Matevž Jerman, Peter Cerovšek - Ljubljana je Berlin (SBO) (03:18)
Production: SBO, 2021
By quoting well-known scenes from music videos, the video Ljubljana je Berlin (Ljubljana is Berlin) pays homage to the rich history of Slovenian music bands and the diverse visual and technological aesthetics of their videos from the beginning of the genre in the 1980s to the present day. Musical pop-cultural references are mixed with particular group scenes quoting scenes from TV reports of the early 1990s (from the time of the creation of the new state) in which certain people who today call themselv...
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SCCA-Ljubljana - Back2Back: Jake Yuzna – The Alternative Is Hard To See (1:19:36)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2021
The Alternative is Hard to See In America, we don’t have alternative culture. Instead, our transgressive and progressive movements – namely counter-culture and underground culture – exist in relation to the dominant culture they rebel against. Their forms are forever shaped by the very thing they work to oppose and subvert. Unlike its American counterpoint, Slovenian alternative culture avoids such trappings. Existing simultaneously within and outside of dominant culture, alternative cul...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2021
The Alternative is Hard to See In America, we don’t have alternative culture. Instead, our transgressive and progressive movements – namely counter-culture and underground culture – exist in relation to the dominant culture they rebel against. Their forms are forever shaped by the very thing they work to oppose and subvert. Unlike its American counterpoint, Slovenian alternative culture avoids such trappings. Existing simultaneously within and outside of dominant culture, alternative cul...
SCCA-Ljubljana, Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik, Keiko Miyazaki - Video evening with DIVA Station: Andreja Džakušič, SIVA and IvAnKe (57:47)
Production: SCCA–Ljubljana, Galerija Photon, 2021
Video Evening with DIVA Station are live events organized by SCCA-Ljubljana and Photon Gallery with screenings and talks by artists included in the DIVA Station archive. In the time of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic we prepared an adapted digital presentation. Artists Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik and Keiko Miyazaki recorded their online covnersation about their artistic practice and mutual cooperation. The presentation, accompanied by photographs and inserts of video work...
Production: SCCA–Ljubljana, Galerija Photon, 2021
Video Evening with DIVA Station are live events organized by SCCA-Ljubljana and Photon Gallery with screenings and talks by artists included in the DIVA Station archive. In the time of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic we prepared an adapted digital presentation. Artists Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik and Keiko Miyazaki recorded their online covnersation about their artistic practice and mutual cooperation. The presentation, accompanied by photographs and inserts of video work...
SCCA-Ljubljana, Mila Peršin - Back2Back: Mila Peršin (01:25:54)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2021
The program contains 10 short videos from different periods of Slovenian film and video production, which are connected at different levels and coincide with the short film Auntie Milena. The red thread of the program is memories. Memories that translate in thousands of different ways haunt us, sometimes even suffocate us, and most of all, help us manage time. Precisely because of personal persuasiveness and unpretentious aesthetics, these films are subtle studies that weave the phenomenon of remembrance. Th...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2021
The program contains 10 short videos from different periods of Slovenian film and video production, which are connected at different levels and coincide with the short film Auntie Milena. The red thread of the program is memories. Memories that translate in thousands of different ways haunt us, sometimes even suffocate us, and most of all, help us manage time. Precisely because of personal persuasiveness and unpretentious aesthetics, these films are subtle studies that weave the phenomenon of remembrance. Th...
SCCA-Ljubljana, Milena Kosec - Video evening with DIVA Station: Milena Kosec (01:01:51)
Production: SCCA–Ljubljana, Galerija Photon, 2021
Video Evening with DIVA Station is an event that usually takes place live at the Photon Gallery. The conversation with retired career contemporary artist Milena Kosec was recorded in April, at a time when it was not yet possible to organize live cultural events due to the epidemic of the new coronavirus. DIVA Station associate Vesna Bukovec talked to the artist in the SCCA-Ljubljana Project Room at Metelkova 6. We supplemented the recorded conversation with inserts of video, photo and online documentation o...
Production: SCCA–Ljubljana, Galerija Photon, 2021
Video Evening with DIVA Station is an event that usually takes place live at the Photon Gallery. The conversation with retired career contemporary artist Milena Kosec was recorded in April, at a time when it was not yet possible to organize live cultural events due to the epidemic of the new coronavirus. DIVA Station associate Vesna Bukovec talked to the artist in the SCCA-Ljubljana Project Room at Metelkova 6. We supplemented the recorded conversation with inserts of video, photo and online documentation o...
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Stealing Land (07:15)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Stealing Land Dr Xenia performs on the land of the former Rakuš mill in Celje, a textbook example of capital appetites for plots in good locations, which evict ideas of non-profit spaces for culture intended for common and public good. The fight for territory begins and ends with incantations of masked performers dressed in black business attires: "I'm stealing, you're stealing, we're all stealing." (Source: excerpt of the curatorial text by Vesna Bukovec, Ana Grobler and Sebasti...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Stealing Land Dr Xenia performs on the land of the former Rakuš mill in Celje, a textbook example of capital appetites for plots in good locations, which evict ideas of non-profit spaces for culture intended for common and public good. The fight for territory begins and ends with incantations of masked performers dressed in black business attires: "I'm stealing, you're stealing, we're all stealing." (Source: excerpt of the curatorial text by Vesna Bukovec, Ana Grobler and Sebasti...
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - The House of Cards (06:45)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
In the performance The House of Cards, Dr Xenia does not travel north or west by train, but in a south-easterly direction. On the route that led to Kumrovec in the previous country, but ends at the last station in front of the Croatian border in the new country, it tries to make a house out of cards. The impossible task is reminiscent of the inability to create safe life and home, which constantly elude refugees and migrants, as well as precarious workers of all ages, including cultural workers. At the end...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
In the performance The House of Cards, Dr Xenia does not travel north or west by train, but in a south-easterly direction. On the route that led to Kumrovec in the previous country, but ends at the last station in front of the Croatian border in the new country, it tries to make a house out of cards. The impossible task is reminiscent of the inability to create safe life and home, which constantly elude refugees and migrants, as well as precarious workers of all ages, including cultural workers. At the end...
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Man, Don't Get Angry (19:34)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
Man, Don't Get Angry is first and foremost a feminist response to the familiar image of (dressed) Marcel Duchamp and (naked) Eva Babitz's chess game from 1963. It is also a reference to the performance Mojca ärgere dich nicht, which was performed by Petja Grafenauer, Zoran Srdić Janežič, and Simon Macuh in 2013 at the Red Dawn festival with the aim of defending the use of nudity in works of art. Here, next to the dressed women, there is a half-naked man, who does not get to make a move during the ga...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
Man, Don't Get Angry is first and foremost a feminist response to the familiar image of (dressed) Marcel Duchamp and (naked) Eva Babitz's chess game from 1963. It is also a reference to the performance Mojca ärgere dich nicht, which was performed by Petja Grafenauer, Zoran Srdić Janežič, and Simon Macuh in 2013 at the Red Dawn festival with the aim of defending the use of nudity in works of art. Here, next to the dressed women, there is a half-naked man, who does not get to make a move during the ga...
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Fart Roulette (06:39)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Fart Roulette is actually a picnic on the grass, which can be reminiscent of Manet's famous painting, although this time, everyone present is dressed. The title refers to Russian roulette, and the authors shoot farts instead of bullets. The parody deals with a serious topic of environmental pollution and its far-reaching consequences. Artists in Celje have been warning about local polluters (Cinkarna Celje and other industries) for a long time, but those responsible do not take them seriousl...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The performance Fart Roulette is actually a picnic on the grass, which can be reminiscent of Manet's famous painting, although this time, everyone present is dressed. The title refers to Russian roulette, and the authors shoot farts instead of bullets. The parody deals with a serious topic of environmental pollution and its far-reaching consequences. Artists in Celje have been warning about local polluters (Cinkarna Celje and other industries) for a long time, but those responsible do not take them seriousl...
Dr. Xenia, Andreja Džakušič, Keiko Miyazaki, Iva Tratnik, Simon Macuh - Rights for Our Fights (11:12)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The fifth in a series of performances - its title is also the title of the exhibition - is the only one where Dr Xenia performs live with audience participation. This performance is also defined by the space, the four corners of the Alakatraz Gallery form a boxing ring, which becomes the scene of fights. Despite the boxing equipment, there are no boxing matches in the ring, but various derivations of board games. All games (Mikado, Cards and Rock paper scissors) are usually played with the hands and playing...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Festival Mesto žensk, 2021
The fifth in a series of performances - its title is also the title of the exhibition - is the only one where Dr Xenia performs live with audience participation. This performance is also defined by the space, the four corners of the Alakatraz Gallery form a boxing ring, which becomes the scene of fights. Despite the boxing equipment, there are no boxing matches in the ring, but various derivations of board games. All games (Mikado, Cards and Rock paper scissors) are usually played with the hands and playing...
