She is a co-author of an art & media project and podcast Femkanje, and a founding member of an international sound art collective Audio Leakage Community. Her projects can be found under the aliases Bojana (S) Knežević, Boa Béres, BOASZ, A Queen of Montenegro, and Sweet Conceptual Artist.
Harpirexia: Study of a Predator
multimedia installation (8-channel sound, video, performance)
2024/25
costume: Ferhat Kartal
headpiece/mask: Sada Leigh Sherrin
photo/video: Miroslav Dajč / Janis Binder
hair/assistance: Juliette Brasseur
overall assistance/support: Bojan Bajazetov
special thanks: Ingo Schulz, Rita Macedo and Rolf Pilarsky, Dima Strapchev
Inspired by mythology, the realm of nature, female superheroes, and fables, this project reacts to systemic silencing in patriarchal society, through the lenses of ecofeminism and feminist speculative fiction. The artist, embodying a hybrid bird-woman predator, engages in a series of micro-choreographies, each contributing to a collection of superpowers vital for her survival as an immigrant woman artist. In the face of global crises, intersectional discrimination, and political power struggles, the work reflects the unpredictable and surreal nature of our realities, capturing the disorienting chaos that defines the world today. It highlights the extraordinary resilience, courage, and inner strength required to confront the ever-shifting tides of social and political turmoil.
Show dates:
Braunschweig Projects 2024–25 CROSSING TALES Final exhibition
Opening January 28, 6 pm
D-38118 Braunschweig Germany
Long-term projects:
Harpirexia
Inspired by mythology, the realm of nature, female superheroes, and fables, this project reacts to systemic silencing in patriarchal society, through the lenses of ecofeminism and feminist speculative fiction. The artist, embodying a hybrid bird-woman predator, engages in a series of micro-choreographies, each contributing to a collection of superpowers vital for her survival as an immigrant woman artist.
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A Queen of Montenegro
In the project A Queen of Montenegro, traditional, artistic and folk tools and skills are combined to subvert hierarchies within the systems of patriarchal society. My family background and heritage is linked to the rural areas of Montenegro, where female members are explicitly and systematically oppressed, neglected, and erased from the family memory.
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Sweet conceptual artist
Sweet Conceptual Artist / Süße Konzeptkünstlerin is a virtual artistic identity created in 2013 as a hybrid construction and a performative textual statement. It proceeded to act as an open dialogue platform and a collective identity, building its features and its artistic opus by interacting with observers/participants.
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Femkanje
Femkanje is a podcast, art and media project, dedicated to contemporary art and culture in Serbia, the former Yugoslavian region and Europe. Focus is on the models of independent production and self-organization in contemporary culture, as well as on media visibility and gender equality in the representation of its actors.
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Selected works:
A chance encounter8-channel soundwork, 7-part series of images
In Your
Coat
Performance
(Multi)facing anxietyInteractive audio-visual installation / participatory performance
Let’s just call it the new one
Participatory performance and sound piece
Participatory performance and sound piece
The Reveries of Commons
Audio-visual installation / performance