Adela Jušič will performatively create a work entitled Labour of Love (authors: Adela Jušič, Andreja Duganžić) on the wall that surrounds ACC Metelkova mesto (Masarykova cesta, Maistrova ulica) from Saturday, 26th to Monday, 28th March 2016. You are kindly invited to watch her performance during that time, but also to join us at the final opening of the work on Monday, 28th March at 18:00.

Free of charge, woman reproduces the workforce that is quintessential to capitalism. She births, brings up, serve and loves this workforce, which capitalism will then use (exploit). Her work is entirely degraded, skilfully masked into a labour of love, and as such, not considered as a socio-economic activity of value, but as a woman’s natural service to society. A woman performing domestic work represents the entire force of human work, permanently exploited to benefit capitalist accumulation. The fight to denaturalize domestic work is a political fight. The housewife’s position and the fight for her liberation determine the position of all other women. The work is inspired by the work of Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, Silvia Federici and the “Wages for Housework” movement.

Andreja Dugandžić (1978, Sarajevo) finished the studies of Anthropology in Utrecht and attained her M.A. in Human Rights and Democracy in SE Europe at the universities in Sarajevo and Bologna in 2004. In the last decade she is active on the cultural and artistic scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina and former Yugoslavia region as a producer, organiser, artist and activist. In art she flirts with different forms and uses narratives as a primary means of expression.

Adela Jušić (1982, Sarajevo) lives and works in Sarajevo. Her socially engaged practice has its foundation in personal experience and memory. She mostly works through video performance, using narrative and her voice as the main elements of expression and often works with text. Jušić graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Sarajevo and attained ERMA Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democracy at Sarajevo and Bologna universities. She is a member and a co-founder of the CRVENA Association for Art and Culture as well as its project coordinator for 6 years. She has exhibited in more than 100 international exhibitions including Manifesta 8 in Murcia, Spain, Videonale Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, Image Counter Image, Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany etc. She has participated in several artists’ in residence programes (ISCP, New York, Kulturkontakt, Vienna, iaab, Basel) and won Young Visual Artist Award for the best young Bosnian artist in 2010, Henkel Young Artist Price CEE in 2011 and special award at the Belgrade October Salon in 2013.

Further information: http://adelajusic.wordpress.com

The work was realized as part of :
My house is your house, too, Sarajevo, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2014
MUNDUS VADIT RETRO, Kibla portal, Maribor, Slovenia, 2014
Loft Project Etagi, public space solo project at the international conference “Domestic Workers in the Countries of Central Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union: Postsocialist Migrations and Inequalities”, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2015

Co-production: Cultural Gender Practices Network with a financial support of Fund Kultura nova
Free entrance.

ACC Metelkova mesto map