Naslov
Photo Performance Look into the Interworld by Tajči Čekada and Interactive Ambience Mirila by Josip Zanki and Bojan Gagić.

Autori
Marjanić, Suzana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, pregledni

Knjiga
Book of Scientific Works of the Conference of Belief Narrative Networks of ISFNR, 1-4 October 2014, Zugdidi, gl. ur. Bela Mosia, Zugdidi, International Society for Folk Narrative Research,

Urednik/ci
Bela Mosia

Izdavač
International Society for Folk Narrative Research

Grad
Zugdidi

Godina
2015

Raspon stranica
163-171

ISBN
978-9941-22-623-6

Ključne riječi
female mythical beings, Interworld, Mirila, nature, soul, death, nature spirits in contemporary art practice, Tajči Čekada, Josip Zanki

Sažetak
In this article, I first introduce Croatian multimedia artist, fashion designer and performance artist Tajči Čekada or, more precisely, her unconventional fashion exhibition, the photo performance Look into the Interworld (2011), as an illustration of the connection of the sacred, archaic myth with design. In the second part of the article, I refer to another art project that performatively interprets an Old Croatian belief in the departed soul – the interactive ambience Mirila presented by Josip Zanki and Bojan Gagić in 2001. On the basis of these two examples from contemporary Croatian art practice, I intend to examine the role and meaning of nature spirits ; in the case of Tajči Čekada, they are primarily female mythical beings observed by the artist in relation to nature, sacral landscape, and in the case of the interactive ambience Mirila by Josip Zanki and Bojan Gagić, the “mirila” phenomenon is presented, within which the soul of the departed is placed in relation to sacral landscape. In short, on the basis of these two examples I will examine the relation of myth, i.e. nature spirits, to present-day art.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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