Džakušič, Andreja
No. 921
"Development of Compassion"
Artist: Džakušič, Andreja
Title: Development of Compassion
Subtitle: Scrubbing
Duration: 00:06:26
Year: 2008
Genre: Performance

 
SYNOPSIS
Video documentation of performance made at ZDSLU Gallery in Ljubljana in 2008.

Developing Compassion is a project made of series of performances, installations and photographs, which lasted two years (2006-2008). It represents the artist's way of noting the pain that she has faced with the illness, dying and final passing away of her father. In the first of three performances she symbolically let go of her emotional states, which she has stitched as pain, sadness and fear on white pillows. In the second performance she wiped the floor with disinfectant to relive the sterility of the painfully impersonal ambience of hospitals. In the third performance she sang a mourning song which she wrote on the ground using seeds.
(Source: Andreja Džakušič, Encounters, overview exhibition catalogue, Center for Contemporary Arts Celje, 2013)


 
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 SCCA-Ljubljana, Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik, Keiko Miyazaki - Video evening with DIVA Station: Andreja Džakušič, SIVA and IvAnKe SCCA-Ljubljana, Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik, Keiko Miyazaki - Video evening with DIVA Station: Andreja Džakušič, SIVA and IvAnKe SCCA-Ljubljana, Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik, Keiko Miyazaki - Video evening with DIVA Station: Andreja Džakušič, SIVA and IvAnKe
SCCA-Ljubljana, Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik, Keiko Miyazaki - Video evening with DIVA Station: Andreja Džakušič, SIVA and IvAnKe (57:47)
Production: SCCA–Ljubljana, Galerija Photon, 2021
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Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Stealing Land (07:15)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Stealing Land Dr Xenia performs on the land of the former Rakuš mill in Celje, a textbook example of capital appetites for plots in good locations, which evict ideas of non-profit spaces for culture intended for common and public go...
 Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - The House of Cards Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - The House of Cards Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - The House of Cards
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - The House of Cards (06:45)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
In the performance The House of Cards, Dr Xenia does not travel north or west by train, but in a south-easterly direction. On the route that led to Kumrovec in the previous country, but ends at the last station in front of the Croatian border in the new c...
 Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Man, Don't Get Angry Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Man, Don't Get Angry Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Man, Don't Get Angry
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Man, Don't Get Angry (19:34)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
Man, Don't Get Angry is first and foremost a feminist response to the familiar image of (dressed) Marcel Duchamp and (naked) Eva Babitz's chess game from 1963. It is also a reference to the performance Mojca ärgere dich nicht, which was performed by Pe...
 Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Fart Roulette Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Fart Roulette Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Fart Roulette
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Fart Roulette (06:39)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Fart Roulette is actually a picnic on the grass, which can be reminiscent of Manet's famous painting, although this time, everyone present is dressed. The title refers to Russian roulette, and the authors shoot farts instead of bullets. Th...
 Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Rights for Our Fights Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Rights for Our Fights Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Rights for Our Fights
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Rights for Our Fights (11:12)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The fifth in a series of performances - its title is also the title of the exhibition - is the only one where Dr Xenia performs live with audience participation. This performance is also defined by the space, the four corners of the Alakatraz Gallery form...
 Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh,  SIVA,  IvAn - Archive Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh,  SIVA,  IvAn - Archive Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh,  SIVA,  IvAn - Archive
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh, SIVA, IvAn - Archive (22:45)
Production: Siva, Ivanke, Ivan, Anko, 2021
The video is an archival overview of recordings and photographs of joint public actions and performances by artists Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik and artist Simon Macuh in the period from 2010 to 2021 in the framework of their var...
Iva Tratnik, Andreja Džakušič,  IvAn - Umetnik – birokratIva Tratnik, Andreja Džakušič,  IvAn - Umetnik – birokratIva Tratnik, Andreja Džakušič,  IvAn - Umetnik – birokrat
Iva Tratnik, Andreja Džakušič, IvAn - Umetnik – birokrat (00:22:59)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2018
Posnetek performansa Umetnik – birokrat tandema IvAn (Iva Tratnik in Andreja Džakušič), ki sta ga avtorici izvedli na odprtju razstave Zavihajmo rokave v Likovnem salonu Celje 8. maja 2018. Umetnici sta v performansu, ki sta ga napovedali kot mehanič...
Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik,  SIVA - Motnje oblačenja – Prevelika oblekaAndreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik,  SIVA - Motnje oblačenja – Prevelika oblekaAndreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik,  SIVA - Motnje oblačenja – Prevelika obleka
Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik, SIVA - Motnje oblačenja – Prevelika obleka (00:04:04)
Production: Likovni salon Celje, 2011
S projektom obleka … človeka, ki je bil leta 2010 razstavljen v Likovnem salonu, je skupina dveh umetnic in umetnika raziskovala, v kolikšni meri obleka določa človekovo identiteto, koliko se s spremembo zunanje podobe spremeni odnos drug...
Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh,  SIVA, Iva Tratnik - Motnja – KrznoAndreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh,  SIVA, Iva Tratnik - Motnja – KrznoAndreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh,  SIVA, Iva Tratnik - Motnja – Krzno
Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, SIVA, Iva Tratnik - Motnja – Krzno (00:07:10)
Production: Likovni salon Celje, 2011
S projektom obleka … človeka, ki je bil leta 2010 razstavljen v Likovnem salonu, je skupina dveh umetnic in umetnika raziskovala, v kolikšni meri obleka določa človekovo identiteto, koliko se s spremembo zunanje podobe spremeni odnos drug...
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