Video documentation of the Video evening with DIVA Station: Duba Sambolec event at the Photon Gallery on May 4, 2022. Vesna Bukovec, expert associate of DIVA Station, talked with the artist about her relationship to video and performance in the context of her wider artistic practice. The talk was in Slovene langauge.
Duba Sambolec has created a series of video works in her extensive and diverse artistic oeuvre. In 2000, a cycle of 14 video performances entitled NoHomeVideos© was presented in several locations in public space as part of the International Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women. In them, she dealt with the experience of manipulation, which is carried out on individuals by bodies of power and control. At the same time, the performances emphasize the power of individual will and intelligence in resistance and struggle against pressures and abuses. After 2000, she created a few more video works, including the series Collectors and NATO Women Waiting. Despite the distance in time, all works are still extremely relevant today, at the time of the rise of autocratic authorities and the Ukrainian war. Among the works presented was the amateur film Roke (Hands), which the artist shot at the film school with Mirjana Borčić at Pionirski dom in Ljubljana before studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video performance documents the procedure of planting. Static camera records a scene in the middle of the space, where there is a pile of dirt with eight flower pots and postcards laying around. The author starts to fill in the pots with dirt, then she ta...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Two-channel video perfomance consists of two videos, Airport 1 and Airport 2, which are screened side by side. Video performance captures a modestly furnished space inside which performers move. Shots are static and unedited. One after another or polypho...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
The authors put on the camera and film lights and pipes with one of them filming and the other holding her. The situation is entertaining for both of them, as we hear them laughing. The first one dictates hot the other should hold her in order for her to...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Two-channel video perfomance consists of two videos, Airport 1 and Airport 2, which are screened side by side. Video performance captures a modestly furnished space inside which performers move. Shots are static and unedited. One after another or polypho...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video performance starts with women descending a wooden staircase into a factory space full of metal constructions. Women are wrapped in long colourful clothes. They walk on top of a metal construction. They all carefully choose their steps, some of them...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Two-channel video perfomance consists of two videos, Shadowless A and Shadowless B, which are screened side by side. The left video (Shadowless A) shows the figure in the room, and the right (Shadowless B) focuses on the face. Both videos share the same s...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Two-channel video perfomance consists of two videos, Shadowless A and Shadowless B, which are screened side by side. The left video (Shadowless A) shows the figure in the room, and the right (Shadowless B) focuses on the face. Both videos share the same s...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video is based on a cliché automatized everyday fraises, which are told to each other by the performers. Unfocused close-up stays unchanged and additionally stresses unclearness and dullness of the conversation. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video per...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video captures the author in a medium close-up, while she repeats the sentence "repeat after me" in calm authoritative voice. The absurd coming from the repeating demand to repeat stresses the fact of how often and repeating this demand is in individual's...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video is composed of one long static extreme close-up of the author, while she repeats a completely trivial, common and consequently devalued request. Static and unfocused shot stresses the dullness of the sentence. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video perfor...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video is based on a cliché automatized everyday fraises, which are told to each other by the performers. Unfocused close-up stays unchanged and additionally stresses unclearness and dullness of the conversation. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video per...