Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Shund (0:02:23)
Production: 2008
Shund is a frame by frame visually reconstructed original trailer of the movie Pulp Fiction. 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 & P...
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"The Box"
Artist: Nika Oblak & Primož Novak
Title: The Box
Duration: 00:01:02
Year: 2005
Genre: Installation Art
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MORE'The Box' is a kinetic video installation which shows Nika Oblak & Primož Novak being trapped, trying to escape to the outside. As they hit their fists against the walls of the interior surrounding them, trying to break through, each hit is visible, since the rubber bends outwards. The work is influenced by constant exposure to mass media messages and inability to avoid its effects. It evokes detachment, the possibility to exist outside prevailing systems. Oblak and Novak's attempt of escape is a reference to an escape from an all encompassing media world as well as an escape from the white cube.
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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...
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...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - We Did This and That (0:01:06)
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 spec...
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 spec...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - We Did This and That (0:01:27)
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 spec...
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 spec...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - We Did This and That (0:00:39)
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 spec...
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 spec...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Smartist (00:02:59)
Production: U3 - Triennial of contemporary Slovenian art, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (in collaboration with Stefan Doepner), 2006
Smartist is an independent mobile robot that replaces a person - more precisely, an artist - and performs this person's tasks. It lives in the exhibition area, where it moves freely and responds to visitors and other displayed works. Occasionally it...
Production: U3 - Triennial of contemporary Slovenian art, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (in collaboration with Stefan Doepner), 2006
Smartist is an independent mobile robot that replaces a person - more precisely, an artist - and performs this person's tasks. It lives in the exhibition area, where it moves freely and responds to visitors and other displayed works. Occasionally it...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Explosion (0:00:16)
Production: 2003
The video shows Primož Novak being blown up. It plays with idea that artists have to exert a tremendous amount of effort in order to be successful, and at the same time, it mocks the strategy of shocking the audience as a formula for quick success-a stra...
Production: 2003
The video shows Primož Novak being blown up. It plays with idea that artists have to exert a tremendous amount of effort in order to be successful, and at the same time, it mocks the strategy of shocking the audience as a formula for quick success-a stra...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (0:19:22)
Production: 2003
The video shows Nika Oblak & Primož Novak having picnic in a snowy landscape next to a highway. The postcard-like landscape is beautiful to look at, but it also isolates Oblak & Novak from the rest of the world. (Source: oblak-novak.org)
Production: 2003
The video shows Nika Oblak & Primož Novak having picnic in a snowy landscape next to a highway. The postcard-like landscape is beautiful to look at, but it also isolates Oblak & Novak from the rest of the world. (Source: oblak-novak.org)
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Baby (0:04:13)
Production: 2003
The video Baby shows a sexy blonde in a cheesy environment overflown by colorful balloons. She is posing in front of the camera and telling jokes about stupid policemen, which rather evoke jokes about stupid blondes. In the atmosphere filled by common ste...
Production: 2003
The video Baby shows a sexy blonde in a cheesy environment overflown by colorful balloons. She is posing in front of the camera and telling jokes about stupid policemen, which rather evoke jokes about stupid blondes. In the atmosphere filled by common ste...
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