#Djordje Balmazovic

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Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/1-6/4/17)-

Thursday

Both MOCA locations are free from 5-8pm tonight. At MOCA Grand Avenue there will be a discussion of the influx of art galleries and artist run spaces in Boyle Heights and adjacent areas, with artist collective Ultra-red, Leslie Berestein Rojas- KPCC’s immigration and emerging communities reporter, and Eric Avila, urban cultural historian and professor of Chicano Studies and Urban Planning at UCLA.

Springtime Carnivore are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Cones and BUZZY

As part of the Tip of Her Tongue series, The Broad is hosting Alexandro Segades' multimedia theater performance Future St., described as "a science fiction saga about corporate boy bands and holographic newscasters crowd controlling a society of clones" and explores "desire, surveillance, and the sinister forces of normalization". ($25, also a performance on Friday)

Mount Kimbie are playing at the El Rey Theatre

Flint Eastwood is opening for FLETCHER at The Echo

Durand Jones & The Indications are playing at Resident

Friday

Two Sheds are opening for Blake Hazard (of The Submarines) at Resident

Pasadena Museum of California Art is having an extended free Friday to celebrate its 15th birthday with events throughout the day and evening including readings from authors from the Red Hen Press, spotlight talks, and on the third floor terrace The Astral Plane will be DJ'ing and there will be complimentary drinks and snacks provided

Happyness are playing at the Bootleg Theater with BOYO

Friday and Saturday

i3 Arts Fest is taking place at three locations downtown tonight and tomorrow. Interaction Park is taking place in Grand Park and will have large scale interactive art installations and live music that includes The Gaslamp Killer and Mike G from Odd Future (free). Immersion Square at Pershing Square is Saturday's ticketed event with DJs and art cars ($40 advanced tickets), and Innovation Plaza at Grand Performances on Friday and Saturday will have a free performance by William Close and the Earth Harp Collective. (The Earth Harp is the world's longest stringed musical instrument)

Saturday

At the REDCAT Gallery, filmmaker Khadim Dai will be presenting a selection of his videos and discussing his approach to documenting the refugee journey and his daily life (he has been a refugee for most of his life, first escaping Afghanistan due to persecution by the Taliban as a member of the Hazara minority). The presentation is part of  It is obvious from the map, REDCAT's current exhibit (closing 6/4) that "examines the role of maps and map-making in the movements of large numbers of people from the conflict zones of the Middle East and Africa toward Europe". The exhibit includes work from Djordje Balmazovic from Škart collective who, together with the NGO Grupa 484, have been making maps in collaboration with migrants in refugee camps across Serbia, retracing their westbound journeys (*note-I just recently saw some of these at Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Newcastle, UK and they are engrossing)

Artist Pippa Garner will be in conversation with writer/curator Laura Fried at Redling Fine Art with a short performance to follow

At The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Dog Star 13 (part of The Dog Star Orchestra experimental music festival) will be having a concert (free with museum admission)

Soundpedro is having a free "ear-oriented multi-sensory event" at Angels Gate Cultural Center

KCRW's Summer Nights starts this weekend with Chico Mann and Captain Planet performing for free in the One Colorado courtyard

Avi Buffalo is playing with Dante Elephante and Rufrano at The Echo

Sunday

As part of The Dog Star Orchestra experimental music festival, artist $3.33 (Celia Hollander) will be performing Air Out at Bowtie Project. It features three performers in three parked cars using car stereos and a mobile audience to "adapt an iconic symbol of isolation as a form to explore openness, harmony, and synchronicity" ($5)

Los Angeles Film Forum is hosting The Site of Memory: Enframed Histories as Ritual at The Egyptian Theater, "a cursory look at Black women film and video artists from or working in Southern California" with filmmakers dana washington and Suné Woods, and curators Jheanelle Brown and Darol Olu Kae present to discuss the work

Elvis Costello and The Imposters are playing at The Greek Theatre

Tigers Jaw, Saintseneca, and Smidley are playing at The Regent Theater

Dead Soft are opening for Goon at The Hi Hat

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This is part of a group exhibition held at the Baltic in Gateshead 27 January – 14 May 2017. The contributors to the exhibition include: James Bridle, Tomo Brody, Aikaterini Gegisian, ScanLAB Projects & Embassy for the displaced, Forensic Architecture (Lorenzo Pezzani & Charles Heller), Jackie Karuti, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, Hrair Sarkissian, Skart collective- Djordje Balmazovic, Wolfgang Tillmans, Watch the Med.

This is part of a campaign called Amnesty International with more than 7 million people worldwide who stand injustice no more. We are Ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

 This Exhibition was made up of multiple pieces ranging from videos, images, found objects, insitations, maps and most interesting of all a virtual experience.

The virtual experience really hit home with everyone who participated. It left people realising that we take safety for granted, and revealed parts of the traumatic experience that asylum seekers and refugees coming across the Mediterranean from Libya experience.

I chose this exhibition mainly because of the virtual experience, we only saw a glimpse of what refugees go through and it’s enough to inspire people to want more for these people displaced by war.

 Baltic Plus | Disappearance at Sea – Mare Nostrum: Interpretation Guide . 2017. Baltic Plus | Disappearance at Sea – Mare Nostrum: Interpretation Guide . [ONLINE] Available at: http://balticplus.uk/disappearance-at-sea-mare-nostrum-interpretation-guide-c30929/. [Accessed 10 December 2017].

Baltic Plus | Disappearance at Sea – Mare Nostrum . 2017. Baltic Plus | Disappearance at Sea – Mare Nostrum . [ONLINE] Available at: http://balticplus.uk/disappearance-at-sea-mare-nostrum-e739/. [Accessed 10 December 2017].

Home | Amnesty International UK. 2017. Home | Amnesty International UK. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/?&gclid=CjwKCAiA07PRBRBJEiwAS20SIK6ZY5FaW9ZisT71D-tNRZgQup_9XOq2zV7Dom2eVnj-xcF8LNEarRoCk4IQAvD_BwE. [Accessed 10 December 2017].

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Djordje Balmazovic (Škart collective) in collaboration with asylum seekers in Banja Koviljača camp in Serbia, NN, Damascus, Syria, 2015