OBEĆANJA,
OBEĆANJA [Promises, Promises]
OBEĆANJA,
OBEĆANJA [Promises, Promises] is
an exhibition/performance/installation presenting work by Rita Csapó-Sweet
and Zlatko Ćosić. The art exhibition
combines Csapó-Sweet's photographs, collages, and street graffiti/posters
from the 2010 Bosnia and Herzegovina presidential election, combined
with a sound installation by Ćosić. Additionally, Ćosić will present
several of his video installations related to limited democracy,
political promises, damaged privacy, surveillance, injustice, and
immigration rights. Thematically, Ćosić’s videos reinforce Csapó-Sweet's
election photographs, collages, and posters.
Possibility: On opening night, three performers standing on stools
with megaphones will be filling the gallery space with sound bites
and the poetry
of election jargon. These will be related to the universality of
election campaigns, speeches, debates, protests and other political
and social events (in both English and Bosnian). Mixed with the political
rhetoric will be verbal streaming related to the invasive nature
of 21st Century public culture. All these vocalizations are presented
as fragments of political speech but with the immediacy of contemporary
global social movements. After opening night, the sound installation,
consisting of the performers’ pre-recorded voices, will replace the
performance for the remainder of the exhibition.
Possibility: Graffiti
Wall - The exhibit contrasts election campaigns with public
demonstrations. The art event becomes an interaction where the
visitors become participants and have a chance to communicate by
leaving a
statement on a graffiti wall. The audience can participate in this
public event by creating their own graffiti, statements by drawing
and spray painting on a wall covered with actual political posters
stripped from billboards in and around Sarajevo in October 2010.
The graffiti wall will constantly change depending on input from
the audience. The graffiti wall is the audience’s outlet to express
themselves and continue communication about present global issues.
After the show in Sarajevo in May, “Obećanja, Obećanja” [Promises,
Promises] will be shown in St. Louis in November, during the US
Presidential election. The St. Louis exhibition will include the
Graffiti Wall.
Visitors will have the opportunity to continue the dialogue about
democracy and elections by adding to it.
Rita Csapó-Sweet
Street-wise
Bosnia: Presidential Election 2010 (pdf)
www.csapo-sweet.com
Zlatko Ćosić
LookTalkListen, CCTV
East, Wired, I am an immigrant and I like it
www.zlatkocosic.com
EXHIBITIONS
:: Rustbelt
to Artist Belt: At the Crossroads
Arts-Based Community Development Convening sponsored by the St. Louis Regional
Arts Commission
Poster Session about
performance and installation work Obećanja, Obećanja [Promises, Promises] by Rita
M. Csapó-Sweet and Zlatko
Ćosić, Chase Park Plaza, St. Louis, April 12-14, 2012
:: OBEĆANJA,
OBEĆANJA [Promises, Promises]
an exhibition by Rita
M. Csapó-Sweet and Zlatko Ćosić
Academy
of Fine Arts,
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
May 25 - May 30, 2012
NOT-PLANNED
PERFORMANCE (15 min.) [video stream]
Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
PRESS
:: Oslobođenje - english / bosnian
:: eFM Radio 95.2 Sarajevo
:: BiH-X.info
:: University
of Sarajevo
:: Academy
of Fine Arts Sarajevo
