fingerprints on paper :: otisci prstiju na papiru
78 x 23 cm
2014
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In late 2012 and early 2013, I served as an intern at the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia. Internship was an integral part of the bilingual MA2 course UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Management that I attended at the time. My job consisted of sorting out, classifying and archiving project proposal materials which had previously arrived to the Ministry through regular post and were scattered around different offices. Needless to say, a simple online application form would have made each parties’ job easier and more efficient, yet I was made to understand that such changes require time to take place within the institution. My function of dusting off project proposals and putting them in the right place was completed successfully after several months.
During one particularly frustrating working day, the piece Presence / Blue Palette was made by dipping a finger into blue ink I found at one of the offices and making prints for as long as there was ink to make them. This was simultaneously an act of utter boredom and manifestation of perceived (intellectual) deterioration.
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Krajem 2012. i početkom 2013, bila sam stažista u Minsitarstvu kulture i informisanja Republike Srbije. Stažiranje bilo sastavni deo bilingvalnog MA2 kursa UNESKO katedre za Kulturnu politiku i menadžment koju sam pohadjala u dato vreme. Moj posao se sastojao iz sredjivanja, klasifikovanja i arhiviranja predloga projekata koji su pristigli poštom u Ministarstvo i bili rasuti po kancelarijama. Suvišno je reći da bi jednostavni formular za apliciranje putem interneta olakšao svima posao i pritom bio efikasniji, ali sam bila uveravana da je za takve promene u ovoj instituciji potrebno vreme. Moja funkcija brisanja prašine i stavljanja projekata na pravo mesto je bila uspešno završena nakon nekoliko meseci.
Tokom jednog posebno frustrirajućeg radnog dana, rad Prisustvo/Plava paleta je nastao tako što sam umočila prst u plavo mastilo koje sam našla u jednoj od kancelarija i pravila otiske dok se mastilo nije istrošilo. Ovo je bio simultano čin gotovo neizdržive dosade i manifestacija osećanja (intelektualnog) odumiranja.
