[Reader-list] [Announcements] www.tank.tv : Love & Hate - Moving Image Work from Former Yugoslavia : Online 15/10/07 - 15/11/07

[Alice O'Reilly]

Love & Hate
concept by Nada Prlja for www.tank.tv
15th October - 15th November 2007

The concept for the October-November online tank.tv exhibition has been
defined by the artist Nada Prlja.

Artists: Nemanja Cvijanović, Olgica Dimitrovska, Vesna Miličević, Nada
Prlja, Nikola Uzunovski, Škart and Žaneta Vangeli

The geographical region selected for the project Love & Hate is the area
defined by former Yugoslavia, encompassing Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia,
Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. The region was chosen for an
artistic examination by tank.tv because of the unique political and economic
situation that has evolved since the death of President Tito in 1980 and the
subsequent dissolution of the former nation state.

These ex-Yugoslav countries now find themselves in what is popularly known
as the phase of "Transition". It is a state brought about by the
transformation of a socialist society into one of (apparent) liberal
democracy but also related to the recent sectarian civil wars, and how their
aftermath has contributed to a sense of 'incompleteness' for these new
societies.

The video projects featured in October's tank.tv exhibition inhabit the very
territory named "Transition" and reflect the relationship between the past,
the present and the future.

In Nemanja Cvijanović's video project Marinetti vaffanculo feat. Spielberg,
the artist sings along and whistles the tune of the song 8 souls blown up by
a single bomb , borrowed from the futuristic poet F.T.Marinetti. By
performing this casual act, the artist adds a cynical aspect to a grotesque
scene from Spielberg's war film Saving Private Ryan, and in so doing,
Cvijanović 'has a laugh' with the past, present and the future . He looks
ironically at human nature and the realities of any war.

By contrast, in Vesna Milicević's video work Somebody Else's Daughters, the
artist decides to speak out against her own nation. Vesna Milicević chooses
to give both the victim and the aggressor equal consideration. The victim is
a Romanian girl while the perpetrators are men, involved in human
trafficking for the purpose of prostitution within the area of ex
–Yugoslavia. Milicević positions herself, self-sacrificially, as a servant
of the truth, despite the fact that it is painful - as she herself is a
daughter of the nation, to which these aggressors belong. Milicević's video
occupies, in a very direct manner, the situation of the transition between
two systems where monstrous acts, such as the one shown, can become an
unfortunate reality.

The seven artists featured on tank.tv as part of Love & Hate , describ e and
criticise the turbulence of a system that in reality should not yet be
acknowledged as a system at all, if one accepts Mao's statement: 'Chaos is a
perfect condition for a society in transition.'

www.tank.tv
www.tank.tv/freshmoves.htm

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Now showing: Love & Hate
15th October – 15th November 2007

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