Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Stealing Land (07:15)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Stealing Land Dr Xenia performs on the land of the former Rakuš mill in Celje, a textbook example of capital appetites for plots in good locations, which evict ideas of non-profit spaces for culture intended for common and public good. The fight for territory begins and ends with incantations of masked performers dressed in black business attires: "I'm stealing, you're stealing, we're all stealing." (Source: excerpt of the curatorial text by Vesna Bukovec, Ana Grobler and Sebasti...
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Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - The House of Cards (06:45)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
In the performance The House of Cards, Dr Xenia does not travel north or west by train, but in a south-easterly direction. On the route that led to Kumrovec in the previous country, but ends at the last station in front of the Croatian border in the new country, it tries to make a house out of cards. The impossible task is reminiscent of the inability to create safe life and home, which constantly elude refugees and migrants, as well as precarious workers of all ages, including cultural workers. At the end...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
In the performance The House of Cards, Dr Xenia does not travel north or west by train, but in a south-easterly direction. On the route that led to Kumrovec in the previous country, but ends at the last station in front of the Croatian border in the new country, it tries to make a house out of cards. The impossible task is reminiscent of the inability to create safe life and home, which constantly elude refugees and migrants, as well as precarious workers of all ages, including cultural workers. At the end...
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Man, Don't Get Angry (19:34)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
Man, Don't Get Angry is first and foremost a feminist response to the familiar image of (dressed) Marcel Duchamp and (naked) Eva Babitz's chess game from 1963. It is also a reference to the performance Mojca ärgere dich nicht, which was performed by Petja Grafenauer, Zoran Srdić Janežič, and Simon Macuh in 2013 at the Red Dawn festival with the aim of defending the use of nudity in works of art. Here, next to the dressed women, there is a half-naked man, who does not get to make a move during the ga...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
Man, Don't Get Angry is first and foremost a feminist response to the familiar image of (dressed) Marcel Duchamp and (naked) Eva Babitz's chess game from 1963. It is also a reference to the performance Mojca ärgere dich nicht, which was performed by Petja Grafenauer, Zoran Srdić Janežič, and Simon Macuh in 2013 at the Red Dawn festival with the aim of defending the use of nudity in works of art. Here, next to the dressed women, there is a half-naked man, who does not get to make a move during the ga...
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Fart Roulette (06:39)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Fart Roulette is actually a picnic on the grass, which can be reminiscent of Manet's famous painting, although this time, everyone present is dressed. The title refers to Russian roulette, and the authors shoot farts instead of bullets. The parody deals with a serious topic of environmental pollution and its far-reaching consequences. Artists in Celje have been warning about local polluters (Cinkarna Celje and other industries) for a long time, but those responsible do not take them seriousl...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Fart Roulette is actually a picnic on the grass, which can be reminiscent of Manet's famous painting, although this time, everyone present is dressed. The title refers to Russian roulette, and the authors shoot farts instead of bullets. The parody deals with a serious topic of environmental pollution and its far-reaching consequences. Artists in Celje have been warning about local polluters (Cinkarna Celje and other industries) for a long time, but those responsible do not take them seriousl...
Duba Sambolec - NATO Women Waiting (09:33)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2001/2013
Umetnica je idejo za video dobila v 90-tih, ko je na letališču na Norveškem opazila povečano število vojaškega osebja, ki je bilo namenjeno na vojna območja na Balkanu. Pozornost so ji vzbudile vojakinje in sprožile razmišljanja o njihovi pripravljenosti na preživetje, na potencialno spolno nasilje in spolne vloge v vojski in vojni. Pozneje se je seznanila tudi s problematičnimi ravnanji enot ZN na Balkanu (nezakonita preprodaja orožja in drog, spolne zlorabe, korup...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2001/2013
Umetnica je idejo za video dobila v 90-tih, ko je na letališču na Norveškem opazila povečano število vojaškega osebja, ki je bilo namenjeno na vojna območja na Balkanu. Pozornost so ji vzbudile vojakinje in sprožile razmišljanja o njihovi pripravljenosti na preživetje, na potencialno spolno nasilje in spolne vloge v vojski in vojni. Pozneje se je seznanila tudi s problematičnimi ravnanji enot ZN na Balkanu (nezakonita preprodaja orožja in drog, spolne zlorabe, korup...
Marko A. Kovačič - Hruporona 2020. The Last Tunnel (3:21)
Production: Gibatorij, 2020
During the corona pandemic and forced isolation, Yevgenij Skavchenko, an expert in genetic mechanics and a fan of unusual sound phenomena, visits the Plastos' temporary residence in “Javka pri Rdeči zvezdi” (The Post at the Red Star). With the help of the hrupofon (bruitphone, noisemaker), a light-sound instrument, they perform the ritual of the cult of speed together.
Production: Gibatorij, 2020
During the corona pandemic and forced isolation, Yevgenij Skavchenko, an expert in genetic mechanics and a fan of unusual sound phenomena, visits the Plastos' temporary residence in “Javka pri Rdeči zvezdi” (The Post at the Red Star). With the help of the hrupofon (bruitphone, noisemaker), a light-sound instrument, they perform the ritual of the cult of speed together.
Marko A. Kovačič - The Four Horsemen (3:47)
Production: Marko A. Kovačič, 1993
The video was created on the basis of a group performance in the urban environment Bellum contra solem of the Fusnet Association, which was staged in a block settlement in Nova Gorica on the summer solstice in 1991. The arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in fantastic futuristic costumes - the Conquest, War, Hunger, and Death - in a Ljubljana sand pit illustrates the time around the declaration of Slovenian independence and the break away from the Yugoslav state. (Source: DIVA Station)
Production: Marko A. Kovačič, 1993
The video was created on the basis of a group performance in the urban environment Bellum contra solem of the Fusnet Association, which was staged in a block settlement in Nova Gorica on the summer solstice in 1991. The arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in fantastic futuristic costumes - the Conquest, War, Hunger, and Death - in a Ljubljana sand pit illustrates the time around the declaration of Slovenian independence and the break away from the Yugoslav state. (Source: DIVA Station)
Marko Košnik - Operabil Kobe (14:09)
Subtitle: A module of multimedia opera under construction, Version 3
Production: Inštitut Egon March, 2006
Recording of Operabil Kobe performance in Kubus Hall, Tesla – Berlin, October 14, 2006 Barbara Thun – voice Sumi Masayuki – dance Marko Košnik – concept, interactive video instrumentProduced by Egon March Institute with Dance Camp / Zoyd project, Tesla - Berlin, Kibla - Maribor Supported by Ministry of culture of Slovenia“Operabil” is a module of media opera with in situ collected topographical imagery and processually developing libretto, developed by Marko Ko&s...
Subtitle: A module of multimedia opera under construction, Version 3
Production: Inštitut Egon March, 2006
Recording of Operabil Kobe performance in Kubus Hall, Tesla – Berlin, October 14, 2006 Barbara Thun – voice Sumi Masayuki – dance Marko Košnik – concept, interactive video instrumentProduced by Egon March Institute with Dance Camp / Zoyd project, Tesla - Berlin, Kibla - Maribor Supported by Ministry of culture of Slovenia“Operabil” is a module of media opera with in situ collected topographical imagery and processually developing libretto, developed by Marko Ko&s...
Jatun Risba - Blitzangriff (trailer) (04:20 (trailer 00:30))
Production: Jatun Risba, 2022
A lightning, hit and run incursion into the most intimate space of an operating hospital: the restroom. A dancing rapture that overturns the medical gaze inside modern health institutions which marked the artist’s sexual and personal upbringing in indelible ways. A somatic celebration of the conquered pleasure and freedom of being genuinely alive and thriving – an outcome of decolonizing processes that reclaim the true nature of one's bodymind. (Source: Jatun Risba)
Production: Jatun Risba, 2022
A lightning, hit and run incursion into the most intimate space of an operating hospital: the restroom. A dancing rapture that overturns the medical gaze inside modern health institutions which marked the artist’s sexual and personal upbringing in indelible ways. A somatic celebration of the conquered pleasure and freedom of being genuinely alive and thriving – an outcome of decolonizing processes that reclaim the true nature of one's bodymind. (Source: Jatun Risba)
Jatun Risba - enerRrgy (09:07)
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
Shot in the vicinity of the coal-fired power plant Cerano in Puglia, Italy, the video enerRrgy depicts a somatic perturbation in vicinity of the clash between naturally available sources of power (sun, tides, movement) and extractive industries of energy. The artwork offers an unconventional perspective to contemporary discourses about energy by creating and reclaiming a space for nonconceptual, body-centred, aesthetic and intuitive approaches of inhabiting the world. Such counter-position cultivates more b...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
Shot in the vicinity of the coal-fired power plant Cerano in Puglia, Italy, the video enerRrgy depicts a somatic perturbation in vicinity of the clash between naturally available sources of power (sun, tides, movement) and extractive industries of energy. The artwork offers an unconventional perspective to contemporary discourses about energy by creating and reclaiming a space for nonconceptual, body-centred, aesthetic and intuitive approaches of inhabiting the world. Such counter-position cultivates more b...
