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Square / Kvadrat
Landmark, Video
2012
The film "Square" shows the process of building a sign / landmark on the hill Kik in northwest Bosnia. The square was proposed to the locals as a political sign whose practical or symbolical function is to be defined by those who built it.
Titus Andronicus
Video
2011
In this video, the actor’s failure to stay in the role turns him into the subject of his political surrounding.


Our next communism
will be better
Posters
2011
Posters made for the exhibition
"My Communism" organized by MadeIn
Company at TOP in Shanghai


The List & The Square
Video
2011
This ongoing project involves a group of people engaging in a series of language exercises


The Extra Light Project
Smoke and light installation
Noorderkerk, Amsterdam
2009
The central event of The Extra Light Project involved a group of 100 theologians and clergymen who formed the core audience for a smoke and light installation in the Noorderkerk, Amsterdam. Two months before the actual installation, the project was interpreted beforehand by two working groups.


Becoming Christian
Video documentation and book
2009
The project made in collaboration with Jean-Jacques Suurmond, Protestant minister, psychoanalyst, writer and columnist from The Netherlands.
Our discussions were published in from of
a book Becoming a Christian that appeared on the occasion of The Extra Light Project.


Fiction Level
Installation / wall drawing
2009
A wall drawing made on the ocassion of the solo exhibition Fiction level at Museum for contemporary art RS in Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (from 25 February until 25 March 2009)


This would have been
enough for Jesus

Installation / wall text

2009
A wall text made for the group exhibition at De Service Garage in Amstredam (March-April 2009).


On Certainty
Two-channel video installation
2008
The main character in this two-channel video installation is confronted under a strong spotlight with series of questions that he has to answer. Every time when the character believes that he gave a correct answer, he receives the punishment to run for 25 seconds.


Reconstruction of the workers'
memorial

Installation and intervention
at Plainpalais in Geneva,
Switzerland
2008
Reconstruction of the workers' memorial proposed the rebuilding of a fictive memorial for the contemporary working class of Switzerland on Plainpalais in Geneva.


Portrait of the artist
as a church

Color photograph
2007
 


Schwabo
Video
2006
The video work Schwabo is a documentary portrait of Radenko Piljagic nicknamed Schwabo, a musician, visual artist and poet from Ivanjska, a village near Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.


La Sauveur
Video
2005
Le Sauveur is recorded at refugee camp AMZ Amersfoort in The Netherlands.
People living in the camp were asked to join an audition and to perform one pop-song of their own choice in front of the camera.
The participants chose mostly songs with the religious content.


Clay, Chalk and Cement
Video
2004
Video recorded on the three different locations in Bosnia and Herzegovina –
a deserted clay excavation, a chalk factory and a World War II memorial park. The history of violence is presented through three different materials that divide the video in to three chapters: Clay, Chalk and Cement.


The Lecture
Video
2003
Lecture shows one of the exercises of Swedish troops for peacekeeping operations during which Swedish soldiers meet a Croatian actor in the role of Bosnian local commander and listen to his lengthy monologue, almost a lecture, on history, war and relation between Bosnians and foreign peacekeeping forces.


Traces
Drawings and photographs
2001-2009
Apparition, something not of this world that appeared, phantom or ghost, entered reality with an attempt to become a vision – a socially relevant factor. Traces is a graphic presentation of this process


It's OK, come in me
Event
2000
Event made for Färgfabriken– Centre for contemporary art and architecture in Stockholm. It was constructed as a theatre play in party environment consisting from live sound and image mixing and participation of 12 persons dressed in police uniforms.


Ture Arvidsson's sessions
Group research
1999
This group research was conducted in collaboration with Ture Arvidsson, a Swedish psychoanalyst who frequently uses hypnosis in his practice. A group of seven people was directed to take a simultaneous action while being under hypnosis and to create theatre scenes using their own bodies and limited number of props.


Banjaluka-Stockholm-London
in 10 seconds

Color photographs
1998
This triptych is based on a graffiti found in a music pavilion in Wittaberg’s park, Stockholm. The triptych was made for the exhibition Quickening at Museum for Contemporary Art in Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1 September-1 October 1998).
Spellbound
Light installation
Castricum aan Zee
The Netherlands
1997
In the night of 19 May 1997, the fictive story was reconstructed with help of two strong laser beams that created an endless light road reaching form the beach to the horizon