Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Stealing Land (07:15)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Stealing Land Dr Xenia performs on the land of the former Rakuš mill in Celje, a textbook example of capital appetites for plots in good locations, which evict ideas of non-profit spaces for culture intended for common and public good. The fight for territory begins and ends with incantations of masked performers dressed in black business attires: "I'm stealing, you're stealing, we're all stealing." (Source: excerpt of the curatorial text by Vesna Bukovec, Ana Grobler and Sebasti...
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Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - The House of Cards (06:45)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
In the performance The House of Cards, Dr Xenia does not travel north or west by train, but in a south-easterly direction. On the route that led to Kumrovec in the previous country, but ends at the last station in front of the Croatian border in the new country, it tries to make a house out of cards. The impossible task is reminiscent of the inability to create safe life and home, which constantly elude refugees and migrants, as well as precarious workers of all ages, including cultural workers. At the end...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
In the performance The House of Cards, Dr Xenia does not travel north or west by train, but in a south-easterly direction. On the route that led to Kumrovec in the previous country, but ends at the last station in front of the Croatian border in the new country, it tries to make a house out of cards. The impossible task is reminiscent of the inability to create safe life and home, which constantly elude refugees and migrants, as well as precarious workers of all ages, including cultural workers. At the end...
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Man, Don't Get Angry (19:34)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
Man, Don't Get Angry is first and foremost a feminist response to the familiar image of (dressed) Marcel Duchamp and (naked) Eva Babitz's chess game from 1963. It is also a reference to the performance Mojca ärgere dich nicht, which was performed by Petja Grafenauer, Zoran Srdić Janežič, and Simon Macuh in 2013 at the Red Dawn festival with the aim of defending the use of nudity in works of art. Here, next to the dressed women, there is a half-naked man, who does not get to make a move during the ga...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
Man, Don't Get Angry is first and foremost a feminist response to the familiar image of (dressed) Marcel Duchamp and (naked) Eva Babitz's chess game from 1963. It is also a reference to the performance Mojca ärgere dich nicht, which was performed by Petja Grafenauer, Zoran Srdić Janežič, and Simon Macuh in 2013 at the Red Dawn festival with the aim of defending the use of nudity in works of art. Here, next to the dressed women, there is a half-naked man, who does not get to make a move during the ga...
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Fart Roulette (06:39)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Fart Roulette is actually a picnic on the grass, which can be reminiscent of Manet's famous painting, although this time, everyone present is dressed. The title refers to Russian roulette, and the authors shoot farts instead of bullets. The parody deals with a serious topic of environmental pollution and its far-reaching consequences. Artists in Celje have been warning about local polluters (Cinkarna Celje and other industries) for a long time, but those responsible do not take them seriousl...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Fart Roulette is actually a picnic on the grass, which can be reminiscent of Manet's famous painting, although this time, everyone present is dressed. The title refers to Russian roulette, and the authors shoot farts instead of bullets. The parody deals with a serious topic of environmental pollution and its far-reaching consequences. Artists in Celje have been warning about local polluters (Cinkarna Celje and other industries) for a long time, but those responsible do not take them seriousl...
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Rights for Our Fights (11:12)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The fifth in a series of performances - its title is also the title of the exhibition - is the only one where Dr Xenia performs live with audience participation. This performance is also defined by the space, the four corners of the Alakatraz Gallery form a boxing ring, which becomes the scene of fights. Despite the boxing equipment, there are no boxing matches in the ring, but various derivations of board games. All games (Mikado, Cards and Rock paper scissors) are usually played with the hands and playing...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The fifth in a series of performances - its title is also the title of the exhibition - is the only one where Dr Xenia performs live with audience participation. This performance is also defined by the space, the four corners of the Alakatraz Gallery form a boxing ring, which becomes the scene of fights. Despite the boxing equipment, there are no boxing matches in the ring, but various derivations of board games. All games (Mikado, Cards and Rock paper scissors) are usually played with the hands and playing...
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh, SIVA, IvAn - Archive (22:45)
Production: Siva, Ivanke, Ivan, Anko, 2021
The video is an archival overview of recordings and photographs of joint public actions and performances by artists Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik and artist Simon Macuh in the period from 2010 to 2021 in the framework of their various mutual collaborations. The naming of groups with the names SIVA, IvAn, IvAnKe and AnKo derives from combining the initial syllables of the participants' names. The topics of works vary according to participants, but what they all have in common is the...
Production: Siva, Ivanke, Ivan, Anko, 2021
The video is an archival overview of recordings and photographs of joint public actions and performances by artists Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik and artist Simon Macuh in the period from 2010 to 2021 in the framework of their various mutual collaborations. The naming of groups with the names SIVA, IvAn, IvAnKe and AnKo derives from combining the initial syllables of the participants' names. The topics of works vary according to participants, but what they all have in common is the...
Translacija | Traslación, Tatiana Kocmur, Francisco Tomsich - Rdeče niti: TV Auction (28:29)
Subtitle: SCCA-Ljubljana, 19. 10. 2019
Production: Translacija | Traslación, SCCA-Ljubljana, KUD/AAC Boja, Galerija Salsaverde, 2021
Rdeče niti: TV Auction (Red Threads: TV Auction) reproduces in TV format (8 video and 7 audio sources) a video presentation of the “Red Threads” research model applied to Martina Bastarda’s TV Auction (2003) performance study. The presentation took place on 19 October 2019 in the SCCA Project Room and included a closed-loop TV, which is replaced here by video documentation of the event. (Source: Translation | Translation)
Subtitle: SCCA-Ljubljana, 19. 10. 2019
Production: Translacija | Traslación, SCCA-Ljubljana, KUD/AAC Boja, Galerija Salsaverde, 2021
Rdeče niti: TV Auction (Red Threads: TV Auction) reproduces in TV format (8 video and 7 audio sources) a video presentation of the “Red Threads” research model applied to Martina Bastarda’s TV Auction (2003) performance study. The presentation took place on 19 October 2019 in the SCCA Project Room and included a closed-loop TV, which is replaced here by video documentation of the event. (Source: Translation | Translation)
Marko A. Kovačič - Post at the Red Star (2:40)
Production: Gibatorij, 2021
During the corona pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the author opened Javka pri Rdeči zvezdi (Post at the Red Star) in the former Mehanika factory and now Ropotarnca in Trbovlje to the public. In the heart of the once proletarian and revolutionary Red Districts, he performed the most complex staging of his fascinating forty-year artistic process to date, and through art encompassed social periods full of contradictions and paradoxes. (Source: DIVA)
Production: Gibatorij, 2021
During the corona pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the author opened Javka pri Rdeči zvezdi (Post at the Red Star) in the former Mehanika factory and now Ropotarnca in Trbovlje to the public. In the heart of the once proletarian and revolutionary Red Districts, he performed the most complex staging of his fascinating forty-year artistic process to date, and through art encompassed social periods full of contradictions and paradoxes. (Source: DIVA)
Sara Bezovšek - www.s-n-d.si (13:39)
Production: Sara Bezovšek, 2021
A screen recording of the webpage www.s-n-d.si. Sara Bezovšek was drawn to various apocalyptic scenarios that could lead to the end of the world as we know it. She collaged visual material, found online in the form of short videos, memes, photographs, gifs, emoticons and various external links, with her own works, thereby creating a complex and visually saturated narrative that follows typical Hollywood film premises, and takes the viewer from an idyllic situation to scenes of natural catastrophes, g...
Production: Sara Bezovšek, 2021
A screen recording of the webpage www.s-n-d.si. Sara Bezovšek was drawn to various apocalyptic scenarios that could lead to the end of the world as we know it. She collaged visual material, found online in the form of short videos, memes, photographs, gifs, emoticons and various external links, with her own works, thereby creating a complex and visually saturated narrative that follows typical Hollywood film premises, and takes the viewer from an idyllic situation to scenes of natural catastrophes, g...
Neža Knez - The story of a son who reversed the time when he turned upside down (03:00)
Production: Neža Knez, 2021
I found in front of my building old slides and a sun mirror for looking at the pictures.So, I made the story of a son who reversed the time when he turned upside down. (Source: Neža Knez)
Production: Neža Knez, 2021
I found in front of my building old slides and a sun mirror for looking at the pictures.So, I made the story of a son who reversed the time when he turned upside down. (Source: Neža Knez)
