Naša vitalnost in aktualnost izhaja iz tega, da se kot posamezniki o svojem delu nenehno na novo sprašujemo. Prav zato bomo posebej veseli obiska in vprašanj občinstva.

"Predstavitev se je začela s projekcijo video eseja DIVA v Galeriji Škuc, v katerem se nazorno prikažejo vse razsežnosti dediščinskega arhiva. Esej je mojstrsko zložila Nika Grabar. (Priporočilo: esej si lahko ogledate kar z domačega naslonjača na DIVI). Marko je predstavitev označil kot "Od začetka bolj šepajočpe, potlej kar zanimivo. Videoprojekcije tudi." (Njegovo misel, vključujoč napako, smo našli na Dodogovoru.) Po napovedanem programu pa smo bili priča mehkoterorističnemu razgovoru, ko je Marko izprašal prisotne, kaj je njihovo poslanstvo. Zavrteli smo se okrog pojmov "dediščina" in "dediščinsko prepoznavanje vsebin". Ne le video – tudi prostori, samonikli, kot je MKSMC, so dediščina, so spomin, ki ga je potrebno ohraniti. Finančni rezi v zdravo tkivo neinstitucionalne kulture so ukinjanje spomina, so pozaba, so izguba. Marko si seveda ni mogel in ni smel vzeti besede. Komentiral je ukvarjanje s kulturo, to poimenoval kot odvisnost, MKSMC pa označil kot okno v svet. In pripoznal takšno pozicijo tudi drugim. Z drugimi, tudi SCCA, pa je potrebno poiskati skupne imenovalce, podobnosti – in na njih graditi boj proti cesarjem.

> Poročilo s predstavitve

In the context of that exhibition, she screened the video Fliperautomat, which is a humorous way of the representation of four activities considered to be taken on by women in a taken-for-granted way. In this video, a woman is a ball in the pinball machine, jumping between the roles of a mother, wife, breastfeeder and carer. Her artistic work is strongly related to her own life – in it, she also warns against the disappearance of the female artist. In her work Ekstaza (Extasis), she exposes the myth of a wonderful motherhood and emphasizes the mother’s self-effacement. Whereas in the popular media breastfeeding is represented as a gentle act, her video shows the artist herself making painful facial expressions in the act of breastfeeding. Her message is that babies being breastfed are not gentle beings and that breastfeeding mothers often suffer from the inflammation of the breast tissue. Other works may be also watched in a sellection of her videos kept by Digital Video Archive DIVA Station at SCCA-Ljubljana. After the lecture, the audience will have an opportunity to have a quick look at her exhibition Pravi moški (A Real man) in Galerija Alkatraz in 2014. Video installation with two videos, Golica and Heri, set one opposite to the other, is a caricature of the contrast of male and female roles in the society. Golica is one of the songs belonging to the genre of national music; in the video, the artist dances to this song. In front of her is a female torso, moving her butt according to the male viewer’s whistling rhythm. The video Heri shows the process of making a braid out of a male ear. Its message is that women were supposed to be pleasing men, while men are the ones who were supposed to be nurtured and accepted the way they are. The exhibition in Galerija Alkatraz (Alkatraz Gallery) tackles socially prescribed outlook and behaviour of men, their feelings, and their perceptions of their female partners. With an example, it shows what a real man actually looks like, and how far (luckily) he is from the perfect image ascribed to him. The artist also holds a bitter-sweet surprise for the exhibition opening – fortune cookies with notes foreseeing, not the future, but the present, including chauvinistic sayings, being angrily collected by the artist for years.

Production 14. festivala Rdeče zore: KUD Mreža

Co-production: Zavod za sodobno umetnost SCCA-Ljubljana

What are the methods, techniques, processes and characteristics of artistic language at the turn from the analogue to the digital, from the magnetic tape to a computer disk, from the single channel to the multi-media and new-media projects? In the desire to reverse the dominant discourse on modern video and media artworks, that is favouring a theme, story or context, we focus on a specific media language and artistic expressions characterised by a different approach. We are developing the project together with the artists, that we have chosen on the basis of their longstanding work and activities in the field of experimental new media practices. In addition to research, interviews and texts we also prepared a series of public and closed lectures, screenings, workshops, performances and installations by Neven Korda, Marko Košnik and Miha Vipotnik from January till today. Active involvement of the researchers by means of writing and publishing texts and notes in the project's blog was a gesture to establish an equivalent responsibility for the formulation of statements; that researchers formulate in words and artists in the audiovisual field.

Video Turn
Experimental Research & Exhibition Project
(Installations, Screenings, Performances, Lectures, Workshop)

Neven Korda: Dominant Black
Installation and Performances

Home (J. Petkovšek)
Miha Vipotnik in cooperation with Sergej Kapus and the students of Academy of Fine Arts and Design
Continuous Workshop, Mise-en-scene, Sequence

Format Oblivion
Video Essay by Nika Grabar, Duration: 15 minutes, Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2012
This Video Essay is a direct result of seminar entitled How to Connect Contents of Audio Visual Archives? that encluded an exhibition, lectures and screenings at Vžigalica Gallery and a workshop at SCCA Project Room. The video has been shot in order to present how documentation and archiving of media materials are important for the understanding of contemporary artistic practices and media art. Video Essay deals predominantly with the question of an archive in the works of one of the pioneers of Croatian video art Dalibor Martinis. Other aspects of the long term preservation of video work is then further elaborated by Steven Kovats who conducted a lecture and presentation of video/jukebox archive Transitland and by head of techincal department at Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam Wiel Seuskens, who presented a screening selection of NIMk collection and conducted a workshop on digitising and preservation of media artworks.

DIVA in Skuc Gallery
Video Essay by  Nika Grabar, Duration: 16 minutes, Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2009
DIVA Station was publicly launched in the gallery space in 2009 at Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana. The exhibition presentation had contained all the aspects of operation of a contemporary archive starting with acquisitions, restoration of materials, preparation of materials for promotion with video programmes and international networking. Collaborators who are in charge of DIVA - digital video archive and international guests answer to the questions of the functions of contemporary archives and their role in culture and society.

Curated by: Sixtine Rose Boyer

Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2012

Duration: 4 54′ 48″

Text: Sixtine Rose Boyer (on Videospotting website)

Marijan Osole – Max, Morte ai sciavi, 16′ 28”
ŠKD Forum, Škuc, 1983

FV Video, FV Disco, 42′ 27”
FV Video / Škuc – Forum, 1983

ZANK (Zemira Alajbegović in Neven Korda), Staro in novo, 66′
V.S. Video/Forum Ljubljana, VPK & TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1997

ZANK (Zemira Alajbegović, Neven Korda), Kersnikova 4, 18′ 40”
FV Video / Škuc – Forum, 1984

ZANK (Zemira Alajbegović, Neven Korda), Iskanje izgubljenega časa, 25′ 40”
FV Video / Škuc – Forum, 1985

Zemira Alajbegović, ŠKUC – R.O.P.O.T., 45′ 50”
Brut film, FV Video / Škuc – Forum, 1988

ZANK (Zemira Alajbegović, Neven Korda, Borghesia), Triumf želje, 61′ 24”
Brut, VS Video / Forum, E-motion film, TV Slovenija & PIAS, Ljubljana, 1989

Rok Sieberer Kuri, Metelkova mesto I, II, 68′ 02”
Media Teror, 1996-98

Marko A. Kovačič, I’ve Seen That…Like It Is (2227), 5′ 40”
V.S. Video & Strip Core, Forum, 1993

Sašo Podgoršek, God Is God (Laibach), 3′ 41”
Mute Film London, 1996

We are also glad to note that in 2012 Tomaž Furlan was awarded OHO 2012 Award for young artist and is participating at the Manifesta 9 Biennial in Belgium.

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NOTABLE SUCCESSES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF DIVA STATION

- 108 artists and art collectives.
- 6.000 minutes or 100 hours of AV material for on-line viewing, and 15.000 minutes or 250 hours in the material archive.
- The most represented genre is artistic video.
- The most used keyword is body, followed by music and women.
- The most productive decade is from 2000 till 2009.
- 28 curated video programs Videospotting are based on DIVA Station archive.
- Since 2005 we have prepared 31 presentations and screenings (5 per year) in Slovenia and internationally.
- We organised 4 international seminars and 2 study exhibition projects focused on the issues of AV archiving in Ljubljana alone.
- At the seminars we hosted 35 experts, lecturers and artists from Slovenia and from international art milieu.
- DIVA station is a partner archive of GAMA - Gateway to Archives of Media Art international platform that connects similar European media art archives and enables them better visibility and wider accessibility.

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