About Us
Citizens’ Association “Reaktor” is an organization founded in 2015 that brought together experienced workers in the field of culture and activists in the non-governmental sector with the goal to react to the current problems contemporary society is facing by using art and experimentation in art. Members of Reaktor with extensive work experience have a large number of successfully implemented projects behind them, participation in various events that have already been registered on the city’s cultural map Novi Sad, but also on the territory of Serbia.
In the last two years, “Reaktor” has been particularly engaged in working with artists of various profiles, who through their artistic practice are trying to develop new forms of artistic expression, with a special focus on bio and ethical practices.
Currently, Reaktor is actively working on several informal projects with the aim of developing cooperation with various actors on the art and youth scene: artists of the younger and middle generation, producers, promoters and other actors. We are trying to strengthen the Association, which will be ready for cooperation with all cultural institutions and other cultural associations.
The association has independently realized several manifestations:
- The “Novi Sad Craft Beer Festival” has been held six times so far and was one of the most successful events promoting craft culture;
- Biofactory – a project supported by the European Capital of Culture – Novi Sad 2022, which dealt with the promotion of bio art. Biofactory represents an artistic production in the form of experiments, where a completely new, biodegradable and sustainable material – SKOBI – is used and processed. The main purpose of this material is to offer alternative solutions in order to preserve the environment, as, for example, to replace plastic as the biggest polluter of the planet, but its great potential in replacing textiles has also been discovered.
- Passage fest – a young manifestation that promotes specific city localities through the implementation of cultural events thematically related to the said locality;
- Textile (tactile) newspapers – an inclusive project aimed at improving the accessibility of cultural content for people with disabilities. The project involved the realization of textile objects using the technique of embroidery modeled on daily newspapers from Serbia (Kurir, Večernje novosti, Danas), Hungary (Blikk) and Poland (Super express), thereby problematizing the quantity and quality of (visual) information we get by browsing/reading daily press. He also points to broader social issues, such as the non-inclusivity of daily newspapers and mass culture in general, the inclusiveness of contemporary art, creative contribution through participatory projects. Tactile newspapers created in this project were intended for visually impaired people.
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