Femkanje
Art & media project / podcast (since 2013)
In collaboration with Katarina Petrović
Project website https://femkanje.rs
Femkanje is a podcast, art and media project, dedicated to contemporary arts and culture in Serbia, former Yugoslavian region and Europe. Focusing on primarily female, independent authors and collectives, Femkanje presents their work in the form of interviews, sound installations and sound archives in both offline and online space. By sharing different models of making, collaborating and self-organising, and going into depth with authors from various fields Femkanje also contributes to the strengthening of the independent arts sector, encouraging young creators, their further professionalisation as well as interdisciplinary collaborations.
Initiated by two artists, the project is based on sound as an uncharted territory that offers an uncensored expression, a new experience and documentation in the contemporary arts. Since 2013, Femkanje has produced 88 podcast episodes and is currently preparing a new series, to be launched on its 10 year anniversary in 2023.
Sound Installations
Femkanje creates multi-channel sound installations using its rich archive and playing with the cocktail party effect, in which many female authors are artificially united, and heard in one voice. The most recent artwork Femkanje Archives: Forces of Sound, guides the listeners in a narrative form through the 10 year archive of Femkanje, reflecting on the precarious position of artists and cultural workers from the Balkans, amplifying the voices of young independent female artists and activists. Using cacophony and noise, this multichannel sonic experience consisting of dialogues, audio excerpts and collage-type interventions, opens the space to new ways of resisting, collaborating and networking through sound. Since 2021 Femkanje is building Sound Database, as an international collections of sound documents of contemporary artists across the world. https://femkanje.rs/installations/
Sound Database
This invitation to exhibit and the current situation of the pandemic, allowed us to work on a new archive - reaching out to all former guests to contribute from their homes. The sound database presents a special collection of sound documents from the field of contemporary art and culture, primarily Serbian artists, former guests of Femkanje, artists from the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Europe and beyond. The archive consists of sound works, compositions, sounds from works (videos, performances, installations), as well as audio recordings of plays, readings of dramatic texts and other materials, sound messages of various contents and field recordings. The entire database is available online and can be found at: www.femkanje.rs
ph: Đorđe Petković
ph: Alfa media
Femkanje Archives: Forces of Sounds, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2022
ph: David Brandt
Femkanje Archives: Forces of Sounds, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2022
ph: David Brandt
Femkanje - Sound Database screenshot