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For Roba (Roba means clothes in Croatian) collection Test Version campaign we tested female wear on "endangered spieces" of genuine guys, and the concept was kind of ironical attitude towards Croatian men who are extremely proud of their masculinity and tend to make fun of every fashionable and fashion-aware man, always commenting how gay is to look like that. The concept: "We spent almost a year searching for unique endangered species of genuine, the true, willing, brave and daring men. Finally when we found them, we stored them in a special place, we trained them and educated them to become uncompromising, sarcastic, shaved and even evil. Then we presented them the female collection Test Version, We tried to make them fit in, to pack their luscious bodies in gentle female cuts, persuaded them to be asymmetric, rude obscene and perfect. We gave them a good reason to steal our femininity and now we are buying it back."
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Student center monthly guides is an ongoing project that has been created for every month since September 2007. It is a series of booklets presenting various cultural programs of Student center in Zagreb: theater plays, concerts, lectures, parties, festivals, and pointed towards younger audience, especially students. We included illustrations made especially for every edition, which are based on personal amateur photographs from albums, somebody else personal memories (flicker, myspace, facebook) and random collective memories (Google image search). We were drawn to this images as documents of a time that has passed with vague memories of the past periods of socialism and our own growing up, to the time when tourism, different mass migrations, internet and world wide web, consumerism and various other changes imperceptibly and slowly became one of the dominant world passions and industries. Their narration is disrupted and structures hide scenes that evoke different iconographic and emotional associations that perhaps remind us of the scenes we have in our personal or collective memory. As Sontag says: "The most grandiose result of photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads - as an anthology of images."
Our interest in previously mentioned thematics came from ouvre of Martin Parr and his satirical social commentaries: recordings of everyday frailties and humdrum tawdriness, colourful social panoramas, mass consumerism, supertourism, the curious rituals of the middle class. Influences were also Jean Baudrillard's theories of knowing "all" through images and media, previously confirmed by Zola's quote, " In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. "
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Poster and booklet were designed for a theater play based on Samuel Beckett's Rough for Theater 1 and 2 which was performed at the experimental theater which hosts young directors. Beckett's dramatic works do not rely on the traditional elements of drama. Language is useless, for he creates a mythical universe peopled by lonely creatures who struggle vainly to express the inexpressible. His characters exist in a terrible dreamlike vacuum, overcome by an overwhelming sense of bewilderment and grief, and are struggling with meaninglessness and the world of the Nothing.
Our inspiration started by making Photos from Nowhere in our studio. Thinking about the project, we were blankly staring in some parts of the apartment, not noticing them at all, and after some time realizing that these are the places that posses that absurd tendency of being and not-being here, and that they could also be done anywhere in any Croatian apartment, and therefore transmit feelings of alienation and absurdity. Our idea was to create the poster that would convey the similar emotions.
Typography was hand-made out of tape found in the theater that was used for bordering the area on which actors play, but that tape, used on the wall was not lasting, because the glue wasn't strong enough to keep it on the surface, so the existence of the headline was restricted in its duration in time and space, just like the dialogues in the performance of the play.
Transformation of banal objects and situations from everyday life was in this case the input that we wanted to transmit to the viewers, reducing our visual language to the minimum. We decided to make a poster that would not consist of any special objects or visually appealing images, but using only banal and typical visuals that can be found anywhere in any typical (Croatian) apartment - doors, carpet, floor, wall and a person dressed in classical black suit, only the situation should be awkward, and have a sense of absurdity, vulnerability, loneliness and alienation. By using the minimal intensity of visual input and a poster that looks very fragmentary and like a rough, we tried to make the rest of the thinking process happen in the spectators mind.
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In Agony is a theater play performed in &TD Theater in 2007 that was made after a novel of a Croatian 18th century famous writer, Miroslav Krleža. The director's reinterpretation deals with themes of personal and national pride, conservatism, downfallen nobility and also machism. The story was originally placed in salon space of mid 18. century Croatian noble society in Zagreb, but the director ironically situated the story in present time of one secluded village in Croatia in which nothing has changed much since ages. The village called Sinj is a very conservative place, most people are righ-wing oriented and very religious. Since Croatia gained independence in 1991, Sinj has been governed by the local HDZ, extremely right-wing party. Sinj's major attraction, for which the town is known at home and abroad, is certainly the traditional Tilters Tournament of Sinj (Alka). It takes place every year on the first Sunday in August to commemorate the victory over the Turkish army in 1715. The tilters, dressed in the traditional costumes, ride on horseback in full gallop, trying to thrust a ring (alka), hanging from a wire, with a lance. The tilter who scores the highest number of points (punat) is declared victor. Sinj is also known by biggest amount of recent war veterans, and it's a symbol of a national pride. For the main motive of the poster we wanted to have an image that would function differently in eyes of different public: for instance, it is perceived as totally natural to the people from Sinj, and as (as we most heard) disgusting and insultive to the people from Zagreb. Also, the idea was to turn around machistic and shovinistic symbols, and to produce strong imagery that would affect people as shocking (the director Brezovec is well known in Croatia of reinterpretations of various scandalous themes from contemporary pop and political elite, which always produce mass hysteria in the media), but the shock would be only in the eyes of the one who is perceiving it, depending on his/her cultural values, attitude and views. Wanting to have a cultural and hystorical clash, and also a clash of "taste", and what is considered to be "high" and "low" art, we asked theatre and cinema painter who has been working also with horses for a long time (as he said, and knew lot about them), to paint his interpretation of a given sketch we made. Naimely, Mr. Kim, who developed his specific signature doing hand painted murals for films and various posters for over 50 years in his drawnback studio behind cinema and whose illustration style in Croatia is considered to be quite primitive and unpopular we found perfect and appropriate for this solution. We have have also asked him to make portraits of actors, and after he has done it, we made framing, colour corrections and hand-drawn type.
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"Curating Degree Zero Archive," is a itinerant archive composed of variety of materials: catalogues, magazines, books, articles, audiovisual records and different exhibiting ephemeris, and testifying the activities of hundred international curators. We did an exhibition display for its presentation in Zagreb in 2008.
Creating display of a book archive in a white cube gallery space was a challenge for us, carrefuly taken under the consideration the fact that the object placed in souch a space changes its meaning. Therefore we tried to form the whole display in that sense: table signs as a canvases waiting to be hung on the wall, shelves as sculptures, and viewers as participators.The budget was very limited, and also the time from when the archive arrived until the opening of the exhibition (it was only 4 days), so therefore we tried to use as much material from the packages that arrived, constructing readymade shelves and table signs from boxes using minimum material such as tape and elastic bands.
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Blitz Kidz is an event with live act, dress code and performances held twice a month in Zagreb which encourages extravagant and queer guests to dress up and enjoy a night more similar to a theater performance than usual going out. For this nihgt we have combined theme of Clockwork orange and guest act Jeans Team, using classic roman elements such as odalisques and statues in disposition with ultraviolence.
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PechaKucha Night hosts young creatives talking about their work. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each. The fingerfood is made out of every presenter's finger cast in clay, and served ready to be consumed.
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The poster was made for celebration of 100th birthday of deceased Italian star Anna Magnani photographs exhibition. We were interested in comparing still life images, 'vanitas' in particular, to a life and death of iconic actress. The objects used intentionally misinterpret the still life images, using objects made from long lasting materials that don't decay and which are stereotypically feminine and motherly, something specific for the roles she played, and destructive forces used on objects interprete the forces that were very often found in her private life. Some questions we asked was passive existence of life after death of a film star, and also reputation that is autoreferential and interpretation of a myth that after some time starts to be disconnected with the real subject.
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Student center monthly guides is an ongoing project that has been created for every month since September 2007. It is a series of booklets presenting various cultural programs of Student center in Zagreb: theater plays, concerts, lectures, parties, festivals, and pointed towards younger audience, especially students. We included illustrations made especially for every edition, which are based on personal amateur photographs from albums, somebody else personal memories (flicker, myspace, facebook) and random collective memories (Google image search). We were drawn to this images as documents of a time that has passed with vague memories of the past periods of socialism and our own growing up, to the time when tourism, different mass migrations, internet and world wide web, consumerism and various other changes imperceptibly and slowly became one of the dominant world passions and industries. Their narration is disrupted and structures hide scenes that evoke different iconographic and emotional associations that perhaps remind us of the scenes we have in our personal or collective memory. As Sontag says: "The most grandiose result of photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads - as an anthology of images."
Our interest in previously mentioned thematics came from ouvre of Martin Parr and his satirical social commentaries: recordings of everyday frailties and humdrum tawdriness, colourful social panoramas, mass consumerism, supertourism, the curious rituals of the middle class. Influences were also Jean Baudrillard's theories of knowing "all" through images and media, previously confirmed by Zola's quote, " In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. "
