Title
The Birthday Ritual
Date
2013
Medium
Performance Documentation as digital color video, with sound, 19:52 min.
To watch the Day 7 of the 7-day performance for video
Click on the image︎︎︎
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Medium
Gelatin silver print and letterpress panel
Dimensions
Photograph (Day 5 of 7): 45 x 45 inches (114.3 cm x 114.3 cm)
Edition
1 of 10 + 2 AP
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
In November 2013 after living in the US for already five years I decided that I want to stay here for good! I felt that New York is truly my home and that I am becoming someone new here. So seven days before my 28'th birthday I rented an isolated cottage in the woods in Redfield, New York where I wanted to shed my past life and welcome my new self by purifying my body through strict fasting for 6 days. During that time I performed for the camera a set of physical and spiritual acts which ranged from several hours on the first day till just minutes on the last day, due to my body's weakness. I completed the ritual on the seventh day, my birthday the December 1st. Archival sound footage from the battle of Vukovar (My hometown in Ex-Yugoslavia) in 1991, in which my father fought is mixed-in the sound of the video.
︎Homage to Andrei Tarkovsky
Performance and Video Documentation by Branislav Jankić
Foley Design and Sound Mix by Stefan Weich
The Birthday Ritual
Date
2013
Medium
Performance Documentation as digital color video, with sound, 19:52 min.
To watch the Day 7 of the 7-day performance for video
Click on the image︎︎︎
Medium
Gelatin silver print and letterpress panel
Dimensions
Photograph (Day 5 of 7): 45 x 45 inches (114.3 cm x 114.3 cm)
Edition
1 of 10 + 2 AP
ABOUT THE PROJECT
In November 2013 after living in the US for already five years I decided that I want to stay here for good! I felt that New York is truly my home and that I am becoming someone new here. So seven days before my 28'th birthday I rented an isolated cottage in the woods in Redfield, New York where I wanted to shed my past life and welcome my new self by purifying my body through strict fasting for 6 days. During that time I performed for the camera a set of physical and spiritual acts which ranged from several hours on the first day till just minutes on the last day, due to my body's weakness. I completed the ritual on the seventh day, my birthday the December 1st. Archival sound footage from the battle of Vukovar (My hometown in Ex-Yugoslavia) in 1991, in which my father fought is mixed-in the sound of the video.
︎Homage to Andrei Tarkovsky
Performance and Video Documentation by Branislav Jankić
Foley Design and Sound Mix by Stefan Weich