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The player will show in this paragraph
Tanja Ostojić: "Clothes,
after Juniper Perlis’s "Clothes 1"
and my mother ..." (2009),
Performance. Video: Anne Quirynen
Tanja Ostojić (Serbia, Germany *1972)
Tanja Ostojić is an interdisciplinary artist from Belgrade who lives and works in Berlin. In her provocative performances, she investigates the position of women within contemporary cultural and political power regimes. She uses persiflage, provocation and irony as strategies to expose and subvert the exclusionary mechanisms of European immigration policies and the hierarchies within the Western art world.
Tanja Ostojic: "Strategies of Success
/ Curators series" (2001-2003) in the exhibition.
Photograph: Andreas Süß
In the years 2001 to 2003, Tanja Ostojić worked on the series "Strategies
of Success / Curator Series," which consists of performances,
installations, photographs and a journal. In "I’ll Be Your
Angel" (2001)
she accompanied the curator Harald Szeemann during the opening of the 49th
Venice Biennale, never leaving his side. She "presented" her conceptual
body art work "Black Square on White" (2001), in which her
pubic hair was trimmed in a square, by keeping it hidden. Tanja Ostojić’s
other public actions include taking a bubble bath with the Italian curator
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and art critic Ludovico Pratesi in the Palazzo
delle Esposizioni in Rome as the lovely ending to a shared gala dinner,
and washing the feet of the Belgrade-based curator Stevan Vuković in "Sofa
for Curator" (2002).
The only traces of the non-public performance with the Albanian curator
Edi Muka, "Vacation
with Curator" (2003), are the photographs taken by the paparazzi
she hired. In her work "Politics of queer curatorial positions: After
Rosa von Praunheim, Fassbinder and Bridge Markland" (2003) she
and the Slovenian curator and theorist Marina Gržinić re-enact an iconographic
scene featuring Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress to King Henry IV of France,
and one of her sisters.
Clothes,
after Juniper Perlis’ »Clothes
1« and my mother ...
Performance by Tanja Ostojić SRB/D
Within the new, complex analytical performance, the Berlin based Serbian artist Tanja Ostojic is going to re-enact Clothes 1 (2003) of the Boston based performance artist Juniper Perlis (*1974). In Clothes 1 Perlis brought on her own to the venue all the clothes she possessed and tried hard to dress up. During her research Ostojić found out that Perlis’ family was homeless during her childhood and that she became aware of the weight of her own things. Perlis’ Clothes 1–4 inspired Ostojić to think about different phenomena that are closely linked to clothes, such as consumerism, accumulation, identity and homelessness. In this same performance she will tell an intimate story about her mother’s clothes in the transitional period of the former socialist Yugoslavia.
Tanja Ostojić: "Clothes,
after Juniper Perlis’ »Clothes
1« and my mother ...", Photograph:
Jan Stradtmann
In the
Exhibition:
"Strategies of Success / Curators series", 2001–2003:
"I’ll Be Your Angel", 2001.
Performance with Harald Szeemann, curator,
49. Biennale, Venice,
duration: 4 days. Photograph: Borut Krajnc.
"Be My Guest", 2001.
Performance with Bartolomeo Pietromarchi,
curator, and Ludovico Pratesi, art critic,
"Gravita Zero", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome,
duration: 150min,
video still from "Be My Guest", 15:58min,
Video/Beta.
"Sofa for Curator", 2002.
Performance with Stevan Vuković, theorist
and curator from Belgrade,
"Balkan Konsulat", Rotor, Graz,
duration: 30min.
Photograph: mrs.lee.com.
"Vacation with Curator", 2003.
Series of paparazzi photographs, photo collages
and website with Edi Muka, curator, 2. Biennale,
Tirana, Albania.
Photograph: Paparazzi.
"Politics of queer curatorial positions: After
Rosa von Praunheim, Fassbinder and Bridge
Markland", 2003 with Marina Grzinić.
Photograph: Jane Stravs.
In the
Video Archive:
"I'll Be Your Angel", 2001-2002, 22:00min.
In the
Performance Programme:
"Clothes, after Juniper Perlis’s »Clothes
1« and
my mother ...", Performance
Links:
Tanja Ostojić Website