[syndicate] GRZINIC: Sanja Ivekovic, Croatia - canceled from the participation at the Sao Paulo Biennale 2002
clement Thomas
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Mon Jan 14 16:56:21 CET 2002
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From: "anna balint" <epistolaris at freemail.hu>
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Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 6:03 PM
Subject: [syndicate] GRZINIC: Sanja Ivekovic, Croatia - canceled from the
participation at the Sao Paulo Biennale 2002
> Performing the curator: against the curatorial methods of destroying
> artists
>
>
> I decided to write this statement being revolted by the case of what
> happened to Sanja Ivekovic, a Croat artist, first selected for the Sao
> Paulo Biennial 2002 by Leonida Kovac, the appointed curator, and than
> being by the same curator, so to speak overnight, after nearly half of
> year of Ivekovic preparation of the project, rejected, dismissed, kick
in
> the but. Instead of Sanja Ivekovic, Leonida Kovac, decided to propose
> another artist!
>
> Firstly, I am not interested in the reasons, as here it is no one
reason
> that counts. For me the question of reasons, the pro and contra
arguments
> does not exist. No one reason, anyway, can be the one that legitimizes
> such a decision by the curator. Only the death of the artist can give a
> pertinent reason for substituting him ore her, after being selected and
> publicly declared to be the representative, or the artist decision by
> himself or herself to quite the project.
>
>
> The rule is very simple, the curator is given a huge privilege, this
is,
> the absolute privilege of having free hands to select any artist, but
soon
> afterward he or she is in the position of a subordinate link in the
> alliance of curator-artists, that means he or she transfers this
privilege
> to the chosen artists. No positive reasons can be found for rejecting
the
> selected artist, no instantiation can be taken into an account for a
> legitimization of such an act. The moment the curator wants to play
> further the pathetic figure of power, showing his or her "fragile"
power,
> with an act of a rejection of the selected artist, he or she becomes
just
> a clown and a bastard, surpassing the line of the disaster. A curator,
not
> mater the name or gender, that rejects the firstly chosen, and publicly
> denoted artist, transforms himself or herself into misery.
>
> If it will be a court of honor and principle for the curators (as it is
> for journalists, as their both perform a public critical work), such a
> curator will have to be criticized by the institution, by the Biennial,
> and by the ones that hired him or her and gave him or her the mandate
to
> perform his or her curatorial job. And any other artists that will be
> asked to take the place of Sanja Ivekovic or better of the rejected
> artists will have to say : NO! If such an activist solidarity and
movement
> will be possible to arose, maybe, a different balance will be created
> between artists and curators.
>
>
> In the end, the artists has no other way than to react with all means,
as
> it is no a possible single reason of legitimization of this
manipulation
> with his or her concepts.
>
> Marina Grzinic, Ljubljana, January 11, 2002
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