Zoran Todorović (born 1965, lives in Belgrade, Serbia) is a representative of biopolitical performance, radical body art, interhuman performance art and politicized postmedia art. He works with affective individual and collective situations and representations of the borders of “human conditions”. He is Full Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade.

Todorović exhibited his work in numerous leading media art institutions and events in Europe and beyond and was the author of the Serbian pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale.

www.zorantodorovic.com

Assimilation

Performance/Action

Realized between 1997 and 2010

Series of events which in their own way put into question the idea of beauty. Basically, it’s about meals, for example suppers, made of human tissue which appears as leftover in industry of aesthetic surgery. The installation itself involves exhibiting of photo and video documentation that explains the origin and the process of preparation of the food offered to spectators.

Agalma

Performance/Action
Realized between 2003 and 2005

Series of events which involve soaps made of artist’s skin and fat. Besides soap, the installation involves exhibiting of photo and video documentation that explains the origin and the process of preparation of the soap, as well as corresponding supplies for washing one’s body. At the same time, beside exhibition in the gallery, an apartment with bathroom is rented which is at disposal of the spectators who might want to test this soap also in this way, with the assistance of curators and the artist.

Gypsies and Dogs

Video

Work was recorded with specially designed micro-camera which was carried, in form of collar, by children-beggars and stray-dogs. It is presented as video installation which is divided in two channels/images. Recording was performed during summer and autumn of 2007.

Warmth

Installation/Action/Video

1200 square meters human hair felt, of which 456 pieces 80x120cm and 327 pieces 160x120cm numbered, one square meter being produced out of approximately 200 people, which makes a total of approximately 240 000 people.

Integration

Illegal people project

In a refugee center in Belgrade where refugees from Near East and Africa reside/dwell and through which they were passing, the urine was collected on the basis of which a domestic beer was made according to a popular Belgium recipe. The beer is intended for export to the first-world countries and for consummation by the audience and the author as a part of the lecture performance accompanied by a video document which testifies about the process of making the beer, from the refugee toilet to the final packing of the finished product.