BEHIND ENTHUSIASM

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Video 14' 12''

director Neda Kovinić

cinematographer: Dalibor Tonković

editor: Arion Asllani

music: Council of Elders

dancers: Adrien Gaume, Danijela Vučković, Heather Rikić
Nemanja Bošković, Olga Uzikaeva, Ayumi Toyabe, Marko Kojić
Katarina Nikolić, Anamarija Marinković

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Video comes out of the research Behind enthusiasm and is based on the recordings of the live dance performance, which happened at Big Hall at SCC at Belgrade, 2018.

The project Behind Enthusiasm explores the energy that, as a flywheel, starts and spins the cycle of art production, without production and institutional support, starting from the fact that all aspects of contemporary work already count on enthusiasm in advance. What, then, is behind enthusiasm, if enthusiasm is the norm? What is a creative mover? The Behind Enthusiasm project is launched and tries to offer some answers to these questions. Behind the enthusiasm is a multimedia project that includes actors from the independent and self-organized art scene, its most precarious segment whose actions can really be described by words such as motivation, experience, passion, desire or hope. The project brings together and connects dance and performance artists who deal with self-expression and expression, primarily through Japanese Buto dance techniques that allow players to express a dormant experience in their bodies, both individually and collectively. Dancers appear in the gallery space and as bearers of the fictional fashion line of the brand Iza enthusiasm.The words printed in the costumes - WORK, I'm Tired, Solidarity, Soft, Je suis riche et calme (I'm rich and calm) - appeared frequently in the research process and became something like slogans on standing bodies or moving.

The video approaches the theme through structural movie language, dramatizing the conflict of necessity for artistic action despite the fact that the effectiveness of the artistic act is uncertain.

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