Tač.ka

The Tač.ka Fine Arts Association was established in Prijedor on 18 February 2007. It includes nine former and current students of the Painting and Graphic Arts Departments of the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka. The Association’s goals are the promotion of artistic potentials and culture as unavoidable factors of the development of a healthy community, as well as networking with similar groups and associations.

Dajan Špirić
Born in 1984 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed secondary school in Banja Luka. He is an undergraduate of the Academy of Arts, Department of Graphic Art in Banja Luka in the class of Professor Zoran Banović.

Boris Eremić
Born in 1981 in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed grammar school in Prijedor. Graduated from the Academy of Arts, Department of Painting in Banja Luka in the class of Professor Radomir Knežević.

Dragan Inđić
Born in 1983 in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed secondary school in Prijedor. He is an undergraduate of the Academy of Arts, Department of Graphic Art in Banja Luka in the class of Professor Nenad Zeljić.

Milica Tošić
Born in 1984 in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She completed grammar school in Prijedor. Graduated from the Academy of Arts, Department of Painting in Banja Luka in the class of Professor Radomir Knežević.

Igor Sovilj
Born in 1981 in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed secondary school in Prijedor. He is an undergraduate of the Academy of Arts, Department of Painting in Banja Luka in the class of Professor Veso Sovilj.

Mladen Bundalo
Born in 1986 in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed secondary school in Prijedor. He is the 3rd year student of the Academy of Arts, Department of Graphic Art in Banja Luka in the class of Professor Branko Miljuš.

Milijana Grabovica
Born in 1980 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She completed secondary school in She completed secondary school in Banja Luka. Graduated from the Academy of Arts, Department of Graphic Art in Banja Luka in the class of Professor Zoran Banović.

Jovana Marjanović
Born in 1984 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She completed secondary school in Prijedor. Graduated from the Academy of Arts, Department of Graphic Art in Banja Luka in the class of Professor Zoran Banović.

Sanja Kovačić
Born in 1982 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She completed secondary school in Banja Luka. Graduated from the Academy of Arts, Department of Graphic Art in Banja Luka in the class of Professor Zoran Banović.

Activities and projects:
2008: Imaginary BiH Pavilion, student campus, (Banja Luka); Review for Cultural Acupuncture TAČ.KA. 2007: Interventions in space – visual and audio, Gallery96 (Prijedor);  Street actions, interventions in public spaces (Prijedor); Participation at the Dani Duge Festival (Ljubija); Ars Kozara07, Land Art Laboratory (Kozara); Banski Dvor- Music Pavilion (Banja Luka)

“An Imaginary Pavilion”, 2007
A digital print, installation (iron, wool, nylon, paint, rope, paper, sheep faeces)
Sizes: various

During their visit to the 2007 Venice Biennale, Tač.ka realized a performance called “Full-stop on Non-participation of BiH at the Venice Biennale”. We installed a black full stop, 80-centimeters in diameter and made of cardboard, either in front of, or on the official Biennale exhibits. Its use was not unilateral and was not intended to provide an esthetic supplement. It changed the method and principle of connecting with artworks, thus changing their contextual connotations. It was presented with/on specific works made by individual artists, continuously moving to and from those works, across the field of mimeses, metaphor and presentation. They entered into the field of esthetic activity and, through photographs, changing and moving it from one to another context all the time. Moving from one to another artwork, in a constant transformation of norms enabled us to draw the shape of an imaginary Bosnian-Herzegovinian pavilion into the format of the 52nd Biennale of Venice.

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