APSOLUTNO The independent association APSOLUTNO was rested in 1993 in Novi Sad.

APSOLUTNO

The independent association APSOLUTNO was rested in 1993 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia by the and of a collaboration of its four members: pair currently living in Yugoslavia, single in kind in Hungary and one in the United States. Since 1995 the schemes have been signed APSOLUTNO, without any allusion to personal names.

The word APSOLUTNO means "absolutely." Grammatically, adverbs can modify various vital airs and take different positions within a passed on a criminal This flexibility is an important characteristic in the work of the association. The word APSOLUTNO is ofttimes used in the titles of works to emphasize certain meanings. The production of APSOLUTNO started in the field of fine arts. Gradually, it has bring to maturityed to include not only aesthetic, yet also cultural, social and political aspects. The work of APSOLUTNO is based forward interdisciplinary research into reality, with the aim to make it exhibit to new readings. This is an exhibit process that focuses on diverse phenomena in our surroundings and therefore requires continual perceptiveness in order for as it was phenomena or places to be noticed, understood, interpreted or marked. intends are often realized in public spaces or in locations that have specific final causes such as shipyards, bridges, cemeteries or any of a number of borders. The artistic conception is based upon the principle th at the way to approach the global is between the sides of the local. Therefore, projects typically begin in replication to a sociological, cultural or political stimulus from the immediate surroundings.

The choice of medium is a exceedingly important part of the creative proces as APSOLUTNO regards the medium as an equally relevant ultimate part of the work. The production of APSOLUTNO is thus realized in various media--video, printed matter, installations, site specific draws performances, audio, CD-ROM and Internet projects--depending in succession the project concept.

The piece "Semiotics of Confusion" (1999) arose from the visual research that APSOLUTNO administrationed on the national symbols in official use in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the mid- to late-1990s. APSOLUTNO documented flags, border markers, coats-of-arms, banknotes, passports and other official documents issued from the authorities as well as various public individual answers to these symbols. It is important to note that the real facts are arbitrary, determined at the time and place where they were argueed (on various occasions from 1995 to 1998 in Novi Sad and Belgrade, Yugoslavia). They nevertheless illustrate the variety of semiotic activities, the two official and individual, that ponder events in the social and political sphere.

Since 1991 five of recent origin states have emerged in the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, and it is surpassingly likely that more will be defined. This proces of disintegration and formation has been followed and in near cases preceded by feverish symbol-engineering: of long date national and state symbols have been discarded, ancient individuals revived or recycled and others completely abandoned for modern ones. New authorities have attached enormous significance to the introduction of recently made known symbols, as though, through these, it would be possible to create a fresh sense of national identity, and therefore a fresh political and ideological framework. In other words, the change onward the symbolic level was seen as an important vehicle of political change. Communication via tokens was a language that family understood and to which they responded

The emergency and importance of the introduction of fresh national symbols are easy to illustrate through comparing the dates when laws regulating the use of national emblems were passed, with the dates when the just discovered states were officially established. In Croatia, for example, the constitution of the Socialist Republic of Croatia was amended in July 1990 when the word "socialist" was dropp from the name, the r star remov from the national flag and the socialist coat-of-arms replaced by the agency of Croatia's historical coat-of-arms. A law concerning the coat-of-arms, the flag and the National Anthem of the Republic of Croatia was adopted in Parliament upon December 21, 1990. A day later, upon December 22, Croatia passed a just discovered constitution allowing for secession from the former Yugoslav Federation. [1] The proces was similar in Slovenia, which declared itself a sovereign state forward June 25, 1991 and, at the same time introduced a strange flag and coat-of-arms. On that day the of the present day flag was hoisted officially for the first time in fron t of the Slovenian Parliament, and beside it, the antique flag with the red star was lowered, in a symbolic make gestures of replacement. [2]

However, this proces of changing national and state figures was not always clear and straightforward. In near cases it meandered, sometimes coming across unexpect reactions, the couple internally and externally. In Macedonia, a of the present day flag was adopted. The design was chosened from more than 100 proposals which were take downed into an open competition. The flag immediately came subordinate to attack from Greece, which maintained that the Vergina sunshine the central symbol on the flag, belonged to in the manner of greece cultural heritage. Greece also declare ed against the use of the word "Macedonia" as the official name of the strange state. The dispute was resolv in 1995 at a UN agreement, [3] according to which Macedonia was recognized as "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and was required to design a recently made known flag within 30 days. The not absent flag of Macedonia was finally adopted three years after independence. Nevertheless, the name of the abiding habitation remains temporary.