BodyWORDS: Trsnko_TRANSITION

UO Istovremeno, in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art, organizes the third theme of the cycle TijeloRIJEČI: Trnsko, which deals with the process of transition and takes as its starting point the transformation of the former Nama into the space of various shopping centers – from Kerum, Konzum and today’s Spar. Through changes in working conditions, attitudes towards the community and consumption, we observe how social changes have shaped our everyday life. 3/3/2024, SUNDAY MSU and AVENUE MALL Av. Dubrovnik 17 and 16 11-12 h Leadership through the setting, MSU: The Art of Transition, Renata Filčić The MSU collection can be read as a reflection of the political, economic and social events of a certain period, but also as a commentary on them. As part of the exhibition Awareness! Resist! React! Performance and politics in the post-Yugoslav context of the 1990s, artistic work is no longer a reflection, it becomes an action, and the medium is its body. Our focus will thus be on performance as a form of personal or organized artistic resistance in those stormy times, the consequences of which we are still feeling. A tour of the Collection as a verb and an exhibition about political performance will be an introduction and stimulus to the literary-dance workshop that follows, raising questions about capitalism in art, thematizing transition and related artistic phenomena. 12 – 2 p.m TijeloRIJEČI Workshop, MSU/Avenue Mall: The Body in Transition, Josipa Bubaš and Neva Lukić The workshop begins with a one-hour guide through selected works from the MSU collection. After the guidance, we will talk about the experience we went through, we will consider the ways we move in the museum, the atmosphere that surrounds us and the associations it evokes. We will also deal with the texts we encountered on the museum walls. We will record impressions with movement and text. After the museum, we will move to the Avenue Mall where we will deal with the movement of the shopping center, its atmosphere, gestures, signs, advertisements and characteristic shops. We will compare the space of the museum with the space of the shopping center, exploring the latter through movement and text. By sensitively comparing the two spaces, we will stimulate thinking about the transition that the body goes through when changing the context.