Josip Horvat

performance / video / virus / artis / voyeur / mermaid


who is that?  how?  backdoor   what do you wonder?

sequence from my yearly performance research When I Grow

dealing with gender, movement, space

sequence from my yearly performance research When I Grow

dealing with gender, movement, space

Portraits

Portraits

Portraits

(screenshoots) 

2010 Galerija Močvara

         ALU

video performances depicting famous female portraits who influenced on the creation of the role model of female beauty

Me 

here I am questioning “creationing” of peoples identity trough childhood

project http://ident-sc.com/ in Zagreb

Mirror -Accumulation of Stalking at Izgubljena Fox in Gallery Miroslav Kraljević

At the opening of the exhibition Izgubljena Fox I made a perfomance consited from the movements that I collected (accumulated) observing visitors for half an hour after the opening of the show. When I was perfoming, the most of the people recognised their unconscinous movements.

another part….

a part of my recent performance research/work with nikolina butorac

he or she

my current researc on  gender identity

it is a serial of video works 

in one part I am researching how do I fit in the traditional role of a woman and which item and thinks that woman do I feel pleasent

in other seria I am depicting the famous role models of woman as Leonardo Da Vinci s Mona Lisa and Botticceli s Birt Of Venus in a apsurde way that expresses my  feelings about gender roles and everyday gender struggle in a traditional society