Ivana Ivković

New performance piece by Ivana Ivković MONUMENT: NO ONE IS LOST – AFTERPIECE, is part of the “Sauer Power Klubnacht” by Slavs and Tatars – 24 hours programme for the complete opening of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.

The piece was performed on the ground floor of Schlüter Courtyard, on 17.09.2022.

The series of performances MONUMENT: NO ONE IS LOST by Ivana Ivković presents a continuation of the artist’s multimedia research started several years ago, in which she creates performative tableau vivant situations in specific contexts and places. Issues of identity and gender stereotypes figure strongly in Ivković’s work, whereby she uses the naked and/or semi-naked male body as a performative instrument or medium of specific sensitivity and sensuality. Ivković’s works have always been focused on their viewers’ experiences, i.e. their emotional and psychological perception of ambiences and events. MONUMENT: NO ONE IS LOST problematises the process of deconstruction and reconstruction of gender roles in the political, ethical and symbolic reflection of the biopolitics of female perception.

MONUMENT: NO ONE IS LOST – AFTERPIECE explores the relationship between the human (male) body, identity and the specific context of a place and has the thematic starting point in a reflection on the contemporary time, its (post) apocalyptic nature, and sense of the end of the world as we know it, questioning whether there is room for certain new options and choices that depend on the individual and what they would be like. Site-specific setting with durational performance re-examines the space of an unknown, the time after the (de)construction of previous beliefs and models and the re-establishment of a sense of collective, ie communion values. The AFTERPIECE, from today’s perspective, considers the connection between the past and the future through consequences and the question of where we are now and how far we have come? Performers chosen for this work are not professionals, their natural presence is crucial for the performance which relays on direct inclusion of the experiences of others. The potential bodies that come from outside, become a means and expression that allows the influence of other voices and presence, and thus achieves a stronger statement about the multiple aspects of social reality.