April meetings

Fundamental experiment is still alive!

Festival gathering of young but experienced and versatile artist, continued this year in the Student Cultural Center in Belgrade

- The Cause of Himself - Tijana Trkulja and Nenad Billy Urošević


By TIJANA ĐURIČIĆ
from Belgrade, SERBIA


Cult sites, events and movements serve to honor every young artist, every city and every sunny April. On the this year competition for the young performer whose work is dedicated to individual arts and multidisciplinary experience and multimedia compactness, the work of different domestic and foreign authors was accepted. With no desire to make a review of all events of this year's meeting, and without any ranking pretension, we have relied on the personal taste. We have selected Tijana Trkulja, Nenad Billy Urošević and their work as the bright exaple of the vivid youth emotional power.

Tijana and Billy are artists of the specific sensibility, a clear attitude and great suggestive power. They have "spelled" the audience in the Great Hall of SKC presenting the performance "White rain". Work that combines speech, voice, music, complex projections was a convincing way to leave all the present ones without breath. Surely worth the experience. I believe that I would have stayed an angry opponent, of the term "alive" (which usually describe the performance) if i haven't seen such an eqxuisit show. I believe that every art is alive, but Miss Trkulja and Mr Billy, throw the naturally appelled tension of her work, really reassured me.

Magnetically absorving the observers and participants (isolating them from the external, internal world, and any other kind of impressions), selflishly requesting all, it revieles a whole new dimension. Only then you know that there and then is one point, a place and a feeling. To read the artist's instructions or to dive into personal discretion or not to interprete - the impressions are the same. Deep feeling of expirienced.

Despite an inert staff of SKC (few decades ago SKC was a collector of high quality, new ideas... enwrapted in enthusiasm of all the participants) and unfilled agreements, non existing technical requirements, White drops of the special rain made a past, a future, forever, clear transparent path for "random" passers.

Billy Nenad Urošević, composer and multimedia artist carries various experience layers - for a few years he was a member of "Pathos" Theater, he was coproducer of the performances "Freaks" (1993), a tenor of the St George church; he is actively playing several instruments, arange, composer (music performances, short films, performances, music, spiritual), records, edit, produce spots, films and video works. In addition to the authentication and persistence, he can be proud of significant awards: first place at the X International festival in Ruma in 2007. (Little Prince), and special awards 28th Festival in Mostar to send a strong message to audience through music (Little Prince).

Thanks to the sophisticated spiritual layer, contributing to the discrete minimalist music, Billy brought to "The Cause of Himself" a sense of repetition, but freshness (something old and new at the same time), the wormth but sharp roughness (tones ar conceptualy deep), intensively being involved in the impression of the completeness and persuadedness. With each tone, rhythm beat, the recipient gets the permission to inhale or exhale, to relax or focus, and to feel only one dominant impression.

Tijana Trkulja, the artist of strong identity and solid principals, is 29 years old, currently lives and creates in Belgrade and see herself as an artist who deals with the photography, video, sclupture, music, installations and experiment.

I see her clearly in her video piece "Isolation". With timid surmise that this work might be the representator of one life stage or simply the collection of impressions in one period, it clearly shows that Tijana substantially dives in the basic human issues combining the installations (the freedom to give her the name of photography) and music setting the emotional core of the sensibile individual and opening the door of the truth.

Nobody can resist emotional charge that music so transparently transferred to the set of photos which become not only complete image, or film, but resurrection narratives of civilization and the meaning of individual humans.

Feeling parched, we reveal ourselves, meet our inner parts, acknowledge every deep shadow, refine senses... Isn't that the aim of art?


(Published: 10.05.2009.)