Aleksandar Nesic is a mixed media artist active in the fields of performance, music and visual art. 2006 he founded the artist group zenit&nadir. He has been a member of the artist collective Bomb Gallery sine 2013. His electronic live set and solo project Poison In Honey exists since 2015. 2003 - 2010 the artist studies graphic, performance and video art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. From 2006 - 2011 he was one of the founding members of the visual sound performance group zenit&nadir. During this time there was a close partnership between the gallery fluctuating images and zenit&nadir. On behalf of this gallery the group participated in screenings, performances and in 2007 the series of events called „exploring party – Party als Kunst“ at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. In 2009 zenit&nadir exhibited a stage production called „contain - Leben in 33m³“ which premiered at the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, formerly a warehouse for steel in which a container village for asylum seekers was installed during the Balkan Civil War, which was then the basis of the theme for the piece.
Nesic performed in many other contexts as a musician and has an acting background in the play „Assassinate Assange“ by Angela Richter at Hebel am Ufer in Berlin or as a live drummer for the band „chicks on speed“ at the National Theater in Mannheim. Furthermore he appeared as a performing artist in 2015 at „Asia Contemporary Art Platform - NON Berlin“ with his piece „ALEKS RAUS TAG / The de-artification of Art / Die Entkunstung der Kunst“. Bubble wrap an other pricey packaging materials, which were once used to wrap world-famous artists´ works at big galleries and museums were auctioned to the audience during the performance.
Poison in Honey electric live set is drums/percussion, electronics, vocal improvisation, noise and field recordings. His recorded and live music explores the interaction of the figurative and the abstract, the mechanic and the organic, the sensual and the brutal. He records and treats sounds to recreate (visually narrative) landscapes, and experiments with many genre derives in the process.
Aleksandar Nesic is a mixed media artist active in the fields of performance, music and visual art. 2006 he founded the artist group zenit&nadir. He has been a member of the artist collective Bomb Gallery sine 2013. His electronic live set and solo project Poison In Honey exists since 2015. 2003 - 2010 the artist studies graphic, performance and video art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. From 2006 - 2011 he was one of the founding members of the visual sound performance group zenit&nadir. During this time there was a close partnership between the gallery fluctuating images and zenit&nadir. On behalf of this gallery the group participated in screenings, performances and in 2007 the series of events called „exploring party – Party als Kunst“ at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. In 2009 zenit&nadir exhibited a stage production called „contain - Leben in 33m³“ which premiered at the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, formerly a warehouse for steel in which a container village for asylum seekers was installed during the Balkan Civil War, which was then the basis of the theme for the piece.
Nesic performed in many other contexts as a musician and has an acting background in the play „Assassinate Assange“ by Angela Richter at Hebel am Ufer in Berlin or as a live drummer for the band „chicks on speed“ at the National Theater in Mannheim. Furthermore he appeared as a performing artist in 2015 at „Asia Contemporary Art Platform - NON Berlin“ with his piece „ALEKS RAUS TAG / The de-artification of Art / Die Entkunstung der Kunst“. Bubble wrap an other pricey packaging materials, which were once used to wrap world-famous artists´ works at big galleries and museums were auctioned to the audience during the performance.
Poison in Honey electric live set is drums/percussion, electronics, vocal improvisation, noise and field recordings. His recorded and live music explores the interaction of the figurative and the abstract, the mechanic and the organic, the sensual and the brutal. He records and treats sounds to recreate (visually narrative) landscapes, and experiments with many genre derives in the process.
Aleksandar Nesic is a mixed media artist active in the fields of performance, music and visual art. 2006 he founded the artist group zenit&nadir. He has been a member of the artist collective Bomb Gallery sine 2013. His electronic live set and solo project Poison In Honey exists since 2015. 2003 - 2010 the artist studies graphic, performance and video art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. From 2006 - 2011 he was one of the founding members of the visual sound performance group zenit&nadir. During this time there was a close partnership between the gallery fluctuating images and zenit&nadir. On behalf of this gallery the group participated in screenings, performances and in 2007 the series of events called „exploring party – Party als Kunst“ at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. In 2009 zenit&nadir exhibited a stage production called „contain - Leben in 33m³“ which premiered at the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, formerly a warehouse for steel in which a container village for asylum seekers was installed during the Balkan Civil War, which was then the basis of the theme for the piece.
Nesic performed in many other contexts as a musician and has an acting background in the play „Assassinate Assange“ by Angela Richter at Hebel am Ufer in Berlin or as a live drummer for the band „chicks on speed“ at the National Theater in Mannheim. Furthermore he appeared as a performing artist in 2015 at „Asia Contemporary Art Platform - NON Berlin“ with his piece „ALEKS RAUS TAG / The de-artification of Art / Die Entkunstung der Kunst“. Bubble wrap an other pricey packaging materials, which were once used to wrap world-famous artists´ works at big galleries and museums were auctioned to the audience during the performance.
Poison in Honey electric live set is drums/percussion, electronics, vocal improvisation, noise and field recordings. His recorded and live music explores the interaction of the figurative and the abstract, the mechanic and the organic, the sensual and the brutal. He records and treats sounds to recreate (visually narrative) landscapes, and experiments with many genre derives in the process.
ALEKSANDAR NESIC
zenit&nadir 2006 - 2011
The artists’ group zenit&nadir was established in 2006. From the outset the focus was to bring specific sounds to specific spaces and their surroundings. Image and sound footage was collected at and inspired by the location. At first the means of expression were limited to veejaying and not only electronic but also analog generated live music. Further works were commissioned by museums, openings and festivals in Stuttgart, Riga and Strasbourg. During this time there was a close partnership between the former gallery fluctuating images in Stuttgart and zenit&nadir. On behalf of this gallery zenit&nadir participated in screenings, performances and in 2007 the series of events called „exploring party – Party als Kunst“ at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. Especially for this occasion we developed a performance, which dealt with the area of tension between sound and movement. In advance we produced a video with sequences of movements, which was then triggered via two drummers on there kits using a special software. The rhythm of the video was influenced by the drums and the content of the video was determined by pre-selected sequences of the footage.
Since then the combination of movement, video and sound/livedrums is significant for our work, because it widens our forms of expression. A further development arose, when we generated the components of our performances, not only through fragments of the surrounding areas, which are collected at the space of events, arranged, dissembled and put together again for the performance, but also through historical incidents, which were up-to-date then and still are. That’s what happened for example in 2009 in our stage production „contain – Leben in 33m³“ which premiered at the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, formerly a warehouse for steel called „Rheinstahlhallen“ in which a container village for asylum seekers was installed during the Balkan Civil War, which was then the basis of the content for the piece. This stage- performance emerged through work in progress based on extensive research.
Mad Woman's Vision (Trailer)
Year of production: 2012
Duration: 48:00 min
Trailer: 8:40 min
Location: Kunstzentrum Karlskaserne, Ludwigsburg
Sponsored by Licam GmbH / Filmequipment & Services, Stuttgart