Tomo Savić-Gecan : Untitles (Croatian Pavilion)

Every day for the duration of the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale of Art, the lead story from a different, randomly selected global news source provides the data that feeds an artificial intelligence algorithm, which in turn prescribes the time, location, duration, movements, and thoughts of a group of five performers in the city of Venice to constitute Tomo Savić-Gecan’s Untitled (Croatian Pavilion), 2022.
The book contextualizes Tomo Savić-Gecan’s new work against his broader practice, starting with his very first solo show in Ljubljana in 1994, touching on his predilection for the atmospheric, the algorithmic, time, and temperature—all in order to raise vital questions about communication and, ultimately, control.