"Bujroom in Mostar", 1.7.-7.7.2008., OKC Abrasevic Mostar

The exhibition „Bujroom in Mostar“ is the first project that AB Art production has realized, within the Youth cultural center Abrasevic in Mostar. The exhibition was set up in the cafe-club space“Kosta“ at the YCC Abrasevic, in the period of 01.07. – 07.07.2008. It followed the concept of exhibiting outside of gallery and museum spaces, and it was site – specific, as the main problem that the artists were expected to reflect was the interwinment of public and private spheres in this very place. Artists were also induced to react on the questions of public and private in contemporary context, and different phenomena through which they manifest. Fourteen young artists presented their artwork in different media : Belma Arnautovic, Tina Bikic, Mehmed Begic,
Naida Begovic, Sabrina Begovic, Enisa Bravo, Nermin Hamzagic,
Merima Jasarevic, Mak Mujezinovic, Ivana Radic, Studio Lisica,
Eldin Smajlovic, Adisa Vatres i Mela Zuljevic.

Public discussion: “Treating women sexuality through performance”, Pitchwise festival of woman art, 12.9.2008., Sarajevo

The meaning of performance comes from the act of performing, which suits to Performative functions of language. Judith Butler thinks that conclusion to which “sex” is an ideal construction that forcefully materialize in time, Is not a simple fact, nor inert state of the body, but rather a process in which regulative norms materialize the “sex” and complete this materialization by constant repeating. The necessity of this repetition is a sign that materialization is never fully completed, and that bodies are never entirely subject to norms that forced them to materialize. Therefore, the performativity must be understood not as an individual or deliberate “act” but rather as a reiterative and quotative practice by which discourse produces actions it sets. This was the starting point to discuss the works of the following artists: Carolee Schneemann, Faith Wilding, Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy, Avive Rahmani... Speakers: Amila Puzic and Anja Bogojevic, VJing by Mela Zuljevic

AB Art was created within the Youth cultural centre Abrasevic in May 2008., during the preparation of an exhibition of young artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, "Bujroom in Mostar". This exhibition was a project implemented through a cooperative work of young artists and young curators, and this kind of cooperation is not a common phenomenon in B&H. Since then, we have started to work as artistic production. with which we plan to work on promotion of artists, organizations of exhibitions, and development of cultural affairs in general. We are especially interested in public space issues, and we try to induce exposing artwork in spaces outside of galleries and museums, such as clubs, halls, street, courtyards, etc. Our team is flexible and open to all young artists, curators, sociologists, architects, and others who share our interests.