Łukasz Mojsak

Abstrakt

Sonja Savić (1961–2008), a star actress of 1980s Serbian cinema, was also a filmmaker whose independent work from the 90s and 2000s remains unknown. Her complex video pieces engage with ex-Yugoslavia’s political situation and portray her generation’s intellectual and countercultural scene, disillusioned by official socialist state culture and forced to endure the war (Super Real, 1997, Play 1997). Savić developed a trancey collage of found footage, animation and staged acting scenes, where motifs freely travel between pieces and unhinged, almost entropic, visuality resonates with her country’s condition in the 80s and 90s. Savić worked with a commune of performers who staged for her absurd activities, obscure rituals and manifested cultural, gender and queer identities. She collaborated with the cult band Supernaut, whose members made acting, visual and musical contributions to her work (Supernaut – Belgrade Underground, 1996), and later formed a “troupe” of young performers (Waiting for God, 2006). Remaining conspicuously ab- sent from her films and eschewing celebrity status, Savić diluted authorship for the sake of collaborative experimentation.

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Absolwent Instytutu Historii Sztuki i Instytutu Lingwistyki Stosowanej na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim oraz studiów w zakresie teorii sztuki współczesnej na Goldsmiths, University of London. Kurator wystaw i pokazów filmowych, autor tekstów o sztuce współczesnej i filmie. W latach 2011–2016 związany z Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, obecnie współpracownik Fundacji Arton w Warszawie. Współkurator wystawy Romana Stańczaka Lot w Pawilonie Polskim na 58. Biennale Sztuki w Wenecji.

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