October 28-30th
Fabrika, entrance 2 (ex Route 66), Bulevar Despota Stefana 5, Novi Sad, Serbia
Friday, October 28th – Opening Night
5 p.m | Opening of the Remix Comix exhibition: ‘May the Children on the Street Play with Your Eyes!’ |
6 p.m.–6:30 p.m. | Opening of the conference |
6:30 p.m. | Keynote speaker, artist Ulli Lust (Austria): ‘Documentary Storytelling & Graphic Journalism. Real Life Stories.’ |
8 p.m. | Buffet – Live Drawing – DJ Crni Dule |
8 p.m. | Concerts @ Proizvodnja |
Saturday, October 29th – Heritage and Collective Memories in Comics
10 a.m.–5 p.m. | (Fan)zine Making Workshop: Oskars Pavlovskis, Kuš! (Latvia) |
10 a.m.–10:15 a.m. | Welcome and introduction |
10:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m. | Seminar: Memory through Comics: Spiegelman, Nakazawa, Satrapi Yasco Horsman and Mathijs Peters from Leiden University (TheNetherlands) |
11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m | Seminar: Representation Through Comics Poet and comic critic Canan Marasligil (Brussels, Amsterdam). |
12:45 p.m.–1 p.m. | Coffee break |
1 p.m.–3 p.m. | REMIX: Parallel workshops 1. Workshop: Seeing the Creative District with New Eyes Barbora Müllerova (Curator of Lustr-Festival in Prague) will take the participants out onto the streets, where she will introduce the basic methods of ‘deep mapping’. 2. Workshop: Story-Catchers for Comics and Theater ZID-theater (Amsterdam) will present a board-game that helps to trigger the imagination, and to ‘catch’ new stories. 3. Presentation: Wisdom and Madness Kiss Serbian comic book artist Mileta Poštić and educator Jelena Bobić will present the comic he created for the Uroš Predić exhibition at the Gallery of Matica Srpska. |
3 p.m.–4 p.m. | Lunch |
4 p.m.–6:30 p.m. | Balkan Memories Three comic book artists will present their work on the local and regional collective memories of World War II. With Blaž Vurnik (Slovenia), Boris Stanić (Serbia) and Aleksandar Zograf (Serbia). |
6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. | Film screening ‘The Final Adventure of Kaktus Kid’ (Đorđe Marković) |
7:30 p.m | DJ Dub Dubba |
8 p.m. | Concerts @ Proizvodnja |
Sunday, October 30th: Contemporary Art in Comics
10 a.m.–10:15 a.m. | Introduction and Welcome |
10:15 a.m.–11:15 a.m | Presentation: The Tremendous Treasure of Belgian Comics Comics editor Roel Daenen will reflect on the newest comics news from Belgium, this apparently happy-go-lucky comic loving land. |
11:15 a.m.–12 p.m | Seminar: Comics in Museums Barbara Eggert, Next Comics Linz (Austria) |
12 p.m.–12:45 p.m. | Presentation: Comics and Contemporary Art in Zines David Schilter, Kuš! (Latvia) |
12:45 p.m.–2 p.m. | Lunch |
2 p.m.–2:45 p.m. | Presentation: Comics in Public Spaces Akinori Oishi, multimedia artist (Japan) |
2:45 p.m.–4 p.m. | Workshop: Comics in Journalism Eva Hilhorst, (The Netherlands), editor of Drawing the Times (platform for Graphic Journalism) |
4 p.m.–5 p.m | Forum Conversation and Closing Session: The Power of Comics |
5 p.m.–p.m. | Sketch Battle, drinks and laughter |
7 p.m. | Zombie Walk (Film Front) |
8 p.m. | Closing Party, DJ Zupany |
