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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www.bath.ac.uk/icia/visual-arts.shtml
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