Raes, Niko: Shattered Dreams [recording #1]

Raes, Niko: Shattered Dreams [recording #1]

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Title Shattered Dreams [recording #1]
Type Performance, Body-art / Live-art, Perseverance performance
Date 18 June 2002
Venue Atelje 2050
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Kapelica Gallery
Format 720x576 pxl
Duration 16' 13"
URL http://mrezni-muzej.mg-lj.si/si/mreznimuzej/1/30/?artworkid=1338
Registration number KAP-2002-PERF-103
Number of works in a group 2

Synopsis

In performance, the artist exhibits his "butoh" white body, hung in convoluted poses. At first glance, the body is under control but actually, it is fighting with itself, searching for peace, control, and balance: physical and emotional. The performance lasts 35 to 45 minutes, depending on how long the body can take it. With agonizing poses, the performer caused his shoulder to dislocate. He was taken from the scene as a pietà.

 

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Break21, the 6th international festival of emerging artists, was entitled Dead or Alive. The apocalyptic tone of the syntagm Dead or Alive involves the staging as well as practical thinking on the paradigms of the living, semi-living, semi-dead and dead. Their contemporary transformations have evolved from trends and changes in science and technology, reaching out also to religious and ideological concepts and psychological states.

Sodelujejo

Curator Olga Majcen Linn, Sunčica Ostoić

Artist, artistic group

Raes, Niko

Group of artworks

Raes Niko, Shattered Dreams [recording #1], Ljubljana, 18 June 2002, 16' 13"
Raes Niko, Shattered Dreams [recording #2], Ljubljana, 18 June 2002

Publications

Festival Break21: Dead or Alive, Ljubljana, 18 June 2002 – 7 July 2002

Production

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Artwork
Bruckmayr Dietmar, Aria of the lost genes, Ljubljana, 18 June 2002, 15' 09"