The DIVA News page refers to public presentations, exhibitions, screenings, publications in Slovenia and on the international scene, connected to participations of DIVA Station Video Archive and the video artists who had contributed their video artworks to the archive. We also introduce events organised by DIVA Station (SCCA-Ljubljana) in order to promote its content and usage.
Nataša Prosenc Stearns is a filmmaker and video artist who works with a wide range of moving image production and presentation, from scriptwriting, filming and editing to spatial installations, video objects and prints. The presentation of her film and video oeuvre, entitled Between Body and Space, is a selection of her work in four programmes. The first one, entitled Vortex presents films that were made in radically different periods and contexts: Concrete Man and Evening under the auspices of the Arsmedia production company and co-productions of RTV Slovenia in the 1990s, Tango for Fish produced by RTV Slovenia, Mud, Afterlife, Self Portrait and The Beach as independent projects in the USA in the 2000s, Vortex was part of the larger installation project Gladiators at the Venice Biennale, Construct was made from found footage of the construction site of Biosphere 2 in Arizona, the largest artificial environment facility for life on Mars, while Mother for Dinner was filmed as part of the Maribor European Capital of Culture.
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana and Slovenian Cinematheque, curated by: Vesna Bukovec, Robert Kuret.
The screening at the Slovenian Cinematheque on 21 March 2025 is complemented by an additional programme at the Slovenian Film Database (BSF). More
As part of the national focus on Slovenia, SCCA-Ljubljana – together with the Slovenian Cinematheque, the FeKK Short Film Festival in Ljubljana and the Animateka International Animated Film Festival – has co-curated five curated programmes representing the broad spectrum of Slovenian film and video creativity.
The DIVA Station archive will present Interlaced DIVA, a programme curated by Peter Cerovšek. The selected works critically examine entrenched social structures that influence our understanding of identity, sexuality and social relations. Participating: Zemira Alajbegović, Neven Korda, Ana Nuša Dragan, Ema Kugler, Sasha Ihnatovich, Jasmina Mustafić, Duba Sambolec in Sara Bezovšek.
22 March 2025, W1 – Theatersaal, Regensburg, Germany More
Back2Back is a series of events where we invite local and international authors to present their production and establish a dialogue with works of their choice from the DIVA Station archive. We have invited artist Hannah Koselj Marušič. Participating: Zemira Alajbegović, Neven Korda, Jaka Vatovec, Martina Bastarda, Ocepek Mateja, Nataša Skušek, Sara Bezovšek, Sasha Ihnatovich, Jasmina Mustafić, Luksuz Produkcija, Evelin Stermitz, Nataša Prosenc Stearns. Talk and screening, 14 March 2025, Project Room SCCA. More
We invite you to watch two photo animations online, which at the moment of public announcement are already in the digital video archive of DIVA Station, co-organizer of the online premiere: Ditopia Atmos Ljubljana (2024): co-production of IEM and Zavod Kersnikova, executive organizer Cirkulacija 2, support of MOL, department of culture; Ditopia Kibla Remix (2024): produced by KID KIBLA in collaboration with IEM. Photo performer and author of video and music: Marko Košnik, video/music studio IEM. The author will accompany the online publication of the works with a lecture on Tuesday, 18 February 2025 at 7 pm in the SCCA Project Room. More
In a slightly different format of the Video Evening, the intermedia artist Neža Knez will present the materials for her emerging experimental film, which is currently in the process of editing. In a live improvisational performance, she will manipulate raw and partially edited visual, audio and written material. Together with the audience, she will reflect on the nature of documentary language, the boundaries between reality and fiction, and the difference in materiality between the digital and analogue processes of creating the moving image. On Wednesday, 29 January 2025 at 7 pm in Photon Gallery. More
Video artist, director and performer Ana Čigon explores social-critical themes and analyses contemporary neoliberal society, the inhumane treatment of refugees and the struggle for dignity and recognition of LGBTIQ+ individuals, workers and women. Her practice is characterised by irony and humour. She often collaborates with other artists and theorists. At the Video Evening, she will present her feminist artistic practice of the last ten years. On Wednesday, 18 December 2024 at 7 pm in Photon Gallery. More
On the 27th October we celebrated the World Audiovisual Heritage Day. In Slovenian Cinematheque we hosted the Argos Centre for Arts and Media from Brussels once again. Katia Rossini, Head of the Archive Collection, prepared and presented two curated programmes. A programme of short films and videos by Belgian artists Culture is Our Business and Johan Grimonprez's experimental documentary Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y from 1997. More
At the Video Evening with DIVA Station, we are hosting Danilo Milovanović (aka DNLM). The artist notices, exposes, and subverts the conflicting relationships between nature and the urban in a critical-humorous way. By intervening in public space, he creates new symbolic and actual relationships between various street and architectural objects, as well as their context and usability. At the event, he will present video documentation of the many artistic interventions he has carried out in recent years. On Wednesday, 23 October 2024 at 7 pm in Photon Gallery. More
Back2Back is a series of events where we invite local and international authors to present their production and establish a dialogue with works of their choice from the DIVA Station archive. In cooperation with the International Centre of Graphic Arts and the MGLC Švicarija residency centre, we have invited visual artist Lea Culetto. Participating: Andrea Aviles Torres, Sara Maffi (Luksuz Produkcija), Nataša Skušek, Ana Čigon, Tatiana Kocmur, Neža Knez, Ana Nuša Dragan, Jatun Risba. Talk and screening, 26 September 2024, MGLC Švicarija More
The international programme These Roots, Interlacing the Worlds was curated by visual artist Lara Reichmann. She selected video works set in environments that are at least partly derived from physical and virtual reality. They create and transition between possible versions of a world where nature and technology are inseparably connected. Participating: Mohamed Abdelkarim (EG/NL), Neo Nor (SI), Agnieszka Polska (PL), He Zike (CN). Screening and talk at the inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery on Friday, 6 September 2024, at 8 pm. More
