Čigon, Ana; Jurišić, Leja; Reba, Teja; Kapelj Osredkar, Barbara
No. 1127
"Ljubljana City of Women"
Artist: Čigon, Ana; Jurišić, Leja; Reba, Teja; Kapelj Osredkar, Barbara
 
Title: Ljubljana City of Women
Duration: 00:09:02
Year: 2013
Genre: Art video
Production: Mednarodni festival sodobnih umetnosti – Mesto žensk

 
SYNOPSIS

In the video action, Barbara Kapelj Osredkar and Teja Reba asked passers-by on the streets of Ljubljana whether they know about a monument in Ljubljana that would be dedicated to female personality and which woman would they choose if they could decide. The video picture on the other hand shows adapted existing monuments, transformed and dedicated to women in various places in Ljubljana. Monuments do not really exist, but they were computer-generated so that the images of existing sculptures dedicated to other (male) person were changed with the help of tools usually used by photographers and designers in the beauty industry to eradicate wrinkles. The statue of Simon Gregorčič was, e.g. transformed into a statue of Zofka Kveder, a statue of Dr. Fran Ramovš into the statue of Ljuba Prenner, Ivan Cankar into Ita Rina, Dr. France Kidrič into Franja Tavčar and Jenko Davorin into Valery Heybal. The video is a critic of under-representation of women in public monuments in Ljubljana. It is a part of the project I’m Walking Behind You and Watching You, a female map of the city in which memory holders form the missing and ignored stories of women who worked their way through the city, created it, swore by it and breathed it, as well as those who migrated to it every day. If the Slovenian capital has as many as 360 monuments of local significance, what is the number of annotations mentioning women? (source: Ana Čigon)



 
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Production: A.Č., 2017
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Production: 2016
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Ana Čigon, Saša Spačal, Ida Hiršenfelder - Flow (trailer) (00:55:35 (trailer, 00:02:57))
Production: RAMPA Laboratorij, koprodukcija RTV Slovenija, 2016
Eight women working in the broad spectrum of scientific professions from artificial intelligence to programming and aviation, talk about the conditions in which they became interested in technical professions, the obstacles they confronted, and how they d...
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Ana Čigon - Remembering the Others (00:45:54)
Production: Ana Čigon, Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina - Kosovo, Mestna galerija Ljubljana, 2015
Remembering the Others is a documentary about the meaning and power of public monuments. In the film students, artists, theoreticians and activists from Prishtina, Kosovo talk about the meaning of monuments. Which people have the privilege to be represent...
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Ana Čigon - OHOHO (00:01:30)
Production: Ana Čigon, 2015
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Ana Čigon - Ask for the MoonAna Čigon - Ask for the MoonAna Čigon - Ask for the Moon
Ana Čigon - Ask for the Moon (00:01:15)
Production: A.Č., 2015
The video is a short feminist comment on astronomical obstacles blocking the way towards gender equality. (Source: Ana Čigon)
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Ana Čigon - Heroinat / Heroines (00:15:00)
Production: Ana Čigon, Stacion Center for Contemporary Arts, Mestna galerija Ljubljana , 2015
Heroinat / Heroines is a short documentary film on the erection of a problematic monument, which was uncovered in 2015 in Prishtina. It was dedicated to the women that contributed in the war of 1998-99 in Kosovo and all the women that were victims of sexu...
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Ana Čigon - Francka (00:01:13)
Production: Ana Čigon, 2015
The idea for animation was created at the feminist assembly Feminism to the Streets, which was held in Ljubljana in 2014. On that occasion, the participants exclaimed various slogans, among them also 'Franckas Today Are Running Faster'. Francka...
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Production: Ana Čigon, 2015
An animation of what is happening in the macho world, if someone walks through it, who is not a macho. In the animation, a cat is walking through Ljubljana and is admiring the monuments in the city. The monuments are cat cartoon versions of real monument...
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Ana Čigon - Dear Ladies, Thank You – Red Dawns (00:12:30)
Production: KUD Mreža, 2013
Dear Ladies, Thank You is an evolving performance that has been presented in several variations. The common thread that connects all versions is the discourse of the under-representation of women in art history, art theory, art institutions, and in the br...
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