With
                    the music of Sergej Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No.2, in
                    C minor, op.18: Prelude No. 5, in G minor 
                Presentation:
                      can be projected as or one- or two-channel video, if possible
                      on loop 
                City
                      of origin: Moscow 
                1st
                      time exhibited at 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art,
                      Special Project ìGender Troublesî, 29.01.-
                      28.02. 2005, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Curator:
                      Mila Bredikhina 
                Video
                      film ìPleasureî is a complex multilayered
                      work about cultural and gender constructions and difficulties
                      of communication. Considering the form it reminds of an
                      old mute film, combining elements of moving pictures and
                      the text. The text and the picture are not in direct connection,
                      but put together they produce some new sense, certain shift
                      of the meaning, some hybrid and wondrous picture/text-body. 
                One
                      projection shows a woman cleaning the floor in one global
                      looking mid/high-class-restaurant. The other projection
                      shows a young man doing the same in some other environment
                      (can be recognised as Mc Donald). The text-sequences, which
                      should ìtranslateî the thoughts of the mute ìactorsî,
                      I found in a booklet ìRussian with Pronunciationî (Zagreb
                      1981/2002). ìPleasureî is a dialog between
                      a man and a woman who meet each other. These sentences
                      should be paradigmatic examples, what every man/woman should
                      know in the Russian language when he/she meets the opposite
                      sex and they want to have ìpleasureî together.
                      The text embodied many clichÈs regarding cultural
                      stereotypes and how they changed in the mean time and raise
                      the question of the (im)possibilities of cultural translations
                      and gender understanding. 
                  
                CV 
                1968
                        in Zagreb, Kroatien, geboren, lebt und arbeitet als freischaffende
                        Künstlerin in Berlin. 
                Nach
                        dem Studium der Kunstgeschichte und Germanistik an den
                        Universitäten in Zagreb und in Mainz, der künstlerischen
                        Fotografie an der Wiesbadener Freien Kunstschule und
                        dem Postgraduiertenstudium "Kunst im Kontext" der
                        Universität der Künste in Berlin sowie University
                        of the West of England/Faculty for Art and Media in Bristol,
                        machte sie inzwischen zahlreiche Ausstellungen und Kunstprojekte
                        im In- und Ausland. Einzelausstellungen u.a. in Galerija
                        M. Kraljevic, Zagreb; Gallery James/ArtStrelka, Moskau;
                        Galerie 35, Berlin; Galerija Nova, Zagreb; Watershed
                        Media Centre Bristol. Eine der Mitbegr¸nderin von
                        Kunstcoop©, Initiative für aktuelle Kunstvermittlung:
                        2001 und 2002 aktiv in der NGBK (Neue Gesellschaft für
                        bildende Kunst) Berlin. 2004 war sie Moskau-Stipendiatin
                        des Berliner Senats in Moscow House of Photography und
                        nahm an der 1. Moskau Biennale, Spezialprojekt "Gender
                        Troubles" teil.  
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