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Approximately 140 artists, musicians, poets and a couple of impostors have taken part in person in Susak Expo since 2006:
Aleš Suk, Aleks Dimitrova, Amelia Christie, Andrea Crnković, Anna G., Anna-Maria Bogner, Aya Fukami, Ben Roberts, Beulah Roberts, Birgit Mollick, Bojana Crnogorac, Brian Dawn Chalkley, Bruce McLean, Camilla Gaugler, Caroline McCambridge, Cedric Christie, Charlie Bonnallack, Charles Williams, Chel Logan, Chintia Kirana, Christina Boula, Christine Booker, Clara Qvist-Richards, Clara S. Rueprich, Craig Andrews, Daniela Urem, Daniel Devlin, Dancho, Damir Stojnić, David Brock, David Smith, Devdy Idevero, Douglas Lewis, Eddie Farrell, Egon Cesar Rind, Elisa Bollazzi, Elisabeth Gattringer, Emma Croft, Epervier, Esox Lucius Ido, Gašper Jemec, Gabi Miks, Georgina Corrie, Gianfranco Mirizzi, Gill Ord, Graham Hayward, Günther Metzger, Hedley Roberts, Helen Elder, Hermann Fink, Horacio Militello, Igor F. Petković, Igor Rukavina, Indigo Richards, Iris Dostal, Ivana Černeha, J. B. Klimack, Janko Matić, Janice Harding, Janina Klenke, Jasna Šikanja, Jens Andersen, Jessica Wiesner, Jo Melvin, John Hughes, John Krogh, John Stephens, Jonna-Marie Bay, Jonny Roberts, Joshua Y’Barbo, Julia Schwarzenberg, Julija Castellucci, Julius Welby, Katarina Antonova, Katarina Dragoslavić, Kate Lyddon, Kaz Raad, Keran James, Kezia Abouma, Klara Devlin, Klara Dujmović, Krešimir Golubić, Kurt-Michael Westerman, Lada Sega, Lance Tabraham, Linda Lencovic, Lucija Stojević, Ludmilla Andrews, Luka Duplančić, Luka Malvić, Maja Laubič, Margareta Vidmar, Martin Wiese, Melita Sorola, Michael Kutschbach, Michael Wedgwood, MicroCollection, Mikkel Larris, Miranda Radford, Moran Stinčić, Morten Tillitz, Natasa Ljubetić, Neira Mušić, Nina Dick, Noemi Stancke, Oliver Ertl, Paul Carr, Peter Fuchs, pETER Purg, Peter Seewasser, Petra Varl, Petar Krajačić Vilović, Philipp Schellmann, Professor (no name recorded), Robert Findenig, Robin Seir, Romina Dušić, Russell Martin, Sally Anne Roberts, Sarah Rechberger, Sea-Hyun Lee, Simon Liddiment, Sian-Kate Mooney, Sneaky Pete, Sombre, Sophie K. Leinweber, Snježana Brajnović, Stephanie Cote, Sven Moro, Tilen Hebar, Tine Louise Kortermand, Tomáš Kramberger, Tomislav Brajnović, Tomislav Kalčić, Ursula Strohwald, Vanja Balogh, Vladimir Tomić Mosk, Wendy Repass, William Mackrell, Yen-Sik Kim and Zoran “Klas” Klasić.
Susak Expo 2006 began as an idea to extend platforms by exchanges of contexts and languages through dialogues between people and locations. It’s an idea on the move, an idea in translation. And this text too, translated, will emerge with differences, to become another text. Translation can slip between languages to structure networks of thought. It enables simultaneous experiences to interact. It is vulnerable and open to incompletion as well as failure and misunderstanding. The project may fail or it may succeed, its outcome and even the idea of its completion is uncertain. And because of this openness it is vulnerable, this is its character. — Jo Melvin, 2006
Susak expo is a contemporary art biennale founded by Herzog Dellafiore and con-artist Daniel Devlin, that has taken place on the remote Croatian island of Susak since 2006. The original reason for organising the Susak expo was as a reaction to all the art fairs, biennales and museums of contemporary art sprouting up everywhere, and to highlight the absurdity of this proliferation by staging an international art biennale in the most unlikely of places where, apart from a few people seeing it by mistake and, of course, the participating artists, the chances are no-one will see it.
The project may fail or it may succeed, its outcome and even the idea of its completion is uncertain. And because of this openness it is vulnerable, this is its character.Jo Melvin, 2006
Since no-one sees the exhibition, the objects created for it (paintings, installations, photographs etc) lose importance, while what becomes central is the whole experience of artists sharing time and ideas. When the Expo is over, some of the objects and traces will still be there for a while, like strange artist droppings.
Participating artists have to accept the concept and possibility of failure, or even to embrace failure as a desirable outcome. The possibility of failure ensures the unpredictability of the expo. Susak expo is not just about isolation; it sits within a wider context and, whether politically or geographically, artists are encouraged to respond to the place and to reconsider their own practices.
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