Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (0:19:22)
Production: 2003
The video shows Nika Oblak & Primož Novak having picnic in a snowy landscape next to a highway. The postcard-like landscape is beautiful to look at, but it also isolates Oblak & Novak from the rest of the world.
(Source: oblak-novak.org)
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Robertina Šebjanič, Mari Lagerquist - Connected by Signals (0:06:30)
Production: 2009
Video work documents a conversation between both authors with a static shot focused on their hands and with that their gesticulation. An unclear conversation mixed with sounds of a cafe is in played over the video in a form of transcription. The work problematizes impersonal communication on internet in a relation to a lively conversation in person.
Production: 2009
Video work documents a conversation between both authors with a static shot focused on their hands and with that their gesticulation. An unclear conversation mixed with sounds of a cafe is in played over the video in a form of transcription. The work problematizes impersonal communication on internet in a relation to a lively conversation in person.
Evelin Stermitz - Gender Transmission (0:03:03)
Subtitle: WO:MAN # 1 WO:MAN # 2
Production: 2005
The two videos question the relation and boundaries between man and woman in a philosophic and psychological manner. Like in the psychological theory of Jacques Lacan woman and man mirror themselves in terms of "the Other", so this is the issue of these videos. By establishing two mirrors through video, the situation resembles a real mirror, where man and woman are confronted to each other. There is always a surface, a shape for interacting constructed here through a digital code. But what will remain is al...
Subtitle: WO:MAN # 1 WO:MAN # 2
Production: 2005
The two videos question the relation and boundaries between man and woman in a philosophic and psychological manner. Like in the psychological theory of Jacques Lacan woman and man mirror themselves in terms of "the Other", so this is the issue of these videos. By establishing two mirrors through video, the situation resembles a real mirror, where man and woman are confronted to each other. There is always a surface, a shape for interacting constructed here through a digital code. But what will remain is al...
Evelin Stermitz - Land of OZ (0:24:39)
Subtitle: Years of Crying
Production: 2008
LAND OF OZ is a video collage of urbanity, artificial nature and movement, all in all as a personal performative tableau embedded in an American context.
Subtitle: Years of Crying
Production: 2008
LAND OF OZ is a video collage of urbanity, artificial nature and movement, all in all as a personal performative tableau embedded in an American context.
Mladen Stropnik - Momriding (0:04:23)
Subtitle: ...Not Knowing a Word in English
Production: 2002
The artist has filmed his mother who reads to him over the phone the rejection letter from the British embassy to which the artist has applied for scholarship: “I applied for the scholarship. The British embassy i.e. their Department of Culture has rejected my application. I received the mail to my old address in Velenje. Mom read the letter to me over the phone. Mom doesn’t speak i.e. has the knowledge of foreign languages (perhaps a little German). I made the subtitles after the sound of the read lett...
Subtitle: ...Not Knowing a Word in English
Production: 2002
The artist has filmed his mother who reads to him over the phone the rejection letter from the British embassy to which the artist has applied for scholarship: “I applied for the scholarship. The British embassy i.e. their Department of Culture has rejected my application. I received the mail to my old address in Velenje. Mom read the letter to me over the phone. Mom doesn’t speak i.e. has the knowledge of foreign languages (perhaps a little German). I made the subtitles after the sound of the read lett...
Evelin Stermitz - Hitchcock Dishing (0:01:17)
Production: 2008
A short video about the danger of daily dishing as a sublime metaphor for the unpaid daily work of women with its loss of time and energy for other more meaningful, useful and creative activities. Hitchcock Dishing is also articulating concealed domestic violence.
Production: 2008
A short video about the danger of daily dishing as a sublime metaphor for the unpaid daily work of women with its loss of time and energy for other more meaningful, useful and creative activities. Hitchcock Dishing is also articulating concealed domestic violence.
Evelin Stermitz - A Gift for the Moon (0:03:37)
Production: E.S., 2004
This video is an interpretation of the poem by Maja Haderlap. It shows a moving and twisting face in the dark. The face seems to observe the spectator, so it is a break and change of the traditional rules of watching and being watched at the normal situation of the spectator watching television. The poem deals like the video with watching, looking and finding something. (Source: Evelin Stermitz) Music: Iva Bittová, kapitulni sin, 1994.
Production: E.S., 2004
This video is an interpretation of the poem by Maja Haderlap. It shows a moving and twisting face in the dark. The face seems to observe the spectator, so it is a break and change of the traditional rules of watching and being watched at the normal situation of the spectator watching television. The poem deals like the video with watching, looking and finding something. (Source: Evelin Stermitz) Music: Iva Bittová, kapitulni sin, 1994.
Evelin Stermitz - Inside the Outside (0:05:33)
Production: 2006
Moving beyond a surface, an outside, a window into a different world - what are the reasons for moving within a certain space of femininity? The questions of the moving shape circulate around the other, the captured difference, the identity and the self. By acting as a body with its language, this remains from the self and questioning shape. The body as a shape for self-reflective questions within a female room seemingly protected against the outside but exposed to the gaze.
Production: 2006
Moving beyond a surface, an outside, a window into a different world - what are the reasons for moving within a certain space of femininity? The questions of the moving shape circulate around the other, the captured difference, the identity and the self. By acting as a body with its language, this remains from the self and questioning shape. The body as a shape for self-reflective questions within a female room seemingly protected against the outside but exposed to the gaze.
Evelin Stermitz - Concentration Camp of Ljubelj (0:14:33)
Production: 2004
At a cruel place, one woman moves; determined with pain, fears and depression but also with hope for a way out. The dancer is standing for the painful feeling of women in concentration camps, but also for physic and psychic discrimination of women in general. Actually this place is more imaginary and not bound to the real place as it could be any place where women suffer from cruelty and hopelessness, so it could be any woman who suffers from violence. The sense of feeling and moving is transferred into a c...
Production: 2004
At a cruel place, one woman moves; determined with pain, fears and depression but also with hope for a way out. The dancer is standing for the painful feeling of women in concentration camps, but also for physic and psychic discrimination of women in general. Actually this place is more imaginary and not bound to the real place as it could be any place where women suffer from cruelty and hopelessness, so it could be any woman who suffers from violence. The sense of feeling and moving is transferred into a c...
Evelin Stermitz - Rose is a Rose (0:03:53)
Production: 2008
This performative video work shows a woman engaged in covering her face with rose leaves. As a metaphor for the above and beyond term "beauty", the fragility of beauty and the canons of beauty, the video reveals an obscure image of woman, which is also shaped by transiency and impermanence. Excerpts from the poem "Sacred Emily" by Gertrude Stein, in which she created the sentence "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.", form the sound collage to the video work.
Production: 2008
This performative video work shows a woman engaged in covering her face with rose leaves. As a metaphor for the above and beyond term "beauty", the fragility of beauty and the canons of beauty, the video reveals an obscure image of woman, which is also shaped by transiency and impermanence. Excerpts from the poem "Sacred Emily" by Gertrude Stein, in which she created the sentence "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.", form the sound collage to the video work.
Evelin Stermitz - Table Talk (0:02:35)
Production: 2008
In an exaggerated gender specific communication role, a woman is constantly giving positive encouragement towards an unseen male discussion partner, without having an own opinion, or something else to say then to support the counterpart. In this performative video work, a gendered communication role model is directed to an imaginary male opponent and describes how the usage of language can be defined as a relation and structure of power between the two social sexes.
Production: 2008
In an exaggerated gender specific communication role, a woman is constantly giving positive encouragement towards an unseen male discussion partner, without having an own opinion, or something else to say then to support the counterpart. In this performative video work, a gendered communication role model is directed to an imaginary male opponent and describes how the usage of language can be defined as a relation and structure of power between the two social sexes.
Evelin Stermitz - Red Velvet (0:09:30)
Production: 2006
experimental video artificial structure, colour symbolism Computer generated red velvet as a structure for the screen.
Production: 2006
experimental video artificial structure, colour symbolism Computer generated red velvet as a structure for the screen.
Evelin Stermitz - Structural Model (0:03:00)
Production: 2006
A female person is reflecting the structures and dynamics of Freud's model of the psyche in terms of an unresolved pattern. Researched parts of connections between the three layers of Freud"s model and women appear in the textline to represent some main thoughts about the complexity of (t)his system. A video installation of the intermediation of the ego between the id, the superego and the external world from a female perspective. This performance video work has been realized at International S...
Production: 2006
A female person is reflecting the structures and dynamics of Freud's model of the psyche in terms of an unresolved pattern. Researched parts of connections between the three layers of Freud"s model and women appear in the textline to represent some main thoughts about the complexity of (t)his system. A video installation of the intermediation of the ego between the id, the superego and the external world from a female perspective. This performance video work has been realized at International S...
Evelin Stermitz - White Band Cut (0:09:25)
Production: 2007
The ritualised cutting of a white band wrapped around the body symbolizes the metaphoric disposal of inner and outer bonds as restrictions in an internal monologue. The woman can be seen as a gift as well as a captive. The white band describes muted halcyon segues flowing in a void space.
Production: 2007
The ritualised cutting of a white band wrapped around the body symbolizes the metaphoric disposal of inner and outer bonds as restrictions in an internal monologue. The woman can be seen as a gift as well as a captive. The white band describes muted halcyon segues flowing in a void space.
Ana Grobler - Super Ultra (00:03:42)
Production: 2008
Video work focuses on a problem of showing of menstrual blood in lady pads ads. With a simple animation and questions which she poses on herself and the viewer in the video, the author tries to break the taboo of menstruation. Video is a part of an interactive online magazine Beauty and Health with a Smile (concept: Ana Grobler, Sladjana Mitrović; programming: Marko Gorenc; design: Ana Grobler, Damjan Fister).
Production: 2008
Video work focuses on a problem of showing of menstrual blood in lady pads ads. With a simple animation and questions which she poses on herself and the viewer in the video, the author tries to break the taboo of menstruation. Video is a part of an interactive online magazine Beauty and Health with a Smile (concept: Ana Grobler, Sladjana Mitrović; programming: Marko Gorenc; design: Ana Grobler, Damjan Fister).
Ana Grobler - Migraine (00:05:23)
Production: 2007
Video work is a migraine self portrait of the artist. The whole process of making the video was made in a period of a migraine seizure. Camera is static and tries to present the state of a patient suffering from a migraine seizure. The work focuses on a question whether a bigger number of women hurting from migraine then man is caused by social or biological predispositions. In the age between 30 and 40 a ratio is three women on one man, although in childhood it is the same for both sexes.
Production: 2007
Video work is a migraine self portrait of the artist. The whole process of making the video was made in a period of a migraine seizure. Camera is static and tries to present the state of a patient suffering from a migraine seizure. The work focuses on a question whether a bigger number of women hurting from migraine then man is caused by social or biological predispositions. In the age between 30 and 40 a ratio is three women on one man, although in childhood it is the same for both sexes.
Ana Grobler - Soči (00:02:38)
Production: 2006
Video work devoted to the Soča River is composed of close up photographs of the author's face and recordings of the river. The intertwinement of both creates an impression of unusual worlds. As images of the face interlace into an image of the river, the limits between human and nature are lost. The face fades into the river flow and the limits between solid and liquid, concrete and abstract, known and unknown vanish. When there is nothing you can grasp on, new key points must be created. Video is mea...
Production: 2006
Video work devoted to the Soča River is composed of close up photographs of the author's face and recordings of the river. The intertwinement of both creates an impression of unusual worlds. As images of the face interlace into an image of the river, the limits between human and nature are lost. The face fades into the river flow and the limits between solid and liquid, concrete and abstract, known and unknown vanish. When there is nothing you can grasp on, new key points must be created. Video is mea...
Ana Grobler - Beautiful (00:01:56)
Production: 2008
Video warns about the fact, that in order to reach the standards of beauty, imposed on us by mass media, animals get hurt due to testing of big cosmetic companies. Video is based on a black and white photography, except at the very end, when a warning is stressed. The work is composed of photographs and typography written as though typed on a writing machine. The sound of typing letters is present at the beginning and the end of the video.
Production: 2008
Video warns about the fact, that in order to reach the standards of beauty, imposed on us by mass media, animals get hurt due to testing of big cosmetic companies. Video is based on a black and white photography, except at the very end, when a warning is stressed. The work is composed of photographs and typography written as though typed on a writing machine. The sound of typing letters is present at the beginning and the end of the video.
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Baby (0:04:13)
Production: 2003
The video Baby shows a sexy blonde in a cheesy environment overflown by colorful balloons. She is posing in front of the camera and telling jokes about stupid policemen, which rather evoke jokes about stupid blondes. In the atmosphere filled by common stereotypes, simplified representations and sweet laughter, we can hardly find humor in the end and jokes become ironic and bitter. Baby explores the ideological structure of jokes and creates an ironic display of prejudice in society. (Source: oblak-novak.or...
Production: 2003
The video Baby shows a sexy blonde in a cheesy environment overflown by colorful balloons. She is posing in front of the camera and telling jokes about stupid policemen, which rather evoke jokes about stupid blondes. In the atmosphere filled by common stereotypes, simplified representations and sweet laughter, we can hardly find humor in the end and jokes become ironic and bitter. Baby explores the ideological structure of jokes and creates an ironic display of prejudice in society. (Source: oblak-novak.or...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - We Did This and That (0:01:06)
Subtitle: We Threw Gumboots 63.98 m for This Video
Production: 2007
We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an e...
Subtitle: We Threw Gumboots 63.98 m for This Video
Production: 2007
We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an e...
