Artist Speed Dating - Sisak

'Artist Speed Dating'is a project that brings together local artists, curators, community, citizens and exhibition visitors in the popular dating form. Speed dating is a formalized matchmaking process or dating system whose purpose is to encourage people to meet a large number of new people, usually lovers or partners.
Following speed dating roles participants rotate to meet each other over a series of short "dates" lasting from 3 to 8 minutes depending on the number of artists and participants. At the end of each interval, participants are signalized to move on to the next table.
The aim of the project is to familiarize people, trough direct contact, with the cultural and political ideas coming from their local community.
Generally project is inspired by the process of communication, introducing with others, recognizing between each other and presenting ourselves to the other which is reduced to scanning codes, generating sets of quick elimination questions, creating basic limited profile information. Through my work I want to investigate and detect how these processes affect the person's identity, their it's own perception and judgments of another. How does instant experiences affect the quality of life and communication.

Participating artists:

KRISTINA MAREKOVIĆ
KATARINA FABIJANIĆ
PETRA BRNARDIĆ
MARTINA MIHOLIC
MARIJAN GLAVNIK ALEM BIOČIĆ
MARIJAN CRTALIĆ
STJEPKO RUPČIĆ
IVAN NOVAK

As a part of 'Artist Speed Dating'in Sisak we conducted a survey which questioned the position of the local artists. One of the questions was : Would you be in a relationship or go for a date with a visual artist? Majority answered yes because artist are people too.

Would you be in a relationship or go for a date with a visual artist?

a) Yes, they are people too.
b) Yes, they are not hard to impress, they know how to admire nothing.
c) Only if he/she is from Sisak.
d) Why not ?
e) Only if he/she is not from Sisak.
f) Only if he/she had show in Lauba Gallery.
g) Only if he/she is in Nadan Vidosevic collection.
h) Only if he/she is in Marinko Sudac collection.
i) Yes, definitely. They have remarkable skills.
j) Yes, because I want to be someone's muse.
k) Yes, because I love when someone reads me Derrida before I fall asleep.
l) Yeah, I guess. They don't make any money, but amount of free booze that goes with them covers everything.
m) Yes, I will be finally winning in Pictionariu.
n) Yes, I heard that after the art historian, artists are best in bed.
o) Oh, no way, my grandmother said to stay away from artists and musicians.
p) No, because they always talk just about themselves.
q) I don't think so, aren't they a bit strange?
r) Yes, because art turns me on.
s) It's a good idea, I'll have the best selfies of all of my friends.
t) No, peace and stabistrongty are the most important to me, and I heard that some dangerous activities are part of their art practices.
u) Will this affect my relationship with my family?
v) No, because they love their cameras more than me.
w) Yes, with them, everything seems easier in strongfe.
x) Aren't they a bit promiscuous?
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