What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were...
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Compassion
Are you an artist only when you earn as one?
"Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says." - Judy Chicago Some time ago in a conversation with my colleague and an artist, he expressed his opinion that one can title herself/himself an artist when one...
What to do today?
“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”- Doris LessingIt has been another week full of life, the good, the bad, the weird.But the Monday comes, and I ask – can you tell me what to do today?It is yet another day, another week...
Why does my heart feel so bad?
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”― RumiIt is Sunday morning and I take a quick jump out of my bed to write a few sentences that were mingling around, for my film in production. I felt satisfied because at least...
Quo Vadis?
I don’t know where I’m going, I don’t know where my home is, I’m like a bird… In the time of passage such as these times, often we wonder about the point - where all this shall lead us. We are divided among ourselves on those who trust and those who do not. And I...
Who do you think you are?
Happy Easter to all who celebrate it! Every Easter I visit my parents in my hometown. I was raised in a Catholic family and I went through questioning its rules and agenda. Today I am rather a spiritual seeker, interested in truth and its modifications and...
Welcome to my new window to the world!
It was a few years since I have written my last blog. In a way, social media posts have extended and replaced blogging, but blogging is still alive. I started the blog as a place to publish my art material and now, when it is all merged together, my new website and...
To farm or not to farm
The work was presented during the Interval°5. “With the performance festival Interval °5 on 15th November 2014 in Essen the action laboratory PAErsche showed solo performances by artists from Poland, Croatia and Belgium. In the temporary exhibition space ERDgeschoss...
The Unwritten Rites
Art in Context is a new extra curricular program of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. The program offers to students a chance to place their work within particular social contexts and to generate knowledge and experience in addressing specific social issues. The Unwritten...
Running is not an option
Running is not an option was created in collaboration with Kajetan Uranitsch from the Theatre School of the Amsterdam School of Arts. The piece was shown during the 'FLAM V-a week of performance art' (May 12-May 16, 2014). ...