"Is it nessesery to explaine political situation in my country in order to present my (art) work/s in international enviroment?" YES IT IS-from my experience.
Very often, during my visits to internatioanal Academys, schools, workshops, exhibitions, I was asked about political conditions in my country, first and rather, than about my work.
In meantime, I figure out, actually I dont need something as an (art)object or whatever as material proof/result...EXPLANATION IS ENOUGHT. I am satisfied with disscusion. Not because I will emancipate the audience, rather because I my art practise become research tool, instead object production I start to organize self-education projects. I shift the focus from the spectacle to the learning process.
I found conversation form preferable.
-Theoretical performance / installation Self-interview-which I realized in Salzburg, Austria, on Summer Academy 2008. (Concept: I answered on questions from colleges, professors, citizens, citizens-artist, common stereotypes questions which are coming after introducing myself like an artist from nonindustrial, non-EU countries, etc. I have written the replays on wall of Academy, and always was standing in “marked space” (a black quadratic part of floor where the borders is made by letters: Thinking Is An Action! I named this action: Self-interview (The self interview is a writing exercise aimed at developing “your work” through verbal articulation. Questioning yourself as a strategy for idea development, documentation and/or reflection. The self interview is to be understood as a tool that can be used in different moments of a working process, as a preparation/proposal of a work, as documentation or as a reflection tool once a work has been completed. The self interview is also a tool to share ideas, work/s, methods, strategies …)







