Artist Tanja Ostojic has established a web presence for Misplaced Women?, a delegated performance in which women volunteers carry packed suitcases in the public spaces repeatedly pausing to pack and unpack as they move about the city.

The performance was Ostojic’s contribution to subRosa’s shift at the PSi gathering. At the new site, women can easily upload documentation and comment on additional performances of Misplaced Women?.

In this project, Ostojic enacts an everyday life activity that signifies a displacement as common to transients, migrants, and disaster refugees, as it is to the itinerant artist traveling the world to earn her living. Ostojic’s street performance continues themes of migration, desired mobility, and relations of power and vulnerability in regards to the mobile female body, found in much of her previous work.

You are invited to perform Misplaced Women? and to share your experience on the web and during public discussions.

Locations for performances suggested by the artist include: train stations (inside and outside); women’s house, (in front or inside); refugee camps for illegalized people, shopping malls/market places; ports, airports, underground (inside metro while driving, underground stations)…

Tanja Ostojic would like to hear from anyone performing this delegated piece: Please visit the web site to upload your clips, images and comments!

Watch this space for last-minute announcements of  performances of Elena Marcevska‘s performance CHAE.

• Thursday  – 8:30 am : Meet in front of Hotel International
• Thursday – 3:00 pm : Meet near statue of woman carrying basket at Dolac Market

Download PDF map and schedule.

child's shoe with note

infant clothing with note

NEW WEB SITE :::::::: Tanja Ostojic invites you to perform, document, and comment on Misplaced Women? as part of Performa in New York City during the entire month of November, 2009. Please visit the new web site for Ostojic’s delegated performance: http://misplacedwomen.wordpress.com/

Performances of Tanja Ostojic‘s delegated performance Misplaced Women? at PSi#15:

• Wednesday – 9am – Blessed Virgin Mary Fountain in front of Zagreb Cathedral (postponed due to lost luggage)
• Thursday – 9:30 am (approx.) – Behind the main train station, Glavin Kolodor
• Friday – 5:00 pm – in front of Zagreb Youth Theater

Tending to her clothes behind Glavin Kolodor

An invitation to participate in a delegated performance:

Misplaced Women? is a delegated performance in which women volunteers carry packed suitcases in the public spaces of Zagreb, repeatedly pausing to pack and unpack as they move about the city. In this project, Tanja Ostojic enacts an everyday life activity that signifies a displacement as common to transients, migrants, and disaster refugees, as it is to the itinerant artist traveling the world to earn her living. Ostojic’s street performance continues themes of migration, desired mobility, and relations of power and vulnerability in regards to the mobile female body, found in much of her previous work.

You are invited to perform Misplaced Women? and to share your experience during the public discussion on Friday night in the Zagreb Youth Theatre. (see program schedule here)

Locations suggested by the artist include the main train station, Glavin Kolodor (inside and outside); women’s house, Zenska Kuca (in front or inside); Motel Jezevo, refugee camp for illegalized people, 10 km from Zagreb; main shopping mall/market; conference or performance room in the conference.

Post-PSi delegated performances

subRosa and Tanja Ostojic would like to hear from anyone performing this delegated piece: For guidelines and contact info, please visit http://misplacedwomen.wordpress.com/about/.