Round Table Discussion "Performance as an Act of Civil Disobedience. Forbidden to Forbid"
with Milos Sofrenovic & Vinicius Jatobá
schloss-post.com/performance-act-civil-disobedience/
» The latest performance of the series "The Politics of Movement: On Reinterpretation of Power" by Milos Sofrenovic deals with the 1968 movement - its symbols, images, and its political heritage, and questions around the nature of a revolutionary and as well performative body, the street as a stage for political and performative movement, and its specific visual language. «
Denise Helene Sumi
art historian
» I am exactly intrigued by the resemblance of May 1968 student protests in Paris to a large happening, a theatrical event challenging the traditional concept of a stage action; relationship between the protagonist and the viewer; introducing nonlinear narrative without a definite duration, unfolding events left to chance and occurring in the present moment, therefore making an attempt to »arrest« the concept of passing time. «
Milos Sofrenovic
performance artist
Artistic Statement:
» I do not agree that life is a game. What we want is an anarchy that works. «
- John Cage
Milos Sofrenovic's new conceptual performance is an investigation of what makes a »Time - Space -Body« interrelation between the PERFORMER & the VIEWER more tangible. Through the collective experience which is reduced to the importance of the process of the unfolding performance becoming more important than the aftermath reflection on the experienced.
The performance is an homage to:
1) The remarkable work 4’ 33’’ (Four minutes, thirty-three seconds), a three-movement composition by American experimental composer John Cage created in 1952, as the epitome of an idea that any sounds may constitute music.
2) All Power to the Imagination! which was a famous maxim of French Students’ protests in May of 1968, hereby in 2018 marking 50 years anniversary since those social events.
3) Five dramaturgical Tableaux Vivants of this performance honour the same period in the late 1960s when diverse Conceptual/Performance Art practices were getting into a full swing by emphasising the importance of EXPERIENCING »Time - Space - Material« rather than REPRESENTING it in the form of objects/products exhibited in state museums or performed on theatre stages across the world.
» Art work is not completed by the Artist. The work of Art is completed by the Observer. « - Marcel Duchamp
Негізгі бет MILOS SOFRENOVIC // ("European Union" scene) 40’ 33’’: All Power to the Imagination
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