predecessor:
- Skart
(formed in 1990. in abandoned atelier of Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade
- armatura
(1993; Choir of music school “Josip Slavenski”;conductor: Lambra
Dimitrijevic;
Premier of architectonical hymn - love/technical song;
Faculty of Architecture; lecture hall 301; lyrics: Skart; music: Ana Kara-Pesic;
guests: URGH
Branko Pavic, Sasa Markovic - Mikrob....)
- Lili Marlon i nekakvi zupcanici (Lili Marlon and some kind of sprockets)
(1996; Pensioner choir of Gerontology center “Stari Grad”;
program: Suma
blista (Forest glitters); lyrics: Skart; music: Finnish traditional song; concert at
Cinema REX
during exhibition “Tema za velike gradove”(Theme for big cities) by Branko Pavic; video
director: Relja
Mirkovic; narrator: Igor Brakus)
- Skart presents: Skart
(1999; Choir Ivo Lola Ribar; conductor: Tijana Kovacevic;
program: Revolutionary
songs and songs of revival and construction,
on Tijane Moraca initiative)
- insomnia
(2000; Choir Ivo Lola Ribar; conductor: Tijana Kovacevic;
program: Polozaj;
lyrics/music: Boris Mladenovic/band JARBOLI; concert in a door-way of apartment building in street Terazije 26, as part of the exhibition Insomnia
- HORKESKART (choir+ orchestra + Skart)
At the end of fall 2000. Skart was invited to present its
self-published action
YOUR SHIT-YOUR RESPONSIBILITY in a Center for Cultural
Decontamination.
On that occasion, the Choir had to be formed in order to perform song “Svete krave”(Holy cows) by Arsen Dedic. By B92 radio announcement listeners were invited to come to the audition which was never actually carried out because all the participants were accepted with no music testing. Since then, HORKESKART continues to practice
(first in center for Cultural Decontamination,
and now in National library and REX) and to perform (starting from provincial elementary schools
, refugee camps and markets to Museum
of Contemporary Art, Ring-Ring festival of New music...).
conductor(s):
After collaboration with professional conductors
(Ljiljana Santovac, Ljiljana Danilovic-Cincarka, Zoran Petrovic) choir have chosen a different path: self-regeneration. Marija Balubdzic, who joined the choir as 17 year old pianist (precisely -
she played triangle on the first concert!!!), became the main conductor 3 years ago and thereby challenged the choir: could a collective obey to “one of us” ? And -it worked out. Members of the choir started bringing their own songs and arrangements (Luka Stanisavljevic, Zeljko Makivic) , and orchestra ( lead by Vladimir Zivkovic) started to work on repertoire. The latest achievements are proof that everything makes sense. Let’s go forward!
concerts:
Starting from refugee camps and markets to Museum of Contemporary Art and Ring Ring festival of new music, until now we had
these concerts >>
tours:
- 2001 - Croatia (tour supported by REX, ProHelvetia,
Ministry of Culture,
Municipal secretariat for Culture)
- 2002 – Monte Negro (production: Art Biennial,
Cetinje)
- 2003 - Macedonia (production: Tocka, Skoplje)
- 2005 - Germany (initiative; WHW, Zagreb; production:
Kunsthalle Fridericianum,
Kassel; assisted by: ProHelvetia, Municipal secretariat for
Culture)
musical products:
video documents:
- Svete krave (Holy cows) (CzKD, Belgrade; conductor: Ljiljana Santovac;
installation/animation:
Goran K, 2000)
- Armature (faculty of Architecture; conductor Zoran Petrovic;
camera: Branko
Pavic; montage: Petar Savic; 2001)
- Plavi Zec (Blue Rabbit) (Children’s home Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj;
conductor Zoran
Petrovic, montage: Petar Savic; 2001)
- Obojeni program (opening act for bend Obojeni program, Dom omladine(Youth center);
conductor:
Marija Balubdzic; montage: Petar Savic; 2003)
- Locksmith’s three (concert as a tribute to a three in Boulevard of Revolution 118;
conductor:
Marija Balubdzic; montage: Mateja Rackov; 2004)
- Our Miracle (camera: Nikola Majdak, montage: Milos
Gojkovic; 2005)
- Nazad (camera: Tamara
Milanovic, Marko Rajic; production: Cinc, 2006.)
- I am Eating your Plaster (Marko Rajić, Vladimir Živković, 2006.)
presentations
2006
- The Sweetest Dream, Space, London
2005
- Operation:City, ex Factory Josip Kraš, Zagreb
- About Normality ('90s art scene), Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
- Arbeit, Galerie in Taxispalais, Innsbruck
- Collective Creativity, Kunshalle Fridericianum, Kassel
2004
- New Past, Marronnier Art Center of the Korean Culture, Seoul
2003
- Fogg, Bikini Gallery, Berlin
2002
- Music In Me, Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst GAK, Bremen
- Design Bienalle, St. Etienne
2001
- Steirische Herbst, Rotor Gallery, Graz
- Collective Distribution 01, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
rehersals:
REX, scheduled terms
therefore:
HORKESKART is, actually, imperfect/uncompleted respond to questions that we propound to ourselves over again
.
"I was thinking from antiquity,
(that) small songs make peculiarity"
Arsen Dedic, Small songs (Homo volans, 1973)
