Tragovi egzistencije – Sudbina pojedinca i njegovo izostajanje

Abstract

Doktorskim radom Tragovi egzistencije – Sudbina pojedinca i njegovo izostajanje obuhvaćeno je sagledavanje pojedinih so- cijalnih i društvenih pojava koje su značajno uticale na položaj i život pojedinca. Tematski okvir doktorskog rada nastao je kao rezultat prethodnih istraživanja, sprovedenih u dvema studijama. Prva je Plutati (2007), sa radovima: Mumlači, Varenje, Plasma, Uvrede, Jedi svoju zemlju, Civil, a druga nosi naziv Socijalan (2013), sa radovima: Glasine, Lice, Socijalan, Izbrisan, Tvar, Utvara, Razgovor, Brijač, Selekcija. Iz makroteme Tragovi egzistencije – Sudbina pojedinca i njegovo izostajanje moguće je pratiti čitav niz podtema: sudbina, egzistencija, tragovi, levitiranje, manipulacija, identitet, društvo, čovek-figura, čovek kao pojedinac ili čovek u masi, odnosno čovek s negacijom, ne-čovek, pozicija čoveka, meka forma, figura-lutka, telo kao lutka, lutka kao telo, i dr. Praktičan rad, instalacija ASC/DESC, kroz segmente u kojima dominira prikaz lutke koja levitira, prikazuje čovekovu poziciju u kojoj je naglašen životni/sudbinski tok, čovekova mentalna, psihička i fizička istrošenost. U ovom radu, u prostornom ambijentu postavljeno je više repliciranih objekata sa elementima forme neupotrebnog predmeta, kreveta, figure/lutke u prirodnoj veličini, s unesenim detaljima odnosno zvučnim i tekstualnim sadržajima. Svi ovi elementi grade zasebne objektne segmente koji u više kloniranih verzija, u paraboli sa minimalnim promenama, stvaraju novu celinu. Pozicije u radu naglašavaju mesto izostavljenog čovekovog života/neživota, koji se može naslutiti i koji je dat samo u tragovima. Dominantne elemente u radu čine predstave o čoveku koga u neposrednom fizičkom smislu nema, unošenjem praznine u kojoj se prisustvo čoveka naslućuje, koja podstiče na sećanje o čoveku kao takvom – samo kao čoveku, subjektu bez identiteta. Figure, u formi mase lutaka, imaju za cilj da provociraju na razmišljanje, na opomenu, da preispituju nas i naše sećanje tako da se putem njih identifikujemo i prepoznajemo, utvrđujući koliko su ti ljudi vezani za mesto, određeni događaj ili pak suprotno tome, koliko samo govore o čoveku, bilo kada i bilo gde. Upravo ovako ostvarenom simbolikom pokreću se doživljaji, iskustvene funkcije u osećanju pripadnosti. Ovaj rad svojom porukom otvara i nova pitanja, prevashodno s ciljem da se pojedinac zapita pred vremenom u kojem je sve prisutnija strateška kontrola svega životnog i u kojem su naglašeni momenti preispitivanja ličnog, specifičnog, karakternog, dovedeni u pitanje.

The PhD thesis, Relics of Existence – The Fate and the Absence of an Individual, perceives particular social occurences which have significantly influenced the status and life of an individual. The thematic framework of the thesis was created as a result of previous examination explained in two research papers. The first one is To Float (2007) which includes works such as: Mumblers, Welding, Plasma, Insults, Eat Your Own Turf, Civilian, and the other one is Social (2013), with the following works: Rumours, Face, Social, Erased, Matter, Wraith, Conversation, Razor, Selection. This macro theme, Relics of Existence – The Fate and the Absence of an Individual, offers an insight into a wide variety of subthemes: fate, existence, hints, levitation, manipulation, identity, society, human figure, a person as an individual against a person in the crowd or a person in denial, non-human, a person’s stature, soft form, figure-puppet, body as a puppet, puppet as a body, etc. The practical work, the installation ASC/DESC, which consists of segments dominated by a form of a levitating puppet, depicts a person’s stature introduced by the flow of life/fate, by a person’s mental, psychological and physical weariness. This work involves spatial ambience with multiple replicated objects in a form of nonfunctional object, bed, life-size figure/puppet with imported audio and textual details. All these elements build separate object segments that create a new whole through several cloned versions, parabolic with minimal alterations. The positions of the work emphasize a place of the excluded life/non-life, which can be assumed and which is split into particles. Dominant elements of the work are composed of notions about a human being who is, in direct and physical sense, gone, while the inserted emptiness only offers a hint of human presence, and which evokes reminiscence of a human being as such – solely as a human being, a subject with no identity. The purpose of figures, represented as a bulk of puppets, is to provoke thinking, issue a warning, to question ourselves and our memory, enabling us to identify and perceive, at the same time determining how strong is the connection between those people and the place, specific event or something quite opposite, and how much is being said about the person, in any given time, anywhere. Exactly through such symbolism, experience is set in motion, together with the impressions about the sense of belonging. This work opens up new questions, mostly with the aim to make an individual undertake inquiries about the time with an increasing strategic control of everything that is living, and the time that casts a shadow over highlighted moments of personal, specific, and individual reexamination.