ABSTRACT
Sanja Ivekovic’s 1979 performance Trokout (Triangle) is the starting point for the author's analysis of the space of the balcony. As Tito's motorcade was passing her apartment, she sat on her balcony sipping whiskey, reading a book, and gesturing as if she were masturbating. The police, observing apartments from the rooftops, entered her apartment ordering her to stop her acts. The performance shows how a balcony functions as a peripheral space of non-distinction between outside and inside, public, and private, that is, as a space that deconstructs the logic of duality between exterior and interior. The balcony is mostly understood as an extra room that brings an added space to the apartment – a place to have a morning coffee and read the paper or the social media messages. The balcony has functioned as a space of the declaration of the sovereign power: from the Medici Palace’s loggia to Mussolini’s Palazzo Venezia’s balcony.
