Katja Šoltes, Emir Jelkić - How Do You Say Ćesma? / Kako se kaže fountain? (00:07:30)
Production: Ljudmila, Ljubljana in SCCA/pro.ba, Sarajevo, 2000
The video shows thoughts of a traveller and runner David Jones, who is discovering a war-stricken Sarajevo and tells the story of his endless travels. First the video follows the runner and surroundings through a window of a moving car. The shots at the end of the video are static and feature close-ups of the runner.
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Miha Vipotnik - Path of Crazy Wisdom (09:20)
Production: CalArts, Los Angeles, 1988/1996
A short dramatic story in the form of an interview with the sculptor Eric Orr about his life and work in the sixties and seventies contucted by the musician Jim Rohing. The interviewer bombards his subject with questions, almost simulating a police investigation. The artist defends his positions and concepts. At another level, the story narrates the imaginative disappearance of Johnny. Citations from Orr's book are inscribed simultaneously onto the screen, presenting to the viewer the double dynamics of the...
Production: CalArts, Los Angeles, 1988/1996
A short dramatic story in the form of an interview with the sculptor Eric Orr about his life and work in the sixties and seventies contucted by the musician Jim Rohing. The interviewer bombards his subject with questions, almost simulating a police investigation. The artist defends his positions and concepts. At another level, the story narrates the imaginative disappearance of Johnny. Citations from Orr's book are inscribed simultaneously onto the screen, presenting to the viewer the double dynamics of the...
Miha Vipotnik - Videogram 4 (28:22)
Production: RTV Ljubljana, 1976/79
Video is a final result of performative events conducted at TV studio, which were recorded by the author with five cameras. The study of the limits of video, using painting and performative elements, achieves an effect of an innovative and unique visual and sonic experience by exploring image and sound. (DIVA)
Production: RTV Ljubljana, 1976/79
Video is a final result of performative events conducted at TV studio, which were recorded by the author with five cameras. The study of the limits of video, using painting and performative elements, achieves an effect of an innovative and unique visual and sonic experience by exploring image and sound. (DIVA)
Andrea Knezović - Liminal (00:11:00)
Production: 2013
Liminal is a video installation that deals with the transformational nature of language and communication through symbolic aspects. The project started as an experiment in which artist involved people coming from different national and linguistic backgrounds; from Sweden, France, UK to Serbia and United States. She gave them an assignment - to write a short story of their choosing, true or fictional, and focus on memorizing its general content. Then they were instructed to elaborate these stories in imagina...
Production: 2013
Liminal is a video installation that deals with the transformational nature of language and communication through symbolic aspects. The project started as an experiment in which artist involved people coming from different national and linguistic backgrounds; from Sweden, France, UK to Serbia and United States. She gave them an assignment - to write a short story of their choosing, true or fictional, and focus on memorizing its general content. Then they were instructed to elaborate these stories in imagina...
Miha Vipotnik - Eight (24:52)
Production: 1992
Eight is based on the story from the novel Moment of Silence by Tomislav Longinović (Burning Books: San Francisco, 1990) that addresses the question of disintegration of Yugoslavia, search for identity, personal experience of history and the meaning "lost in translation". The video was made for the Remember Yugoslavia exhibition in New York (1991-92), but Vipotnik withdraw it due to the nationalistic tendencies of Serbian artists. Video was presented as an installation at the Vipotnik's interactive exhibit...
Production: 1992
Eight is based on the story from the novel Moment of Silence by Tomislav Longinović (Burning Books: San Francisco, 1990) that addresses the question of disintegration of Yugoslavia, search for identity, personal experience of history and the meaning "lost in translation". The video was made for the Remember Yugoslavia exhibition in New York (1991-92), but Vipotnik withdraw it due to the nationalistic tendencies of Serbian artists. Video was presented as an installation at the Vipotnik's interactive exhibit...
Duba Sambolec - Questioning, Answering (58:25)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 1999
In the video we witness an interrogation of a woman with a blind over her eyes. Strict and somewhat violet interrogation is executed by the second female character. Eventually it becomes clear, that shots of both people were merged in postproduction. The viewer is therefore manipulated as is the video, and at the same time he/she takes on the role of an accomplice, as he/she accepts the game of the interrogator. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Co...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 1999
In the video we witness an interrogation of a woman with a blind over her eyes. Strict and somewhat violet interrogation is executed by the second female character. Eventually it becomes clear, that shots of both people were merged in postproduction. The viewer is therefore manipulated as is the video, and at the same time he/she takes on the role of an accomplice, as he/she accepts the game of the interrogator. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Co...
Duba Sambolec - Airport Revisited (01:19)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2004
Video deals with conjugation of a sentence "I am the center" in a form of animated red text circling over the screen. The animation warns us that repeating paroles are a productive tool for political indoctrination, profit marketing and the seeming satisfaction of the needs and wants created by the market. The video has no sound.NoHomeVideos© video performances, altogether created 14 by the author, are dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the agents of power and control. Performances str...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2004
Video deals with conjugation of a sentence "I am the center" in a form of animated red text circling over the screen. The animation warns us that repeating paroles are a productive tool for political indoctrination, profit marketing and the seeming satisfaction of the needs and wants created by the market. The video has no sound.NoHomeVideos© video performances, altogether created 14 by the author, are dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the agents of power and control. Performances str...
Alenka Pirman - Close Your Eyes and Watch (0:00:47 zanka / loop)
Subtitle: Silent Lecture
Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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...
Subtitle: Silent Lecture
Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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...
Alenka Pirman - Franci Zagoričnik - Črno-beli diapazon, 1966-2006 (00:02:35 zanka / loop)
Subtitle: The Most beautiful Poems. Series of silent lectures
Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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 sear...
Subtitle: The Most beautiful Poems. Series of silent lectures
Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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 sear...
Alenka Pirman - Ivan Volarič-Feo - Peščena ura, 1969-2006 (00:02:02 zanka / loop)
Subtitle: The Most beautiful Poems. Series of silent lectures
Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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...
Subtitle: The Most beautiful Poems. Series of silent lectures
Production: Društvo za domače raziskave / Domestic Research Society, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
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...
