Pero Kavgić

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Gender:: Male
Sexual orientation:: Heterosexual
Vegan orientation:: Carnivore

Birthday:: 1927.
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Pero Kavgić (1927) is an artist who has engaged in endurance art throughout his life without much media attention. If Marina Abramović is the grandmother of performance, Kavgić is definitely the great-grandfather, which will soon be confirmed by Croatian Wikipedia. His most significant works, unfortunately poorly or not at all recorded in the archives of history, spanning two world wars and into the new millennium, range from the multilingual “Stay low, arbeit macht frei, natura non facit saltus” (in which he actively managed to work on the action of doing nothing for 365 days), to the endurance performance “Pišem ti pismo” (in which he writes letters to pigeons about the state of the world during the continuous 15 hours of light of the Croatian summer solstice, which ends infamously due to significant communication difficulties that he attributed to the pandemic of Asperger’s syndrome in the population of central Croatian pigeons), to “Y2K, go away” (in which he sends a prayer in Morse code to the hackers of the world to stop the millennium bug), to most recent Zoom performance “I’m looking, but not hearing – anno domine 2020.”, technically and sponsor generously supported by the telecommunications start-up giant SpaceMoBBing. Pero Kavgić returns as a living and active artist at 94 years old, with an elderly back and a great appetite for enlightening the world about the state of affairs. His performance “Going out – post festum”, among other things, looks back on his participation in the project “Going out” with women from the generation of 60+, but it thematically and motifly deals with the idea of getting out of all kinds of shells of life, both personal and social.