Citati.plakate [artycok.tv interview] is a public project conducted during several months in 2007. It was started as personal examination of historical interpretations of categories of gender in the context of higher education and was aiming at fostering public debate on mostly overlooked harmful impact and perpetuating prejudice through education. Citati.plakate consists of a series of posters that contain short quotations* made by very well known authors from different fields such as physics, philosophy or letters and is focusing on the presence of misogyny in serious literature.
Citati.plakate was initiated as an anonymous intervention in the city through putting up posters inside the city structures. The posters were accompanied by the informative website that was stated on each poster. The first stage of the project has shortly after its ignition provoked reactions on the posters themselves, discussions on several internet forums as well as e-mail correspondence with those who have addressed the e-mail stated on the project website. The second stage has taken place after exhibiting the posters in the Booksa gallery - but this time not anonymously. Now the project has intrigued a number of formal media (TV, printed press).
2007 public project, 2011 gallery installation
posters in public space and a website, multimedia installation
public presentations/exhibitions: multiple locations in the city of Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
*Translation of the quotes on the posters:
Never trust a twinkle in a woman’s eye! That must be the light coming trough her hollow head. Nikola Tesla
When laws gave women equal rights, as to the humans (men), they should have given them the same reason. Arthur Schopenhauer
He has to comprehend a woman as possession, ownership that can be locked up,as something that is preordained for submission and in it becomes perfect. Friedrich Nietzsche
Dear lad, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. Oscar Wilde
Woman is a being that dresses, babbles and undresses. Voltaire
There is one good principle that created order, light and man; and one bad principle that created chaos, dark and woman. Pythagoras
Citati.plakate was initiated as an anonymous intervention in the city through putting up posters inside the city structures. The posters were accompanied by the informative website that was stated on each poster. The first stage of the project has shortly after its ignition provoked reactions on the posters themselves, discussions on several internet forums as well as e-mail correspondence with those who have addressed the e-mail stated on the project website. The second stage has taken place after exhibiting the posters in the Booksa gallery - but this time not anonymously. Now the project has intrigued a number of formal media (TV, printed press).
2007 public project, 2011 gallery installation
posters in public space and a website, multimedia installation
public presentations/exhibitions: multiple locations in the city of Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
*Translation of the quotes on the posters:
Never trust a twinkle in a woman’s eye! That must be the light coming trough her hollow head. Nikola Tesla
When laws gave women equal rights, as to the humans (men), they should have given them the same reason. Arthur Schopenhauer
He has to comprehend a woman as possession, ownership that can be locked up,as something that is preordained for submission and in it becomes perfect. Friedrich Nietzsche
Dear lad, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. Oscar Wilde
Woman is a being that dresses, babbles and undresses. Voltaire
There is one good principle that created order, light and man; and one bad principle that created chaos, dark and woman. Pythagoras
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