Young Serbian Artist Adventures
            2022-24

multimedia performative campaign

2024

Young Serbian Artist Art Hotline
Porto (PT), Geneva (CH), Weimar (GER)

① Hotline Talkshow, CRL - Central Eletrica, Porto
② Solo Exhibition 11m3 Projektraum Weimar
③ Group Exhibition ‘’Lovely Autonomy’’, La Collective & Bowie Gallery, Geneva

"Young Serbian Artist Adventures" is a series of adventures fueled and shaped by the active participation of its audience. Through different open calls, the protagonist offers various services, questioning and offering her artistic attributes.

Adventure 2022-3:
In order to fulfill one of the requirements for obtaining a German visa, a young Serbian artist sets out on an adventure to find a job in the art field. The poster with the open call was pasted in several cities in Germany, as well as in her home city, Belgrade. Within the project, until April 2023, Kracunovic has been offered 18 different artistic jobs: from which she was hired 2 times in Serbia, and 5 times in Germany.

Adventure 2024:
This second multimedia adventure serves as a hotline, allowing the public to engage in conversations with a young Serbian artist. Through these exchanges, callers can gain insights, share thoughts, ask questions, or simply share a joke or concern – anything they feel compelled to discuss or dare to ask.

Essentially, it is her – the young Serbian artist – who offers services, facilitates conversations and utilizes all her artistic attributes: tone of voice, strong Slavic accent, communication skills, ethnical background, personal history, and expertise in contemporary topics. This action humorously questions the role of the artist
as a versatile communicator. By offering a range of services and fostering dialogue, Kracunovic playfully challenges the conventional notion of the
artist as solely a creator of art.

The adventure has taken place between 4th - 18th June 2024 parrallely in three different locations (Porto, Geneva, Weimar)

Hydra            2023 

video performance, 00:17:30

Performers: Denise Lee, Lucia Gonzalez, Rand Ibrahim, Laura Leal, Leila Keivan, Jana Imo
Camera: Yavor Krasimirov Minchev, FangSheng Chou
Sound: Yavor Krasimirov Minchev, Ilija Đorđević

‘’Hydra’’ is a performative investigation, with the mission to master the individual female voices in the public space and dig into their unspoken, using the voice as a discipline in the discourse of personal agency and authenticity. The digging aims to dramatize the individual voices into a collective one – a matriarchal figure of voices in resistance to a patriarchal landscape, being a contemporary tale.

The piece, as a many-voiced Hydra creature, is a consequence of the process and voice workshops held by the artist, dealing with the autobiographies of the six female agents, their voices, tongues, and wombs, after which they chose one sound to place into the hole.


2023
‘’Hydra’’ was awarded as a “Most Successful Artist and Work”︎︎︎ at the 14th International Biennale of Young Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (MKD)

‘’Hydra’’ was kindly funded by the Frauenfonds and Diversitätfonds, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Don’t worry, it’s out of control           2023

Nadja Kracunovic & Nicklas Koppe
performative large ensamble

short teaser︎︎︎

“Don’t worry, it’s out of control” is an interdisciplinary art duo tackling environmental collapses in forms such as large ensambles, concerts, performances, etc. The first piece was realized as an imaginary dream in the year 2100, it illustrates current climatic, ecological and social scenarios. Inspired by contemporary jazz, symphonic harmony and non-Western rhythms, combined with spoken word, present views and feelings towards the future are preserved in an artistic time capsule.

Reform, sweet Reform
          2024

video performance, 00:04:26
Ausländerbehörde Weimar, Germany

Kracunovic humorously intertwines the art of baking the Reform cake – a traditional delight on the Serbian table – with her homeland's journey into the European Union. Through the lens of a playful reporter persona, she draws parallels between the sweet steps of cake-making and the intricate path to EU accession, adding a gram of sarcasam to the traditional recipe.

CODE:O            2023

performative diary reading
Duration: 00:25:00

Material Girls, IRRE Space (DE)
recording︎︎︎

‘’CODE:O’’ is a technique of diary reading - performing a personal content while interacting with different settings and materials. It’s the code that addresses all the holes in the female body: of a mistress, a muse, a daughter, and a lover while guarding the cavities. Kracunovic uses her body and voice to narrate the diary texts in an intimate setting, offering a new language to the audience.