1997. MEMOFORM, 6:30, Production Omen Group, Sponozored by FOS (Fond for Open Society)
My intention not to invest in my art production was deffinite since the previous exhibition where I used found objects, drawings and luminous installations of perforated metal and paper to make an archeollogy city like ambience. At that moment I ' ve been working as an assitant with the students in the Visual Communication workshop in the Omen group, led by the theatre director Gordana Lebovic. The Omen was organizing the tour around the city. Script writings of the students and editing were my task. A projection was at the II LOW FI Video Ssow in Rex, cutural centre. I never made video before and I decided to use parts of materials students were shooting. I recorded different artefacts which I drop on during that tour. In the very moment I was attending AAEN, and the cources of Material Culture. I tought of the material vaist which is produced by the consumers of our civilisation. All the things that were recorded than I tought to put in the frames of repetitions to denote cicles. All images related four elements. And now I understand, this was a kind of Energy project, where frames of images are recorded as abonden ready mades.
1997/2000. Energy of the questioning, 12 min. Production by Kvadrat, Center for visual exploration, Belgrade
This work was made by accident, mostlly as the privious one. Some of editing materials were made at the KVADRAT studio, led by Zoran and Svetlana Popovic. I knew the people since in 1992. I took a short but main role in the video film made by Nina Kocic, Leda and the Swan, which won a 2nd prize on the traditional documentary and short film festival in Belgrade. Zoran asked me to make something which he will shoot and edit. I made a radical haircut with 1cm of hair. He liked my head and I brought the blue helio folia which I found on the road. The same intention of non investment was in the role. At the moment, I was attending some physical theatre classes and yoga. To make a video where I am the only actor, as a video performance piece was something compleatlly new. I never relayed on naration and the script. Up to this moment, my reflection upon the political situation in the country was led by the immature withdraw in the world of intimacy and ignoring as recentlly I learnt was the thesis of the curators of Museum of Contemporary art exhibition '90. „About Normality“. I aimed to keep my psychological state 'normal'.
The work „Energy of the questioning“ is a mute act against violance. Work title has to persuade us to ask ourselvs: "What we really differ at?" The work explores borders of physical and fiziognomatic forms as pointless differance abused by those on power whose weapon is stigmatization. I explored the types of eyes modeled by my fingers. While scratching and touching the borders of the skin, I left the finger prints on it. The video recived one of the prizes for the young femail video artists on the V Video Medja, 2000. in Novi Sad. Up to this moment, they never gave me any writen document.
2001. Diary notes to the husband in the army on 7th May at 3:14 a.m., 7 min., selfproduction
This work was made few months afther I bought my first camera. I was renting an Atelier in the fancy area in Belgrade and it happened that sopmetimes I stayed there to sleep. I was missing my husband who was in the army at that time. I replaced his eye with the eye of the camera. I behaved as he was there and provoked my immagination and exhibitionism. The camera eye evocked my exhibitionism. It replaced the eyes of my husband. The work primary was conceived as a contribution to the democratization of the army of the married man. Naimlly, the Diary is playing with the TV erotics, pin up models, inverting the body into the grotescque.During the breathings I comment the reception of the art works, how we communicate using signs: “ We react to the sign! What can not be recorded is the essence of the experience!”
Masturbation is the other name of manipulation of the viewer. The image is broken, colored to provoke expectation. The voice and the process of masturbation are genuine! At the end, seduced but converted by the ambiguoes images of the female body dressed in the army green rain jacket, the audience is to be provoked to rethink their expectations and consumers' habbits.
It was just few months before the democratic reconstruction of the army took part in my country. The work was on extra programme on TV Novi Sad during the next Video medeja and never showen in Belgrade. It was on the festival in Sofija, Videoarcheology, that year.
2002. Selfportrait, 6min. selfproduction
I am pretending I am a TV speaker who excercises false voiceless laught in the bathroom in front of the mirror. My husband enters and closes the door. TV sygnal breaks the sceen. I am at the floor with closed eyes meditating and breathing into the camera what produced the sphumato view. I am not shure what I wanted with this work. There was a contest for the work mirror I never applied with this. It's like this when you work for others! This stupid work was shown at Video Medeja in 2002.
2002/03. Self-ressponcibility , 1 min. selfproduction
The boyfriend I was in the ralation with afther I separated from the husband, named Jovan Beshlin (whose music "Mercury" is in the video) broked my nose since I was chasing him on the street and asking him to bring me home. We were very drunk. After that he kicked me few more times and at last it was quite severe battle on the city bridge. Police came and we went on the court since we disturbed public piece. By now, ther is no contacts among us, but the trial is not finished jet. The work claimed for the rights of bitten femail: "Do in your country exists lows which regulate the rights of maltreated women?". Nowadays we witness escalation of violance over the femails in my country. Finally, this year (2005.) the low changed on behalf of endengered women and children.
2004/5. Profession Artist, 1h 30 min., selfproduction
This is a serial of 6 +1 video interviews with the visual artist in which they answer the questions concerning the art production, art market, the meaning of the art practice etc.The video was never shown by now but it is readable in Serbian language! Plaese, try to learn it! You Serrbian folks, may read it here: Everyone is wellcomed to send an e/mail concerning the issues of the artist's status. I made digital graphic works based on the interviews named STATUS which I aimed to exhibit both in the gallery space and on the city billboard.
2005. BST presents: R U SUCESSFUL, 21 min., camera:
Gabriela Vasic, music: sasa Djuric, Fibra, editing Adel Idris, selfproduction
BST was pseudo TV chanel of Brandch Service, in the Gallery '73, 2005. Belgrade. I received sponsorship for DVD player from Cultural Centre of Belgrade and video beam from Jugocincert, since at that times the gallery didn't owe any. Nowadays this is sophisticated gallery equiped with the neccesary technical tools thanks to new gallery director ser Dejan Savic. the work played the role of propagandistic BST TV clip with the hypnotised movment of the author's hand directed to the audience and questioning: Are you succesful? Acctually, the finger was forming thecircle around of the face as if it was touching it. Due to the optical and recording trick I suceeded to touch my own face!
2005. V.I.P.-V.I.C., 2 min., editing, music, image effect Gabriela Vasic, selfproduction
Video excerpts are taken from video interview (project Profession Artist/Status) with the artist Tanja Ostojic. It's a serial of speaking hands set in small frames which form a net. The interview is missing but hands are here to speak, to persuade, to play. Culture of live communicating never relays on words' form. Body's gestures and style are somehow more convincing. That's one of ways to politize our speach! The image reminds on hands' study Meughbridge might do if he was using video.
2005. LIGHT FIGHT, '30., photo, editing, music: Gabriela Vasic, image effects:S.Dj. M., selfproduction
As far as I've realized that there is no one I can really realy on while realizing my projects I decided to make all by my own. As much as I can, for the moment. since last year I allmost couldn't imagine to edit a video by myself. Me as the most of femails, was endangered by the technology! But, fortunatelly I realized that the men whom I knew were not much clever than me, I decided to try! And here I am, I made it. This is the seconed video done compleatelly by me. Accidental help was in turn of my ex boy friend S. Dj. M.
ACM is not jet a movement, but in video: Why not to present yourself on such way? Antic curatorial movement might be an organization for development of artists' selfpromotion. As far as I know for myself, no curators worked for me, nor I worked for them! Since I by myself make my web presentation, I might need no curators at all!
2006. NEUROGYNE IN THE ZOOM
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Camera-photo, digital effects, sound, editing-all by Gabriela Vasic, aka She the Beast, Duration 53 sec
Produced by ACM 2006. ACM-anti curatorial movement/2005. is an art& politics “movement” consisted of one single person conceived as an utopian project for the independent art.
The work ironically plays with the appearance of the tits which nipples are not excited, but rubbered-desexualized, enlarged, reduced or colored. The skin is modified and colored. There is an allusion on the body art or tatoo. Something which is highlly representative of human nuriting became a part of amusing industry products! The female body is a part of men's amusment and the bussines subject. Working on this project I revaild to myself that I could be seduced by these images as well. That's why the politics of the manipulated viewer is commented by the song of Dj Morpheus: -Can you imagine? –Behind (3x). -It is beyond anyone consciously. In the brain… which I mixed with the verse: -Sex is in your mind.
Work is based on photoshoots made by digital camera of my own. Photocamera substitutes the eye of the viewer: exibitionism, TV erotics, seduction, self-satisfacion and erotic manipulation of the screening body are problematized. The work ends with the one's observers' statement upon my appearance: They said I had big tits. And my question: Why they lied to me?