We had the same starting point. We were born in the same geographic location. Several countries later, we have different passports. Without additional governmental approvals, I can visit 143 countries; for her it is 155 countries. Simultaneously, the processes we are going through while searching for a country where we could live together are not clear - This is one of the opening segments the author uses to indicate the geopolitical and biopolitical context from which the work Processes originates. In addition, it is immediately clear that Tanja Minarik views politics from a personal and intimate position of a person who is looking for a place, a country, where she could coexist with her partner. From a technical point of view, the multi-channel video installation Processes is the work in which the notions of private and public are intertwined. It is introduced by the author through a text logbook that fragmentally follows and questions the processes that transform and determine the life experience of this same sex couple. The diary records track the video clips of cities through which, the author explains, one could contemplate relationships via nodes, empty spaces and interspaces. Through a display of cities without identity and history, the work Processes becomes the couple’s search for a personal anthropological place. 

The author, motivated by the need to find meaning in documenting the process she undergoes, utilizes text logbook and video images, which places this work in a wider context of modern documentary practice. The practice, which is a recurring interest of the artist in analyzing the relation between reality and aesthetics, is recognized by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg in their introduction to Documentary Across Disciplines (2016). While organizing documentary records, which will later determine the work presentation, Tanja Minarik utilizes databases. This allows the author to avoid a closed linear narrative and creates a possibility to create a myriad of narratives as the result of an observer’s movement through the database. In terms of content, this documentary work starts with the position of the other in society, or the position defined by different sexuality and different citizenships. Coming from this position, a same sex couple’s search for the place to start life together, something that is often taken for granted by the heterosexual majority, becomes the process with a critical attitude towards political systems that administratively regulate relationships among people. The work does not adopt provocative aesthetics and subversive character that often characterize queer expression. However, the work still can be situated in the framework of queer art as it transfers personal and private into public, resulting in the political and institutional critique of the process, the critique coming from different sexuality point of view. Calm, contemplative and resignated, Processes opens a new perspective in the area of queer art. 

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Tanja Minarik (b. 1983) holds a MA in New Media Arts in Zagreb and BSc in Film and Video in Split.
She deals with various aspects of video art and design - installations, audio/visual performances, VJ-ing, editing and interactive installations. She exhibited and presented films on a series of group exhibitions and festivals. With queer feminist a/v band Žen she has performed everywhere.

queerEXHIBITIONS is a program that opens queer discourse in the town of Split. The exhibitions on the show are combination of local and international artistic productions. Promotion of Croatian artists internationally is organised in partnership with AMOQA, Athens, Greece; Dreiviertel, Bern, Switzerland; ŠKUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 
Since 2010 queerANarchive works as a collective that develops, researches and questions queer culture. Its curatorial and educational programs deal with particularities of queer culture at the time of LGBT normalisation. The collective is a member of Youth Centre Split Platform. Since 2017 the collective organises qFEST, a socio-cultural festival in support of Split Pride. At international level the collective participated at Queer Art Lab Space ID Madrid (2013), Activist in Residence at Visby, Sweden (2014), Young Queer Europe (2015 – 2016) and Unstraight Museum Conference, Stockholm, Sweden (2016). 
The space and WC of amoqa are accessible to wheelchairs.