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- PUBLIC / PRIVATE Mõtte- ja keskkonnakunsti talgud / International art event: Mooste, Põlva maakond, EESTI August 5-14 2005 |
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| PRIVATE-PUBLIC Thematic video program Duration: 1:42:28 Curator: Barbara Borc¹ic´ Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts, 2005 |
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| The program forms a part of the Videospotting project
presenting video art from Slovenia and conceived by SCCA-Ljubljana.
It combines video works from the last 9 years. The program consists of six video works by artists who originate in different artistic contexts and are not exclusively engaged in video production: primarily they are visual artists, film directors, and journalists. They use the video medium as one of their means of expression and frequently as a component part of their Gesamtkunstwerk practice. The selected video works have one common characteristic: they combine documentary and d’auteur approach, sometimes in a very intriguing way. The personal (private) is confronted with the social (public), creating very precise messages and commentaries. Some works employ elaborated procedures of stratification of various visual materials, either by means of the chrome-key method or computer-generated images. A human/animal figure features in most of the videos, and the elements of performance are very prominent. The costumes, sets and props are notably operative in the creation of video image, and with hardly any exception they were made by the artists themselves. |
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| 1. Zemira Alajbegovic´:
Quick Slow Beta, ZANK Production 2004, 11:47 This short video film explores the modalities of time – circling, repetition, acceleration, speed, stillness and quiescence, as well as the interlacement of time and space – the yard, the kitchen, the bedroom – with the basic states of the human body and spirit: loneliness, hysteria and melancholy. 2. Andrej Lupinc: In Eight Minutes Around the World music: Buldoz¹erji, U-matic, TV Slovenija & A.L., Ljubljana 1990-2000, 8:20 A magnificent video “reportage” was created in the process of the artist’s 10-years of travel throughout the world. A highly selected visual material presents some of the specifics, peculiarities and charms of different parts of the world, sometimes with a very poetic effect and sometimes with a horrifying feeling. 3. Damijan Kracina & Katarina Toman Kracina: Marmelade DVD, Ljubljana 2004, 4 Home-made video would be quite an appropriate characterization for this warm narration. In the form of conversion between grandma and grandson video pass on to us an old recipe – simple and home-made as it is, it sounds astonishing to contemporary viewer. 4. Mojca M. Pungerc¹ar: Portable Home Beta, Ljubljana 1996, 8:42 Video document shows the artist’s performance/campaign, which took place on the streets of Dusseldorf. It features an umbrella to which various items for personal use were attached: toiletries, a sewing kit, a coffee pot, a penknife and so on. The artist put the object in various public places for a while: in front of a shop, at the railway station, in a restaurant, a museum and other places that she frequented during her stay abroad. Under the cover of the umbrella she performed everyday tasks, such as cleaning shoes, brushing her teeth, brushing her hair, resting, sleeping, patching her clothes. 5. Zmago Lenardic¹: Big Blue Subway VPK & White Balance, New York – Ljubljana 2000, 12:42 The video was created / and remains / without a dominant idea and without a scenario. It does not even want to be a story. Since all the cadres are equally important and if someone is looking for a story, he will – hopefully – find it in each of them separately. All the cadres / including the performers / are practically uncontrolled – filmed secretly. The artists simply could not resist a special charm of this parallel underground – phantom city with its own codes and labels, independent of the life above. All the sunny places, dream spots, secret wishes, unexpected encounters – all this is, in equal measure, present down here, only maybe even more for real – present in dreams. 6. Sas¹o Sedlac¹ek: Picnic On a Dump DVD, Ljubljana 2004, 8:57 Document of an action initiated by Sas¹o Sedlac¹ek in which a group of artists expose themselves to the extreme environment of the city dump area. Through various actions from daily life they show how the rules of body and environment hygiene do not remove the problem, but rather only push it aside and hide it away from the eyes of the public: at the dump we can throw rubbish on the floor, a sink for disposing used water is not needed. The fact that the existing ideals and norms for cleanliness are completely fantasmatic is even further emphasized by the inscription extending on the rubbish hill of the Ljubljana dump: Hollywood. 7. Marko A. Kovac¹ic¹: Dossier 83:03: Video reconstruction DVD, Ljubljana 2003, 48 min. Narration d'auteur contextualises the artists own art practice within the social and political circumstances in Yugoslavia/Slovenia in the period of 20 years. The visual material originates from his personal archive and appertains to his art projects, home/family shots, or found footages/TV News. The video presents the historical/social events through biased/personal view. |
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photos by: jg, kv,
rb |
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Barbara
Borcic
(Slovenia)
Director of SCCA, Center for Contemporary Art – Ljubljana
Art historian, member of AICA - International Association of Art Critics and IKT - International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, member of ICAN web site editorial board. Active in the field of contemporary arts as a curator, editor and publicist. Art director of the S¹KUC Gallery in Ljubljana (1982-1985), the editor of art magazines Likovne besede (1991-1992) and PlatformaSCCA (1999-2005). From 1993 she was an assistant to the director, from 1997 the director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana; from 2000 the director of the SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana. Within SCCA she carried out Videodokument: Video Art in Slovenia 1969-1998 (documentation, archival and research project), Videospotting (curated video programs), What is to be done with audiovisual archives? (research project) and Internet Portfolio (curated web project).
Director of SCCA, Center for Contemporary Art – Ljubljana
Art historian, member of AICA - International Association of Art Critics and IKT - International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, member of ICAN web site editorial board. Active in the field of contemporary arts as a curator, editor and publicist. Art director of the S¹KUC Gallery in Ljubljana (1982-1985), the editor of art magazines Likovne besede (1991-1992) and PlatformaSCCA (1999-2005). From 1993 she was an assistant to the director, from 1997 the director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana; from 2000 the director of the SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana. Within SCCA she carried out Videodokument: Video Art in Slovenia 1969-1998 (documentation, archival and research project), Videospotting (curated video programs), What is to be done with audiovisual archives? (research project) and Internet Portfolio (curated web project).