Vesna Bukovec

Video in Progress 2: City Perspectives

Exhibition: Video in Progress 2: City Perspectives
Location: Photon Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: September 26 – October 6, 2008

Artists: Jasna Hribernik and Zmago Lenardič, KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), Polonca Lovšin, Tanja Lažetić and Dejan Habicht

Curators: Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič

Video section from the exhibition PHOTONIC, LUMINATIC: New Slovenian Photography and Video will be preseted in Ljubljana based gallery Photon.

About the exhibition:
This selection presents four video works, which were created by eight Slovenian authors of the younger and middle generation. All artists take part in the representative and testimonial exhibitions of contemporary Slovenian art and they are also active in the international sphere. The joint characteristic of the selected video works is a conceptual research of contemporary society’s peculiarities and of individual comprehension of the urban city reality. All works are based on personal narratives and intimate experience. In three of the videos this is expressed by a form of individual memory of the past, which is continually intertwined with excerpts from the present. The fourth video deals with the future or the ideal image of home. Similar starting points are explored differently by each of the four authors with the use of different formal approaches. The results are four formally and conceptually completely different videos of four different cities, each of them opening new aspects of experiencing a contemporary city.

Tanja Lažetić and Dejan Habicht: Ideal Home, video still

PHOTONIC, LUMINATIC: New Slovenian Photography and Video

The exhibition is a project of Ljubljana based Photon Gallery.

Exhibition: PHOTONIC, LUMINATIC: New Slovenian Photography and Video
Location: K2 Contemporary Art Center in Izmir, Turkey.
Date: September 19 – October 25, 2008

Curator of photography: Dejan Sluga
Curators of video: Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič

Participating artists:
Photography: Uroš Acman, Tomo Brejc, Vanja Bučan, Dejan Habicht, Jernej Humar, Nataša Košmerl, Peter Koštrun, Andrej Osterman, Borut Peterlin, Boštjan Pucelj, Bojan Salaj, Damjan Švarc, Bojana Tomše, Špela Volčič
Video: Jasna Hribernik and Zmago Lenardič, KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), Polonca Lovšin, Tanja Lažetić and Dejan Habicht

About the exhibition:
This overview exhibition introduces but a small selection of Slovenian artists who use medium of photography and video for research and creative endeavour in the broader context of the visual arts. Rather than providing a uniform aesthetic and semantic key, the selection draws attention to the particular artistic positions developed by the fourteen young and middle-aged photographers, who have been nominated by Dejan Sluga.

Video selection presents four video works, which were created by eight Slovenian authors of the younger and middle generation. All artists take part in the representative and testimonial exhibitions of contemporary Slovenian art and they are also active in the international sphere. The joint characteristic of the selected video works is a conceptual research of contemporary society’s peculiarities and of individual comprehension of the urban city reality.

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Zapping Unit

My video Champion is included in a project Zapping Unit by Marie Auvity and Keren Detton.

Exhibition: ZAPPING UNIT – Les Petites Formes (The Short Forms)
Location: Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson
Date: September 13 – October 19, 2008

About the project:
Zapping Unit considers the status and use of images. It is an ambitious content within a simple form: a sculpture of honeycombed cardboard with a video display for four spectators devised by Marie Auvity. This hybrid and deliberately fragile construction establishes a common space for the broadcasting and reception of video works. Provided with a remote control, the spectator can zap among 80 short films each less than 2 minutes. These “Short Forms” are brought together by the curator, Keren Detton. They consist in more or less completed films mixed with experimental try-outs or video documentation, and rarely find a suitable context in which to be presented. To each video correspond the artist’s statement. The spectators thus discover a hidden side of the artists’ practices and can zap at will to put together their own editing. Truly a moving exhibition, Zapping Unit moves from one place to another towards different spectators and will also travel to Seine-et-Marne this year.