Introducing artists
BOŽENA KONČIĆ BADURINA took a degree in German and Russian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1995. She also took a BFA at the printmaking department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1996.
In her artistic work she uses and combines various media, with an emphasis on drawing, print, text and performance. She has organized a number of performances that often involve the public and invert the usual roles of performer and viewer within the performance. In her site-specific works she devotes particular attention to the nexus of relationships that arise between users/tenants of given spaces and their physical, architectural and historic features.
She exhibited her work in solo and group shows at home and abroad and received a number of prizes, among others: Third Prize at the 49th Croatian Film Art Review, Gold Medal for Use of Space for Performance (for Croatian selection) at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Best Exhibition Award in 2007 awarded by Croatian Association of Visual Artists.
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DUGA MAVRINAC is a research assistant at the Institute for anthropological research in Zagreb and an independent curator. In the past, her work focused on anthropology of home and domestic space in contemporary Croatia and Southeast Europe. The areas of her current research are domestic work, gender and migration studies, practices and ideas of care, ethnographies of work. Her PhD research at the University of Zagreb and the International Doctoral Program “Transformations in European Societies” a joint project of seven European Institutes and universities in Basel, Graz, Londonderry (University of Ulster, Magee Campus), Copenhagen, Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Murcia and Tel Aviv, is based upon long-term fieldwork with informal elder care workers in Italy and Croatia.
She investigates the applicability of methodological and theoretical concepts of cultural anthropology in several projects such as: “New, New Babylon” (Rijeka, 2008), “Stand up art action” (Rijeka 2009), “Ne (Istra) women” (Pula 2012), “The silent art of beekeeping” (Ethnographic Museum of Istria 2014.), “Between there and there: anatomy of temporary migrations” (IPAK 2015-17; Museum of Modern and Contemporary art Rijeka,2017). In 2018 she became a member of the editorial staff for a peer-reviewed journal “Visual Ethnography”.
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