Valérie Wolf Gang - Distant Memory (00:02:43)
Subtitle: English subtitles
Production: 2014
"Distant Memory" is a video poetry, which speaks about the times that once were. It all starts with a random event which evokes narrator’s memories about the times before the disintegration of Yugoslavia and encourages reflection about what the war actually brings and how quickly people forget everything. The poem can be interpreted as a letter or a personal confession of an unknown man written for the mighty Tito’s ship Galeb. The ship has a symbolic value in the poem and through the variety...
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Ana Čigon - Dear Ladies, Thank You (Kapelica Gallery) (00:05:06)
Subtitle: Digital performance
Production: Galerija Kapelica, 2011
DEAR LADIES, THANK YOU - Ljubljana (second version) Performance presented in Kapelica Gallery 2011 Idea, performance and technology: Ana Čigon Additional technical support and programming: Vasja Progar The performance Dear Ladies, Thank You critically addresses the issues of (in)visibility of women artists in the art world. Instead of addressing my critique directly to the public sphere, and instead of analysing statistical facts about the presence of women artists' works in contemporary art institutions,...
Subtitle: Digital performance
Production: Galerija Kapelica, 2011
DEAR LADIES, THANK YOU - Ljubljana (second version) Performance presented in Kapelica Gallery 2011 Idea, performance and technology: Ana Čigon Additional technical support and programming: Vasja Progar The performance Dear Ladies, Thank You critically addresses the issues of (in)visibility of women artists in the art world. Instead of addressing my critique directly to the public sphere, and instead of analysing statistical facts about the presence of women artists' works in contemporary art institutions,...
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 broader collective memory. The content and the visual aspect of the performance vary according to the context within which it is presented, and according to the gathered findings of previous performances. One of the issues that have become apparent in the pre...
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 broader collective memory. The content and the visual aspect of the performance vary according to the context within which it is presented, and according to the gathered findings of previous performances. One of the issues that have become apparent in the pre...
Zvonka T Simčič, Valérie Wolf Gang - Kombinat (trailer) (00:44:00 (trailer, 00:01:30))
Production: Zavod CCC & Zavod NOVI KOMBINAT, 2016
Female choir Kombinat is a group of women, which gathered on the 'Slovenian Day of resistance', 27th of April 2008 on the founding meeting in old factory Rog, Ljubljana, and decided that they will sing the worldwide songs of rebellion. Kombinat became a mascote of the Slovenian protests. They were singing with people and people sung with them. In this period a new song was made by Ksenija Jus, one of the members of Kombinat, called 'The rebellion song' and it became an anthem for Sloveni...
Production: Zavod CCC & Zavod NOVI KOMBINAT, 2016
Female choir Kombinat is a group of women, which gathered on the 'Slovenian Day of resistance', 27th of April 2008 on the founding meeting in old factory Rog, Ljubljana, and decided that they will sing the worldwide songs of rebellion. Kombinat became a mascote of the Slovenian protests. They were singing with people and people sung with them. In this period a new song was made by Ksenija Jus, one of the members of Kombinat, called 'The rebellion song' and it became an anthem for Sloveni...
Zvonka T Simčič - Silvana and Her Resia (00:07:00)
Subtitle: (English version)
Production: Zavod CCC & KUD Zbilje, 2014
A video that through the sung poetry by Silvana Paletti and the activation of black and white photographs enters the world of Resia. Silvana Paletti is a poet, a writer and a singer coming from the village of Ravance in the valley of Resia. She has been researching the Resian folk heritage for a long time. She is the winner of the Mira/2016 Award. Her poems were published in anthologies and magazines, as well as put into standard Slovenian or translated into Italian, Friulian, German, English and the Czech...
Subtitle: (English version)
Production: Zavod CCC & KUD Zbilje, 2014
A video that through the sung poetry by Silvana Paletti and the activation of black and white photographs enters the world of Resia. Silvana Paletti is a poet, a writer and a singer coming from the village of Ravance in the valley of Resia. She has been researching the Resian folk heritage for a long time. She is the winner of the Mira/2016 Award. Her poems were published in anthologies and magazines, as well as put into standard Slovenian or translated into Italian, Friulian, German, English and the Czech...
Zvonka T Simčič - Silvana Paletti / Moja Rezija (00:07:00)
Subtitle: (Slovenska verzija)
Production: Zavod CCC & KUD Zbilje, 2014
A video that through the sung poetry by Silvana Paletti and the activation of black and white photographs enters the world of Resia. Silvana Paletti is a poet, a writer and a singer coming from the village of Ravance in the valley of Resia. She has been researching the Resian folk heritage for a long time. She is the winner of the Mira/2016 Award. Her poems were published in anthologies and magazines, as well as put into standard Slovenian or translated into Italian, Friulian, German, English and the Czech...
Subtitle: (Slovenska verzija)
Production: Zavod CCC & KUD Zbilje, 2014
A video that through the sung poetry by Silvana Paletti and the activation of black and white photographs enters the world of Resia. Silvana Paletti is a poet, a writer and a singer coming from the village of Ravance in the valley of Resia. She has been researching the Resian folk heritage for a long time. She is the winner of the Mira/2016 Award. Her poems were published in anthologies and magazines, as well as put into standard Slovenian or translated into Italian, Friulian, German, English and the Czech...
Katarina Rešek - Zvezdana (Napravi mi dete) (00:03:17)
Production: Kuklaxklan, 2014
Glasbeni video spot skladbe Zvezdana skupine Napravi mi dete.
Production: Kuklaxklan, 2014
Glasbeni video spot skladbe Zvezdana skupine Napravi mi dete.
Katarina Rešek - Napoleon (Napravi mi dete) (00:03:45)
Production: Napravi mi dete & UL AGRFT, 2016
Music video Napoleon tells the story of a young woman in search of love, lost in a violent relationship with another person, which results in a violent relationship with herself and further relationships of the same kind. The film opens up the issue of sexual identity and ends with a conclusion that this is and will continue to be a man’s world if women look at it through men’s eyes. (Source: Katarina Rešek)
Production: Napravi mi dete & UL AGRFT, 2016
Music video Napoleon tells the story of a young woman in search of love, lost in a violent relationship with another person, which results in a violent relationship with herself and further relationships of the same kind. The film opens up the issue of sexual identity and ends with a conclusion that this is and will continue to be a man’s world if women look at it through men’s eyes. (Source: Katarina Rešek)
Maja Hodošček - Poem (00:12:04 (trailer 00:02:03))
Production: 2015
For the first time a teenage girl is encountering a poem written by her high school colleagues – members of a school debate club wrote this particular poem. In the video we see how she reacts upon the written words by translating them in semi abstract sounds. Or she pics upon parts of the poem and tries to transform them into a new form, reading the words backwards or inventing them a new. She confronts herself with an unknown material, there is no reference on which she could depend on. Therefore she fin...
Production: 2015
For the first time a teenage girl is encountering a poem written by her high school colleagues – members of a school debate club wrote this particular poem. In the video we see how she reacts upon the written words by translating them in semi abstract sounds. Or she pics upon parts of the poem and tries to transform them into a new form, reading the words backwards or inventing them a new. She confronts herself with an unknown material, there is no reference on which she could depend on. Therefore she fin...
Đejmi Hadrović - Silent Observer (00:09:12)
Production: KulturKontakt Austria, 2017
Video performance acts as a monologue confession of a woman in her early thirties and the obstacles she is dealing with. Content deals with issues such as gender, identity, migration, and ethnicity. Autobiographical thoughts are exposed to the audience through the audio recording only, while the performer in the video is only partially visible. It gives a notion of a classical portrayal, with the mind being the main source of happening. The artist is addressing the audience the with world’s...
Production: KulturKontakt Austria, 2017
Video performance acts as a monologue confession of a woman in her early thirties and the obstacles she is dealing with. Content deals with issues such as gender, identity, migration, and ethnicity. Autobiographical thoughts are exposed to the audience through the audio recording only, while the performer in the video is only partially visible. It gives a notion of a classical portrayal, with the mind being the main source of happening. The artist is addressing the audience the with world’s...
