This is a past event
In conversation with Amy Bryzgel
Feminism, Markets, Migration
On April 1st, the Director’s Cut welcomes the prominent performance artist, Tanja Ostojic, originally from Yugoslavia/Serbia and now based in Berlin, who started to gain notoriety in the 1990s. Often including herself as a figure within a project, she created Looking for a Husband with an EU Passport during 2000-2005, using the Internet to solicit marriage offers from men in Western Europe. She has continued to use her work as a platform to explore themes focusing on the place of women in contemporary society, art history and the art market, and issues around migrants and refugees in the West. Working with minority groups, including Roma and Sinti, she developed the project Naked Life (2004-2011), which unwraps experiences of discrimination, racism and deportation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Europe and the Americas. Dr. Amy Bryzgel, Lecturer in History of Art, will investigate with Ostojic the balance between art and activism, designing performances that intersect her lived experience with the process of creating. This Director's Cut event is funded in collaboration with the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy's Aberdeen Centre for Russian and East European History, and the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen.
Resources
- Tanja Ostojic’s official website
- Performing the East: Tanja Ostojic
- Essay on Ostojic by Bojana Videkanic
- Interview with Tanja Ostojic by Xandra Popescu
- Brooklyn Museum Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Tanja Ostojic
- Looking for a Husband With EU Passport
- Tanja Ostojic: Provocation is a Speciality of Mine
- Looking for a Husband With an EU Passport Art-e-Fact
- Tanja Ostojic (2009) Clothes, after Perlis' Clothes 1 and my mother
- Tanja Ostojic's (2014) Sans Papiers project
- Crossing Borders/Development of Diverse Artistic Strategies
- Speaker
- Tanja Ostojic
- Venue
- King's Conference Centre