INSCRIPTION, ENDURING, POTENTIAL (expanded cinema performance)

The performance centers on gesture as holder of subtle cultural memory and history, which could point to the body as an anthropological and sociological archive. Through physical habits, routines and automatisms rooted in the historical societal landscape (the source of tradition and folklore), the body possesses information and expresses knowledge of deep cultural implication.

"Gesture is the name of this intersection between life and art, act and power, general and particular, text and execution. It is a moment of life subtracted from the context of individual biography as well as a moment of art subtracted from the neutrality of aesthetics: it is pure praxis. The gesture is neither use value nor exchange value, neither biographic experience nor impersonal event: it is the other side of the commodity that lets the “crystals of this common social substance” sink into the situation." (Giorgio Agamben)

The images are sourced from self-collected 8mm Yugoslavian home movies and deconstructed (by fragmented reshooting again on super8), trapping body movement or posture into short, unpredictable set of images, continuously re-arranged and re-choreographed in time. The body of the artist is very much present. The main guide is the sound. The material, filmic as well as sonic, is used as open structures which can be manipulated and reacted to in real-time. 

The performance is a puzzle in a continuous research on found footage as experimental autoethnography, dwelling on the concept of the Other within ourselves. It includes an ongoing film, a book, an ongoing online textual archive (under: Dialogscapes) and radiophonic / sound experiments (some under: Gypt records), often intermedial.

Read more about the concept and idea of Other in this interview: https://www.chutecoop.com/the-devil-took-the-joke

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Current setup:

4-6 super8 projectors (loops), tapes, CDJ, pedals

UPCOMING:

 

2025/10/04 Zelluloid Resistance, Galiläakirche, Berlin

PAST:

2025/09/21 Live projection night, Via Ventaglieri 76A, Napoli, Italy  

2024/03/14 @ gr_und, Berlin / with Sergej Vutuc and Mauricio Takara https://gr-und.com/2024/03/14/live-concert/

2024/01/14 Intimate performances with 2/5 BZ, Pilar Falco and Marce Marron in Maja Milic's apartment

2023/12/08 @ Blonde Cobra Festival #6, Cologne https://www.blondecobra.com/2023-blonde-cobra-festival-6/inscription-enduring-potential-milic-alessandro-citterio/

2023/12/04 @ hEARt Eyes, Petersburg Art Space, Berlin

2023/04/29 @ 69. INTERNATIONALE KURZFILMTAGE OBERHAUSEN - Expanded: SPECTRAL, part 1

https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/festival/other-programmes/

https://www.spectral-cinematics.eu/events/expanded-spectral-teil-1-oberhausen-short-film-festival

2023/04/24 @ KLUBVIZIJA: OPEN LAB @ Pogon Jedinstvo - Big Hall, Zagrebhttps://www.pogon.hr/en/program/klubvizija-otvoreni-laboratorij/

2022/10/01 @ VIDEOAKTION 3, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin (attaquer le visible) https://www.attaqueerlevisible.com/videoaktion-3/

2022/05/20 THE INTERNATIONALS: RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME @ La Générale, Paris

https://www.lagenerale.fr/fr/projet/the-internationals-right-place-wrong-time

Between December 2023 and March 2024 the performance was joined by sound artist Alessandro Citterio.