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ARTEMIC #7 | Maja Hodošček’s film If You Remember, I Always Talked about the Future
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Curator Igor Španjol has chosen Maja Hodošček’s film If You Remember, I Always Talked about the Future (2013). You can watch the video on the following link.

 

“The world has ground to a halt, and humanity’s dependence on uncontrollable or unfamiliar circumstances has given rise to a specifically modern anxiety. Boris Groys addressed such cosmic anxiety as the curator of the 2016 Triennial of Contemporary Art U3 entitled Beyond the Globe. Rather than exploration of space he was interested, among others, in the organization of life on Earth, especially the potential of artistic explorations of perspectives of physical immortality. Among the first works he chose for the show was Maja Hodošček’s film, featuring a young protagonist trying to imitate former Yugoslavia’s late president Josip Broz Tito. The fascination with the former way of life despite the lack of an actual experience of it, the significance of mediated, second-hand images, memories, and archives, the simultaneous proximity and distance of the historical moment, manifest in the young man as embarrassment. The utopian attempt at some kind of costume reincarnation is thus not a simple case of escaping into the past, but can be understood primarily as inability to articulate the present position, possibly also in the time of the current pandemic.”

 
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