SRĐAN JOVANOVIĆ WEISS (RS)

Related Projects: Belgrade Design Week Festival 2006

Founded by Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, NAO is a collaborative practice for special projects in architecture that manifest in different media outputs from buildings to books.

NAO exhibited design and visions at UABB Shenzhen, Lisbon Architecture Triennial, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Graham Foundation Chicago, Institute for Contemporary Art Philadelphia, New York Public Library, House of World Cultures Berlin, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Vojvodina Novi Sad, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, The New School Aronson Galleries New York, ŠKUC Ljubljana, SAVVY Contemporary Leipzig, The James Gallery Graduate Center CUNY New York and Flint Public Art Project in Flint, Michigan.

Along with professional collaborations with Herzog & de Meuron Architects and Richard Gluckman Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss / NAO collaborated with artists Jenny Holzer, Robert Wilson, Ai Weiwei, Marjetica Potrc and Bik van der Pol.

http://www.thenao.net/

Running in the morning through the city (down what the germans call a fussgangerzone) and being amazed by all the grand empty old buildings that reminded me of my Berlin beginnings. Grafitti on buildings. Lovely broken walls with acne'd facades from decades of reverse engineering. Discovering that all the ships on the river were party boats and open till the morning. Sweating so much in one of the clubs, my phone got messed up. Losing phone in said club. Visiting belgrade police station to report a then stolen phone to a twenty-something cop with a doctor's lab coat, listening to Rammstein (loudly) while hacking out my report on a pre-electric typewriter that looked (and sounded) as if it was from some era before typewriters were invented.   Thinking of Naked Lunch. Thinking of Die-Hard. Listening to architects talk about porous facades. Thinking of old smart bombs. Imagining the flash and crunch of several floors of reinforced concrete collapsing in on themselves. Wondering why I'm the only interactive guy here. Why are there so many beautiful women in Belgrade? Why are there so many beautiful women in Belgrade?!

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