SIT-NO FROM I SERVE ART
Mladen Miljanovic
“Sit – no” - Like a command in army used for acknowledging the number of remaining days. It is counting down days of serving art, through works which are examination and critics of ideological, cultural, military and political system. The work reflects critical attitude of an artist outside society towards the same, mostly using the subversive approach.
“I Serve Art" is a multidisciplinary project, which comprises of the works conceived during my nine-month isolation (October 2006 - July 2007) in former army barracks Vrbas in the centre of Banja Luka. The former army barracks Vrbas (today University campus) symbolically represent the central place of a totalitarian system's apparatus, whose traumatic consequences are still present in our society. Deconstruction of identity of that place and of personal past happened through my nine months of residing within that confined space expressed through performance and multimedia interventions. My personal connection to the previous function of that place is expressed through the fact that I had spent six months there as a trainee for reserve officer and three months as a trainer to 30 soldiers. The goal of my repeated residence there for the same amount of time and ritual repetition of my psychological and physical state (with all its inhumane implications), was to question the limits of endurance of the artists body in service of the art. Thus, art becomes a means of decontamination of space and its deconstruction. As I was starting this work in progress, I created a Web page, which represented a work called ,/274 Views to the World" that adequately established communication between an isolated artist and the outside world – society. The final phase of the project was an intervention inside the building of former school for reserve officers, which is now the Academy of Arts and the Rectorate of the Banja Luka University.
This kind of artistic employment is both critical and investigative at the same time, and it represents a possible model for progressive artistic engagement.
SIT-NO OD SLUŽENJA UMJETNOSTI
Mladen Miljanovic
“Sit-no” kao uzvik koji se u vojsci izgovara uz broj preostalih dana do razduživanja. Odbrojavanje dana služenja umjetnosti kroz radove koji su preispitivanje i kritika ideološkog, kulturnog, vojnog i političkog sistema. Rad reflektuje kritički odnos umjetnika izvan društva prema istom, najčešće koristeći subverzivan pristup.
"Služim umjetnosti" je multidisciplinarni projekat koji obuhvata radove nastale tokom moje devetomjesečne izolacije (oktobar 2006. - juli 2007.) u prostoru bivše kasarne Vrbas u centru Banja Luke. Bivša kasarna Vrbas (danas univerzitetski kampus) simbolički označava centralno mjesto aparata jednog totalitarnog sistema čije su traumatične posljedice jos uvijek prisutne u društvu. Dekonstrukcija identiteta tog mjesta i lične prošlosti odvija se kroz moj devetomjesečni rad u tom ograđenom prostoru, u vidu performansa i multimedijskih intervencija. Ličnu povezanost sa bivšom namjenom ovog mjesta predstavlja činjenica mog devetomjesečnog boravka u takvom prostoru tokom šestomjesečnog vojnog školovanja za rezervnog oficira i tromjesečnog obučavnja 30 vojnika. Cilj mog ponovnog boravka u istom prostoru u jednakom vremenskom periodu, ritualnog ponavljanja psihičkog i fizičkog stanja (sa svim nehumanim implikacijama), bio je preispitivnje granica izdržljivosti tijela umjetnika u službi umjetnosti. Tako umjetnost postaje sredstvo dekontamanacije prostora i njegove dekonstrukcije. Početkom ovog "work in progress" rada formirao sam Web stranicu na kojoj je predstavljen rad "274 Pogleda na svijet" koji na primjeren nacin uspostavlja komunikaciju umjetnika u izolaciji i vanjskog svijeta - drustva. Završna faza projekta bila je Intervencija u samoj zgradi bivše Škole rezervnih oficira, u kojoj se sada nalazi Akademija umjetnosti i Rektorat univerziteta u Banja Luci.
Ovakavo umjetničko djelovanje ima istovremeno kritički i istraživački karakter, i predstavlja mogući model progresivnog umjetničkog angažmana.
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