teuta jonuzi @teutajonuzi - Tumblr Blog

Disconnect to Connect

In Celtic mythology, the in-between places were those places of transition, neither one thing, nor the other. Reflecting on our current global position, we find ourselves in an undefined territory of flux, reinforced by the illusion of endless opportunities, which seems to be the malady of the century. This territory is situated somewhere between two extremes; isolation or inclusion. Thinking of the phone booth as an Interstitial space, neither wholly public nor wholly private, provisional yet permanent. A place where one can be isolated from the surrounding world yet connected to another one of choice. Entering the Kunstzelle, one finds oneself in a constraining isolated space, where there is no option of connecting to someone else from the outside. Other elements that are added are the darkness around and the strange quietness. With no sound coming from the outside and no choice to connect with someone else, the only option here is to connect with one’s own thoughts, the sight sense is lowered and these thoughts run inside like noise.

Triggers of Identity

Thinking of a human being as an ever evolving representation of its own identity. What could describe me? Is it being constructed of the nonmaterial ideas created by me? Or quite the opposite laying on the other side of the spectrum? Conveyed through the many physical items that are being collected and bought by me and therefor in a way attached to me.

I’ve seen myself going back to what is familiar to me. The country where I grew up and have had my friends and family. Which is quite the mind fuck, because of a simple and clear reason. I always wanted to escape. Leave this good-for-nothing place with only few people that I thought were able to understand me.

More or less its this idea of escapism and movement. In an over exaggerating sense packing my stuff in a bag and never looking back. And yet do I feel like coming back? No. In the end effect its the conclusion of wanting to escape and maybe start again from a scratch.

A way of coping with this need of movement and being in a space were no one knows me. Getting lost and found again and spend time alone, walk around the city. It always amazed me how the most alienated place seemed so familiar. Thanks to the blurred distinction between memory and imagination. “Yes, yes, although in the absence of history, we have no choice but to interpose our own. And so I walk here because I have always walked in cities. I walk to bring my history to life.“ Virginia Woolf

This distinction is conveyed through the drawings representing either a memory or rather a mixture of the imagination and reality. Combination of my own visual and esthetical representation of the world.

In the conclusion its just a snapshot. A brief moment being visualised, here also as a linear translation. Nothing less then something you can look at. A reflection of my recent past and possible future.

Včera bolo dnes a dnešok neexistuje

Deconstructing text that was written in different spacial constructions by which I mean in a different personal and public spaces with a certain activity limitations (train, coffee shop, car..). Each text is a short poem written with a stream of consciousness technique. Like a direct reﬂection of a certain mental and emotional state of mind and body. This directly connects to a use of a semi transparent textile which also serves as a reﬂection, but the linear angle is now visible from right to left. Now the drawn text in a Slovak language becomes for most observers an image. On the walls you can see 5 drawings. Another visual representation or rather translation of these poems. Likewise these represent more classical yet another form of an image for the viewer. Final and quite literal form of a translation is a book. A hybrid between a dictionary and a notebook with my own personal notes, written in Slovak, German and English language.

The site speciﬁc installation consists of pieces of furniture which were found in the TransArts department. While working in the ‘white cube’ (an empty room) with all the stuff brought inside by me it became a sort of my ofﬁce/ working space. Suddenly the line between the pieces which I created and actuall furniture became non existent. Certain type of aesthetics is pushed on every single item presented in the room.

Melancholic futures;

Somewhere between the digital and the metaphysical me. Creating the perfect self by gluing parts of both the real, and so to say, unreal worlds together. Trying to remember the remotely happy parts of my past. Fixing it in my head and making it better. Maybe I was looking through a rose tinted glasses or perhaps a shattered glass ? If I remembered an event that I have tried so badly to leave in the past would projecting the pieces that were once part of it over it help me remember what it once used to be. Maybe I try to read a motivational quote every time I feel sad just to keep me sane. All of a sudden I remembered a toy from my childhood and the melody it played was stuck in my head. Did you know that it fell on the ground once? And someone fixed it yet the sound dragging itself goes on and on and on..

Mantra Luna Mae Heflin & Teuta Jonuzi 2017

;;ONGOING;;

A project for the Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (former War Ministry) in Vienna

“SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POETIC CAN BECOME POLITICAL AND SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POLITICAL CAN BECOME POETIC.” Francis Alÿs

That Moment When,

Recently came to my mind questions of how and where to create a vision. Even before you start planning it the moment that sets the whole atmosphere and gives you the kick to just start thinking about it. The vision is for me a space that is Metro to build this moment. This short film represents the moment way before and short before creating new idea. Then you enter Metro and that gives you the physical and mental space to create the thought of the idea that could happen.

Exact Representation

The possible past of these drawings represent how they look now. Each drawing was part of a concrete situation, which never happened. I recreated this event in my room so to say put myself in the position another space and time. In all these events could be paper used as a crucial medium. This paper was of course somehow deformed during action. I represented this damage by scratching the paper.After the paper was deformed I tried to flattern it. Still the scratches were visible enough to create small shadows here and there. These shadows served me as a subject for my drawings. At the end the subject becomes the object and vise versa.

workshop with Claudia Bosse; site specific intervention, some tryouts

Move Throughout Space

Move throughout space. it surrounds me and also moves with me. In a way I myself am deforming it so it would suit me. It is changing and adapting to my image. This can be possible by all the decisions, small and big that I am making every day.

This installation is part of the previously mentioned idea. It is discussing the relationship between human and space. What happens when I enter the room, no matter the activity. I drafted nine expressions that go one after the other in a linear axis and represent the stages from entering the room, everything in between and finally leaving it. This axis, is placed in the room. It’s a linear road even though I don’t have to move to experience it. It is an objective model. I created with the help of 3D modelling program my own visual language to form an object from each of these nine terms.

In the installation I used a stone on which I projected a jpg image made in the 3D modelling program. It shows one of nine objects (connection). I left the stone rough although i worked on it in a way. I tried to select the stone to be as similar as possible to the object it represents. A stone is a physical object with a set of different characteristics. On the stone I am screening an object which in the program is three-dimensional although it does not have any gravity or weight. It gains always the traits of the object on which it is displayed. Whether it’s on the computer, iPad or as in this case the stone. So its not just that something two-dimensional is entering space, but also it gains the weight and gravity of the stone, wall and pedestal on which it is projected.

On the walls there are scraped out outlines of the remaining seven objects. These outlines are making a site-specific version of another 3D objects. Working with a question of what is seen and what may not be. What may be an accident, a defect of the wall or an intentional interaction with the space. From distance a smooth surface, but from up close an object, a stain with a slightly visible dimension..

Next to the stone there is an iPad installed on the wall with a video on a loop. This video offers a look at each angle of another one of the nine objects (merge). Video contains a sound print of many words. According to Dictionary.com these words are synonyms of the word “merge”.

There is a window for an association in the installation itself. The elements corresponds with each other. At the same time the direct relation between the objects and the fundamental idea is missing.

*Recording Of A Written Text 02:06 Min

The options of your day-to day interactions with nature and the artificial around you. Not to get lost in your own mindset and be open to your surrounding was the main point (Schwerpunkt) of this work. Telling you what not to do could be as well useful as giving you advice of how to succeed in life. As to paraphrase French philosopher Jacque Derrida live on. Not just from day to day, but rather live with a certain intention and at least try to full fill it. The tool of “today” is internet. The use of the Web could be as well damaging as prosperous for your point of view.

The uncertain and hard to understand damaged words in the artwork symbolise the deformed informations one can find online. The phenomena of double checking could just as well mean, that you read false information not once, but twice. As I continued with my knowledge I never left it to Google to answer all my questions. It certainly helps you with self education, as you can do it from the comfort of your homes, where ever that could be. My idea of education and knowledge is wider then that. Just to walk around and discover the hidden beauty of tress and/or old buildings could uncover the deep down emotions that could be prosperous in your field of study/work.

On the cover of the vinyl are two drawings of my profile. They reference to the god 'Janus'. Which iin the older days was how my second name was written 'Janusi'. As one head is looking to the past and the other one to the future. God 'Janus' symbolise the beginning and the end of everything.

Foto; Antina Zlatkova

Quasi Children Of The Corns

corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn co...

*part1

*part2

*part3

The main idea for this work was a theory. And that its that the nature created us for much different world then we live in now. Its created us for a world were people lives in small groups of people and hardly knew someone that was much different from them. More important was for us current pleasure then distant goals. And the only thing we had to do was hunt for animals and reproduce. So I created in sims 3 in a fictional game, my entire apartment and myself. And its just like mine normal day. I woke up, I clean myself, get something to eat, I go to work or I stay home and work on my works. Then I go out to meet with my friends. And the interesting thing is that its a fiction but it represent real world and sometimes when people create fiction they imagine: big house, a pool nice car, and they have perfect body they always look perfect. But this fiction is much different, I don’t have any fancy stuff in mine apartment andI look like a mess. Its like this is reality but its not bad, I am happy in it. I read a lot and think about stuff and its mine own universe. I think its important to mix fiction and reality thats what I do most of the time. But I think it is important to realise the present and then you can create fiction.

#cildhood

Trending Blogs

Recently Viewed Blogs

teuta jonuzi