Internationally acclaimed curator, Zvonimir Dobrovic was in Sydney as guest of Performance Space and 2015 Mardi Gras festival. On Friday 27 February, he joined Ira Ferris on Eastside Radio 89.7FM to talk about his practice and the new, extended meaning of queer art.

Zvonimir is known for his unconventional approach to curating queer. His vision of queer art widens the common association of queer with the LGBT related content and includes all art that is subversive, all art that questions normativity and conventionality. The art, in other words, that is a disruption to business-as-usual, to normative assumptions that lead to marginalisation and discrimination of any kind.

In this interview, Zvonimir reflects on socio-political relevance of queer art and explains why he believes that art (and non-didactic art in particular) has a power to broaden the per-existing limiting and marginalising narratives, more effectively than other initiatives. 

He also explains why it is important to keep queer art indexical rather then iconic, where iconic is seen as repetitive and formulaic while indexical points to something new and unexpected, something that we have not yet thought of. The indexical art is an art of discovery. Art that is not indexical stops being queer.

For more about this interview see:
https://artiris.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/challenging-the-notion-of-queer-art-with-internationally-acclaimed-curator-zvonimir-dobrovic/

Interview with curator Zvonimir Dobrovic: CHALLENGING THE NOTION OF QUEER ART (Feb 2015)

PODCAST-CONVERSATIONS with artists and art theorists, from visual to performing arts, discussing conceptual frameworks and philosophical outlooks. Also some SOUND-COLLAGES, assembled together on variety of themes, such as: sleep, silence, intuition, collaboration, failure, and more. 

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PRODUCER & HOST: Ira Ferris (https://www.artemisprojects.com.au/projects-ira-ferris)

Interview with curator Zvonimir Dobrovic: CHALLENGING THE NOTION OF QUEER ART (Feb 2015)

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