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Presentations and talk
with participants in Interactive Normalization - Public Forums on
Contemporary Architecture and Art & Architectural Exhibition, a series of
events that are taking place in Belgrade from November 15 to 29 2002.

Bik van der Pol, artists, Rotterdam
Katherine Carl, New York
Normal Group (Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and Sabine von Fischer) Zurich-New York
Moderator: Sabine von Fischer


Normal Group for Architecture, based in New York, collaborates with the
Department of Architecture at the Museum of Science and Technology in
Belgrade, to host an exhibition and Interactive Normalization, a series of
public discussions with artists, architects, and curators from Austria,
Netherlands, Slovenia, Switzerland, United States and Serbia, at a variety
of sites across Belgrade from November 15 to 29, 2002. These events coincide
with an exhibition of Normal Group's work at the Museum and are disseminated
through a website and a catalogue. This series encourage interdisciplinary
discussion of current topics in contemporary visual culture, architecture,
art, and media.
http://www.normalgroup.net/normalization/


Participants:

Bik van der Pol, artists, Rotterdam
Bik van der Pol, Rotterdam work collectively since 1995 as Bik Van der Pol.
Their work concerns the development of appropriate media with which to
realize works collectively through continuously broadening notions of
interaction and collaboration. Their work engages with revitalization of
memory in the present and with questions of knowledge and history, thus
creating the necessary potential for a dialogue and an ever reforming
discourse through which they develop an understanding of situations that
surround us. With, for example, The Bookshop Piece [1996, Museum Boijmans
Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and 1998, Gallery Greene Naftali, New York] and
Proposition for Reclaiming a Space [EAST, Norwich, 1997] they re-introduced
the discourse on and the practice of art into the very same arena where art
is shown. And with the group Nomads & Residents, of which Bik Van der Pol
are one of the initiators, they create a platform for presentations by
artists, critics, curators, architects, and others. Nomads and Residents is
a forum for visitors in the arts: making connections, supporting networks,
setting up meetings [www.nomadsresidents.org].

Katherine Carl, New York
Katherine Carl is a writer and curator in New York. She is currently
pursuing a PhD in Art History and Criticism at the State University at Stony
Brook and works atDia Center for the Arts. In Fall 2001, she co-directed the
go_HOME project. In 2000, she curated the Tandem Project at District of
Columbia Arts Center in Washington [dcartscenter.org/tandem.html]. In
1996-1997 she managed the ArtsLink program. This followed her work as a
Program Specialist in the Museum Program at the National Endowment for the
Arts from 1992-1995. She is a founding editor of Link: A Critical Journal on
the Arts in Baltimore and the World, which has just published its sixth
issue, and Managing Editor of Art Criticism from 1999-2001. Her work has
appeared in a number of art journals and exhibition catalogues in the US and
abroad.

Normal Group, Zurich-New York
was founded in 1998 when Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and Sabine von Fischer
started to collaborate on projects that deal with the question of whether
architecture can be critical. Hence, the work of Normal Group explores the
limits of architecture as a social practice, beyond situations in which it
is usually expected to deliver and render solutions without the articulation
of problems.

Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Diploma in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade in 1995
and Masters at Harvard University with Prof. Rem Koolhaas [Harvard Project
on the City]. He taught architecture workshops and studios at universities.
Found Normal Group for Architecture with Sabine von Fischer in 1998
[www.normalgroup.net]. Projects and essays published in international press.
Research projects include investigation of the work of Lina Bo Bardi,
organization and the preparation of the symposium held at Columbia
University [1997-1999] research at Harvard University: Project on the City -
Shopping [1996-1999] and Turbo Architecture, research [2000-] about the
condition of an isolated c

Sabine von Fischer
Thesis project with Prof. Flora Ruchat. Exchange studies at Harvard.
Finished Art Foundation at Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich. Found Normal Group for
Architecture with Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss in 1998 [www.normalgroup.net].
Projects and essays published in international press. Research projects
include investigation of the work of Lina Bo Bardi, organization and the
preparation of the symposium held at Columbia University and the
investigation of post-war Finnish architecture [after Alvar Aalto].

With support from:
Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York / Pro Helvetia, Zurich / Pro
Helvetia East-West, Skopje / City Assembly of Belgrade, Department for
Culture / Ochs Kunst Stipendium, Bern / Austrian Embassy, Belgrade /


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