#artivism_in_croatia
Applause! (1,2,3,4)
Nemanja Cvijanović and SIZ Gallery
Rijeka
2008-2010
Description: the artist hired 250 people, paying 9 EUR each, to work as “extras” and to demonstrate in the city centre.
More infos: https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/5393/performance-participatory-art-new-east
SPLIT
26 September 2019
Description: "Maids" got up today and walked through the city, from Bosanska, through Tomislav and Marmontova, through Ilić Pass to Pjaca as part of the "Mediterranean Women's Festival" which promotes activism, women's rights, women's creativity and art.
The street performance "Maids Rise" was organized by the Association "Domine", which is celebrating 16 years of existence this year, and its walk attracted the interest of tourists and locals alike.
Oh beautiful, oh dear, oh sweet freedom! *
*quote from an Ivan Gundulić's poem (1589-1638)
Bruno Isaković
Zagreb (Trg Kralja Tomislava)
February 2016
Description: covering with black paint of prominent Croatian authors' quotes action against the attacks on freedom of the press
more infos on the artist: https://www.brunoisakovic.org/projects/freedom/
more infos on the action: https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/8688/performing-the-political-croatian-artists-public-resistance-injustice
Katjusha/To Russia with Love
Le Zbor
lesbian-feminist-activist-antifascist choir
Zagreb
2014
Description: In 2014, just before the opening of the Olympics in Sochi, Le Zbor released the video To Russia with love — their take on the Russian wartime song Katyusha — to express solidarity with the LGBT citizens of Russia.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkca0K6Zxrc&feature=emb_logo
More infos: https://www.gendernet.info/project/katjusha-2/
More infos: https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/7318/balkan-activist-choirs-partisan-songs
Milimetar
Sinisa Labrovic
Zagreb, Croatia
2020
Description:
In the performance "Millimeter" they pushed the Parliament building
“Let's push the Parliament! A millimeter for the future! ”, Said conceptual artist Siniša Labrović, after which, together with about twenty participants in an artistic intervention called“ Millimeter ”, he pushed the Parliament building'' text Stipe Majic 07/17/2020
Conceptual artist Siniša Labrović performed “Millimeter” during which, along with the participants, he tried to push the building of the Croatian Parliament a millimeter towards and thus, as he states, “put the Parliament in an ideal space position that would ensure that the Parliament works in the spirit of truth, tolerance and work for the common good of the citizens of the Republic of Croatia ", reports Anadolu Agency (AA).
More infos: https://www.aa.com.tr/ba/politika/hrvatska-u-performansu-milimetar-gurali-zgradu-sabora/1913599
Faces of Europe
Sinisa Labrovic
2019
Description:
Paper bags with printed faces will be available an hour before each event at the box office of festival venues.
Croatian conceptual artist Siniša Labrović, currently based in Berlin, who uses his works to address the sore points of society, took this opportunity to remind us of the historical roots of European identity. He selected 22 iconic personalities that marked its historical, scientific, cultural and artistic, architectural, economic and sports life.
More infos: https://ctc-cti.eu/2020/07/07/sinisa-labrovic-faces-of-europe/
Requiem for Arsenal & Island
Pino Ivančić and his associate D.S. Dragon
2018
Description: With a clear allusion to the current business intentions of potential strategic investor Danko Končar to convert the coastal part of the Uljanik shipyard into a tourist, commercial and residential center, Pula performer and conceptual artist Pino Ivančić and his associate D.S. Dragon staged a performance of Requiem for Arsenal & Island by the PoPulA Symphony Orchestra just before noon yesterday.
In complete silence, with the presence of local media and RTL Television journalists and the astonishment of some tourists who drank on the sunny terraces of nearby cafes, Pino made small boats out of newsprint on three occasions, to be pushed, neutralized and outlined by a "strategic investor". his chalk dead body, to then add his property next to the ships.
Pula
Igor Zenzerović
Description: for exactly 24 minutes and 35 seconds he stood at the Pula Forum and gradually raised his hand and forefinger with which he pointed - first to the floor, then to the town hall, the flags flying above it, then to the sky, to finally point it at himself, and the cycle was repeated three times.
He was dressed in a jacket, had wireless headphones in his ears, and laid a briefcase on the floor next to him. Igor Zenzerović, a versatile 32-year-old who specializes in various art forms, used to surprise people in Pula with similar performances.
Performer danas na Forumu (photo credit D. MARUŠIĆ ČIČI)
