animated films which received over 70 international awards, including the Oscar qualifying Animated Eye Award at Aspen Shortfest in Colorado USA, and the Jury Award at Annecy festival in France, to name a few. His works have been published in many publications, such as EXPOSÉ series from Ballistic Publishing, Animation Reporter, InCG Magazine. He co-directed and co-produced the first Croatian VR short film Dislocation.

ARSEN, kuća za umjetnost

10:00 – 12:00
12.00 – 19:00 (pause)
19:00 – 21:00

 EXCEPTIONS: Screen printing

The exhibition will consist of outcasts, outlaws created in the process of screen printing in the studio of Partizan Print in Skopje. Screen prints created because of an idea stroke that came unexpected intensifying the already burning session in which everything is important as the air we breathe, the water we drink. Every small inch is visible as a terrifying monster that can destroy the specter habitat we live in. Some say you could feel the south in our colors.  The lean colors baked by the strong sun. But what we fell the most during printing is the uncontrolled freedom of the expected. Within this gap of the expected we create the exceptions, by breaking up the relations with the author, intensifying the scene with more drama, changing the color of the paper, or the layer, moving in unknown direction just because we can’t. It is not about experiments, since it has a plan, it has a direction where we move, but on the way we face the destiny of the undesired, scary possibilities that show the glory of making an exception.

The exhibition will consist of unique posters, books and installations made in silk screen printing during residencies, collaborations or interventions that will be exhibited for the first time in their life.

Partizan print is an informal art collective initiated in 2014 at the FRIK Festival 6 under the mentorship of the collective “Matriaršija”  from Belgrade. It actively began to work in 2016 when it set up its independent silk screen printing studio basement and since then it establishes continuous collaborations with  various artists and collectives from the country, the region, Europe and Asia. It represented its work on different festival through solo and group exhibitions and supports residencies at the studio or in the mountains of Macedonia, developing monotypes as a support of the natural resources and commons. It is aiming to provide more unexpected independent cultural production developed through continuous collaboration of artists that feel in love in overcoming a conflict through the alchemy of screen printing.  A process that can be never control or predicted. Process that can destroy everything in a second or make a master piece by mistake, similar as life itself.

GALLERY MATIJA, studio of the st.Krševan galley

10:00 – 12:00
12.00 – 19:00 (pause)
19:00 – 21:00