TRANSFIGURATION

DAY 1 – PASSION

Transfiguration is a durational performance in which, Branko Milisković, over a period of three consecutive days, performs three of his most demanding performances, produced over the last 15 years of his career.

The First day entitled PASSION is the embodiment of mourning. Androgynous figure STABAT MATER, walks among the tombs and sings in opera manner for three hours. The first three lines of a 13th Century hymn to Mary, who stands at the foot of the Cross and mourns her son, Jesus Christ, entitled STABAT MATER DOLOROSA (lat. The sorrowful mother was standing), she mourns human suffering and thus transforms herself.

Duration. 3 hours

Branko Milisković, performans i izložba TRANSFIGURATION/ TRANSFIGURACIJA 1. DAN : PASSION / PASIJA CZKD Centra za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, Beograd 01. septembar 2021. © 2021. ph vladimir opsenica

DAY 2 – METAMORPHOSIS

The Second day, METAMORPHOSIS, nude body originally titled “710196”, is positioned on the table, intensively present, and the audience is invited to come on stage, to surround it and walk around it in silence, and become part of the entire mise en scène.

Duration. 3 hours

Branko Milisković, performans i izložba TRANSFIGURATION/ TRANSFIGURACIJA 2. DAN : METAMORPHOSIS/METAMORFOZA CZKD Centra za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, Beograd 02. septembar 2021. © 2021. ph vladimir opsenica

DAY 3 – TRIUMPH

The Third day, TRIUMPH, the day of Victory, is the culmination of Transfiguration. For three hours, Milisković waves the red flag, symbolically announcing the triumph after the period of suffering, victory of life and call to struggle.

Duration. 3 hours

Branko Milisković, performans i izložba TRANSFIGURATION/ TRANSFIGURACIJA 3. DAN : TRIUMPH / dan Pobede CZKD Centra za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, Beograd 03. septembar 2021. © 2021. ph vladimir opsenica

https://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/495734/IZBOR-KRITICARA-POLITIKE-NAJBOLjE-U-2021

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