Performances:
1982. -Since 1982 year to now performed over 250 performances in the street photo-boots, in Serbia and abroad. 1983. -“An Evening with Mayakovsky”, performance with J. Supek (National Library “Branko Radicevic”, Odzaci, Ex-Yugoslavia). 1984. -“A Minute of silence for the performance”, performance (private residence, Odzaci, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“39th Telegram”, performance (Dom omladine, Odzaci, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Vent to earth - snow”, performance (street art action, Odzaci, Ex-Yugoslavia). 1985. -“This is my passport too“, performance (Hotel Novi Sad, Ex-Yugoslavia). 1986. -“Reading of the David Hunter’s work”, performance (Photo studio “Ilonka”, Odzaci, Ex-Yugoslavia) 1992. -“Photo test”, performance (Photo Gallery, Novi Sad, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Opening of Congress”, performance (house courtyard of N. Bogdanovic, Odzaci, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Vent to earth - stamp”, performance (house courtyard of N. Bogdanovic, Odzaci, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Money Art”, performance (street art action, Novi Sad, Ex-Yugoslavia) -“Post restant art”, performance (Municipal Hall, Sremski Karlovci, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Vent to earth - postcard”, performance (in the street of Sremski Karlovci, Ex-Yugoslavia). 1993. -“I present communication”, performance (“Narodni fond” Gallery - “Kuca Krsmanovica”, Belgrade, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Return to sender", performance (Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Vent to earth - Yugoslavia”, performance (Art Colony, Senta, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Man Gallery - Cavellini's Mail Art”, photo performance (Photo studio “Pagi Foto”, Odzaci, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Man Gallery - Xerox Art”, performance („Happy Gallery“, Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Man Gallery – Exhibition by plane”, performance (Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Man Gallery - Art Stickers”, street performance (Belgrade, Ex-Yugoslavia). 1994. -“Man Gallery – Rubber Stamps”, performance (“Golden Eye” Gallery, Novi Sad, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Man Gallery – Art Borders”, performance (Town museum, Senta, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Man Gallery – Reading of mail-art books”, performance (Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Ex-Yugoslavia). -“Man Gallery – Art masks”, performance (St. Philbert du Pont Charrault, France). -“Man Gallery – Art T-Shirts”, street art actions (Paris, Nant, Chantonnay, St. Philbert du Pont Charrault, France). -“Man Gallery - exhibition of painter Nato and Ylvie”, performance (art studio of painter Nato, Paris, France). -“Man Gallery - exhibition of painter Nato”, performance (art studio of painter Nato, Paris, France). -“Man Gallery – exhibition of John Held Jr.”, performance (“Happy Gallery”, Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Ex-Yugoslavia). 1995. -“Man Gallery – exhibition of Emilio Morandi”, performance (“Perfomedia” festival, Artestudio, Ponte Nossa, Italy) -“Man Gallery – exhibition of Bruno Capatti”, performance (“Perfomedia” festival, Artestudio, Ponte Nossa, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of group A.U.-Japan”, performance (“Perfomedia” festival, Gallery Chiesa Lab.D'Arte San Pietro, Bienno, Italy) -“Man Gallery – exhibition of Alberto Rizzi”, performance (“Perfomedia” festival, Museo Maglio, Bienno, Italy) -“Man Gallery – exhibition of Mayumi Handa”, performance (“Perfomedia” festival, Gallery Chiesa Lab.D'Arte San Pietro, Bienno, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition Alessandro Ceccotto”, performance (“Perfomedia” festival, Gallery Chiesa Lab.D'Arte San Pietro, Bienno, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition Massimo Pattaro and Anamaria Girardi”, performance (“Perfomedia” festival, Gallery Chiesa Lab.D' Arte San Pietro, Bienno, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of audience”, street performance (“Perfomedia” festival, Bienno - Brescia, Italy) -“Man Gallery – exhibition of Paolo Barrile”, performance (“Perfomedia” festival, Artestudio, Ponte Nossa, Italy) -“Man Gallery – exhibition of Renata and Giovanni Strada”, performance (Lido Di Dante - Ravenna, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of Giovanni Strada”, performance (art studio of G. Strada, Ravenna, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of I Santini Del Prete”, performance (Vada - Livorno, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of Franco Santini”, performance (Vada - Livorno, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of Raimondo Del Prete”, performance (Vada - Livorno, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of audience”, performance (Vada - Livorno, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of Ivano Vitali”, performance (Vada - Livorno, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of Enrico Mori”, performance (Vada - Livorno, Italy) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of Stano Filko”, performance with Stano Filko, Slovakia (Golden Eye Gallery, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia). 1996. -“Man Gallery - exhibition of audience“, performance (Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany) -“Man Gallery – exhibition of Rubber Stamps“, performance (Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany) -“Man Gallery - Body artists exhibition“, performance in cooperation with 10 artists (Schwerin, Germany) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of Jurgen O. Olbrich“, performance (Academy of Art, Kassel, Germany) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of students of Academy“, performance (Academy of Art, Kassel, Germany) -“Man Gallery - communication by touch“, performance (Transart Communication 4, Nove Zamky, Slovakia) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of artists head“, performance (Transart Communication 4, Nove Zamky, Slovakia) 1997. -“Man Gallery – communication by colours“, performance (NIPAF '97 festival, Tokyo, Japan) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of Shozo Shimamoto“, performance with Shozo Shimamoto (Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan) -“Man Gallery – communication by kiss“, performance (NIPAF '97 festival, Hiroshima, Japan) -“Man Gallery - Colored rain of Hiroshima“, performance with Fernando Aguiar (NIPAF '97 festival, Hiroshima, Japan) -“Man Gallery - Horizon(s)“, performance with Julien Blaine (NIPAF '97 festival, Hiroshima, Japan) -“Man Gallery – communication by punch“, performance (NIPAF '97 festival, Nagano, Japan) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of Takahashi Fumiko“, performance with Fumiko Takahashi (NIPAF '97 festival, Nagano, Japan) -“Man Gallery – communication by milk“, performance by Eniko Szucs (NIPAF '97 festival, Nagano, Japan) -“Man Gallery - poetical installation“, performance with Fernando Aguiar (NIPAF '97 festival, Nagano, Japan) 1998. -“Man Gallery - exhibition of nature”, performance (Ann Art 9 festival, St. Ann Lake, Romania) -“Man Gallery - exhibition of portraits”, performance (IMAF '98 festival, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Yugoslavia) 1999. -“Man Gallery – communication by bomb”, performance (Castle of Imagination festival, Bytow, Poland) -“Half-communication” performance with Wladislav Kazmierczak, Poland (Castle of Imagination festival, Bytow, Poland) 2000. -“Man Gallery - interrelation”, performance (IMAF 2000 festival, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Yugoslavia) 2001. -“Upgrade plan of Man Gallery ” performance (Multimedia Arts Gallery, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia) -“Man Gallery - Smoke The Best” performance (Artfort festival, Komarom, Hungary) -“Upgrade of Man Gallery”, performance (Navinki 2001 festival, Pall Mall Club, Minsk, Belarus), -“Man Gallery – communication by blood”, performance (Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia) -“Man Gallery - transmiting”, performance with Shiobara Jasunori from Japan and Jeanet. Poett from Hungary (IMAF 2001 festival, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Yugoslavia) -“Man Gallery – communication by drink”, performance (IMAF 2001 festival, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Yugoslavia) 2002. -"In Memoriam", performance (IMAF 2002 festival, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia) 2003. -"Man Gallery - place of fear", performance (La Bienalle di Venezia, Venezia, Italy) -"Man Gallery - place of fear II", performance (La Bienalle di Venezia, Venezia, Italy) -"Man Gallery - place of fear III", performance (IMAF 2003 festival, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia) -"Man Gallery - place of fear IV", performance (PerformaNS festival, "Golden Eye" Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia) 2004. -"Man Gallery - Serbia", performance (IZBA, Novi Sad, Serbia) -"Man Gallery - Ex Yu", performance (The Suicide of Objects, Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland) -"Man Gallery - Serbia II", performance (Art College of Dartington, Dartington, United Kingdom) -"In Memoriam II", performance (Harta Performing Monza-Art Action, Monza, Italy) -”Flight or marking territory", performance (IMAF 2004 festival, Odzaci, Serbia) -"Marking territory: photobooth", performance (The 6th Mixup International photobooth convention, Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia) -”Man Gallery - I'm a Good Jugo", performance series Zentral-Jugo, in cooperation with Köppl/Začek (Bei Tweaklab, Bazel, Switzerland) -"Finding Passport I", performance series Zentral-Jugo, in cooperation with Köppl/Začek (Bei Tweaklab, Bazel, Switzerland) -"I am nice artist", performance series Zentral-Jugo, in cooperation with Köppl/Začek (Bernhard Bischoff Gallery, Thun, Switzerland) -"Man Gallery - Finding Passport II", performance series Zentral-Jugo, in cooperation with Köppl/Začek (Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland) -"Translations" performance series Zentral-Jugo, in cooperation with Köppl/Začek (Dot Galery, Geneva, Switzerland) -"I am nice artist" performance series Zentral-Jugo, in cooperation with Köppl/Začek (Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland) -"Man Gallery - Zentral-Jugo diary", performance series Zentral-Jugo, in cooperation with Köppl/Začek (Hubert Bachler Gallery, Cirih, Switzerland) -"I am nice artist", performance series Zentral-Jugo, in cooperation with Köppl/Začek (Galerija Hubert Bachler, Cirih, Switzerland) 2005. -"Marking territory - lake", performance (Transformation 05. festival, Zrenjanin, Serbia) -"Marking territory - earth", performance (IMAF 2005 festival, Odzaci, Serbia) -"Earth", performance with Radoslav B. Chugaly (IMAF 2005 festival, Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia) -"I am a rich artist" performance (Currency 05, festival, New York, USA) -"Man Gallery - Communication by Colour II", performance (Kesher 2 festival, FusionArts Museum, New York, USA) 2006. -"Sketch for the technique of movement", performance (IMAF 2006. festival, IZBA, Novi Sad, Serbia) -"I am a rich artist", performance (IMAF 2006 festival, Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia) -"Sketch for the technique of movement", performance (Rencontre Internationale D'Art Performance 2006 festival, Quebec, Canada) -"I am a rich artist", performance (Rencontre Internationale D'Art Performance 2006 festival, Victoriaville, Canada) -”I am a rich artist", performance (MOST Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia) 2007. -"Everyday situation for a nicer painting", performance (Performans Zamani '07 festival, Galata Perform, Istanbul, Turkey) -"Man Gallery - interrelation II", performance (SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia) -"Everyday situation for a nicer painting", performance (April Meetings, Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia) -"I am a rich artist", performance (Interakcje 2007 International Art Festival, Galeria Dzialan, Warszawa, Poland) -"Man Gallery - Interrelation III", performance (Interakcje 2007, Galeria Off, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland) -"Human Brain", performance (Interakcje 2007, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala, Poland) -"Everyday situation for a nicer painting" performance (Galeria Mostowa 2, Krakow, Poland) -"Everyday situation for a nicer painting", performance (INFANT '07 festival, Likovni salon KCNS, Novi Sad, Serbia) -"Everyday situation for a nicer painting", performance (IMAF 2007 festival, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia) -"Man Gallery – exhibition of Radoslav B. Chugaly", performance (IMAF 2007. festival, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia) -"Everyday situation for a nicer painting", performance (ZAZ Festival, Performance Art Platform, Tel Aviv, Israel) -"Human Brain", performance (ZAZ Festival, Underground Prisoners Museum, Jerusalem, Israel) -"I am a rich artist", performance (ZAZ Festival, The Adama (Earth) hangar, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel) 2008. -"Reviser", performance (Museum Night '08: Performance night, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia) -"Reviser", performance (The 13th NIPAF Asian Performance Art Series '08, PROTO Theater, Tokyo, Japan) -"Everyday situation for a nicer painting", performance (The 13th NIPAF Asian Performance Art Series '08, Shinobu motor ex-exhibit place, Saitama, Japan) -"Prologue", performance (The 13th NIPAF Asian Performance Art Series '08, ZAIM room, Yokohama, Japan) -"Nature", performance (The 13th NIPAF Asian Performance Art Series '08, lizuna Heights, Daiza Hoshi lakeside, Nagano, Japan) -"Human Brain", performance (The 13th NIPAF Asian Performance Art Series '08, NEON HALL, Nagano, Japan) -"Prologue", performance (IMAF 2008 festival, IZBA, Novi Sad, Serbia) -"Seventh situation for a nicer painting", performance (7th International Festival of Performance Art, XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada) 2009. -"Process" performance (11th International Multimedial Art Festival – IMAF 2009, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia) 2010. -"Process" performance (Warsztaty Kultury / Workshops of Culture, Lublin, Poland) -"Pro et contra" performance (Museum Night, "Multimedia night", MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia) -"Art = Life (Gamble)" performance (12th International Multimedial Art Festival – IMAF 2010, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia) -"Prologue" performance ("Art in Vojvodina 2000. – 2010." Art project, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia) -"Reviser H" performance ("Response" Art Project, Landguard Fort, Felixtowe, England) 2011. -"Human Brain", performance (XIII Plein Art Contemporary Art Festival, Open Air Stage-Erlin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary) -"Mirroring (Self Portrait)", performance (Infr’Action Venezia, Giardini, Venice, Italy) -"Mirroring (Self Portrait) II", performance (13th International Multimedial Art Festival – IMAF 2011, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, Serbia) -"Problem HD_1", performance (Infr’Action 2011-Festival International d’Art Performance, Sète, France) -"Human Brain", performance (Infr’Action 2011-Festival International d’Art Performance, Sète, France) -"Problem HD_2", performance (Infr’Action 2011-Festival International d’Art Performance, Sète, France) -"Hard Line", performance with Monali Meher, India (Infr’Action 2011-Festival International d’Art Performance, Sète, France) -"Problem HD_3", performance (FIX XI Ninth International Live Art Biennial, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland) Texts on Nenad Bogdanovic's performances:
Shozo Shimamoto:
I have received a message from Nenad Bogdanovic, a mail artist in Yugoslavia, that he would like to see me during his stay in Japan. On 31 January 1997, I visited to Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo to give a lecture. This museum has a biggest collection in the field of Ja- panese modern art. The curator had planned a series of eight lectures on each of eight works, eight masterpieces of the museum. My work, Ana (Hole), is one of them. So, I was asked to give a lecture on this selected work. I happened to see Nenad at this museum before the lecture. Last time I saw him was more than ten years ago when I had visited to Yugo- slavia. I have known him and respect him for his splendid talent not on- ly as a mail artist but also a performing artist. Even it was a short meet- ing but we had made an interesting collaborating performance in front of my work, Ana (Hole). Two mail artists met by chance in the Far East knowing each other by mail art - networking. It was significant and inte- resting exchange for both of us that we have done such a collaboration at the regulated facility, a public museum, by knowing each other in the counter method of networking. January 31, 1997 Wladyslaw Kazmierczak: This performance was created spontaneously. There was a bottle of vodka and two glasses on the table. Wladyslaw Kazmierczak said a few sentences about the war in Yugoslavia: This year there was a war in Europe. It happened in Yugoslavia. We do not even remember the dates, when it started and when it ended. From the reports on Polish Television we do remember that thousands of refugees escaped to Albania every day. The Western press discussed only NATO failures. We know that Miloszevic is a bad man. Somebody has recently said to me that Bill Clinton is a man of a third millennium. But there a few million people between Miloszevic and Clinton. After this short introduction, Kazmierczak threw a firework on the floor. He shook Nenad's hand and they stayed in that gesture for the whole performance. The artists had only their left hands to act with. Nenad poured some vodka into glasses and made a gesture "to your health", but his partner did not drink it. Kazmierczak took a hairdryer into his hand and blew at Nenad's hair and face with warm air. He then introduced a toy gorilla which when moved, played: "Ole, ole, ole, ole, we are the champs, we are the champs". Instead of a normal glass he took his own one, with double walls and liquid between them. He drank but he did not drink. Afterwards, he dusted Nenad with a feather duster. He sprayed him with perfumes and gave him a red heart. Next, he started to hit him with all his might with a plastic air-toy in the shape of a flail with a sphere studded with nails at the end of it. He waved a bundle of bank notes under his nose. But Nenad's face was motionless, stiffened during the whole performance. Afterwards, Kazmierczak started to shoot at Nenad with a plastic sparking toy-gun. The gorilla-mascot played his "Ole, ole" from time to time. But it did not work, so Kazmierczak started to shoot at Nenad from the best gun in the world - UZI. He showed his partner a colourful toy sword, a Barbie doll and another one, next - a bigger heart that when pressed shouted "I love you, I love you". Then, he put on a rubber mask with an odious tongue and showed a gesture "V" - Victory. Through a magnifying glass he showed his eyes and the eyes of Nenad. He took a blow-up baseball bat in the colours of the American flag and with all his might hit Nenad on the head. After taking off the mask there were a series of short displays of already shown gadgets after which Kazmierczak put a target on a Yugoslavian artist's neck and a plastic air-helmet (of samurais?, pilots?) on his head and threw darts at the target. In that moment, the music started - "Alabama Song: (whiskey bar)" of The Doors. After two minutes the artists stood up. "Half-communication" was over. In the end. June 27, 1999 Juniper Perlis :
Nenad Bogdanovic performed two works during the IMAF 8 festival. Each was distinct… sounding, looking, feeling very different from one another, yet they both reveal the artist’s investment in the histories and ideologies of art and art practice. In “A sketch for a movement technics,” performed in Novi Sad, Nenad stands in front of a projected animation of Muybridge photographs as industrial music fills the small space. Intermittently taking sips of brandy and sharing sips with the audience, Nenad gets drunk. He stands on a floor littered with ads for hard drives and says, “Human, or human brain,” while holding a hard drive aloft. The animation and the music talk to another, not quite in sync. Muybridge, the beginning of film, signifies a technological turning point in art, information as truth and the power of the image. As Nenad begins to slur a bit we are shown his humanity. At the end of the performance he smashes the hard drive with a sledgehammer. This physical act is bound to the images of the Muybridge athletes. Dancing to their industrial beats, they are impervious to the brandy, as they are a product of the hard drive, the human brain. This performance offers itself as an alternative to the truth of technology. In “I am a rich artist,” performed in Belgrade, Nenad stands watch, looking debonair in a slick suit, while the audience creates works on paper. They turn these into him for twenty dinar apiece. He then tapes them to the wall, signs his name to them, and prices them for sale. By engaging in the exploitation of artists, Nenad compounds his metaphor. He isn’t just playing a part. He buys the audience’s participation, not with dinar, but with artistic appreciation and value. I was struck by how attached to their “drawings” the participants were. They were invested in the objects they produced, some proud of their originality or color choices. But their choices are insignificant; it is their desire to display their creativity and Nenad’s ability to manipulate this desire which creates meaning. August 13 & 14, 2006 Malgorzata Butterwick: As we entered the space, it was already prepared for the performance. Nenad created a special painting canvas resembling a low table, with five pipes attached to its surface and hanging down to the floor. He introduced the title of the performance: ´Everyday situation for a nicer painting´, and immediately started by painting the word ´NICER´ onto the canvas with five main colours, directly from the tubes. The letters were situated close to the nozzles of the pipes. Then, he ate a sandwich, cleaned his teeth, and spat the rinsing water through the tube onto the canvas. It mixed with the paint of the first letter ´N´, leaving the smudged mark. The artist repeated a similar action five times, in a relaxed pace, using different foods (an orange, chocolate bar, bread…), and at the end smoked a cigarette. Every time the next letter was washed over with water. At the end, he run his hand roughly through the picture and thus a final painting was obtained, taken off the canvas, and away. The action ended here. The performance was a link between live art and painting, we could say ´action painting´, but in a way that gives the action itself a new, strong context in its own right, not just as a way to obtain an aesthetic effect. Here the life, although with a fragmented, symbolic gesture, entered the action of painting in order to create an image that is directly linked to the ´everyday´, common activity. The artist indicates, that art is for him an ongoing process, the performance being a life attitude, not just an occasional ´act´. I would also like to point out the humorous side of the use of the word ´nicer´, which in English really means all and nothing, is a bit of a cliché. Maybe Nenad tries to show here a bit of a distance to the use of painting as an object to admire…while in his other actions he treats himself as a ´canvas´ for the action, painting or being painted on his own body as a ´MAN GALLERY´ traveling around the world. Here this situation was turned round, concentrated on the relationship between the life basics and the attitude to ´making art´. May 17, 2007 Andrew James Paterson: The evening’s programme at Xpace involved duration, options of continuing, formation of images, and a lot more. Serbian artist Nenad Bogdanovic presented Seventh situation for a nicer painting. A canvas was suspended on four support strings stretched across the gallery, each corner held by an artist-participant. Bogdanovic retrieved his squeezable paint-tubes one by one and made a word painting. N in black, I in green, C in red, E in yellow, and R in black. NICER. Then he ate an apple and then appeared to brush his teeth with something mysterious. Whatever the toothpaste was, it permitted him to spit out a fluid onto the canvas, adding drips and another layer of paint and smudges and artistic whatevers. Bogdanovic repeated this process with different foods, liquids, and stimulants (a chocolate bar, a banana, an entire bottle of Coca-Cola, and a cigarette, and more). He was able to spit out different colours. Actually quite impressive. I thought he was going to keep spitting out paint/fluid until the word NICER had become completely abstracted. I did think of the infamous provocateur Jubal Brown, who once declared that Mondrian could benefit from another colour and thus vomited blue food colour onto a Mondrian canvas at the Art Gallery of Ontario. I also found myself remembering the Australian movie Man of Flowers, in which a “painter” snorts copious cocaine, spray-paints a multitude of colours on a canvas, rolls his girlfriend’s dog over the wet canvas, and then declared the finished work a masterpiece. Sure enough, after guaranteeing that the canvas was dripping and overflowing enough, Bogdanovic pressed his boy against the work-in-progress and revelled in the paint. He converted dripping paint into actually rather restrained smudges. He made a painting, and then took his art-work away with him. Off to the market, perhaps? Or at least to a dealer? I did wonder whether or not the artist would attempt to sell his latest painting. October 30, 2008 Elaine Wong: The next performance of the night was Nenad Bogdanovic, who reversed the idea of gesture-as-image into image-as-gesture. Using a canvas suspended at its four corners by four volunteers, he began by painting the word 'NICER" in bright colours, and then systematically destroyed the image in a series of actions that could have been sponsored by dentists around the world. At first he ate an apple, then vigorously brushed his teeth, spitting out the water and foam onto the first letter of his painting, N. He repeated this cycle with each subsequent letter, eating a granola bar, then a banana, then drinking a bottle of Coke and finally smoking a cigarette -- normal actions undercut by absurdity as he continued to brush his teeth. The canvas became a receptacle for the various tastes and textures in his mouth, while the image displayed and maintained the motion that Bogdanovic imposed onto it: streaks implied the direction and force of his spitting, and the water pooled in the centre of the canvas, swirling colour together. Finally, to add to the controlled chaos of the image, he lay on the canvas and performed a series of push-ups in the sodden expanse of paint and water, further rendering the painting abstract and unrecognizable. The artist's intention behind the piece seemed to be twofold: a statement on how performance and art permeated even the most mundane aspects of his life, but also a willingness to sacrifice the sanctioned in a search for the meaning of art. October 30, 2008 Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter: This diverse and charged festival of performance art drew to an end with Nenad Bogdanovic’s mesmerising durational performance Process. Set to a meditative backing track, dressed in black Nenad lay in the middle of the performance space beneath a suspended cheese cloth filled with fermenting cheese in it’s process of maturing and solidifying. Excess water from the straining process dripped through the cloth down onto Nenad’s naval, emphasing his subtle breathing movements, relaxed, but fragile, illustrating the nature of the human experience. Periodically he would stand and go to the corner to write a single letter on a piece of card and tape fasten it to the string holding the cloth. Starting from the top and one by one working his way down, each letter gradually unveiled the message. Keeping the audience in anticipation, the message eventually spelt out ‘Nature’. After the continued process of laying beneath the progressively slower drip for periods of time, Nenad began to fasten images of himself from different periods of his life. Starting chronologically from top as a young child he worked his way down the string to the last image, a photographic negative of himself standing in front of a church. Both sides of the string now presented a clear, simple yet powerful message, one that when united tells us of the process of life. It mirrors the process of nature, consisting of maturing and change, nurtured by the steady rhythm of the breath and perpetual drip, that ran it’s course. The performance ended with an act of painting in white the words ‘Perf’, short for performance, and ‘life’ vertically next to each other on to his shirt suggesting their equality. September 11, 2009 'I am a rich artist', New York (USA) 2005
'Human Brain', Jerusalem, (Israel) 2007
'Process', Odzaci (Serbia) 2009
'Process', Lublin (Poland) 2010
'Art = Life (Gamble)', Odzaci (Serbia) 2010
'Mirroring (Self Portrait)', Venice (Italy) 2011
'Mirroring (Self Portrait) II', Odzaci (Serbia) 2011
'Problem HD_1' & 'Problem HD_2', Sète (France) 2011
'Hard Line' performance with Monali Meher, Sète (France) 2011
'Problem HD_3', Belfast (Northern Ireland) 2011
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 'An Evening with Mayakovsky', performance with J. Supek, Odzaci (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1983
 'A Minute of silence for the performance', Odzaci (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1984
'39th Telegram', Odzaci (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1984
 'Vent to earth - snow', Odzaci (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1984
'This is my passport too', Novi Sad (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1985
 'Reading of the David Hunter’s work', Odzaci (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1986
 'Photo test', Novi Sad (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1992
 'Opening of the Congress', Odzaci (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1992
 'Post restant art', Sremski Karlovci (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1992
 'Vent to earth - postcard', Sremski Karlovci (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1992
 'I present communication', Belgrade (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1993
 'Return to sender', Belgrade (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1993
 'Vent to earth - Yugoslavia', Senta (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1993
 'Man Gallery – Art Borders', Senta (Ex-Yugoslavia) 1994
 'Man Gallery - performance with Alessandro Ceccotto', Bienno (Italy) 1995
 'Man Gallery - performance with Jurgen O. Olbrich', Kassel (Germany) 1996
 'Man Gallery - performance with Shozo Shimamoto', Tokyo (Japan) 1997
 'Half-communication', performance with W. Kazmierczak, Bytow (Poland) 1999
 'In Memoriam', Odzaci (Serbia) 2002
 'Man Gallery - Finding Passport II', performance series Zentral-Jugo, in cooperation with Köppl/Začek, Biel (Switzerland) 2004
 'Translations', performance series Zentral-Jugo, in cooperation with Köppl/Začek, Geneva (Switzerland) 2004
 'Marking territory - earth', Odzaci (Serbia) 2005
 'I am a rich artist', New York (USA) 2005
 'A sketch for the technique of movement', Quebec (Canada) 2006
 'Everyday situation for a nicer painting', Krakow (Poland) 2007
 'Reviser', Novi Sad (Serbia) 2008
 'Seventh situation for a nicer painting', Toronto (Canada) 2008
 'Process', Odzaci (Serbia) 2009
 'Pro et contra', Odzaci (Serbia) 2010
 'Art = Life (Gamble)', Odzaci (Serbia) 2010
 'Reviser H', Felixtowe (England) 2010
'Mirroring (Self Portrait)', Venice (Italy) 2011
'Mirroring (Self Portrait) II', Odzaci (Serbia) 2011
'Problem HD_1', Sète (France) 2011
'Human Brain', Sète (France) 2011
'Hard Line' performance with Monali Meher, Sète (France) 2011
'Problem HD_3', Belfast (Northern Ireland) 2011
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