MADE OF INNOCENT CRIME (2024)
"Made of Innocent Crime" is the title of a duo show presented at the Galerie Historischer Keller, part of the Berlin municipal space Zitadelle Spandau (May 16-July 14, 2024).
The work grows from (and included) the project Drops of Water (2021), and included Dead Dana (2019).
In addition to these works were prints from the Drops of Water archive, a performance with Sophie Braun and Tim Luther (A Performance with String in 3 Acts), and an interactive audio installation created with Tom Claudon (Part of Everything).
PART OF EVERYTHING
A collaboration with Tom Claudon, this interactive installation lets audiences influence the soundscape of the space using clones of the same mother plant.
A PERFORMANCE WITH STRING IN 3 ACTS
Performed by and developed with Sophie Braun and Tim Luther, this performance is an investigation of entanglement and disentanglement. It was performed for the Vernissage of "Made of Innocent Crime".
(Film still top: (c) Lukas Sweetwood; Photo bottom right: (c) Anastasia Yevstafieva)
SABA SAVTA RESPONSE
Drops of Water: Saba and Savta Response is another channel video synched to the original Drops of Water (2021) and is a commentary of my grandparents, Prof. Yoram Avnimelech and Mira Avnimelech, in response to Drops of Water, a film inspired by and intertwined with them. Audiences had the possibility of tuning in to both films simultaneously for an added perspective.
Branislav Jankic and Dana Melaver have developed complex artistic approaches and formal languages in order to approach different interpretations of the “self” and possibilities for its staging.
The body plays a central role here. The question of its nature and its physical and metaphysical limits is negotiated in video, photography, sculpture and performance.
Biographical and geopolitical contexts are equally important here. The intercultural roots of Dana Melaver and Branislav Jankic open up specific perspectives on the subject of threatened corporeality.
How can their aesthetic representation be produced in the face of (ideological) historical ruptures? Through references to ancient myths and the development of an alter ego, Made of Innocent Crime explores dimensions of guilt and trauma.
In other words, the focus is on the process of putting oneself in the place of something else.
– Julien Rathje, Curator of “Made of Innocent Crime” (originally written in German)
