Vesna Bukovec - Consumer Culture ... (0:01:30)
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2007
Video work creates a game of logos of the big companies mimicking the game of memory. Inside 30 squares different brands move around. At the end a slogan "Consumer culture makes me anxious!" is written inside the fields.
Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and completed her post-graduate studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She works as a solo artist as well as in the art group KOLEKTIVA (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). In recent years she has presented her works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Maribor, Slovenj Gradec, Novo mesto, Ribnica, Zagreb, Belgrade, Athens, Berlin, Beijing, Linz, Graz, Vienna, New York, Verona... Her artistic work finds its expression in a variety of media (video, photography, drawing, installation) and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.), with irony being a frequently used artistic strategy.
KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič - Visions (00:25:33)
Production: Kunsthaus Graz, 2006
The video is part of a project prepared by the authors for the group exhibition "Narratives, -35 / + 65: Two Generations" in Kunsthaus Graz, in 2006. They published an open call for a short story about the artwork prepared by the three authors f...
Production: Kunsthaus Graz, 2006
The video is part of a project prepared by the authors for the group exhibition "Narratives, -35 / + 65: Two Generations" in Kunsthaus Graz, in 2006. They published an open call for a short story about the artwork prepared by the three authors f...
KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič - Special place in the city – Graz (00:38:21)
Production: Kolektiva, 2006
The video belongs to a series of projects that have been produced since 2004 in the context of the KOLEKTIVA's psycho-geographical Platform 'Special Place in the City'. The authors recorded the video at an artistic residence in Graz. Local artists and the...
Production: Kolektiva, 2006
The video belongs to a series of projects that have been produced since 2004 in the context of the KOLEKTIVA's psycho-geographical Platform 'Special Place in the City'. The authors recorded the video at an artistic residence in Graz. Local artists and the...
Vesna Bukovec - Endless Game (0:01:32)
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2006
Video work is playing with the cliché motif of TV ads for women. Author is combining the key moments when models smile, touch their skin and fix their shiny hair. She problematizes the endless game of arousing consumers and lateral brain washing.
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2006
Video work is playing with the cliché motif of TV ads for women. Author is combining the key moments when models smile, touch their skin and fix their shiny hair. She problematizes the endless game of arousing consumers and lateral brain washing.
Vesna Bukovec - Champion (0:00:32)
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2005
Video work based on an editing manipulation of a found material shows a half-minute video rewind of a weigh lifter's performance on the Eurosport channel. This extremely difficult discipline gets a different context due to skillful editing.
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2005
Video work based on an editing manipulation of a found material shows a half-minute video rewind of a weigh lifter's performance on the Eurosport channel. This extremely difficult discipline gets a different context due to skillful editing.
KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar - Special place in the city – Nottingham (00:20:38)
Production: Kolektiva, 2004
The video is the first in a series of projects that have been produced since 2004 within the framework of the KOLEKTIVA's psycho-geographical platform 'Special Place in the City'. The video was recorded at the artist residency in Nottingham. Lo...
Production: Kolektiva, 2004
The video is the first in a series of projects that have been produced since 2004 within the framework of the KOLEKTIVA's psycho-geographical platform 'Special Place in the City'. The video was recorded at the artist residency in Nottingham. Lo...
KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič - Hiteti ali biti temeljit? (00:03:25)
Production: Kolektiva, 2004
A Slovene question that translates into "To hurry or to be thorough?" is being pronounced by English speaking people of different age. We witness drastically different pronunciations, which remind us about how relative the language is and about its power...
Production: Kolektiva, 2004
A Slovene question that translates into "To hurry or to be thorough?" is being pronounced by English speaking people of different age. We witness drastically different pronunciations, which remind us about how relative the language is and about its power...
KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič - First Impression (0:09:08)
Production: Kolektiva, 2004
Video is a collage of voyeuristic recordings of people in public space in the main square of Ljubljana. Authors make statements about people caught on camera based on their own impressions. Screen is divided into four parts, where we can see the presumpti...
Production: Kolektiva, 2004
Video is a collage of voyeuristic recordings of people in public space in the main square of Ljubljana. Authors make statements about people caught on camera based on their own impressions. Screen is divided into four parts, where we can see the presumpti...
Vesna Bukovec - Important News (0:00:54)
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2003
Video work marks the moments after the intro of the TV news on one of the Slovene commercial TV stations, when the presenters silently look at each other. Their gesticulation, gazes at the co-presenter or towards the camera are stressed by editing and poi...
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2003
Video work marks the moments after the intro of the TV news on one of the Slovene commercial TV stations, when the presenters silently look at each other. Their gesticulation, gazes at the co-presenter or towards the camera are stressed by editing and poi...
Vesna Bukovec - Lecture (Contemporary Art for Parents) (0:07:53)
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2002
The video is a documentary recording of an action in which the author lectures her parents about the facts of contemporary art history. The author deals with adapting professionally specific contents to a laic listener.
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2002
The video is a documentary recording of an action in which the author lectures her parents about the facts of contemporary art history. The author deals with adapting professionally specific contents to a laic listener.
Vesna Bukovec - Why Do I Do This? (0:03:18)
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2001
Video work is a collage composed of found material to which the author adds graphic inserts. Through the content of the video she poses herself questions which can always be answered with "I don't know". With that she problematizes the state of contempora...
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2001
Video work is a collage composed of found material to which the author adds graphic inserts. Through the content of the video she poses herself questions which can always be answered with "I don't know". With that she problematizes the state of contempora...
