INSCRIPTION, ENDURING, POTENTIAL (expanded cinema performance)

Inscription, Enduring, Potential is an improvised performance with loops on 4-8 super8 projectors and live sound. The setup and the duration are variable.

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 8mm film home movies, self-collected in Milic's homeland Croatia/Yugoslavia (*in all of her work she uses only autoethnographic material) and deconstructed (by focused fragmented reshooting again on super8), trapping body movement or posture into short, unpredictable set of images, continuously re-arranged. 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. From December 2023 the performance is joined by sound artist Alessandro Citterio.

This is part of Maja's continuous research in the field of (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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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