Fracture F117/A (2015-2017)
By walking on a hill Straževica I have presented my structural survey, which I have been doing from 2015 - 2017. year, a topic that involves shooting down of the airplane F117/A, on 27. martch in 1999. NATO war in the intervention of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Video shows current research work: completion of the interview in the village Kovin with Zoltan Dani, a retired colonel in charge of the felling aircraft; taken by Zoltan to the Memorial Room 250. missile brigade PVO; photographing parts of the aircraft in this room and portraits of Dani with the fuselage; correspondence with military archives; Ljuba Popović, a resident of the village Buđanovci, and refugee from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, photographed me and my brother Petar Pešut on a field of the plane crash, not far from the village; walking through Buđanovci; clarification of necessity dealing with this subject which is exposed as overcoming the trauma when I was seven years old, during a visit to the Museum of Aviation in Belgrade, watching the parts of the aircraft in the glass showcase in the museum, and encountering dead baby owls in the yard of a museum, and only one was alive; then visit to the promotion of the book ,,Night hawk fall, " by retired colonel Slaviša Golubović and photographing Zoltan Dani at the book promotion; Zoltan sheds light on why the small owls died; one of the curators of the Museum of Aviation in Belgrade, photographs with my camera the parts and two engines of the airplane in the storage room of the museum because I did not owned a license of a military person, nor have I been working in a museum; Museum of Aviation in Belgrade has refused this video work for display at the event ,,Memorial Day "on march 24, at the occasion of marking the memory of NATO bombing and proposes that work should be shown at the event ,,Museum and artists,” that was never organized.
Video work Fracture F117/A, 07:32 min
Artist's book Fracture F117/A 2017. 27. pages
Artist's book Fracture F117/A is a theoretical object that theoretically undermines the conducted artistic research and the subject of the shooting down F117 / A nighthwak aircraft. The book explains in detail the course of the research, both from theoretical and from the topological point of view. Theories of Paul Virillio, Boris Groys, Jackques Ranciere, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gattari and many other theorists were applied to the understanding of war, history and state repression. The book questions the following: the characteristic of the lecture-performance as the basis of artistic research, and the lack of democracy and the audience specific to the field of performance art; an artistic documentation; a independent relationship between politics and art and their turn to ethics; social body and privatization of space; interview with Zoltan Danny; a soldier's imprisonment on ignorance of a land without peace; F117/A as a revolutionary product from Lockheed Martin; the importance of interculturalism based on the hierarchy of West European countries and Europe; (Zoltan Memorial Hall of the 250th Rocket Brigade); totalitarian language of history; product relations in the field of ideology. Push the desire; the relationship between art and war; a study of global tourism and "romantic" tourists; growing political identity; istorical narratives as subordination to ideology; function of the museum, differences in the traditional and contemporary museum; exemption from the museum.
The book topologically deals with: my visits to the Air Museum of Belgrade from 2001 to 2017. Museum of Aircraft Belgrade / Airplane Parts in the Museum / Locating dead baby Owls; Route, mission F117 / A 27.3. 1999. 1261km; walking on hill Straževica, Kijevo; route Belgrade-Kovin; interview with Zoltan Dani; route Kovin / Skorenovac / Memorial Room 250th PVO; Budjanovci walking route, taking pictures of every street in the village; route Buđanovci / Kafana / The fall of the F117 / A; email correspondence course 2015-2017; Belgrade Fair / promotion of the book "Fall of the Falcon", Slaviša Golubović 2017.
