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 contemporary art, which often lacks purpose.
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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 point out the moments which are usually overlooked at regular watching of the show. The silence and the image of the presenters get a special value in meaning, being critical, ironic and humorous at the same time and as such oppose to the character of the info...
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 point out the moments which are usually overlooked at regular watching of the show. The silence and the image of the presenters get a special value in meaning, being critical, ironic and humorous at the same time and as such oppose to the character of the info...
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.
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - We Did This and That (0:01:06)
Subtitle: We Threw Gumboots 63.98 m for This Video
Production: 2007
We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an e...
Subtitle: We Threw Gumboots 63.98 m for This Video
Production: 2007
We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an e...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - We Did This and That (0:01:27)
Subtitle: We Balanced 14 Spoons on our Faces and Ears for This Video
Production: 2007
We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an e...
Subtitle: We Balanced 14 Spoons on our Faces and Ears for This Video
Production: 2007
We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an e...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - We Did This and That (0:00:39)
Subtitle: We Drank a Large Beer in 3 sec While Standing on Our Heads for This Video
Production: 2007
We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an e...
Subtitle: We Drank a Large Beer in 3 sec While Standing on Our Heads for This Video
Production: 2007
We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an e...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Cab Driver (0:02:59)
Production: 2008
Cab Driver is a frame by frame visually reconstructed original trailer of the movie Taxi Driver. The entire trailer was reconstructed in the studio, using the technique of chroma key and simple props, like toy cars and guns, cardboard, paper... Nika Oblak & Primož Novak acted all parts. For the backgrounds of scenes they constructed photo collages, composed from photos mostly found on the internet. In this way Oblak & Novak subject themselves to the influence of mass media and materialize a common fascinat...
Production: 2008
Cab Driver is a frame by frame visually reconstructed original trailer of the movie Taxi Driver. The entire trailer was reconstructed in the studio, using the technique of chroma key and simple props, like toy cars and guns, cardboard, paper... Nika Oblak & Primož Novak acted all parts. For the backgrounds of scenes they constructed photo collages, composed from photos mostly found on the internet. In this way Oblak & Novak subject themselves to the influence of mass media and materialize a common fascinat...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Going South (0:31:15)
Production: Sharjah Biennial 9, 2009
Going South is a fictional documentary based on an actual Guinness World Record. It presents stages of a fake, fabricated story about how Nika Oblak & Primož Novak achieve a world record by pushing wheelbarrows from Ljubljana to Sharjah for 14.500 km in 3 years and 12 days. The fictional documentary is a continuum of Oblak & Novak's exploration of media and capital driven society, exposing the media spectacle, and obsession with success and fame. It addresses the issues of global warming and environme...
Production: Sharjah Biennial 9, 2009
Going South is a fictional documentary based on an actual Guinness World Record. It presents stages of a fake, fabricated story about how Nika Oblak & Primož Novak achieve a world record by pushing wheelbarrows from Ljubljana to Sharjah for 14.500 km in 3 years and 12 days. The fictional documentary is a continuum of Oblak & Novak's exploration of media and capital driven society, exposing the media spectacle, and obsession with success and fame. It addresses the issues of global warming and environme...
Luka Dekleva - Sen/za Televizijo/a (00:28:38)
Production:
The video is a result of artistic collaboration with Miha Vipotnik during the Sen/za Televizijo/a project at Jakopič Gallery, marking 30 years to the date after the first transmission of Vipotnik's television video project Videograma 4 on May 4th, 1979. Dekleva's work is a re-make of Videograma 4. The image has been deformed with an oscillator in order to achieve an entirely abstract video, thus making the image and sound completely illegible and seemingly playing in a slowed down mode as though...
Production:
The video is a result of artistic collaboration with Miha Vipotnik during the Sen/za Televizijo/a project at Jakopič Gallery, marking 30 years to the date after the first transmission of Vipotnik's television video project Videograma 4 on May 4th, 1979. Dekleva's work is a re-make of Videograma 4. The image has been deformed with an oscillator in order to achieve an entirely abstract video, thus making the image and sound completely illegible and seemingly playing in a slowed down mode as though...
Jasna Hribernik - Koncert za mobilne telefone in orkester (00:45:50)
Subtitle: Aldo Kumar in Slavoj Žižek
Production: 2005
Documentary video follows the work and ponderings of composer Aldo Kumar through a perspective of sounds of a mobile phone. We witness long scenes of the composer taking walks in idyllic landscapes and around the city, where everyone is rushing and talking on mobile phones. The author presents 8-bit low quality sound without directly valuating it. The contentious role of mobile phones is analyzed by Slavoj Žižek. He discusses about how mobile phones seemingly make communicating easy, but actually they e...
Subtitle: Aldo Kumar in Slavoj Žižek
Production: 2005
Documentary video follows the work and ponderings of composer Aldo Kumar through a perspective of sounds of a mobile phone. We witness long scenes of the composer taking walks in idyllic landscapes and around the city, where everyone is rushing and talking on mobile phones. The author presents 8-bit low quality sound without directly valuating it. The contentious role of mobile phones is analyzed by Slavoj Žižek. He discusses about how mobile phones seemingly make communicating easy, but actually they e...