Gallery performance and video installation
13 performances of VIA NOVA series follow in space and content the structure and context of the permanent collection of MSU Zagreb in which we communicate with all its units: Project and Destiny, Art as Life, Art on Art, Great World Enigma, Words and Images. Accordingly we connect to programme origins of MSU to: “initiate and show motions in presentation, communication and interpretation of MSU art collection and at the same time point to essential characteristics of contemporary art – movement, change, inconstancy, uncertainty” (Collection in Motion, p. 7, MSU Zagreb). In the context of the museum the performance becomes a process of creating and exhibiting an artefact. This way the performer presents itself as the author in the field of contemporary art: with performance he literary leaves his authorial trail, documents it on video tape and later exhibits in the museum as a video installation. With this action the performances (video documents) became permanent ownership and a part of art collection of MSU Zagreb. Via MSU Zagreb program (PDF)
Performances
Viva Mandić
All that you came for
Invalid
Spotlight on me
What Joseph Beuys told me, while I was lying dead in his lap
Buyer with an eye
Interview with the artist
No one should have seen this
Game with toothpicks
Extract Mandić
Pure performance
Tonight I celebrate
Pina Bausch’s last cigarette (scene from Four Deaths)
Concept: Bojan Jablanovec
Conceived and performed by Primož Bezjak, Marko Mandić, Boris Kadin, Barbara Kukovec, Uroš Kaurin, Katarina Stegnar, Grega Zorc, Kristian Al Droubi, Tomaž Grom
Production: Via Nova performances produced by Via Negativa, 2009 – 2010, with the support od Ministry of Culture of RS and the City of Ljubljana. Collective presentation VIA MSU Zagreb produced by MSU Zagreb and Eurokaz Festival Zagreb
Producer: Špela Trošt
Technical director: Igor Remeta
Venue and date: Museum of contemporary art Zagreb, 19 June 2010 as part of Eurokaz Festival Zagreb
Duration: 4 hours
Video installation: 24 – 27 June 2010