Arsenije Jovanovic scoops from his huge pool of sound material on water to create his new piece AquAgonia. This is an issue, which is becoming increasingly important and geopolitically explosive and that in the future is going to occupy all of us more and more often in an anthropological as well as aesthetical respect.
Being asked to make any statement about my recent artwork, where there are no words, I always find undoubtedly absurd. It makes me feel that I start going backward once I reached… whatever end. Why I must use the words reinterpreting something what is supposed to be interpreted and explained by itself in principle, from where words were deliberately banned? Can’t I communicate with my audience merely through the language of sound? I used a single word though, a neologism I put as the title of the work not missing to admit that even this sole word-no-word did some… brutality to what I want to achieve. Maybe brutality is not the right word – you see how a single word could provoke confusion! – to say instead, how even an innocent title, unless it is totally abstract, triggers the listener’s imagination before the very art piece starts working itself – what I find not so good since I don’t want to make any influence to my audience beforehand, not even with the title, being abstract or not. Maybe pictures and collages I did will give some better previous or subsequent clarification... if one finds any clarification necessary. I don’t want to say that I don’t care for those listeners who cannot listen to my work without introductory explanations but… anyway; responsibility will be mine if it sounds so.
(Photo: Jovanovic)