Opening of the exhibition:
22nd of January 2010, 7pm.
Address:
Koppstrasse 27-29/K28,
1160 Vienna
Austria

Zampa map of the Hamburg art scene during the Gängeviertel action and controversial Subvision festival; WHW curatorial collective, Rene Block and Mr. Koc from the recent Istanbul Biennial; Serbian and Croatian post YU mythology and partisans; Eastern-European Body Check by ERSTE Foundation in Vienna, are just some of the subtitles from the newest Zampa di Leone comics and posters.

Participants of the Vienna workshop have the unique opportunity to join Zampa di Leone World Movement and to ZAMP IT UP with crazy beats from the synchronized peripheries!

This is for sure an open call for participation within Zampa di Leone workshop on 22nd of January from 2pm until 6pm, Koppstrasse 27-29/K28, 1160 Vienna, Austria.

Zampa di Leone comic workshop in Vienna aims to stress contemporary art production and it’s role in the context of tyranny of neoliberal capitalism and dictatorship of biedermeier kleinbürgerliche neofascism. The project under title Former West will be analysed by Zampa di Leone and his friendly participants. Personality of Gerald Matt will be one of the comic topics and the role of the Austrian foundation as Erste Bank and Kultur Kontak Austria.

All what you have to do is to send e-mail to zampadileone(at)gmail.com or to contact the organizer from Vienna at eroticunion(at)gmail.com. You are kindly obliged to confirm your participation and to write personal mail to Zampa di Leone about the intention of your participation.

Participants of the Vienna workshop have the unique opportunity to
join Zampa di Leone World Movement and to ZAMP IT UP with crazy beats
from the synchronized peripheries!
This is for sure an open call for participation in Zampa di Leone
workshop on 22nd of January from 2pm until 6pm in the fancy Vienna
Zamphalle, near K28 in Koppstrasse.

Zampa di Leone comic workshop in Vienna aims to stress contemporary
art production and its role in the context of tyranny of neoliberal
capitalism and dictatorship of biedermeier kleinbürgerliche
neofascism.
The project called Former West will be analysed by Zampa di Leone and
his friendly participants. Personality of Gerald Matt will be one of
the comic topics and as well the role of the Austrian foundation as
Erste Bank and Kultur Kontak Austria.

All what you have to do is to send e-mail to zampadileone(at)gmailDOTcom or
to contact the organizer from Vienna at eroticunion(at)gmailDOTcom. You are
kindly obliged to confirm your participation and to write personal
mail to Zampa di Leone about the intention of your participation.

I did such a nice interview with him few years ago, and now this.

Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:26:48 +0100

Subject: Re: Interview with Zampa di leone

From: alexander nikolic <an(at)eroticunion(dot)org>

To: zampa di leone

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Dear Zampa!

You are great, I’m very happy that you agreed to this interview-form, so

I’ll go ahead to answer, now also your question, between the lines, but

also, down below to continue with my questions.

On 11.02.2006 12:16 Uhr, “zampa di leone” <zampa(at)various-euro(dot)com> wrote:

>> Dear Zampa!

>>

>> Since few years I know your works, and now by visiting a seminar, at

>> Vienna’s Fine Art Academy, dealing with the subject “curating in a cultural

>> vacuum” I thought, it would be perfect to involve you, in form of a email -

>> based interview.

>

> hi Alex!,

> it’s no problem involving zampa by e-mail!

>

>>

>> Our seminar, which is held by Prof. Ute Meta Bauer, deals with issues like,

>> cultural first aid, the relation – center and periphere, how is it possible

>> to curate an exhibition within a cultural vacuum.

>

> it’s not possible to do such things in this age of turbo neoliberal capitalism

I find this is a crucial point, let’s talk about that, later, more inside

the interview field, which I could also pass my collegues…

>

>>

>> Now, a few words about myself. I’m a art-student with roots from jugoslavia.

>> Was born as so called gastarbajter in vienna, where I was also raised, by my

>> jugoslavian parents.

>

> cool!

Cool and difficult

>

>>

>> In the last few years, I was involved in few projects, I was also often in

>> belgrade, so maybe we met, somethere, as your identity is unknown, so too

>> say, I explored my personal vacuum, in terms of identity.

>

> what is your identity Alex?

> Only identity what zampa perfers is the one against capitalism!

My personal identity is rather boring, only my problematisized identities

were somehow interesting, for me in terms of I was politisized by my

socialization. That not so much different to other persons, but I had to

face a discrimination from tow sides, from austrians and jugoslavs. I’m sure

you know what I mean.

For sure zampa knows what you are talking about!

Zampa di Leone had got many attacs on his activites from both sides, from Balkans and from Europe!!!

>>

>> The reason why I don’t write serbian, is not only cause I never learned to

>> write serbian in a school, but more the fact, that I thought we could make

>> this interview in english, so it could be enclosed to the publication, with

>> few of your comix and be a vital and important part of the publication of

>> the Seminar.

>

> no problem!

> zampa will do it in english!!

Nema problema!

>

>>

>> What do you think?

>

> visit new zampa web site, with all zampa-links and collect some texts and

> materials,

>

> http://www.angelfire.com/psy/zampa-di-leone-zampa/

>

> also you can ask me to send you some zampa comics in printable resolution so

> you can use them as you like.

> zampa work is done under ZAMPA COPY SELF RIGHTS licence, which means, you can

> copy all zampa material and do with it what you like!

GREAT! I’ll take a look

>

>>

>> I would ask you a question, you answer and so we could go ahead…

>>

>> First question could be:

>>

>> From the view and perspective of our seminar, I had the strong feeling that

>> serbia is in a so called cultural vacuum, as the whole region, the balcans

>> or SEE, was part of numerous curatorial activities in the last years, so

>> how do you see yourself inside the vacuum, what is your vacuum, and how do

>> you percieve that last decades activities in the cultural field? Are you

>> vacuum

>

> soros realism and political corruption is very present in ex YU!

> they made vacuum in the heads of people using strong propaganda and buying

> people with money and shits!

>

> zampa di leone is fighting against cultural-fascism, art-market, and

> neocolonial managerism !!!!!!!!!!!

> Here at the balkans and everywhere around the world!!!!

>

> zampa di leone is the only one!!!

> zampa never made mistake using his body and being public!!

> Praxa must be undercover!!!

> This is only way how to win against all those arti shitheads and oportunistic

> curators!!!

I’ll continue here with the questions, right?

Dear Zampa, is SOROS realism and political corruption for you going hand in

hand together, as same part of one Side.

YES! YOU GOT THE PROBLEM RIGHT!

Of course ex Soros commissars are in fact the same corrupted people now sitting in almost every institutions of culture in Serbia, also like in the whole region of ex YU.

Very funny thing is that they are talking about their fight for freedom against dictator Milosevic and similar criminals, but if you look much better you can discovered the same people sitting on the same positions, only little metamorphosing their retoric.

All this politically correct artist and curators were making expencive ehxibitions and projects during 90ies like they are doing now also.

Their only aim is to make their careeres and to put more euros in their pockets.

You can see that Soros is today main part-owner of Serbian radio&television B92, mighty and transformed channel, which is broadcasting programms like “Big Brother”, Milosevic trial from The Hague, USA-sitcoms, Europen Fottball league or suddenly discovered archives of war crimes in Yugoslavia.

Dictator Milosevic is not in Serbia any more, but propaganda of the World Corporations and ruthless market of neoliberal capitalism made new dictatorship now.

Another brutal lobby of the capitalistic machine are fundamentalistic conservative, right wings parties and church.

Everybody who are saying something against this phenomenons is in advance charged like a terrorist or fascist!

Zampa di leone has nothing to do only with local politics!

Zampa is not figthing for some other world policy or something like that!

Zampa is one very important chanall of freedom, to spek and zampa is alarming and showing corruption and ugly processes of cultural neocolonialism.Ê

And is this the motor for your

Activism in the Cultural Field. I mean you could also go along with

Anti-Globalist Strategies…Why did you choose the field of contempory art?

Zampa di leone is doing things on funny and not on violent way!

This is very important difference between zampa-activism and other activists who are more like Anti-Global-Worriors, fighting against capitalism!

Cultur is used like a explanation for making a war! That’s very uglu!!!!

Cultural war is present all aroud us!

You can see what happend with publication of “Jyllands-Posten” cartoons!

Freedom is mediate and used in various context only to power up capital!

Zampa aim is not to put bombs or stuff like that in the museum or art galleries.

Zampa task is to make art worthlessly and to dismask fetishistic and corrupted market.

Zampa aim is to make for contemporary art less subservient public!!!

Contemporay art is very poluted, with all those politically correct ehxibitions like “Blood and Honey” or “”In den Schluchten des Balkan”, potlach festivals like Arts electronica or transmediale, all are just lower class of artist trying to reach real art market in NY or London.

The real profit on this kind of manifestations were making only main manageres and curators, others were only food and instruments for them,!

Zampa is showing those things very clear and many volonters are not more volonters in the contemporary art sector, thanks to zampa di leone actions!

Important is to open a field of non-mediate praxa,

to make everybody artist!

to stop art market and art manageres earning the money and power on art!

>

> p.s.

> zampa di leone have also first task for you !!!

> You have to visit for “Oktobarski salon” Belgrade and to make “something “

> with big Vampire Rene Block. The Vampire has to be beaten from us!!!

>

> think smart!

I was at the Oktobarski with a friend of mine. We disturbed a performance of

some german guy, who came for few hours, organizing his performance “this is

your chair” a performance to teach people how to beg. With a friend we

squatted the scene somehow…

This was very ugly performance! And Anda was colonial curator that year, but this year they have vampire Rene Block like a curator!!!!

This we have to stop!!! For the sake of freedom!!!!

Smile

a

>

> zampa di leone

> http://zampa.various-euro.com

>

grŸss

zampa di leone!

To: an(at)eroticunion(dot)org

From: zampa di leone <zampa(at)various-euro(dot)com>

Subject: dear alex

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dear alex,

world went crazy!

and vacumm is not only on the Balkans but in the heads of whole weste&east civilisation. Every shithead is now dealing with media and world still dont see crazy consequences which are coming soon.

zampa has to go on some other field and to do his fight completly undercover!

this is reason why this zampa e-mail adress has to be erased.

our internet conversation is over and zampa sends you zampa comics which you can published as you want, of course zampa copy self right licence has to be mentioned.

all best and zampa hopes to see you in some other space except vacumm.

zampa di leone

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