Tanja Ostojić. Strategies of Success/Curators Series 2001-2003

Tanja Ostojić. Strategies of Success/Curators Series 2001-2003


List of works

I'Il Be Your Angel, 4 days performance, Plateau for Humankind, 49th Venice Biennale, 2001 (with Harald Szeemann)
Black Sqare on White, bodyart work, Plateau for Humankind, 49th Venice Biennale, 2001 (based on the photo from the Personal Space photo series, 1995-1996)
l'Il Be Your Angel, video/DV, 22 min, Paris/Venice/Novi Sad, 2001-2002
Venice Diary, published in 2002 by MSU - Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (croatian and English)
Be my Guest!, (150 min performance) performance-installation, "Gravita 0" in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, 2001 (with Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Ludovico Pratesi)
Be My Guest, video/Beta, 15.58 min, Rome/Belgrade, 2001
Sofa for Curator, performance at Balkan Konsulat, Rotor, Graz, 2002 (with Stevan Vuković)
Sofa for Curator, video/DV, Graz/Belgrade, 11 min, 2002
Vacation with Curator, 2nd Tirana Biennale, Albania, 2003
Serie of papaparazzi photos, Photo collages, Web-site (with Edi Muka)
Tanja Ostojić and Marina Gržinić: Politics of queer curatorial positions: After Rosa von Praunheim, Fassbinder and Bridge Markland, 2003
(with Marina Gržinić)
Strategies of Success, installation 1: "22nd Memorial of Nadežda Petrović", Čačak (2002)
Strategies of Success, installation 2: "In Tranzit", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2003)
Strategies of Success, installation 3: "Strategies of Success / Curators Series 2001-2003",
La BOX, Bourges (2003)
Venice Diary reading, performance 1: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2002
Venice Diary reading, performance 2: La BOX, Bourges, 2003

Introduction
"Art is the demonstrated wish and will to resolve conflicts through action, be it spiritual, religious, political, personal, social or cultural."
Alastair MacLennan

"In the system of production of cultural and artistic events, as well as in the system of artistic production, there exists a permanent demand for "bigger" productions and for the constant "launching of new ideas". These are the same market laws that also rule the present system of perverted, late capitalism.
In my art practice, I have consciously decided to abandon the production of 'one off' artworks in favour of developing a series of strategic projects that will span a period of several years. This position allows me the possibility of engaging in a much more consistent and deeper analysis and development of the issues with which I deal in my work.
The position of power is continuously reproduced and protected through forms of distance and elitism. But I think, on the other hand, that the need for democracy, social rights and a classless society is of equal importance in the art world, as it is in political life.
The exhibition Strategies of Success / Curators Series 2001-2003, (La BOX, Bourges), (and the present manuscript of the book, I hope will be published in 2004), deals exactly with the attempt to analyse the complexity of issues dealing with class-relations within the art-system, as well as with relations of power-position and sexuality from a radically different point of view.
Having in mind that each of these works, taken in particular, happened at different locations, and that the project in its entirety has so far only been presented at the gallery La Box in Bourges (October - November 2003), I came to the conclusion that the project might not be visible enough, and that it deserved greater attention."