November 2011
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4th Quadrilateral Biennial_parallel program_Tevž...
FRIDAY, November 18, MMSU
6 p.m.
Presentation & talk with TEVŽ LOGAR (ŠKUC, Ljubljana): Performative photography by Ulay
6.45 p.m.
Presentation & talk with MARA VUJIĆ (Festival City of Women, Ljubljana): Program of Performances at the City of Women Festival
The first episode of the Biennial’s parallel program starts with curators Tevž Logar & Mara Vujić, guests from...
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JELENA TOMAŠEVIĆ
…Reality under the stuffy cover of ‘art’…No trick cheeky enough, no technique exciting, no effect strong enough…
NEBOJŠA ŠERIĆ-SHOBA
Conscripted to fight in defense of his hometown of Sarajevo during the Bosnian civil war, (1992 – 1995), Nebojša Šerić-Shoba served the major part of his military mandate digging trenches amidst the bodies strewn across the battlefield. It is from these wartime experiences that the artist developed a profound sense of distrust for a political machine that saw neighbors taking aim at neighbors,...
SANDRA STERLE
In the contemporary world we see the return of religion as one of the most important factors in global politics and culture today.
Ritual, repetition, and reproduction have become extremely present in the society of today. Everything reproduces itself—capital, commodities, technology, and art. In the Middle and East European countries in transition there is a specific relation between...
ANA PRVAČKI
During the last year Ana Prvački has been working on a civility/hospitality project, thinking about the gestures of hospitality and socialization and the possibility that such acts could disarm and enable us to break out of our impenetrable bubbles or establish a porousness allowing us to expand beyond the “self”, gestures that demonstrate that there is “no enemy”. Today this project is of...
JENNY PERLIN
My practice in 16mm film, video, and drawing works with and against the documentary tradition, incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and personal history. Each aspect of my work looks closely at the ways in which social machinations are reflected in the smallest elements of daily life. My projects engage with fragments, detritus,...
NIKA OBLAK & PRIMOŽ NOVAK
‘Contemporary art is nothing but a business, we take it as a joke.’
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak have been working as an artist’s cooperative since 2003. In their art practice they make a critical examination of contemporary media and capital driven society as they dissect its visual and linguistic structure. Infused with humor their works draw parallels between the commercial and the art...
SANJA IVEKOVIĆ
Ink drawing of lines along which a face and neck massage is performed is destroyed and reduced to unsightly splotch edges by the very massage that is designed to beautify the features.
Sanja Iveković, Personal Cuts,
Galerie im Taxispalais, Wienna, 2001, p.79.
VLATKA HORVAT
In my recent work, I have been interested in the problematics of occupying space, and in the human body’s contentious relationship with everyday objects, landscape, and the built environment.
Using simple gestures such as cutting and folding, dismantling and repairing, the work frequently focuses on re-drawing borders and frames, and on re-arranging or reconfiguring physical objects, the
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ALBERT HETA
The short film SUNDAY is collaboration between Maria Jose Rojas, Chilean artist and Albert Heta, Kosovar artist and curator in the context of a residency in the Santa Fe Art Institute, USA. Their differences in themes, creative processes but not necessarily the political positions or social backgrounds prove to be fertile territory for investigation.
One of the products of this close...
ANNA FABRICIUS
What does freedom of thought mean nowadays? Is it more than a mere illusion that man has the ability to decide upon the direction of his or her life? How do our different points of view influence our standpoints?
The random string of Polaroid pictures, lacking any kind of story, is completed with one expression each that helps rephrase whatever that particular picture shows. These expressions,...
VLADIMIR NIKOLIĆ
(…) Marc and Q, who in the manner of sports TV commentators (Marc is the “reporter”, and Q the “expert”) comment on and interpret the artist’s behavior (…)
Who, in fact, are Marc and Q, who in an impeccable (BBC) English language, in a relaxed atmosphere, but with intelligent and often humorous comments of good connoisseurs of art, discuss the artistic act? (…) Marc and Q...
BOŽENA KONČIĆ BADURINA
A very important aspect of my work is the research of relations of power between the viewer and the viewed, and what happens when the two switch roles. What most interests me is research into the borders between one’s own and another’s mental, psychological and physical space, and particularly those peripheral zones in which these spaces open up, touch and overlap, mingle, making us more aware...
MARTA JOVANOVIĆ
As an artist, it is my duty to share my inner worlds in order to invite others to, all together, create the universal.
In 1919 Gabrielle D’Annunzio, Italian decadent poet “conquered” Fiume and proclaimed it Cittá di Vita (A City of Life), probably the first and only total art republic that ever existed attracting guests and admirers from all over intellectual Europe.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,...
MARIA JOSE ARJONA
As primary material in my work, as a medium of visual communication and energy exchange, through repetition and non-hierarchical gestures the body has become an agent to understand space and time, the key elements to respond to and be part of the world we are experiencing today; where communication, travel and migration are affecting the way we live; where multiculturalism and identity are being...
JOAN JONAS
In LEFT SIDE RIGHT SIDE, Joan Jonas makes use of a mirror and the properties of the medium of video to investigate her own body and self image in an ingenious manner. Left Side Right Side is built up out of close-ups. Jonas points with her hand to indicate what is right and what is left: ‘This is my right eye, this is my left eye.’ Due to a complex construction, we can see, at the same time, a...
LILIBETH CUENCA RASMUSSEN
Your Western eyes Judging! Preaching! About Womens Rights You chose which conflicts you want to see Your sympathy and aid –they’re never for free
It’s the balance of Nature that I keep For each life I take I plant a new seed I kill and I rape without debate This is part of the deal that we made, remember?
Your Western eyes Judging,! Preaching! About Womens Rights You chose which conflicts you...
PAOLO CANEVARI
My premise is simplicity. I would define my aesthetic approach as minimalist, and my conceptual approach as baroque. There is an idiosyncrasy, so to speak, in the work that must be respected, in my opinion. There are symbols which are very banal, if you will, because I take popular icons: religious images, (…), or, more generally, images shared by various cultures. I have often used the...
Davide Balliano
Davide Balliano’s work, THE HEART OF YOUR MOTHER FOR MY DOGS, whose title derives from the song THE BALLAD OF BLIND LOVE by Italian artist Fabrizio De Andre, presents a tragic tableau vivant of unrequited love. This scenario acts as a platform for an investigation of biological manifestations of hell, described by the artist as revolving around three central themes: darkness, coldness, and...
Milijana Babić
The starting point of my work is my own position as an individual and an artist, in a society which suffers from serious diseases, seeing art as a powerful tool in the collective search for the cure, which should be taken seriously. Before anything, art needs to fight for its own recognition.
‘Milijana Babić’s strategy is to transform an ordinary action or socially recognized icon into its own...
