No. 883
"I can create positive change"
Artist: Bukovec, Vesna
Title: I can create positive change
Duration: 00:02:30
Year: 2010
Genre: Art video / Performance
Production: V.B.
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MOREVideo is a part of White Performances / Positive Affirmations, a series calling out the deceptiveness of the ostensible happiness and illusions about a perfect life. We see a woman cleaning and chanting a mantra, which is a parody pointing out the absurdity of work automatism especially with so called women chores like cleaning, putting on make-up or knitting. The mantra also reminds us of new age lifestyle which promotes the power of suggestive thoughts. Music is light and easygoing, image is clean and immaculateness is emphasized by usage of white color.
Vesna Bukovec - Moje sanje, lepo stanovanje / The Happiest Apartment in the World (00:04:08)
Production: V.B., 2010
A dream of a woman is shown in long static shots, which are fast-forwarded and thus emphasize the repetitive movements of browsing through home decorating magazines. The fast forwarded shots don't have a humorous effect but a rather neurotic one. The imag...
Production: V.B., 2010
A dream of a woman is shown in long static shots, which are fast-forwarded and thus emphasize the repetitive movements of browsing through home decorating magazines. The fast forwarded shots don't have a humorous effect but a rather neurotic one. The imag...
Vesna Bukovec - Personal Advice (00:00:59)
Production: V.B., 2010
Personal advice first seems like a secret being revealed by a soft voice, telling us to take its advice. This advice is a completely absurd series of words, which as we soon find out is taken out of astrological forecasts. Visual representation of the vid...
Production: V.B., 2010
Personal advice first seems like a secret being revealed by a soft voice, telling us to take its advice. This advice is a completely absurd series of words, which as we soon find out is taken out of astrological forecasts. Visual representation of the vid...
Vesna Bukovec - Everything I eat turns to health, beauty and love (00:03:48)
Production: V.B., 2010
Video is a part of White Performances / Positive Affirmations, a series calling out the deceptiveness of the ostensible happiness and illusions about a perfect life. The image of the video is clean, with the white color scheme emphasizing immaculateness. We...
Production: V.B., 2010
Video is a part of White Performances / Positive Affirmations, a series calling out the deceptiveness of the ostensible happiness and illusions about a perfect life. The image of the video is clean, with the white color scheme emphasizing immaculateness. We...
Vesna Bukovec - I love myself for who I am (00:03:10)
Production: V.B., 2010
Video is a part of White Performances / Positive Affirmations, a series calling out the deceptiveness of the ostensible happiness and illusions about a perfect life. We see a woman trying to accent her beauty and her perfect appearance and chanting a mant...
Production: V.B., 2010
Video is a part of White Performances / Positive Affirmations, a series calling out the deceptiveness of the ostensible happiness and illusions about a perfect life. We see a woman trying to accent her beauty and her perfect appearance and chanting a mant...
Vesna Bukovec - I trust in the process of life (00:03:15)
Production: V.B., 2010
Video is a part of White Performances / Positive Affirmations, a series calling out the deceptiveness of the ostensible happiness and illusions about a perfect life. We see a woman knitting and chanting a mantra, which is supposed to help her accept and t...
Production: V.B., 2010
Video is a part of White Performances / Positive Affirmations, a series calling out the deceptiveness of the ostensible happiness and illusions about a perfect life. We see a woman knitting and chanting a mantra, which is supposed to help her accept and t...
Vesna Bukovec - You can do it! (00:02:46)
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2010
The video consists of scrolling text and static image in the background. The text is compiled from various advertising slogans of famous international brands. Combined into a body of text these singular statements form new meanings with almost poetic conn...
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2010
The video consists of scrolling text and static image in the background. The text is compiled from various advertising slogans of famous international brands. Combined into a body of text these singular statements form new meanings with almost poetic conn...
Vesna Bukovec, KOLEKTIVA, Metka Zupanič - Secret Heart exhibition view (00:04:45)
Production: Kolektiva, 2010
A documentary video of the exhibition in the Program Gallery in Warsaw. The 'Secret Heart' exhibition is a project within the framework of the KOLEKTIVA's platform 'Special Place in the City'. The project takes as its starting poi...
Production: Kolektiva, 2010
A documentary video of the exhibition in the Program Gallery in Warsaw. The 'Secret Heart' exhibition is a project within the framework of the KOLEKTIVA's platform 'Special Place in the City'. The project takes as its starting poi...
Vesna Bukovec - It Will Be OK (00:03:34)
Production: V.B., 2009
A woman sitting on a white sofa is petting a stuffed toy and in a slow rhythm convincing it and iherself that "it will be ok". This mantric exhortation works like a parody of the power of suggestive thoughts promoted by popular new age movements. We can o...
Production: V.B., 2009
A woman sitting on a white sofa is petting a stuffed toy and in a slow rhythm convincing it and iherself that "it will be ok". This mantric exhortation works like a parody of the power of suggestive thoughts promoted by popular new age movements. We can o...
Vesna Bukovec - Consumer Culture ... (0:01:30)
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2007
Video work creates a game of logos of the big companies mimicking the game of memory. Inside 30 squares different brands move around. At the end a slogan "Consumer culture makes me anxious!" is written inside the fields.
Production: Vesna Bukovec, 2007
Video work creates a game of logos of the big companies mimicking the game of memory. Inside 30 squares different brands move around. At the end a slogan "Consumer culture makes me anxious!" is written inside the fields.
KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič - Special place in the city – Ljubljana (00:40:29)
Production: Kolektiva, 2007
The video belongs to a series of projects that have been produced since 2004 in the context of the KOLEKTIVA's psycho-geographical Platform 'Special Place in the City'. The authors recorded the video at their home city Ljubljana. They asked...
Production: Kolektiva, 2007
The video belongs to a series of projects that have been produced since 2004 in the context of the KOLEKTIVA's psycho-geographical Platform 'Special Place in the City'. The authors recorded the video at their home city Ljubljana. They asked...
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.