works

A solo exhibition in Galleri Bergman in Helsinki. Drawings that i made using self made electronical/mechanical device that I controlled entirely manually. 2008

Kresimir being a worm-musician on an experimental sound event oganized by Shinji Kanki in Helsinki. 2008

(together with Petri Junttila)

Collaboration with Petri Junttila resulting in series of photographs. Petri and me went around the town with a medium format camera and a tripod. We tried to catch the essence of Helsinki that was hibernating, as it seems during the winter time, forever. 2008

"Interview with Seppo Renvall" - this is an interview i made (together with sound and camera) with one of the most important figures of experimental film and video in Finland. DV 31:30, 2008

Shinji Kanki on piano and me performing, together on an event organized again by Shinji Kanki and Matt Chaumont (ImprovHelsinki) 2007/2008

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - every scene is continuously repeated until viewer looses the urge for the new visual material - then starts to discover all the details of the repeated scene. The same happens with the sound - one from series of sound fragments is continuously repeated. The blank screen, as same as silence, brings back the missing content - the images or the sound. DV 11:20 2007

Hypnotizing session and hypnotic contract. Together with Marion Ermenault, 2007

"dog" a German shepherd dog, filmed in front of the estonian pension. quite a young dog, i thought while filming it, otherwise it wouldn't be as happy as it was. it needed some company. after, while watching the footage, i noticed that the breath, dog's breath was extraordinary, alive, amplified by the camera's microphone. then, the continuation of the video happened in the sound booth, where i yelled as much as i could, instinctively, yelling and telling what i want. it was the same story in my mind, the dog and me, both young, yelling. now i think that as i was filming the dog, i would like to film people more. usually they are not natural so it is pretty strange. i have to find the real, natural environment to film humans, acting naturally. DV 03:59, 2007

untitled - christmas atmosphere in the countryside near Riihimäki. DV 04:22, 2007

pop'n'koch (as rock'n'roll) is a collaboration with a german painter Johannes Koch. after couple of experimental sound sessions, Matthew Chaumont, who had an experimental sound event called ImprovHelsinki, invited us to perform there. we perform behind semi-transparent surface. stroboscope light is lighting our bodies and thus cast our shadows over the surface. 2007

3'44'' - the original name was "4'33'' - reinterpretation", but by accident it got the different name. i am still now confused between the two - 3'44'' and 4'33''. DV 03:44, 2007

untitled - camera is attached to my right foot. moves are very rough and mechanical. the vision given to a part of body with a different function, gives a new function to vision also. the world as we see it is not always beautiful and smooth. vertigo brought by monotonous sound of steps and ourselves, walking too fast without stopping. DV 07:30, 2007

untitled experimental sound work, build upon the sound of the wind, together with video of random events, digital zoom and camera's stabilizing system as something to play with. DV 3:31, 2007

"electric motor" - I started to experiment with one electric motor a couple of weeks before I made this video. I applied to perform on placard - an experimental sound event, that was transmitted on several radio stations around the world. I didn't know what I will perform, since I don't really have any experience in making music or sound, especially not in front of others. But since I started to change my point of view, what music or sound is and the whole world of this huge unexplored terrain, that I grasped into just suddenly, opened. I don't want to call myself a visual artist just because of my educational background, I am also a sound artist and a musician. So just one day in my studio I was playing with the motors and amplifying the sounds they produced simply by putting them close to the microphone. First alone with my headphones, then in front of other people broadcasted on the radio. It was successful and I continued with it to put it together with the video. As with security camera, that is perfect for close shots, the wide angled lens is sucking in everything it gets into contact - hair, skin, or Jussi's nose. DV 06:07, 2007

"long wave" a friend, Lauri, was tuning the scale on a radio. i don't know if this video would be interesting for anyone who doesn't know Lauri, but that is how it is, sometimes it is just good to present something that is personal and doesn't connect to anything. for myself, lauri is mysterious, unpredictable, with great sense of humor. it is fun to see him in action, as an experimental sound artist. DV 03:11, 2007

"after the football match" the feeling i have now towards this video is - at that time, i felt that i made it with the good measure, nothing maybe too much, but maybe yes, i thought it was too much. during the time, the feeling grew, i don't feel so confident about it. i don't know if i will ever put my poetry in my video works. still, i feel the quality of video, as video, without sound, the passing through the wall and scrubbing the razor blade down my face, it seems that i was there in the right moment. in any case, the text i wrote, was the text i have written after the great disappointment, after the football match - the world championship two thousand and six, when Croatia played draw game against Australia. i felt that i didn't want to do anything else, but take pencil and write couple of lines that would make me calm, i took a microphone and tested to read the written text couple of times, to hear how the quality of words changes with my voice. DV 07:01, 2007

Matt Chaumont in Sydney and me in Helsinki - beerbrewing at Sinebrychoffin Puisto. Matt was in Sydney and i was in Helsinki. Two people that shared same studio made a deal to setup an installation for the "Unknown city" event in Helsinki, organized by Erkki Soininen. The event took place in various places to give people the chance to experience the city in a new light - same places, different events, minimal interventions that activate surroundings. Our installation was in the small tower in Sinebrychoffin puisto ("the Sinebfychoff's park").

untitled experimental video collage, DV 19:16, 2006

untitled - black and white eight mm, with its materiality and physical beauty hardly needs any intervention to give it anything that it would need to be even more than actually is in the tiny grain, vinyl, plastic, or whatever it is, the metalized silver and some chemical, light that does all the magic. the memory, the quality of time spent then, makes me really nostalgic when i look at this piece again. it doesn't have a name, it doesn't have a story, just Helsinki in winter and early spring time, viewed with eyes of Croatian guy who is almost more tourist than student, in love, disappointed, depressed, lost, more then ever, alive at that time. super8 transfered to DV 06:43, 2006

surveillance camera (artist discovers dirty socks) i left camera turned on for a longer period of time. in the end, artist found socks. DV 00:54 2006

"i learned morse code in the army but never actually used it" by using morse code (with visual binary code of standing and sitting), i formed simple messages. DV 02:28, 2006

i organized poetry evening as a quick shock therapy for wakening up creativity reserves, without any special reason. during one day i concentrated to write as much poems i could, without thinking about their quality. it succeeded, i was able to make maybe fifteen poems. i read them aloud, i sang, visitors seemed to liked it, because they felt comfortable to stand up and dance, have a drink and join in the end relaxing sauna.

"what is the time" - i stood on a bridge in Helsinki and ask a person passing one of the only questions i learned in Finnish - "mitä kello on?". (from the video: - i need a woman - she will warm my heart - and we will wash the dishes together) DV 03:03, 2006

"tri dogadaja" ("three occasions") after finding out more about my family, all the unneccesarry conflicts that were aging more and more, without being solved, i did this video that gave me enough spirit to go through the days when i was alone enough. three stories as three occasions gave a new dimension to my artistic expression. DV 14:20, 2005

i would like to meet someone new, to be in love, for love would inspire me instantly. i lost my tooth while eating cake. electric steel etching, 2004

"the birth of an artist", performance and sculpture at the Eight Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, 2003

"areas inhabited by...", series of collages at the First Drava Art Annale

recording my presence in front of a working surface. applying it on media, then repeating the whole process. there is one small step in mind of a houswife who can sew and knit, to become an artist. it happens rarely, but if it does, sewing and knitting in a same way becomes unbearable. artist shouldn't be afraid to be craft-producer but should always keep in mind that art is something different.

an installation on ironing board

performance and paintings from a first solo exhibition. i hired a person that although not an artist, curageously performed even better than me.

interesting people and situations sometimes - waiting in the line for eating.

artist's working place is virtually everywhere. working at sleep and in bed is very serious job, but mostly underestimated because everyone can do it. stills from video, 2002

always the same refrains coming from my stomach to remind me that i am hungry. a spirit, ready to start a new revolution is awaken in me, but how can i call for revolution when a lust for ordinary life is tearing me apart? series of photos, 2002

Pero Mrnarevic and me walked more than 200kms to realize that we have to give up our performance idea. still - to walk from Zagreb to Klagenfurt and up to the mountain in the end, was quite fun.

Ivan Ozetski, again filmed one of my first performances in Zagreb.

Ivan Ozetski, a Croatian visual artist, was the first to recognize the playfulness and sincere performative intentions of a simple person that comes from a small village from Hrvatsko Zagorje (me). Ivan starts to take photos of me - he was the first one that encouraged the spirit that will evolve through the years of artistic development.