Bureau NetBallet
by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman, Belgrade/Serbia, 2005
# Guerrilla Net Ballet Performance: Ballettikka Internettikka: BEO Guerrиllиkka
Thursday, Oct 13th 2005 at 9 PM GMT+1 (Berlin/Paris/Belgrade local time)
Duration: 23 minutes
Location: National Theatre in Belgrade (Narodno Pozoriste u Beogradu), Serbia
Microlocation: Office of the Ballet Director (3rd Floor)
# low-res video document - preview | hi-res DVD available
Live internet broadcast of the guerrilla bureau ballet performance started on October 13th 2005 at 9 PM GMT+1 and lasted 23 minutes.
Stromajer & Zorman have entered the office (brain center) of the National Theatre Ballet Director, where the hardest artistic decisions to run the institution are taking place. The artists have entered the building dressed as electricians, employes (Igormir Neutronovic and Branimir Protonovic) of an nonexisting Serbian electricity-service company Elektroda d.o.o., coming to fix the previously reported malfunction on the National Theatre's electrical system (with the help of an anonymous undercover rat-collaborator inside the theatre -- code name: Mirloslav).
Artists used low-tech mobile and wireless equipment for the invasion and live broadcast (portable computers, mini digital camera, MP3 audio systems, mobile WAP/GPRS telephones etc). A laptop and Logitech webcam, together with Webcam32 (version 6.0) software were used for broadcasting the video signal (running over Intima Virtual Base FTP server). Another laptop and MP3 player with online interface SHOUTcast (version 1.8.3/win32), were used for live sound broadcasting (running over Beitthron FTP server). A local Serbian GSM mobile phone operator (Mobtel) was used for GPRS mobile internet connection.
The preparations have been taken serious, safety measures have been calculated, and the previous experience from the Bolsh.oi Theatre in Moscow and La S.cala in Milan has been very welcome.
Note: The National Theatre in Belgrade did not voluntarily co-operate in the project, but was selected based on the conceptual strategy of the project. The management of the National Theatre is not a co-producer of this project and does not co-operate in the process of its realization.
National Theatre, Belgrade (GoogleEarth satellite image)
Bureau NetBallet Operators: Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman
Bureau NetBallet Composer: MC Brane vs. BeitThroN vs. Thronus Sound System
Theoretical Adviser: Bojana Kunst
Co-produced by Intima Virtual Base (Ljubljana) and TkH - Centre for Performing Arts Theory and Practice (Belgrade)
Curator: Ana Vujanovic
Executive Producer: Jelena Knezevic
Action Timetable / Belgrade, Oct 13th 2005 / GMT+1:
A
20:55 Equipment check on the parking place in front of the National Theatre / Narodno Pozoriste
20:57 Turning the computers on
20:59 Establishing wireless Internet connection: Mobtel /SCG (GSM 900/1800)
B
21:00 Start of live Internet broadcast (code: -2) and final equipment check
21:01 Entering the building of the National Theatre / Narodno Pozoriste; climbing the stairs - 3rd Floor (code: -1)
21:05 Entering the office of the Ballet Director of the National Theatre / Narodno Pozoriste (3rd Floor / left): (code: 0) starting live bureau net ballet (10 min)
21:15 End of live bureau net ballet: exiting the office; descending the stairs (code: +1)
21:19 Exiting the building of the National Theatre / Narodno Pozoriste
21:20 Terminating wireless Internet connection at the parking place outside the National Theatre / Narodno Pozoriste and turning off the computers (code: +2)
C
21:23 Taking the taxi to the O3ONE Gallery
# Exceeded Time: + 3 min
> Artists (Stromajer and Zorman) in action
BI-BEO Belgrade net-ballet surveillance W CAM 01/02/03/04
Ballettikka Internettikka exhibition in Belgrade, 2005
The conceptual and performative complexity of this exhibition was to shift the boundaries of comprehending artistic actions; this project relied on contemporary technology, wast documentation and brought a certain risk in, as containing a performance of a guerrilla internet bureau ballet in one of the most important local cultural institution - National Theatre in Belgrade (Narodno Pozoriste u Beogradu), Serbia (see performances in the Milan S.cala and Bolsh.oi Theatre in Moscow, etc). The audience had a chance to watch the direct broadcast of the action from a safe distance, in the O3ONE Gallery. The exhibition, that was also mounted there, focused on a series of multimedia (and) internet based artistic projects (actions and performances), entitled Ballettikka Internettikka, produced by the Intima Virtual Base, realized in the period between 2001 and 2005, concluding with a performance Ballettikka Internettikka: BEO Guerrиllиkka.
Project supported by Municipality of Belgrade, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia.
Igor Štromajer Virtualna baza Intima Igor Štromajer Intima Virtual Base Ballettikka Internettikka
Curator: Ana Vujanovic
