<p>Doktorskim radom Tragovi egzistencije &ndash; Sudbina pojedinca i<br />njegovo izostajanje obuhvaćeno je sagledavanje pojedinih so-<br />cijalnih i dru&scaron;tvenih pojava koje su značajno uticale na položaj<br />i život pojedinca. Tematski okvir doktorskog rada nastao je kao<br />rezultat prethodnih istraživanja, sprovedenih u dvema studijama.<br />Prva je Plutati (2007), sa radovima: Mumlači, Varenje,<br />Plasma, Uvrede, Jedi svoju zemlju, Civil, a druga nosi naziv Socijalan<br />(2013), sa radovima: Glasine, Lice, Socijalan, Izbrisan,<br />Tvar, Utvara, Razgovor, Brijač, Selekcija. Iz makroteme Tragovi<br />egzistencije &ndash; Sudbina pojedinca i njegovo izostajanje moguće je<br />pratiti čitav niz podtema: sudbina, egzistencija, tragovi, levitiranje,<br />manipulacija, identitet, dru&scaron;tvo, čovek-figura, čovek kao<br />pojedinac ili čovek u masi, odnosno čovek s negacijom, ne-čovek,<br />pozicija čoveka, meka forma, figura-lutka, telo kao lutka,<br />lutka kao telo, i dr.<br />Praktičan rad, instalacija ASC/DESC, kroz segmente u kojima<br />dominira prikaz lutke koja levitira, prikazuje čovekovu poziciju<br />u kojoj je nagla&scaron;en životni/sudbinski tok, čovekova mentalna,<br />psihička i fizička istro&scaron;enost. U ovom radu, u prostornom ambijentu<br />postavljeno je vi&scaron;e repliciranih objekata sa elementima<br />forme neupotrebnog predmeta, kreveta, figure/lutke u prirodnoj<br />veličini, s unesenim detaljima odnosno zvučnim i tekstualnim<br />sadržajima. Svi ovi elementi grade zasebne objektne segmente<br />koji u vi&scaron;e kloniranih verzija, u paraboli sa minimalnim promenama,<br />stvaraju novu celinu. Pozicije u radu nagla&scaron;avaju mesto<br />izostavljenog čovekovog života/neživota, koji se može naslutiti i<br />koji je dat samo u tragovima. Dominantne elemente u radu čine<br />predstave o čoveku koga u neposrednom fizičkom smislu nema,<br />uno&scaron;enjem praznine u kojoj se prisustvo čoveka naslućuje, koja<br />podstiče na sećanje o čoveku kao takvom &ndash; samo kao čoveku,<br />subjektu bez identiteta. Figure, u formi mase lutaka, imaju za cilj<br />da provociraju na razmi&scaron;ljanje, na opomenu, da preispituju nas<br />i na&scaron;e sećanje tako da se putem njih identifikujemo i prepoznajemo,<br />utvrđujući koliko su ti ljudi vezani za mesto, određeni događaj<br />ili pak suprotno tome, koliko samo govore o čoveku, bilo<br />kada i bilo gde. Upravo ovako ostvarenom simbolikom pokreću<br />se doživljaji, iskustvene funkcije u osećanju pripadnosti. Ovaj<br />rad svojom porukom otvara i nova pitanja, prevashodno s ciljem<br />da se pojedinac zapita pred vremenom u kojem je sve prisutnija<br />strate&scaron;ka kontrola svega životnog i u kojem su nagla&scaron;eni momenti<br />preispitivanja ličnog, specifičnog, karakternog, dovedeni<br />u pitanje.</p> / <p>The PhD thesis, Relics of Existence &ndash; The Fate and the Absence of<br />an Individual, perceives particular social occurences which have<br />significantly influenced the status and life of an individual. The<br />thematic framework of the thesis was created as a result of previous<br />examination explained in two research papers. The first<br />one is To Float (2007) which includes works such as: Mumblers,<br />Welding, Plasma, Insults, Eat Your Own Turf, Civilian, and the<br />other one is Social (2013), with the following works: Rumours,<br />Face, Social, Erased, Matter, Wraith, Conversation, Razor, Selection.<br />This macro theme, Relics of Existence &ndash; The Fate and the<br />Absence of an Individual, offers an insight into a wide variety of<br />subthemes: fate, existence, hints, levitation, manipulation, identity,<br />society, human figure, a person as an individual against a<br />person in the crowd or a person in denial, non-human, a person&rsquo;s<br />stature, soft form, figure-puppet, body as a puppet, puppet<br />as a body, etc.<br />The practical work, the installation ASC/DESC, which consists<br />of segments dominated by a form of a levitating puppet, depicts<br />a person&rsquo;s stature introduced by the flow of life/fate, by a person&rsquo;s<br />mental, psychological and physical weariness. This work<br />involves spatial ambience with multiple replicated objects in a<br />form of nonfunctional object, bed, life-size figure/puppet with<br />imported audio and textual details. All these elements build separate<br />object segments that create a new whole through several<br />cloned versions, parabolic with minimal alterations. The positions<br />of the work emphasize a place of the excluded life/non-life,<br />which can be assumed and which is split into particles. Dominant<br />elements of the work are composed of notions about a human<br />being who is, in direct and physical sense, gone, while the<br />inserted emptiness only offers a hint of human presence, and<br />which evokes reminiscence of a human being as such &ndash; solely as<br />a human being, a subject with no identity. The purpose of figures,<br />represented as a bulk of puppets, is to provoke thinking, issue<br />a warning, to question ourselves and our memory, enabling<br />us to identify and perceive, at the same time determining how<br />strong is the connection between those people and the place,<br />specific event or something quite opposite, and how much is being<br />said about the person, in any given time, anywhere. Exactly<br />through such symbolism, experience is set in motion, together<br />with the impressions about the sense of belonging. This work<br />opens up new questions, mostly with the aim to make an individual<br />undertake inquiries about the time with an increasing<br />strategic control of everything that is living, and the time that<br />casts a shadow over highlighted moments of personal, specific,<br />and individual reexamination.</p>