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Lala Rascic was born in 1977 in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina. She lives and works in Sarajevo and Zagreb.
Rascic's inquisitive research into audio drama and the installations she has gone on to develop out of this interest are both enthralling and refreshing. Although there are strong references to period style and found material, Rascic plays with the genre’s traditional roles and themes to invent new narrative threads and a contemporary angle from which to present the medium. Her personal participation in the stories she forms, or adopts, is paramount. The way Rascic imparts energy through her characters’ reincarnations and opens her installations to involve the audience, allows those viewing her work to feel that they are implicated in the narrative and part of a shared experience.
Rascic's installation “Sorry, Wrong Number” is an interpretation of a famous audio drama from the 1940's. The audio track and the image only synchronize for brief moments and this seemingly technical mistake evokes the feeling of early black and white television broadcasting. When the image and sound occasionally sync-up the resulting coincidence seems uncanny, as it becomes evident that the distorted voices do in fact belong to the performer. This shifting in and out of synchronization comments on the impossibility of communication and refers to isolation. The same theme is present in the narrative of the radio play. The main story-line is about an invalid woman who spends all of her days in her room. Her only link to the outside world is her telephone. One night she gets the wrong connection and overhears the plan for a murder. While desperately trying to warn the police, she realizes that she has overheard the plan for her own murder. “Sorry, Wrong Number” was originally broadcast as part of the “Suspense” program on CBS in 1943. The part of Lenora Stevenson was played by Agnes Moorhead. The radio play had immense success. It ran on CBS until the 1960s and was adapted several times in Hollywood.
Rascic's solo exhibitions include in Everything is connected, National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo (2007); Sorry, Wrong Number, Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik (2006); Flying Carpet, Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb (2005); and The Invisibles, Galerie Dick de Bruijn, Amsterdam (2005). Her participation in group exhibitions includes Land of Human Rights, <rotor> CAC, Graz (2008); NO BORDERS (Just N.E.W.S.*), La Centrale Electrique, Brussels (2008); Palace, Cinema Palace, St. Gallen (2008); Pilot:3, 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); Women on the crossroads of ideologies, City Hall, Split (2007); Heroes in Transition, Angel Row gallery, Nottingham (2007); Absent Without Leave, Bucharest (2006); We are So Much Better Than This, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles (2006); Normailzation: That from a long way off look like flies, Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul (2005); Outside Sources, Kunstlervereingung MAERZ, Linz (2005).
Rascic was an artist in residence at Kultur Kontakt, Vienna in 2008; Forum Stadpark, Graz in 2007; at ISCP, New York in 2006; Cite des Arts, Paris in 2005 and at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul in 2005; and Rijksakademie van Beeldenden Kunsten, Amsterdam 2003-04
Lala Rascic works with ARC Projects, Sofia and B.O.P. Gallery, Zagreb. |
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