Interview with artist Mila Panic (August 2019, Slovenia)

03/08/2019 12 min
Interview with artist Mila Panic (August 2019, Slovenia)

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Episode Synopsis

An interview on the run… recorded straight after Mila's Fotopub festival performance Rocking Chairs, in a 15 minutes gap before her transport from Novo Mesto back to Berlin.

We briefly speak about the key aspects of her practice through which she explores status symbols and aspirations for ‘better life’ with the focus on diaspora and issue of integration.

We speak about her work We have a wonderful life, a multimedia project consisting of a six- channel video installation and photographs sent to her family by relatives that moved to Australia in the late 90’s.

We also speak about her work Tante aus Deutschland (Aunt from Germany) which she made with her aunts who live in Germany since 1993 to expose the issue of integration in the new culture and to deconstruct the image of wonderful life.


Mila is also concerned with the precarious condition of artists which led her to initiate Fully Funded Residencies platform which started as a project out of boredom and has become a bit of a phenomenon: https://www.facebook.com/fullyfundedresidenices/

Listen about it all in this brief interview recorded in Novo Mesto, Slovenia at the 2019 Fotopub festival on 3 August 2019.

More about Mila Panic: https://milapanic.net/about/