MP_per_16 HENTAI SERBIA
[performance]

IMAF 2010 - 12th International Multimedial Art Festival
17th - 18th September
'MAS' gallery - Multimedial Art Studio, Odzaci,
Serbia
18 September 2010 at 5:30 p.m
Duration: 9' 20".

Curator: Nenad Bogdanovic

video: Hentai Serbia, b&w, stereo
duration: 3' [loop]
music: Mosha
production: MP_art, 2007

The performance began when the audience enters the gallery and when the video projection started. The video tape presented the sequences of hentai cartoons together with the images of Serbian politicians Kostunica. The music from the video tape is loud and presented orthodox chorals together with dramatically electronic music. After first projection of the video, M and P stood left and right of the projection wall. P started with writing text in Serbian [flurry reality] with golden spray. When he finished, M started to write her text [manipulative humanity] with bronze spray. When M finished writing, they both turned to the public. M and P had the protective masks on their faces. They looked directly at the audience. The end of the video projection was projected on their bodies. The performance ended when the video projection finished.
The performance symbolically presented the reflection of the actual social [unethical], political [corrupted], economic [poverty], religious [seductive], cultural [folkloric] etc. reality in Serbia. Also the performance provides a critical and artistic discourse on this ‘pornographic’ unity which effects everyday’s life.

photo: Bojan Andrejek