Test Pieces

A project organized by Sarah Pierce and curated by Sandra Grozdanic at the Student Cultural Centre (SKC), Belgrade (08 April - 21 April 2006).

Test Pieces draws on Pierce's interests in relationships between locality and organizing, and in this case, how these are played out through 1970s radical practices and contemporary models of art-making. She collaborated with SKC's archivist Dragica Vukadinovi to explore material related to SKC's beginnings in 1971. This research, along with a display of test-pieces contributed by art students from the Faculty of Sculpture at Beograd University propose a site of formative moments, not quite art, but not in the realm of pure documentation. During the week, Pierce used SKC as a base to renegotiate these histories in the present, filtering her 'presence' in the gallery through an accumulation of meetings and one-to-one conversations.