Marko Košnik
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Ditopia Signpost
Interactive – permanent installation, 2009

Ditopia Signpost has a special place in Marko Košnik’s ditopia series, which he has been developing in research cycles since 2004. In Ditopia Signpost two motives from previous works—the spectator in front of the projection and the subjective video camera promenading inside the projection environment—intertwine into a correlated organism: the spectator, moving in a designated space in front of the projection, directs the movement of a subjective video camera, for which he/she can define direction, speed, and zoom level into thousands of topographical photographs, for which presentation parameters are calculated.
A large portion of the visual material, meant to portray everyday life and work in the place of the work’s exhibition, as well the spaces that remain hidden from casual vistors of the exhibition, was produced at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka (MMSU).
Ditopia Signpost is also touching upon a 'vertical' historical level: it reveals itself in relation to the object Signpost, which the group Most (Marko Košnik, Edi Štefančić, Bojan Štokelj, Silvo Župančić) exhibited in the Biennale of Young Yugoslav Artists in Rijeka in 1987. In a certain way it also recreates the object Deja vu by Bojan Štokelj, exhibited in the 1989 Biennale, and now in the MMSU collection.
Through intertwined levels Ditopia Signpost sets complex references to the changes in understandings of space and time, as well as art contexts.