Pino Ivančić slaughtered a turkey. The turkey thus became the symbol of all lamb and suchlike animals turning on the spit to seal the deal of privatization agreements. The turkey was also the symbol of the victim, the workers who lost their lives at Uljanik shipyards, churning out ships, and those who lost thier jobs due to privatization of Uljanik (one of them was the artist himself, who was made redundant). The turkey was sacrificed in the end, as are some 5000 other turkeys daily at the Pazin based Puris meat plant. After the slaughter Puno Ivančić wished to barbecue the turkey on the spit at the Roman colony of Nezactium, but was stopped by the aghast citizens taking their coffee in front of the Remembrance Hall. Several lawsuits followed from Green Istria, the Public Health Institute, plus a police record...
H-Ister-i-ja Tour mitt humán preselitevJosip Pino Ivančić (HR)
performance, Pazin (HR), 2000
reenactment with Leo Vukelić, Student Center, Zagreb (HR), 2009
Josip Pino Ivančić (HR)
Josip Pino Ivančić is a performer, visual artist, and musician, known to the alternative cultural scene since the early 1970s, when he joined the circle of conceptualists and performance artists. At that time, he played “mental spirit music” with friends, and under the influence of Beuys he started the process of creating the so-called “social sculpture.” Thus he was already becoming part of a small group of conceptual artists who were actively questioning the socialist value system, primarily the meaning of labour and the position of workers.
Ivančić’s position outside the centre and his experience of working at the Uljanik shipyard gave him the right to radicalize his art even further. During the 1980s, he pursued his artistic interests at the intersection of music, performance, and visual arts, and since the 1990s, the public has known him as one of the most provocative Croatian performers and as an alternative experimenter with the new media.
Contact: jilista6@gmail.com
