The video summarises the basic motifs of the artist’s work: endangered species and fantasy animals of the future. It comprises an omnibus of five individual video pieces and additional raw video footage. First, we see ‘proteus’, a computer-generated olm in motion; which is followed by ‘An Interview with an Endangered Species’, featuring frontal shots of the Soča Trout opening its mouth as if it were speaking; these are combined with an Aquarium video showing the flight of the Soča Trout. This is followed by a one-minute video entitled The Ant, which shows the last minute in the life of a dying ant. Finally, we watch a reconstruction of a video of the extinct, dog-like Tasmanian tiger. The omnibus continues with brief documentary footage of the artist describing the mating of a fictitious bird when he is outdoors in windy weather. The video concludes with the screening of photographs of a fantasy species of the future in its natural habitat: woods, a car park, and a playground. The animal is half-human half-kangaroo. The video features Proteus Font, which the artist created in the same year from parts of a computer-generated olm, declaring it the first indigenous Slovenian typeface. Among other things, the font mockingly presents the need for national identity, in the formation of which animals are used like other social tools - but in ways that often hurt them, and are decidedly of no benefit to them.
Production: 1996
The work was made in the studio of the sculpture department at the Academy of Fine Arts. A hen appears in the studio and waddles across the room. The prevailing colours of the image are various shades of blue. The hen is caught in a sculpture installation...
Production: Akademija za likovno umetnost, Ljubljana, 1995
The black-and-white footage of a performance shot from a static camera dates to the time when the artist was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. The performer looks at sculpted busts, and hammers nails into them, seeking a way to examine th...
Production: 1995
A group event staged in public spaces - at a bus stop and in the garden of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana - took place on 22 March, World Water Day. The event was intended to draw attention to this day not by moralising, but by emphasising the joy...
Production: 1995
The Concert for Bass Guitar and Plaster Cube was performed by the artist in 1993 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he studied sculpture between 1991 and 1995. The brief performance refers to the main issues of contemporary sculpture, explori...
Production: 1995
A hyper-realistic latex sculpture of the artist stands in the middle of a room in Kapelica Gallery, where the artist first presented the installation. The sculpture’s low pedestal is connected to seven monitors into which the figure gazes, while lig...
Production: 1995
A collage of three video works. The first shows footage of an exhibition at Trdnjavi Kluže Gallery in Bovec, where the artist presented one of his first statues of animals – a remote-controlled skunk. The second video is a study of changes in colou...
Production: 1995
Hiperrealističen kip avtorja iz lateksa stoji sredi prostora v Galeriji Kapelica, kjer je umetnik prvič postavil instalacijo. Nizek podstavek kipa je povezan s sedmimi monitorji, v katere je uprt pogled figure. Na svetlobnih objektih so prikazane fotogr...