


http://www.markokovacic.org/ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCclnfRPzSb3GGcnlDZJAz1A http://markokovacic.wordpress.com/
Born in 1956 in Ljubljana. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he completed postgraduate studies in sculpture (M.A. in Fine Arts) in 1988. He was active in various art groups: Ana Monro Theatre (1981–1991), R IRWIN S group (1983–1985), Zlati kastrioti music & multimedia group (2000–2005). His artistic practice is characterized by a prominent interdisciplinary approach and a distinct taste for poli-media. He is using methods, strategies and procedures deriving from various artistic practices as well as the tools and languages of several media and means of expression, thus establishing a Gesamtkunst work. He is exploring and linking performance, sound, video and installations, in addition to his sculptures. In a direct or media situations he is prone to establish a symbolical space of communication in which the spectator plays an active role of decipherer of meanings, a connector and trigger of events. The levels of significance of this entire artistic practice evoke multi-facetted references and associations that are connected to preceding attainments - chiefly those of (historical) Avant-gardes as well as the individuals that stubbornly persisted in their own utopian projects. The artist brings together the old and the new - something we might call the past and the present and even the potential future. If our consciousness is the result of interactions between the present and the past, then Kovačič's artefacts tell us that our future is also an unmistakable actor in this world of fragmentary perception and crumbling relations. The past memories might fill in our holes whereas the future expectations might make our lives more bearable.
Production: V.S. Video & Strip Core / Forum Ljubljana, 1993
A music video for a song - collage I've seen that … Like it is by a music group 2227 from Ljubljana blends shots of the group's performance with projections of graffiti by Strip Core group. Usage of lights and postproduction create chaotic and expr...
Production: V.S. VIDEO/Forum Ljubljana, 1992
Video deals with the theme of war in a parodic and grotesque manner. With Chroma key procedure the two main protagonists or shall we say antagonists - evil and conniving political leaders are set inside a TV studio, where so called Royal game takes place....
Production: Studio Brut, 1990
Video documents a performance entitled Requiem, which happened as a part of an exhibition Izkušnja predmeta (Experience of the Object)in Modern gallery in Ljubljana in 1989. The artist conducted the performance on his 33rd birthday. Coated with whi...
Production: Studio Brut, 1990
Black and white recording documents two space installations entitled Sarcophagus and The Eye, accompanied by opera music. The pieces were part of an exhibition Experience of the Object in Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana in 1989.
Production: 1990
Black and white recording follows the process of the construction of an installation Prediction of Zeus in Sarajevo in 1989 to its final version. The monumental work combines elements of sculpture and video art for a sinister forecast of an apocalypse.
Production: Mreža za Metelkovo, 1990
Video documents a project "Mreža za Metelkovo", in which 200 partners gathered in 1990. Spatial needs of participating artists were presented in a programme, which came out in October 1990. All the corresponding institutions including the headquarters of...
Production: Studio Brut, 1988
Video documents an exhibition Programming the Gaze in Škuc Gallery in 1988. Camera travels around the exhibition and captures space installations in close-ups and from unexpected perspectives. Shots of five different installations line up, the titl...
Production: 1987
Video is a simple collage of photographs from a performance The sacrifice of Jupiter, done with Marko Košnikl and Borut Cajnko. Video is followed by a lively music typical for silent films of the first half of the previous century.
Production: M.K., 1987
Video documents the author's installation with close-ups and details. Video is partly framed with a coloured mask. The author deals with sculptures theoretically as well through quotes featured at the end of the video.
Production: Brut film, 1986
An ambivalent deconstruction of fantasies about the promised land and faith in art, which is carried out through the stereotypical game of infinite hide-and-seek. It is a dialectic confrontation of the certain heroics of the regime that operated by prohib...
Production: 1986
The video is based on the performance of the same title. The metamorphosis of image is enabled by electronic technology. A step further from the chroma-key procedure of inserting of the front plane of the image into some other background, which invests th...