ARTOPOLIS I – STREET GALLERIES, Kosjeric

Kosjeric will host four different camps this year at the same time, trying to connect different art form and bring more cultural activities to this place for the 16th year. Local youth will get a chance to participate in workshops related to different art forms, organized by the volunteers and during the workcamp each group will perform in the village while preparing for the final manifestation. The primary goal, on which the work of this group will be based, is introducing new forms of expression, graffiti art and spreading popular culture through interaction with young people. An art that’s been marginalized throughout decades and classified as subculture gets its own legitimate place and recognition, through a phenomenon of a “street gallery”. Possible synthesis and collaboration between these two groups is possible depending on ideas and agreement among members. The participants will, according to their own affinities, decide between 2 groups, where they will express their creativity to the full extent. First days in camp will pass in getting acquainted with basics of mural painting and graffiti, as well as in exchanging ideas among participants themselves. Apart from the team masterpiece (mural in some public place), there is also a possibility of creating stencils, tags. Partner: The idea of the Kosjeric Art Camp originated from The Club of Friendship based at The Centre for Anti-War Action in Belgrade. The camp was deliberately set outside the city of Belgrade in order to make a smaller local community benefit from international inputs, but also to give a chance to international participants to explore the capacities of a Serbian inner city and its surrounding natural beauties. This will be the 16th year of art workcamp in Kosjeric. http://artcamp.ktowngroup.org.rs