EUtopia film / film / hdv + dcp / color / 20:13 min / 2015
In his film EUtopia Igor Bošnjak deals among other things with the relation of the
society to its available tools and skills, highlighting the boundaries of its ability to transform
its surroundings. This could be definition of technology gleaned from the economy and
material reality. Author is obviously critical to it in the video. We could ask ourselves if this
permanent technological specialization based on unity of material and immaterial and
created by investment of mental and physical effort in order to produce value, didn't bring us
to this “desperate” impasse? Certainly not but for the fact values that we base on our relation
to the global society today, in the year 2016, appear to be at least unsavory. This is visible
from the start of the video. We see the map of the Europe, painted by Bosnjak himself (map
– oil on canvas), that is still recognizable although of simplified geographical elements.
Stripped down painting becomes real through intense, sensuous, livedthrough experience for
the spectator and the artist. Through it they embark for the world of daily banality,
primitivism and other -isms while Europe becomes a metaphor for utopia turned dystopian.
It is as if in front of us on some endless stage “reality” movie is just being made. All three
temporal states (segmented in three parts of the video - past, present and future) have melted
into one and paradoxically our inability to directly access “regular” reality is uncovered
since neither the author or spectator are not answered is it possible and how to continue
living in the “fenced” Europe or away from it.
Zorana Djaković Minniti
In his film EUtopia Igor Bošnjak deals among other things with the relation of the
society to its available tools and skills, highlighting the boundaries of its ability to transform
its surroundings. This could be definition of technology gleaned from the economy and
material reality. Author is obviously critical to it in the video. We could ask ourselves if this
permanent technological specialization based on unity of material and immaterial and
created by investment of mental and physical effort in order to produce value, didn't bring us
to this “desperate” impasse? Certainly not but for the fact values that we base on our relation
to the global society today, in the year 2016, appear to be at least unsavory. This is visible
from the start of the video. We see the map of the Europe, painted by Bosnjak himself (map
– oil on canvas), that is still recognizable although of simplified geographical elements.
Stripped down painting becomes real through intense, sensuous, livedthrough experience for
the spectator and the artist. Through it they embark for the world of daily banality,
primitivism and other -isms while Europe becomes a metaphor for utopia turned dystopian.
It is as if in front of us on some endless stage “reality” movie is just being made. All three
temporal states (segmented in three parts of the video - past, present and future) have melted
into one and paradoxically our inability to directly access “regular” reality is uncovered
since neither the author or spectator are not answered is it possible and how to continue
living in the “fenced” Europe or away from it.
Zorana Djaković Minniti
