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 introduction to the book Performing Pictures, release autumn 2008)
Robert Brečević
Artist, Filmmaker, Developer, Performing Pictures Co-founder
Robert is an artist and a film-maker trained at the University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre in Stockholm. He works with enhanced video in order to examine the on-screen choreography of player characters. His work facilitates research within the field of public spaces and enhanced media. Prior work includes commissioned scriptwriting at SF (Svensk Filmindustri), production of independent short movies as well as commissioned feature film production and screenwriting by the Swedish Film Institute. He has also worked as a game designer in Germany and Sweden; and as co-producer on major PC-game titles with TV4, published by Electronic Arts. Designer of experience centres with clients such as Coca Cola company. Developer of prize-winning interactive cinema titles and independent productions of playable movies commissioned by the SACD (French Association of Authors and Composers) and the EU-funded Media II programme.
Geska Helena Brečević
Artist, Filmmaker, Producer, Performing Pictures Co-founder
Prior experiences include work as a cultural editor, film and drama critic and stage- and costume designer for theatre. Teacher at the school of Arts and Communication at Malmö University. In a commercial context she has worked with film and media at Scandvision Mediahouse (for clients such as Ericsson, HM) and with webbased communication at Moonwalk Stockholm. Project based work with the Exit99 Outdoor Performance Festival, contemporary dance company ccap (cristina caprioli artificial experience), the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company and others. Geska has been working with several programs and studios within the Interactive Institute since 2001, most recently as director of the Trans-Reality Game Lab.
Further Thanks
Performing Pictures would like to thank all FORMER EMPLOYEeS, interns and masters students that have worked with us during the years:
Hakan Akcura, Andreas Beijer, Eva Artinger, Florian Maindl, Anna Hennerdal, Rit Mishra, Arvid Engström, Gesa Friedrichs-Büttner, Gerlinde Müller, Jacqueline Lindfors Berger, Jonathan Stoltz, Mario Seltenheim, Dominik Haidenthaler.
Website Design
Website created by
Dominik Haidenthaler and Mario Seltenheim.
Design by
N'Otherthings, image editing by Hakan Akcura, illustrations by Andreas Beijer.
selected exhibitions and performances
2009
Casa Lamm, Mexico City, Mexico
Sta Ana Church, Zegache Oaxaca, Mexico
Église Notre-Dame de Bon Secours, Brussels, Belgium
ID:I Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholms Kulturfestival, Stockholm, Sweden
New Media Meeting, Norrköping, Sweden
Hammarby Artport, Stockholm, Sweden
Historiska Museet, Stockholm Sweden
Zemos98, Sevilla, Spain
2008
Dans la nuit des images, Grand Palais, Paris
amber'08 beden-islemsel sanatlar festival, Istanbul, Turkey
L'Epicerie, Brussels, Belgium
Koltsovo Airport, Yekaterinburg, Russia
KIBELA, Maribor, Slovenia
Hammarby Artport, Stockholm, Sweden
Korallen/Lagunen, Rosenlunds sjukhus, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
Konstnärshuset's Showroom, Stockholm, Sweden
Universal Forum of the Cultures, Monterrey, Mexico
Interactive Salon, Prague, Czech Republic
Balta Nakts, Galerija Centrs, Riga, Latvia (commissioned installation)
The Body Navigation Festival, St Petersburg, Russia
ID:I galleri, Stockholm
Crossroads, Espira, Borås, Sweden
Konstvideo på blixtvisit, Stockholm, Sweden (public installation)
2006
Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Generative Art conference, Milan, Italy
Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden (public installation)
LA Freewaves, Los Angeles, US
CanariasMediafest, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
The Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton UK.
PUB Stockholm, Sweden
Close Encounters III, Alkantara Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Video Lounge, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
FutureDesignDays, Stockholm, Sweden
Navinkifestival, Minsk, Belarus
Arvika music festival, Arvika Sweden
Tid och Rum, Verket, Avesta, Sweden
Kiasma –PixelAche festival, Helsinki, Finland
Museum of contemporary art in Minsk, Belarus
Prix Möbius Nordica, Helsinki, Finland (finalist)
2004
Bergvik’s galleria, Karlstad, Sweden (public installation)The Culture House, Stockholm, SwedenArvika music festival, Arvika, Sweden
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ARTIST’s TALKS
UD:s Konstförening
Mejan Labs
SmartLab, London, UK
Rix-c, Riga, Latvia
Permanent Representation
Verket, Avesta, Sweden
Stockholm City Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Papalote Museo del Nino, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Stockholms Landsting
Private collections
Contact InformatioN
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