From “EYE TO I“ to “I TO EYE“

The well-known conceptual (anti)artist Goran Đorđević (1950), who for a considerable part of his career problematised the issues of the system of contemporary art, and, at the same time, of art itself, under the name of Gregor Mobius, focused his attention on the problem of deciphering the instructions for his own use contained in the DNA, and also directed his attention towards questions of the development of the biosphere as a self-conscious being. We are talking about a personality who, in his work, problematised the ruins of the systems that have remained behind us, whilst, on the other side of the Möbius strip, in these moments when we are clearly entering a new historical epoch, he turns his gaze back again to the issue of preserving life and further evolutionary developments.

Zoran Todorović (1965) is an artist who mostly works in the field of new media and transmedia artistic practices, through video performance, actions and installations. In his works, he thematises issues of biopolitical administration and control. He recognises the body as a field of political struggle, and therefore in his work he treats the body and bodily resources radically, exploring the sensory fields of the relationship between the body and the machine, and the new biomedical procedures and conditions of exploitation.

Vladan Joler (1977), a visual artist and researcher, explores in his maps and cartographic essays new models of exploitation and extractivism, and thus provides us with the possibility of staging the acute phase of the contemporary social situation, i.e. looking at the relationships that exist between the elements of the system of technological exploitation and the principles of contemporary extraction.

Finally, the artistic practice of Igor Simić (1988) is also characterised by a hybrid expression of several media, whose boundaries he examines, expands and combines – video art, film, philosophical essay, storytelling, and recently also the field of computer games, music and lecture performance. His cross-media projects are based on the philosophical-essay narrative, which sometimes follows and sometimes opposes the nature of cinematographic expression and media procedure, while thematising issues of the relationship between man and machine, the profitability of interpersonal relationships, and various forms of exploitation of people and other planetary resources.

By crossing the different paths of these works and texts, we believe that we can experience a more profound reflection of the times. In the light of that reflection, things can become visible in a new way. And that is the meaning of the existence of the two titles of this edition, which on its back presents the inversion of the name on the front page I TO EYE. The contents of this edition, placed between the title EYE TO I on the front page and I TO EYE on the back, offers a contribution to the possibility of a different (new) way of seeing things.