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 created and put on in the Museum of Contemporary Art a performance or an installation, making use of the material I accumulated carrying out the commission. The work was able to comment on the commission and also on its effectuation. By the rules of the project, my relationship with the client was precisely defined. Every client had complete freedom to decide on the nature of the order and the way it was to be carried out. As the performer, I had complete freedom to use all parts of it for the production of the work, the performance or installation. I was not to intervene in the definition of the commission, and the client was not to intervene in the preparation and implementation of the work.
List of commissions and works produced:
Commission 1: Conversation with Ida Baird
Commissioned by: Iva Radmila Janković, curator at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Title: Ethics of a Hero
Commission 2: Exhibition of Valérie Jouve in Klovićevi dvori, 2013
Commissioned by: Marina Viculin, curator at Klovićevi dvori gallery
Title: Valérie Jouve, first time
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Commission 3: Vinyl of The Velvet Undergrond & Nico in the Andy Warhol Sleeve
Commissioned by: Feđa Vukić, design theorist
Title: Velvet Melancholy
Commission 4: Meeting and conversation with Miriam Cendrars, daughter of the French avant-garde writer Blaise Cendrars
Commissioned by: Kornel Šeper, URK or Association for the Development of Culture
Title: The Drummer
Commission 5: Turn your skin inside out so we can see if there is any blood underneath
Commissioned by: BLOK / Ivana Hanaček, Vesna Vuković
Title: Let’s see what’s under the skin
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Commission 6: In public space and in the public form of an artwork, show us your life in Paris
Commissioned by: Evelina Turković, editor at the Croatian Radio Third Programme
Title: Some old songs
Commission 8: Potential of the Space
Commissioned by: Irena Bekić, manager of Galerija Prozori / Windows Gallery
Title: Potential of the Space
Commission 9: Potlatch or the utopia of artistic exchange
Commissioned by: Tanja Vrvilo / Film mutations
Title: Read: Boomerang!
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Commission 10: Collaboration with Jens Hauser
Commissioned by: Kontejner / Olga Majcen Linn, Sunčica Ostoić
Title: Empathy and Art
Tihomir Milovac: Text What did Amela bear?
Author : Amela Frankl
Clients:
Iva Radmila Janković
Marina Viculin+
Feđa Vukić
Kornel Šeper
BLOK/ Ivana Hanaček, Vesna Vuković
Evelina Turković
DeLVe, Ivana Bago
Irena Bekić
Tanja Vrvilo
Kontejner/ Sunčica Ostoić, Olga Majcen Linn
Photography: Boris Cvjetanović, Žarko Vijatović, Milan Božić, William Linn, Amela Frankl
Postproduction: Miran Krčadinac
Project curator: Tihomir Milovac
Translations from french: Vanda Mikšić, Danka Šošić, Amela Frankl
English translation: Graham McMaster
Produced in the period from April 2011 to January 2013 in Paris and Zagreb, in association with the Experimental and Research Department of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, curated by Tihomir Milovac
The project What I Bear was funded with resources from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia