Collected tales of mi(s)s(ed)fortune II by Nina Jan

Collected Tales of Mi(s)s(ed)Fortune II is a performance proposal by Nina Jan where an uncommon poetry book launch takes place. Through a challenging change of roles, the artist Nina Jan leads the audience through an improvised debate around the reality in the life of an artist. The performance takes place on May 1 in MOES, bar and restaurant in the basement of de Appel arts centre

Performance May 1: free entrance
Documentation: on show until June 7 at de Appel arts centre

In this process she gives away her own identity and becomes a mirror where different versions of herself come to life through her role players. How is this mind setting adapted by each of them? Up to what point is fiction part of the process? Poetry works as an alibi to bring up some uncomfortable questions around the artist’s condition nowadays.

In 2013, Nina Jan performed Collected Tales of Mi(s)s(ed)Fortune I in her hometown, Škofja Loka, Slovenia. Since then, to her surprise, every time she returns she meets people who are still discussing the experience of her performance. The audience response challenged the tempo of this event as something lost forever once the show is over.

In an attempt to revisit the performance she executed years ago and trace the way it keeps living in her viewer´s memory, a documentation of the performance will be presented in the basement of de Appel arts centre until May 10.

Nina Jan (Slovenia, 1986) is a conceptual artist, performer and writer. Her work covers the fields of performance art, installation, film and internet art. She often investigates audience-friendly ways for interactivity as well as questions the default settings of artistic media, artistic processes and the creative position of the author herself. She is also more and more drawn to investigate the concept of collective-making, which tiptoes into her work in various ways. Her project for her Master degree at the Filmacademie in Amsterdam involves an online platform called the Museum of (un)sent emails. Through its detailed use of museum-related structural elements and curatorial practices, this Museum aims to research the multitude of individual voices hidden among mass e-communication.

More information:
http://nina-mpom.org
www.museumofunsentemails.org
www.a-la-cart.com

Collected Tales of Mi(s)s(ed)Fortune II is organized by Renata Cervetto (1985, Argentina) in cooperation with KUD NUM and supported by Ammodo.