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Snežana Arnautović Stjepanović Performed at the Opening of the Austrian Pavilion in Venice
Multimedia artist Snežana Arnautović Stjepanović stated that author Florentine Holzinger and her team recognized in her an energy they associated with an archetypal being of their work "Seaworld Venice," so they invited her to perform at the opening of the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art.
TL;DR
- Snežana Arnautović Stjepanović participated spontaneously in Florentine Holzinger's performance at the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
- Holzinger's team identified an archetypal energy in Arnautović Stjepanović for their work "Seaworld Venice."
- The performance featured water tanks, metal structures, and intense physical interactions with machinery.
- Arnautović Stjepanović, whose own work usually emphasizes silence and symbolism, found the radical and physically extreme nature of Holzinger's approach valuable for expanding her artistic perspective.
- She described her experience in a silk dress in a water tank as a metaphor for the struggle for survival, where clothing became part of a "fighting body."
- The performance treated the human body not as an object but as a "working, rebellious, and vulnerable being," a means of resistance and survival.
- Arnautović Stjepanović sees this collaboration as a continuation of her work with performance as a medium, drawing parallels to a retrospective of Marina Abramović's work in Belgrade.
- She believes contemporary performance is crucial for reflecting on social and existential issues, emphasizing art's active role in warning, provoking, and raising questions of responsibility.
- There is a hope to present this work in the Festival Sola 2027 program and to arrange a guest appearance by Holzinger in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum.