Solo performance by Boris Kadin
On categorisations in art. Boris deals with categorizations in art in an extremely self-ironic way. “There are three basic categories of artists: those who have earned the theme they are dealing with; those who might earn it, and those who definitely have not earned their theme. In my view, the artist can only be worthy of the theme if he unconditionally takes it into himself and provides evidence of it with his own body. To confirm this thesis, I will need a knife tonight.” According to Boris Joseph Beuys is an artist beyond all categories. The only one able to talk about Beuys is “the dead rabbit” which at the opening of his first independent exhibition lay in his lap and listened to Joseph Beuys explanation of the work of Joseph Beuys.
Conceived and written by Boris Kadin and Bojan Jablanovec
Performer: Boris Kadin
Direction and video: Bojan Jablanovec
Voice: Joseph Beuys, Ja ja ja ja ja, nee nee nee nee nee
The mask: Sanela Milošević
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Via Negativa, 2009, with the support by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana
Premiere: 26 June 2009, Performance Studies International, PSI 15 Conference, Zagreb
Duration: 40 min