KIBLIX 2021 / Online Video Projections
1 April–20 May 2021, 7–8 p.m. CET
Streaming: https://kiblix.org/streaming
In cooperation with the DIVA Station, a digital video archive from Ljubljana, we are preparing a series of online video projections on the computer and online art, perception of physicality in a virtual environment, and transmitted feelings. The purpose of online projections is to get acquainted with works from the digital archive, get to know individual authors, and create a space for joint reflection, discussion, and knowledge exchange. Each event will be based on a selection of (including older) works from the archives of the DIVA Station and a conversation with the authors. Deriving from the events' online context, the focus will be on works that can start a discussion on the new reality of art perception through the digital experience. The conversations will be moderated by Irena Borić and Vesna Bukovec.
The online broadcast of all meetings will be available at https://kiblix.org/streaming.
Online projection 1: Digital Surfaces
Thursday, 1 April 2021, 7–8 p.m. CET
Streaming: https://kiblix.org/streaming
Guests: Marko Peljhan and Alenka Pirman
We will be presented with a computer video animation by Marko Peljhan, conceived as a theatrical play without actors in cyberspace. The video animation was prepared, modeled and rendered using a program written explicitly with the real-time SGI Crimson animation tool. We will also see several short works by Alenka Pirman, which are not videos, but the endless repetition of the PowerPoint presentation, which has been established in the academic and commercial world to present knowledge. The projection will be followed by a conversation between the selector Irena Borić, the artists, and DIVA Station associate Vesna Bukovec.
Screening schedule:
Marko Peljhan, LADOMIR ФАКТУРА: PRVA POVRŠINA - MIKROLAB V1.0, 1994, 23' 10''
Alenka Pirman, Aleš Kermavner: KAJ JE (V-SEBI-NA = V), cca. 1966–2006, 2006, 2' 22''
Alenka Pirman, Ivan Volarič-Feo: Peščena ura, 1969–2006, 2006, 2' 2''
Alenka Pirman, Matjaž Hanžek: Nebotičnik, 1967–2006, 2006, 2' 46''
Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and obtained her master's degree in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She is a socially critical author who expresses herself in various media, putting drawing in the foreground in addition to video. She has presented herself at several solo and group exhibitions in the domestic and international space. He also works in the field of graphic design and video art curation. Since 2015 she has been an expert associate of the DIVA Station at SCCA-Ljubljana.
www.vesna-bukovec.net
Marko Peljhan (1969) founded the art organization Projekt Atol in 1994 and was one of the co-founders of the Ljubljana New Media Laboratory Ljudmila a year later. He presented one of his most famous projects, Makrolab, for the first time at the Documents in 1997 and 2003 at the 50th Venice Biennale. In the last 25 years, Peljhan's work has been presented and awarded at numerous biennials and festivals, at ISEA and Ars Electronica exhibitions, and in museums such as PS1 MoMA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, ICC NTT Tokyo, YCAM Yamaguchi, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Asia Culture Center Gwangju and Garage in Moscow. In 2001, he received the Prix Ars Electronica award zlata nika for his polar project, co-created with German artist Carsten Nicolai. Together with the American-Canadian artist Matthew Biederman, they have been leading the Arctic Perspective Initiative since 2008. It focuses on the global significance of the Arctic geopolitical, natural, and cultural spheres and was presented at the Coded Utopia exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana in 2011. Peljhan's work is also dedicated to research and pedagogy in the crossroads of art, technology, and the media at the University of California, UC Santa Barbara, where he holds the full professor's title. In Slovenia, he was one of the initiators for establishing the Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies, and in 1998 he began to work actively in space and aeronautical research and culturalization. In the radio spectrum, he is known as the S54MX.
Marko Peljhan at DIVA Station: http://www.e-arhiv.org/diva/MarkoPeljhan
Alenka Pirman is a freelance artist, writer, and Ph.D. student of heritology at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She is a founding member of the Domestic Research Society (2004), where she develops collaborative research on the cross-section of contemporary art and cultural heritage. In the 1990s, her work was predominantly related to the three fictitious institutions: the SK8 Museum (1991–93), the RIGUSRS – Research Institute for Geo Art Statistics of the Republic of Slovenia (1997; with Ćosić and Wölle), and the Domestic Research Institute (1994–98). She then collaborated with the artistic collectives/platforms like Luther Blissett/01.org (1998) and London-based Bughouse (2002–03). She has carried out several methodological exhibition projects, e.g., with a collection of the German loanwords used in the Slovene language (Arcticae horulae, 1991–98) and a deposited collection of the Police Museum (The Case. Art and Criminality, 2005). In 2014 the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana prepared the Collected Works survey exhibition of her oeuvre.
Alenka Pirman at DIVA Station: http://www.e-arhiv.org/diva/AlenkaPirman
Online projection 2: Digital Performances
Thursday, 15 April 2021, 7–8 p.m. CET
Streaming: https://kiblix.org/streaming
Guests: Miha Horvat, Toni Soprano Meneglejte, Andrea Knezović and Sašo Sedlaček
We will watch the video of the tandem son:DA and Erinac Seymen, which is documentation of a performance, held simultaneously in Maribor and Istanbul. Andrea Knezović records a performance and researching nonsense and helplessness, while Sašo Sedlaček, in his video, problematizes the mass destruction of used technological equipment and its disposal. The screening will be followed by a talk between the selector Irena Borić, the artists and associate of the DIVA Station Vesna Bukovec.
Screening schedule:
son:DA, Erinç Seymen, Performance for a Poem 2. Maribor, 2006, 8' 48''
Andrea Knezović, Ode To Helplessness. The Inability To Breathe In 1.0, 2016, 1' 2''
Andrea Knezović, Ode To Helplessness. The Inability To Breathe In 2.0, 2016, 1' 26''
Sašo Sedlaček, Veliki izklop/The Big Switch Off, 2011, 1' 48''
Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and obtained her master's degree in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She is a socially critical author who expresses herself in various media, putting drawing in the foreground in addition to video. She has presented herself at several solo and group exhibitions in the domestic and international space. He also works in the field of graphic design and video art curation. Since 2015 she has been an expert associate of the DIVA Station at SCCA-Ljubljana.
www.vesna-bukovec.net
In the case of son:DA, it should be noted that terms such as artistic tandem, artistic group, duo, connection, etc., were not primarily used by son:DA , but by other authors when referring to son:DA; also in different sources we find different notations of the name son:DA, e.g., son:da, sonDA, sonda, zonda, SON:DA, SON:da, etc. The various designations or uses of the name may stem from the linguistic or syntactic embarrassment into which the somewhat unusual naming »son:DA« puts us. (Polona Tratnik, Catalogue son:DA, 2000–12). The son:DA art collective was active in the period 2000–15. Learn more at http://sonda.kibla.org/. In 2020 XY's artificial intelligence took over the collective's identity.
son:DA at DIVA Station: http://www.e-arhiv.org/diva/Son_da
Toni Soprano Meneglejte is half of the former tandem son:DA, active in the Slovenian and international visual arts scene for more than 15 years. Since 2015, she has been working independently, is an intermedia artist, and her diverse practice includes photography, sound performances, space design, scenography, drawing, video, and digital projects using social media.
Erinç Seymen graduated from Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Painting Department in 2006 and received his MA from Yıldız Technical University Art and Design Faculty, with a thesis about Bob Flanagan. He participated in conferences, and his articles have been published in various magazines on topics such as militarism, nationalism, and gender issues. Since 2002, he has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Istanbul, Ankara, Vienna, Paris, London, Helsinki, Eindhoven, and Lisbon. The group exhibitions he participated in are: Along the Gates of Urban, K&S Galerie, Berlin (2004); An Atlas of Events, Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2007); I Myself am War!, Open Space, Vienna (2008); Istanbul, traversée, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille (2009); Moods: A Generation that Goes off the Rails, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2010). Erinc Seymen lives and works in Istanbul.
Andrea Knezović (1990, Zagreb) is a visual, conceptual artist and a researcher based in Amsterdam, with a Masters' degree in Artistic Research from the University of Amsterdam (2019) and a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts from A.V.A-Academy of Visual Arts, Ljubljana (2014). Her artistic research centers around value production, 24/7 temporality and neoliberalism, liminality, and contemporary ritualization in the hyper-individualist era. Knezović’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the world, including Kiribati National Museum and Cultural Centre, Bikenibeu; Nieuw Dakota Gallery, Amsterdam; NEVERNEVERLAND Gallery, Amsterdam; The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana; Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana; 12 Star Gallery, London, UK; Kino Šiška, Ljubljana; The Israeli Center for Digital Arts, Holon; Aksioma Gallery, Ljubljana; Flip Project & Umberto Di Marino Gallery, Naples; Künstlerhaus, Klagenfurt; The Center for Contemporary Art, Celje and Hanikah Gallery, Sarajevo. She has published theoretical text in Lish Journal, Simulacrum Jurnal-Tijdschrift voor kunst en cultuur and Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean (Young Slovenian Artists). Her work is part of the DIVA Station video archive collection at SCCA-Ljubljana, and she was nominated for the Essl Art Award in 2013 and 2015.
Andrea Knezović at the DIVA station: http://www.e-arhiv.org/diva/AndreaKnezovic
Sašo Sedlaček (1974) graduated from sculpture and video at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (2000). He has received several awards and participated in numerous solo and group shows, including at the Secession in Vienna, the Sixth Taipei Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, the October Saloon in Belgrade, Ars Electronica in Linz, Transemdiale 2014 in Berlin and the Museumsquartir (MUMOK, Freiraum) in Vienna. He has been an artist-in-residence at the ISCP in New York, IAMAS in Japan, and The Israeli Center For Digital Art in Holon. Since 2015, he works as Associate Professor at Video and New Media course at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.
Sedlaček’s primary interest seems to be things that people overlook and the ways in which they can be made useful once again. His work is generally defined by theories of disposal and the use and reuse of cheap technologies and waste materials. His practical and humorous works result from a subversive recycling of scientific, legal, or technological facts and employing DIY (do-it-yourself) and collaborative methods.
Sašo Sedlaček at the DIVA station: http://www.e-arhiv.org/diva/SasoSedlacek
Online projection 3: Online and Common
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 7–8:30 p.m. CET
Streaming: https://kiblix.org/streaming
Guest: Anja Medved
We will watch a film by Anja Medved and Patricija Maličev, in which they discuss the puzzles of humanity with the creator, scientist, and philosopher. The debate is on environmental issues from philosophical perspectives. Are we at odds with nature due to rapid technological developments? The screening will be followed by a conversation between the selector Irena Borić, the artists and associate of the DIVA Station Vesna Bukovec.
Anja Medved, Patricija Maličev, The Gathering – The Secret Side of Things We Share, 2013, 65'
Production: Kinoatelje, Kinoatelje Institute, Kinokašča Institute
Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and obtained her master's degree in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She is a socially critical author who expresses herself in various media, putting drawing in the foreground in addition to video. She has presented herself at several solo and group exhibitions in the domestic and international space. He also works in the field of graphic design and video art curation. Since 2015 she has been an expert associate of the DIVA Station at SCCA-Ljubljana.
www.vesna-bukovec.net
Anja Medved (1969, Nova Gorica) is the author of documentaries, videos, and theater performances. She studied theater and radio directing at the Academy of Theater, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. After graduating, she continued her education in Los Angeles, where she created in the field of video and performance as part of the Microinternational collective. Upon her return, she participated in Marko Peljhan's stage projects and assisted in theater performances at Drama, Mladinsko Theatre, and Primorsko dramsko gledališče. In 1997 she directed the play The Night after Michelangelo Antonioni's film, named the same. She realized her first solo video exhibition entitled Frequenze Notturne in 2000 at the Kapelica Gallery. She has directed more than 20 documentaries, in which she focuses primarily on researching the relationship between personal and collective memory of the border area. She realized most of the films and projects in tandem with her mother Nadja Velušček within the cross-border organization Kinoatelje. She is the co-founder of the KINOkašča / CINEMattic Institute – a film production and memory storage facility. She lives and works in the Goriška region.
Anja Medved at the DIVA Station: http://www.e-arhiv.org/diva/AnjaMedved
Online projection 4: Body and Identity
Thursday, 20. 5. 2021, 7–8 p.m. CET
Streaming: https://kiblix.org/streaming
Guests: Uršula Berlot, Sara Bezovšek, Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Jasna Hribernik and Saša Spačal
The selection of works from the archive was prepared by Vesna Bukovec and takes us on a walk from a micro view of body particles that are visible only by using the digital technology (Bodyfraction), through the possibility of experiencing dispersed identity in VR space (Liminoid), online identity and violence (Cyberstalking), face-covering (Self-portrait) – today we can also think of it as protecting personal identity – to the loss of identity in a macro view of a group of people (Tense Present: Šum fotonov/ Photon Noise), who are no longer perceived as individuals with their own story, but as pixels, decomposing in a media-shared image. The intertwining of the development possibilities for humans and society that technology offers us as opposed to various types of abuse. The screening will be followed by a talk between the selector Irena Borić, the artists and associate of the DIVA Station Vesna Bukovec.
Screening schedule:
Uršula Berlot, Sunčana Kuljiš, Bodyfraction, 2020, 7' 40''
Saša Spačal, Liminoid, 2016, 8' 8''
Sara Bezovšek, Cyberstalking, 2019, 5' 27''
Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Self-portrait, 2001, 1' 54''
Jasna Hribernik, Tense Present: Photon Noise, 2015, 1' 18''
Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and obtained her master's degree in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She is a socially critical author who expresses herself in various media, putting drawing in the foreground in addition to video. She has presented herself at several solo and group exhibitions in the domestic and international space. He also works in the field of graphic design and video art curation. Since 2015 she has been an expert associate of the DIVA Station at SCCA-Ljubljana.
www.vesna-bukovec.net
Uršula Berlot (1973) studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana for two years after graduating from the High School of Natural Sciences, then painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She obtained her master's degree in 2002 and her doctorate in 2010 at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana, where she has been teaching at the Department of Theoretical Sciences since 2009. She works as a visual artist, art theorist, and lecturer interested in the intersections of art, science, and philosophy. She focuses on invisible and immaterial aspects of reality in artistic creation, often using technologically advanced optical research tools (radiology, microscopy) to explore liminal aspects of perceptual experience. She interweaves different media and genres in experimental and research-oriented artistic practice, such as light and kinetic installations, video, drawing, and virtual digital art. In transdisciplinary projects ˗ video works and light and kinetic installations, she explores various forms and expressions of psycho-emotional spaces, the aesthetic and technical potential of simulated nature, and the relationships between mind, body, and techno-media.
Ursula Berlot at DIVA Station: http://www.e-arhiv.org/diva/UrsulaBerlot
Saša Spačal is a post-media artist working at the intersection of living systems research, contemporary and sound art. Her artistic research focuses on entanglements of the environment-culture continuum and planetary metabolisms. By developing technological interfaces and relation to soil agents, she addresses the posthuman condition, which involves mechanical, digital, and organic logic within contemporary biopolitics and necropolitics. Her work was exhibited at venues such as Ars Electronica Festival (AT), National Art Museum of China (CHN), Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (RUS), Prix Cube (FR), Transmediale Festival (DE), Onassis Cultural Center Athens (GR), Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (SI). Her works received awards and nominations at Prix Ars Electronica, Japan Media Art Award, Prix Cube, NewTechnology Art Award, and New Aesthetica Prize.
Saša Spačal at DIVA Station: http://www.e-arhiv.org/diva/SasaSpacal
Sara Bezovšek is a visual artist active in graphic design, new media, and experimental film. In her work, she collects, stores, and collages the visual references she encounters while browsing online and watching movies and TV series. Through appropriation, she creates new narratives, interested in what people watch and share on social media, how visual material is broadcast on the internet, and how it changes and affects users. In the context of the post-internet paradigm, she thus creates a space where online content and internet references are a consistent and indispensable part of the world we live in.
Sara Bezovšek at DIVA Station: http://www.e-arhiv.org/diva/SaraBezovsek
Aleksandra Saška Gruden completed her sculpture studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Since 2006 she has held the status of self-employed cultural worker. As a multidisciplinary artist, she is involved in sculpture, spatial installations and interventions, video, performance, photography, scenography, and drawing. In her works, she discusses themes such as the human body and its limitations, the relationship between the private and the public, the intimate world of the individual, the image of women in modern society, and cultural heritage. She regularly exhibits at home and internationally (Austria, Italy, Great Britain, Serbia) where she presents her work in solo and group exhibitions. She is the author of several public installations in Slovenia (Grosuplje, Kranj, Celje) and abroad (Austria, Croatia). For her work she received: the 2nd prize for Slovenian photography of the year, awarded by Emzin magazine, the 3rd prize for video at the exhibition Man-Monument (Velenje) and in 2016 the prize of the Designers Society of Slovenia for the project Zidnice (EPK Maribor). She often collaborates with other artists (Nataša Skušek, Saba Skaberne). She led many sculptural symposia and exhibition programs (Video Dinner and Showcases), of the MFRU Festival, and series off talks (Tea Party for Art, O:MIZA). She works as a cultural critic and is the president of the artist council of Ljubljana Fine Artists Society.
Jasna Hribernik (Maribor 1959) lives in Ljubljana and works as independent film director, video and intermedia artist. After graduating in film and TV directing at the AGRFT in Ljubljana she started to make videoart and explored the video image and the placement of video and light in the architectural space. On the other hand, she devoted herself to auteur documentary. From 2000 to 2002, she attended the Documentary Master School in Munich. Many documentaries have been screened and awarded internationally (The Bells of Chernobyl, The Last Boat, Concerto for Mobile Phones and Orchestra, The World Didn't Know It Landed in a Song, Vitanje in Space: Sunita, Infinite Beginning, Symphony of Sorrowfull Songs, Next Station Kiosk). She is often a camerawoman and editor herself. She has shown her videos and Videospaces at home and abroad (Ars Electronica Linz, Tokyo Art Video Festival, Venice Biennale of Fine Arts: Staircase, Ballabende, NewMoscowYork, Lifestream, Revealed, Night Flight, Albedo, (Post)production, Tense Present, Communication Echolocation). In her works, she critically responds to the changing world and the position of man in it. At the School of Arts of the University of Nova Gorica she has been working as an associate professor since 2012, lecturing Space and Time in Moving Images.
The DIVA Station is an online and physical archive that SCCA-Ljubljana has been developing since 2005 to research, document, archive, and present art film, video, and new media art. It is based on the collection of video materials within the extended concept of the national context and includes artists working in Slovenia and/or internationally.
http://www.e-arhiv.org/diva/
Production: ACE KIBLA and SCCA-Ljubljana/DIVA Statio