The most wonderful things come from the restriction: Art work at UNSA in the time of the pandemic
How students and teachers of the arts at University of Sarajevo are coping with this situation?
We will single out an interesting example of a student, Emili Špac, who came to the Music Academy under a bilateral agreement
between the Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo and the Academy of Arts in Osijek. With the outbreak of the pandemic, she returned to her native Trakošćan but did not interrupt her studies - the collaboration continued online. Artistic associate Dr. Milan Lučić, currently in Busovača, records the piano accompaniment that Emily needs as a background for her voice recording. He then packed everything together and sent to Assistant Professor Vedrana Šimić, currently in Tuzla. And suddenly everything is possible. You can watch the recording at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sWjF92-7o-JPFeG40vOWNIxQLipCULnA/view
Assistants and professors are also active. They upload their recordings to various platforms. So e.g. young assistant Mirna Mlikota regularly shares her recordings, which is a great incentive for students to view at https://youtu.be/Kh5aLQV0baU, as well as at www.nomusassociazione.org.
The good cooperation with the National Theater in Sarajevo, the Opera and the Philharmonic continued. On Tuesday, 21 April 2020, a recording of a concert by artists and professors of the Sarajevo Academy of Music, Adema Pljevljak Krehić and Maja Ačkar Zlatarević was broadcasted. This is a CD recording of 100 years of Bosnia and Herzegovina's solo song. One of the tracks is the work of conductor and composer Darijo Vučić, also a professor at the Sarajevo Academy of Music. The Sarajevo National Theater as a part of its online season broadcast a recording of this concert via its YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqfX95WoLnk
Alumni of the Sarajevo Academy of Music are also active and very successful artists. So, Isak Haračić, a cellist, recorded four cello sections and put it all together in one recording, and showed that one person can make a string quartet. The recording can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/isak.haracic/videos/10157551526184081/
An interesting experiment is underway at the Academy of Performing Arts, which is being carried out as part of the examination obligation by Adi Selimović, a graduate student of the Academy of Performing Arts, Directing department. Before the pandemics, he should have made his own film for the exam, however, because of the circumstances, he would not be able to make a documentary about the history of an old Sarajevo family photo album whose first photo was from 1878 and the last from 1967. He was halfway there, but due to the state of emergency, the project was stopped. She then decides to document life at curfew, without sensationalism focusing on ordinary people's life stories. He got the idea after watching the movie "Life In A Day" again, and invited the citizens to join him in this endeavor. He asked anyone who was able to record a few minutes of his life during the curfew (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia), and from 1 April to 1 May in the event that the curfew was up to the specified date does not abolish. In his call, he wrote “You can record every day, you every 7 days, you can record as long as you can. Sit home, walk your dog, work a second / third shift, volunteer at one of the organizations, talk to your friends on Skype/Zoom/Messenger, play with your kids, play games, stroll through a virtual museum, watch theater online, drink, make dinner, you're trying out a drone ... It's all a document of this time that has yet to be assembled and then posted to YouTube. Don't be shy about sending whatever you recorded. Share your status with your friends on social networks! ". We invite you to visit the link https://www.mreza-mira.net/vijesti/aktivnosti-mreze/snimite-nekoliko-minuta-svoje-svakodnevnice-i-pomozite-da-napravimo-film/ and help Adi Selimović - you will help him pass the exam and participate in something creative and be signed as authors. As Adi himself says, "sometimes the most beautiful things come from limitations," and so it will be, we believe, with this film.
Vanja Đugum-Matović and Helena Vuković, students of the Academy of Performing Arts - Master's Degree in Acting, read two books in the Library's Studio study: "PTSD Scrapbook" by Dragana Bursać (Vanja) and “My Grandmother Apologizes” Backman Fredrick (Helen). We thank the students and Doz. Mehmed Porča for making the contents of these two books accessible to the blind and partially sighted. See the news at https://bibsis.org.ba/2020/03/19/dvije-nove-knjige-na-cd-u/. Hana Zrno, also an ASU student, joined them in this endeavor.
The first year of Acting examines the work of an actor in front of a camera. In conflict scenes, they explore relationships in imposed circumstances (the Corona virus pandemic) through online platforms. The final result will be recorded scenes of conflict (Corona's influence on interpersonal relationships, friendships and love relationships) Once completed, the scenes will be shared on social networks.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic that literally stopped the art world, its creation, but also the meeting between the audience and the author, the team of the Montenegrin HAPS Theater Festival held in Herceg Novi came up with a very interesting idea - to replace the theater with the most sophisticated and complex radio form - radio drama. Bosnia and Herzegovina's radio drama production will feature BH Radio 1's radio drama "End of the Sea", authored by Emina Kovačević, a student at the Academy of Performing Arts at the University of Sarajevo. You can see more at https://bhrt.ba/1127155/radio-drama-bh-radija-1-na-crnogorskom-festivalu-haps/
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students of the Graphic Design Department of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo and organizers of the Pop Up Festival in Sarajevo, under the mentorship of Prof. Mr. Sc. Bojan Hadžihalilović and Doz. Mr. Sc. Sandra Drinovac created and launched the global digital platform Creative Quarantine, which aims to raise public awareness about the prevention of virus spread through design, visual communications and artwork, with motivating global messages. The CQ work team consists of students from the First and Second Cycle of Study: Danijela Obajdin, Nirvana Žiško, Ahmet Prošić, Armin Ćosić and Haris Adžem. The first works for the platform were created by students of graphic design with the support of mentors in the Department. In less than a month, the Creative Quarantine platform has more than 100 works by young designers from 13 countries around the world and continues to grow and expand through the creative involvement of young designers from around the world.
The Creative Quarantine platform aims to share creative ideas and encourage others to express themselves creatively in a time of isolation that is necessary to prevent the spread of the virus.
Under the slogan STAY AT HOME & BE CREATIVE, all creatives (affirmed and non-confirmed artists and designers) are invited to create their own art and design works, posters, animations, caricatures, comic books, illustrations, prints, photographs and / or videos in 4: 5 (8:10), 1: 1 (square), and 16: 9 (HD) formats. The works can be viewed and will be continuously published on:
- Instagram profile: www.instagram.com/cq.world (@cq.world),
- Facebook page: www.facebook.com/CreativeQuarantineWorld
- Website: www.popup.ba/cqworld
with hashtags: #CQWorld#CQ2020#CreativeQuarantine #KreativniKaranten#OstaniKući#StayAtHome.
Numerous art and design works by former and current teachers, as well as students of the Academy of Fine Arts, members of the Association of Fine Artists of BiH, the Association of Fine Artists and Designers of BiH and the Association of Architects in BiH, were presented at this year's Collegium Artisticum exhibition on the occasion of April 6 - Sarajevo City Day, which, in the absence of organization in the conditions of a pandemic, was realized this year through a prepared catalog retrospective of awarded works from previous exhibitions 2016-2019 -
https://bkc.ba/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SANELA-NUHANOVIC-_-CA-2016-2020-_-nagradjeni-radovi.pdf
On the exhibition “Was ist Valter?” organized by the Museum of History of BiH on the occasion of the 6th of April, a virtual exhibition was opened where the works of students of 1st and 2nd cycle of studies of the Academy of Fine Arts can be viewed: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=660332888075024
Assistant at the Product Design Department Tarik Rizvanović, together with fourth-year student Hamza Bavčić and colleagues from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Dizart company from Sarajevo collaborated on the production of protective visors. The campaign was joined by companies and individuals who donated the necessary materials and equipment (3D printers). In two weeks 3000 pieces were made: https://www.facebook.com/CGPdesign/
And finally, listen to the satirical rendition of Luigi Denza's famous Funiculi Funiculi composition by the Academy of Music Academy alumni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N32_5ePamy0
