Andreja Kulunčić
ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC
ABOUT THE FUTURE?
curated
by Radmila Iva Jankovic | Adriana Rispoli | Eugenio Viola
Madre Museum, Naples
19.12.11 | 27.02.12
The exploration of new models of social encounters and communication, a
concern for social issues, the interaction with different kinds of public and
the collaboration on collective projects are the main features of the work of
the Croatian artist Andreja Kuluncic. Starting from her multidisciplinary
network and conceiving the work of art as a research, a process of cooperation
and self-organization, the artist requires the active participation of the
public to complete her work. Using simple methods, discreet “traps” that
emulate everyday media and are cunningly inserted into them, the artist seeks
to re-examine our relation to the others and ultimately to awaken a sense of
responsibility.
Women. Index, a site-specific
project for the city of Naples, is a participatory work in which the artist
adopts viral strategies using mainstream popular media to reach her intended
audience, and ultimately an invitation to women to raise their consciousness,
to define their position within the family and social context
The video Reconstruction Of An Uninportant Day In Our History
reconstructs one day in the life of Josip Broz Tito during his free time in the
Tikves castle.
As a passionate hunter, Tito often spent time in the Tikves? castle,
game hunting with his wife Jovanka or with foreign politicians. The Tikves
castle complex, an Austrian hunting castle, was built in the 19th century. It
is situated within the nature park Kopacki rit (Croatia), near the
Croatian-Serbian border.
JOSIP BROZ TITO (1892- 1980) • Yugoslavian statesman and a communist
leader. The leader of the anti-fascist resistance move- ment (1941-1945). He
was the president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for 35 years
(from 1945 until his death in 1980).
The video Reconstruction Of An Important Day In Our History reconstructs
the meeting between Franjo Tu?man, the president of Croatia, and Slobodan
Milosevic, the president of Serbia. The meeting was held in Tikves castle on
April 15, 1991.
First conflicts in arms in Slavonia (Croatia) broke out in the beginning
of May, 15 to 20 days after the reconstructed event. The war reached Tikves in
September 1991. For a pe- riod of time the castle served as the headquarters
for the Serbian paramilitary group, known as the Arkan’s tigers.
FRANJO TUMAN (1922-1999) • Won the first post-communist elections in
Croatia and thus became the first president of the independent country of
Croatia. He remained in power until his death in 1999.
SLOBODAN MILOS?EVIC? (1941-2006) • He served as the president of Serbia
from 1989 until 1997 and as president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
from 1997 to 2000. He died in the War Criminal prison in the Hague, after his
imprisonment for crimes committed in the ex-Yugoslavian territory.
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE (2001 – 2012)
Multidisciplinary project • http://www.distributive-justice.com/ • a u t
h o r : Andreja Kuluncic (visual artist & project manager) • c o - a u t h
o r s : Gabrijela Sabol (sociologist), Ivo Martinovic (photo & video),
Neven Petrovic (philosopher), Matija Puzar (programmer), Dejan Jankovic
(designer), Trudy Lane (designer), Momo Kuzmanovic (newsletter & catalogue
editor). • contributors: Tomislav Janovic (philosopher).
Distributive justice is not only a central issue of moral and political
philosophy, but also an object of common-sense moral reasoning. Everyone is
sensitive to the question
of his/her share of the common good. Even those who get the best peace
of the social pie are in need to justify the actual model of distribution. It
has become a truism that most people (especially in the transition countries)
experience their own social position as “unjust”, relying on certain intuitive
principles of distributive justice.
The multidisciplinary project “Distributive Justice” is a work-
in-progress designed by people with different backgrounds (art, philosophy,
sociology, economy, programming). The project deals with the topic of
distribution of goods in a society. It consists of two parts: (1) the part of
the project in virtual space, URL: www.distri- butive-justice.com – Internet
games in which participants in the project freely distribute material and
nonmaterial goods building
a “society” that undergoes dynamical changes; several types of so-
cieties emerge as result of the distribution games; and (2) the part of the
project in exhibition space, a “working space” installation – presentation of
material that has emerged and continuously emer- ges as a result of the
respective parts of the project: virtual (the web site), practical (field
research, opinion poll); and theoretical part (study of relevant literature,
open discussions, talks, lectures...).
The material grows and changes its shape from exhibition to exhibition.
Since several different countries will be involved in the project, every
country will leave its imprint in the work, i.e. beco- ming a part of the
exhibition. During the exhibition(s) the visitors (participants in the project)
read materials, listen to lectures, chat, join the discussion, participate in
the polls, surf the Web, print from the database, copy materials, video or
audio tape the events, etc. The countries so far involved in the project:
Italy, Germany, Austria, Australia, Croatia, US, Turkey, Slovenia, England and
South Korea. [T. Janovic]
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