»The Shaman Suit«, 2008, textile sculpture by Nadine Byrne.

(>’.')>=O____l_*__O=<('.'<), (2008)

↓ ↑, (2008) by Oliver Laric.

Balkan Erotic Epic is a multi-channel video installation based on Marina Abramovic’s research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to make himself equal with the gods. People believed that in the erotic there was something superhuman that doesn’t come from them but from the gods. Obscene objects and male and female genitals have a very important function in the fertility and agricultural rites of Balkan peasants. They were used very explicitly for a variety of purposes. Women would show in the rituals openly their vaginas, bottoms, breasts and menstrual blood. Men would show openly in the rituals their bottoms and penises in acts of masturbation and ejaculation. Video excerpts: Men with Erections in National Costume, Women Massaging Breasts, Women in the Rain, Group of Men Copulating with the Earth.

“Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project” and

“Seven Attempts To Make A Ritual” by Joel Tauber.