Performance
Maja Zećo (born 1987 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is an audio-visual artist based in Montrose, Scotland. She is enrolled in a practice-led Ph.D in sound and place, awarded by the SGSAH, and supported by Robert Gordon University, the University of Aberdeen and sound.
She has had a number of solo and collaborative works exhibited and performed internationally; in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Austria, The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Germany, Turkey and the UK. She has exhibited and performed in reknowned institutions in Sarajevo such as the Historical Museum, and the National Gallery, as well as numerous independent spaces. In terms of relevant recent work, in February 2016 she did a performance sketch as part of the SlowCooker workshop series in Aberdeen (Peacock Gallery) and in March she participated in the Sound Thought Conference held at CCA in Glasgow with the lecture-performance “Placing Sonic Dialogues”.
An educational background in Visual Communicational Design brings to her work a strong visual aspect, expressed in various platforms (video, animation, photography, design installation and performance). Her audio-visual work is layered and tackles issues of identity and belonging.
