How to Destroy an Artwork?

The workshop began with an unregistered exhibition copy of In the Name Of (2010), a photographic triptych by Borjana Ventzislavova and Mladen Penev, which Ventzislavova requested to be destroyed.

Students were invited to approach its destruction as both a practical task and a question concerning authorship, ownership and the value of art. They first divided the work among themselves and then transformed its fragments through individual interventions.

It was interesting to observe how, instead of destroying the work and its value, the students invested their efforts in transforming its fragments into other artworks, thereby producing new values. These works were eventually presented at a final sales exhibition organised by the students, and the proceeds were donated to the Serbian community in St. Louis.