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Mis(s)placed Women? (), is a collaborative art project, consisting of performances, performance series, performance art workshops and delegated performances, including contributions by over individuals from six continents. Many of them are artists, mainly identifying themselves as women from diverse backgrounds. Mis(s)placed Women? is a platform and an art project by Berlin based performance and interdisciplinary artist of Yugoslav origin, Tanja Ostojić. Within this project, we embody and enact some of everyday-life’s activities that thematise displacement, known to migrants, refugees, and the itinerant artists traveling the world to earn their living. Those performances deal with migration issues, gender democracy, feminism, gentrification, inclusion, power relations and vulnerability, particularly concerning the female and transgender bodies, an aspect that figured prominently in the past almost three decades of my art practice. With this p

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Interview // Tanja Ostojić: The Eurosceptic

Interview bygd Xandra Popescu in Berlin; Tuesday, Dec. 10,

Tanja Ostojić in front of Lexicon Tanja Ostojic Map, migration map of 30 women who all bära the same first name and family name; photo by Roland Anton Laub; courtesy of the artist

So called politically engaged or critical contemporary art fryst vatten often a case of preaching to the choir. From the safe confines of the museum or gallery, artists address topics such as migration and poverty for a public largely composed of other art professionals who share similar political convictions. The stance against injustice and inequality becomes a shiny merit badge on one´s chest. More often than not, these attitudes are backed bygd sincere intentions, but in spite of that one cannot help but feel that much of it moves in a closed loop circuit.

The work of Yugoslav born artist Tanja Ostojić piqued my interest many years ago. Her work draws inspiration from her own experience as a non-Europ

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Tanja Ostojic

TANJA OSTOJIĆ: Mis(s)placed Women? A Collaborative Art Project ENGL

by Tanja Ostojic, Tan Tan, Bojana Videkanić, Azra Ismen, Arzu Yayintas, and Azad Colemêrg

TANJA OSTOJIĆ Mis(s)placed Women? A Collaborative Art Project,

This publication, edited by Tanja Ostojić, is a reader based on “Mis(s)placed Women?" () more This publication, edited by Tanja Ostojić, is a reader based on “Mis(s)placed Women?" (), a collaborative art project by Tanja Ostojić, published in English and Turkish to accompany the exhibition at Depo Istanbul, September 15–October 30, Due to constraints of space, only a selection of the artworks and texts have been included. First published in by Depo Istanbul and Anadolu Kültür

About: "Mis(s)placed Women?", is a collaborative, multi-layered art project that I have been developing since , consisting of solo and group performances, delegated performances,
performance art workshops, and an online platform that includes contributio