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The performance of the mirror: a reflection on performance art or “Verify if you are alive. Breathe out from the mouth to the mirror" (V. Delimar)

As Dalibor Martinis states on the occasion of his three video works (Open Reel, Video Immunity, 1976 ; Manual, 1978) –, "The mirror previously served artists so that they could paint a self-portrait, at a time when performance became one of the dominant art disciplines, it became a tool checking the viewer's view of the artist himself. In all three mentioned works, I expose myself to the view of the camera, which serves as a mirror for me, so it assumes the role of the viewer, but at the same time I examine the limits of the medium itself" (cf. Kalčić 2004/2006). On the trace of this interpretative reflection statement by Croatian transmedia artist and a video maker Dalibor Martinis, the presentation considers the symbolism of the mirror in the works of the following performance artists: Slobodan Era Milivojević (Pasting the Mirror with Scotch Duc Tt tape, 1971 ; The Mirror, re-performance, 2015), who is one of the founders of conceptual art in Serbia and Yugoslavia, and two Croatian feminist artists – Vlasta Delimar (Verify if you are alive. Breathe out from the mouth to the mirror, 1984) and Miyu Križanić (Changing Rooms/Cabins, 2018).

mirror, performing

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