[spectre] exhibiton Ivan Faktor: Zeljko Jerman - My Month @ gray) (area . korcula

[Darko Fritz]

gray) (area

space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia

presents . Ivan Faktor: Zeljko Jerman - My Month

10 - 15 . 08 . 2006 . opening 10th  August 20 - 22 h

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7th August 2006 conceptual artist Zeljko Jerman (b. 1949) died in 
Korcula.

gray) (area space of contemporary and media art is located hundred 
meters form Jerman's summer house in Korcula and place of his death in 
the sea. This exhibition is programed before his death.

Ivan Faktor: Zeljko Jerman - My Month
directed by Ivan Faktor
screenplay by Ivan Faktor, Zeljko Jerman

The life of Željko Jerman, an artist, seemingly resembles other 
people’s lives: he has a pet, ordinary things around him, access to 
media... he has small pleasures, desires, melancholies... And yet, 
everything in his world is different, including the audiovisual 
stocktaking of a perfectly ordinary month, saturated with solitude and 
quiet ...

Film is shown at
. ZagrebDox (2006)
. 52. film festival Oberhausen (2006)
. 15. dani hrvatskog filma (Zagreb, 2006)
. Tabor film festival, Veliki Tabor – Desinić (2006)

Ivan Faktor was born in Crnac, Croatia in 1953. He makes experimental 
films, videos and video-installations; he is also a photographer. He is 
the founder and manager of ‘Kazamat’ Gallery in Osijek (2001-2004) and 
Performance Art Festival (since 2001). He lives and works in Osijek. He 
represented Croatia at the 25th Sao Paulo Biennale. His films include: 
'Papirnata gozba' (1975), 'Zlatno tele 2' (1975), 'Kirway Sv. 
Antuna Padovanskog' (1977), 'Prvi program' (1978), 'Svodiči od grilaža' 
(1978), 'Autoportret' (1980), 'F DS- 40 W' (1980/1981), '2F BB - 40 W' 
(1982), 'Kamera projektor I' (1983), 'Das Lied ist aus' (2002), 'Mörder 
unter uns' (2004), 'Željko Jerman: Moj mjesec' (2005), 
'Autoportret' (still in production).

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gray) (area is located 10 meters by the sea in the basement of The 
Memorial Collection of Maksimilijan Vanka 
[http://www.hazu.hr/ENG/MemColl_M_Vanka.html] . Put sv. Nikole 7 . 
Korcula

open daily 19. 30 - 21.30 h or by appointment

gray) (area is summer only initiative of Darko Fritz 
darko at darkofritz.net / tel +31 [0] 91.5800193

program 2006:
Lala Rascic (Sarajevo – Zagreb): 'Sorry, Wrong Number'
Boris Cvjetanović (Zagreb): ‘Fotovideo’
Ivan Faktor (Osijek): Zeljko Jerman - My Month
guest curator Stefan Rusu (Moldavia): Video from Central Asia [maybe to 
be moved to program 2007]

program is made with NO financial support and therefore thanks to all 
participants
website is under construction [to be expected summer 2007]

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gray) (area is protocol between a white cube and a black box.
gray) (area is sensing creative economy of 21st Century in error.
gray) (area is hub of gray economy.
gray) (area is dead-end backbone of social not.work of contemporary 
cultural politics.
gray) (area is operating system of no.work.
gray) (area prefers diving in a crystal blue sea than silicon one.
gray) (area prefers periphery than center.
gray) (area like speaking Bad english.

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Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_area)

A grey areais a term for a border in-between two or more things that is 
unclearly defined, a border that is hard to define or even impossible 
to define, or a definition where the distinction border tends to move. 
There are several flavors of grey areas:

▪ A grey area of definitions signifies a problem of sorting reality 
into clearly cut categories. Example: where is the border between 
erotica and pornography?

▪ A grey area of law is an area where no clear law or precedent exists, 
or where the law has not been applied in a long time thus making it 
unclear if it is applicable at all.

▪ A grey area of ethics signifies an ethical dilemma, where the border 
between right and wrong is blurred. Example: is killing always 
abominable?

Grey areas are widely accepted in democratic societies and have a clear 
connection to the notion of tolerance, whereas in societies of 
totalitarianism, grey areas are typically not accepted on any level.

Many people accept grey areas as a natural part of the human 
experience, whereas others may react with suspicion and a feeling of 
defectness or uncompleteness of any thought-system (or paradigm) 
accepting grey areas.