Via MSU Zagreb

Transformation of a live performance into a museum document

The VN enters the MSU museum collection as a story in which it interacts with all of its thematic strands: the Project and Destiny, Art as Life, Art about Art, The Great Enigma of the World, Words and Pictures. In this context, we refer to MSU’s programmatic premise: “to initiate and demonstrate shifts in the presentation, communication and interpretation of MSU’s art collection”. In the context of the museum, performance functions as a process of creating and exhibiting an artefact – the performer literally leaves his or her authorial trace in the museum, documents it on video and re-displays it in the form of a video document. With the video installation of the Via MSU Zagreb collective presentation, the Via Nova performances became museum documents four days after their live performance.

Via MSU Zagreb

2010 • Via Nova
Collective presentation • 245 min

Performances
— All That You Came For
— Spotlight on Me
— Invalid
— Viva Mandić
— What Joseph Beuys Told Me …
— Buyer With an Eye
— Interview With the Artist
— No One Should Have Seen This
— Game With Toothpicks
— Extract Mandić
— Pure performance
— Last Cigarette of Pina Bausch (Four Deaths)
— Tonight I celebrate

Concept and direction — Bojan Jablanovec
Performers — Primož Bezjak, Marko Mandić, Boris Kadin, Barbara Kukovec, Uroš Kaurin, Katarina Stegnar, Gregor Zorc, Kristian Al Droubi, Tomaž Grom
Producer — Špela Trošt
Technical manager — Igor Remeta
Production— Via Negativa, MSU Zagreb, Eurokaz Zagreb

Presentation
19-06-2010 • MSU Zagreb, Eurokaz festival

Video installation
23. – 27. June 2010 • MSU Zagreb