As part of the activities accompanying We, Highlights, the exhibition of students of the Banja Luka Academy of Arts staged at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, visitors will have a chance to see a series of performances called A Ballet for the Museum by Marina Božić, to be held daily between 2 and 15 July, beginning at 8 p.m.
As the starting point of her deliberations about the exhibition, Marina Božić quotes Goran Trbuljak (1973), who said that the fact that somebody has been given a chance to exhibit is more important than that which will be shown in that exhibition. She will use her performance art to mark the premises and grounds of the Museum as the venue of her activities in the forthcoming period.
The artist transforms the kinetics found in the works of the Group Zero into performative, repetitive movements/actions in dialogue with space, building her own series of perfromance acts titled A Ballet for the Museum. The perfromances may be categorised into two groups, of which the first explores space and communicates with the exhibits, the goal of which is to conquer space and become assimilated – and so become part of the collection on show – and which will be staged at random times during the day. The second group of performances will start at 8 p.m., with the artist marking the premises of the museum as her studio, i.e. her exercise and performance range, or the range of her actions in a general sense.