2003 – 2007
At the Door, 2003
Video
52 min
Restless, 2003
Vide0
8 min
Shot in a single continuous take, Restless features the artist moving around an empty auditorium, continually changing seats. She climbs over rows and chairs, moving from the centre to the periphery, from the front to the back to the middle, as if searching for a seat that is more comfortable, that offers a better view, or that is in some other way “more right.”
At the heart of this rule-based video is a single task whose precise purpose remains deliberately undealt with. Exploring the relation between a human figure and space, the piece enacts a journey through both the physical space of an empty auditorium as well as the space of the frame of the image. The artist’s apparent search for a particular vantage point, or for a position that somehow ‘works’ points to a thread in Horvat’s work concerned with establishing presence, marking and figuring out one’s place, all while negotiating live this moment – here and now – live in front of the camera.
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Texts and media:
Evenings with WHW Akademija (link) – April 2022: Thinking Back to What You Said: a dialogue with the artist Tim Etchells.
“Kolebljivi video-subjekt Vlatke Horvat.” (pdf): Essay by Diana Nenadić (in Croatian).
Insults and Praises, 2003
Video
63 min
A collaboration with Tim Etchells
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Press:
Curating Discourse (pdf / link) – March 2008: Review by Sophie Risner of Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat: Insult & Praises and Threats & Promises at Art Sheffield.
About the Two of Us, 2007
Video
12 min
Oaths and Partisan Songs from Memory, 2002
Video
22 min
That Would (Y/N), 2002
Video
7 min
Extinguishers, 2001
Video
6 min
