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NUS – UNAFFIRMED ART SCENE

Exhibition in the Bačvice Aquaruim, Split, January 13 – 20, 2012

By: Anita Kojundžić

In times of growing unemployment and global recession, when we can hear only about budget cuts and savings, to choose art as your profession is a bold and risky move (hasn’t that always been the case?), because few can brag about how well off they are living on art, how they are not doing art in their spare time, after their day job that secures their sustenance. In such a context, it is legitimate to ask to what extent can one follow their creative impulse without constant deprivation and accepting various compromises? To somehow answer that question, a group of female students from Split has demonstrated one potential form of self-employment by creating a new social network and finding alternative ways to acquire experience, outside the official institutions and their procedures. In fact, they put on a one-week show of the unaffirmed art scene in the Bačvice Aquarium, which is, in my opinion, one of the best exhibition venues in Split for contemporary art, despite being unfinished.

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