Mladen Bizumic
29 Mar - 28 Apr 2007
MLADEN BIZUMIC
How If – A Translation in III Acts
The physicality of the inhabited world is but one of its many dimensions. Our Cartesian worldview requires the phenomenal to be explicit – something we can chart, measure, and reproduce. To draw out the historical, cultural and political qualities of a location, and to draw together these aspects with its physical counterpart is to expand and question the criteria with which we understand our world.
The question of a ‘world heritage site’ assumes a global level of commonality in values, and a consensus on our relationship with the inhabitable world. Mladen Bizumic confronts this idea, articulating it into a video sculpture that conflates geographic locations, cultures, and histories into an aesthetics of moving images and sounds. Sampling footage and noise from World Heritage locations, the viewer is faced with a responsibility to question their understanding of place, both as a physical manifestation and as a cultural construction.
event.horizon.black.hole (above) is a multi-channel video installation that is part of Mladen Bizumic's first solo exhibition in Germany. The exhibition is structured as a ‘spatial opera’ in which Bizumic explores the facets of contemporary geopolitics in relation to representations of architecture. In each of the piece’s three acts, we find the contribution of other artists, musicians, theorists and in one instance, his mother. Act III will be presented at PROGRAM, while ACT I & II form the installation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (open 29.03–15.04 / visit www.bethanien.de for more details).
Born in Belgrade in 1976, Mladen Bizumic grew up in New Zealand. He now lives and works in Berlin. Notable exhibitions include: New Zealand Book at the Venice Biennale (2007), Through the Picture at the 2nd Moscow Biennale (2007), Busan Biennale (2006), Hide-Tide, CAC, Vilnius and Zacheta National Art Museum, Warsaw (2006), Re: Modern, Künstlerhaus Vienna (2005), Fiji Biennale Pavilions, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (2003), Mladen Bizumic, ARTSPACE, Auckland (2002).
How If – A Translation in III Acts
The physicality of the inhabited world is but one of its many dimensions. Our Cartesian worldview requires the phenomenal to be explicit – something we can chart, measure, and reproduce. To draw out the historical, cultural and political qualities of a location, and to draw together these aspects with its physical counterpart is to expand and question the criteria with which we understand our world.
The question of a ‘world heritage site’ assumes a global level of commonality in values, and a consensus on our relationship with the inhabitable world. Mladen Bizumic confronts this idea, articulating it into a video sculpture that conflates geographic locations, cultures, and histories into an aesthetics of moving images and sounds. Sampling footage and noise from World Heritage locations, the viewer is faced with a responsibility to question their understanding of place, both as a physical manifestation and as a cultural construction.
event.horizon.black.hole (above) is a multi-channel video installation that is part of Mladen Bizumic's first solo exhibition in Germany. The exhibition is structured as a ‘spatial opera’ in which Bizumic explores the facets of contemporary geopolitics in relation to representations of architecture. In each of the piece’s three acts, we find the contribution of other artists, musicians, theorists and in one instance, his mother. Act III will be presented at PROGRAM, while ACT I & II form the installation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (open 29.03–15.04 / visit www.bethanien.de for more details).
Born in Belgrade in 1976, Mladen Bizumic grew up in New Zealand. He now lives and works in Berlin. Notable exhibitions include: New Zealand Book at the Venice Biennale (2007), Through the Picture at the 2nd Moscow Biennale (2007), Busan Biennale (2006), Hide-Tide, CAC, Vilnius and Zacheta National Art Museum, Warsaw (2006), Re: Modern, Künstlerhaus Vienna (2005), Fiji Biennale Pavilions, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (2003), Mladen Bizumic, ARTSPACE, Auckland (2002).