Tac.ka or "the dot" was an association of visual artists that my colleagues and I founded in 2007 in Prijedor. It established the first and only contemporary arts magazine in Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized street and public space actions, interventions and performances, exhibition projects in country and abroad. Most notably, Tac.ka organized the only ever Art in Nature Laboratory in the Balkans: Ars Kozara.
An excerpt from the founding document:
Tack.ka´s objective is to foster a subversive artistic action within the dominant cultural paradigm in Bosnia & Herzegovina that is, at the moment, going in two seemingly different direction: on one hand the manipulation of its cultural traditions, stereotypes and "brands" and on the other the manipulation with its politicality and state-related chronologies. Tac.ka association will promote the idea of restructuring of contemporary art practices and their regional manifestations based on inertial glorifications and pretentious rhetorics of "serious biennials" by fostering discussions, analytical processing and critical freedoms. A such an approach is necessary in cultural contexts like ours that are "discursively underdeveloped", repressed and not actualized by the state and cultural institutions.
In 2014 the association completely stopped with its activities and only exists as an informal theoretical group of the remaining members Mladen Bundalo, Nemanja Cadjo, Dragan Indjic and Dajan Spiric.
Other founders and members of Tac.ka were: Boris Eremic, Milijana Grabovica, Sanja Kovacic, Jovana Marjanovic, Igor Sovilj & Milica Tosic.
Cover of the Tac.ka Magazine for contemporary arts. The project was supported by the European Cultural Foundation
Press clippings on Ars Kozara
After the night performance "Fear smelting", Manifesta 7 parallel events in Trento in 2008
Invitation card for the Imaginary pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Banja Luka.