| Jan Kusej on Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:27:02 +0100 (CET) |
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| [Nettime-bold] invitation:Tanja Vujinovic at the Museum of the City of Skopje |
for immediate release �Variola Vera�, video installation Tanja Vujinovic Open Graphic Studio Museum of the City of Skopje Mito Hadgi Vasilev bb 12.12.2001-10.01.2002 Opening: 12.12.2001. at 19h Organization and public relations: Atanas Botev +389 (0)2 114 742, [email protected] With the support of: Pro Helvetia, Youth Cultural Center Maribor, and Museum of the City of Skopje The video installation "Variola Vera" is derived from Yugoslav film director G. Markovic's motion picture, which is a narrative about the last great outbreak of this disease in Europe (Belgrade, 1972), and takes place in the isolation ward of a hospital. The subject gains in its possible actuality in the context of the latest treats of potential bio-terrorist attacks. Video projections are functioning as diverse mirrors that are reflecting developments of individual anxieties within the collective. Variants of this work were exhibited this year in Cultural Center Gallery Belgrade and Media Nox Gallery Maribor. In January 2002, it will be presented within the Helium project, organized by Ballongmagasinet and NIFCA (Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art). ��with Variola Vera, Vujinovic insists on the ontological dimension within the social. Variola Vera is the ontological horizon of the Balkan condition. The installation, in drawing upon the classic feature film entitled Variola Vera, produced some 20 years ago in the territory known as Yugoslavia, is the contingency reservoir. Our very certainty of the dissolution of any certainty is already stated - there, in the film. Hence, it indicates a deeper ontological level of contingency within the social. Variola Vera is an actualization of the absent ground for present representations of art. Variola Vera is the marker of our proper, deeply bodily dimension of uncertainty. Variola Vera is the dark, smelly, dirty, poisoned flesh of any society and someone�s, anyone�s, private obsessions �. Marina Grzinic, philosopher and new media theorist, [email protected] Part of the text from the exhibition catalogue Tanja Vujinovic Kusej was born in 1973 in Yugoslavia. Since 1996, she has been presenting interventions, video installations and other works at various galleries, artist-run centres and public spaces in more than thirty individual and group exhibitions (Germany, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Scotland, France, Slovenia etc.). Tanja had completed her studies in Belgrade at the College of Industrial Design, at the Faculty of Fine Arts and had been a guest student in Jan Dibbets class at Kunstakademie D�sseldorf, Germany. In her work, Tanja Vujinovic deals with some of the most significant aspects of contemporary society: various crises and its effects on the individual, manifestation of ideological parameters imposed by mass media; appropriating mass media visual and audio material and transforming it into new structures with modified meanings. In early videos and drawings-pictograms, she investigates a variety of compulsive activities interiorized by the individual as well as a number of restrictive behavioural patterns, within the frame of acceptable and expected. Repetitive annoying noise and visual element patterns are investigating mechanisms of subliminal suggestive media messages. She is a freelance artist currently living in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Contact address: [email protected] www.ljudmila.org/vujinovic/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold