Event 2: Ivana Dama

 Event 2: Ivana Dama 



Last week I attended an art talk by UCLA alumni Ivana Dama.


 The event began with similar premises as Yolande Harris  with focuses on sense and perception. As Dama is a sound artist who primarily uses sirens and other signal indicators. Many of these sirens come from back home and from her father. Some of them are made in Yugoslavia which is no longer a country and shows how old some of the devices are. 

Yugoslavia Serbia JNA Army Military Vehicle Siren Alarm. eBay. (n.d.). https://www.ebay.com/itm/126154269306 


An interesting concept that Dama brought to light was the way to catagorize her work. To many sound art can only equate to music and that fully encapsulates the genre. However, Dama that is not the case and they believe that sculpture better captures their work and they made this case to Yale MBA as well.  They stated that because sound takes up physical space like how sculpture does that it too should be considered sculpting like that of michelangelo and other famous sculptures. This concept completely changed my perception on sound artists vs that of musicians. 


Ivana was a very charming presenter and a very honest one as well as they even pointed out false praise. They were once invited to a conference for women from war-torn countries and they felt this label didn't accurately represent them.

Ivanadama.com. (n.d.). Command and control. Ivana Dama. https://www.ivanadama.com/commandandcontrol 


Ivana however did become interested in the sirens of said war-torn countries and researched them until stumbling on a quite old version. One that can be boiled down to a cardboard disk with holes and when spun and blown through creates sounds. This can be manipulated based on the position of the air and the hole pattern in which one creates the disk. For one of their demonstrations, Dama created a metal centerpiece to spin and contain disks . This performance art was very revolutionary to my conception of an art gallery and how one can form their expression into a feasible showing. 

Ivana Dama - Overview. Yale School of Art’s Open Studios. (n.d.). https://yaleschoolofart.viewingrooms.com/artists/190-ivana-dama/overview/ 



Ivanadama.com. (n.d.). Command and control. Ivana Dama. https://www.ivanadama.com/commandandcontrol 

Buffenstein, A. (2016, August 8). 12 sound artists changing your perception of art. Artnet News. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/12-sound-artists-changing-perception-art-587054 

Tate. (n.d.). Sound art. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/sound-art 

Ivana Dama. Yale School of Art. (n.d.). https://www.art.yale.edu/ivana-dama 

            Maja Zivanovic, S. H. (2019, March 25). 78 days of fear: Remembering NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia. Balkan Insight. https://balkaninsight.com/2019/03/22/78-days-of-fear-remembering-natos-bombing-of-yugoslavia/ 


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