Jatun Risba - Mpasturavacche (04:08)
Subtitle: The Milk-Suckling Snake
Production: Jatun Risba & STEAM Atelier, 2019/2020
Mpasturavacche is the dialectal name in Apuglia, Italy, of the common four-lined snake, which was believed to suckle a cow’s milk while entwined around its legs. The artwork Mpasturavacche. The milk-suckling snake is a one-to-one Art and Science performance that lets participants explore the perceptive abilities of snakes through wearable technologies. By disclosing the instincts and impulses of the lizard brain in the human animal, the artwork makes sense of and alleviates humans’ estrange...
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Jatun Risba - Mpasturavacche. The taboo of meeting the chimera of oneself (Mpasturavacche. Tabu srečanja s himero samega sebe) (09:25)
Subtitle: Artist Lecture at TTT 2020
Production: Jatun Risba & STEAM Atelier, 2019/2020
A recording of the lecture by the artist Jatun Risba at the Interdisciplinary Conference Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science in November 2020 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Angewandte). The audio recording of the lecture is accompanied by video documentation of the Mpasturavacche performance. In the lecture, the artist presents this one-on-one performance, using low-tech equipment and open source technology to address the relationships of power of the gaze, physicality,...
Subtitle: Artist Lecture at TTT 2020
Production: Jatun Risba & STEAM Atelier, 2019/2020
A recording of the lecture by the artist Jatun Risba at the Interdisciplinary Conference Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science in November 2020 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Angewandte). The audio recording of the lecture is accompanied by video documentation of the Mpasturavacche performance. In the lecture, the artist presents this one-on-one performance, using low-tech equipment and open source technology to address the relationships of power of the gaze, physicality,...
Jatun Risba - Getting Gold (11:07)
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2019
Getting Gold is a vanitas video that questions the impact of value systems on ideas of authorship and art-making. The video performance between Jatun Risba, Franco G. Livera and Daniele Semeraro is a meditation on the fugacity of existence in all its forms. Bodies are growing (g)old, human behaviors are becoming outdated, wild species are getting extinct and technologies obsolete. Amidst the impermanence of life, what is worth doing? (Source: author)
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2019
Getting Gold is a vanitas video that questions the impact of value systems on ideas of authorship and art-making. The video performance between Jatun Risba, Franco G. Livera and Daniele Semeraro is a meditation on the fugacity of existence in all its forms. Bodies are growing (g)old, human behaviors are becoming outdated, wild species are getting extinct and technologies obsolete. Amidst the impermanence of life, what is worth doing? (Source: author)
Jatun Risba - Down-going (03:15)
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2019
Down-going was taken during a collaborative art intervention at an operating hospital in S Italy in summer 2019. The produced photos and video stage a playful act of medical self-determination and resilience. By taking control over the use of medical spaces and tools, the artists underline and overturn the dynamics of power in contemporary medical contexts. (Source: author) The video has no sound.
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2019
Down-going was taken during a collaborative art intervention at an operating hospital in S Italy in summer 2019. The produced photos and video stage a playful act of medical self-determination and resilience. By taking control over the use of medical spaces and tools, the artists underline and overturn the dynamics of power in contemporary medical contexts. (Source: author) The video has no sound.
Jatun Risba - Drop-off (trailer) (08:22 (trailer 02:45))
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2020
A year of desires ...for a new Beginning ...for changing the Course of ...desires ...to end desires ...DROP-OFF Drop-off is a work that reclaims the beauty and vitality of life in its darkest places. (Source: author)
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2020
A year of desires ...for a new Beginning ...for changing the Course of ...desires ...to end desires ...DROP-OFF Drop-off is a work that reclaims the beauty and vitality of life in its darkest places. (Source: author)
Jatun Risba - In My Sweetie's Arms (trailer) (06:53 (trailer 02:28))
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2020
A still dance in the comfort of nonconceptualityis putting trust in the hands of my sweetie.Turkish delight, honey, greed ...You, Beloved spider, are swallowing downknots of sugar in abandonment.An unruly tongue teases suspicion.Can you taste the bitterness of the machinewith a gloved hand? In my sweetie's arm searches for the mover behind the movements in both the machine and the human. (Source: author)
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2020
A still dance in the comfort of nonconceptualityis putting trust in the hands of my sweetie.Turkish delight, honey, greed ...You, Beloved spider, are swallowing downknots of sugar in abandonment.An unruly tongue teases suspicion.Can you taste the bitterness of the machinewith a gloved hand? In my sweetie's arm searches for the mover behind the movements in both the machine and the human. (Source: author)
Jatun Risba - Wrapping (06:16)
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2019
A body wrapped in plastic … to retain moisture and preserve freshness. The plastic foil is perforated by medical tools. A body transformed into a Christmas tree decorated with surgical instruments. What does this piece of body celebrate? What has been wrapped (up) in secrecy through the process of medicalization? Wrapping holds a mirror to the medical wrapping of life. (Source: author)
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2019
A body wrapped in plastic … to retain moisture and preserve freshness. The plastic foil is perforated by medical tools. A body transformed into a Christmas tree decorated with surgical instruments. What does this piece of body celebrate? What has been wrapped (up) in secrecy through the process of medicalization? Wrapping holds a mirror to the medical wrapping of life. (Source: author)
Ema Kugler - Man with Shadow (01:40)
Subtitle: trailer
Production: ZANK & VPK, 2019
The genetic code forces man in reproduction. A newborn has no choice. Without her/his will, it is sorted to this world and as a completely helpless creature in the dressage of civilizational norms, which are determined by those in the position of power ... But what if something else is possible?
Subtitle: trailer
Production: ZANK & VPK, 2019
The genetic code forces man in reproduction. A newborn has no choice. Without her/his will, it is sorted to this world and as a completely helpless creature in the dressage of civilizational norms, which are determined by those in the position of power ... But what if something else is possible?
Nataša Berk - Törpe (01:30)
Production: N.B., 2006
The short video is a performance for the camera. We see a close-up shot of a face staring fixedly at the camera. Nose-picking is followed by an unexpected gesture. (Source: DIVA Station)
Production: N.B., 2006
The short video is a performance for the camera. We see a close-up shot of a face staring fixedly at the camera. Nose-picking is followed by an unexpected gesture. (Source: DIVA Station)
Nataša Berk - Eine Revolution Ohne Tanzen Ist Eine Revolution Die Sich Nicht Lohnt (03:36)
Production: N.B., 2011/12
The video consists of two editions (2011/12 and 2017). Each was filmed at a different location, probably in the artist's apartment at the time. The work is a dance performance for the camera. The artist dances to music not recorded in the video. The very absence of music is the essence of the work, as the artist invites the viewers to choose the music they will listen to while watching her dance. The title of the work is based on a famous quote attributed to the American anarchist Emma Goldman (If I can't d...
Production: N.B., 2011/12
The video consists of two editions (2011/12 and 2017). Each was filmed at a different location, probably in the artist's apartment at the time. The work is a dance performance for the camera. The artist dances to music not recorded in the video. The very absence of music is the essence of the work, as the artist invites the viewers to choose the music they will listen to while watching her dance. The title of the work is based on a famous quote attributed to the American anarchist Emma Goldman (If I can't d...
