"Galapagos"
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Artist: Kracina, Damijan; Leben, Vladimir
Title: Galapagos
Duration: 00:05:39
Year: 2005
Genre: Animation / Experimental video / Art video / Fiction
Camera: Dino Schreilechner
Country: Slovenia
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D54_Damijan Kracina_Galapagos_3.jpgThe video was created for a joint exhibition by Leban and Kracina entitled Galapagos. We see close-ups of an artificial installation of Galapagos Island, with a volcano at its centre. When individual animal species or motifs appear, the shots of the Island gently shift to a shot of Vladimir Leben, with adorable but strange animals with huge eyes. The sound of mechanical humming is replaced by recordings of animal sounds. The video includes a fragment from the Ape Boys, which is followed by shots of fantasy animal species created by Kracina (great mud-digger and kangaroo). The video ends with spectacular music and drawings on a starry background, which provided the basis for Kracina’s strange animal species. The artists are brought together by their examination of issues relating to animals, their rights and characteristics, and a good sense of humour and the absurd.
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Damijan Kracina - Žeblji / Nails (00:06:34) Production: Akademija za likovno umetnost, Ljubljana, 1995 The black-and-white footage of a performance shot from a static camera dates to the time when the artist was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. The performer looks at sculpted busts, and hammers nails into them, seeking a way to examine th... |
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Damijan Kracina - Zoospective (00:11:53) The video summarises the basic motifs of the artist’s work: endangered species and fantasy animals of the future. It comprises an omnibus of five individual video pieces and additional raw video footage. First, we see ‘proteus’, a computer-generated... |
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Damijan Kracina, Katarina Toman Kracina - Marmelada / Marmalade (00:03:37) Are you familiar with that tingling feeling somewhere that emerges around the root of your tongue when you eat marmalade without bread and butter? The marmalade sticks to your palate and its taste lingers in your mouth for a long time. It's that special h... |
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Damijan Kracina - Kocka / Cube (0:03:39) A group event staged in public spaces - at a bus stop and in the garden of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana - took place on 22 March, World Water Day. The event was intended to draw attention to this day not by moralising, but by emphasising the joy... |
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Damijan Kracina - Koncert za bas kitaro in gipsasto kocko (00:01:04) The Concert for Bass Guitar and Plaster Cube was performed by the artist in 1993 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he studied sculpture between 1991 and 1995. The brief performance refers to the main issues of contemporary sculpture, explori... |
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Damijan Kracina - Kocka / Cube (00:01:55) Performance with guitar in Club K4. |
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Damijan Kracina - Točka nič / Point Zero (00:02:07) The video consists of three parallel strips showing the same footage in different time frames. It seems that we are following a video of the countryside shot from a moving car. The upper and lower strips follow the same timeline, while the strip in the ce... |
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Damijan Kracina - Kurca / Little Hen (00:02:55) The work was made in the studio of the sculpture department at the Academy of Fine Arts. A hen appears in the studio and waddles across the room. The prevailing colours of the image are various shades of blue. The hen is caught in a sculpture installation... |
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Damijan Kracina - BasketVideo (00:19:41) A group activity – playing basketball in public. All the participants hold the rights to show the video: Borut Korošec, Jaka Mihelič, Damjan Švara, Grega Kregar, Damijan Kracina, Mojca Senegačnik, Katarina K. Toman, and Sara Hughes. Before dawn, the... |
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Damijan Kracina - Kracina TV (00:06:24) A hyper-realistic latex sculpture of the artist stands in the middle of a room in Kapelica Gallery, where the artist first presented the installation. The sculpture’s low pedestal is connected to seven monitors into which the figure gazes, while light b... |
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Damijan Kracina - Thylacinus Cynocephalus (00:01:09) The video reconstructs the movements of the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), which became extinct in 1936. A year before the video was created, the Australian Museum in Sydney began developing methods for preserving the genetic material of the a... |
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Damijan Kracina - Mravlja (00:01:07) The video shows the last minute in the life of a dying ant which is stuck on an adhesive surface. At exhibitions, the static footage is presented on a miniature screen, with the ant practically life-size. The author discusses human irresponsibility and me... |
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Damijan Kracina - Aquarium (00:01:12) Underwater footage of the flight of the Soča trout, which is endangered due to irresponsible human farming of the common trout in the former’s natural habitat. The swimming fish opening their mouths are silent witnesses of human actions. |
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Damijan Kracina - A collage of excepts by Kracina (00:03:09) A collage of three video works. The first shows footage of an exhibition at Trdnjavi Kluže Gallery in Bovec, where the artist presented one of his first statues of animals – a remote-controlled skunk. The second video is a study of changes in colour to... |
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Damijan Kracina, Vladimir Leben - Ape Boys (00:12:00; 00:03:24) This music video with Damijan Kracina on bass and Vladimir Leben on drums was first a video performance in an installation in which the scenery simulated the ape’s natural habitat, similarly to what is done in TV documentaries. The video is exhibited as... |
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Damijan Kracina - The Ant (00:03:53) The video shows the last minute in the life of a dying ant which is stuck on an adhesive surface. At exhibitions, the static footage is presented on a miniature screen, with the ant practically life-size. The author discusses human irresponsibility and me... |
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Damijan Kracina - Intervju z ogroženo vrsto / /Interview with an Endangered Species (00:02:25) A clip from the compilation Zoospective shows underground footage of the Soča trout, which is endangered due to irresponsible human behaviour and farming of trout, which is an invasive species in the natural habitat of the local species. The trout looks... |
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Damijan Kracina - Kracina TV (00:05:48) Hiperrealističen kip avtorja iz lateksa stoji sredi prostora v Galeriji Kapelica, kjer je umetnik prvič postavil instalacijo. Nizek podstavek kipa je povezan s sedmimi monitorji, v katere je uprt pogled figure. Na svetlobnih objektih so prikazane fotogr... |
