Pirman, Alenka
No. 369
"Close Your Eyes and Watch"
Artist: Pirman, Alenka
Title: Close Your Eyes and Watch
Subtitle: Silent Lecture
Duration: 0:00:47 zanka / loop
Year: 2006
Genre: Animation / Hybrid Art
Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana

 
SYNOPSIS

The work isn't a video but an infinite repeating of a PowerPoint presentation, which became a way of presenting knowledge in the academic and commercial world. The author rethought or rather hacked this presentation format with a linear narrative structure and textual sequence which is a part of hegemony of institutional knowledge. She cancelled linearity with a demand repeat, which makes the lecture infinite. Ideological content was annulled with usage of basic matrix of the programme. The artist searched for reference in works by conceptual artists who used concrete poetry to annul hegemony of meanings. The work can be placed in the genre of software art. Visually it relates to tradition of supremacist painting and op-art. Silent lectures are compound of two parts: The most beautiful poems and Close your eyes and watch.


 
SERIES
 
OTHER WORKS
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Alenka Pirman - Franci Zagoričnik - Črno-beli diapazon, 1966-2006 (00:02:35 zanka / loop)
Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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Alenka Pirman - Matjaž Hanžek - Nebotičnik, 1967-2006 (00:02:46 zanka / loop)
Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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Alenka Pirman - Vojin Kovač-Chubby - I go Crazy, 1967-2006 (00:15:03 zanka)
Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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Alenka Pirman - Naško Križnar - Drekec pekec, ok. 1966-2006 (00:00:23 zanka)
Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, Kibla, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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