{"id":667,"date":"2010-03-11T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/?p=667"},"modified":"2012-05-20T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T18:04:07","slug":"breakfast-with-the-head-1134-colorsound-belgrade-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast with the Head, 11&#8217;34&#8221;, color &#038; sound, Belgrade 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/?page_id=158\">back<\/a><\/address>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/37649445\" target=\"_blank\">link to the video <\/a><\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=39]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having started with one of Manet\u2019s painting, let us begin by examining the work of Isidora Ficovic, which represents a reinscenation of sorts of Manet\u2019s Breakfast on the Grass. In this video recording, two clothed men and a naked woman realize a tableau vivant; the situation approaches the original as much as possible, only the actual items of food refer to the sort of breakfast characteristic of these parts: burek (a kind of cheese pie, translator\u2019s note) and yogurt.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, the result does not boil down to striving for humorous effect through mere repetition with a difference, but by positioning, by way of mimicry, a high-culture topic in the real world of among real tensions: sexual, historical, habitual, etc. Hence the incomprehensible appearance of an object in the foreground (the \u201chead\u201d of the title \u2013 Breakfast with a Head), whose role here appears to be similar to that of the skull in Hans Hollbein\u2019s Ambassadors, that is, the role of anamorphosis, which Lacan presents to us in a famous text of his as a specific dimension in the field of vision, a dimension not related to the view as such but somehow connected to the function of a lack, an appearance of a phallic ghost.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">by Branislav Dimitrijevi\u0107<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Production BELEF &#8217;03.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>back link to the video [nggallery id=39] Having started with one of Manet\u2019s painting, let us begin by examining the work of Isidora Ficovic, which represents a reinscenation of sorts of Manet\u2019s Breakfast on the Grass. In this video recording, two clothed men and a naked woman realize a tableau vivant; the situation approaches the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/?p=667\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breakfast with the Head, 11&#8217;34&#8221;, color &#038; sound, Belgrade 2003<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-works"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isidoraficovic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}