curriculum

email:

us[at]performingpictures.se

phone:

+46 709-903755

office:

Gullmarsvägen 59,
S-120 39 Årsta

studio:

Wollmar Yxkullsgatan 10,
S-118 50 Stockholm

04. Performing Pictures is Geska Helena Brečević and Robert Brečević – a Stockholm-based artist duo, working in the area of moving images and new technologies for media delivery. In our artistic practice we explore and develop responsive film art from a number of formative limitations in time and space. The ambition is to do simple and straightforward tales that rely on silent action, a dramatic shift in posture, a certain gesture and a relation between one or several characters.

Geska Helena Brečević and Robert Brečević’s works are pictures that perform – but only in the meeting with the viewer. The artists call it “responding film”, or “film that answers when spoken to”. The works are made up of filmed micro-narratives. When the viewer reaches a certain distance to the screen or moves in a certain way in front of a projection surface, the narrative is influenced, a movement is liberated.

The expression “an artwork exists only in the meeting with its viewer” is unusually relevant here. It should feel like there is a rally between the artwork and the viewer; that the viewer perfects the work with her presence – becomes a partner.

Helena Thunell,
excerpt from the book Performing Pictures (Maribor, 2008)

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