Ivan Civic - Some kind of family odyssey

Performance duration: as long as the performer can stand

Performed at the Cetinje Biennial V , 28.08.2004,
in the former prison: Bogdanov kraj
Curator: René Block

The artist's performances and installations analyze family structures. He moves by highlighting
the limits within which this union is effectively real and those in which it is purely of a structural
nature. The modality of his own intimacy, contradictions and conflicts are presented, which makes
the personal history suddenly become collective, as the themes that are related to the family and
to the emotional sphere always have some kind of connection in the life of every person. His
mother almost always represents the central point of his performances; in fact, she is often the
protagonist of the video installation that rests on his back and with which he is usually in
interaction. The project conceived for the Cetinje Biennial V consists of a looped action in which
the artist throws his body into an exhausting run from one monitor to the other (which stand
aproximetly 30 meters apart) in order "to keep alive" the extremely short two video portraits
(15'' duration each) that the artist made of his father and mother in scenes from their everyday.
The role of a floating pendulum assumed by the artist effectively embodies the position of the
child, who is often, and paradoxically, assigned the task of maintaining the family equilibrium
in terms of happiness, satisfaction and the long-term relationship between the parents and in
the whole family nucleus. During the entire performance, the artist runs from one point to the
other until he drains all his forces and energies and stops. The aim of the work is to demonstrate
the absurdity of the kind of strong inner cultural mechanisms that belong to emotional
relationships (and in a perverse way to the family structure), and which often appear to be
mutually accepted and co-validated on both the part of the parents and of the children, creating
an unhealthy circle of dependency and an unreal state of things. Emanuela Nobile Mino. For more information about Ivan Civic, please visit http://www.ivancivic.com

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