GuestRoomMaribor2014

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Karin Pisarikova (CZ, J)

Karin Pisarikova communicates with people and social phenomena through performance. The latter is common practice and the way artist directly intervenes in to surroundings. As the artist says the process and interaction with the people in the city plays the vital role for her. She entered in the concrete space by mediatory impressions of the invitees who were asked to cartographically mark chosen locations based on an actual experience and acquired memory of the city (even if only for few days). Gained schematic outline of the area, personal and private maps are collected under the title Maribor Mapping. Performative action Fatman (which was created in collaboration with Martin Ondrack) was performed in one of the cities cinemas. Video documented performance is unnoticeably following the “Fat-man”, the two performers are actually squeezed into one pair of trousers. The camera records reactions to a strange body with unusual movements. An unexpected difference provokes reactions of passersby, triggers reactions in employees’ behaviour and offers a social mirror.