Lala Rascic’s work draws upon the aesthetics of old time radio plays where the performative act is the basis of assuming different identities. The artist often acts out multiple roles while playing with realities and developing fictituous narratives in her projects.
“Lala’s inquisitive research into audio drama and the installations she has developed from this interest are enthralling and refreshing. Although her works contain references to period style and found material, Lala plays with the genre’s traditional roles and themes to invent new narrative threads and a contemporary angle from which to present the medium. Lala’s personal participation in the stories she forms, or adopts is paramount. The way she imparts such energy into her characters’ reincarnations and often gives heraudience physical access to the installations via various props,encourages those who encuonter her work first-hand to feel implicated in the narrative and part of a shared experience.” November Paynter
Lala Rascic was based between Edinburgh and Perth during Summer 2007, creating new process-based work as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival. The artist created artefacts and documentation which were presented via the ARC Projects web site, and evolved over the period of the residency for later exhibition in a gallery setting. This blog acted as a sketchpad or diary for Lala’s residency.
The residency was hosted in collaboration with Threshold artspace, Perth; Edinburgh Art Festival; co-funded by the Scottish Arts Council; ARC Projects; Croatian Ministry of Culture. Elements from the work created during the residency featured in a show later in 2007 at Threshold artspace, Perth.
Lala Rascic was born in Sarajevo in 1977. She lives and works in Amsterdam and Zagreb. Lala’s practice spans drawing, video, performance and installation. Recent exhibitions include: “Salon of the Revolution”, 2008 Youth Salon, Zagreb; “Individual Utopias”, KCB, Belgrade (solo) (2008); Land of Human Rights,
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lala dot rascic at zg dot htnet dot hr