22:37 is a non-profit association with an artistic and cultural aim. The association rises with the aim of promoting communication and dialogue among artists coming from different cultural contexts. Network and Mobility are the main features of 22:37, precisely because the association is constantly sharing ideas in a network, involving different cultural realities. The work develops mainly in four cities: Milan, Berlin, Barcelona and Venice, and in 2011, the project expanded to Belgrad. Currently the Cultural Association 22:37 is curating an intinerat art project named "Walk with the artist".
The cultural association 22:37 and Beo_Project present WALK WITH THE ARTIST that will take place in Belgrade, Serbia on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June 2015.
Walk with the artist is a program of authors’ itineraries that combines the idea of tour, walk, open-air workshop, interview with the artist and urban intervention. The artists are asked to present an independent proposal of walk in the city in order to lead the participants into the discovery and the experience of the urban space. The Walk becomes an open-air workshop and actively involves the participants, questioning the artists, reading and re-writing the visited places through the act of walking.
The project is the result of a reflection and investigation about the walk practice as an aesthetic tool that can describe and modify those metropolitan spaces that are still unknown or undefined nature. The involved artists investigate the territory starting from a subjective research. They instill their curiosity by exploring places that are located out of planned spaces. They don’t limit themselves to walk through the city’s monuments, squares, big venues and parks. Their practice is an experiment consisting of mapping the city’s unconscious. It is extreme and brave attempt of exploration of those apparently unspectacular areas, yet unveiling an authentic and fascinating charm.
The past three editions involved the city of Berlin (2012 and 2013 edition, both curated by Art & Tours) and Bergamo (2014, curated by Association 22:37) with a total of 11 international artists: Rebecca Agnes, Paolo Barlascini, Silke Bauer, Silvia Giambrone, Irma Markulin, Stefania Migliorati, Maria Mitsopoulou, Irina Novarese, Stefanie Schairer, Chryssa Tsampazi, Viola Thiele.
Not by chance this year edition will take place in Belgrade: after the centralized regulation of urban planning during the Communist era the city of Belgrade is experiencing today the lack of a proper legislative protection related to, and in relation to, public, and private propriety. Despite the structural rigidity of the pre-existing urban fabric and the lack of regulations governing it, the city is demonstrating an unexpected capacity to accommodate and adapt in this post- Communist period of transition. The relationship between the cultural production and the urban space, and the regeneration of the city’s degraded areas is result of an individual and collective process, were artists are protagonist.
The artists participating in the Belgrade 2015 edition are Dragan Strunjaš, Iva Kontić, Sandra Božić, Slobodan Stošić.
