In the year 2119 inside a base camp of Plastoses in the Saratov area a doctor is creating a fast Plastos Fesor to cope with the radioactive Kyrgyz steppe.
The animations that are connected to Marko A. Kovačič’s artistic practice are the result of authorial collaboration between animator Koljo Saksida and artist Marko A. Kovačič, author of the fictional post-apocalyptic Civilization of Plastos. They are characterized by the combination of computer graphics or mechanical stop-motion animation and performative procedures: on the one side conceptual actions with the noticeable real-time production process and computer-generated images with media time created by editing on the other. Another characteristic of these video works is the special position occupied by animals, artificial figures and worlds and their interactions and relations. (Source: DIVA)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Slovenska kinoteka, 2023
A conversation between Igor Prassel, Marko A. Kovačič and Peter Cerovšek at the second programme of The Lost Horizon (24 January 2023). The Lost Horizon. Screening of Marko A. Kovačič’s film/video opus from 1983–2021 at the Sloveni...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Slovenska kinoteka, 2023
Introductory lecture The films of Marko A. Kovačič as a discovery of the seduction of the real by dr. Melita Zajc at the third screening of The Lost Horizon programme and a conversation between Igor Prassel and Marko A. Kovačič after the screening (28...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Slovenska kinoteka, 2023
A conversation between Igor Prassel and Marko A. Kovačič at the final screening of The Lost Horizon programme (23 March 2023). The Lost Horizon. Screening of Marko A. Kovačič’s film/video opus from 1983–2021 at the Slovenian Cinematheque (D...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Slovenska kinoteka, 2022
A conversation between Igor Prassel, Marko A. Kovačič and Barbara Borčić at the beginning of The Lost Horizon programme (6 December 2022). The Lost Horizon. Screening of Marko A. Kovačič’s film/video opus from 1983–2021 at the Slovenian...
Production: Gibatorij, 2021
During the corona pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the author opened Javka pri Rdeči zvezdi (Post at the Red Star) in the former Mehanika factory and now Ropotarnca in Trbovlje to the public. In the heart of the once proletarian and revolutionary Red Districts,...
Production: Gibatorij, 2020
During the corona pandemic and forced isolation, Yevgenij Skavchenko, an expert in genetic mechanics and a fan of unusual sound phenomena, visits the Plastos' temporary residence in “Javka pri Rdeči zvezdi” (The Post at the Red Star). With th...
Production: Marko Kovačič & MSUM, 2017
9-channel video installation (5 minutes loop) was made for the exhibition "Multimedia Practices and Venues of Production", using the older artist's video materials from his projects in Ljubljana with the same title Casus Belli (1983): performances (Galeri...
Production: 2015
The artist has constructed a sculptural music machine called hrupofon (Bruitphone – hrup=bruit in french) that he is playing by adding to the digital sound scene the real-time manualy produced sounds. 'It's a real music, a real composition', say the...
Production: KUD France Prešeren / Zavod SCCA-Ljubljana, 2004
A film in the genre “the silent musical” was originally screened with live music (VIS Zlati Kastrioti). It creates a Kastrioti story about a mother who leaves her children to their fathers due to a stormy spirit, unspoken love, and the realiza...
Production: Forum Ljubljana / ZVVIKS production, 2003
Lab Party is a story about the cloning and genetic mechanical mutation of living beings after the year 2227. The setting is a laboratory where laboratory technician Plastos encounters problems and runs into a malfunction. He tries to solve the issue to no...