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26 th -28 th SEPTEMBER

DIFFERENT TIME AND LOCATIONS

f ★ Detailed program and all information about B_Tour in Belgrade and Berlin can be found in the B_Tour Belgrade catalogue and on the websites www.b-tour.org and www.Bolo.rs

B_Tour is a Berlin based organization which revolves around guided-tours-as-an-artistic-strategy. B_Tour utilizes hybrid form of art in order to provide locals with a new perspective of their city and a chance to be inspired by it. The organization presents a yearly festival which examines current needs of urban life and how art can be used as a tool to explore possible answers to these needs. The B_Tour encourage artistic research in urban public spaces by implementing new media tools (text messages, Apps, smartphones); subtle performative interventions or architectural and social discourse. ★ B_Tour I Belgrade The main activity of 80|10 organization from Belgrade is based on international cooperation projects in the field of performing and visual arts, music and design. These characteristics were some of the main foundations for this year’s co-partnership with B_Tour from Berlin in order to jointly create a satellite edition of B_Tour in Belgrade (followed after B_Tour Festival in Berlin) which promotes and at the same time questions the specificities of Belgrade (and Serbia) as well as the local art scene. Together with international artists, it is an opportunity to bring closer international art initiatives with local audiences through unique artistic visions of the urban environment.

★ CHARACTERISTICS OF B_TOUR B because it is not A; because it’s the alternative to the narrative of conventional tours. B because it is a personal Biography of the community. B because it is breaking the boundaries between public and private space. B_Tour generates an interaction between a guide, an audience and a space. On a route through the public space, a guide leads an audience through a specific narrative and is therefore a narrator interpreting the urban space. A B_Tour is conscious of the existence of multiple narratives and truths and presents the audience with one of these. It doesn’t provide THE true perception of a space. A B_Tour is a political piece of art since it incubates social involvement and it is perceived as a call to rethink and criticize the environments we occupy. A B_Tour is not a spectacle nor looking for conventional touristic “alternative city tours”. It tends to a subtle approach towards its environment. This subtleness and attentiveness is the result of the guide’s personal connection (artistic research, educational background, locality, interests etc.) with the space.

Pre-opening event for participants and friends of the festival 25 th SEPTEMBER, 20.00 Gallery KMB, |Urban Incubator, Savamala Opening: 26 th SEPTEMBER, 19.00 The Cultural Centre of Belgrade (CCB) Closing: 28 th SEPTEMBER. 22.00 KC Grad

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