Picture In Public Space – Homeless Procject

The Serbian artist Milovan DeStil Marković has been realizing a series of the «Homeless Project» on town squares of commercial and business areas in Berlin, Belgrade, Tokyo and other cities since 2002. In this lecture, he will introduce the «Homeless Project» and talk about the meaning of image in public space, whom it belongs to as well as who owns the public space? In Marković‘s portraits of homeless men, we face pictures of individuals who are anonymous to us, as they belong to a social group that each society they live in tends to make invisible. These text portraits are based upon interviews Marković performed with homeless men in various world capitals. They represent the men‘s identities through their life stories; the real person is transfigured via an autobiographical text that is fixed onto canvas with pigments.

Vortrags- und Gesprächsreihe zur Kunst im öffentlichen Raum und zu neuen künstlerischen Strategien. Eine Zusammenarbeit des Master of Fine Arts Programms der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar mit dem ACC.

Vortrag in englischer Sprache