Maja Bajević: Dressed Up, seven-hour performance. Photo: Danica Dakić, SCCA

In 1999 Maja Bajević staged her seven-hour long performance Dressed Up at the City Gallery Collegium Artisticum as part of the MINIMUM exhibition. The performance involved her cutting a fabric that had the map of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia printed on it into a self-tailored cut, that is, she slit and reshaped the borders with the accompanying sound of a sewing machine that evokes the rattle of machine guns. 

The work will be shown at the upcoming exhibition Realize! Resist! React!, Performance and Politics in the 1990s in the Post-Yugoslav Context.

The opening of the exhibition: June 24, 2021, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova.