SASA KARALIC

Home Works Curatorial Texts Contact Biography Links << back	The Extra Light Project: Installation 10. December 2009 Smoke and light installation Noorderkerk, Amsterdam	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.
	The Extra Light Project: Predictions Octobar 2009 Group research Van Limmikhof, Amsterdam	Two months before the actual installation, The Extra Light Project was interpreted by two working groups, one comprised of artists, scholars and writers, and the other comprised of theologians and clergymen.
	Becoming Christian 2009 Video documentation and book	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 2009 Wall drawing	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 2009 Wall text	A wall text made for the group exhibition at De Service Garage in Amstredam (March-April 2009).
	On Certainty 2008-2009 Three-channel video installation	The main character in this three-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 2008 Installation and intervention at Plainpalais in Geneva, Switzerland	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 2007 Color photograph
	Schwabo 2006 Video	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 2005 Video	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 2004 Video	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 2003 Video	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 2001-2009 Drawings and photographs	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 2000 Event	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 1999 Group research	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 1998 3 color photographs	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 1997 Light installation Castricum aan Zee The Netherlands	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

Saša Karalić