A clothing article is designed as a technical device. Besides clothing, it has yet another function ŕ to denude. By inserting a coin into an apparatus (at the fixed location/wall) visitors activate electric motors attached to the author's body. Motors lower his pants (down) and soon afterward return them to their previous position (up). Performance enfolds within gallery/exhibition space. However, the author (performer) is not separated from the exhibition visitors.
This is actually a reason this performance is not dramaturgically demanding and does not require a long-term concentration on part of the visitors. The work functions as a riddle ŕ it can go unnoticed, but whoever unriddles it gets a small spectacle.
collaboration: Vedran Relja, Željko Krpetić
Silvio Vujičić (HR)
Silvio Vujičić (1978, Zagreb) is a visual artist and fashion designer whose work engages with themes such as clothing fetishes, sexual identity, painting pigments, gardens, poisonous and psychoactive substances, death and transience. He works across the media of printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance, marked by processes of material transformation through emergence and disappearance. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb. Since 2002 he has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (Austria, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, China, Japan, USA), including the International Triennial of New Media Art, Beijing (2011, 2014); Digiark, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2014); FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2012); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2005, 2009, 2012); Platform3 – Spaces for Contemporary Art, Munich (2010); Device_art, Zagreb – San Francisco – Tokyo (2004, 2006, 2010). His works are included in museum and private collections in Croatia and internationally: Lauba and MSU in Zagreb, Albertina in Vienna, and FRAC des Pays de la Loire in Carquefou. He is the recipient of the 8th Croatian Triennial of Graphics Award (2019) and the 40th Youth Salon Award in Zagreb (2006).
www.silviovujicic.com
