Review article

The Sliding I in Ivan Faktor’s Work: Between Factography and Fiction

Leonida Kovač ; University of Zagreb, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The text focuses on the coherent subject category deconstruction procedures in the works by contemporary Croatian artist Ivan Faktor. Fritz Lang’s cinematic opus exists as a permanent referent in Ivan Faktor’s multimedia works produced during the last two decades. In the procedures of the works articulation based above all on the principles of editing and coincidence, Faktor appropriates certain Lang’s motifs bringing them into relation with the details of his own biography. In the consequent resemantisation processes a position of the first person singular becomes the sliding territory, the interrogative mode of being that challenges the meaning of history and identity concepts, redefining the notion of media in a sense of a complex social institution.

Keywords

identity; medium; coincidence; editing; sound; resemantisation; history; memory; subject; projection

Hrčak ID:

82555

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/82555

Publication date:

17.4.2012.

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