Aleksandra Domanović, 19:30 | 2011 | 12min | HD | Germany
19:30 is an anthology of television news-music from the geographic region of ex-Yugoslavia. It is also an ongoing collection of commissioned remixes, edits and new versions of the original news tracks. The adaptations are specific to electronic dance music and aspire to sublimate the musical, historical and psychological value of news-music through the local symbolic value of techno in Ex-Yugoslavia.
For the project, musical themes from the first televised Yugoslav news broadcast in 1958 up to the present were taken from national state-owned television stations. As institutions, these public stations are of significant cultural and national importance and have managed to sustain their presence in collective consciousness, keeping their ratings up even after the arrival of private television following the fall of the socialist regime. Since the 1970s, the central news show Dnevnik, was broadcasted at 19:30 every evening. Therefore the time mark has special significance as it played a rhythm giving but also conditioning role in peoples daily lives.
Music from CBC and ex-Yugolslav National Television Station ID tags will be remixed and performed live by Basketball, Brady Cranfield, Joshua Stevensen and Julian Hou.
Screening and Performances Friday June 24th 9:30pm
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Aleksandra Domanović was born in Novi Sad (1981). Recent exhibitions include ‘based in Berlin’, n.b.k., Berlin; ‘Imagine being here now’,The 6th Momentum Biennial, Moss; ‘Shanzai Turbo’, Western Front, Vancouver; ‘Free’, New Museum, New York; ‘A Painting Show’, Autocenter, Berlin; ‘Turbo Props’, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris and ‘Surfing Club’, Plug.in, Basel. She is currently in residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and is a member of the VVORK.com collective.
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