Privatization and profit-making treatment of water resources is becoming an increasingly profitable business. Drinking water, which is vital for humans, should in no way be a commercial commodity that fills the shelves of supermarkets in hundreds of bottles of different brands. What would happen if all the water was packed and prevented from uninterrupted circulation in the nature? I recognized the fountain as an illustration of the hydrosphere in the urban area. That is the scene of my intervention. The idea was to pack the entire water capacity of one fountain and keep the same amount of water, but in a static instead in a dynamic state. With this, I wanted to emphasize that with excessive packaging comes a threat of fresh water depletion, as in my case, it happened with the stopping of the fountain. In the intervention I used hundreds of discarded bottles of more than twenty different brands of drinking water. The result of the intervention was an inactive fountain filled with bottles full of authentic water from the fountain. The public intervention was carried out in 2017 in Novo mesto. (Source: Danilo Milovanović)
Production: Projekt Y? (Toni Poljanec, Neža Knez, Danilo Milovanović, Luka Erdani), 2020
Y? is a road-trip documentary shot in 2019 during the journey from Kragujevac (Serbia) to Mercer (Pennsylvania, USA) with a Yugo coral 55. Our four-member team took the Yugo – a catalyst of myths and facts within a specific time and space – fo...
Production: D.M. in Vstop prost, 2018
Simple street art intervention focuses on plants that have grown up from gaps or damages in architecture and streets. Due to their invasive nature they are usually automatically recognized as intruders among decorative plants shaped by people’s tast...
Production: 2018
Video documentation of an intervention in a public space. The artist made a large-scale graphic print from a bitumen-coated street surface. He selected the surface from bitumen as an illustration of the presence of a heavy industry on which the city of Ka...
Production: D.M., 2017
This intervention is a humorous, but actual reaction to the laying concrete on the public, living space. The idea requires a specific location that contains a grassy section interrupted with a concrete section. The grassy part must contain everyday use of...
Production: D.M. in Fotopub, 2017
Documentation of an intervention in a public space, performed by the artist together with the team of Fotopub festival in Novo mesto. In his public actions, Danilo Milovanović often criticizes capitalist-consumer urban reality in a humorous manner. With...
Production: D.M., 2017
The goal of the intervention is to place the product, as a cell of consumer society, somewhere where it is not expected. The first step of the intervention is visiting supermarkets and collecting authentic brand labels found on imported fruit. This fruit...
Production: D.M., 2017
The idea of intervention arises from the question of the discourse of time in a modern society. This has "shrunk" at the mental level and it seems that 24 hours a day is no longer enough to perform all the tasks required by the pace of modern life. As...
Production: D.M., 2017
This intervention deals with public space in general. How do we experience it, where are the limits of using it, how do we behave inside of this? I found roundabouts an interesting examples of non-reachable public spaces, due to their position surrounded...
Production: D.M., 2017
The intervention is a reaction to the design of external plants in public and private spaces. They are usually trimed in geometric forms, thereby making their aesthetic value dominant over the organic nature and biological function of the plants. I am rea...
Production: D.M., 2016
Video documentation of a performance in a public space, recorded in Prague in 2016. The artist laid down on the sidewalk, while his friend covered him with empty plastic bottles. The pile of bottles on top of him keeps growing, but passers-by, with except...