I Fight For My Right to be Different
TITLE
I Fight For My Right to be Different
DIRECTOR
Lia Perjovschi
COUNTRY
Romania
YEAR
1993
DURATION
6′
GENRE
Video Art
I Fight For My Right to be Different
(A performance made in the frame of Zona Project Timisoara Romania (the city where the anti-dictatorship revolution started in 1989; any fight starts with yourself...) In the 90s (and still now) the dictator Ceausescu was the only one accused of the entire degradation of life in Romania, not that he was innocent, but he would not have succeeded without the complicity of those around him, the silence of many... I wanted to accuse myself and accuse the public of fear... I built a double me that I tried to make it stronger, submerged it in a container with black pigment it became very heavy, it looked like a real body, I threw it against all the walls, I copied its fall, I hit the audience with it, they didn't move... I left, they staied...
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Lia Perjovschi
Lia Perjovschi, born in 1961 in Sibiu, is the founder and coordinator of CAA/CAA— the Contemporary Art Archive/Center for Art Analysis, an infor‐ mal institution functioning under different names since 1985, and of KM—the Knowledge Museum, an interdisciplinary and educational project based on the research started by the artist in 1999 and continuing until today. Her activities and works—“International Archive for Contemporary Art 1990–today,” “The Center For Art Analysis 1999– today,” “Timeline 1997–today,” “Diagrams/Mind Maps 1999–today” and the “Knowledge Museum Project 1999–today”—define a series of registers in working with information, in organising the various materials collected and archived and in producing a visual representation of the basic knowledge. The journey of her artistic practice from her body (the performances of the 1980s–1990s) to the body of knowledge (CAA/CAA, KM) opens up a personal storyboard—a space of postproduction and dialogue, of rethinking, recycling information and structuring ideas.
- DirectorLia Perjovschi
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- Project TitleI Fight For My Right to be Different
- Project TypeVideo Art
- Completion Date1993
- Country of originRomania
- Country of filmingRomania
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Lia Perjovschi
Lia Perjovschi, born in 1961 in Sibiu, is the founder and coordinator of CAA/CAA— the Contemporary Art Archive/Center for Art Analysis, an infor‐ mal institution functioning under different names since 1985, and of KM—the Knowledge Museum, an interdisciplinary and educational project based on the research started by the artist in 1999 and continuing until today. Her activities and works—“International Archive for Contemporary Art 1990–today,” “The Center For Art Analysis 1999– today,” “Timeline 1997–today,” “Diagrams/Mind Maps 1999–today” and the “Knowledge Museum Project 1999–today”—define a series of registers in working with information, in organising the various materials collected and archived and in producing a visual representation of the basic knowledge. The journey of her artistic practice from her body (the performances of the 1980s–1990s) to the body of knowledge (CAA/CAA, KM) opens up a personal storyboard—a space of postproduction and dialogue, of rethinking, recycling information and structuring ideas.