[spectre] gray) (area ::: Korcula ::: Edita Pecotic: Moreska

[darko fritz]

gray) (area

space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia

presents . Edita Pecotic: Moreska

. 04 - 09 . 07 . 2008
. opening . Friday 4th . 21 h

Moreska is a medieval drama and sword dance which is still performed  
in Croatia’s town of Korcula. The story follows the conflict between  
the Red King and the Black King and their soldiers, as the Red King's  
fiancée is captured by the Black army. This romantic and ritualized  
sword battle is performed in seven circles representing seven  
different dances with swords. Finally the Black King is conquered and  
his fiancée happily returns into arms of her beloved Red King.

As opposed to the original dance/drama, in the video ‘Moreska’ by  
Edita Pecotic, the artist has given the fiancée the main role,  
offering the audience the opportunity to concentrate solely on the  
portrait of the woman. The video depicts her 20 minute long struggle  
between engagement and boredom with her role ranging from engaged to  
passive, from dynamic to bored. This work is made in an attempt to  
explore general (universal) gender issues – the role of women  
throughout history as well as in the contemporary world, determined  
by continuous conflicts globally as much as within the domestic  
environment.

2 min video excerpt: http://www.editapecotic.com/moreska/

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gray) (area is an low-key independent non-profit non-institution that  
operates during lazy summer time within gray area of friendships and  
vacations and cultural funding / production / distribution.

gray) (area presents works of contemporary and media art with focus  
on ones that fills the gap between those two art-worlds and  
discourses. preferable are programs that shifts the media and  
skipping the frame of simple definitions and interpretations.

gray) (area operates form the city of Korcula at Korcula island in  
Croatia, enjoying the free position of the cultural periphery and  
challenge of no context of neither contemporary nor media art within  
the close neighborhood. Periphery provides freedom of established  
cultural power-games, predictable fashionable key-words and double  
criteria [that depend on geo-political position of the art-producer]  
and other positions of predictable artist reputation's building  
system of cultural industry, and become present even within the small  
media art culture circles.

gray) (area is protocol between a white cube and a black box.
gray) (area like it small and good and take-it-easy and don't wont to  
grow.
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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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 21 - 21 h or by appointment

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