Ružica Šimunović: The body in dialogue: female performative practice in Croatia
Durieux, HS AICA, 2016. ISBN 9789531884297 (Durieux) Pages: 369, illustrated Published by: Durieux – Croatian Section of AICA, 2016 Amela Frankl DOWNLOAD PDF
Diary from the edge of the desert [2021]
video: Melanija Pović Jagarinec postproduction: Miran Krčadinac It started with a journey to Mauritania, went on around France, pottered around my Zagreb quotidian, a photographic diary with no date, no rationalisation of feelings and no order. Undisciplined and inconsistent. Incomplete, with outbursts of rapid thoughts, fictional dialogues and commentaries in which I invoke favourite Greek…
This Too Shall Pass [2017]
The performance This Too Shall Pass is based on a story of an exhibit shown in the Memorial Museum of the Jasenovac Memorial Site. This is a ring on which the words This too shall pass are engraved. It was told to me by an acquaintance a year ago, attempting to comfort and encourage me,…
fact f* [2015]
fact f In the mid-nineteen-forties my father attended the Second Zagreb High School in Križanićeva Street, in the mid-seventies my sister, and a few years later, I too. In the same high school we learned about literature, philosophy, the laws of physics and algebra and a vast mass of historical facts. But nobody ever mentioned…
A Ballad of Two Grave Blocks [2015]
The performance Ballad of Two Grave Blocks was done in Zrinjevac park in Zagreb in 2015; this is a work in which I discuss an inherited familial burden and the manner in which I try to cope with it. I refer to the headstones as blocks, denoting the heavy emotional burden passed on to me.…
For a Beginning [2013]
During World War II, Koprivnica synagogue was devastated. The partially salvaged and preserved liturgical items are today part of the permanent exhibition of Koprivnica City Museum. The synagogue’s organ, however, was rescued and moved to the five-hundred-metre distant Franciscan church of St Anthony of Padua. It is still there, and is fully in use. Prompted…
At the Fountain of Life [2011]
Jumping until I drop around the Fountain of Life was my first effortful physical activity after a complex surgical procedure and then recuperation. I quote a scene from the Pasolini film in which Ninetto Davoli, jumping around, naively asks his father in the film, Toto: “E Papa, perché beati, beati?” In my case the quote…
What I Bear [2011-2013]
The rules of the project I invited ten curators, or curatorial collectives, to work with me. They were each to send me to Paris with a commission, a task to be carried out. I was to go to Paris, follow the precisely defined instructions and carry out the assignment. On my return to Zagreb, I…
The name of my father [2010]
It’s a sunny, windy September day at Zagreb’s Mirogoj cemetery. On the dark grey marble slab, gradually, letter after letter, the name and surname of my father appear, with the dates of his birth and death. I watch the movements of the engraver, Martin. I take and listen to the short ringing blows of his…
With them and without them [2010]
How do I perceive a mentally ill person? What disturbs me when I think about madness? With and without them is a self-portrait, a video document of my dilemmas, doubts, and optimism. In the form of a video diary, each day after coming out of the hospital, in front of the camera in an improvised…